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alright guys welcome to the wine show it is that time again this week the time that I set aside to spend with you all of you out there in twitch twitch streaming land and oh crap I've got the tab open on my on my laptop and I'm like 20 seconds behind I can hear myself and okay I've I've managed to make it so that I'm not going crazy anymore which is nice I am unfortunately without Luke this week which is which is a real shame but he's basically got some stuff he's got a deal with this week and I totally get it so I'm gonna hopefully have someone join me in a short while here and you know it's funny I was planning to have the show go completely smoothly with no hitches in his absence the way that he claims that it always goes when I'm not around but I will confess to you now I have not yet actually tested my screen share so this is the moment of truth will I be having uneasy well not easy I mean you know live-streaming is it's very difficult very very difficult but will I be having a seamless show today or no oh look at that nailed it yes my friend so we've got a lot of great topics for you today there's been some big news and there's been some little news researchers built a 1000 core processor I'll be talking about that and why it probably doesn't mean a whole lot to you and won't for quite some time YouTube's Terms of Service have been updated it's mostly around their harassment and cyberbullying policy so that is gonna have potentially huge ramifications for some youtubers out there who are basically making a living out of harassment and cyberbullying twitch brings CFAA and trademark claim against bots operators apparently they are a persistent frustration that is some strong language coming from there senior vice president marketing okay and in much huger news that's not necessarily directly purely tech related but will absolutely have an effect on technology and how that how that works especially for Europeans moving forward the UK has voted to leave the EU it is it is final but there are some important other notes about it that we're going to be talking a little bit about later so without further ado let's get on twitch chat here and see if see if wow no one is complaining that is amazing and here come all the complaints so let's roll the intro so that I can just you don't even have to watch me pretending not to read them we're face like four pixels off oh wait also for some reason we have much darker skin in this one fascinating title bear fresh box and those are all the same but the blank ones ah one of these days one of these days we're gonna become a real professional media company and we're not gonna we're not gonna make little mistakes like who am i kidding that's never happening alright so let's jump right into our first topic here the original article here is from n gadget researchers build a 1000 core processor that they call Vikki liqueur yep that makes sense so in a nutshell what any what a kilo core or a many many core processor would be optimized for is as you can well imagine performing many many parallel operations so that's many many many many small things all at once this is not going to have pretty much any relevance to you the person sitting there who wants to play games or encode video that you edited or I mean really most of what you would consider to be a home use for a computer this is not going to have any relevance for you I don't want to say ever because ever is a really big word but for a very very long time because the limitation of the way that we currently code software is usually when it comes to performance the single threaded performance of the CPU or CPUs that are being used to handle the workload it will take an enormous change in the way that programming is done for something like this hyper low-power kilo core processor to have much relevance to someone who wants to even you know general web browsing can consume a lot of CPU horsepower these days but there are things that it can be used for sorting through data encryption one of the applicability sort of notes that I have in here is encoding videos but that is heavily dependent on the codec being used for one thing and for well I mean how many video streams you're trying to encode so if you could make a thousand core processor that is powerful enough for each of the course to handle an individual encoding stream holy crap I mean I could see a site like twitch or like YouTube being all over that kind of technology it's like you mean we can have a thousand cores each of which can handle an incoming video encoding request from a file upload by itself and these things can consume let's see point seven Watts total I mean the whole thing could run on a double-a battery and this is without the benefit of the latest manufacturing process node so this was actually built on 32 nanometer technology which is quite archaic at this point in time though it should be noted that a mere what I don't know four or five years ago that would have been considered state-of-the-art so the processor handles 115 billion instructions per second and part of what makes it operate so efficiently at the core is that the course transfer data to each other directly rather than on a shared cache of memory they'll again it should be noted that that will only be more efficient for certain workloads where the cores need to share data directly with each other and where you can build enough interconnects for the cores to not have to leap over multiple other cores in order to access another one very very cool so let's just see if there's a is there like a picture I can show you or anything like that it looks like most of the news articles this one's over on BGR comm are just pulling generic CPU pictures off of shutterstock here ooh flight attendants and passengers get away with this all the time fascinating love it thank you for that I love those sponsored articles under the actual article that I'm trying to read all right so the original source here is Dex err TOCOM a site that we've never actually referred to before as far as I'm aware just go ahead and make sure that's positive so there have been some changes to the YouTube Terms of Service that target harassment now to be clear I don't have a strong objection to changing Terms of Service to prevent cyber bullying or harassment and honestly I don't know why we relieve and call it cyber bullying bullying is bullying and calling it a bullying it's almost like or cyber bullying is almost like softening it I mean what's actually you know what would be considered more adulterous sex or cyber sex you know what do we consider to be more sport like sports or eSports I don't personally believe that cyber bullying has the potential to be any less harmful than any other type of bullying and in fact I think it can make you feel much more trap's because you can't even escape from it online so anyway YouTube has made some changes to the terms in cases where harassment crosses the line into a malicious attack it can be reported and will be removed so this is referring specifically to a video that a user would upload so harassment may include abusive videos comments and messages revealing someone's personal information which is great I mean daxing is never okay maliciously recording someone without their consent that's interesting how do you determine that it is malicious and I mean what does that do for an awful lot of YouTube videos that are just like oh it's birth and fail look out stupid they are that's a that's that's interesting that could have serious ramifications for content that it will be uploaded and a lot of content that's already on the site making hurtful and negative comments and videos about another person deliberately posting content in order to humiliate someone unwanted sexual ization which encompasses sexual harassment or sexual bullying in any form and incitement to harass other users or creators interesting note is that what's what's that channel called drama alert yeah something yeah jeans duh yeah drama alert got a new host within minutes minutes of this announcement hours of this announcement hi Nick welcome to the show hello everyone um that's partially due to that and partially due to the fact that he's just a really you know remember hold on we're uploading this to YouTube no personal attacks okay no harasses allegedly not a very nice person and a lot of people have been posting videos essentially attacking him so it's like a two-fold thing I think with that but yes they did replace their host it's funny how funny how swords can have two edges on them isn't it I mean it cuts both ways as the kids say actually I think we actually had somewhat dated expression which kids yeah we're 70 year old kids oh come on I'm not 70 anyway you can report people that are breaking the new and updated Terms of Service using YouTube's reporting tool speaking of which I actually need to deal with a false flag on one of our stupid videos yeah every every it's basically it's like just you know no this isn't valid especially once you're once you're a verified verified youtuber it's it's pretty simple to deal with a lot of those types of reports but every once in a while someone will say that our video needs closed captioning which though would be nice yeah yeah but we've looked into it before it's just really expensive no they're saying it needs it some videos legally must have closed captioning if they've been uploaded as broadcast television in the United States then they they must be closed captioned so for us it's just a matter of going no actually it doesn't I think also in Canada it's supposed to be used just like a public resource yeah so and I think it has to have closed captioning as well so there's there's some there's some Terms of Service Eid any stuff that you know every once in a while happens but this is this is pretty potentially pretty far-reaching I mean fortunately it doesn't have an impact on us but what it does do is it highlights for us and I mean really for any online content creator once again the powerlessness that we have I mean on the one hand you think yeah you know internet video you know kind of freedom of expression so whatever say whatever you want but at the end of the day what people have to realize is that youtube.com is Google's playground and if you want to play in Google's playground you got to play by Google's rules and while this again doesn't affect us because we don't harass or bully people on the Linus tech tips channel because a well okay there are certain manufacturers that you could argue that I wasn't very nice to their product but that's not personal that's the product but these terms are pretty open-ended yep and that's like my huge concern with it it is what are they going to constitute as bullying are they gonna constitute satire is bullying yeah because that's a massive concern and I think that you know I'm not like someone who's at the beginning of the end for YouTube or anything but yeah it brings up a lot of concerning questions and censorship is often the lead to the death of a platform so I think that as long as YouTube has the resources in place to actually handle this properly and they're just going to make sure that they review everything before they do it unlike their copyright system they don't have a great history of doing this as long as they handle it properly I think it's a good thing for the platform because let's be honest lately there has been a lot of questionable content on the platform but it has a huge potential to go bad with that said they are making strides towards improving these things for example it used to be that if someone filed a copyright claim against you your monetization got pulled even though the video might stay up during the appeal period but your monetization got pulled so example monetization would go to the person who is claiming it right I don't think so in some situations I think if it was like some new auto-detection of music yes but depending on what it was sometimes Manas and I've had monetization just pulled for other reasons okay during a dispute or an appeal period for example this is this is actually a great example it's an older one now but I'm just gonna I'm gonna pull up the video because this was I was so freaking mad about this at the time obviously it's water under the bridge at this point I love my youtube overlords um we love you please don't shut us yeah please don't please don't shut down my channel but check this out so this is one of my older videos this is back from 2012 and I have no idea how loud this is for you guys but this is my unboxing of the original razor blade so let's go ahead and fullscreen this baby yeah check that out it was a big old thing it had like this weird weird this was called the switchblade interface so razor blade thin and light gaming notebook featuring and you guys can't read all the way over here because we were covering it featuring switchblade unboxing so what happened with this video was that YouTube actually flagged it automatically for dangerous content containing weapons so I'm gonna pull up ah I'm yeah yeah so I'm gonna pull up the the analytics for this video and I'll I'll explain exactly why I was so upset about it so the way that my compensation structure worked at NCIX at the time was i had a monthly quota for how many videos i had to make so i think it was as high as 45 at one time 45 unboxings was like my quota and I got a flat rate and it was it was very little it was like $10 per unboxing or something like that like it was it was a pretty low rate or like $15 or something but remember the production values weren't what they are now it was like it was one shot me in my Y era okay sometimes there were two shots if you made a mistake sometimes there weren't two shots if I made a mistake so let's be careful with how we say the two shots ended up in the video back in the day if - made a mistake sometimes it was the person behind the camera waving frantically going stop stop stop and then the shot would cut and then you'd come back and go okay actually yeah I was wrong it's actually this and they would just leave that in the video so for all you new viewers out there if you think it's bad now check um so let's go let's pull up my analytics for this video here and and I will show you guys why I was so upset because so I got a flat rate for the videos that I made and then what I also got was a cut of the YouTube Adsense so that was how we ended up with ads on the videos so here are the first I don't know however many days this is like 20 20 days some odd of this video it got pulled immediately because of the word switchblade and in the first five days for me in 2012 okay like 70 80 thousand views like how many views is this about 80 to 90 thousand views in the first week was unheard of that was a big deal that was like huge for me also the CPMs I believe were higher on the platform at the time and in a variety of other reasons why this was really upsetting but I just got pulled it just got completely pulled I got nothing for it and even though like my appeal was like yo this is clearly a laptop computer and nothing to do with razors nothing to do with blades and nothing to do with switchblade knives hey put this back but they would just turn them on a decision off and it's just gone so the point of that really long story was they're improving they're getting better but it's not perfect yet and and I totally totally hope that they don't screw this up all right speaking of screwing things up the original article here is from polygon and I'll let I'll let Nick go ahead and introduce this topic here and read this one you haven't read this one okay this is a Colton that's cool so last Friday twitch filed a lawsuit against seven individual slash organizations that are in business of selling BOTS these bots are designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts of twitch streamers they are a persistent frustration in the words of their marketing senior vice president Matthew D Pietro and they have announced that they are now creating a very real problem on the platform so these bots have been used to deny deny streamers partnerships or harass other broadcasters and twitch employees technical technological solutions that detect and remove false viewer are BOTS currently so the lawsuit represents a third layer in their strategy against bots here and yeah among the allegations there are federal trademark infringement unfair competition cybersquatting fraud breach of contract and tortillas interference so they're seeking injunctions against the bot makers including the transfer of the possession of their domains they're ordering barring payment processors from providing them with service and restitution legal fees and punitive damages I mean bots are a huge problem for pretty much any platform that is trying to monetize views or ad impressions because I mean there are there's a reason that I don't know if you know this button the the Google Adsense Terms of Service basically do not care why bot traffic is viewing ads on your site so this is like a really scary thing this is not actually why we lost our Google our Google Adsense account that had to do with people posting racy images on the forum the under pictures lewd pictures on the forum that like buried in a thread of you know for almost like a 400 page desktop wallpaper thread and it's like you know you need to be moderate like yeah yeah it is what it is so that's that's why you don't see Google ads on the line of tech tips for them anymore but but this is an interesting interesting fact is that their Terms of Service don't give a crap why there are BOTS viewing them or why there are BOTS clicking on the ads they are going to go after you with a shoot first ask questions later approach you'll get cut off and you will it will be up to you to prove that someone else was maliciously coding BOTS and creating BOTS to browse and click on your ads so like that because it really hurts the value of Google's product for that for their purposes that approach makes sense because if the burden of proof is on them and they have no way to prove whether or not it was you that was bahding because let's be honest they don't nope then they can never take it away so as soon as they put the burden of proof on you that allows them to actually take it away in any case that there's bahding and the reason why Boateng is a huge issue is because like Linus said when you're trying to sell a product like an ad if there are rumors out there even yeah you know some of the ads are being bought 'add the advertisers are coming after you and going why am I paying you for nothing yeah paying for absolutely nothing music with twitch it's more complicated because I mean you can't just go you know oh twitch streamer X Y or Z you know yo you're banned from the platform until because I mean malicious actions towards twitch streamers that have nothing to do with them you know call me you know you know whether it's as as silly as you know fake pizza deliveries or you know getting into a much more malicious territory things like swatting this is a huge thing it's something about that community that thinks you know trolling the on-air personality is somehow appropriate so for twitch to come in and start going heavy-handed like anyone who has BOTS viewing their stream you know you're banned you're cut off your partnership you know your your subscriber revenue is getting with hell I mean that would be grossly unfair so the the the issue is so multifaceted on Twitch to you because as a new viewer to a game you're gonna click on probably one of the top broadcasters within that game category so if someone's Boateng they're not only trying to get more ad revenue by displaying a higher view count they might even just be trying to get more exposure to get featured or whatever it is so yeah it's just such a I mean like what I'm trying to say is maybe the person who's botting isn't even doing it maliciously maybe they're trying to help the content creator in their own disturbed way which is terrible by the way yes please don't do that that's like the worst thing yeah yeah click fraud view fraud any kind of any kind of fraud is so hard for a content creator especially a smaller one I mean for actually this is a great opportunity for me to get into to get into what happened with our Amazon Associates account but anytime a content creator runs afoul of a much larger entity whether we're talking about Google Amazon twitch owned by Amazon I'm speaking of much larger entities it can be so hard and I understand the reasons for this I mean you got you got to think about it like a program like you know an Amazon Associates or like the creator management team at a company like Google which is like you know so there's alphabet and then there's Google and then there's YouTube and then there's like sales and marketing and content acquisition and content development and then there's this tiny little team like talent management and there are literally millions of creators in some cases at least hundreds of thousands that much we know for sure so for even someone like me where I would like to think that I'm fairly significant I think I'm in the top five hundred and change youtubers let's say top 600 to be safe even for me getting in touch with a partner manager took until about a year and change ago just to give you guys some idea that was how long it took them to retouch me get this they reached out to me about the tech quickie channel did I tell you that yeah they weren't actually reaching out about the lioness Texas Channel we completely slipped through the cracks let's be fair though the like the contact email on that on that channel is extremely messy so like it's possible no no I would have noticed it's possible I get notifications on my phone for every email all right I would have noticed I I was like wow they talked to me be still my heart so um so especially for a small content creator any time so okay anyway it's really small teams managing this stuff they only have so much bandwidth to manually review things so a lot of this stuff is done by automated systems and to get someone to review it has to be done in a priority fashion so if you have 500 subscribers on YouTube good luck like I lost my channel four and a half years ago it took me over a month to get it back it took YouTube literally five years to ever get in touch with me about anything and when so getting into the Amazon thing when I was found to be in breach of Amazon's associates Terms of Service my appeal process was basically yo can we talk about this on the phone yo no um good luck elsewhere so it is so it can be pretty tough now with that said so so leading back into because you know we consider ourselves to be something of a key online video program when it comes to technology and I know a few people who know a few people who know a few people who we're willing to stick their necks out on my behalf I do actually have some news to share as far as the whole Amazon thing goes so last week I did announce that Amazon Associates our Amazon links were we're dead our account was dead and everything was dead since that time I have managed to get on the phone with someone and it looks like we are going to work together to move forward have actually got some some notes that that I put together about sort of what what is exactly going on so it was pointed out to me that anyone is allowed even unless you've been found to be like clearly maliciously abusing the program anyone is allowed to change their business model and to a compliant business model and reapply so we've actually been approved as of yesterday morning for a new account and you know here's what I have to say to you guys this does mean there will be a new ID you won't have seen that anywhere yet because we're working very carefully to go through our everything and make sure that all of our practices all of our editors know you know how to call it out correctly you know all of our writers know how to call it out correctly so we want to make sure that we are 100% aboveboard because I do not imagine for a second that I have a longer a longer leash than you know about this if we were to ever violate the the terms of the agreement again but here's what I'll say if you're a creator out there who is using the Amazon Associates Program or if you're looking into the Amazon Associates program because honestly in spite of the stress that I've gone through in the last week I still highly recommend participating in the program is a great great program it's a great way to make additional revenue without compromising any integrity as one of the things that I love about it is that because Amazon carries everything I can recommend something on Amazon without there being any conflict yeah because they carry everything cuz they carry everything I don't care if you buy the LG g5 or the you know one plus three I don't give a crap you just go out there by one yeah both so here's what I'll say carefully study the terms of the agreement carefully clicking on all of the hyperlinks within the terms of the agreement because there are sub terms of the agreement within the terms of the agreement review them all some of it is kind of vaguely worded but I understand why they do this and it's to prevent abuse you can't cover every eventuality I get that so some of the terminology does seem a little gray but here's the advice that I'm and this is my personal advice this is not coming from Amazon I'm making it very clear that I'm not affiliated with Amazon in any way other than that I am a participant in the Amazon Associates program that's something that they they say that you're supposed to say so right there you go if in the Terms of Service the way to read it is keeping in mind the spirit of the agreement which is that you are to show your viewers or your audience applicable products on Amazon especially ones that you like or recommend and you are to provide them with a means to quickly buy it by clicking on a link that you provide them so if you keep that in mind while you read through it the rules are much easier to understand so there you have it we have we have learned our lesson we were extraordinarily lucky that we have some friends and some friends who were who were very generous to put their necks out and vouch for us being good people who were not maliciously abusing the program so huge shout out to to all the people who quietly helped us with this thank you for that and look forward to seeing more amazon links under our videos moving forward yay and another thing is one of the people that I was talking to you about it said like some of the people that work in that program are like people from all walks of life all stages of life so some of them like don't necessarily I guess understand the newer relations and stuff right so like keep in mind that you have to just live within the terms as they're there and and then some just in case so yeah lesson learned and it was a good one speaking of lesson learned I wonder what lessons will be learned from this original source here is from the bbc.com the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union wholly actual freaking crap asterisk it's gonna take like at least two years and the referendum is not technically legally binding although anyone in the House of Commons that goes against it is probably committing like career political suicide so it's probably pretty much almost like definitely gonna happen unbelievable so I mean there's a lot of incredible stuff here like if you guys were like me you were probably glued to your phone last night just looking at all the mind-blowing stats around this and and all the speculation going on but here's a few key ones seventy one point eight percent of eligible voters attended I have never I mean I know that it broke UK records but I mean the does that does that break every record yeah people cared holy crap and and and that's with like extreme weather conditions like flooding happening yeah so if like the weather was all good we probably would have been closer to like 75 or 80 percent unbelievable unheard of and even more crazy is just how divided the country was so in the end it was a mere 52 to 48 percent vote it was incredibly close England was just a touch higher on the leave side of things Wales was right there in the thick of things at the average fifty two and a half voted leave forty seven and a half stay Scotland in Northern Ireland both back to staying in the EU which is going to have some very interesting ramifications for the Scotland England relationship over the next little bit with Scotland going as far as to say yo we might have actually you know done the wrong thing when we stayed in the UK a little while ago we might be referendum referenda running again this is interesting okay no ah one of my one of my one of my favorite québécois over there sent me this Wikipedia article on the Quebec referendum which was actually another quick sit I guess we could call it when when Quebec voted on whether to leave Canada become an independent country for the first time this was on October 30th 1995 and ninety three point five two percent of people turned out to vote the no option carried by fifty point five eight percent so yes there have been closer and fifty point five eight yeah I had forgotten how close that was so okay alright thanks a prime you got me there you got me there I should I should have studied up my Canadian history better so what does all this mean first let's talk a little bit about what being a member of the EU has meant in purely technological terms cheaper air fares easier easier studying and traveling and living abroad on the mainland in mainland Europe cheaper odd cellphone chief or cell phone service so the way that the EU has cracked down on roaming charges within European Union members has been a huge benefit to EU countries I have I have been to the EU and traveling over borders extraordinarily easy very very cool essentially what the EU does the European Union does is turn the partner countries into a single market so they're essentially eliminating borders in a lot of ways for goods services people money especially with the Euro which was implemented what like 10-15 years ago something like that I can't remember when the Euro but it wasn't like it was not it was in my adult lifetime yeah ish like I remember going to Paris and there still being francs when I graduated high school I don't know whatever so it began after World War two and it was all about Economic Cooperation and has and has become more than that so the overall goal is to boost trade create jobs to lower prices all right so why then do United Kingdom residents vote to leave so they claim they were being held back said it would imposed too many rules on businesses and charged billions of pounds per year in membership fees for a little returned wanted Britain to take back full control of its borders and reduce the number of people coming to work and live in the country because that's one of the thing as much as many Britons have been enjoying you know going and working or living over the English Channel there well the same is true of anyone else who wants to go and live in the UK they also objected to a move towards what they saw as the creation of a United States of Europe so to speak to the membership fees there was like a note that I read where I think in 2014 slash 15 you know the fiscal year 2014 slash 15 the the UK was charged something like 8.8 billion pounds in membership fees and they were able to trace back about 5.5 billion pounds of actual benefit for UK citizens or UK residents so that includes stuff like university grants housing grants etc so there's a significant cost to them for actually being a part of the Union and that cost is essentially absorbed by some of the other members of the Union that contribute a bit less so yeah I can I mean empirically I can kind of understand the argument there but that's looking at that one statistic in a vacuum and ignoring you know the free trade that it allows the travel free would you convenience movement and you know what but there's a lot of people who don't give a crap about that that's true and for them whatever just want to stay in Leeds or wherever and and live out their life there then maybe it's better for them to just have a UK so here's a few more interesting interesting tidbits the pound has fallen to its lowest since at night or fell I don't know if it stayed there actually I haven't looked recently but it fell to its lowest since 1985 fun fact our our amazon co UK affiliate payouts haven't been cashed in a really long time I heard yeah so so we actually like just lost like like a really long time I know so we just lost like a lot a couple thousand pounds or something I feel a lot yeah oh I don't know how much exactly but I don't know how much exactly but it's like it's like not insignificant so thanks for that brexit um huh the Treasury forecast to rise between 0.7 and 1.1 percent in mortgage borrowing costs so like that might not seem significant but I think it works out to somewhere around a thousand pounds a year extra ouch and like possibly years added to your mortgage so like compound interest dog that sucks like yeah where the hell did this come from emergency pun the EU now has 1gb more space I did not put that there whoever did whoever did is fired so it's pretty funny you know it was probably ghost so you can't technically fire him damn it all right well that's a happy why is he more space I see what thank you for that all right speaking of thank you for that thank you to tunnel bear for sponsoring the 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question yes this is you I was thinking this when you're doing this but if you had to open a restaurant what kind of a restaurant would you open I would open a food restaurant and it's great because food ribs American Dad actually has an episode where the main character Stan opens what he calls the food restaurant yeah his food restaurant and his food restaurant is stupid and I wouldn't open a food restaurant like that because his served like I don't know it's like chocolate dipped chicken wings or whatever dumb stuff so my food restaurant would be kind of like kind of like what I think restaurants like white spot try to do where they'll have like a chicken teriyaki dish and they'll have like a fish and chips and they'll have like a butter chicken or like a variety restaurant they have a variety except the problem is that they do everything in sort of this super non-authentic pandering to - you know Midwestern you know white people sort of way it's like you're trying to butter chicken if you didn't actually want to eat butter chicken yeah exactly so so my food restaurant would be kind of like like an all star All Star team yeah so it would it would kind of have it would have meals yeah so I don't actually know that we would do family-style dishes I think it would be individual individual meals and I would want those individual meals too late like it would I would kind of say okay we're gonna have a larger than normal kitchen yeah we're gonna have to kind of absorb some similar operating overhead there yeah um gonna have to have a couple different chefs with different backgrounds yeah you'll have to have a little bit of background I think you'll have to bring in some consultants whenever you want to introduce a new dish because you're not gonna expect your you know Cajun specialists to all of a sudden be able to whip up an amazing Thai dish but I would say okay let's absorb some extra operating overhead here and let's be able to put together kind of set set meals so that any group of people can come and dine and you know if I'm going out with you know like a like a Taiwanese partner or something yeah I can take them there and they can get some you know some dim sum or some you know Singaporean style Hainanese chicken or whatever and I can have a burger and both of those things will legitimately be somewhat authentic and good that would be the objective of my restaurant okay what would your restaurant be I'm curious now I don't I don't think this is very on topic but that's okay I'm curious that's okay I mean it's a similar thing Luke and I actually talked about this like a while ago and essentially what we came up with was like there's very like Americanized dishes in each culture yep so like sweet and sour pork from Chinese food chicken teriyaki California roll California roll yeah essentially having like Canadian food just being like the variety of other cultures of food that we all bring together and call Canadian food because we have a lot of awesome cultures especially Vancouver it's great actually there was another great restaurant idea that I had a while back I would want it to be like an icebreaker restaurant I think I'd call it ice breakers and the idea and here they think it was a hockey theme very few sports bar ice breakers with Aziz thank you we serve only Club Seal you know oh wow so my restaurant actually this was another really good idea I thought that I had every dish would be really awkward to eat so like a plate of spaghetti that is one long noodle right and the idea would be that you would go there with a date yeah knowing that no one is going to be able to perfectly consume every meal without getting something dribbling down there are more on their chin or whatever there's like an ad that somebody pretty much like did that really accept what it was was they were like okay we're gonna pair these people up and then the person that they had to feed each other the food so I found like food that both people liked and then they had to feed each other the food on like a first date so it was like awkward but not essentially fun people in the chat are just spamming our X 480 I don't know what I'm supposed to say that there's rumors yeah which is we can't talk about so here's the thing um actually this is this is a good topic up why aren't we talking about our X or our a 480 because we do talk about pre-release Hardware rumors very frequently so we're not talking about it because we know the answer we can talk about rumors when we don't know the answer but once we've signed a nondisclosure agreement that says we are going to independently evaluate the products that is not going to affect the way that we look at this product but we are not going to say anything about it until such time as the broad release of information is allowed to go out as specified by in this case AMD so once we've signed that we can't talk about it until it's time to talk about it so a lot of people have asked you know why is it that every text channel has a video on the gtx 280 at exactly the same time that is why and some people wonder why embargoes are in place and they're like oh this is you know it must be because companies are paying people to do a review or something like that it's so that there's fair competition in the review mark yeah it's so that we don't get an advantage from being Linus tech tips and having you know 2.7 whatever subscribers or that we don't see it at a cart first or that we don't end up with a disadvantage because we're in Canada California and our card gets you know held by customs for three days or something like that so by having usually it's anywhere from about five on the very low end which is very frustrating anywhere from about five to about twelve days usually that's how long you have with a product so that allows enough time for something to go wrong like you know for someone's kid to get sick and need some chicken soup or whatever for something to go wrong and for you to still get your your coverage out at the same time as everyone else apparently I said 2.7 subscribers thank you twitch chat 2.7 million subscribers I think you said 2.7 whatever subscribers so you you you didn't remember it was millions but you knew it was something it's a good job I mean I thought it might be billions and then speaking of good job cable company over charges might be even worse than you realize the original article here is from Ars Technica and I love those guys look at that flying sheet of money and the other flying sheet of money and the other flying sheets of money but this image is not about freedom this image is about getting fleeced by your cable provider especially if you're an American not that I believe for a second that it's any better anywhere else so a Senate report compares billing and service records and finds massive over charges who the cable companies oh my goodness who would have thought not Charter in its new subsidiary Time Warner Cable I have apparently been overcharging customers at least 7.2 million per year for equipment and service the investigation is found so Time Warner Cable overbilled customers nationwide an estimated six hundred and thirty nine thousand nine hundred and forty eight dollars how do you get an estimate that goes right down to the single dollar anyway between January and April of this year and these problems are bad because neither company had been issuing automatic refunds or credits to overcharged customer so during the six and a half year time period examined by the committee elec and charter made no effort to trace equipment overages to their origin unless customers specifically asked them to and did not provide notice or refunds to customers comcast has in the past overcharged customers but they do a much better job at issuing refunds apparently than Time Warner Cable Comcast told the subcommittee that it only had a billing error rate of 0.3% Comcast told them so it must be true Time Warner Cable will begin investigating the overcharges only if customers bring it to their attention so if you're a Time Warner Cable customer give them a ring over there and I don't mean this kind of ring I mean the kind of ring that goes yo Dawgs up I mean I have a feeling that you would have to sit on like a hold for at least two hours to get through to them well yeah you end up suffering more than the four dollars that you probably individually got overcharged anyway going forward both companies will apparently provide customers with a notice if they are over charged that's good I wish we could overcharged by like 7 million dollars and just chill with it yeah I also like I'd be down I actually I wouldn't be down that would be totally wrong it would be totally wrong but it would be dope if it wasn't that was like that was the thing that blew my mind with the Charter and Time Warner Cable merger or whatever mm-hmm where the Time Warner Cable CEO apparently had it written in it was contract that he got some obscene amount of money should ownership of the company change three months later he was already putting pen to paper for a change of ownership of the company he was totally interested in bettering the company yeah no conflict of interest there one time whatsoever you know it's funny how many inherent conflicts of interest exist in the world I mean and and this is all like sanctioned stuff like you recently Oh are we able to talk about further that sorry your big thing that happened recently that been very exciting for you and kind of crazy Oh like have you been are you out I know I didn't tell anyone oh okay okay we don't have to talk about that um so I I what that's the terminology okay um I'm moving I'm not changing my sexuality or something like that which is what it sounded like you were saying I'm moving that's the big news so when you deal with our realtor okay whether you're buying whether you're leasing or whatever the case may be when you deal with a realtor ultimately there exists as far as I can tell an inherent conflict of interest and to be clear I have met some very good Realtors very good people but there is an inherent conflict of interest because the seller or the lessor not the lessee or Celie whatever I don't care you guys get the point so the seller or whoever's leasing the property pays the realtor fees they they pay that sort of on top of the or out of the amount not on top of sorry out of the negotiated rate that the buyer ends up agreeing to pay so the way it works is that let's say hypothetically a house is a four hundred and forty thousand dollars for example let's say hypothetically so what would happen is a typical real estate agent commission is I think somewhere in the 1/2 a quite a bit more than one I think as high as like three or four percent yeah I remember exact depends on market conditions like in Vancouver right now I think it's somewhere in the 1 to 4 whereas you know if housing prices were closer to a hundred or two hundred thousand dollars it would probably be a little higher so so basically what happens is the seller is responsible for paying that to their realtor that they have entered a covenant with or whatever the case may be to represent them so that realtor ultimately like there's this code of ethics or whatever which is great for people who actually abide by those types of codes but I've certainly met those who there's this code of ethics that says that they have to represent you and blah blah but the fact of the matter is they get paid no matter what and they get paid by the seller they get paid more if the rate is higher so okay if they're representing the seller then that's great but there's a realtor potentially and often in in many cases for the buyer as well who also gets paid by the seller who also gets paid a proportion of the amount that the property sells for and who the selling realtor has to split the Commission with if there's a buying real to her present so this creates all kinds of conflicts like choosing a buyer which you're not supposed to do based on then being self represented in which case this the sellers realtor takes the entire Commission versus another buyer who has a realtor who is sticking up for their best interests there's dual agency which is like the the most broken thing ever or one realtor represents both parties super illegal in like most of Canada because it's incredibly messed up not here yet that's for sure um where basically there's these negotiating these negotiators on both side both of whom it is in their best interest to flip through properties as quickly as possible at as high rate as possible and I'm to believe as a buyer especially that this is somehow in my best interest ah good luck fortunately my realtor is actually the dad of someone that my wife went to high school with and like their families know each other and so there's there's some trust there and he is he has not he has not steered me wrong which is good but anyway let's move on to this fantastic article over here on polygon counter-strike player files suit against valve over illegal gambling surrounding csgo very interesting I mean it was a matter of time yeah before skins and match I mean you've already got match fixing so you're as close to real gambling as you can be before being declared real gambling that only adults can participate in you age of majority and all that stuff that goes along with normal gambling sites and gambling participation and gambling establishments there is also something that happened recently I'm trying to find it something along the lines of one of the betting sites had a deal with a streamer where they would tell him like when he was going to win so that he would bet higher on those and then like freak out when he won essentially just the scummiest thing I've ever heard of so creating more glamour around the round aesthetic of of betting so Connecticut resident Michael John McLeod has filed a suit currently seeking class-action status and I don't actually see that being a difficult thing to achieve here no against valve and three skin gambling and selling sites and the complaint alleges that Valve knowingly allowed and has been complicit in creating sustaining and facilitating a market where players and third-party trade art and excuse me where players and third parties trade weapons skins it continues that they knowingly allowed supported and or sponsored illegal gambling by allowing millions of Americans to link their individuals team accounts to third-party websites that's that's interesting because I mean you know there's plenty of legitimate uses for Valve's login credentials being valid on a third party website like oh say for example I don't know Linus tech tips forum where you can use your steam credentials and all the encryption and account management is done over on valve side we never even get it we just get a hash or a token or whatever and you can use your your valve two-factor authentication all that good stuff so there's plenty of legit uses for that but I can see where they're kind of coming from here in the eSports gambling economy this is further further allegations skins are like casino chips that have monetary value outside the game itself because of the ability to convert them directly into cash it also alleges that some third-party csgo websites don't require age verification which allows minors to bet as well Bloomberg has reported that csgo skin gambling is currently a two billion dollar industry so in some valve ohms the league sells the casino chips and receives a piece of the casinos income stream through foreign websites in order to maintain the charade that valve is not promoting and profiting from online gambling Wow oh I mean I'm not a legal expert we should get like that should be added to our lower third actually there's permanently not a lawyer thanks to next to my twitter handle it should just say not not a lawyer that line is tech tip - tech yeah but I gotta say that sounds from just a sort of like a rational reasonable person who's been observing kind of this weird environment over the last few years that sounds not quite bulletproof but pretty compelling yeah it's not great everyone's never in twitch chats likes hell your skin's so your skin's now get out I honestly see those who look bubble of what ever since this whole thing began I mean I was always kind of questioning it because it's like huh don't you normally have to get like licenses to gamble yeah it's like pretty tightly regulated in Canada you have to spend a certain amount of your income on anti-gambling advertisement like yes is it really tightly regulated industry deal like a huge deal and you know they've they've gotten away with it for so long just because I think people don't really understand like the people who would come after them don't really understand what's happening so this might shut a bit more light on that because yeah it is not a good thing in my opinion I mean it's just it's so accessible because it's literally using something that you get as a drop potentially in a game that you've paid for and you're playing to get you tied into it mm-hm and whether valve agrees or not that they are quote unquote facilitating it I mean I think there's an argument to be made there again not a lawyer don't understand law very well at all but I think that there is an argument to be made against valve in this situation so will be interesting to see what happens that's for sure to be clear no means no you said you didn't know the law very well I'm just making sure you're at least aware of that I'm just I'm gonna have all sorts of stuff on my Twitter of yeah I'm just I'm not oh yeah you can you can find him at at Nick LMG or something like that is that is that right is there an underscore in there no all right so Microsoft will use steam to sell Windows games not just its own store Wow a move for Microsoft that actually looks like they actually care very nice original article here is from Ars Technica and a couple of their latest couple of their latest games so Forza 6 apex and Killer Instinct have done well in the store but quantum break did not so maybe they're kind of gone out gee maybe we don't have to be the only store that sells our games maybe we could give someone else the cuddle valve does take a very significant cut um but Phil Spencer said Microsoft will ship games on Steam again and noted that while some game releases have done well in Windows Store quantum break wasn't our best PC release and Gears of War Ultimate Edition was ok awesome I'm excited because I almost played nothing that isn't on Steam it is so convenient it's like it's prohibitive to not have your game on Steam nowadays it just feels like Steam is the way to gain I mean I guess there's Blizzard battle.net or whatever but still you can still technically launch those games through Steam you just have to yeah yeah um we've got a couple other sort of rapid fiery topics here uh SanDisk made an iPhone case with built-in storage up to 128 gigs of extra storage all it does is bulk up the phone surprisingly little actually not that badly and instead of investing in additional $300 or whatever it is to get an iPhone with that amount of storage you can just have a bumper case on it that has a little bit more bulk at the bottom by the lightning can so that there can be a power pass-through and so that it can have a data interface to that storage end off you go the one problem with this is that you will be limited to USB two speeds but reverse requires a companion app mm-hmm it can only store certain things it backs up your camera roll it does password protect your photos and any files that have that that are on there so that's nice and you can also get a battery pack on it for an extra forty bucks yeah nineteen hundred milliamp hour battery pack I mean that will turn your iPhones success into like a bit of a brick but 32 gigs of storage is 60 bucks 64 gigs is a hundred and 128 is 130 see this by the way Apple is how pricing for additional flash storage should work yeah yeah it's kind of no there's like some iphone 7 rumors or something I'm not really sure how much I care about that there were a couple other things that I thought were pretty pretty interesting where did they go but you know what let's call that in for the day thanks for watching wine show and a huge thanks to Nick you guys again you can find him over at at Nick lmg over on Twitter I'm gonna post that in the suppose that in the twitch chat let's hope I don't have any live tweets on there yeah let's help you let's hope you don't go might shut me down thanks for watching guys we'll see you again next week same bat-time same bat-channel thanks for watching talk about Detroit they do like there's the same clothes and people are posting videos but they have mantra and nothing's gonna happen unless there's been a change yeah okay people wanted us to talk about iPhone 7 okay fine iPhone 7 rumors expected to be a revision of iPhone 6 Wow is that really a note on this okay forget it it doesn't have a headphone jack that's the rumor surprise