 This is my favorite time of day because you're about to do your very favorite show with my very favorite people. And a guest. Yes, Roger's here too. Oh, thanks, Lamar. You're welcome. You really don't make it better. Dole whip. I mean, that kind of makes everything better. It's the time. I thought those things are good outside of Disneyland or Disney World. Is that even I think you mean, I'm sure it's not hard to recreate. You can get off brand thing. Off brand dole whip. It's like off brand cool whip. Like cool whip is fake enough. But it's ocean spray whip. So that's kind of nasty. Listen, man. Actually, I still think Billy Ocean and Ocean Spray should do a deal. They should get out of your dreams and into a commercial. And into one of these bottles. Get into my spreadsheet. Google Docs jokes. So good. I was asking our friend starts with an A. Just like, you know, I don't know if you guys get the email newsletters where it's like, here's what's new. But I'm still getting used to having a smart speaker. So I've like that's Alex. What's that? Right. Yeah. Alex say. But she tells really terrible jokes. Those are the best. But I spent quite some time with that yesterday. And like, they were so bad that it was fun. So if anyone wants to kill 15 minutes, you know. OK, Google turned off. Hey, Siri. Actually, she did have one, one good one that was. It was what's the difference between a joke and a rhetorical question? And I sat there waiting for the answer. And then I realized that was the joke. That was the joke. That's funny. You know, my favorite joke of all time is two men are in a boat. The third man turns to the second man and says, what am I doing here? That's why is that a joke? This is two men are in a boat. I know, I get. But like third man turns to the second man says, what am I doing? Oh, but but that's. It's kind of the same. My lines of what's the difference between a rhetorical question and then not ask the answer. Mm hmm. You are great at parties. I'm not let out of the house. Lamar, yeah, real party, party tricks. So Lamar, we were doing the quick hits thing last time you're on, weren't we? I think we were. I don't think so. I haven't been on in months. I know it's been too long. So so these things in blue are just things we like read, read, read. We don't stop. And then when Sarah gets to the Evan Blast story, that's when we'll actually start doing a little discussions. But those ones in blue are just like, hey, did you know? We don't really have a whole lot else to say about it. Oh, OK, cool. Then I won't interrupt. Oh, and we're also doing a hey from from Los Angeles on Tom Merritt. And you can say wherever you want. You could lie. You could say on the moon. I don't care. But let's have you do that. Hey, I'm Lamar Wilson from Los Angeles. Space station. Yeah. It's where it sounds like I'm from or looks like I'm from probably I'm floating. Just can I just do like this the whole time and just have my pop float by somehow from video heaven sponsored by Hanson's from Trader Joe's. You know, I used to love their cherry soda. I used to get it all the time. This is ginger ale. Yeah, how's it? It's excellent. I mean, what does Hanson's make cherry soda? DTNS is not sponsored by Hanson's. I don't know they used to. It's been a long time since I got I'm going to run down there and try to find that because that's it's good. All right, you guys, you ready? I'm ready. Let's do this. Here we go. Three, two, the Daily Tech News Show is brought to you by people like me, not outside organizations. To learn more, go to Daily Tech News Show dot com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, January 16th, 2018 from DTNS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Feline at the beach. I'm Sarah Lane and from Los Angeles, California. I'm Lamar Wilson, Los Angeles in the house today. But we're very happy to have you back Lamar. Thank you. It's been forever. It's been Ian's and I am mad at you. I am mad at you, too. Yes, you are my best friend, though. So does also with us today is everyone's best friend. Roger Chang. Hello, I am. I don't know. I'm possibly everyone's best friend. Post-CES sickness. Not up to you, Roger. It's up to us and you're our best friend. I guess what you are. Yeah, be nice to Roger. He's getting over the CES flu or at least a flu, possibly from CES. So let's say I'm. Nothing worse. But let's start with a few tech things you should know. Congressional aides tell Reuters that US lawmakers are urging AT&T to cut commercial ties with China's Huawei and oppose plans for China mobile to enter the US market. AT&T abandoned plans to carry Huawei's latest handset earlier this month. Democrats have convinced Republican US Senator Susan Collins to support a resolution to reinstate the open Internet guidelines, which the FCC recently voted to change. Now Collins vote would give them 50 in the 100 member Senate, meaning they'd still need one more if they wanted to pass the resolution. The resolution would also need to pass the house and be signed by the president, neither of which are very likely. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 8.1 on January 9th and the last path to a free upgrade to Windows 10 ended today, Tuesday, January 16th. This last path was meant for users of assistive technology. So if you're watching this live or you got it before the end of the 16th, hurry, they'll have time for the end of the day. Google said Tuesday it's adding five cloud regions to its existing 13. These are places with data centers that help serve G Suite and cloud and all the stuff that it does infrastructure wise. The Netherlands and Montreal regions will open this quarter, followed by Los Angeles, Finland and Hong Kong. And Google is commissioning three new submarine cables in 2019. Google has direct investment in 11 cables. So they essentially are building their own Internet, because the other one isn't good enough for them. Now here are some more top stories. Kick us off, Sarah. Evan Blass, aka of Leaks, who you might be following on Twitter, posted on Twitter that according to a C-level executive at a major case maker, the Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus will both launch on February 26th, with pre-order starting March 1st and then shipping beginning on March 16th. Samsung is expected to make this official announcement at Mobile World Congress, which also begins February 26th. Who's excited? I got to ask first, is the C-level employee like the janitor? Like what level? No, it's the employees that work at the ground level. They're other... Okay. I'm honestly curious, like who's running on this? No, it's not on the letter C. Sarah, explain. It's C-level executives or high-ups, people who would report to a CEO. Yeah, CEO, CTO, CFO. Oh, okay. I learned something today. Excellent. Yeah, there you go. You are a C-level executive of your own show, I would assume. I would like to... Well, would that be A-level if it's mine? Yeah, you're above C-level. You're mountain level. I'm above. Yeah, so I think we have our answer. We're all like, okay, let us know when you have the details on the Samsung Galaxy S9. We know there's a million rumors out there floating, but we want the official word. But yeah, it's the timing of it at Mobile World Congress. It would almost be weird if it didn't coincide. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, and that's... It's always around the same time every year. So, well, you know, new Samsung phone, Lamar, perhaps? Not for me. Not me. I'm loving my ex. Or 10, excuse me, before Apple kills me for saying that. I gotta say, I thought this was early. You know, you're saying it's around the same time every year and just maybe it's just my memory. Seems like it's an early launch. No, that changes it around. They've done it later. You're right. But Samsung said they were going to do it at Mobile World Congress. So, we're not surprised that that part is happening. But yeah, they are shifting it a little bit again. Hey, have either of you ever had problems with a Chromecast where you have it on and it feels like your Wi-Fi is not working right? Yes. You're not imagining it. Myse.com, M-Y-C-E.com, reports that Google Cast devices, including the Chromecast, can temporarily interfere with multiple brands of routers. Now, TP-Link and Linksys have confirmed the issue, but there's a lot of other brands of routers that people are reporting they have the similar issue with. Recent Android updates seem to be the cause. It used to be that they would send like every 20 seconds out of sleep mode a packet to say, hey, is the cast out there? We just want to make sure in case we're needed. And now, with a recent Android update, these devices flood the network with packets. So, it's most often going to happen when you have an Android device connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the Chromecast. But they're looking for those cast devices and they cause problems when they're flooding the network with these connections. So, Linksys and TP-Link have issued firmware updates to address the problem. If you've got those routers, you might want to look for that firmware update. But it says it's also working to address the issue. Yeah, I have three Android TVs in the house and I have a naked router. And I noticed as soon as yesterday, when I got in from Pack South, I was trying to put my five videos to watch while I was taking care of things. And I noticed it was hiccuping and I was saying, maybe it was just warming up because I wasn't around for a few days. Before this story, I actually was having a lot of problems getting the Chromecast that's built in to work. So, it's interesting that this is confirming the issue that there is something going on. Yeah, not your imagination. Yeah. Yesterday, the Netflix helps a Twitter account posted in response to a question that there are currently no plans for Netflix on Nintendo Switch. That was the tweet. A spokesperson or representative from the company tells Polygon that Netflix actually is still talking to Nintendo about it. Hulu launched on the Switch in November and Japanese video hosting site Niko Niko is on the Switch in Japan. So, it sounds like... I got really excited when Hulu showed up on my Nintendo Switch and I watched a thing on it and went like, oh, this is really cool. Never did it again. Lamar, is this something you're excited about? No, and you're a perfect case for that. I missed when the game console or, in this case, a portable one was just that, a game console. I liked that Nintendo was fighting not putting all these apps on, whether they drained the battery or caused other issues. I liked that it was just a pure device, nothing but video games. I was actually disappointed that they retracted and said, oh, no, it might be coming. I absolutely don't want any of those apps on there causing any problems on my beautiful, perfect Switch. Well, you don't have to put them on. Thank you. Whoa. Okay. That's a fair point, but I want everybody to be like me. And I get... I have to take Devil's Advocates since we actually agree, but I... You froze for a minute. Yeah, I froze because I was having to download the Devil's Advocate program. I get that if you can only afford to have one thing that is the Nintendo Switch, you don't want to have to buy a cheap Roku or something. You're like, isn't it great if I could just get my Netflix and Hulu on one device? Save me the money. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't... It's not going to, like, make the Switch any worse. I mean, if you have a Netflix account, it seems like just having the option is better than not even if you don't use it. I know. I know. I'm just being that guy. I'm being that gamer that doesn't, you know, use the Switch. Is it a design thing? You're like, no, I just want just my games. I don't want anything else. Yeah, I don't want to see anything else popping in there. I just want to see my list of games. Yeah. So it's weird. All right, fair enough. So you can tweet Netflix helps and be like, no, just keep it. Keep it the way it is. I think I will. A Canadian man has been charged 1,000 broadcasts at a time with racist and homophobic message as well as disturbing images. Twitch investigated the attacks and found they originated with a service called Chat Surge, which is allegedly run by the man who's been charged. The case is due to court, go to court in February. But I'll be honest. I looked at this and I was like, wow, I've seen this kind of behavior before, not just in Twitch. I've seen it on YouTube. I've seen it in the chat room. I think this is the first time I've heard of someone getting charged with a criminal charge for that. Were these 1,000 broadcasts all Twitch broadcasts? Yeah, they're all on Twitch. And this is not, I mean, I haven't been on, I'm not exactly sure when this was all happening, but I didn't see anything like this. But is this besides, yeah, people being crazy in chat rooms, trying to be able to spread a hateful message to many, many broadcasts simultaneously, it's kind of a big deal. It's a big deal to be able to say anything, you know? To me, it's less about what he said. I mean, people say crappy stuff on the internet all the time. I'm not trying to condone that, but I feel like what he was doing, what he's being charged with is the disruption, which I find that very interesting. He went in and disrupted the ability of these 1,000 channels, right? Yeah. But also, he kind of seems to have done it as a marketing promo to say like, hey, did you see that surge yesterday? That was my service. You want to get your commercial message out there? Talk to me. Look what I can do. I think that's interesting. I watch Twitch every night, and depending on what popular channel I jump in, I've seen these type of attacks where you can tell us a bot running and they're sending, you know, and if you try to block them, another one will pop up with just like two letters or two different numbers after the name, and it's just a constant barrage. And so I was pleased to see that, you know, there's something being done. I don't think it can stop all of it, but at least it'll put people on notice that, you know, at least one country is interested in, you know, taking these people down who do this. Well, I'd like to say, I mean, it's a deterrent to a point some people who might have thought this was a fun thrill ride will go, oh wait, you can actually get in serious trouble about that? Well, never mind. You know, I don't want to risk it. Other people who really want to do sort of this thing, or if they're trying to make a spam business out of it, will say, okay, well, make sure I don't operate in Canada, I guess, and then carry on with it. So, you know, I'm not sure what else, what other pieces of the puzzle has to happen to really dissuade the majority of bad actors, but that said, I find it kind of a milestone that they've caught someone, you know, Twitch went to work, right? And they tracked this person down and caught them. Now they're going to face a court case. I love, Mischief always kind of makes it seem like, oh, it's just, you know, just some mischief by, you know, some little mice in the computer. Just kind of do your hands like this, you know. But again, you know, and like you said, Tom, it's not so much what he was saying, just the fact that he was able to flood so many broadcasts at once. But that's, you know, you could in fact, we're going to talk about that in our discussion, how, you know, a message can uproot all sorts of stuff. Yeah, accurate messages are important. All right, so hot app over the weekend, alert. If you did not see lots of people posting images of themselves plus an illustration of an old artist or author. Well, then you are not familiar with Google's Arts and Culture app, which features a tool to compare your own face, which you take within the app by giving access to your camera, and then compares them to famous portraits and see how well you match with someone from yesteryear. It's all good fun, except some people are worried that Google is using it to build a database of photos associated with real user accounts. The company says, no, no, no, the photo submitted not used to train machine learning programs, build a database of faces or anything like that. It's just claiming, Google's just claiming that the photos are stored for the time it takes to make the match. I tried it. I didn't like my match, so I'm not going to show you guys what it was, because I was insulted, but it was, you know, it was at least widely, widely used at least once I tried it and only got a 43% match, but everybody on Instagram was like, oh my gosh, it's a dead ringer. It's totally you. It's a dead ringer. It's all about the face positioning and the expression. It's not so much that they look like me. Right. I also just feel like, okay, well, here's a less than 50% match with someone that isn't you. Like, I'm like, I'm not so sure why Lamar got matched. 38% with Catherine Howard, Lady Bigney. That is a Baroque white woman. I'm sorry. I'm not seeing the problem here. I mean, if that's who you feel like inside, I'm not going to judge. But this does not look like you. No, it doesn't. Yeah. This one with the nose, I would give them that the nose matches. The hair is not the same. The lips are not the same. You've got kind of the same expression in that. I think that's what they're going for with this expression. This one, I told Google I'm offended because they called me charcoal, but that's okay. I won't go there. That's just the medium in which the artist was. I do know. That was the biggest match. 53%. I forget what I said. The second one I could say kind of has a resemblance. It's a fun thing. I think that's one of those old-fashioned wigs. Yeah. That's how I want to do my shows for now on. Yeah. There's a place in London that still makes them for barristers and stuff. We have to wear them in court there. We should do a road trip. We'll all get wigs. Done. It's going to happen. I mean, I'm already wearing a wig. Way ahead of you. Your wig is not like a barrister wig though. I'm going to wear it this morning. Powdered wig. Hey, folks. If you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. Also available on the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and in the Anchor app. Just five minutes or less and you get to stay up to date. I love it. Look at the headlines. Are you a listener? I am. I'm a Google assistant. Veronica says she listens all the time too. Now I'm doubly self-conscious but I shouldn't make mistakes when I do that. Don't do it. As most of you likely heard by now, Saturday morning around 8.05 a.m. residents in Hawaii got a text message saying ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. If you don't live in Hawaii or you don't know this, Hawaii is about 20 minutes by ballistic missile from North Korea. It's the latest current events. The idea that North Korea might just up and shoot a ballistic missile at Hawaii was not beyond the realm of possibility. Most people took this seriously. It was not a drill but it also was not a real warning. It was user error. An employee at the start of his shift was meaning to test the system. Something they put in place last fall with the rising threat to say let's always be making sure the system works. The option on the screen that he meant to pick reads drill PAC-OM CDW state only. Two options up above a tsunami warning is the option PAC-OM CDW state only. The only difference between that and the drill is the word drill. If you read too quickly you might select the wrong one which sends a real alert to everyone and that's what the employee did. It still makes you confirm. This is a classic case of I just always click OK. He clicked on it and that thing went out. I tweeted a 20 from Hawaii emergency management agency declared no missile threat but it took them 38 minutes to send a follow up wireless alert stating that the warning was a mistake because they didn't have a built in process for the false alarm. They fixed a lot of this. A cancellation option has now been put in place to allow for a false alarm note to be sent immediately if necessary. They suspended these test drills for the time being so that we don't have anyone make the same mistake again and even when they go back to drills they will now require two people to activate one. In other words, if one person clicks the thing a second person confirms that the right thing was clicked and press is OK for lack of a better one. Is this kind of like Star Trek where it has to be the captain and a commanding officer to have the shit blow up where you have to have the two confirm? It's like two factor off when one employee has not had his coffee. Yeah. Now, you could still get into a situation where someone is all, you know, if two people were working on this a lot, they're like you might get in the habit of like can you press OK, Bob? Yeah, sure. Without looking. The fact that this has happened will probably prevent that from happening, right? Because everybody's going to be extra careful to be like did you press, which one did you click? Did you click the right one? But it does seem to be a little bit of a user interface problem too. I mean, what happened, you go like, OK, well, they should have been marked differently. This was almost bound to happen at some point, right? Because sometimes people aren't paying attention or, yeah, they're mismarked or they're they've got titles that are confusing, especially at the start of a shift. I don't know, maybe it was early in the morning or late at night or whatever. But in the morning, yeah. Yeah. And so, and so, well, whatever time their shift started, but and you can almost chuckle like, well, this is a pretty big mistake. But I don't live in Hawaii, but I have friends who do. And I mean, it was for a short period of time until everybody realized what was going on. That's one of the scariest things that I'm ever going to read on my smartphone. No doubt. Absolutely. And I mean, one of the good things about this, you know, this good to come out of it is that this is never, ever going to happen again. Oh wait, it happened today in Japan, didn't it? They had the same issue on there where they had a alert pop up from North Korea. It's not listed in your stories, but I just I saw it earlier on the news. And so, you know, Japan had their own problem with their alert system because they were doing the same thing testing the system. So, you know, there has to be some kind of redundancy built in. We need to do the same thing here in the U.S. to make sure that, you know, there's no panic, you know, happens around hitting the world button. That's a good point. What happened in Japan, apparently, was the NHK app delivered the alert. So, it's like one step down, right? Your trusted national broadcaster delivered the mistaken alert versus the actual But it's still not good because everybody's like, oh, I trust NHK. Like if they're telling me this is a problem, it must be a problem. And in fact, in the screenshots of the Verge story, you see a local news app's notifications passing along the original alert, like an alert has been fired, and then they're the quickest to correct it, like, okay, we looked into it, not a real alert. You know, you guys might want to calm down, but this is this is a this is a problem. And I wonder if we're going to find out that the Japanese running a ballistic missile, you're maybe not checking for updates. Like you're in full panic mode. Well, yeah, you're seeking shelter and you're panicked, and you're probably calling your loved ones, you know, and Yeah. Choosing who to save and and then there's also the and you know, I know that when there are amber alerts, right, when you know, like a kidnapping or something which happens in Los Angeles with regularity, you know, I know people who have those turned off and I always see, well, don't turn those off, you know, it's like, gotta be good Samaritans here, you know, we all gotta stick together and make sure that, you know, we're part of the system. But if you don't trust the system, then that's a bad thing too. Well, yeah, that's the big problem with this. I think this underscores the need for for why user interface is so important. A lot of a lot of people sometimes dismiss it as more of window dressing and kind of a nice to have feature, but usability is, I mean, it seems to be like what the the actual issue is, I mean, other than maybe staffing, but just having something so you just don't inadvertently press the wrong button. Looking at this, this image that they showed and apparently it's a mock up because they don't want to show you the exact image for security reasons, but it looks like what they've counted on was well, the first word is drill and then pay calm. I'm told by Amos that it's pay calm, not pack on. And so you'll look for the word drill and that's the one you'll pick, but we know how it goes. Eventually your mind just starts looking for the familiar word in the sentence and that's probably what happened to this guy. You need it to be in an entirely different place in a different color, etc., etc. Different part of the screen, you know, quadrant or something or different computer. Go to a different computer to do it. Yeah, one for the drill, one screen for the drill and one screen for the real ones. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks to everybody who can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and join our Facebook group, facebook.com slash groups, slash daily tech news show. Sarah, you have a thing of the day for us. Well, it's kind of all of our thing of the day. If you happen to watch Speaking of Facebook, any of our Facebook live videos, we just had some fun at CES and tried to stream live. One in particular had a little sneak peek at our new show logo, the DTNS show logo, which we decided, hey, you know, first of the year it's 2018, you know, we're ready to show off a kind of a new cool look and it's awesome. Mustafa, our good friend who did the original logo as well, gave us a nice update and we're all really happy with it. We hope you all like it. Yeah. So first of all, everything that's in the store with the old logo must go. So get in there and buy it while it's still can and then we'll be unveiling the official logo. I don't think Roger has it at hand right now, but keep an eye out for it. I thought you were all going to show it. What a tease, Sarah. I expected to Roger, I really didn't give me give me one second. All right, we're going to give Roger one second to look up the logo and the meantime let's check in with Chris Christensen about some new in-flight customer resolution options for American Airlines Flyers. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another tech in Travel Minute. If you're flying in an American Airlines plane in the future and something goes wrong and you happen to be an American Advantage member, a member of their frequent flyer program, don't be too surprised if one of the flight crew pulls out their tablet and very quickly solves the problem by giving you some credit of extra miles. There's a new program that they're just launching called iSolve that will enable the staff to compensate for problems during the flight during the flight itself. I suspect what they're doing here is they're hoping that if they solve things earlier, it will cost them less and it will keep customers happy. So it sounds like an interesting program don't be too surprised if other airlines replicated. I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Excellent. That is very good. I like the ability, do you think it causes more complaints though if people know that they can do that? Probably, but it'll stop the tweet storms from when you land. We're just watching Roger go through his email. That's the key, is getting people to stop the tweets when they reconnect once they get on the ground. It's all taken care of, don't tell anyone. Say something nice. If you're watching the video version, there is the new DTNS logo from Mustafa at the Polar Cat. It's awesome and we big thanks to him for doing that. We'll need to put this in the drop box so we can put a link in the show notes for people to take a look at it. Yes. Thanks for the more. Let's check the mail bag. Let's do it. Bruce from Friday's show, you were wondering what the benefit is to Facebook, changing its news feed algorithm to focus on meaningful social interactions. That is sort of the benefit, right? But Bruce says, I don't think Facebook is just doing this on its own to improve user experience. I think it's about increasing revenue from sponsored content. Mark Zuckerberg and his team are completely silent on whether this change affects boosted posts and I bet it doesn't. With the change page owners would be forced to spend even more time to get their content, spend even more money rather to get their content in front of users. When Facebook made its algorithm change in June of 2016 to prioritize posts from friends and families our expenses on boosted content from our Facebook page, Bruce is talking about his own, increased by at least 50% and now Facebook constantly prompts us to boost our posts to reach a wider audience. Bruce says, I hate this but it's a brilliant strategy if it indeed is a strategy. It could be. I've seen a lot of people speculate that this is the plan. Whether it's the planner or not, it does seem to be the effect is that if, hey, if you want to reach those people in the news feed you got to pay for a boosted post because that's the only way to show up there and not be relegated to the explore tab. I also, you know, just because Facebook is somewhat of a mystery but trying to make sense of what's really going on here because of course Facebook is also in the business of making money above and beyond pretty much any feel good user experience that they might say that they care about. It's a, you know, money-making company. But the fact that the VP in charge of the news feed Adam Massari said, you know what we also want posts that are popular but don't have a lot of engagement in the form of comments will be devalued or valued lower than before and it's like, that's just odd. You know, it's like saying well, if comments are turned off on a blog post that a lot of people read, does it make it less of a popular blog post? Like, I don't think well, but they're talking about comments within Facebook. So what they're saying is you need to get people on Facebook talking about your article if you want it to show up and I think that's good. I guess. I mean, half the time I never comment on anything because then I have to go and turn off notifications for the comments that happen after my comment. It doesn't mean I didn't want to comment though. But people do comment on Facebook. So, sometimes too much there's an incident in Slovakia which is one of the test markets for this where a fake news article got runaway play in the news system because everybody was talking about it and the official denouncement from the Slovakian police didn't show up in the news feed because it was relegated to the explore tab. So, there you go. Wow. Well, thank you to Lamar Wilson. You said you hadn't been on the show in a while. You haven't been on the show when I've been on the show. So, nice to do the show with you. Welcome. But tell folks what you've been up to all these months. Yeah. So, I'm still running the YouTube channel Living Night Gaming Lifestyle and talking about tech and gaming. Just came back from PacSouth. So, I'll have some insights on that this week on the channel. So, you want to follow me there? Just unboxing and talking and having a good time with tech and gaming. Just love it. It's a good channel, I think. Go check it out, folks. youtube.com. Lamar Wilson. There's two Rs in Lamar. There's no Rs in Wilson. Also, you can support this show directly on Patreon. We don't have ads. We have you. And we love it. Patreon.com. DTNS and, of course, dailytechnewshow.com. Store. If you want to find all of the cool old logo stuff before it goes away. Got something to say. Email us. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. 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Chatting in Twitch, make warning system like on Star Trek. I think I think that system actually required three people, not just two. No, it's two. You need a captain, the first officer and the head of engineering. In later Star Trek's like in Voyager, you could just do command override. And then, yeah, yeah. She because her, yeah, I don't know. I was just watching episode of Voyager. She did self-destruct and she didn't use Chacote at all. Yeah, it was just her. And maybe because she was she was the true captain of the ship and he was command override authorization, Jane, Alphabee. Yeah, but that's like the worst thing to do. I have I have a backdoor key to blow up the ship. I'm desperate. Hey, it was it was stuff out there and and a Delta Quadrant, man. You know, they just do what they always do, crash the ship into something else. Problem solved. Nintendo switches on Netflix, the Netflix switch, Google's museums full of doppelgangers. Detail, uh, Oh, what was this one? I don't get an exit eight dot one. Why am I missing that one? Exit eight dot one would be Windows, Windows eight. Oh, I see. Three upgrade. Chromecasting, Wi-Fi problems. Give me perfect video gaming. Netflix does what Nintendo. Ha, ha, ha, ha. That's a really that that's a reference to the old Netflix doesn't do it if Nintendo doesn't also do it. So it's it's it's a not to the old Sega Genesis commercials. No, I wanted to do the Sega Genesis commercial illusion. I'm just not certain that it works perfectly. Two factor doomsday alerts. To switch authentication, the nuclear drills of Aloha. Oh, God. You see switch system off now. I like the two people who voted for Roger's, everyone's best friend. Wait, why is that funny? Because it's that. No, it's just like it's like, I mean, of all the titles that we'd be like, that's most all encompassing, you know, kind of what the show is about. It's like a just a funny thing at the beginning of the really just Roger's friend circle. You know, I'd totally be down with that. All right, what's the title? Well, you are everyone's best friend. Again, not your choice. Pretty much. I'm going to vote for it. And ruin everything. Oh, can we have an alert for the alert? Oh, I like that one. That's it. Can we have an alert for the alert? OK, I am today. Oh, I'm sneezing. Just like I got done saying, I never get. You just gave it to me. So are you in LA because of what's happened? Yeah, everyone lives it. So this is the awful truth. And this is how you knew we live in the matrix, not the matrix. Everyone lives in LA. Even though people may say they're not living in LA, we're all in LA. So is this whole show right now in LA? That's amazing. Yeah, yes, it goes. Has been in the house will be at least LA County. Roger's not in LA proper. Right, right, right, right. He's in that secret city. It's in that, you know, it's one of those things. It's like London, like, you know, New York. Like, it's just a it's just a general region for most people now. Unless you're paying, you know, the city, a fine, you know, I find that people who are even in Anaheim still say they're in LA, which really bothers me like the angels because they're not in LA. They're not even in LA County. They're in Orange County. Well, it's like people in San Jose saying they're in San Francisco. No one does that. San Jose people don't do that. They might say Bay Area, but they don't say they're in San Francisco. Anaheim is that far from LA. And yet, yeah, for some reason, they don't say I'm in. I mean, there's I could be the problem that's playing a whole different state. Maybe the problem is there's no equivalent to Bay Area for LA. Yeah, it's called the LA land. Isn't it like what they call the Greater LA Metro region? Well, you could just call everything Golden State. Yeah, never. We've already got that going. And then everyone has to cheer for the Warriors. Exactly. I mean, it is it's the whole state we're talking about. Never really understood how that happened, but whatever. What, California? Well, we know how that happened. Now, the Golden State thing. Yeah. Yeah, who decided like I think they're supposed to be renaming themselves to the San Francisco Warriors when the new stadium opens, which they were originally the San Francisco Warriors. It was only when they moved out out of San Francisco that they decided to go Golden State. Right. But now that, you know, they've been so, you know, it's East Bay. It's yeah. So so where are they then? Like when they move. So they don't want to name themselves Oakland Warriors. Yeah, I don't I don't know why. It's not as well at the time. A lot of sports teams were like, hey, we can get fans outside of our metro area if we choose our name after the state, because then people all over the state will identify with us. Interesting. OK. It's just that but it's like that also doesn't really like it's but that how how like accurate is that really? I mean, they're an East Bay team. Well, no, and you've seen teams go back the other way now. We're like, you know, like the Florida Marlins are now the Miami Marlins, because they're like, you know what? That doesn't work. Although you do have the Arizona Cardinals, who were originally the Phoenix Cardinals and then changed. Yeah. Well, yeah. But I mean, in in their move, like from their move, they were the Phoenix Cardinals for the first season, I think. And then they changed Arizona. OK, Tom, you have too much sports knowledge. What are you doing with this tech thing, man? I mean, all my sports knowledge is outdated, though. You get on the one thing as soon as you hit 1993, all my sports knowledge ends. I wasn't even born in 90. I'm lying. OK. I was born. Oh, you weren't. No, you were born in the 90s. But no, it's funny, I call I call myself a 90s kid because I was technically 12 and a 90. So I claim 90s kid and it irritates everybody. When I say that on Twitter, you're like, you can't be a 90s kid. You know, you you're born in the 70s. But I'm like, but a 12 year old, a 12 year old is. Well, yeah, I mean, if you were like about to graduate in high school, if you're 17, you're still a kid. That's right. So I claim I was I was I was 17 when I graduated in the 90s in the early 90s. So was I. So was I. This is a lot about all of us because what I try to do is claim I'm born in the 60s. Because 70 is technically the 60s. How? How does that work? Because it's the last year of the decade. Technically, the decade doesn't start till 71. Is it true? Yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah, I don't know. We're all trying to stretch the truth. Y'all are trying to stretch it to make you younger. And I'm trying to do it in 1999 on New Year's Eve. Were you the guy who was like, it's not really the new millennial yet? Yeah, I definitely said it at least once. He would actually put off the old nerd glasses that they gave. Tech TV gave out. It would like push them up. I'm pretty sure Roger was also saying this, if I recall correctly. How scared were you all with the white suitcase thing, like when in the whole time, I wasn't scared at all. I was I was more worried that something else would happen because everybody was on edge. So I put I put by some canned food just in case. But I wasn't. I wasn't. Well, what is there to be scared of? The worst things in my in my head, the thought process was, OK, people are all on edge. So who knows what might happen? Somebody might do something stupid. Plus I live in California now. I really should have an earthquake kit. So maybe I'll put a little kid away. And if I'm wrong, which I probably am about Y2K, at least I've got food for. I would if the worst came to worse and, you know, all the money disappeared or the electronic money, I would just go to Chinatown and bar for various things I would need. Oh, I wasn't worried about all the money going away ever. I was more worried about like, oh, somebody who might blow up the power station and will be without power or, you know, something like that. Always optimistic. Oh, somebody might blow up the power station and will be without covers of Bang a Gong for, you know, quite a lot of time. Oh, my God. See, I also know 90s music. Wait, Bang a Gong's 80s. Never mind. I don't remember. Remember when I was asking Tom, there was a name of that band or that song, that band that was played all the time of the 90s to kind of get everyone psyched for the. You know, for the year 2000. And he was bringing up and I remember I I mistakenly brought it up to was Jesus Jones right here right now. Right. And I was wrong because what I was trying to say or what I was the song I wanted to identify was actually Van Halen's right now or whatever that song that the name of the title would look right now. They used to for the Crystal Pepsi ad. I think everybody's blocked it out of their mind right now. Yeah. It was like it was just the whole video was just like different imagery and they would have text explaining, like, you know, something, something to Roger. Roger, I have a serious question for you. Yes. Have you have you ever tried to recreate the last year's best video of you sitting there and then your kid runs, runs in and then your your wife runs in and grabs, grabs. Remember the reporter, the British reporter that hasn't happened yet to you. You have the perfect set up there. I like I actually want to keep the door closed. I want to see it happen. She rushes in and that kind of thing. Yeah. That was the top video last year. It's not funny if it's not spontaneous. Like if it's set up, you can tell. Yeah. Well, sort of, you know, some things you could do pretty well. Most people would never guess it was set up. Maybe. So, Tom, since you know your music, I was stealing, stealing that technically a 60s band or I always say this is a 70s band. I think stilliness. Oh, OK, because I always tell people 70s. Someone corrected me. So the hits are from the 70s. Let me let me. Because I would say that if you had to choose a decade would be the 70s. They're one of them. They're one of my favorite bands. They were also formed in 1972. Oh, OK. Well, and broke up in 1981. So pretty definitively, 70s. OK, I never looked it up. But yeah, I was reprimanded by someone who said they were a 60s. No, you could reprimand them right back. Right back. All right, I will. I will probably consider Gord Lightfoot country. Lightfoot. We played on the country station that I worked. But he wasn't really. He was folk singer songwriter stuff, but he crossed over. I just would not say country. No, let's say he's like Linda Ronstadt. We played Linda Ronstadt on the country station, too. But I don't consider Linda Ronstadt country. Look at where I actually don't know. Like I know the name, but I don't know a song of hers. I just know that she was a famous singer. Like what's her most famous song? Did she say something when you're in love or it's so easy? Or probably it's so easy. I only knew the Toyota one. So easy to own a Tercel. Oh, what a feeling. Everyone jump in the air at the exact same time. What a feeling is that a Linda Ronstadt song. The one that Sarah was singing is a derivative of a. So yes, that I know what I know that it's an original song. I just didn't know that she got it. OK, yeah, that's a popular song. Yeah, she's a song with Aaron Neville. Don't know much. That was her big hit. Oh, that's a big one. Yeah, that was that was a kind of a crossover. After she got her bachelor, she can no longer sing that song. Wait, what? Oh, OK, OK. Right. Roger and dad. That was terrible. Why? Because she's new stuff? No, she's a lot more. I don't know much, but I know I love you. Well, I'd argue I still don't know very much. And I went to college just a big ruse. It is really it really is of all the knowable things. I don't know much. That's true. Oh, Blue by you and you're no good are also Linda Rodston. Oh, she didn't you know that? You know, oh, see, OK, I know her. That that feels like a country song to me. The she's got a country feel, definitely. Yeah, yeah, you know, you're kind of weird. It's do you remember Juice Newton? Yes, Queen of Hearts. My Queen of Hearts. She was also kind of the cross genre. She was country, though. Like she came from country and then she she tried to cross over in a pop. Like Taylor Swift or should I? Queen Taylor Swift, she did start in country, did she? Wow, you're right. Yeah, I know I had it disappeared as she made it up the charts. Wow. 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