Hey, that's Veronica and her new job. Look at that. Heaven. It kind of in heaven is your new job at heaven. It's I'm an angel. Are you working? Yeah, no, you got you got some good backlight there, but you look good. Doing God's work, making bots, making the bots, building the bots. All right. Well, we're just going to start early and get this all underway. OK, because Veronica, I've totally identified with you. You're in a room where people can maybe hear you and you don't want to disturb them. And I have done an episode of Tech News today in an airport where I was like, oh, my God, I'm bothering all of these people. And we're so nice. It's really hard on being this. I know. Yeah, it's it's bad. And I have a super hard out at two thirty because there's a meeting in here after me. We will definitely get you out of there. So all right, here we go. Let me find my doc. All right.  I need to change this so I can see it. OK, here we go. Where do I press record there? Audio hijack must quit to Tom just disappear. I can't hear you. I guess now I'm hosting Daily Tech News show. Is what is happening?  Because now everybody is gone. Oh, my God. Now, I'm alone in here. Roger, can you hear me now? Yes. All right. Sorry. When I anytime I do the screen share for some reason, automatically kills my mic so I can't come back or something. Oh, no. I think Tom had might have had to reboot. Yeah, I think he's coming back. But what happened? Oh, that was funny. That was so funny. OK. Audio hijack just decided to change how it worked. Oh, good. Timely. Yeah, that was a good time. It's a good time for everything. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. Can you share with me again? Because I had to restart because I couldn't talk to Veronica. Veronica, you're the only one that's working. And it's ironic enough over over your wife. Weirdly ironic. Yeah, listeners will not know that I already had to switch rooms, switch conference rooms because of the Wi-Fi. That was fun. It's a good time. All right, I'm getting to you, Roger. Here we go. OK, back on the attack. Here we go. Get it again. Three, two, one. Daily Tech News Show is powered by its audience, not outside organizations. To find out more, head to DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, August 8, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt, joining me today from the location of her new job as product manager at GroBot and co-host of Sword Laser. Ms. Veronica Belmont. Hello, how are you? I am doing fantastic. How are you? I am great. Did you have a nice week off without me? We missed you. We did. But we knew you were getting settled in, and we're glad to have you back and talking bots and other things with us once again. Did you have a nice first week? I did. There's so much to learn. I got a lot to catch up on, and I apologize. The Wi-Fi in here is not great. There's a lot of office noise going on, so it's not my typical podcasting studio. But hopefully we can make it work. Yeah, we will absolutely make it work. It's going to be wonderful. Just imagine we have someone on location inside the belly of a beast. I don't know what beast that is. ViceGaming says the new 4K version of the PS4 is going to be announced on September 7th. That's what their sources say. And Strengths in our chat room wanted us to remind Australians to fill out their five-yearly census forms today. But remember, only put Jedi if you're really a Jedi. Now for some more talk. Yeah, you don't want to mess around. Veronica, I've prepared Apple Rumors three ways for you today. Would you like to introduce them to you? Please. Describe the servings. So from Chef Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, we have sources saying the next iPhone will feature a pressure-sensitive home button instead of a physical button with haptic feedback. It will also, Gurman says, lack the headphone jack. They're going lightning-olding only. The larger iPhone will come with a dual-camera system. Chef Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI says that Apple will release two new versions of the Apple Watch by the end of the year. Now, one of these is just a minor update to the internals, improved processor, better waterproofing. But the Apple Watch 2 would feature GPS, a barometer, and a higher-capacity battery. And the chefs at 9 to 5 Mac have sources that say new MacBook Pro models will finally come in Q4. Have a USB-C connection? Actually, they say four USB-C ports. Strip of OLED touch-sensitive function keys and a Touch ID power button. They'll also be a new 13-inch MacBook. Stories out today pointing out that Apple hasn't updated their laptops in forever. Like, they're basically out of date. Yeah, we actually, when I got this job, they were like, do you need a new laptop? And I was like, I'm going to wait. Thanks. We're going to wait on that one. That's good advice for everyone who wants an Apple product right now. Like, we've got new iPhones, possibly a new Watch, possibly new laptops. It's been a while, like that rumor seems true. And German and Ming-Chi Kuo, German especially, are pretty good track records. So I believe most of this. Yeah, I'm very ready for a new phone. I'm definitely going to be sizing down back to the old form factor, but I am excited. I'm looking forward to it. Well, what's Hulu up to? Hulu said it will phase out the free version of its service over the next few weeks. At the same time, it has launched a partnership with Yahoo View, a new service from Yahoo that will stream free TV episodes of shows provided by Hulu. Yahoo View will get the five most recent episodes from ABC, NBC, and Fox shows eight days after they air. Yahoo also get some other network shows, full seasons of anime, and some Korean dramas. So essentially, if I'm getting this right, they are going to put the free Hulu out on Yahoo. Yeah. Okay. That will be the new Yahoo thing. Does this mean I have to download a new Yahoo View app for my Tivo, or my Xbox, or all the other places I used to watch Hulu on? You know, that's a really good question. No, you're not going to- Is it web only? If you pay for Hulu, which is really the only way to get most of the stuff that's on those apps, then no, you're fine. That's true, and I do. I do pay. I don't know why, but I do. Yeah, so, well, you're paying because that's the only way to get most of the apps. And now Hulu's like, pretty much you're only going to be paying. We've gotten rid of the thing that I used to do, where I'm like, well, I'll just play the free stuff on the browser, and there were some free things that would play in the browser that wouldn't play in the pay apps for a long time. But I've gotten over that, and I've found reasons to pay for Hulu that makes sense, content that I want to get that would make sense. So it is an interesting move for them to say, okay, what we're going to do is actually send our, you know, actually send our content to Yahoo, because they'll pay us, apparently. That's so weird. And then we don't have to do the, we don't have to do the free dance anymore. And, and, and. Because Netflix Amazon Prime, they don't have free versions. And it's like, I'll have free views, or free samples sometimes, at least Amazon does, but not like Hulu, where it's like, there's just an ad supported. Yeah, and I hate this method of, you get the five most recent episodes, but eight days after they air, and you never really know if it's going to be available or not, those kind of things drive me baddie. And it's not very good for binge watching either. No, it's not. So my trouble, if I were to say I had a trouble, is that we still don't know what this Yahoo view thing is, or exactly where we're going to find it. It's at view.yahu.com on the web, but are they going to have a bunch of apps? Are they going to have, you know, Apple TV placement, Roku placement? That was the problem with the previous Yahoo video app. I think it was the one where you could watch community is nobody really knew where to find it. And so, even though they had community, nobody bothered to watch it. Right, disappointing. Yeah. Well, at DEF CON, security firm checkpoint, presented four major security flaws in Qualcomm chip drivers, affecting a wide variety of Android phones, most of the Android phones out there, to be honest. Vulnerabilities would allow privilege escalation, and therefore get the attacker root access to your phone. Now, the attacker would need to trick you into installing a malicious app to take advantage of the flaws. So first of all, make sure you're only downloading apps you trust from trustworthy sources. It's not that they couldn't get a malicious app into the Google Play Store, but it's much less possible. If you're not downloading a whole lot of weird apps, then you're less likely to get this. Three of the four flaws have been patched. The fourth fix is in the patch that comes from Google in September. And Nexus users have received those three existing patches, and obviously we'll get the next one with the September suite of patches. But if you're not on a Nexus device, you should check with your carrier or manufacturer.  The issue is carriers. When the carriers inserted themselves into the process and said, we'll issue the patches, it slows things down. And granted, I don't think any of these are in the wild yet, but the researchers are saying it's only a matter of time. Yes, that is definitely a huge problem. But what I love about Def Con is everyone finding these flaws and then getting them fixed so quickly. That's definitely one of the benefits of whitehaving. We have more streaming news, more video streaming news. Keep an eye on video streaming app Bingo, Bingo, Bingo, sorry, Bingo, live broadcasting, which was number one in Singapore until Pokemon Go hit the scene. Also huge in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, partnered with Chinese powerhouse social network YY, another one to note. Bingo gamifies streaming with XP awarded for participation, including the purchasing of virtual gifts within app currency diamonds. Gifts can then be converted to beans, which can then be cashed out for real money at 6700 beans minimum, which rounds out to about $32. Yeah, so I thought we'd wanna talk about this because when line came around, a lot of people did not understand what it was, what it was doing, and it sort of revolutionized things. Granted, line never took over the United States, but that idea of in-app purchases for messaging, selling stickers, and building a platform for gaming in a messaging app is something people have definitely paid attention to, and we chat, paid attention to that, and became huge in China. So I'm looking at this and saying, okay, this gamification of live broadcasting is catching on in a big chunk of Southeast Asia, could catch on in China because of its connection with YY, and that could be the next thing that we start to see live streaming apps like Periscope or Facebook Live, start to look at and go, hey, wait a minute, maybe we need to get in on that. So what do you think of that gamification and that weird diamonds to beans currency thing? I don't really understand the idea of diamonds to beans, but also I'm not a young person in Singapore, so maybe that's more of the target audience right now, but it is, you know, gamifying things definitely brings people in very quickly. It just is always a matter of do they stick around? Is there enough value there to keep them returning to the app time and time again? And that's, you know, the biggest problem pretty much everyone has with apps of these kinds is stickiness. But yeah, if they can get people to buy things for beans, then sure. Yeah, she says confused about beans. Well, okay, I think, granted, I am a 46-year-old man in the United States of America, but I think I understand how it works, which is the diamonds thing is just your general in-app purchase, right? If you've ever played any game where it's like, oh, I have to buy the gold, so then I can spend it in the store to get the lures or the things, that's what that is. And then what you buy with the in-game currency are perks that you send to the creators.  It's really not that far from stickers. The weird part is when I, as a creator, then receive these gifts from people. It's not that different from the emojis in Twitch, I guess. I can then convert those to beans. So I guess I shred the gift and turn it into beans and then turn the beans into cash, but the beans are also listed publicly so people know how many beans I have and that's a status symbol, so you don't really wanna cash them out because then your number goes down. They were talking in this Tech in Asia article about it. Somebody who has like 800,000 beans. Very heavily weighted. Yeah. This is like, this reminds me of a comp, like, so if you take your Snapchat score and if you could somehow take those points and convert them into a currency and then use that to buy filters or something like that, the number was also a sign of your prestige in Snapchat. Right. You didn't really wanna spend them more than you had to just when you really wanted to. So it gives them weight. It gives them some amount of meaning. They're not meaningless. They have both prestige and value in a store. And it's easy for Bigo to monetize that because the amount of diamonds you have to buy to get a gift will always be less than the amount of beans that'll be cashed out for, right? So there's a profit level there. I guess it would also, now that you were putting it that way in Snapchat terms, I get it, Facebook could do it where, all the reactions I get, whether it's likes or smileys or whatever, could turn into a point count that I could cash out. It'd be a similar.  So essentially your sticker upgrades give you more coins which then give you higher sticker upgrades which encourage you to check in more. So it's kind of, but then what happens when you run out of stickers? So you can't cash out your stickers, yeah. No, there's nothing to cash them out for other than, there's nothing to cash out your coins for other than stickers. That's the thing that Bigo has going on is the ability to cash out. By the way, thank you for informing my wife that she didn't lose swarm points by checking me in or having me check her in. No, no, no. She would never check me in before now she checks me in all the time because she found out she gets bonus points. But if she's using multipliers and you're not, then she could miss out on those multiplier bonuses by letting you check her in as opposed to her checking you in. Don't tell her that. Okay. Softpedia recounts how French security researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski was helping his parents avoid some ransom where they'd gone to a website and were getting these weird messages and he's like, just don't ignore the messages. You don't want to get ransomware. And as he was headed home, I'm going to editorialize. I don't know if he's thinking about this. I like that he's walking through the streets of France thinking, hmm, so he got home and he used a VM to access that same website that had tried to affect his parents and called the phone number it gave. Although in the screenshot, it shows a chat. So I don't know if he's called and then started a chat or what, but he got in touch with the people from the ransomware that were trying to get his parents gave them what's called a test credit card number. So the test credit card number will validate. It's a way to test e-commerce sites, but you can't charge anything to it. So of course that was driving them crazy because they were able to validate his credit card but they couldn't put through any charges on it. And then he had another idea as they were struggling with the credit card number, he said, you know, I've got bad eyesight. Can I send you a photo of the credit card? And they, of course, the ransomware people were like, yes, please send us the photo of the credit card. So he just went through his spam folder, found a zip file of the Locky ransomware, renamed it photo823.png.zip, and then sent it through the chat and said, here, here's the photo. And then the researcher or then the other person on the other end wrote back, I tried opening your photo, nothing happened to which, Eva Ivan Klikowski said, something's happening. He didn't say it out loud. Don't worry, something's happening. But as that nothing was happening, that entire person's computer was getting encrypted by ransomware. So Ivan says, we have a moral obligation to waste these people's time. And I can't say I don't admire the turnabout, the turning of the tables. Is that okay to do? No? I think it's okay to do. I think it's a little dangerous because then you're potentially pissing off the people who have the encryption key to your ransom drive. But at the same time, it's kind of funny. Yeah, no, that's a fair point. Nobody's drive had been encrypted at this point. He had stopped it from attacking his parents. And of course, he didn't let it encrypt. He was using a virtual machine anyway, so. Turnabout is fair play. Yeah, pretty ingenious. Thanks for the folks on the subreddit for calling our attention to that. That's amazing. Motherboard notes that the new Xbox One S has a sticker on its case, warning the owner that the warranty will be voided if the sticker is removed. Motherboard's Jason Kebler notes that this is probably against the law. The Magnuson Moss Warranty Act of 1975 prohibits manufacturers from forcing consumers to use certain parts or repair professionals in order to maintain a warranty. Frank Dorman, a spokesperson for the Federal Trade Commission, told Motherboard the stickers imply that quote, consumers can't use parts the warrantor doesn't pre-approve, which violates the anti-trying, tying, tying, anti-tying. You can't tie repair to your product, I guess. The anti-tying provisions of MMWA. The Magnuson Moss Warranty Act is your friend, folks. In fact, Motherboard points out that the Xbox One S terms of service prohibit you from repairing your own machine, which, of course, Frank Dorman says is a direct violation of the MMWA. So this is from the mouths of the FTC, saying, hey, that's not really along with the law. Now the reason companies, and it's not just Microsoft, do this is because they can get away with it. They know nobody's going to sue them and they want to dissuade people from messing around and messing up their Xboxes, but Motherboard gave a great example. If you had a hard drive go bad or maybe you just wanted to increase the storage space in your Xbox and you put in a new hard drive and the HDMI port goes bad, there's no relation to that. The burden of proof is on Microsoft to prove that you putting in that hard drive somehow messed up the HDMI port. And granted, we can all think of scenarios where maybe that could happen, but it's very unlikely. So if all you did was put in a working hard drive and it worked, Microsoft is saying that violates your warranty and we won't replace the broken HDMI port according to our terms of service and what the FTC is saying is, no, you can't do that. It's against the law, you have to go ahead and fix it.  You have the right to repair your own machine. Right, but yeah, these stickers still show up everywhere. Yeah, take them off, I actually don't. Because I mean, the problem is, do you have the money to fight them in court? There would have to be some kind of class action or something for this to end up being. Yeah, probably not. Yeah. All right, well, thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. As we said, we got some great stuff in there as we do every day. Big thanks to Goobert, who put in the Hulu story, Steve Io, put some stuff in there. Benjy Tech, Inga Ning is in there again. Good to see you back, Flying Spatula, Motang, and more Strike It Rich One. Get in there and help them out, dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the top stories. All right, speaking of the Federal Trade Commission, I would never promote a show as being FTC heavy, but we do have two stories about them today. Michael Ostheimer is a deputy in the Federal Trade Commission's ad practices division and said the agency is going to start cracking down on undisclosed sponsored content that is broadcast on social media, particularly. Now they do include YouTube videos and stuff in here, but mostly they're talking about Twitter and Facebook. The responsibility and liability for disclosure is on the advertisers, not the content creators. For video ads, the FTC says that sponsored content must be disclosed audibly as well as on screen. They said, hashtags may or may not be sufficient. A hashtag AD for ad could meet the criteria if it's at the beginning of the post, but just putting SP at the end, they're like, people don't know necessarily what that means, that that means sponsored. If it's at the end among seven other hashtags, it gets lost, that's not enough. Sarah Fryer and Matthew Townsend at the Bloomberg found, or at Bloomberg, not at all. Not at all at Bloomberg though, let's be honest. Matthew Townsend and Sarah Fryer at Bloomberg found that the ad agency Captivate reported upwards of $225 million spent on Instagram sponsored content per month with hashtag ad usage up 250% for the month of July, year over year. And of course the FTC really caught people's attention when they settled a case with Warner Brothers Home Entertainment over payments to PewDiePie who was promoting Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, but in the FTC's opinion had not disclosed properly that he was being paid by Warner Brothers. Yeah, this is something that's been going on for years now. In fact, I remember a couple of years ago, people really started being very, very careful about making sure to put in that ad hashtag or that sponsored hashtag and make it very clear when advertisers were being involved with content creation. And I think I really first started seeing it mostly with beauty bloggers primarily. There were a lot of makeup and fashion bloggers who had to basically write a blog post saying, hey, from now on you're gonna see like a big portion of this post basically disclosing that these products are being paid for. I mean, these posts are being paid for and that these products were given to me for free by the brands that were being mentioned here. And I think it's really important because at the end of the day a content creator really can only has the trust of their audience to go on. Like that's their primary currency. And so being clear about what is sponsored and what is not is an important part of maintaining that trust. However, at the same time as being someone who in the past was considered a influencer and attempted to, you know, who was, brands would come to me and say, we want you to promote our product or we want you to promote our event. I was always very, very choosy about the kinds of things I would engage with because you don't wanna break that bond of trust and do something that's not natural for your audience that makes it really weird and kind of bizarre when you do promote things that don't fit in but also being really clear about what was an ad and what wasn't. But it feels uncomfortable. Like when I was hosting something for like, you know, they mentioned Intel in one of these stories with iJustine. I've done work with Intel too and I always had to be very clear like this is a paid gig. But it feels kind of crappy to have to write, you know? Like it feels unnatural. But at the same time, you can't risk setting something off like this, getting the sponsor in trouble, getting yourself in trouble, losing the trust of your audience. It's a very, you know, it's a tightrope that you have to walk. Yeah, one of the ones that they mentioned here in the Bloomberg article is DJ Khaled on Snapchat. Very obviously has a paid promotion for vodka. He's always talking about a particular kind of vodka and it works really well because if you follow DJ Khaled, you know, he's got these little slogans, these little bits that he does that stick in your brain, right? We the best, don't play yourself.  So it's incredibly effective. It's pretty obvious to me that it's a paid promotion but he never says it. Never says it. Right? Never. And the question is, does he need to? Like it's one thing, yes, if you're a news reporter, I don't think you should ever do this.  That's the thing. It's a little more of a gray area. That's where the trust comes in now. That's where the disclosure needs to happen, for sure. If you're just an entertainer and on Snapchat there's not an easy way to do it, does it matter to you that it's not clearly a promoted thing? Because remember, we're talking about endorsements. We're not just talking about sponsorships. It's one thing to have an ad play before your thing or to say like this episode brought to you by X. It's the endorsement that is the issue. And in fact, the FTC's Michael Ostheimer says in this Bloomberg article, we don't crack down on product placement because those are fictional characters in most cases in sitcoms and movies. They're not making an endorsement and they're not a real person making an endorsement. When you're a real person on Twitter who normally says I like this, I like that, when you're being paid to say I like this, customers need to know that. I agree, I'm not really sure how DJ Khaled would really be any different from some of those other situations. If he started showing off another brand of alcohol in his Snapchat, I would be like, oh, is this another sponsorship or do you actually like this? I think it just brings into it. I mean, if you really care about this kind of thing, if you really like a personality or someone on Snapchat, it might make you start thinking about what they're really in it for, I guess, or what is really true to them because you tend to like people because you feel like you like something and some aspect of their personality or taste. So if that starts being affected in a very strong way by brands and sponsorships and product placement, then you start to feel like you're getting a less legit version of that person, a less authentic version of that person. Well, and a lot of creators argue that they will only engage with sponsors that provide products that they believe in. That's what I said, yeah, for myself too. Well, yeah, exactly. So then you're still putting more trust in that creator, but I think it's even more important to disclose then because you don't want, it's all about appearances, right? You don't want the appearance when someone finds out, wait a minute. Veronica said that she really loved that vodka and now I find out she got paid for it. Does she really love it? And then you come back and say, no, no, I would have never done the sponsorship with them if I didn't already love the vodka, but then it's too late. So you have to disclose. But you can say that up front, yeah. Totally. Exactly. And I know plenty of people who do YouTube videos and things like that who get paid to do videos and they are very, very clear. Like we want to disclose, we just need to know the rules. What the FTC is saying is this is on the sponsors. This is on the people paying you. They need to be clear with you what they want you to say and they need to meet the guidelines. Because yeah, it's a little uncomfortable if, let's say, RC Cola is paying me to say I love RC Cola, which they're not, by the way. Well, I've been accused many times of being paid and I'm like, I wish I was. But if they're saying, yeah, but just put a hashtag SP at the end, that's fine. And if you're the creator, you're like, well, wait a minute, I don't know if that's okay. And then you get in trouble. You're trying to go along with the client. So the person who has the power in that relationship is the sponsor. The sponsor should be the one saying, no, you gotta put hashtag ad.  They're paying me to do this. There has to be a way to do it that doesn't make it like crazy awkward, but also discloses like, this is, we're in a partnership here. And in fact, I think that's what Justine Nazarek says in this article as well as I try to say in partnership with or as a paid promotion whenever possible. Yeah. Well, I'm just going to be clear that I have not been paid by anyone today, except you people who support the show directly.  Get it out there on the table. Same for Veronica here. Shall we get to our pick of the day? Our pick of the day is... Yeah, do you want me to read it? Yeah, you're wearing the, I'm not even wearing socks. So I feel it would be wrong for me to read this. I can't see my socks a lot. Yeah, you can't see it on the audio version, but Veronica has Argyle, multicolor Argyle socks. Slack socks. I was going to say those are the slack colors, aren't they? Yeah. That's amazing. Okay. So, Soren writes, I have been thinking of a pick of the week, socks. Okay, not the general concept of socks, which is of course quite brilliant by itself. And it's something we all need and use daily for the most part. But my pick is more specifically the Swedish sock brand Happy Socks. They're socks and they're happy, two great things. Also, they're Scandinavian, which I, being Danish, of course, appreciate too. I like wearing colorful socks and I find Happy Socks to be of a very nice quality and they have some awesome designs. In addition, they have awesome customer service. I once received a faulty pair of socks. One had a tiny hole in it and they promptly set me a new pair free of charge. No need to return the faulty pair. And luckily the hole wasn't so big that it made the original pair unusable, so I effectively got a free pair. Anyways, in my experience, they are a very nice company. They can be found at happysocks.com and they have quite a few worldwide sites. So I think most of your listeners will be able to use them. Regards and love the show.  And it strikes me that this comes across very much as the kind of sponsor that would sponsor a show. Totally not sponsored. That's what our pick of the day is about, is exposing you to the types of things that maybe you would find from a sponsor, but it doesn't cost anybody anything. So this is just Soren sending to Happy Socks. We don't know if they're that happy. We don't even know if they're socks, but Soren recommends them. So there you go. I'm very familiar with the brand Happy Socks and I'm a fan as well, though I don't own any. No, I owned them. They did a partnership with Jay Crew and I owned a pair of Happy Socks. You don't anymore? No, I still have them. Did they get depressed? Did they become depressed? But they're about to fall apart. I need to buy some more. Okay, send your picks to us, folks. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash picks. Real quickly, Nate Langston and I are partnering up, totally unpaid. I tell folks on his podcast, Text Message, what's been happening on DTNS. And here is Nate to tell you what's been happening on Text Message. Hey, thanks, Tom. Now in the UK, we have a state broadcaster, the BBC, you've probably heard of them, which means everyone has to pay somewhere near the equivalent of about $200 or more a year if they own a TV, even if they don't watch the BBC. Now previously, that never covered on-demand services from the BBC's iPlayer, but now it does. There are some really weird rules and methods of enforcement that we've discovered. Join us this week to find out what they are and how this whole thing works. That's on Text Message right now at textmessage.co.uk or just techpodcast.uk. Back to you, Tom. Techpodcast.uk is a brilliant URL. And yeah, no, that's really cool. I can't wait to listen in and find out for myself. Message of the day is from Mike, a one day behind listener, from Carl Plague to San Francisco. Carl the Fog. Carl the Fog. Let's say you are a Comcast networking engineer, says Mike, any chance you might give priority bandwidth to, I don't know, speed testing sites? Perhaps even, I don't know. Analyze their tests and cache data and responses near the edge of your customers. After doing that, what might be your next step for the Amazon video stream, which competes directly with your video offering? Not accusing anyone of anything, but it's a lot easier than cheating on a smog test. Yeah, so he's in response to the speed test rankings of the average speeds in the US showing that Comcast was number one. He's like, thinking these things. It is an arms race. Definitely ISPs have been caught trying to gain the speed test system and speed test is constantly trying to stop them from doing that because their whole business falls apart if their numbers aren't reliable. So yeah, I'm not saying that the numbers are worthless. And I actually think speed test is good enough at this from what I can tell that it wouldn't end up affecting the overall numbers. I think Comcast is just doing a good job of rolling out speeds, and that's just how bad the US speeds are that they can get on top like that. But it's a good question. It's a good question to bring up. Thank you, Mike. And I hope you are not plagued too much more by Carl. I wouldn't put him, put it past anybody. Nope. No, I knew better. Well, that is it for this episode of the Daily Tech News Show. Veronica, it worked. You did it from your new job. It was okay. It was pretty good. Just taking a hold up. Yeah, absolutely. How much can you tell folks about what you're doing there? Well, GroBot's already out on the market. I'm the product manager here just on my second week. So I still have a lot to learn. But yeah, if you're in Slack, if you work with a team, a small company, a large company, GroBot is a great way to get feedback from your fellow employees and kind of keep track of all the feedback you've had over time. Just give each other props for a job well done. Some huge companies are using us. Some tiny companies are using us. And we're having a lot of fun building on the product. So if you want to talk to me about using GroBot or if you want to test it out and let me know how it's going, yeah, just ping me. I'm on Twitter at Veronica or at TryGrobot. Excellent. And thank you to our sponsors, all of the patrons at patreon.com slash DTNS, all of the people who give through PayPal and the people who shop at our stores. If you want to know what all of those are and how you can join us if you're willing to support the show, head to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. You can catch the show live Monday through Friday, 4.30 p.m. Eastern at alphakigradio.com and diamondclub.tv. You can visit our website, dailytechnewshow.com. Back tomorrow with Ayaz Akhtar as our guest. Talk to you there. This show is part of the Frogpants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. Good show. Yay, some good titles. Yeah, what do we got for titles there? I like Diamond Club to Beans. Diamond Club to Beans. But I think that might break the title. Grow some bots, will you? Can you hear me? Yeah, cool. So hard to tell. DTNS Daily Tech News Show. Disclaimer, DTNS is sponsored by you. Daily Tech News Show, okay, I get it. I was like, I thought you said show, and I'm like, but that's actually the time of our show. Show, the show. Disclaimer, Tom is not sponsored by Royal Crown Cola. The Diamond Club to Beans won't break the title, I don't think. And what do you think people get it, though? No. That's, I don't think, I like it. Yeah, if it was the main topic, I'd risk it, but it kind of loses a point there. E2 scammer. That's pretty good, too. Apple rumor fritters, I want an Apple fritter right now. The Magic Beans of Live Streaming. Looks like Don't Tell I Lean is certainly winning. Don't, don't tell I Lean. That you get fewer points when you check in with the multi-employers off. Disclaimer, Tom is not sponsored by Royal Crown Cola. This is just moving up the charts, too. All right, I should probably get going. All right, yeah. So we want to go with Disclaimer. Do you have a final vote before you go, Veronica? I like Don't Tell I Lean. It has nothing to do with the show. We'll see if she, we'll see if she notices. Okay, bye guys. All right, bye Vy. Bye. Yay. All right, change title. Disclaimer, Tom is not sponsored by Royal Crown Cola. It's fine, it's fine. Don't tell I Lean. A lot of people won't know what that means. Yeah, I'd like to Disclaimer one. Disclaimer, DTNS is sponsored by you. Oh, I already voted for that. I'll vote for it. Oh, nine, it's at nine. What, the Royal Crown Cola one? Yeah. Is that what we're going with? Yeah. Sorry, Veronica. Well, it ties in with the show. It's way too much, it's way too long, though. All right, what about? What if we just shorten it to RC? Yeah, that works. And that looks like Roger Chang. Yes, or remote control. Beatmaster is not sponsored by Pastebin. It's so true. Let's see who I got for those weeks. Have not read Planet Earth. Let me see, I got so many things to do.  That's why we had, it was Lamar on Tuesday last week, was that right? And I asked Lamar. It's good, it's a good show. I wonder if he went to Euro Disney, or he just went. I don't think so. I don't know where he's going. Has he been to Euro Disney? Oh, yeah, he has. He's been to all, he's been to Japan Disney, Euro Disney, and Anaheim Disney. I don't know if he's been to Orlando, but I think he's mentioned all those. Now, I've probably gotten it wrong and he'll tell me, so. The only foreign theme park I've been to is, I know I've been to two foreign theme parks, but the last one was Universal Studios in Osaka. See, I want to go to Universal Studios in Osaka, but we only have a day in Osaka. So everyone's like, we're not going to spend our only day in Osaka going to a place we could go in the US. Unfortunately, I think they may be right. Well, you know, but you could say that about pretty much everything. You could go to a department store. Well, no, there's lots of things that you can't, you can't go to in the US. I mean, I'm, I get it, you don't get it. This is what happens when I try to reason with you and edit it at the same time. Reasonable edits. Okay, I'm trying to, I can't forget to put Chris, Chris, Chris, the podcasters. Tech and travel into this episode. Who has not gotten back to me? Oh, Ashley, Karen, she did not get back to me. Terry, I need to schedule here. Oh, cool. Yeah, I need to get in touch with Terry. I'll figure out a day with him.  All right, oh shoot. Why is it doing that? I have to remember to edit off the big long pause at the beginning of this recording that happened. That's the wrong one. What happened? I imported the wrong audio file. Actually, I think I may have levelated the wrong audio file. Yeah, that happens sometimes. So I re-leveled Owen's episode. Oh, instead of doing today's episode. And the reason I know that is because I went to the front and I was like, hold on. That doesn't have a gap because I started the recording. Remember, I started the recording and then it just went poof. I was like, that doesn't have the gap from when I started the recording. So we've got more time to chat. More time for you to tell me about all the things that I should do in Japan. I guess eat, don't shop for clothes. Oh, actually, you might be able to. I wasn't able to. They have my size, but they're cut for scrawny people. So if I got something that would fit, it's not because I have a pretty wide chest. It's not like I've got man-boosers. I just got a broad chest. But if I got anything that was designed for that width, it was designed for someone who's six-two. So if I wear it, it's down to my knees, like a coat or something or a jacket. Or they're pants, same thing with the pants.  I have 11 and a half triple E's. Try to find, try to fly. Your feet are 11 and a half? Yeah, why? Do they not? No, no, that's just minor, like 10 and a half or 11, depending. So I would not have expected you to have that. I have hobbit feet. Well, they're not hairy. That's what I'm saying. No, no. But they are big, I guess. People say they're big for my size. I don't know. Maybe at some point I was destined for real estate that had that was soggy or bigger feet would help me to amble across it. You were meant to be some kind of river creature. I guess, I don't know. I don't like being wet though. I mean, I don't mind being in the water, but when you're drenched in your clothes, it's kind of gross. Yeah, it's gross. Let's see, Terry. Who else, who's lovely Matilda? Oh, that was that weird adult friend finder thing. I get so many of these. It's so annoying. Non hasn't got it, might have to be Evan. Hey. There we have it. Oh, I have to get back to Evan Thursday. Okay, I got that guy. Lloyd, I have to get back to, soon we have to get back to you. That's the computer vintage. Oh, yeah, that Evan got it. Interesting. I thought it was, I thought his last name was Cobald, like the, like the gnome like creature in the D&D, but it's not. Oh, no, take candle. That's what the Cobalds say in World of Warcraft. I like the gnomes. Are they the ones that do, that build all the little mechanical contraptions or the doors or whatever? World of Warcraft? Yeah. Yeah. Mortar. Then they built the little blimp things. Pretty cool. Pretty cool race. Hey, I didn't say it. Freakish feet, Scottis. I just said I had 11 and a half. Doesn't make it freakish. Jesus. You know what they say? Well, how tall are you? If you don't mind my asking, how tall are you? I am five, nine, literally on the nose. Like the nurse, the nurse measured me.  I would not call that freakish. How is it freakish? No, I would not. I think there's the exact size. If you were like five, four, and you had size 13 feet, then you're starting to border on what might be considered on.  They wear big boots. Yeah. That's the truth about Roger. He does wear big boots.  Triple E's. I don't know why my feet are so wide. That's actually- I think my dad was double E. He had to pretty wide feet. I unfortunately sometimes have to go up to a 12 because no one stocks a wide enough shoe. So like, if I get my one that actually fits the length- So you'll take the floppy toe in exchange for the proper width. Yeah, because honestly, having crushed toes is incredibly bad for you. Yeah. I can see that. 11 and a half freakish. See, now I'm looking at my feet thinking like they're a little too big. See, now I know why Chinese women had their feet bound. People were so self-conscious about big feet. That and the men didn't want their wives to walk away from a bad marriage. But you know, when you got concubines and porcupines. Concubines and porcupines? That sounds like some kind of like 70s. Sit comp. Concubines and porcupines. Pop song. Concubines and porcupines. And cranberries. Well, it's interesting. And this is totally not safe for anyone under the age of 18. All right. Just back away from your television sets, folks. Porcupines are the only other land ant mammal that do it missionary style. People always wonder, how do they do it? And I get stuck. If your kids are asking, that means... They're too young to do it. Whatever you want to tell them, that means. Crash test dummies. That was just a horrible... You know, I really got hooked on that song because they kept playing it in rotation. That song.   There's so many crappy bands from the 90s that I look back and it's like, what were they thinking? Remember, Ween pushed a little daze as they watched them come up?  God, so nice.  I don't know why I'm so angry about this. He's always been. Yeah, even my roommate in college said, Roger, you're an old man. All you ever do is complain about everything. It's like, well, there's nothing to be, you know, nothing virtuous about extolling bad habits. Oops. When it wasn't yet hip to do so. Well, they only had the one or two... No, they had two albums. I know that guy went solo, but he had a freakishly huge head for his body.  Because then he looks like, you know what?  I'm going to be mean and... Don't be mean to Billy Corrigan. I'm a stick. Although I have to say your appearances on the show recently have met with vocal approval. I don't know if you've been looking at the emails. I look excited. I saw the two emails. Were there more? There's a couple more. Or Roger. What did Eileen call me? Like I'm like, what's his name on community? Abed. Abed, she called you Abed. Because all I do is just point out people's flaws. All you do is win, win, win, win, win. All right, we're going to wrap it up here so I can focus on making sure this gets uploaded. But thank you all for joining us. You're the best. Please tip your waitress. Try the vegan veal. And we'll see you tomorrow. Bye.


a height for not just being a homegrown blue jay product of where he's from, his father's name, Hall of Famer, and talk about those that have been hyped, some of the young players that we have watched come up and deliver. Let's listen to what his manager had to say about his performance. He was comfortable. And that's how he plays. And I figure he would be. Actually, I was more nervous than he was. Tell you the truth, cause you know, can't imagine having all that pressure, all this press and stuff. And he is who he is. He's comfortable. He's relaxed and he enjoyed the game.  That's when I knew, oh yeah, he's relaxed. I think his father too was very nervous as well. So does he remind you of anybody? We're not putting him in any Hall of Fame category yet, but just in terms of the way he is at the play. So some of the things he does, he's got tendencies, some of the greatest hitters that ever played the game. And you're talking about a Ted Williams or Mike Piazza, Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez, just somebody that played just a few years ago. And you know, we looked at some things and you know, what he does that is really so impressive. He gets into a great load position right there. You see Manny over there, his bat's almost perpendicular to the ground. Guerrero gets to that same spot. And now before they release that bat tilts, the barrel tilts over the back shoulder. It gets in the right plane and then just fire it. It's almost like that. And the bat gets to that spot behind that right shoulder. It gets into that bearish wheel type of rotation. Now what can you show? Well, so a lot of these guys, you know, they're starting, you know, Guerrero, he's got his bat way back here. But when he gets to the load position, it's here. It's here. This is a cocking of the wrist. The bat is almost perpendicular. The barrel is almost perpendicular. Then as they start to do their swing, the bat head drops. It drops behind the right shoulder, gets here. And then now it is on plane and bam. That's where you get all the power. And if you watch guys, you know, you watch tapes of whether it's Piazza, Manny Ramirez, Guerrero now, his old man, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, all of these guys, you know, they get to a position where I'm here is the load and then the swing starts with boom, this kind of drop. Now it's not a violent this, but I'm back here. The bat head drops the barrel and then that's how you hit. I mean, that's where you get that power. Is that your bat, by the way? This is a Gabe Kapler.  Oh yeah, he was, he's an alum. My man, Gabe, thank you. And he'll be whipper out. Thanks for leaving the bat. Phillies may need that a little bit later. See where there's retro. Bellinger, when you look at the Major League record, he said, accomplishing the most total bases before the first of the month. If you go back, Alex Rodriguez, Larry Walker, they were MVPs that season. Bellinger is on that mark as he moves past Chase Utley and is the all-time record holder. But we saw Bellinger not just third Major League season, and you follow him closely, about a 262.70 hitter with power. We saw that first World Series exposed a little bit, a better last post-season. But what's made the leap? What's allowed him to make this major MVP-like jump to start this year? Well, I think a lot of it just has to do with the plate discipline. Now they've got a new hitting coach over in LA, Robert Banskoyek and Brant Brown now has been elevated. And both of those guys spend a lot of time. Yes, the mechanics, but it's basically approach. And what you mean by approach is, Bellinger this year is making better contact than he has ever in his career. He's not swinging at pitches out of the zone, taking a lot more pitches, not swinging and missing. And when I say approach, when you go up there and you are disciplined enough to say, I am just going to wait for my pitch, there's a saying, it's better to be 0 and 1, meaning 0 and 1 in the count, than 0 for 1. So it's OK to take a strike. It's OK to take two strikes. You wait for the pitcher to leave something where you do damage. And right now Bellinger is not missing anything. And the plate discipline has been unbelievable. And even it's not all about home runs on the total bases. They need an RBI sacrifice fly from him. He delivers his plate well. So I'll say an example earlier this year, there were runners on first and third. And he's up there. He had two strikes on him. Last year he would have been swinging from his, you know what? And if he misses it, he strikes out. Battles, shoots the ball to the shortstop, beats the ball out to the first base, runner comes in from third. It's an RBI. Last year, like I said, swinging and missing. And that's discipline. It's very tough. It's tough to change. But once you do it and you have success, man. He's young enough and smart enough to have adjusted.


What's going on folks there are some big battles here right at the close with the SPX down 0.72 percent and DX down 0.55 let's look at the volume on the cues here you can at least see a big big battle upwards here this is this is pretty interesting huh let's see GDX up 1.1 percent dollar saying right at its level spy down 1.17 percent meta down 2.21 percent Tesla down 0.13 that made some gains back look at that obviously this was driving some of the indices as well see what happened with Apple yeah wow what a weight what a way to finish off the week huh it is insane let's see steel dynamics same kind of movement here very neat so guys we're gonna tally this weekend who won regarding the Tiger mugs I really think you guys need to get in here to the den we're gonna be having a lot more competitions and we're gonna make them we're gonna make them interesting so you can come test your metal see what's going on with that let's finish here looking at delivery well at least the end to see name I made UPS finished about 4.64 percent down FedEx really really convicted currently down 21 percent let's see PKG down 11 oh yeah these guys these guys ate a little bit more by the end of it as well it'll be interesting to see what happens I think regarding general outlook we're still gonna get interest rates going up that's not changing trying to still be in quarantine that's not changing for a while so I do not think we're out of this ride yet whatsoever I mean we can see the battle that just occurred right at the end of the day there come Monday we'll see what happens honestly again someone in the YouTube channel says TGIF we'll see what Monday brings absolutely absolutely all this is nuts I don't think we're out of it at all yet um yeah let's take a look at the renewables quickly everything finishing up a little bit for the day at least for solar up nicely from the beginning of the day oh take a look at these guys it's interesting to see all right folks well that kind of concludes the day I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend I hope you guys at least finish green in whatever positions you had we'll be back I think Tom's still out Monday so I might be filling in again we'll see what happens but stay safe folks and have a phenomenal weekend


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Howie Xu, who's an entrepreneur in residence at a yet-to-be-disclosed venture capital firm in California somewhere. So I know you can't talk about it. Welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you. Former Cisco, former VMware. You were on last year on theCUBE. We're talking about virtualization, containers, all that good stuff, SDN. Now that you left Cisco and you went to become an EIR, that means you're working on something pretty big. So it's the most exciting time in my career for this very disruptive age. So Howie, talk about the trends. I know we can't really talk about some of the things that where you're going to go.  So look for Thursday and announcement on how his next step is going to be. But containers, okay? What have Jerry Chen on shortly? Great first investment that he did at Greylock with Container's Docker. We heard Pete Sunstein saying, hey, a lot of people missed the Docker craze, props to Jerry Chen on that one. He's got some follow on investments he's doing. Containers and DevOps are really changing the game at the application level, okay? Under the hood, what are some of the changes that you see happening that people should be paying attention to? Well, before we get on to the under the hood, I think we need to pop up. What is the big picture, right? To me, the big picture is really last year we talked about business outcome, but it's a cliche. So when I think about business outcome, it's actually something extremely concrete. It's sort of the, in the past, IT industry is about delivering the resilience with the security, with the sort of the saving. But now it's about delivering the new business outcome, delivering the sort of the new applications at a speed. So there is a collision between the resilience and agility. So that collision actually forced us to re-look at what is the platform? Is that a virtualization? Is that a container? Is that the old traditional model or this DevOps model? At the end of the day, it's really about that collision. So it's the new world versus the old world. So that's the sort of the big picture. So let me ask you a question. Does hybrid cloud really exist or is that just an outcome of implementing and deploying technology on prem, private and public? I think the juror is still out. If you look at the revenue, I think it's year to come. I mean, that's pretty clear. If you look at the potential, it's there. Now all the vendors, Cisco, VMware, IBM, all the traditional vendors love hybrid cloud because they missed the boat on the public cloud, right? They didn't do the Amazon. And they know that a private cloud has its limitation and they come up with this story. That story can be real, but it has not matured yet. Let's talk about that. So yesterday we were on theCUBE. Me and Dave Vellante were talking with Mark Lewis. Formerly ran EMC Ventures now doing his own startup called Formation Data. He's trying to kind of create a go big or go home opportunity. But we made a comment on our pre-game, pre-show, CUBE segment about who's winning. And we were trying to peg the inning of using a baseball metaphor of where this industry is. And we were debating. I was saying cloud native hasn't even begun yet and Dave's like, oh no way, Amazon's out there. So Mark Lewis pointed out that it's inning game one of a double header. Game one, Amazon one. Okay, so that's over. But game two is the enterprise. And so Amazon has yet to win that one. So the question I want to ask you, what's different about this game that's now happening in the enterprise? What are the key differences that won't let Amazon just run the table? So go back to my original thesis about this resilience versus the agility. So Amazon certainly won the game for the agility. However, they have yet to proven that it has enough security, it has enough resilience. Now you can say some of that is just emotional and people just need to get used to it. But the thing is, the resilience, people do not appreciate enough the resilience of it. So Amazon needs to work on it. Yet for the traditional vendors, they need to add agility into their sort of the products. So that's a race. So that's the second game. I very much like that analogy. And it's gonna, we'll see how it plays out. It's happening right now. Okay, so what are you looking for for VMware now to compete? So Pete Sancini was saying, hey, I'm a VC.  If someone has an opportunity to compete with VMware, I'm all ears. But I don't think containers is going to wipe out VMware. So I got to ask you, will containers wipe out VMware or potentially throw them on their heels? What is the impact of containers relative to the two year investment in hybrid cloud that a lot of these companies have? So if you remember correctly, I mentioned this last time that it's actually, the potential is suddenly there to disrupt the virtualization, disrupt the VMware. But it also has to do with the execution. If you look at OpenStack, OpenStack was having a lot of this promise, but from the VC perspective, I think it wasn't turning out as good. Edison game one, maybe it has a second life, but in the first life, I don't think VC made a lot of money out of OpenStack. I think a lot of has to do with the government's model, has to do with the execution. Now, Docker is yet another thing that can potentially disrupt the VMware. It has to do, the industry has to execute. I think arguably VMware dodged the bullet of the OpenStack. I mean, OpenStack probably didn't have any negative on VMware's business. If anything, it probably has a little bit of positive. They created some confusion and it didn't move fast enough. And they took advantage of it, that they actually put some image, open image on it, that VMware actually got some wing out of it. Docker, they are trying to sort of, instead of... I don't see the wind for VMware at Docker. Well, last year, in the keynote speech, they said, better together, right? The CTO on the stage said, who would want to manage containers individually? And at this time, on the same keynote speech, they actually have a vCenter managing each of the containers. I think they are sort of trying to adapt to the new world. The question is how fast the VMware is going to transition. I mean, for any incumbents to transition, it's always hard. So that's the sort of... Well, one driver in this, we'll talk now, about is developers. You're seeing DevOps here and the hangspaces downstairs here at VMworld. Big DevOps focus. They have a lot of technical geeks at VMware who see DevOps. You've been involved in VMware with vSphere. You've seen a lot of geeks that get DevOps. Maybe the management and the sales side, maybe not materializing, but that trend is coming fast for them. They have an opportunity. Yeah, one of the things I particularly like DevOps is, what's the next 10X, 100X improvement for this sort of, we bring to the business, right?  And those horizontal technologies deliver the 10X, 100X improvement to the business. And it's pretty hard for those technologies to deliver the next 10X, 100X. I think the next sort of the big thing will be vertical integration, right? From the beginning of the business requirement, all the way to build it, test it, and then run it, that vertical integration. And then that would give you 100X speed to sort of turn out the applications. I view that DevOps has that potential to give the next 10X, 100X improvements. Okay, that's a great point.  You see in big data, vertical solutions, prepackaged vertical apps are successful because of domain expertise and a lot of cool things. However, horizontally scalable concept is also something that's happening at the same time. So how do people get their arms around those two mega trends? Okay, integrated systems called engineered systems, a la Oracle, a la whatever, you know, and horizontally scalable open source. So this is really a big thing. What's your take on that? What's happening in this space? Is it relevant? Are they not relevant? Well, one of the, there are many angles into this problem. One of the angle to look at this problem is this vertical integration for particular sort of sector, particular verticals. In Pat Gelsinger's sort of the keynote speech this morning, he mentioned healthcare, you know, stratosphere, all those sort of the business. My argument here is if you sort of marry the technology to those vertical sort of the sectors, then they would bring those sort of the next 10x, 100x improvements. Because if you think about it, you know, the example he gave is we went from close to zero smartphone to, you know, almost a three billion connected people. What's the next 10x? You cannot do 10x because at most you do two x because we have six billion people, right? But however, among those, you know, three billion connected people, what do we do? We have big data, but that's a very horizontal technology. That horizontal technology has now yielded the big decision, big, you know, sort of the top-line decision yet. So my argument is once we sort of transition from this big data, you know, sort of thing into the big decision thing, then we will see 100x, 1000x productivity improvements. And then the pacing item on that or the threshold will be speed, right? Performance. Yes. Low latency, real time. Yeah, I think, you know, that's the sort of the steel a little bit horizontal. When I say vertical, I mean actually marrying those technology all the way to the, you know, CEO level sort of the decision. You know, why those latency matters to him or her, right? That's the sort of the things. Well, the one thing I can learn from the game one where Amazon won is, I mean, they're dominating with Redshift on the data warehouse market because their price point and performance is so radically different. Yes. I mean, that is just a low hanging fruit. They knock on that out of the park. So let's bring that into game two of the cloud. What do people do? I mean, start chipping away at these weak parts of the market that are overpriced, uploaded software models, shitty code bases. Well, there are two particular sectors I'm personally interested in. One we already talked about the DevOps. The other one is security. I mean, security is completely broken, right?  That's how robust our sort of secure data center is today. Not because that person is smarter than the rest of the six billion people. It's just that, you know, security is not there. So my point is that security will be, you know, a next big thing. Yeah, we're going to talk about Steve Herrod with that. It's going to be fun. Perimeterless security is a moving train right now. And it's hard.  There is, you know, this box. And then now we realize, wow, you know, there's no such perimeter. Jawbox, virtualization, bring your own device, completely change the picture, which means that the emperor doesn't have clothes. That's totally true. Well, I got to ask you because I know, I kind of know where you're going to land on Thursday when the press release goes out. You're going to become an entrepreneur in residence at a big time venture capital firm, which is great. I mean, it's a place to play. It's kind of like, you know, you're incubating an idea. It's kind of like your halfway house between, you know, getting out and doing something big. So I'm curious, where's your head at right now? I mean, in terms of, you know, obviously you've had a great run, VMware. You had a great run at Cisco. You've seen the landscape. You talk to customers. You kind of see the big picture. What's your head at right now? What are you thinking about? What's getting you excited?   It's like they are VC, right?  That's sort of the noise. And then the other thing is, when I put everything together, you know, when I look at it individually, okay, it delivers this value. When I put everything together, can I really manage that complexity? It's a very tough job. CIO is literally a venture capital, you know, a person these days. And you know- And they're like a drill sergeant at the same time, because they've got to manage the operations as well. Yeah, it's the total cost of ownership. So how am I going to give them something that, you know, give them the value, yet not, you know, give them additional headache? That's sort of the tough thing, right? You know, but that's an exciting time to sort of, you know, because they really have a big problem, but they really have the complexity. And then they have so many choices, and then they, you know, it's tough thing. So I want to make their life easier.  Well, Howie, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate you spending the time. Howie Xu, entrepreneur in residence at a yet-to-be-named venture capital firm. Stay tuned for more details coming this week. We'll be right back with more live in San Francisco. It's theCUBE- Thank you. Here at Moscone North for VMworld 2015. We'll be right back after this short break.


Mae'n dalygu'r cyhoedd iawn sy'n Ysgolffian 2014 yn ymwelidol o'r nyfodol gennym Gylauol. Hwyl ydych chi yn dda i'r dyddion ac yn ymweltyd equipment iawn fel y bydd. Mae'n dod â'r cyhoedd a'r cyhoeddau yn fwy o gwirio newidol mewn cyhoeddus cyhoeddau yn fwy o'r cyhoedd. Fy hoffoedd o'r cyhoedd sydd yn fwy o'r cyhoeddau Is wnaeth bod ynallyn i ddweud bod y gwir-gweithio, fel roedd yn y gwir-gweithio, fel roedd yn â'r Diolch yn teimlo, yn ei ddweud, i ddweud y cyfigurau pan i'r un olygu, yn ei ddylhau rhywbeth a'r effingau, i ddweud ac yn ei ddweud, o米 lleu o'r cookir flyneddol i gynnig. Yr unig o'r llei chi, ond yn yn mynd yn yr effing roedd o'i ddechrau i chi fyddeithasio allan, o'r fawr, a oedd yna yn ychydig yn ysgrifennyddio'u ddeud o'r reffordd yng Nghymru, ac mae'n rhaid i'n gweithio'r gweithio'n gweithio, nad oedd Scotland wedi'i gwneud y c erioed yn ysgrifennyddio'u gweithio'u gweithio'u gwneud. Mae'r grwp yn ysgrifennu yn cefnidol, ac mae'n bwysig i'r bwyllliaeth o'r bwrdd yn ysgrifennu yn Llandd-Dynion, ac mae'r rhannu'n gweithio'n amgylchol â'r cyfathurau o'r cyffredinol i'r lluniau a chyfrinolau yn y rhanol sydd wedi'i gweithio'n gweithio a'u gwasanaethol. Ond ydych chi'n gweld i'r cyffredin o ffynogi i'r ddau yma yma, ac y gallwn i'r ddefnyddio i'r amser o'r rhannu yn gweithio'n gweithio. Scotland's constitutional journey is a long one, which has accelerated in recent decades with the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, culminating in this independence referendum later this year. But home rule efforts go back a long time. Back into the 19th century, following the First World War, the Scottish Traits Union Congress pressed for Scottish representation at the Versailles conference, just like the then British dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The formation of the Scottish National Party in 1934 marked the beginning of serious political efforts to re-establish direct democracy in Scotland and has had permanent parliamentary representation since 1967. At the historic 1967 Hamilton by-election, Winnie Ewing declared, Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on, and so at the heart of Scottish nationalism is an internationalism which has long pursued a desire to play a positive, proactive and direct role in the international community of nations. Even with the limited powers of devolution since 1999, Scotland is sought to reach out to the world, in particular to neighbours on these islands, to our European partners, to nations with a strong diaspora connection such as the United States, and countries with strong ties of history like Malawi. However the powers of devolution are limited. They don't offer the full advantages of bilateral and multilateral relations in a world where normality is independence and growing interdependence. In 1945 the United Nations had 51 member states, now there are 193. Over the same period there has been a proliferation of international organisations which seek to improve national and international conditions, whose members are sovereign states. From the European Union and the biggest single market in the world, the Council of Europe and its Human Rights safeguards, the World Trade Organisation supporting economic growth, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation with defence cooperation guarantees and the list goes on and on. In this age of cooperation it is states of all sizes that determine progress and Scotland is not represented in its own right. This can and I believe will change with a yes vote on the 18th of September 2014. In unique international circumstances the Scottish and the United Kingdom governments have signed an agreement which charts the democratic referendum process. The Edinburgh agreement was signed in the Scottish capital by Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond following the election of a clear majority in the Scottish Parliament in favour of an independence referendum and supported by parliamentarians from the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Green Party and independence. In fact referendum legislation is also being supported by the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats. The Edinburgh agreement crucially commits both the Scottish government and the United Kingdom government in article 30 and I quote, to continue to work together constructively in the light of the outcome whatever it is in the best interests of the people of Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. So following a yes vote in September 2014 both governments would begin discussions and negotiations about a transition to Scottish sovereignty. There is an 18 month period for this cooperation while Scotland is still part of the United Kingdom. It is during this time that arrangements will be made for Scotland to take its place in the international community including multilateral organisations such as the European Union, NATO, the United Nations, the WTO and so on. While the anti-independence campaign seemed to spend most of their time currently suggesting this will be extremely difficult, even the UK government's legal adviser says the timescale is, in his words, reasonable. And the no campaign's own constitutional adviser believes it would occur with an accelerated procedure. How this will happen and details of the international priorities of the Scottish government are laid out in unprecedented detail in Scotland's future, the white paper on Scottish independence. A copy of which I have here. Well worth a read. I'm not confirming I carry this with me to every event but you'll imagine on a subject like this, it's a very, very important document. And there is no international precedent for a prospectus for a document off this detail in such a constitutional process anywhere. In over 10 chapters, 650 pages and 170,000 words, it details a proposal to move from devolution to sovereignty. It has an extensive question and answer section with clarification on hundreds of common queries. It is extremely well read. Within weeks of the white paper launched last November, 40,000 copies were printed following a third reprint of 10,000. There have been around 1 million online page views of the document. There have been more than 90,000 hits on the PDF download page. It's free for all to download, I would recommend it. Available at www.scotreferendum.com and there's also extensive further documentation on that site. At the heart of the independence prospectus is a proposition that decisions about Scotland will be taken by people who care most about Scotland and that is the people who live and work in Scotland. Our national democratic life will be determined in an independent Scottish parliament elected entirely by people in Scotland which will replace the current Westminster system. Under that current antiquated and inadequate system, elected representatives from Scotland make up just 9% of the 650 odd members of the House of Commons and of course the House of Lords is wholly unelected. Governments in an independent Scotland will always be formed by parties that win elections in Scotland. It will no longer be possible for key decisions to be made by governments that do not command the Scottish electorate. This will end the sorry and unacceptable situation that we are regularly governed by parties we have not entrusted to make decisions on our behalf. For 34 of the 68 years since 1945, Scotland has been ruled by Westminster governments with no majority in Scotland. Policies are imposed on Scotland even when they have been opposed by the majority of our elected Westminster MPs and that includes areas of foreign defence and security policy. With a yes vote in the independence referendum we will put an end to governments policies and priorities which do not have democratic support. With a yes vote Scotland will rejoin the international community as a sovereign state and enjoy the benefits and advantages of a normal country. In the White Paper chapter 6 deals with international relations, defence and security. It explains one, why we need a new approach, two, the opportunities open to Scotland and three, the Scotland we can create in an international defence and security context. The main summary is as follows. Scotland's national interests will be directly represented on the international stage. Scotland's foreign security and defence policies will be grounded in a clear framework of participating in rules based international cooperation to secure shared interests, protecting Scotland's people and resources and promoting sustainable economic growth. We will continue to be a member of the European Union and will have a seat at the top table to represent Scotland's interests more effectively. We will not be at risk of leaving the EU against the wishes of the Scottish people. An overseas network of 78-90 international offices is planned, built on Scotland's existing capacity and our share of the UK's international assets. Scotland will recognise and act on its responsibilities as one of the wealthiest nations on the planet to international development. Our defence plans focus on a strong conventional defence footprint in and around Scotland and the removal of nuclear weapons delivering a £500 million annual defence and security dividend. Scotland's security will be guaranteed as a non-nuclear member of NATO, with Scotland's contributing excellent conventional capabilities to the Alliance. The foreign policy and international relations of the Scottish Government will take place within three overlapping and overarching spheres that will be the cornerstone of Scotland's foreign policy. One, our partnership with the other nations of these islands. Two, our regional role as an active member of the European Union with strong links to the Nordic countries and the Arctic. And three, the global context, our independent role in international and multilateral organisations including the UN and NATO. I'd like to take these priorities in turn to underline why an independent Scotland will be a positive and proactive international partner. Firstly on these islands, we are bound by historic economic and social ties of great value. This importance is not of itself determined by where political decision making lies, but we have the opportunity to do so on the basis of equality. We now have a British Irish Council which brings together governments from across Britain and Ireland. With a sovereign Scotland, there will be three independent governments in the council, together with Scotland, the Irish Republic, the rest of the United Kingdom working with the devolved and island authorities. The secretariat of the council is already headquartered in Edinburgh and there is active cooperation between governments across the widest range of subjects from the health of the environment. Scotland is a bigger trading partner with the rest of the United Kingdom than China, India, Russia and Brazil combined. I could add Japan and South Africa as well to that. Incidentally, this is also true of Ireland relative to the rest of the United Kingdom. Our common travel area, citizenship and voting rights and other cooperation arrangements including the importance of our shared common market through the European Union are critical. It is in all of our interests that these closest of relationships flourish. It is in the interests of all of the peoples of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and our immediate island neighbours that our cooperation goes from strength to strength. Secondly, in the context of the European Union, it is critical that we continue to safeguard and build on the advantages delivered through the European Union. Decades of peace, economic growth, social rights, free movement of people goods services capital and cooperation in an ever widening European Union are a massive achievement. 28 member states make up the European Union and more seat to join. We look forward to Scotland taking its seat at the EU top table shortly. While there is no doubt there is need for democratic political and economic reform to how the EU works, we need to face up to the threats posed by strong europhobic extremes, especially in UK politics outside Scotland. Even the UK government is planning an in-out EU referendum and are being politically driven by anti-Europeans in the UKIP and the Tory party. This is dangerous to Scottish and Irish interests and also incidentally to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This weekend prominent Scottish business people wrote the following letter to the media and I'd like to read it in full because it gives you a sense of the context of this important part of the debate in Scotland. I quote from the letter. Access to the common market is vitally important to both Scottish and wider UK companies. We can see from the poor performance of UKIP in elections and successive opinion polls here that the people of Scotland are generally more outward looking and pro-European than the electorate in other parts of the UK. Scottish business people are worried that despite an overwhelming desire to stay connected with our European partners, voters beyond our borders will remove Scotland from the EU against the democratic expression of Scotland's business community and the wider public. This threat may persist no matter what the result of Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague's ongoing negotiation on the terms of membership with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. On this issue as with many others Westminster opinion does not represent the democratic will of all of the constituent parts of the UK. It seems likely that all major political parties with a chance of being in government after 2015 in the Westminster election will commit to holding an EU referendum. This prospect of a dangerous, metropolitan, media driven referendum on EU membership creates great uncertainty. Scotland may no longer be part of the UK at the time of the EU poll and an independent Scotland's approach to negotiating continued EU membership, which experts have said there will be an obligation to have after a yes vote, will ensure continuity of membership and effect. We note in particular the recent positive comments of no campaign policy adviser Professor Jim Gallacher regarding an independent Scotland staying in Europe and its ability to successfully negotiate key opt-outs. Indeed the Scottish people must now see that there is far more uncertainty over Scotland's continued access to the common market if we vote no in the independence referendum on September the 18th this year. A yes vote is the only way to guarantee that Scottish based companies can continue to trade in a UK and European common market for the free movement of capital goods services trade and people. That was the letter signed by a long list of people in the Scottish business community. Scottish independence in a European Union context means that the Scottish government elected by the people will be present at all council of ministers meetings where the big decisions are taken. Scotland will have a nominated commissioner in the powerful European Commission and there will be a fairer Scottish representation in the European Parliament. So Scotland will play a positive and a proactive role in the EU. Moving on to the next dimension which is a key regional priority for us and that is the northern dimension. Scotland is a northern European nation with significant priority shared with our Nordic regional neighbours including Norway, Denmark and Iceland. There are huge environmental challenges posed to the high north and Arctic as well as potential opportunities especially in the energy sectors. Our neighbours are cooperating through a host of bilateral and multilateral organisations and initiatives. Scotland can and must take its responsibility seriously and work with our regional neighbours. This will be a key Scottish priority. Scotland's geostrategic position with the Atlantic to our west, Iceland to our north and the North Sea to our east also has an important security dimension. It is in the interest of all allies, neighbours and friends that there is stability and that is why the Scottish government's white paper outlines in great detail the plans for defence and security arrangements. Scotland will prioritise maritime capabilities including maritime patrol aircraft, something incidentally that Ireland has but the UK does not. We will work with our NATO allies just like the overwhelming number of other members as a non-nuclear state to fulfil the objectives and mutual defence, appropriate capabilities, stability and peace. Moving on to the wider global context, something to offer. In a global context an independent Scotland has something particular to offer. On international developments a strong commitment has been made by the Scottish government with an aspiration to be a global leader championing best practice and innovation. The white paper explains that being a global leader in an international development context is not necessarily just about the size of aid given in absolute monetary terms but the impact that can be made across government policy. Aid is however an extremely important dimension and an independent Scotland would ensure a legislative commitment to spending 0.7% of gross national income on official development assistance and have an aspiration to reach 1% of GNI in time. Success and global impact will be pursued by delivering a coherent approach to international development across all Scottish government policies, crucially trade environment defence and finance. On peace and reconciliation there is a long standing commitment to make Scotland the ideal place to support international initiatives. Scotland has already hosted the St Andrews Northern Ireland discussions, also meetings from the South Caucasus and there is a significant Scottish NGO peace and reconciliation experience such as beyond borders Scotland. A sovereign Scottish government can do so much with our particular experience of civic, non-ethnic, democratic and peaceful constitutional change. Scotland is known and liked around the world, this is an ideal way of being able to contribute to a better world. On helping the vulnerable we look to a new model with an asylum services separate from immigration. The white paper contains proposals for a Scottish asylum agency to oversee asylum applications and I quote The process will be both robust and humane and we will continue Scotland's present approach of promoting the integration of refugees and asylum seekers from the day they arrive, not just once leave to remain has been granted as is currently the case in the rest of the UK. In an independent Scotland we will close the UK Home Office Detention Centre at Dungavel and the practice of dawn raids and inhumane treatment of those who have exercised their legitimate right to seek asylum. Now while these initiatives will bring international benefits to those from outside Scotland, there will also be tangible benefits to Scotland in Scotland when pursuing its own international agenda. For all of those talented and committed people wanting to work in the diplomatic service on international development and a defence and security, there will be a full Scottish headquartered career path. Home postings will be in Scotland and the relevant government departments will be based in Scotland. International partners will be directly represented in Scotland with embassies and diplomatic staff and international organisations will also seek enhanced representation in Scotland. So for all of those involved in the voluntary charitable and academic sectors in Scotland which deal with international affairs, it will be possible to work with government departments, agencies and decision makers at all levels in Scotland. In conclusion ladies and gentlemen, independence will mean Scotland taking its place in the international community and playing a positive proactive international role. We will be able to promote a bigger role for the British Irish Council that brings together the home nations, work constructively within the European Union, join our northern European neighbours to fully address the challenges and opportunities of our region. Scotland will be a trusted security partner for our allies, play a full role in the Commonwealth, properly carry our burden towards international development and have an ambition to support peace and reconciliation efforts around the world. This contrasts with an ever-growing parochial anti-European agenda at Westminster. Sadly politics at a UK level is massively influenced by the anti-immigration, urophobic agenda of UKIP and large swathes of the Tory party. Their priorities are leaving the EU, walking away from European human rights commitments and ignoring the opening gulf in political priorities and aspirations within Scotland. The time has come for people in Scotland to embrace a better international future and grasp the huge exciting opportunity offered by the independence referendum with a yes vote. Thank you very much.


In an interview with Mehdi Hassan, a Biden administration official was asked about Medicare for All and as you are going to see, he faced plans and completely humiliates himself. This is difficult to watch. And there are a lot of good things in legislation, but also some questionable things. I want to talk about one of those. Today's the 11th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. As you say, the rescue plan expands subsidies for ACA plans, making premiums much cheaper for many families. That's a good thing. It could also spend an estimated $35 billion fully covering Cobra for around two million unemployed people for just six months. How is that a good use of that money, $35 billion subsidizing insurance companies for six months? Wouldn't that money be better invested towards building universal health care in this country? Well, clearly you have health insurance right now. But the question is, you ought to pose that to people who have lost their job through no fault of their own that has lost their health insurance and they need a bridge so that they stay with insurance so that they can get that checkup and detect cancer early. It's very easy for people to make judgment calls when they're not in other people's shoes. And I won't do that. I won't put a price on lives. I won't put a price on...  Hold on. Let me finish. Hold on. Wait. Okay. Do you think that she has early stages of breast cancer so that we can beat it? I mean, look, did we rise to the moment? Yes. Did we spend $1.9 trillion? We did. You know why? Because there was $1.9 trillion worth of problems in this country that we were trying to fix. Yes. Thank you. So with respect, I just need to push back a little bit.  I'd have gone higher. I'm very happy that you're spending lots of money. And as for the money on health care, it's not that I don't want you to spend $35 billion on health care. I'm in favor of universal health care. When you say there's no price tag on health care, the problem is you're... The president, Joe Biden, told us there is. He says we can't afford Medicare for all. I'm saying if you can afford $35 billion to give to Cobra, which is a very inefficient overpriced way of giving people health care, why not spend that money on a universal health care system that helps everyone, not just insurance companies? Well, remember, this is a response to a pandemic. If we didn't have COVID-19, you wouldn't see us doing that Cobra appropriation. So remember, we're probably saying close to the same thing, but remember, this is in response to people losing their jobs through no fault of their own. And if you don't have COVID-19 out there, people are not losing their jobs. That was very embarrassing. That is the definition of cringe-worthy. I know that the word cringe gets overused quite a bit, but I actually felt embarrassed for him. And when Medi tried to stop him so he can clarify, because he very obviously misunderstood what was being asked, he insisted that he keep going because he very obviously had a set of talking points that he wanted to get through and he wasn't going to stop talking until he hit on all of those talking points that the Biden administration gave him, except that's not what you were asked. Oh, this is awkward. And I love that the talking points he was using, it really wasn't even substantive. Basically what he was saying was, listen, with that 1.6 billion or however much it was for Cobra, some people are calling us heroes. Are we heroes? I mean, maybe we are certainly giving Americans more for-profit insurance in a time of need. So if that makes me a hero, if that makes members of the Biden administration heroes, I guess we're going to have to plead guilty there on that charge. That's not what you were being asked, Cedric.  He didn't say that obviously, I'm paraphrasing, but Cobra is not good. I mean, anything that you can do to expand coverage during a pandemic, of course, that's preferable to nothing. But if you're already spending all of this money on health care, why not just go for the most cost-effective solution? Medicare for all. Now, the real answer is that Biden has donors in the health industry that will not allow him to do this. Health industry donors helped him get elected. And of course, he's going to pay them back by not opting for Medicare for all by subsidizing for-profit health insurance that, consequently, lines the pockets of health industry CEOs. Now, Medi asks, when you say there's no price tag on health care, the problem is President Joe Biden told us there is. He says, we can't afford Medicare for all. So you kind of are literally putting a price tag on Medicare for all. Cedric responds by saying, well, remember, this is a response to a pandemic. If we didn't have COVID-19, you wouldn't see us doing that Cobra appropriation. OK, so in other words, you wouldn't have tried to expand coverage if there wasn't a pandemic. Let me remind you that before the pandemic took place, thousands of Americans every single year were not just losing their coverage. They were dying due to a lack of coverage. And this was after the Affordable Care Act was passed. So a pandemic changes things because according to him, folks lose their jobs and this is to no fault of their own during a pandemic because it impacted the economy. And since in America, we tie health insurance to employers, you know, you have to do something to help them. So why all of a sudden doesn't make a difference during a pandemic? That's what I wish that Medi would have asked him. Why is it bad more so during a pandemic for people to lose their health insurance and possibly die when this was already happening? Of course, the pandemic exacerbated the issue, but it's not like the pandemic presented a new issue. Health care in America has always been overly expensive. And on top of that, people die every single year because they don't have health care. And I'm not talking about health insurance. I'm not talking about lack of access to health care. I am talking about health care, period. How many people go bankrupt because they have a medical bill that they can pay? How many go fund means have we seen because somebody got in an accident or they got an unexpected medical emergency that led to bills? I mean, my dad died more than a year ago now. And I want to say up until the end of last year, my mom was still getting medical bills after he had already died. Isn't this system a little bit egregious? Wasn't it egregious before the pandemic? And all of a sudden, Cedric wants you to think that the Biden administration, their heroes, because they expanded Cobra.  Yay, Cobra, great. How about you actually fix the broken health care system rather than just putting band-aids on it here and there? Because it's very obviously the case that the band-aids aren't helping. The wound is too big for a band-aid. You need an actual systemic approach to health care reform. But of course, with corporate Democrats like Joe Biden in power, that will never happen. So you just have to keep building support among the population and keep rallying members of Congress to actually fight harder for Medicare for All, because this is the solution to this issue of health care in America. It's not more subsidies for private, for-profit health insurance companies. It is a single-payer Medicare for All system where everyone pays into it and nobody is denied health care, not health insurance, health care. Period. End of story.