The WAN Show - iPhone Battery Case FAIL and Troll Insurance - Dec 11, 2015

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Main News Topics

Donald Trump Wants To “Close Up” The Internet

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/501817-donald-trump-wants-to OP: 13CA350
Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/trump-wants-bill-gates-to-help-close

Source 3: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9869308/donald-trump-close-up-

Video of Speech

• US should consider “closing up” the internet to curb radical extremism

• believes that as president, he could call up BIll Gates to help him “close up the internet in some way”

• believes this would be a great way to fight terrorism, ISIS recruiting kids off the internet

• (Luke) Series of tubes

 

European Commission Officially Presents Plan to Address Netflix Like Geo-Blocking

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502068-european-commission-o OP: Centurius

Source 2: https://torrentfreak.com/eu-proposal-bans-netflix-style-geo-blocking-and

• new proposal requires online services to allow users to access accounts all across Europe

• first step in EU’s broader copyright reform

• Netflix has called for an end to all geo-blocking and says they're happy to provide content to viewers wherever they are

• good first step, but doesn’t solve everything

• copyright holders may have to rewrite some rules if approved

• people who use a VPN to access a broader library of films and video in another EU country, which will no longer be possible under the new rules

• people who are in countries where netflix and services aren’t available, still won’t have access

Google’s “D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer” 100 Million Times Faster Than Regular Computer Chip

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502337-googles-d-wave-2x-quan OP: RagnarokDel

Source 2: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/114614/20151209/googles-d-wave-2x-quan

• machine acquired by Google and NASA in 2013

• can decipher complex problems that classical computers can’t handle

• President for Engineering John Giannandrea:

  • “future may lie ahead of us in non-conventional computing”

• 10,000 years of computing reduced to seconds

• faster because D-Wave 2X runs on quantum bits or qubits instead of 0’s and 1’s

  • 1097 qubits

• Qubits, each 0 and 1 can be performed simultaneously, yielding faster results

• the problem that the D-Wave 2X solved had about 1,000 variables

• systems with quantum effects help solve more complex problems - this machine is specifically really good at “optimization problems” finding the best possible of many solutions.

• working on making the input into the machine easier

• (Luke) SUPER SICK, pretty bad comparisons

 

Insurer now offering “Troll Insurance” for victims of online harassment

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/503058-insurer-now-offering-%E2% OP: Samfisher

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/12/chubb-offers-uks-first-troll-insurance-policy/

• claims of up to $75,000 for counseling, relocation due to online abuse, or missed work

• Chubb, offering to clients in the UK

• Cyberbullying defined: “three or more acts by the same person or group to harass, threaten or intimidate a customer”

• Chubb included this as a result of a survey or target audience and brokers

• they see it to help clients get back to where they were before incidents occur

• The policy money can be used to pay a reputation management team that would restore the person's public image, or even to hire a forensic specialist to trace the origins of the trolling

• (Luke) I’m assuming this is for like ultra aggressive cases and not ‘im gonna bang ye mum m8’

National Crime Agency lists Cybercrime “Warning Signs” for parents

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502771-national-crime-age OP: SometimesStuff

Source 2: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/765-campaign-targets-uk-s-youngest-cy

#CyberChoices Video

• National Crime Agency in the UK launched a campaign

• wants to discourage young people from being involved in cyber crime

• seeks to help parents/caters to spot problem signs, educate 12-15 year old boys

• over the last year, average age of cyber crime criminals featured in cases was 17 years old

• average was 24 the year prior - Have to wonder if this has as much to do with monitoring policy changes as anything?

• Many commenters obviously not parents, and 3rd party blogs taking the message completely out of context - this one is particularly eggregious - It criticizes a list of behaviors as though the NCA is saying everyone who exhibits them is a hacker, and goes on to say that “talk to your kids” is the answer, except that’s exactly what the NCA article says.

• If my son spends a bunch of his time learning lockpicking and staying out late that doesn’t make him a burglar, but it’s still worth having the “hey what’re you up to junior” conversation. That’s all the NCA is saying and they're trying to put it in terms normal people can understand.

Intel, Scythe and CRYORIG made official statements over Skylake’s #bendgate/Damaged PCB’s

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/501560-intel-scythe-and-cryorig OP: zMeul

Source 2: https://www.techpowerup.com/218193/cryorig-posts-official-statement-r

Bent Skylake CPU

• PCB’s being damaged by abnormal heatsink mounting pressure

• Intel states that they are using the same LGA 1151 sockets from previous gens

  • They can’t comment on 3rd party cooler designs, defers to manufacturers

• CRYORIG states no heatsinks of theirs have displayed this problem

  • They think it's caused by: high mounting pressure, increased force created by weight of heatsink and movement of PC chassis

• media has found the problem in pre-built PC’s

 

Apple announces iPhone 6 and 6S battery pack cover

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/501380-apple-announces-iphone- OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9870464/apple-iphone-smart-battery-case

Source 3: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MGQM2LL/A/iphone-6s-smart-

Source 4: http://www.wired.com/2015/12/review-iphone-battery-case/

Unbox Therapy’s Video

Marques’s Video

• case costs $99

• Apple says it will extend battery life up to 18 hours on LTE networks

  • 20 hours of video playback, up to 25 hours of talk time

• product slips onto the iPhone like a regular case

• case charged via lightning port

• automatically starts charging, no option to turn the case off

• nicknamed “The Hump” by some

• displays “intelligent battery status” on phone's lock screen and notification center

• no word on a battery pack cover for iPhone 6 Plus, 6S Plus and older iPhones

• Lew (UTherapy) thinks it looks terrible, says to get a battery backup instead

• Marques says the price is high, compared it to Mophie 2750mAh battery and others for the same price

• Wired couldn’t get one full charge off of the battery case

• Patents could be the reason the case was designed in this manner?? - 9 to 5 Mac

 

Rapid Fire

Apple allegedly building a custom GPU architecture (Rumor? Not Really?)

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502916-apple-allegedly-buildin OP: asim1999

Source 2: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-is-allegedly-building-a-custom-mobile-

Source 3: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/39417-apple-building-a-gpu

• according to a report from “Fudzilla”

• investigating custom mobile GPU architectures

• report mentions that we probably won’t see something for a few years

OpenAI Announced

Source 1: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

• non-profit artificial intelligence research company

• goal to advance digital intelligence in a way that benefits humanity

• unconstrained by a need to generate financial return, can focus on goal

• has been funded for $1 billion so far

• expecting to spend a tiny fraction of that over the next few years

• Director is Ilya Sutskever, research scientist at Google

• Elon Musk and Sam Altman [president of Y Capital, angel investing firm that backed  Dropbox, Airbnb, Reddit, and many more, chairman of the board for 2 nuclear energy companies] are co-chairs of the organization

• (Luke) I called this was elon before i read that part.

 

Liking the wrong picture on Facebook can get you 32 years of prison in Thailand

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502978-liking-the-wrong OP: AluminumTech

Source 2: http://qz.com/570804/liking-the-wrong-picture-on-facebook-can-get-you-32-years-o

• insulting royal family can net 15 years in prison in Thailand

• August, 48 year old man sentenced to 30 years in prison

  • Facebook activity deemed insulting to the monarchy

• factory worker charged with “cyber crime, sedition and defaming Thailand’s 88 year old king”

Speedtest.net launches HTML5 speed test

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502585-speedtestnet-launches-h OP: Rohith_Kumar_Sp

Source 2: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/12/08/speedtest-net-now-allows-users-to-check-

• site has used Adobe Flash to accomplish tests

• now possible to access a HTML5 version

AMD Discusses 2016 Radeon Visual Tech Roadmap

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/501457-amd-discusses-2016-rad OP: Albert Song

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9836/amd-unveils-2016-vistech-roadmap

• DisplayPort 1.3 & HDMI 2.0a: Support coming in 2016

• DisplayPort 1.3 will offer 50% more bandwidth than predecessor

  • Supported Resolutions, 5120x2880 (RGB/4:4:4, 60Hz) or 7680x4320 (4:2:0, 60Hz)

• Low Framerate Compensation

Oukitel K10000 with it’s massive 10000 mAh battery

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502879-oukitel-k10000-with-its-massi OP: kameshss

Source 2: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/meet-the-android-phone-with-a-humungous-

• $239.99 USD or $199.99 USD

• supports reverse charging

• available for pre-order

Samsung plans to get into the self-driving car industry

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502278-samsung-plans-to-get-int OP: CaptainGazzz

Source 2: http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-entering-self-driving-car-industry-660903/

• released plans to create a team that will develop car parts for other companies

• automotive division will be separate from Samsung’s other business units

• will focus on producing components to be used in self-driving cars

Nintendo touchscreen controller patent

Source 1: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/12/nintendo-touchscreen-controller-pate

Intel to launch Broadwell-E processor Lineup at Computex 2016 in June [rumor]

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502096-intel-to-launch-broadwell-e OP: Mr_Troll

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/intel-broadwell-e-hedt-computex-2016/  

• SKUs revealed by Benchlife.info

• flagship model 6950X will feature up to 10 cores/20 threads

• expanded from 3 tier lineup to 4 tiers

• Broadwell-E lineup will consist of Core i7, 6950X, 6900K, 6850K and 6800K

• X99 “Wellsburg” MOBO will support this lineup with up to 40 PCIe lanes

Spotify reportedly considering making some music available only to paid users

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/501759-75-of-people-will-hate- OP: AluminumTech

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873118/spotify-keep-music-off-free-tier

• service will test “windows” that withhold certain albums from users who don’t pay

• roughly 80 million users, 20 million who pay, 60 million who don’t

• Wall Street Journal reporting that Spotify will test this new approach

• Spotify did comment:

  • "We are 100 percent committed to our model because we believe that a free, ad-supported tier combined with a more robust premium tier is the best way to deliver music to fans, create value for artists and songwriters, and grow the industry. In that context, we explored a wide range of promotional options for the new Coldplay album and ultimately decided, together with management, that Coldplay and its fans would best be served with the full album on both free and premium this Friday."

Mozilla kills the Firefox Phone

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/501761-mozilla-kills-the-firefox-p OP: AluminumTech

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9872802/mozilla-has-killed-the-firefox-phone

• Dec 8th, Mozilla revealed that it won’t develop or sell Firefox OS smartphones/devices

• originally announced at a developer event, confirmed by TechCrunch

• Mozilla noted to TechCrunch it wasn’t able to offer the best user experience possible

• plans to use Firefox OS tech to fuel other devices, outside of smartphones

[Tie Lightning]

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Edit: kek

[Guest]

hi linus

[Shimejii]

oh hai ITS THe WAAAAN

[prolemur]

Man I just went back and re watched a few minutes of the "live stream" in November 2012. Damn

 

We're running the forum on a 5mbps connection

Watch those moderators!

[Guest]

if you believe in Donald Trump's principles

 

Donald Trump doesn't have principles.

People who have principles generally don't go into politics. And if they do, they're at best relegated to being that one guy who never wins any offices, but gets pointed to whenever people want to give an example of policy proposals that are better than whatever is actually being pushed through the legislature.

What Donald Trump does have is great talent, experience and - seemingly - passion for entertainment, which is all you can hope to gain from a politician.

TL;DR TRUMP 2016!

[SaperPL]

About your wireless project Linus - there are guys in Poland that did that thing already on a much bigger scale 

 

 

Here are videos the videos (although in polish):

 

101km https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcDWWmF03s

250km https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqhYHq9Tx0

 

And here's the map link:

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zlFFp5i2GwA4.kbueQ4ZAP3lk

 

What they did is put one antenna on the top of their university dorm roof (a high-rise type) and went with the second one to "nearby" peaks to find the longest possible 5GHz WiFi range.

 

According to the last video there are two even longer WiFi connections in the world though.

 

If you're really going for it then it'd be nice to talk over some ideas how this can be done easily and cheaply.

[13CA350]

 

Speedtest.net launches HTML5 speed test

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502585-speedtestnet-launches-h OP: Rohith_Kumar_Sp

Source 2: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/12/08/speedtest-net-now-allows-users-to-check-

• site has used Adobe Flash to accomplish tests

• now possible to access a HTML5 version

 

My work actually uses a wifi setup like that. I work for a construction company so it's mounted on our mobile office. This way we can get decent wifi all around the jobsite

[SometimesStuff]

National Crime Agency lists Cybercrime “Warning Signs” for parents

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/502771-national-crime-age OP: SometimesStuff

Source 2: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/765-campaign-targets-uk-s-youngest-cy

#CyberChoices Video

• National Crime Agency in the UK launched a campaign

• wants to discourage young people from being involved in cyber crime

• seeks to help parents/caters to spot problem signs, educate 12-15 year old boys

• over the last year, average age of cyber crime criminals featured in cases was 17 years old

• average was 24 the year prior - Have to wonder if this has as much to do with monitoring policy changes as anything?

• Many commenters obviously not parents, and 3rd party blogs taking the message completely out of context - this one is particularly eggregious - It criticizes a list of behaviors as though the NCA is saying everyone who exhibits them is a hacker, and goes on to say that “talk to your kids” is the answer, except that’s exactly what the NCA article says.

• If my son spends a bunch of his time learning lockpicking and staying out late that doesn’t make him a burglar, but it’s still worth having the “hey what’re you up to junior” conversation. That’s all the NCA is saying and they're trying to put it in terms normal people can understand.

 

Original list shown in the thenextweb blog post is what was on the NCA website as well and the below paragraph was added after all the internet backlash about the list.

 

"Many of the signs below are just normal teenage behaviours. Taken in isolation they don't necessarily suggest a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime. These are just possible indicators that your child is getting into the wrong activities. If a young person is showing several of these signs, try and have a conversation with them about their online activities. This will allow you to assess their computer knowledge proficiency so you can understand what they are doing, explain the consequences of cyber crime and help them make the right choices."

 

It wasn't misrepresenting what was said, the NCA website did actually have the list as they showed it at the time of publishing, I updated my opening post when they changed the list. Here's a snapshot for the 9th of December 2016, when it first broke as news - https://web.archive.org/web/20151209031403/http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime/cyber-crime-preventing-young-people-from-getting-involved

 

Screenshot incase link doesn't work.

 

 

If anything, it shows that someone in the NCA noticed they did something wrong and corrected it.

[ChrisCross]

the eu geolocking thing is not meant for netflix. its more for local sports. for example you should be able to watch german state television over the Internet on a german device

[Sam Z Man]

That was the most beautiful outtro ever.

[NicholasBoccio]

The Ockel computer is just the http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Fanless-Desktop-Windows-storage/dp/B00SCBWF52 in a different form factor.

 

Quantum Byte also makes a compute stick form factor http://www.amazon.com/Azulle-Quantum-Access-Windows-storage/dp/B00X4O6GRK/ref=lp_13262430011_1_2?srs=13262430011&ie=UTF8&qid=1450029467&sr=8-2 with the same hardware.

 

I use the desktop version to use a remote VM machine since it allows for two monitors, and the compute stick doesn't. It's really great, and I'd love to see LTT tear one open and upgrade it.

[renze]

At the end of the video, you were wondering why people aren't watching the WAN Show as much anymore.

 

The reason is because we used to watch you guys sit on a couch with brighter, more inviting surroundings, having a conversation. Now you're sitting in a dark, dirty, rusty alley out behind a Burger King, shooting off topics.

 

The feeling is much more impersonal now. You've said you don't care about the surroundings and people are just going to have to deal with it. Well, people are dealing with it and now you're acting surprised.

 

Edit: You should move the show to a smaller, more private room and bring back the couch. The relative privacy will foster better conversation, too.

[Sarquamon]

Hi everyone. I'm new to the linustechtips forum and I entered because I was wondering if I could listen to the WAN show via podcast or some sort of it. Can anyone answer this?

[Guest]

Hi everyone. I'm new to the linustechtips forum and I entered because I was wondering if I could listen to the WAN show via podcast or some sort of it. Can anyone answer this?

 

One of our members uploads a podcast and updates them to this thread each time, where you can download them from: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/167905-wan-show-audio-podcast-downloads/