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Welcome to

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User Friendly 2.0 with host Bill Sikkens.

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Technology architect.

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And this is User Friendly 2.0,
I am your host Bill.

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Welcome to this week's show.

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Believe it or not,
it's time for our summer Q&A.

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Which means we're about halfway
through the year, I guess.

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Bill? Gretchen. You're here.

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Where are we?

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It's about halfway through the year.

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We are halfway through.

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There's 52 weeks usually.

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Right. And it's amazing.

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Some of the statistics we talk about that
people will argue with you on

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in the comments,
but it is still 52 weeks in the year

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as far as I know,
at least in most countries.

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And week 30 would mean
that we're past the halfway point.

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We've been in the seventh month.
Yeah, yeah.

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So we are halfway

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12 months in a year or two.

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It's just amazing
that we're already there.

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So that being said,
it is time for our Q&A.

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Now, what we do to put these together
is we take the questions

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that you've sent over
the last usually quarter,

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maybe a little bit longer,
depending on what's going on in

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just the time, because we don't do these,
you know, based on a clock, it's

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just usually spring, summer and fall
or give or take.

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So this will be actually the last about
four months of questions that have come

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in. And then we go through them
and create the questions that we answer

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based on the general content and quantity
of the questions that you have sent in,

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or if it's unique, or if the three of us
decided we want to cover it.

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That's a very subjective criteria there.

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But hey, it works, right?

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Especially that last part.

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I'm still thinking
about the previous thing.

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We could use the solstice and and as the
as the middle point of the year.

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Well, I'm in the mood to it
that way. Right.

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So yeah.

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Used to be.

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Yeah. Probably back in June you know.

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So yeah.

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Anyway,
so we'll be doing that in a second.

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Second half
we're going to be talking about game bill.

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What is a game of rewards.
Yeah. The knees.

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Yeah. The Eddie
something that I never heard of.

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And being that I've done role

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playing since longer than I've been alive
I probably should have.

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But I'll learn about this
along with everybody else today.

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So anyway, what do we have in the news?

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Let's go ahead and just jump right
in. All right.

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This sounds like something out of a James
Bond movie.

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FCC approves
giant mirror satellite designed

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to beam sunlight to the Earth after dark.

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Yes, in the name of the satellite has,
like, dots

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over letters and hyphens and things.

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So I'll do my best on pronouncing it,
but it's reflective.

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Orbital is the company
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is like A-1.

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Somebody that speaks
whatever language that's in

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can correct me on that,
because I know I'm not saying it right.

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And yeah, you're thinking about
like a Montgomery Burns thing

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out of the Simpson
super villain Ariel here.

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And there is a part of this that it is
definitely, let's just say controversial.

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Now, a couple of things that came to mind
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was, number one, the FCC doesn't
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so there was a little bit of a
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And the other thing of it
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described is actually much bigger
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they're trying to do here,
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So the approval is for one demonstration
satellite, not a constellation.

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The FCC approval covers
the spacecraft's communication systems.

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The rest of it is outside
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So that's basically what's going on here.

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So what we're dealing with is an 18
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It's launched and unfolds
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And basically what the idea is, is
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sunlight back at night to a solar farm.

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So the illuminated area
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Okay. As it moves. Right.

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So that makes a lot more sense.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Think of it like less like

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a laser pointer and more like steering
a moving patch of daylight at night.

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So it does definitely have that sci
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We're illuminating the night
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So okay, one of the things
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And by the day that goes
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And a lot of the technologies that
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But what's happening with the solar farms,

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which is a very good way to produce energy
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At night, they don't work
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So they either become unstable
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or you have to have battery storage,
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to where it will balance out
that type of a thing.

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But doing this would allow
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being that the beam is controllable,
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say there's an earthquake.

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And right now the emergency responders
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and stuff like that.

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You can use this to illuminate

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the area that need a rescue or that kind
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So there is definitely, conceptually
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an idea of this
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Now, I remember a number of years ago
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that was rightfully defeated in Congress,
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offered to take these out of the sky
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Was the idea of putting up big, reflective
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that would be like a McDonald's logo
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Yeah, and this is not for that.

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I think it's important to put that out.

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And plus, as far as renewable energy goes,

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you would be producing light
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So the astronomers are against this

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because additional stuff in orbit,
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makes it even more difficult than it is
now to see the sky at night.

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You know, we're already having this
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satellite constellations
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Now, what they're doing with a lot of
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or creating the housing on them in a way
that they don't reflect, which does help.

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But the nature of how something like this
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So concern artificial nighttime
light can affect wildlife.

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You know,
there's a lot of things like that.

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But again, you're
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on not like the entire part of the earth
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So that does make it a little bit
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And there's a lot of things
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some of the bad things that could happen
if we had sunlight all night.

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But then again,
this is not sunlight all night.

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And this is the part where I think
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trying it out as a proof of concept
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you know, okay, that's not a big deal,

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but what they're talking about
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What?

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Yeah, that's not enough space up there.

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technically or even economically
achievable remains to be seen.

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and I think that, you know,
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from science fiction before
we were recording James Bond Villains.

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I know somebody brought that idea,
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But again, this isn't that.

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But we want to be careful
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this falls under the question of
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and can eliminate the need for,
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then there might be a good location
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Yeah, I don't think so.

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How to stop

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ChatGPT from ruining how you think?

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Yeah.

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So I asked ChatGPT

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to summarize this for me, and I was told
that not to worry about this.

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So, you know, I guess
we don't have to worry about it, right?

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So this is something we've talked about,
this give or take in the past.

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And AI is something that's a little bit

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different than a lot of the technology
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because it actually can do so much more
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It's amazing what it's capable of.

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It can create problems.

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And the thing of it is here
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look at this is a tool,

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but you don't want to allow it
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Right.

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So it's either we all become cyborgs,

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get AI built in
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we have to keep ourselves
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look at it from this standpoint,
and I think this is a good comparison

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for it is the idea that,
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Like what, 15 years ago or before,
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you would have a map

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and you would unroll the map
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And today a lot of people would not know
how to use a map because of GPS.

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Okay, so this is something
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well, does that mean that we shouldn't
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Well, no, of course not.

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But when you go to cognitive surrender,
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you're letting the computer take over
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That's a problem. So,

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kind of a standpoint, I think
we're looking at the same thing with AI.

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I think anytime people allow something

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or someone to do the thinking for them,
you're going to have trouble.

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Yeah.

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And that's exactly
that's exactly what's happening here.

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And because AI is
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that's actually able to do that, in a way
it is creating that kind of a problem.

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Now, I was thinking about this,
and I use AI, I'm a programmer

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and as we've talked about
obviously we do our show.

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But I don't ever say let's say a,
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we're going to produce
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and go to an AI and say,
give me my script.

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And that's
kind of what people are concerned about.

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Is that kind of a switch?

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Now, what I will do with it is once
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and various types of things like that,
I might go into AI and hey,

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can you give me some points
on this given topic?

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And then it does.

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And then you check those points

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to make sure they're valid
because AI is do hallucinate.

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Sometimes that's not a problem.

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I don't think I'm still driving,
but I also have had an example.

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I've talked about this on the show
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that we got a function
for some computer software we were doing

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back up from a developmental team
that we had an interim doing the work on.

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Great code look good, ran well,
and we need to have him

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replace some things in the layout,
make some stuff bold

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and that type of thing, and realized
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he had no idea how to do it
because AI had built the entire function.

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And this is a problem because
you have an intern or an apprentice

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that is supposed to be learning
how to do the technology on their own,

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and they're not, because they're doing it
this way.

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Now, the company that I work with,
the person that runs it, tries

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to have a little different approach

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and not think of the employees
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Ended up sending this guy
to a programing bootcamp, came back

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and actually now is really contributing
in a very positive way.

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Still uses AI.

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I use AI when I code,
but I don't use AI to write my code.

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I use it to, you know, do certain things
within it to make it faster.

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I am not a good UI

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developer, user interface developer
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software is very important.

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So that's the place where I will write
all the functionality, have at work,

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have some sort of a
UI and maybe run it by AI.

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Got our acronyms today.

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User interface
running by artificial intelligence.

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Can you take a look at this.

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And number one catch
anything that might be wrong in the code.

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You know we're like a hacker
could get in or something.

233
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It happens.

234
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So it's a security thing
good tool for that.

235
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And it'll go through and make it look like
I actually know have some kind of an art

236
00:12:22,942 --> 00:12:26,011
gene in my system,
which I don't know, these are.

237
00:12:26,178 --> 00:12:29,148
But I'm not saying I write the software.

238
00:12:29,148 --> 00:12:32,218
You know, this also goes into like

239
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education or and writing you.

240
00:12:36,322 --> 00:12:38,657
Well, when I was in high school,
we had write papers.

241
00:12:38,657 --> 00:12:41,026
When I was in college,
I had to write papers

242
00:12:41,026 --> 00:12:44,797
and I could easily see 
there are some softwares

243
00:12:44,797 --> 00:12:49,602
that are really good at proofreading
your your work.

244
00:12:49,602 --> 00:12:52,638
And I'm terrible at punctuation.

245
00:12:52,638 --> 00:12:57,877
And the
AI software that I've been using is great,

246
00:12:57,877 --> 00:13:02,381
but sometimes it'll make suggestions
and I'll read through it

247
00:13:02,381 --> 00:13:07,453
and it like it'll change the meaning
of what I'm trying to say, right?

248
00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:12,391
So if you're using an
AI software to edit or correct

249
00:13:12,391 --> 00:13:16,662
your papers, don't just sit there
and think that everything

250
00:13:16,662 --> 00:13:21,700
it suggests is good,
because it may change the actual meaning

251
00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:26,338
of what you're trying to say or what
you're trying to prove in the paper.

252
00:13:26,672 --> 00:13:31,944
You have to take control, and
you have to read through it very carefully

253
00:13:31,944 --> 00:13:37,783
and decide whether those suggested
changes are a good idea or not.

254
00:13:37,817 --> 00:13:40,820
Okay, so it's just one of those things.

255
00:13:40,953 --> 00:13:41,987
You're still on the driver's seat,

256
00:13:41,987 --> 00:13:45,191
you're still offering the content,
and again, you're using it.

257
00:13:45,291 --> 00:13:46,892
That's like a spell checker or something.

258
00:13:46,892 --> 00:13:47,226
You know,

259
00:13:47,226 --> 00:13:52,665
it is more complicated or more capable,
but it's definitely the same thing.

260
00:13:52,665 --> 00:13:55,201
And yeah, that's exactly the situation.

261
00:13:55,201 --> 00:13:56,602
But you have the other side
of the coin here.

262
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And this is where it's becoming a problem,
where there are entire books

263
00:14:01,173 --> 00:14:04,343
that are written
and have illustrations and stuff,

264
00:14:04,343 --> 00:14:08,280
and the whole thing is done by AI,
and then people are told, no,

265
00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,351
I wrote this and you can still tell,
you know, that's one thing.

266
00:14:12,384 --> 00:14:16,355
You're not able to hide it completely,
but now you've just taken

267
00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:17,790
the human completely out of that.

268
00:14:17,790 --> 00:14:19,091
If I'm not going to buy your book,

269
00:14:19,091 --> 00:14:22,094
if I want to know something in that way,
I'll just go online and ask Gemini

270
00:14:22,161 --> 00:14:24,396
to summarize it for me
and get the same response.

271
00:14:24,396 --> 00:14:26,332
And I know it's being generated by an AI.

272
00:14:26,332 --> 00:14:28,834
There's no, you know, cloak and dagger
there.

273
00:14:28,834 --> 00:14:30,336
Here's another point.

274
00:14:30,336 --> 00:14:34,473
Then the AI should have gotten the credit
for the book as the authorship,

275
00:14:34,673 --> 00:14:35,941
not the human.

276
00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:41,280
You know, it's like you're stealing
artwork and ideas from another entity.

277
00:14:41,313 --> 00:14:43,582
I guess you would call it.

278
00:14:43,582 --> 00:14:45,517
It's still it's a win.

279
00:14:45,517 --> 00:14:50,089
Not enough that AI passes the
what is it, a territory chest?

280
00:14:50,122 --> 00:14:50,823
Am I saying that right

281
00:14:52,258 --> 00:14:53,592
and is sentient?

282
00:14:53,592 --> 00:14:55,227
Then you're going to have a whole
nother situation there

283
00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,763
because you really are stealing
from another author's work.

284
00:14:57,763 --> 00:14:59,265
It's a whole different kind of

285
00:14:59,265 --> 00:15:02,735
concept, very sci fi,
but we're heading in that direction.

286
00:15:03,269 --> 00:15:05,671
All right, here's some more space stuff.

287
00:15:05,671 --> 00:15:09,441
NASA's dragonfly clears key tests

288
00:15:09,441 --> 00:15:12,711
as Titan rotorcraft takes shape.

289
00:15:14,013 --> 00:15:16,148
Well, that sounds very interesting.

290
00:15:16,148 --> 00:15:17,082
Yeah. All right.

291
00:15:17,082 --> 00:15:20,786
So kind of think about it
from this standpoint.

292
00:15:20,819 --> 00:15:22,588
And I'm trying to summarize these
a little better

293
00:15:22,588 --> 00:15:23,956
because some of these stories
are really cool.

294
00:15:23,956 --> 00:15:26,225
But you can't talk about them
in five minutes.

295
00:15:26,225 --> 00:15:27,626
So think of it this way.

296
00:15:27,626 --> 00:15:32,665
NASA is building a helicopter to fly
on a new nearby, but a million miles away.

297
00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:34,400
I don't know how that's nearby.

298
00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,570
Far away in my book,
where it's -290 degrees.

299
00:15:38,637 --> 00:15:41,473
Gasoline falls from the sky is rain,
and there are lakes,

300
00:15:41,473 --> 00:15:44,109
rivers and seas made up of liquid methane
instead of water.

301
00:15:44,109 --> 00:15:45,311
Not a vacation spot.

302
00:15:45,311 --> 00:15:48,314
I'm planning to go to anytime soon.

303
00:15:48,347 --> 00:15:50,416
And what this is, is Titan the moon.

304
00:15:50,416 --> 00:15:54,420
Titan dragonfly is a mission

305
00:15:54,420 --> 00:15:57,890
to tighten, to be able to kind of
do like what we're doing with Mars.

306
00:15:58,090 --> 00:15:59,291
The biggest difference here

307
00:15:59,291 --> 00:16:03,295
is, instead of being a rover
that goes around on the dirt, it flies.

308
00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:05,631
That's
where the helicopter analogy comes from.

309
00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:09,535
And being able to do that,
you're using physics in your favor,

310
00:16:09,535 --> 00:16:12,871
except instead of using them against you
like you do with the ground,

311
00:16:12,871 --> 00:16:14,974
where you have all kinds of friction
and stuff like this.

312
00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:16,508
Lying through the air
allows you to be able

313
00:16:16,508 --> 00:16:19,545
to do a lot of things
a lot easier, a lot less fuel is used.

314
00:16:19,745 --> 00:16:22,014
You can get from location to location
faster.

315
00:16:22,014 --> 00:16:24,483
There's a lot of things that are about

316
00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:28,387
just making this workable
where it wouldn't be the other way around.

317
00:16:28,787 --> 00:16:30,522
So think of it this way.

318
00:16:30,522 --> 00:16:33,359
Eight eight rotor idea.

319
00:16:33,359 --> 00:16:36,862
Like kind of like a drone,
but about the size of a compact car.

320
00:16:37,062 --> 00:16:40,699
And on that you have instruments
that can do chemistry, weather

321
00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:42,468
and all that kind of stuff.

322
00:16:42,468 --> 00:16:44,870
So that's what this is about.

323
00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:46,905
The milestone that we've gotten to

324
00:16:46,905 --> 00:16:48,574
here is something
that's really kind of cool, that

325
00:16:48,574 --> 00:16:52,778
a big component of this has been finished
and is being brought to the physics lab,

326
00:16:52,778 --> 00:16:56,115
and that'll be the next step
in getting that

327
00:16:56,882 --> 00:17:01,553
put into the structure
and being able to start testing that out.

328
00:17:01,587 --> 00:17:04,356
So this is science fact,
not science fiction.

329
00:17:04,356 --> 00:17:07,159
I think I refer to it as science
fiction, unfortunately.

330
00:17:07,159 --> 00:17:08,060
Yep. Yeah.

331
00:17:11,230 --> 00:17:12,431
All right.

332
00:17:12,431 --> 00:17:17,903
Bye. Las Vegas speaks on threat of 764
terror network in Nevada.

333
00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:20,372
Well, criminals are going high tech.

334
00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:22,174
And this is getting a little bit scary.

335
00:17:22,174 --> 00:17:25,177
And when you look at the different things
that are happening here,

336
00:17:25,344 --> 00:17:28,147
it is definitely something to be concerned
about.

337
00:17:28,147 --> 00:17:31,216
Eight News
Now reported on this in Las Vegas.

338
00:17:31,283 --> 00:17:35,187
It's regarding a terror network called 764

339
00:17:35,687 --> 00:17:39,958
that's been identified as a terror
organization that's operating in Nevada.

340
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:43,862
And what's happening here
that really has come out from

341
00:17:43,862 --> 00:17:46,899
this is recruitment
into the criminal organization.

342
00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:49,134
In the past,

343
00:17:49,134 --> 00:17:52,671
when these type of things happen,
there had to be a physical connection.

344
00:17:52,671 --> 00:17:55,274
Now a teenager can be recruited
from their bedroom.

345
00:17:55,274 --> 00:17:58,510
And what's happening
here is groups like this are using social

346
00:17:58,510 --> 00:18:02,347
media, gaming platforms
and so on to locate

347
00:18:02,381 --> 00:18:06,385
isolated or vulnerable
and young people who might not get out

348
00:18:06,385 --> 00:18:10,756
and socialize otherwise, and often
without ever meeting them in person.

349
00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:14,626
And there's a lot of victims and offenders
that are being generated from this.

350
00:18:14,626 --> 00:18:18,997
The internet has basically removed
geography from criminal recruiting.

351
00:18:19,465 --> 00:18:23,802
So platforms that are being used
or things like discord, telegram,

352
00:18:23,836 --> 00:18:27,873
TikTok, Instagram and not that these
platforms are somehow criminal platforms.

353
00:18:27,873 --> 00:18:28,273
They're not.

354
00:18:28,273 --> 00:18:30,709
Millions of people use them every day
safely.

355
00:18:30,709 --> 00:18:32,544
It's just
they're being manipulated in a way

356
00:18:32,544 --> 00:18:36,315
to get to people that they wouldn't
otherwise be able to get to.

357
00:18:36,348 --> 00:18:38,617
And then they're using social engineering,

358
00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:42,721
where the idea is that
the hackers break into people.

359
00:18:42,754 --> 00:18:43,455
I mean, that's

360
00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:46,558
kind of an interesting way to look at it,
but that's what's happening here.

361
00:18:47,025 --> 00:18:49,862
That's nothing new,
but they're getting a lot better of it.

362
00:18:49,862 --> 00:18:52,664
Instead of stealing passwords,
they're stealing trust.

363
00:18:52,664 --> 00:18:53,866
Interesting thing about it.

364
00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:57,669
Some of these topics we've talked about
here is AI is not really involved in this.

365
00:18:57,703 --> 00:19:00,572
This is just more psychology at least.

366
00:19:00,572 --> 00:19:02,541
Yet AI is not involved in this.

367
00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:05,410
So definitely something to be aware of.

368
00:19:05,410 --> 00:19:08,947
And parents, do you need to know
what their kids are doing online.

369
00:19:08,947 --> 00:19:10,549
And sometimes it's hard to do.

370
00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:14,186
It's technically to be able to do it,
but it is definitely important

371
00:19:14,453 --> 00:19:17,990
as something to be concerned
about with keeping your kids safe.

372
00:19:18,790 --> 00:19:21,393
And now for something a little less scary.

373
00:19:21,393 --> 00:19:26,131
Register for robotically manipulated
payload challenge.

374
00:19:26,431 --> 00:19:27,799
What's that about?

375
00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:29,868
All right, so first of all, NASA

376
00:19:31,069 --> 00:19:31,637
is the place

377
00:19:31,637 --> 00:19:34,706
online to go
get the detailed information about this.

378
00:19:34,706 --> 00:19:40,579
And what this is, is a program from NASA
that is inviting you to participate.

379
00:19:40,712 --> 00:19:42,214
So that's kind of cool.

380
00:19:42,214 --> 00:19:42,614
Yeah.

381
00:19:42,614 --> 00:19:47,419
So what's happening here is right now
there's a problem more than one in space.

382
00:19:47,419 --> 00:19:49,421
But there's a problem in that.

383
00:19:49,421 --> 00:19:53,192
You shoot up a satellite, it does it Slane
for a limited period of time.

384
00:19:53,225 --> 00:19:54,826
And then it basically dies.

385
00:19:54,826 --> 00:19:55,961
And when that happens, it either

386
00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:59,798
falls back to Earth or it becomes space
junk and is put out in a parking orbit.

387
00:19:59,798 --> 00:20:02,834
And the problem with this is creating
is it's a lot of debris

388
00:20:02,834 --> 00:20:06,338
and a lot of cost wasted,
because you can't upgrade

389
00:20:06,371 --> 00:20:10,742
or repair anything while it's in orbit,
and this program hopes to change that.

390
00:20:10,742 --> 00:20:14,313
So comparison here would be something like
if you had your car

391
00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:17,716
by a new car and you drive it
in, the brakes need to be replaced.

392
00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:20,852
Instead of doing a great job,
you throw it away and buy another one.

393
00:20:20,919 --> 00:20:22,654
But that's what's happening in space.

394
00:20:22,654 --> 00:20:25,657
So the challenge is to come up with ways

395
00:20:25,657 --> 00:20:31,296
here to be able to create robotics,
to be able to manipulate things in space,

396
00:20:31,363 --> 00:20:33,398
to do stuff like upgrade a camera

397
00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:36,468
or repair something that's gone wrong
or even change a battery.

398
00:20:36,935 --> 00:20:39,471
So that's what we got going on here.

399
00:20:39,471 --> 00:20:41,106
And it's something
that if you're interested

400
00:20:41,106 --> 00:20:43,709
in, go ahead and again
check it out at NASA.

401
00:20:43,709 --> 00:20:48,413
Or and the red deadline is July 29th.

402
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,682
Yes. Gretchen. Thank you.
This is a timely thing.

403
00:20:50,682 --> 00:20:53,652
You got to apply by July 29th.

404
00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:54,319
All right.

405
00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,221
Now it's time for something
completely different.

406
00:20:56,221 --> 00:20:57,789
You know,
they should put that on TV series.

407
00:20:57,789 --> 00:21:00,792
Someday we're going to talk about
something called the Ennis.

408
00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:03,595
Bill. Take it away. What are the Ines?

409
00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:07,332
To quote the website,
the any awards are an annual fan base

410
00:21:07,332 --> 00:21:10,702
celebration of excellence in tabletop
role playing gaming.

411
00:21:11,303 --> 00:21:13,939
It is a fan of People's

412
00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,942
Choice Award for tabletop gaming.

413
00:21:16,975 --> 00:21:19,978
It goes on every year
and currently voting is open.

414
00:21:20,312 --> 00:21:23,315
So if you have a favorite tabletop RPG
that came out

415
00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:27,152
third party,
usually you can go and vote for it.

416
00:21:27,252 --> 00:21:29,955
Cool. That sounds.
I mean, I had never heard of this.

417
00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:32,090
No, me neither.
But it sounds like this has been.

418
00:21:32,090 --> 00:21:34,059
This isn't the first year, right?

419
00:21:34,059 --> 00:21:35,093
No. Yeah.

420
00:21:35,093 --> 00:21:37,195
It's been going on for quite a while.

421
00:21:37,195 --> 00:21:41,233
I can't remember how many years,
and I probably could look it up here, but

422
00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:43,869
it just shows how on top of that,
I was. But anyway.

423
00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:44,736
No, it's a cool thing though.

424
00:21:44,736 --> 00:21:46,672
It's a neat idea

425
00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:49,474
because there's a lot of third party
companies to develop role

426
00:21:49,474 --> 00:21:52,678
playing games, modules for role playing
games, all this kind of stuff

427
00:21:52,778 --> 00:21:53,578
that sometimes

428
00:21:53,578 --> 00:21:57,149
do a much better job, in my opinion,
than some of the mainstream stuff.

429
00:21:57,282 --> 00:22:00,819
And they have a hard time
getting their stuff out there.

430
00:22:00,819 --> 00:22:03,789
So this seems like
it would be a very good way

431
00:22:03,789 --> 00:22:07,159
that if you run into something
and you like it, you can go vote for it.

432
00:22:07,192 --> 00:22:10,462
And, you know, let the other people know
that it's a good idea to test it out.

433
00:22:10,962 --> 00:22:14,666
Oh yeah, right now
you can go vote for Legends of Antis,

434
00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,601
cooker, Moon or Dagger Heart.

435
00:22:16,601 --> 00:22:20,372
If you're fans of those systems
and resources,

436
00:22:20,505 --> 00:22:22,874
along with a lot of other stuff
that's out there.

437
00:22:22,874 --> 00:22:24,376
Do you have any favorites?

438
00:22:25,377 --> 00:22:27,279
Cricket moon

439
00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:29,314
yeah, I wouldn't I can't say

440
00:22:29,314 --> 00:22:32,317
I'm shocked to hear that, but.

441
00:22:32,584 --> 00:22:33,985
No, it's it's really cool.

442
00:22:33,985 --> 00:22:36,988
Okay. So again, where do you vote?

443
00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:40,025
Any Dash awards?

444
00:22:40,258 --> 00:22:43,228
Ian Innis

445
00:22:43,228 --> 00:22:46,231
and I dash awards

446
00:22:46,398 --> 00:22:49,401
okay, so no s e n n I.

447
00:22:49,668 --> 00:22:51,436
All right, we'll get it out there.

448
00:22:51,436 --> 00:22:53,905
So yeah,
check it out and go to User Friendly Show.

449
00:22:53,905 --> 00:22:56,908
Let us know who you voted for,
which system you voted for.

450
00:22:56,942 --> 00:22:58,543
In this case.

451
00:22:58,543 --> 00:23:01,913
We'd love to hear about this
because I love it where you have this

452
00:23:01,913 --> 00:23:05,851
grassroots type stuff
associated with stuff that's big business,

453
00:23:05,984 --> 00:23:10,122
to allow the Indies to be able
to get out there and show their stuff.

454
00:23:10,122 --> 00:23:13,358
And some of the things developed
by independent creators, role playing

455
00:23:13,358 --> 00:23:17,596
games, video games
and other things is absolutely amazing.

456
00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:21,633
And I'll just close up with this comment
that in the retro computer community,

457
00:23:21,867 --> 00:23:24,870
Commodore 64,
Atari, all this kind of stuff,

458
00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:28,507
the games that we have today
that are developed homebrew by independent

459
00:23:28,507 --> 00:23:31,910
developers are actually better
than the commercial software ever was.

460
00:23:31,943 --> 00:23:34,813
This is user friendly.
2.0 will be back after the break.

461
00:23:36,181 --> 00:23:38,150
He's from the future.

462
00:23:38,150 --> 00:23:41,453
He's got a really big computer

463
00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:45,023
and he uses it uses it every day.

464
00:23:45,357 --> 00:23:48,460
And he uses it uses it in every way.

465
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:54,266
What she uses for you know, I'm
not that sure because it means it's easy.

466
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,233
Welcome back.

467
00:23:55,233 --> 00:23:57,936
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468
00:23:57,936 --> 00:23:59,971
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476
00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:21,092
All right.

477
00:24:21,092 --> 00:24:24,296
Well, as we talked about in the beginning,
today is the day that we answer

478
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:25,697
your questions.

479
00:24:26,731 --> 00:24:29,734
So I guess we need some questions.

480
00:24:30,068 --> 00:24:31,937
What is crowdfunding.

481
00:24:31,937 --> 00:24:32,237
All right.

482
00:24:32,237 --> 00:24:36,174
So if this sounds familiar because you
listen to our previous Q&A, it is this.

483
00:24:36,174 --> 00:24:38,577
And the next question
we'd actually talked about there.

484
00:24:38,577 --> 00:24:41,546
But we've had a lot
of additional questions coming in on this.

485
00:24:41,546 --> 00:24:44,683
And I think it's because of
some of the things that are going on.

486
00:24:45,217 --> 00:24:50,322
And the answer to the question
of what is crowdfunding is basically

487
00:24:50,622 --> 00:24:53,625
these are platforms,
and there are different ones of varying

488
00:24:53,625 --> 00:24:55,894
degrees of suitability

489
00:24:55,894 --> 00:24:58,096
to where you can have
something like a project,

490
00:24:58,096 --> 00:25:01,199
or you're trying to raise money
for an event, or even some people

491
00:25:01,199 --> 00:25:03,735
are trying to raise money
for their next vacation.

492
00:25:03,735 --> 00:25:07,439
These different type of things
go out there and you can put up a project,

493
00:25:07,439 --> 00:25:11,309
and you hope that people
will support your project.

494
00:25:11,309 --> 00:25:16,414
So in the ones that are dealing with
manufacturing some new kind of product

495
00:25:16,414 --> 00:25:20,652
or service
or that type of thing, these ones are

496
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,155
interesting because most of the time
they work out

497
00:25:24,155 --> 00:25:27,292
pretty well, but we can all tell stories,
which we will in a minute

498
00:25:27,292 --> 00:25:28,560
here of sometimes where they don't.

499
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:29,561
So when you put up money

500
00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:33,498
for a given reward, it's important to know
that is not guaranteed.

501
00:25:33,665 --> 00:25:36,668
It's like doing the stock market.

502
00:25:36,801 --> 00:25:37,435
Yeah.

503
00:25:37,435 --> 00:25:39,037
Kind of.
I guess that would be an interesting

504
00:25:39,037 --> 00:25:41,673
comparison
because you could lose your money.

505
00:25:41,673 --> 00:25:42,507
Yeah, yeah.

506
00:25:42,507 --> 00:25:45,510
Well what happens a lot of the times is
I have this great project,

507
00:25:45,677 --> 00:25:48,346
things like I'm going to make a movie
or I'm going to make a triple

508
00:25:48,346 --> 00:25:51,082
A video game for $50,000,
that kind of stuff.

509
00:25:51,082 --> 00:25:53,218
So when looking at these things,
you want to check it out

510
00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:54,653
to make sure that you don't get scammed.

511
00:25:54,653 --> 00:25:58,223
And there's been a lot of times
where has gone out,

512
00:25:58,256 --> 00:26:01,192
they've raised money
and then they don't provide the award.

513
00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:03,662
Now, fortunately,
this is not the majority.

514
00:26:03,662 --> 00:26:07,432
Most of the crowdfunding stuff's
on reputable platforms, funds

515
00:26:07,432 --> 00:26:10,602
in the dependent developers
and things like that

516
00:26:10,635 --> 00:26:13,338
that wouldn't otherwise
be able to get their product to market.

517
00:26:13,338 --> 00:26:15,507
And I've seen some really cool things
with that.

518
00:26:15,507 --> 00:26:20,378
But that's basically what this
is and what crowdfunding is.

519
00:26:21,813 --> 00:26:22,414
Is there a

520
00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:25,417
difference between crowdfunding sites?

521
00:26:25,617 --> 00:26:28,620
Short answer is yes.

522
00:26:30,021 --> 00:26:32,891
And a big, big yes on that.

523
00:26:32,891 --> 00:26:36,194
So the biggest one probably is
Kickstarter.

524
00:26:36,528 --> 00:26:40,632
It's the oldest one that is operating
that's considered reputable,

525
00:26:41,066 --> 00:26:44,869
and they're a site that actually,
as far as these things go, is pretty good.

526
00:26:44,869 --> 00:26:48,073
It's still possible
to not get what you're supposed to get,

527
00:26:48,073 --> 00:26:52,544
but they do disclose right on top of it
if you're not guaranteed anything.

528
00:26:52,544 --> 00:26:54,179
And the other thing they do is tend to

529
00:26:54,179 --> 00:26:57,983
watch for scams and take them down
and are pretty good about that.

530
00:26:57,983 --> 00:27:04,756
I think the next one would be Indigo Go,
which is a little less in that context.

531
00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:07,792
They do watch for scams
and take them down, but they have

532
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:11,429
a unique thing called flex funding
that does not exist on Kickstarter.

533
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:14,799
So basically on most platforms
you set a goal.

534
00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:18,069
I want to raise $50,000
for doing whatever project.

535
00:27:18,069 --> 00:27:19,904
If you raise the money, you get it.

536
00:27:19,904 --> 00:27:21,573
If you don't raise the money,
you don't get it

537
00:27:21,573 --> 00:27:23,141
because you wouldn't have been funded.

538
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:26,211
So what flex funding is,
is whatever amount of money

539
00:27:26,211 --> 00:27:30,015
they happen to raise, they still get it
whether or not they hit their goal.

540
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:30,382
Okay.

541
00:27:30,382 --> 00:27:32,951
You can see where that can be problematic
because if you don't have enough

542
00:27:32,951 --> 00:27:36,521
to do your project, well, you know,
so you want to watch for that.

543
00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:40,759
Then there's a number of other sites
out there, some good, some not so good.

544
00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:44,696
And I've even seen ones where a company
has decided that they want to raise money

545
00:27:44,696 --> 00:27:48,466
for something they're not allowed, for
whatever reason, on the bigger platform.

546
00:27:48,466 --> 00:27:52,270
So they create their own
crowdsourcing site that looks like it.

547
00:27:52,270 --> 00:27:53,438
But you want to check those out,

548
00:27:53,438 --> 00:27:56,908
because if that's the only project on that
site, that's probably a red flag.

549
00:27:57,976 --> 00:27:58,743
Yeah, I think

550
00:27:58,743 --> 00:28:01,913
Kickstarter and Backer are the two
that I really appreciate.

551
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:04,983
Yeah. What was the second one?

552
00:28:04,983 --> 00:28:06,184
Backer kid.

553
00:28:06,184 --> 00:28:08,720
Okay,
that's not what I've used, but okay. Yeah.

554
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,321
And you can get a list of these

555
00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:13,491
and ratings like anything else
just by searching for them.

556
00:28:13,491 --> 00:28:17,262
But check it out and do a little bit of
research and do research on the project.

557
00:28:17,262 --> 00:28:20,265
So one of the other things you can
look at to is

558
00:28:20,865 --> 00:28:23,868
is the person that's got the project up.

559
00:28:24,002 --> 00:28:26,905
Have they ever successfully
had a funding project?

560
00:28:26,905 --> 00:28:28,740
Have they backed anything else?

561
00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:30,508
Check out social media.

562
00:28:30,508 --> 00:28:32,377
Look if a websites provided

563
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:35,547
is all of the images on their
AI generated, that's a red flag.

564
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:38,583
You know, you want to just make sure
that it feels like they're actually

565
00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:42,520
trying to accomplish something
and not just walk away with your money.

566
00:28:44,622 --> 00:28:48,626
How to
stop chat for ruining how you think.

567
00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:50,462
Yeah, so we talked a little bit early.

568
00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:52,530
Yeah, we talked a little bit about this
in the segment

569
00:28:52,530 --> 00:28:54,466
that's not formed as a question.

570
00:28:54,466 --> 00:28:56,234
So that wouldn't have worked on jeopardy.

571
00:28:56,234 --> 00:29:00,105
But you know deep diving
is like we said before,

572
00:29:00,105 --> 00:29:02,107
you got to think of it like a tool.

573
00:29:02,107 --> 00:29:05,043
And like anything else, you

574
00:29:05,043 --> 00:29:07,779
trust it
to the extent of what it's supposed to do.

575
00:29:07,779 --> 00:29:10,982
But you are the person in charge.

576
00:29:10,982 --> 00:29:12,117
You drive the project,

577
00:29:12,117 --> 00:29:17,355
you ask it for what you want it to do,
but you don't ask it to do it for you.

578
00:29:17,455 --> 00:29:18,857
And these are two different things.

579
00:29:18,857 --> 00:29:19,791
And like we were talking about

580
00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:23,194
in the first segment, this is something
that's becoming a problem because AI

581
00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:26,397
is something
that it's the first real technology

582
00:29:26,397 --> 00:29:28,600
that's gone mainstream that can actually

583
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,270
do enough to work and replace
your need to think about things.

584
00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:35,673
And we told some of the stories in the
first segment on what we've run into this.

585
00:29:35,673 --> 00:29:36,474
But just, you know,

586
00:29:36,474 --> 00:29:41,112
to kind of sum it up again, because we get
a lot of questions on this is

587
00:29:42,580 --> 00:29:43,882
ask AI what you want to do.

588
00:29:43,882 --> 00:29:44,983
It's an amazing tool.

589
00:29:44,983 --> 00:29:46,851
See what answers
it gives you. Check the answers.

590
00:29:46,851 --> 00:29:48,653
Make sure the information is correct.

591
00:29:48,653 --> 00:29:51,422
They do hallucinate sometimes, and don't

592
00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:55,193
expect it to be able to do your project
for you and have it be successful.

593
00:29:55,193 --> 00:29:59,397
And as far as things like artwork
generation, that type of stuff goes.

594
00:29:59,430 --> 00:30:02,333
I use it to generate a picture of my role
playing character.

595
00:30:02,333 --> 00:30:03,134
I have no problem with that.

596
00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:06,137
I do not use it to generate something
I'm going to publish.

597
00:30:06,738 --> 00:30:07,939
For one thing,

598
00:30:07,939 --> 00:30:11,543
having human designers do that,
you're going to get a better product,

599
00:30:11,543 --> 00:30:13,211
you're going to be able to work with it
better.

600
00:30:13,211 --> 00:30:16,915
And the other part of it
is, is it's not fake, you know?

601
00:30:18,183 --> 00:30:19,517
All right.

602
00:30:19,517 --> 00:30:23,188
I have an old arcade game called gyrus.

603
00:30:23,354 --> 00:30:24,856
Should I fix it?

604
00:30:24,856 --> 00:30:30,895
There is no video
or turn it into a multi game machine okay.

605
00:30:30,962 --> 00:30:31,963
So in my opinion

606
00:30:31,963 --> 00:30:35,633
if you convert that to anything else,
the arcade God's will come and smite you

607
00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:39,103
is one of the best in my opinion

608
00:30:39,103 --> 00:30:42,974
and most beautiful early arcade games.

609
00:30:42,974 --> 00:30:44,075
It uses chiptune.

610
00:30:44,075 --> 00:30:49,013
It's been considered one of the best ones
for the music that goes along with it.

611
00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:52,250
I would love to find a gyrus myself.

612
00:30:52,317 --> 00:30:54,719
They're a little bit difficult
to come up with,

613
00:30:54,719 --> 00:30:57,956
and this type of a cabinet
you would want to fix.

614
00:30:57,956 --> 00:31:01,593
So 10,000ft answer to this is basically

615
00:31:01,593 --> 00:31:05,463
there are some games out there
that are not collectible.

616
00:31:05,463 --> 00:31:08,499
And you know, they break down,
you convert them into something else,

617
00:31:08,499 --> 00:31:12,437
and you can put a Raspberry
Pi or something like that in it and be

618
00:31:12,470 --> 00:31:15,573
able to run ROMs
and have it be a lot of different games,

619
00:31:15,573 --> 00:31:19,811
and there are appropriate times to use
something like that, but you would want

620
00:31:19,811 --> 00:31:22,881
to check out what the original game is
and also what's wrong with it

621
00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:25,350
if there's no video
and it's playing headless

622
00:31:25,350 --> 00:31:28,253
so you can hear the audio
and everything else seems to be working,

623
00:31:28,253 --> 00:31:29,520
that means your game board is good

624
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,858
and there's something wrong
with the monitor in this type of a game.

625
00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:36,227
And I don't like to do this
unless I have to.

626
00:31:36,227 --> 00:31:37,295
But a lot of the

627
00:31:37,295 --> 00:31:41,065
crowds are dying on us now,
and this is a very common problem to have.

628
00:31:41,099 --> 00:31:44,435
So maybe look at going ahead
and replacing that part of it

629
00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:48,740
with something modern,
like a LCD LED screen.

630
00:31:49,073 --> 00:31:50,875
You can get these
for a couple hundred bucks

631
00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:53,278
and they drop right in
and makes the cabinet lighter

632
00:31:53,278 --> 00:31:54,412
and that type of a thing.

633
00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:57,148
But the other thing to consider is
if you really do want to keep it

634
00:31:57,148 --> 00:31:59,817
original, is do at least diagnose
what's wrong with it.

635
00:31:59,817 --> 00:32:02,620
Because really, even with CRT,

636
00:32:02,620 --> 00:32:05,156
as long as the tube
and the flyback are still good,

637
00:32:05,156 --> 00:32:08,559
you can probably repair it and have it
still work as the way it originally was.

638
00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:11,796
So it's just depending on the condition
and what you're dealing with at the time.

639
00:32:12,163 --> 00:32:16,434
But this is one where you would
drastically limit the value of what it is

640
00:32:16,467 --> 00:32:17,535
if you were to convert it.

641
00:32:17,535 --> 00:32:20,738
It's like the same thing
with a lot of the original classic.

642
00:32:20,738 --> 00:32:23,875
Let's say you got a Wizard of War,
and if you converted that,

643
00:32:23,908 --> 00:32:27,378
you probably need to not do anything
with video games ever again.

644
00:32:27,745 --> 00:32:31,382
In my opinion,
that's an extremely valuable one.

645
00:32:31,382 --> 00:32:35,420
Again,
that is worth a lot more as the game

646
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:39,290
than what it is
is if you were to try to convert it over.

647
00:32:41,426 --> 00:32:44,429
Now, this is a callback to a news article

648
00:32:44,429 --> 00:32:48,232
we had before you talked about X-Box
laying off thousands of employees.

649
00:32:48,266 --> 00:32:50,835
Is X-Box being phased out?

650
00:32:50,835 --> 00:32:51,669
Yeah. Good question.

651
00:32:51,669 --> 00:32:54,672
We've had a lot of different
variations of this that have come in.

652
00:32:54,672 --> 00:32:56,507
This kind of summing it all up.

653
00:32:56,507 --> 00:32:59,711
Is X-Box in trouble or, you know,
is it going down?

654
00:32:59,711 --> 00:33:01,546
Is Microsoft going to drop the project?

655
00:33:01,546 --> 00:33:05,550
All of these type of things, they are
definitely changing what they're doing.

656
00:33:05,583 --> 00:33:06,918
But in my opinion,

657
00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:10,154
from everything I've seen on this,
I don't think it's a bad thing.

658
00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:12,423
They're consolidating some stuff.

659
00:33:12,423 --> 00:33:15,994
Back in the last ten years, they bought
a lot of independent game studios

660
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:19,831
and tried to make them work together,
which is not something

661
00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:23,468
that's easy to do without changing
the concept of how the studio worked.

662
00:33:23,668 --> 00:33:25,870
And if you try to do that,
then why buy the studio?

663
00:33:25,870 --> 00:33:28,673
Just set up what you want
under your own umbrella.

664
00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:33,077
Blizzard Activision is one of the bigger
ones that was purchased by Microsoft.

665
00:33:33,077 --> 00:33:36,581
There are a number of other ones out there
that they are starting to spin off

666
00:33:36,581 --> 00:33:39,717
back in the independent studios again,
because this hasn't worked very well

667
00:33:39,751 --> 00:33:41,919
or shut them down or whatever
the case may be.

668
00:33:41,919 --> 00:33:44,756
But in the case of Microsoft,
it seems like they are selling that IP

669
00:33:44,756 --> 00:33:48,159
and not just trashing it,
which is, in my opinion, a good thing.

670
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,195
But at the end of the day,
I think what's going to happen

671
00:33:51,195 --> 00:33:56,067
here is we're seeing the consoles and
regular computers now getting to a point

672
00:33:56,067 --> 00:33:59,704
where they are pretty much equivalent
in what they can do.

673
00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:03,107
Game consoles are unique
in the standpoint

674
00:34:03,141 --> 00:34:05,443
that you develop software
specifically for them.

675
00:34:05,443 --> 00:34:06,744
You know it runs on that platform.

676
00:34:06,744 --> 00:34:09,714
You don't have to worry about
making it compatible with other things.

677
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,717
So there are still advantages
in that area.

678
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:17,555
But on the flip side of it, you now
have your computers plug into HDMI.

679
00:34:17,588 --> 00:34:20,425
They can do the same video output,
that kind of a thing.

680
00:34:20,425 --> 00:34:23,761
But the second part of it
that I think still makes consoles relevant

681
00:34:23,761 --> 00:34:27,899
is also the price
to get a good gaming machine.

682
00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:29,467
It's going to cost you a bill.

683
00:34:29,467 --> 00:34:30,935
Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

684
00:34:30,935 --> 00:34:34,338
At least $3,000 more

685
00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:37,742
1500 at least
1500 would be minimal though,

686
00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:43,281
because you know your video card alone,
if we're a good one, could be that much.

687
00:34:43,681 --> 00:34:43,948
Yeah,

688
00:34:43,948 --> 00:34:48,019
and your video game consoles are you know,
they've gotten more expensive, roughly.

689
00:34:48,052 --> 00:34:52,356
I don't know what, around about $500 now,
give or take, depending on what it is.

690
00:34:52,523 --> 00:34:55,660
Projections have them going up
to a thousand for the next gen.

691
00:34:55,660 --> 00:34:57,762
But I've seen that. Yeah, yeah.

692
00:34:57,762 --> 00:34:58,496
Who knows.

693
00:34:58,496 --> 00:35:01,399
So that even starts
to put it closer to a full computer.

694
00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:03,034
But there still is a bit of a difference.

695
00:35:03,034 --> 00:35:06,304
And I think there's also something
to be said that you turn the console on,

696
00:35:06,304 --> 00:35:07,438
it does what it's supposed to do,

697
00:35:07,438 --> 00:35:09,173
and you don't have the problems
that can be associated

698
00:35:09,173 --> 00:35:13,077
with running a PC and trying to get it,
you know, to work with different things.

699
00:35:13,077 --> 00:35:16,080
So our console still relevant? Yes.

700
00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:20,017
If something happens
that we will be talking about in depth

701
00:35:20,017 --> 00:35:24,188
at a later time, like Sony really did
do away with all of their physical media.

702
00:35:24,222 --> 00:35:25,256
Now built this.

703
00:35:25,256 --> 00:35:27,425
Okay, so for anybody that hasn't heard,
there was an announcement

704
00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:29,427
made in the news by Sony
that they're going to switch

705
00:35:29,427 --> 00:35:32,430
with doing physical media of any kind

706
00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:36,801
by 2028, that would mean that
the next generation of PlayStation

707
00:35:36,801 --> 00:35:38,870
would not have a media drive. Right now.
You have that choice.

708
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:40,304
You wouldn't have it anymore.

709
00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:42,640
But Bill, you said
there's been a lot of pushback on that.

710
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,877
I think, yes,
a lot of people were boycotting

711
00:35:45,877 --> 00:35:49,480
and dropping their PlayStation
plus survivor ships.

712
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,151
And so Sony's walking back a little bit.

713
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:54,318
But I don't know.

714
00:35:54,318 --> 00:35:57,555
It's it's
a complicated thing about physical media.

715
00:35:57,588 --> 00:35:59,991
I think we have another question later
on about that.

716
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,826
Yeah, yeah,
we'll get into that in some more depth.

717
00:36:01,826 --> 00:36:05,096
But and I've done a 180 on my belief
in that too.

718
00:36:05,163 --> 00:36:09,233
So anyway,
but I don't think X-Box is going away.

719
00:36:09,233 --> 00:36:12,103
I think what they're doing is actually
going to make it more streamlined.

720
00:36:12,103 --> 00:36:16,107
I think we're going to see focusing them
able to focus on specific games

721
00:36:16,107 --> 00:36:16,774
and make them better,

722
00:36:16,774 --> 00:36:20,344
instead of being all over the place,
and let the independent studios

723
00:36:20,344 --> 00:36:23,614
also produce for the platform
and focus on what they're good at.

724
00:36:23,814 --> 00:36:27,618
So I do see this kind of down the road
probably being a good thing.

725
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:29,854
All right.

726
00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:34,692
Is Ukraine really using video
games to train drone operators?

727
00:36:34,759 --> 00:36:34,959
Yeah.

728
00:36:34,959 --> 00:36:35,560
So we did a

729
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,796
we did a story on this recently
and we've had a lot of questions come in.

730
00:36:38,829 --> 00:36:41,899
And the question answer to
that is basically yes.

731
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:44,635
Now there's two different things
going on here.

732
00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:48,539
There is software that's being used
to actually train the drone operators.

733
00:36:48,539 --> 00:36:51,542
And then there's a game
you can get from steam

734
00:36:51,642 --> 00:36:56,214
called the Ukraine Flight Drone
Simulator, about 30 bucks.

735
00:36:56,214 --> 00:37:00,351
And you can learn how to fly a drone
and what it's like to do it

736
00:37:00,384 --> 00:37:02,553
with real video footage
and some other things.

737
00:37:02,553 --> 00:37:06,757
I would imagine that some of the more
clandestine things that they use

738
00:37:06,757 --> 00:37:07,758
are taken out of the software.

739
00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:07,992
At least.

740
00:37:07,992 --> 00:37:09,427
I sure hope it is,

741
00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:13,030
because you can imagine the enemy
is probably going to play this game too.

742
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:16,801
Oh yeah, Russia hasn't been able to fly
drones pretty well.

743
00:37:16,801 --> 00:37:19,570
So, you know, hopefully
they won't learn too well from this.

744
00:37:19,570 --> 00:37:20,571
But anyway,

745
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:25,276
you know, if I was Ukraine,
I'd put a few things in the simulator

746
00:37:25,276 --> 00:37:29,981
that if you flew a real drone that way
it would create bad things happening.

747
00:37:29,981 --> 00:37:32,750
So, you know, hopefully
that's where that went with that.

748
00:37:32,750 --> 00:37:35,052
But in any event,
that's just an opinion of mine.

749
00:37:35,052 --> 00:37:37,188
The game itself, I've tried
it is really good.

750
00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:38,422
It is a lot of fun.

751
00:37:38,422 --> 00:37:40,458
It's very realistic,

752
00:37:40,458 --> 00:37:42,793
you know, along the lines
of like Call of Duty and things,

753
00:37:42,793 --> 00:37:45,830
because there's actual video
from real drone missions in it,

754
00:37:45,830 --> 00:37:48,833
and the way that it operates
is basically the same way.

755
00:37:48,866 --> 00:37:52,270
I'm going to see if I can interface
the controller for my drone

756
00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:55,840
into the computer over Bluetooth,
because then I'd have the actual controls.

757
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:56,774
I don't know if that's going to work.

758
00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:58,276
I will let you know if it does,

759
00:37:58,276 --> 00:38:01,212
but I do recommend the game
if you're into this kind of thing.

760
00:38:01,212 --> 00:38:02,747
It's actually a lot of fun.

761
00:38:03,714 --> 00:38:05,082
Well, don't they run a lot of

762
00:38:05,082 --> 00:38:09,186
like simulators
for things like aircraft pilots now?

763
00:38:09,186 --> 00:38:14,425
And oh yeah, my eldest stepson
did it for his driving tests or something.

764
00:38:14,959 --> 00:38:16,861
Hopefully he didn't win on pole position.

765
00:38:16,861 --> 00:38:19,864
But anyway, no.

766
00:38:20,531 --> 00:38:21,532
No simulators

767
00:38:21,532 --> 00:38:27,238
because of the fact that virtual reality
and even computers are like real reality.

768
00:38:27,271 --> 00:38:29,774
Now to a point, flight
sims have been out there.

769
00:38:29,774 --> 00:38:33,678
I mean, you can get Microsoft Flight
Simulator for your Atari 130 X, that's

770
00:38:33,678 --> 00:38:34,679
nothing new.

771
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:37,014
And these things
have been used all over the place.

772
00:38:37,014 --> 00:38:40,985
The military even uses some of the, like,
Call of Duty type games

773
00:38:41,052 --> 00:38:42,553
for training their soldiers.

774
00:38:42,553 --> 00:38:45,423
So the idea that this is a new idea.

775
00:38:45,423 --> 00:38:49,060
No, but I have not seen another drone
simulator.

776
00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:50,895
I think it is a first for that.

777
00:38:53,931 --> 00:38:55,399
Is it possible to turn off

778
00:38:55,399 --> 00:38:59,637
the monitor that is sending information
to my vehicles manufacturer?

779
00:38:59,904 --> 00:39:00,438
Yeah, again,

780
00:39:00,438 --> 00:39:02,440
a lot of questions
came in from this story,

781
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,509
which was a few weeks back,
maybe a few months back now.

782
00:39:05,543 --> 00:39:09,313
But so the kind of

783
00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:13,050
starting point of this,
if you're not aware of it,

784
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:16,187
is pretty much all, I'm not going to say
all because there's probably

785
00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:19,290
a hold out somewhere,
but pretty much all new vehicles

786
00:39:19,457 --> 00:39:22,360
have something called telematics
or a variation of that.

787
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,430
And basically what that is, is
there's a cellular module in the car

788
00:39:26,430 --> 00:39:29,533
somewhere that's sending information
back to the manufacturer

789
00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:32,903
on how you drive, where you go,
all of these different type of things.

790
00:39:32,937 --> 00:39:34,572
That information in turn, by

791
00:39:34,572 --> 00:39:37,708
a lot of manufacturers
is being resold to third parties.

792
00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:40,811
And this has created some controversy
and some problems.

793
00:39:40,811 --> 00:39:43,881
As you can imagine, one of the big ones
is, is when your insurance goes up.

794
00:39:43,914 --> 00:39:45,783
Well, I haven't had an accident.

795
00:39:45,783 --> 00:39:48,786
I haven't had any kind of tickets.

796
00:39:48,853 --> 00:39:50,855
Yeah,
but the information your car told us on

797
00:39:50,855 --> 00:39:53,023
how you were driving
makes us think you're a higher risk.

798
00:39:53,023 --> 00:39:54,558
And that's exactly what.

799
00:39:54,558 --> 00:39:56,460
Your car into a narc.

800
00:39:56,460 --> 00:39:57,695
It turns it into an arc.

801
00:39:57,695 --> 00:40:01,532
And the other part of it, too, is
if the manufacturer is selling

802
00:40:01,532 --> 00:40:05,469
my information, I should be paid for that
or have the opportunity to opt out.

803
00:40:05,503 --> 00:40:09,507
You know, you know, there's no way
to go into the software and turn it off.

804
00:40:09,507 --> 00:40:11,108
And I frankly, in my opinion,

805
00:40:11,108 --> 00:40:14,478
even if that was a thing,
I don't think I'd trust it. So.

806
00:40:15,112 --> 00:40:18,349
Well,
I would also question some of these these

807
00:40:19,383 --> 00:40:20,217
telematics.

808
00:40:20,217 --> 00:40:22,520
Is that what you were calling them?

809
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,856
The thing is, is
what if you are driving in an area

810
00:40:26,023 --> 00:40:31,095
where you have to be aggressive
to protect yourself and your car,

811
00:40:31,362 --> 00:40:34,432
and since they're not there,

812
00:40:34,598 --> 00:40:38,669
they're not going to understand
maybe an acceleration,

813
00:40:38,702 --> 00:40:43,874
a declaration that was quick
or or a shift left or right.

814
00:40:43,908 --> 00:40:45,876
They don't know what's going on.

815
00:40:45,876 --> 00:40:49,380
So they're making assumptions
that might be unfair.

816
00:40:49,713 --> 00:40:51,515
And that's a very big thing.

817
00:40:51,515 --> 00:40:53,818
Just a real quick
aside on that for our commercial vehicles,

818
00:40:53,818 --> 00:40:55,953
we have progressive insurance
and we use snapshot.

819
00:40:55,953 --> 00:40:59,256
It gives you quite a bit of a discount,
but it's the same idea.

820
00:40:59,490 --> 00:41:00,791
It monitors how you drive.

821
00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:02,760
Now the big difference here is
this is optional.

822
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,628
I can pay more money and not use snapshot.

823
00:41:04,628 --> 00:41:06,130
So it does make a difference.

824
00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:09,467
But yeah, if you have a say
where you're hard braking

825
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:12,403
because the guy in front of
you came to a dead stop, well, yeah.

826
00:41:12,403 --> 00:41:12,970
Heartbreaking.

827
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:15,506
Something that would
create an issue with this.

828
00:41:15,506 --> 00:41:18,509
But if you didn't do it,
you've gone into the back of the car.

829
00:41:18,542 --> 00:41:19,109
Yeah.

830
00:41:19,109 --> 00:41:23,714
There are times where now I will say
progressive also has built into the system

831
00:41:23,714 --> 00:41:26,550
a certain amount of these things
that they consider to be real world.

832
00:41:26,550 --> 00:41:28,986
It's going to happen
and it doesn't count against you.

833
00:41:28,986 --> 00:41:31,589
Now, if you did it a lot,
then you might start to have a problem.

834
00:41:31,589 --> 00:41:34,592
So there is a kind of a variant for that.

835
00:41:34,592 --> 00:41:38,362
But in answer to this question and again
this show is for entertainment

836
00:41:38,362 --> 00:41:39,096
purposes only.

837
00:41:39,096 --> 00:41:43,067
I am not recommending you do this, but
you can go online and find instructions

838
00:41:43,067 --> 00:41:46,971
on how to physically disconnect the box
from your car in most cases.

839
00:41:47,037 --> 00:41:50,307
But if you damage your vehicle
and it can cause warranty problems

840
00:41:50,307 --> 00:41:51,642
and that kind of stuff,

841
00:41:51,642 --> 00:41:55,779
that is an issue now on vehicles like for
and a few others, it's very easy.

842
00:41:55,813 --> 00:41:59,116
It's just a matter of disconnecting
a few wires and you can go online.

843
00:41:59,283 --> 00:42:01,519
Toyota as an example,
has made this more difficult

844
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:04,355
that if you disconnect the box,
it also takes out this.

845
00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:09,093
I think it's the right front speaker
and the window on the right front door.

846
00:42:09,093 --> 00:42:11,495
So you would have to know
how to put a bypass circuit.

847
00:42:11,495 --> 00:42:14,198
Now there's instructions on
how to do that on line two.

848
00:42:14,198 --> 00:42:16,033
What about the Teslas?

849
00:42:16,033 --> 00:42:18,302
Does the car just die?

850
00:42:18,302 --> 00:42:22,640
I am not going to comment on that
because I think if you tried to bypass.

851
00:42:22,673 --> 00:42:23,374
Yeah, I'm not.

852
00:42:23,374 --> 00:42:26,210
I have a funny feeling
that Tesla police would show up

853
00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:29,513
while you're starting to do that
and you're messing with the computer.

854
00:42:29,513 --> 00:42:32,783
This is now, you know,
I don't know, but yeah, I,

855
00:42:32,917 --> 00:42:35,586
I have not seen a way to do that
on a Tesla.

856
00:42:35,586 --> 00:42:36,554
And, Gretchen, I think you're right.

857
00:42:36,554 --> 00:42:38,022
I don't think it would run.

858
00:42:38,022 --> 00:42:40,991
Yeah, I would just die.

859
00:42:40,991 --> 00:42:42,493
Oh, okay.

860
00:42:42,493 --> 00:42:44,361
Here's our next question.

861
00:42:44,361 --> 00:42:47,064
What is happening with physical media?

862
00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:47,264
Yeah.

863
00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:50,534
So we started to talk about this when
we were talking about X-Box a little bit.

864
00:42:50,601 --> 00:42:53,237
And we're going to deep dive
into this further.

865
00:42:53,237 --> 00:42:54,438
So again,

866
00:42:54,438 --> 00:42:57,508
we started to comment on the idea
that Sony had come up with a statement

867
00:42:57,508 --> 00:43:02,012
that they're going to discontinue
all physical media by 2028.

868
00:43:02,012 --> 00:43:04,081
And Bill, like you said earlier,
there's been such a pushback

869
00:43:04,081 --> 00:43:05,916
that they may not do that now.

870
00:43:05,916 --> 00:43:09,453
But the thing of it is with this is

871
00:43:09,453 --> 00:43:12,523
I like digital content

872
00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:17,595
because I can use it anywhere I go,
so I don't have to bring the CD with me.

873
00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:18,896
I don't, you know, that kind of a thing.

874
00:43:18,896 --> 00:43:21,432
If I'm watching a movie,
I can switch the televisions it's on.

875
00:43:21,432 --> 00:43:23,467
But where I have really changed
my opinion on

876
00:43:23,467 --> 00:43:27,137
this is because of the fact
that in recent years, number one,

877
00:43:27,638 --> 00:43:30,174
a lot of the platforms that we're writing
this have gone away.

878
00:43:30,174 --> 00:43:34,945
And what you paid for, you no longer have
access to think Redbox is a, for example.

879
00:43:34,979 --> 00:43:36,780
And there are other.

880
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:39,817
The second part of
it too is with modern equipment,

881
00:43:39,850 --> 00:43:43,220
you can get a physical copy of something,

882
00:43:43,821 --> 00:43:46,357
rip it or copy it off, or whatever
the case may be.

883
00:43:46,357 --> 00:43:48,192
I am not speaking to the legality on that,

884
00:43:48,192 --> 00:43:50,995
but I'm just speaking
to the technical possibility of it.

885
00:43:50,995 --> 00:43:54,932
But on a central server,
I use a Plex server that runs on a device

886
00:43:54,932 --> 00:43:57,935
I have here, and I can still have
the best of both worlds.

887
00:43:57,935 --> 00:44:02,373
But the thing of it
is, is the physical disk or cartridge

888
00:44:02,373 --> 00:44:05,943
or whatever it is, is something
that you can hold in your hand.

889
00:44:06,143 --> 00:44:08,145
You can resell it if you want to.

890
00:44:08,145 --> 00:44:11,181
You can hang it from your rearview mirror
in your car if you want to.

891
00:44:11,181 --> 00:44:15,419
The point of it is it's something
physical that you have that is,

892
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:18,422
I don't know,
quantifiable digital content.

893
00:44:18,422 --> 00:44:19,790
And again,

894
00:44:19,790 --> 00:44:23,494
comment if there's are exceptions to this,
I haven't been able to find any.

895
00:44:23,827 --> 00:44:27,131
And Bill, you might be able to talk about
this a little bit more than I can.

896
00:44:27,231 --> 00:44:30,334
But my understanding is once you download
digital content, you can't resell it.

897
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:32,036
Is that accurate?

898
00:44:32,036 --> 00:44:33,504
Correct. Okay.

899
00:44:33,504 --> 00:44:35,539
So you buy a game

900
00:44:35,539 --> 00:44:37,574
if you get it on physical media,
which by the way,

901
00:44:37,574 --> 00:44:39,610
it costs about the same amount
as digital content.

902
00:44:39,610 --> 00:44:41,111
Now to I've noticed that.

903
00:44:41,111 --> 00:44:44,748
And you play it and you don't like it
or you're bored with it.

904
00:44:44,748 --> 00:44:45,749
You can throw it on eBay,

905
00:44:45,749 --> 00:44:48,752
whatever ticket, the GameStop or whatever
you want to do with it.

906
00:44:48,752 --> 00:44:53,590
But the digital one that costs the same
amount you can't do anything with.

907
00:44:53,657 --> 00:44:55,192
And Bill, again,
maybe you can speak to this.

908
00:44:55,192 --> 00:44:57,027
What happens if your console breaks down?

909
00:44:57,027 --> 00:44:58,262
Are you able to sign in

910
00:44:58,262 --> 00:45:02,866
to the account and redownload it, or is it
even locked out from that in the game?

911
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:07,104
In gaming systems, yes, you can usually
redownload it because it's countdown.

912
00:45:07,304 --> 00:45:11,308
Okay, but if I wanted to take my game
to your house and play it, I couldn't.

913
00:45:12,710 --> 00:45:14,478
I mean, if

914
00:45:14,478 --> 00:45:17,481
if you signed in your account,
I believe you can.

915
00:45:17,981 --> 00:45:18,215
Okay.

916
00:45:18,215 --> 00:45:22,419
And would that be a challenge on a
or the consoles designed to do that?

917
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,590
PlayStation is
I don't know about the others, no.

918
00:45:26,990 --> 00:45:29,393
But even so you're still locked into it.

919
00:45:29,393 --> 00:45:32,396
And it is definitely

920
00:45:33,130 --> 00:45:35,432
I don't know,
I like having the physical discs.

921
00:45:35,432 --> 00:45:37,067
They take up space and all the rest of it.

922
00:45:37,067 --> 00:45:38,035
I agree with you.

923
00:45:38,035 --> 00:45:42,906
I have DVD and CDs
and I don't want to make them go away.

924
00:45:42,906 --> 00:45:46,977
And I've made a USB drive that I put
in the car with the songs I like,

925
00:45:47,010 --> 00:45:50,714
and I also subscribe to Amazon Music,
so I do stream it.

926
00:45:51,181 --> 00:45:54,585
It's not that I'm
against digital platforms,

927
00:45:54,585 --> 00:45:57,821
but it is becoming something
where it gives, it takes away

928
00:45:57,821 --> 00:46:02,159
your control of things that you're paying
for, and to me, that's a problem.

929
00:46:02,826 --> 00:46:08,098
I think it depends on
the media is CDs and music and movies.

930
00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:13,537
I think physical media is very important
because the streaming

931
00:46:13,537 --> 00:46:17,574
services and stuff will just take it
away and it's gone, right?

932
00:46:19,176 --> 00:46:21,145
It's those medias though.

933
00:46:21,145 --> 00:46:24,148
You are allowed to make digital copies.

934
00:46:25,382 --> 00:46:27,851
If I'm not mistaken, by American law.

935
00:46:27,851 --> 00:46:28,585
Yeah, right.

936
00:46:28,585 --> 00:46:29,920
In other countries, making the law.

937
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,191
But I think you are right from a
layman's perspective, you have some right.

938
00:46:34,224 --> 00:46:37,494
Under the Millennium
Digital Copyright Act, make a backup copy.

939
00:46:37,494 --> 00:46:42,266
Essentially correct video games

940
00:46:42,266 --> 00:46:46,870
I have a different opinion on because the.

941
00:46:47,805 --> 00:46:50,574
Registrations and stuff

942
00:46:50,574 --> 00:46:54,511
like basically,
even if you have a physical copy,

943
00:46:55,078 --> 00:47:00,250
they could take away your ability
to upgrade it or update it.

944
00:47:00,250 --> 00:47:03,253
And you're an actual rights,

945
00:47:03,253 --> 00:47:06,256
your digital rights media or DRM.

946
00:47:06,723 --> 00:47:12,496
It's it has happened
where there are physical discs of a game

947
00:47:12,563 --> 00:47:15,699
that you cannot play because they've just
taken away DRM for it.

948
00:47:15,732 --> 00:47:18,735
Right? So it doesn't matter.

949
00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:21,939
It doesn't matter
that you have a physical copy of it.

950
00:47:21,939 --> 00:47:24,441
And, you know, I think
I think the lady's changed for that.

951
00:47:24,441 --> 00:47:27,477
But yeah,
I think the point to speak to on that too

952
00:47:27,511 --> 00:47:31,481
is if you have a online game, eventually
the servers are going to go away.

953
00:47:31,481 --> 00:47:33,317
It's not an if it's a win. Yeah.

954
00:47:33,317 --> 00:47:34,651
And then it will disable the game.

955
00:47:34,651 --> 00:47:39,223
But I know James, who does
the vault, had purchased a game to review.

956
00:47:39,223 --> 00:47:43,827
It was terrible, but we couldn't resell it
because it was a digital game, you know?

957
00:47:44,061 --> 00:47:46,930
And in that case, having the disc
would have been a good thing.

958
00:47:46,930 --> 00:47:50,434
But a lot of software,
you have the situation.

959
00:47:50,434 --> 00:47:52,269
This has always been a thing
where you activate it

960
00:47:52,269 --> 00:47:54,872
and you might not be able to activate it
again, that kind of thing.

961
00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:56,707
And you know all of that.

962
00:47:56,707 --> 00:48:00,277
So like you say, Bill,
digital rights management plays into it.

963
00:48:00,277 --> 00:48:02,779
And the other thing of it is, is
I've noticed a lot of games where you do

964
00:48:02,779 --> 00:48:03,814
get the disc,

965
00:48:03,814 --> 00:48:08,385
all the disc does is create an entry point
to download the software online anyway.

966
00:48:08,385 --> 00:48:08,919
Yeah.

967
00:48:08,919 --> 00:48:13,957
You know, so which is another whole topic
and another whole story.

968
00:48:13,991 --> 00:48:16,860
We should dive into that
one of these days. So anyway. All right.

969
00:48:16,860 --> 00:48:19,930
Well, we're out of time for our questions,
believe it or not.

970
00:48:19,997 --> 00:48:23,800
So I will leave you with this user
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971
00:48:23,834 --> 00:48:26,303
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00:48:26,303 --> 00:48:27,104
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00:48:27,104 --> 00:48:30,374
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00:48:30,374 --> 00:48:35,412
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975
00:48:35,579 --> 00:48:38,582
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00:48:38,682 --> 00:48:40,417
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00:48:40,417 --> 00:48:44,855
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