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I Watched all of that recently and I was like, oh boy Cut the meat into bite-sized pieces walk Mmm, okay. All right, let's do I'm going away May the show be with you and also with you Lift up our mic Is that the proper response to me the force be with you or the proper response to peace be with you when I'm a drip you You went Catholic I think they say and also with you all right in Star Wars, right? Well, I know it's the Catholic Response, but I couldn't remember if it also worked for the force I'm a lapsed Jedi I was raised Catholic. I was raised Jedi All right, here we go ready ready ready The Daily Tech news show show me the daily I was born Tom the daily To support Tom go to Daily Tech news show comm slash support Okay, now you can press the button Tom This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday December 15th 2015 I'm Tom Merritt joining me today Todd Whitehead founder of alpha geek radio Filling in for the vacationing Patrick Beja who I only can assume Todd has Sneaked into a Star Wars the Force Awakens premiere Patrick would never do such a thing and I totally hate him because that's exactly what he's doing because he must that's I I don't know. I don't know what what other reason could make him miss a Tuesday on Daily Tech news show We're very happy to have you here Not just because of something goes wrong with the alpha geek radio stream nearby. Oh, that's handy I have to say I want to have you're also somebody who knows from streaming and we're gonna talk about Netflix's new data compression Algorithm that's supposed to help really reduce the bandwidth load on folks It's lots lots of things to talk about from interconnection agreements to your own personal bandwidth caps You might be dealing with but let's start with the headlines Bloomberg reports Apple has opened a lab in long-tongue northern Taiwan That is developing new screens for devices including OLED now Apple's not confirming this but they did go into The place and see an Apple logo up and see people walking in and out with Apple IDs And it is a place that used to make screens and they've hired people from screen makers So they've got some pretty good indications that that's what's going on here if Apple designed its own screens It could go directly to smaller manufacturers folks like in a lux or maybe a uOptronics and save money over big suppliers Which they have been using previously folks like Samsung meanwhile the Silicon Valley business journal notes that Apple paid $18.2 million for a 72,000 square foot semiconductor factory in North San Jose now It's a small factory. It wouldn't really be able to be used as a fab But it was advertised as quote well suited for prototype pilot and low volume Manufacturing so it could be that they're going to do some Prototyping there possibly for switching over to Intel chips on mobile is one rumor. I'm a one one guess. I should say not even a room That just looks like a continuation of their existing strategy of making more with themselves They went down this road with their CPUs and it paid great dividends for them So they can pull it off with their displays. I'm not sure I Would be very dubious of the rumor of them switching to Intel just because they've done such a good job designing the a series chips to do What they do so beautifully well Yeah, and it could be just as likely that they want to Design chips more it could be that they want to design a laptop chip in there. Who knows bring it on Yeah, I think this is this is definitely Apple going down the route like you said of Designing their own things and then finding cheaper partners to make them for own own the whole business end to end Fortune reports that Android pay will now let users pay in app apps that support Android pay include Instacart Door-dash lift and open table Google is offering a ten dollar ten dollars off a user's first lift ride and ten dollars off door-dash delivery Australia was also announced as the first international market for Android pay starting in the first half of 2016 Businesses like 7-eleven McDonald's and Telstra will roll out support for the system in Australia. Ah Yes, this will make me install door-dash on my Nexus tablet and well I actually I'm not sure if Android pay would work that way I'm gonna I'm gonna fire up an Android phone and order some we order we use door-dash a lot That's all I'm trying to say here and I want that $10 off You're a resident of LA is what you are Yeah, although, you know, we've we've got the whatever's the other grub hubs and what's the one That always gets all the press That's the big fancy startup that now I'm suddenly blanking on Postmates Postmates is is around they do things, but I don't know Fridge man about this The story more is that they're talking about Australia the things that get featured are 7-eleven and McDonald's Yeah, and Telstra, right and throw one in there. There was the least local that was the least Australia Lord Melvin wanted us to mention that variety reports Netflix is beginning to roll out Re-encoded videos optimized to save viewers up to 20% on bandwidth That's gonna be our main topic today each video including individual TV episodes are evaluated and might have different settings based on How much action there is whether it's animated for instance animated shows are less complex And so they can be compressed more without losing any visible resolution researchers at the University of Southern California the University of Nant and the University of Texas at Austin helped automate the process Netflix expects to Have its whole library re-encoded by the end of Q1 2016 I'll say most of our comments for the discussion here But this is this is good news if it doesn't degrade video quality and everything they've published about says that they Tested this left-right center up down and nobody could tell the difference between their old old method and new Firmly crossing my arthritic fingers Ouchie And cannot be I'm too far away Facebook has Yelp's business in its sights Search engine land was tipped off by Sreed Sharma who found Facebook professional services at Facebook comm slash services The page has a search box a location selector with around 85 business categories that auto fill based on search terms Searches return a list of business with a description contact information business hours user ratings and reviews the feature only works on the web I tried this. I thought well Let's see what they say about doctors in my area. They didn't find any There are no doctors. They didn't say there are no doctors I can't remember exactly the phrasing but definitely in a beta. Yeah, it's a stub But probably but I mean healthcare is not such great shakes in the United States, but we have doctors Yeah, you do need occasionally to find one This seems like a sensible place that you know Facebook could extend their empire into Yeah I don't like the idea of having to log into Facebook to do this sort of thing and thankfully in the past when Facebook has gone Into seemingly obvious territory that they could dominate because they have so many users the users still go and use the originals I Haven't seen them conquer other territory this way for instance checking in they were going to kill Foursquare at one point and they didn't Foursquare has been maybe doing that themselves of late But Foursquare was continued to rise in popularity when Facebook was trying to take them on So I don't know that this is a bad move, but I don't know that it's the lockdown Oh, they're gonna they're gonna ruin yelp at this point CNET reports that with the version 1.11 Phillips Hue software update non Phillips Zigbee wireless bulbs that includes things like GE link The I'm sorry the GE link LED and Cree connected LED cannot be added to the system Now third-party bulbs that you have already added to your system will continue to work Unwarranted anyway for the time being but Phillips cites interoperability issues and confusing differences in setup and resetting as the reason for the move Phillips is launching a Friends of Hue program to certify third-party bulbs interoperability. I Think it's a worse experience for somebody who bought a bulb to not be able to integrate it when they thought they could Yeah, but as CNET points out in their article This probably wouldn't have caused so much consternation if Phillips had launched the Hue with a Friends of Hue program from the beginning but having gone out and bought bulbs and Had them work with your Phillips Hue system and still work with your Phillips Hue system and then buying a new one and adding it and having it not work is also very Confusing in your setup. I would think yeah It's all kinds of annoying even just imagine a scenario where if for some reason you had this to master reset your hub And then you couldn't re-add all these third-party bulbs that were working yesterday Because the new firmware says oh, sorry. Those are foreigners, right? I'm of two minds on this one. I understand that In the very Apple kind of a way Phillips doesn't want other people's product to make theirs look bad they want to just they want to just magically work the Wonk in me wants to be able to play with everything and connect everything to everything else and when someone deliberately takes away Functionality it annoys me. Yeah, I know people in makerspaces are gonna find ways to round this of course Dr. Payne says so basically DRM on light bulbs not exactly They're not saying you can't That it's you know, it's not copy protection. So it's not digital rights management It's just simple in like taking away functionality like you said It's Mac ID blocking The verge reports that pebble The most amusing and named company in the world is rolling out pebble health a health tracking system that works with all pebble watches except the classic and classic steel pebble health tracks steps and sleep and can share data with Apple health and Google Fit Pebbles activity tracking algorithm was developed with Stanford University's wearable health lab and will be made public for scientific Testing see here's the opposite approach. Here's our health system that works with everybody else's health system I love pebbles approach of here's our wearable and we want you to integrate it with with whomever you please Yeah, I mean they're trying to do two things here. One is say We know that our watch can work with your Fitbit But hey, what if our watch didn't need the Fitbit? Which is competitive and and they're not blocking the Fitbit apps from the watch on the other hand They're also saying hey, we want to make a really good algorithm That is better at tracking these things just a couple of things to start with so we can get really good at it And we're working with academic researchers to maybe make a better algorithm and to see if it's actually a better algorithm We're gonna publish it and let people beat up on it to make it better. I think this is fantastic in all respects The UK's Southeast Regional Organized Crime Cyber Unit This is a region west of London said in the statement on Tuesday that it had arrested a brachnol man on suspicion of unauthorized Access to computers and data Reuters reports the arrest of a 21-year-old man in connection with the intrusion into the v-tech toy company Database so looks like they may have found the person who perpetrated that hack And that's a pretty fast turnaround from the hack being revealed to finding the perpetrator Yeah, it turns out to be the right person. Yeah, that's the bit that makes me wonder is whenever there's a fast turnaround on Cyber crime That's for a head my gut reactions. They'll they went for a headline. They probably don't have the right person They probably have someone who was maybe claiming responsibility for it to you know to brag on a forum somewhere Because it's more than a forum brag to to get an arrest warrant those and and the UK Has a fairly good track record in The people that they have arrested I don't know what the Southeast Regional Organized Crime Cyber Crime Unit This track record and this the fact they were going after information on children just this makes this one That much more heinous. Sure The verge again reports that Facebook again is changing the way it enforces the real name policy The new system will require more information from anyone making a false name complaint Like whether they think the account is for an imposter a fictional character or an unexpected name The subject of the complaint will have a week to respond and has options to report special circumstances like stalking bullying or gender-related concerns Facebook has added more members to the support team that deals with name issues. They've had some high-profile Bad PR moments with names and this doesn't change their policy They still require you to use the name that you go by in real life now that doesn't have to be your legal name But you do have to send a an ID It doesn't always have to be a state-issued ID, but you have to send an ID and show that this is the name you use in real life I like that they are Allowing people to respond more. I like that they're forcing reporters to have to say why they're reporting it and not just get an Automatic takedown. I I like that they're having people Within Facebook review these things before they take them down I think that will take a lot of the abuse out of the system But there are still people who go by a name and they don't want to go by anything related to their real name That the policy still leaves behind right It's good to have a human being in the system And I know it's a massive system where that is very difficult But there there's always going to be strange real-life exceptions that should be examined by somebody with the pulse TM204 sent us the news about a very useful Chrome extension called force block Which uses the power of your mind to stop advertisements from ship? No, that's not what it does Force block blocks pages containing spoilers about Star Wars the Force awakens If you try to open a Star Wars related site the extension loads a screen with a Star Wars joke Although the app claims to have a smart detection pattern the Verge reports that it mostly blocks Pretty much all references to Star Wars But if you see the movie later Then this week when it premieres for most people Wednesday or Thursday. This might be the extension you're looking for Can I get another extension called force choke want another extension? I don't want another you want this extension. I want this extension You want to submit stories to us at daily tech news show dot reddit doc You damn right I do and vote on them too, please That's helps us put together a better lineup. I mean it's it's working for a better world for a better tomorrow Submit and vote at daily tech news show dot reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines Hey Janko wreckers from Variety now you remember him writing for other outlets, but he writes for Variety Wrote about this Netflix deal if you don't know Netflix is responsible most recently I think sand vine estimated in the 37% of the video of the traffic of the internet traffic Not just video traffic in North America during peak hours. So Netflix has run into all kinds of problems with that They've run into interconnection agreements where ISPs like Comcast say we're not gonna pay to upgrade the connection You're flooding us. You need to pay us and they've capitulated in a few cases Comcast AT&T etc Netflix is now aiming to use less data. They say they can use up to 20% less data with a new algorithm They've been working on since 2011 it adjusts the quality level depending on the content So for instance an animated show which doesn't have as many things changing as a big live action scene Could stream in 1080p at 1.5 megabits per second under this compression ratio and you shouldn't be able to notice They say they can definitely optimize almost anything from 5.8 megabits per second to 4.64 megabits per second And they're tailoring it each TV episode in a series might have a different setting and a different bit rate That it would stream at one episode may be full of you know longer shots without as much action And the next episode is action-filled and needs to stream it a little bit a higher rate They're also slicing videos up to allow multiple servers to re-encode this in parallel So they can they can get through encoding their hundreds of thousands of videos faster They're re-encoding during off-peak hours using the same Amazon instances that they use to serve you the video during the peak hours And they've even started already testing it to see if any customers would notice I think that's the big question right Todd is are we gonna look at this and say hold on a minute This doesn't this is now compressed. This is like when direct TV compresses their HD signal. I don't like it This is the internet. You will be able to find people complaining on it about it somewhere whether it's justified or not All indications from what information that Netflix has released about this is they have tested this exhaustively specifically with an eye towards not angering their customer base by reducing the quality of the videos but it is and we're so HD focused and you know 40 4k and you know 8k and whatever the future may bring all the Okay That This had to happen because they need to be able to deliver the product as efficiently as possible And have it arrive and be beautiful because we are we wanted to be beautiful the Nerd in me just loves the fact that we have the computing capacity and the storage capacity in existence to even consider re-encoding a petabyte of Video data into multiple resolutions that are you know optimized for what is inside the content that You know, this is where mathematicians go when they graduate from college They go and they write these amazing algorithms that can analyze a piece of digital data and Tetris it down to the most efficient possible way to move it across a network to then unpack it Real time so we can see you know anything on the scale from you know my little pony to Michael Bay of different levels of compression And all we had to do is you know hit a button Yeah, they challenged employees They put up a couple of screens and they said one of these is running in the new compression algorithm And one of them is running and the live current algorithm Tell me point out a difference. It wasn't just can you guess which one is which it was point out a difference That makes it evident that these two are not the same and offered a bottle of champagne Anybody could do it. Nobody could do it now You could say well That's that's a bunch of employees who you kind of want to not see it even though they don't get the champagne Because that supports their awesome company that they work at And and maybe it's hard to prove something is there even if you think you see it But they also rolled this out and testing to select customers and have no we have not seen a bunch of you know Complaints about Netflix suddenly having a loss in quality when this actually becomes available over the next couple of weeks in Their most popular videos to thousands of customers, especially during the holiday break Sitting at home with their feet up that will be the real test But like you said most of this looks like it will not be have a perceptual difference that the algorithm is good And they brought in big guns they brought in people who have been researching this the mathematicians you're talking about This could have lots of different effects for one It could make those interconnection agreements easier to deal with because you won't be flooding Those connections as much in fact the connections that they're paying for maybe they'll save some money because they don't need them as Much as that I would expect if this really does work very well for Netflix to start going back to The Comcasts and AT&T's and saying hey, you know that deal Well, we're not using as much now So you can pull out a couple of those interconnect ports and give us our money back And I'd be interested to see if the ISPs agree with that it also is going to ease up for people who are Experiencing bandwidth limits now there are rather data limits not bandwidth limits folks who have Comcast Comcast doesn't like to call them caps because you can buy overage. So it's not actually a cap It's just a limit that you have to pay to get past But if you don't want to pay to get past this this could help you there It certainly can help with mobile if you want to watch Netflix while you're out and about on a tablet or a phone You won't have to worry as much about using up the data in your account because this will use less data Yeah, this this gives Netflix, you know more tools in their toolkit Because I imagine the scenarios say, you know when when Canada gets the Force Awakens before everyone else next year bastards Netflix may choose to Not compress it as much and have that high demand high action Going to be under the microscope when it first releases Have it go out in the fatter form that is less likely to experience problems So people are joyous and impressed by it and then maybe quietly a couple months in dial it back to one of these I don't think so. I I think they sound confident enough in this They're just gonna go for that they they're like look we don't have to sandbag it We don't have to worry about it. Just put it out And people will be fine with it because if it's working the way they say it shouldn't need to have another version Although if they do put the optimized version out that'll make it easier on all those people using VPNs to get into the Canada Who would ever do such a thing? I Wonder I mean I put this to us and we kind of stopped talking about it to save it for the show when we were talking before the show This is a result of the interconnection agreements to a certain extent There's lots of reasons why Netflix wants to do this But one of them is hey wait a minute We're really flooding these interconnections and we didn't we weren't able to get away without paying for some kind of agreement Let's figure out how to send less data through and that can be seen as a positive effect of having to negotiate those agreements well, I mean necessity is is a mother of invention and The ISPs have created this necessity where suddenly they imagine that you know bits are a limited resource So in this imaginary world that they've constructed Netflix now has to Work with those limitations to and this makes them a hero from the perspective of their customer base Because the customer base is giving notifications. Hey, there are data caps where they're there were none before It's transparently because they're not making a buck off of cable subscriptions anymore And they want a piece of the internet that is taking the cables subscriptions place And that just makes people cranky So if Netflix can come back and say hey, you can have all the video you want And we're gonna help you not hit that artificial cap Then people are gonna be turning over their nine bucks a month ten bucks a month even happier Than they were before yeah, and people might suddenly decide to keep a connection that they would have gotten rid of Because they were going over their cap etc. Etc. So I like this is Yeah, go ahead Well, if this is as Introduces the level of efficiency that they claim this could be an actual selling point of Netflix over another Non-optimized streaming service very yeah, you could do your Amazon Prime, but you're gonna hit your data cap Yeah, you can watch the same movie over here for 20% less data against your cap Signups are over here. I mean Netflix has been doing this since 2011 Yeah, so when the very first sabers begin to be rattled about interconnections They were starting to work on this problem. So it's not a direct result of that They're also apparently working on some kind of torrent project. We mentioned that yesterday There was a job posting referring to web torrent, which is a way to embed torrents into browsers using web RTC And they have made some saber rattles last year about the idea that well if ISPs are worried about interconnection then let and the fact that we're sending all this data into their systems Maybe we'll change to torrents where the data goes in and comes out of their systems and it's balanced So I would keep an eye out for that may not anytime soon, but I think that would be again Maybe for a competitive reason They do this but I think it would be excellent for everyone if suddenly the torrent protocol Particularly the web torrent Maybe not maybe some other version of it was used to deliver video over the internet because then instead of Netflix Possibly having a problem during peak times Netflix gets better during peak times because the way torrents work the more people that are using it the more efficient a torrent system works The challenge there becomes I don't know if this is uniform across all ISPs, but I know my ISP cost communications Part of my data cap includes my upstream So they count send and receive add that up and that becomes my monthly cap or used to yeah And that is just an accounting issue. It's not like their upstream is Has congested or that they they somehow you know are oh, we're sending too much data out onto the internet It goes back to I didn't say it made sense Yeah, right, but if I do start seeding these torrents or when I'm sending data as I'm watching a film and Their efficiency of having me not hit my data cap is undermined by the fact that I'm sending data to my neighbors So they can watch the same movie as me and now I'm hitting my cap faster Yeah Well, it'd be interesting to see how this this all pans out and what and whether these data limits actually succeed They generally don't anytime an ISP tries to put data limits in they succeed for a time But they haven't proved to be sticky yet I mean who knows maybe they will if you're someone who has a data cap right now You're saying yeah, they're pretty sticky because I have so I get that I had to move away from their Consumer product to their business product to get away from the cap. Yeah, same here Let's get our pick of the day from Rico in locked down Brussels or at least it was when he sent us the email Said on episode 26 36. You guys were talking about the new chrome feature that reduces traffic usage and the opera alternative On novel comm is an app that does that system-wide for your phone It's for Android and iOS and has helped me save on roaming charges here in Europe However, it must be served with a huge dose of caution or tin foil Hattage because it works by redirecting all your traffic through a their VPN So you shouldn't be in a position where you're not going to be where you're gonna be upset if somebody else can see the Traffic that you're sending out on the network. Oh now though is apparently owned by Facebook now as well So there's that too says Rico But I immediately sent this link to my sister and said we should put this on my mom's phone because we had a bingo app That was using up all of her data every month and we uninstalled that and it helped But she doesn't have Wi-Fi. So anything that's going to help keep that data down for her is going to be good Yeah, there's more and more apps are becoming little data sponges on Your machines if they've embedded apps or embedded advertising that they're downloading updates to and all that crap So anything that can shave that down or control it good thing Ona vo.com onavo.com if you want to take a look at it send your pics to us folks feedback and daily tech Newshow.com you can find my pics and a link to a spreadsheet of all of your pics at daily tech newshow.com Slash pics a couple of messages before out of here regarding the new drone registration requirement here in the United States Mark Pointed out that this doesn't just imply to what we consider drones This applies to all model aircraft of a certain size He says this is a loss for the Academy of Model Aeronautics. These rules are for the unmanned aircraft systems He has a site archiving all this stuff after a number of flyers were arrested in New York City He says the AMA not the American Medical Association the Academy of Model Aeronautics wanted an exception for legacy flyers all the old remote control airplane flyers the RC flyers To not have a registration requirement the AMA who represent much of this old user base has been less than happy to embrace the drone Technology including first-person view forums are commonly acid fuels against drone pilots all the while the AMA has recently well-documented history of hypocrisy on drone tech He says I released my freestyle drone frame open source at rotor garage.com if you want to check that out But what the AMA is saying is Congress agreed to say nobody has to register Nobody has to pay if they follow the rules of a community and we've been that community now Obviously mark has an axe to grind and calls it acid fueled Rhetoric against drone pilots But I know Darren has talked about the AMA and said that you know, maybe that could have been an organization That stepped up and and helped folks with all kinds of unmanned area aeronautical vehicles So or systems or whatever you want to call them UAVs UAS is I Think that this is a setback for for folks who just wanted to fly model airplanes And now they're gonna have to pay five bucks and get a registration number Which is which is too bad that it couldn't have been worked out better Yeah, I'm not sure how we were going to avoid it just with the Amazing new capabilities that drones have that can be misused and in fear of that as well It has driven this and they got caught up in the in the title wave And then my boss John in Detroit One of the bosses says I was listening to yesterday's show and like to give another solution to the drone squad We had someone write in and said what if you had and somebody's like it's illegal to shoot down drones Yes, it is our emailer yesterday was saying what if we made it so that the drone squad the officials could Shoot them down with rubber bullets He and and John said now a net like the Japanese Tokyo police are doing or shotgun sounds cool The fact that they would take too long to deploy and would probably not be that accurate are a problem and cause damage to the Drone is also a problem. My suggestion is radio waves think back to interstellar when at the beginning they hijack a UAV What if there was a way to take control of a drone remotely when it crosses into a no-fly zone? It would be faster to implement and would prevent damage to the drone being confiscated The operator would then pay a fine and a fee to retrieve their vehicle I That's kind of where they're going with building in systems and DJI is doing this that That can tell where a no-fly zone is and just doesn't go into it It's even better than radio jamming but as an enforcement measure for people who might hack around that system I I think that's an interesting avenue to pursue as well John good suggestion. Yeah, I built build in a you know Control back door for law enforcement. What could go wrong? 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Netfixed Netfixed slower with this new System that I'm using right now just for now the force block awakens Yeah Less flicks Compression and chill nice I liked fat free flicks too. Yeah Less flicks is winning though. That's pretty damn good. Yep Simplex Simplex what? Slim slim flicks. I see. Oh, there's a really there's a bunch of good ones in here. Yeah, I don't Know netflix now after 20% off your bandwidth Phillips dims third party bulbs Phillips turns the lights off Tubble gets healthier Less flicks compression and chill. Those are those are racing to the top. Yeah, I Really like compression chill is also good. Yeah, I kind of think compressing and chill It's it's time to use that one because that the Netflix and chill has a limited shelf life in people's consciousness. I'd say do it Done compression and chill Dr. Payne with the title Dr. Payne you have been chosen to Accept the challenge Never a dull moment That's our theme song never a dull moment song to the tune of never a dull moment In the key of Ellie singing the song right now my game is complete Got my alley See she looks she knows her name She knows the internet is real Baby for the longest time. Maybe you don't do that. Baby. Baby. Baby. Don't do that Ellie the voices are calling to you. I Could never remember a time when the internet did not speak to me You know, it would just be like part of the fabric of her You know world. Yeah, I don't I don't know why she grows up to have a southern accent, but But by then you'll be able to implant, you know snap ins into your brainstem to give me whatever Right. It's just a fashion fashion choice kids these days What's funny is like I wonder how many kids actually understand how the internet works other than You know, they they know how to use it. They know how to use it for what they need It's it's the natural Cycle of things I was always Amazed by the wave of people who came after just with computers in general who were just Users and were uninterested in what was going on under the hood Which is because we were the hobbyists and only we cared about these computers Oh, and then they started doing things that other people cared about and you have the mass of humanity who are just we just use it And it's gonna be that times a thousand. I think with the younger generations in the internet. It's just always been there, of course Unfortunately that comes with an implicit trust of the internet And this is why I spend my days scrubbing malware off of people's machines after they let their kids touch them I'm gonna introduce you that as malware scrubber next time My other life Lots of ransomware out there. That's evil evil stuff Yeah, and it's very real I had two instances of Tesla Crypt That clients this week and one client realized the benefit of good backups And the other realized that they did not have good backups and now they do but it's a little too late So was the vector just like an email attachment or like an email link that they clicked on or one was One the vector was the email spoof where the boss of the organization got it and just forwarded it to his controller And she saw oh, it's from a trusted source It's from my boss and so opened the invoice that was attached and it was all over at that point The other one can't find an email vector. So I'm assuming it was a an exploit kit running on a compromised website What's the vector Victor? You were under over those under done You know, that's why I tie All my attachments to Google Docs like spreadsheets and stuff. I got open. I'll just open up open it up in Google box Sandbox just a little yeah, but the level of sophistication on their command and control servers where It's all automated. Make sure your own private directory Automates the acceptance of the Bitcoin and releasing the decryption key if they feel like it Yes, uh, wait, if these people That bootsector virus That's like rootkit on steroids. I have not and one of the interesting things about it Was that it included an uninstall feature So you couldn't you because windows can't see it because it's right sector But it it put some some things in the registry that would allow you to uninstall it Which made a lot of people think well, it must be meant at least in part to be ransomware Interesting. What does it do? Does it just lock your machine? It owns the machine. I mean can do whatever it wants Yeah, I mean you get with rootkit you get the shadow operating system running alongside and they play you Mary Mary hell with your computer I hear singing Mary hell the wish of Krampus Ellie You're adorable. He's talking to Ellie in case you're just listening to the audio So let me tell you how the force awakens handsome They rolled the credit millions of people just stopped to their MP3 Wow, did you see the viewership just drop off there, too? And then come the death threats in the IRC cried out in terror suddenly silenced I For one I'm not too worried About like shutting like I've seen people like that like my friend Ron like that's it I'm leaving the internet see on Thursday night I'm not too worried about it I'm also not super spoiler sensitive personally. I don't that's not an invitation. I don't love to be spoiled necessarily but The living deathly fear of it. Well, the studio has done. I think a remarkable job really keeping under wraps Yeah, this day and age. That's not that ain't easy and JJ didn't have the greatest track record with that with Into darkness where all of it got leaked anyway Flat out lie to try and keep a lid on it Well, and they allowed a hundred fifty people in to see the movie yesterday who had been in line to buy tickets Oh, really and they just surprised him and said you come in now really people turned it down Because they were getting married on Thursday and say it we can't do it We can't do it to our guests the whole point of our wedding is to get married and see the force awakens with everybody And I'm like wow, that's some self-control right there Like that's insane But everybody else took them up on the opportunity and went that's awesome And and that's where like that's the biggest spoiler risk right there, right? I was like those people, you know, they have no vested interest But there's I guess they're so thankful that they were given that opportunity that they don't want to you know They don't want to ruin it Which is good. It's not the usual activity you see on the internet So faith in humanity ratchet up one notch sometimes occasionally, you know Humanities like babies some of them are good. I see one good one right there He was she was baby singing to me earlier. It was awesome Yes, as Ian points out to the chat room. I haven't seen Star Wars I couldn't spoil it if I was we're not in France. I Don't think France has seen it yet either Yeah, they're a day out they get it on Wednesday And you just know beginning cryptic and maybe not so cryptic tweets from miss you deja Strike it rich asks a force awakens ends with a visit from Nick Fury Well, it technically could yeah, they could have so much. Oh, yeah could force goes to mace window in Did I ever tell you about the shield Jedi project They do that crossover. I will burn everything That is almost too crass but didn't Patton Oswald write that movies pretty much. Yeah, yeah Nerds nerds would rise up and burn down the planet at that point. How many my lightsaber, it's what they would just stop like patronizing those franchise like I Know Don't patronize JJ Abrams other other than you Star Trek I mean more is more track The fast and the phasers. Yeah. All right. This guy says you could spoil it with a really good guess I disagree with that. Yeah, we've been we've been through this before which is guesses or just guesses Yeah, like don't try to guess. What if you get it, right? Then you've spoiled it I'm like, but how is that a spoiler if you don't know if it's true Let's some people are so spoiler sensitive. They don't even want to hear speculation on what they're speculating in their own brains They can't stop themselves if you're thinking about the movie. You are speculating about it Not a smart man Why isn't SoundCloud processing my track for playback Jenny dear SoundCloud, please process Tom's track for his playback Are you sending them a postcard? I am writing a very angry response to the processing. It's not very thick Yes, the process Look, it's magic. It's amazing. Would you write a baby egg that I like to imagine that there was some guy at SoundCloud at Alphageek radio right then was like, huh, let me check on that. Oh, yeah, that process is Dear SoundCloud, thank you very much for dressing like a third. I really appreciate it. I will continue to use your service That was amazing. It worked Recommend it to anyone who asks. Yes Now leave me a note with my comic books. I Am impatiently waiting for the expanse episode 2 as well strike it rich The expanse premiered on sci-fi last night. Yeah, so it comes tonight I already seen episode one because they released it early And it was good I'm looking for more. I wonder if I can catch that on the band in places Where is sci-fi on the man? They have their own Roku channel, right? You have cable. I do have cable. Yeah, I think yeah, I think you can log in I know you can log in on the web and see full episodes of stuff So, yeah, I think they have a Roku and they have an Apple they might have an Apple. Oh Well, I just bought an Apple TV. You could also buy it from iTunes Yeah, if you've got the current gen Apple TV that supports the App Store, there's a lot more. Okay See, I yeah, I'm not gonna do a head-to-head test of the Roku stick and the Apple TV You can stream your music through Roku stick to Apple TV would be the perfect device I can't stream iTunes throughout the Roku stick. Can I? Mm-hmm. There's a way. How is it complicated? No ish I'm going to a party. I'm hosting a party on Friday about Star Wars Will I have time to set up your complicated Roku stick way before then? No, it's not complicated I mean, there's lots of different ways to do it One would be to download a different player and then DLNA stream it to Roku And not use iTunes to play it. Yeah, see at this point I'm glad I bought my Apple TV and also really another way would be my cable to use What's the RDO is gone? No, there are music apps that then you could upload your music into and use those All I want Yeah Most of the modern Roku devices will show up as a Bluetooth speaker destination Oh snap So you just go into the settings on the Roku and Put it into discoverable mode parents, and they just make that you can do it with the Roku app Yep, that put the music on your iPhone and Then Roku app and send it send it, you know, I think what I think those are all awesome I think that both the phone and The computer will be in heavy usage during the party So it feels good to have a separate standalone device to do it. Sure. No, that makes sense But I but I like all those solutions Because they're cheaper and like the HDMI cable one was real That's how I streamed Star Wars.com last night was just put an HDMI cable into the laptop and do it You know early ohs style or not early ohs, but middos Because sometimes that just works. I watched the stream in the kitchen while making salad You have a I want you know what I want I want a vine of Anthony Carboni's face the moment Carrie Fisher took the mic because the just the triangle of his hands Making a prayer triangle over his mouth. I just want it over and over and over What have I done? Yeah, I'm either a genius or fired We need to get somebody to make that repeating gift and then and then dub over the top of it It was it was totally the I just threw firecrackers into the principal's office. Yes Yeah, the greatest idea ever or am I I also really applauded his commitment to Enthusiasm in the face of Harrison Ford's grumpy act. I missed the Harrison Ford interview He was Harrison Ford was like decently good-natured and Carboni of course had really good questions But at a certain point like it was really weird because like at a certain point that it ended weirdly like because Harrison Ford was just like done and I think Carboni asked one more question and Got a look from somebody and just like shut it down You know like he shut down his own question. I was just like oh, it's so awkward But he did a really good job of it so typical of it's so Either Harrison Ford is like a hundred and ten percent on or he's just a grump Or he's playing a grump, but he's playing it so well that you can't tell like I would never grump or drunk Yeah, I would never ever ever in a million years want to interview Harrison Ford because I just it would I couldn't handle it Just you just I would try to out grump it. Yeah, I Would know in my heart of hearts that I would have nothing new to ask him right these are my issues with with Interviews like that like that's why I'd rather just talk to people. Nobody knows Because oh boy, what are you gonna ask Harrison Ford? How about that air? Yeah, would you enjoy premieres that are large? Yeah, or would you rather be flying an airplane? Yeah, which which aircraft do you think you're gonna crash next? And over whose house Actually that I mean He was ice cold Yeah calm and collected during that events like damn Yeah, Shane says start an interview with Harrison Ford by holding out a snake. I like that Reggie he'll be asking the questions Get of me. I am not Indiana Jones. You understand that right? Yeah, I'm not actually afraid of snakes I'll eat it All right, we got a we got to go do a secret episode that will be in your feeds on December 28th So I'll take the five minutes it takes to log in to Skype Your kids have fun now with Lando buying Mandalorian armor goodbye