The brain is positive, positive. The brain is positive, positive. The brain is positive, positive. I heard that Frosty's not the only person that's settling down. Whatever. I heard that, you know, Wax might have a new boo. You know, he's out there on social media. What are you talking about? Really? You ever seen my social media? I've just said. Look at my page right now, what are you talking about? I'm seeing this one. I got it, I got it, I got it. Trust me, trust your heart and people. This is the end, bro, it's good.  What's going on? Did I just see something like this in my face? No, listen.  Oh, wow, wow. Is this what this is? Hold on, bro. Is this me? My face. Wow, wow, wow. Put the heart emojis in the smiley face. Oh, wow. Okay, thank you. Who is this? Listen, they'll do this. Y'all don't do this.  No, she's black. No, she's not. She's close. No, she's not. She's from the store. All right, let's go. Which I got. Somebody set me up. You did something. Somebody set that picture. My screenshot. Beautiful. Listen, Wax ready. Wax been ready. Yeah, man.  He was in love with her. Can we say who that is? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I only know who he's talking about. One day she'll tell her story. Will she come on? She's going to do her own podcast. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I see it coming. Yeah. Especially after that picture. If she see that shit, you just showed me. I never see that.  I'd never seen that. Let me see that type of embrace. I've never seen that before either. You're in it. He ready to get married. When you hugging a girl from the back. Can I see that, though? First of all, it's a screenshot. It's a boomerang where you just kind of nuzzle in your nose against her nose. Eskimo kissing a woman's neck. Bro, like that. He goes like this in it. Like Steve. Eskimo kiss, he got to adjust his hat up, right? You know Wax don't just move his hat for nobody. Expose himself to the world. That's what I'm saying. You're in the picture. You were in it. I was there, but I don't know how long ago that was. Not one shot, please. Nah, dude. What's up? You in love? What else is going on? Are you in love? What do you mean? Are you in love? This is holiday time. You know what I'm saying? What does that mean? I don't know. It's cuffing season? I guess so. You ready to be married? Why not? Frosty got married. Wax caught the bouquet and Frost wedding. It was unbelievable. God. I pushed everybody out the way. I pushed everybody out the way. How it happened? I did a football move. I call that an interception. If it's five women lined up and Wax catches the bouquet, that's an interception. They told me to do that. Everybody told me to do that. Wait, you really caught it? I intercepted it in front of all the women. Oh, that's hilarious. This poor, lonely, single-ass bro. Wax got married so bad. Wax had on Tim's with a suit and a hat.  Not doing the wedding. The reception and the party and stuff like that. This the group chat, right? This the group chat before the wedding. They told me. These are all my guys, right?  This my dude, T-Mobile, Coop, Freddie G's. So T-Mobile goes, So here's the bet. Coop puts the eye emojis.  T-Mobile goes, What you got? Coop says, hat. T-Mobile goes, I got $10 on the Tim's. Coop, y'all take the hat. T-Mobile says, We calling for both the ceremony and the reception. T-Mobile says, I see him putting the hat on at the reception for show.  Wax comes in the hat and some goddamn black Tim's. So you double down. Double down.  Everybody lost. Everybody lost. Everybody lost. Wow. Everybody lost. That's amazing, dawg. Listen, man. Trying out here. I feel like this is good for you. You have a good calm energy. I feel like, you know... Yeah. I'm chilling. I've always been like this. But now maybe this girl, and maybe you're the way that you're emotionally attached and the way that you're operating with her physically and public, maybe that's something that's going to take you to that level. Yeah. It's time for you to grow up, Wax. Yeah, why not? No, it's time for you to grow up. I don't even know what's going on. No, no, it's time for you to grow up.  But she's... She is from the diet... I don't know what that word is. From Disney World? She's from the Disney World. Listen. She is from... Who did this? The Disney... She is from Pandora. Where?  What is the world that... Have you been to Disney World with her yet? But can you explain that to me a little bit? I don't listen. Where did this picture even come from? Y'all went to Disney World? Was that what that was at? Dude, that's next level.  We're playing a little game of hot potato. So we're giving out context clues for anybody out there who may know who this young lady is. Oh, man. How many people watch this? Huh? What? What else y'all got? Yo, we just want to know about your life. You said something about Black Youngster. This is not Black Youngster. What? Say what? When I first got on, she said Black Youngster. Yeah, we're talking about the kids you guys are going to have. They're going to be Black and Youngsters. Well, Black and Brown. Black and Brown and Youngsters. That's true. She's a brown woman. Yes. From the diaphragm. From Disney. Disney. Brown woman from Disney. Disney. Disney. Brown Disney woman. Brown woman from Disney. Disney. Disney. Which one is in... It's two of them. It's World and Lane. Well, World is in the state that you're... The crazy state. The crazy state, yes. Okay, got you, got you. World. That's the Disney world.  How do I know all this stuff? Where exactly? In Florida? Yo, yo. What is going on? I'm just saying. Look at this. Who made him this happy? Who made him this happy? Who made him this happy? Who made him this happy? I don't want him to just happy with me. I don't want him to happy with y'all. Alright, what else going on? Black and Youngsters. I don't want you to love like that, bro. Listen, listen. You know what I know he in love, though? When he started talking to me about the person. Interesting. This guy is really out of control. What is going on? He been talking to me about this person, bro. What you mean? What is he saying? Let me hear this. I would love to hear this right now. This just enjoys the conversation. You know. Because I was actually big in this person up the other day. This is good. Because it's something they said. And I really appreciated what they said. I thought it was a good perspective. What did they say? And you know, they were just talking about the way they choose to raise their daughter. Interesting. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah.  And when I started, you know, bigging her up, like Wax just, he just went in. Let me hear this. Let me hear this. I would love to hear this. No, she's really beautiful. You know what? When you know Wax really into something, he started using words that got more useful for you. More to four letters. Beautiful. You know what I'm saying? I'm really, you know. What an exquisite woman. I'm enchanted by her, you know what I mean? You were the Disney world one time. Now you know the word enchanted? Who said I was the Disney world? Who said I was the Disney world though? You went to the chain of kings the one time. Now you know how to use enchanted? Listen. Jesus Christ. Who said I was the Disney world? Huh? Black youngster, what happened? No. Listen, we're talking about you. Black youngster's a minister now too. I want to do that, Mary. I want to do that. And Black youngster married you and young Disney. Yo, you. Listen. You and this. Alex did this. What? Alex did this. Alex, you know too? Alex had something to do with this. Somebody told you, was it that picture? A picture said a thousand words. That picture was sent to me. Wow. And you sent it to Andrew. That was a screenshot. That was not a screenshot. Wax, Wax, he told you too? Wax about to break up podcasts, bro. Podcast I didn't break up for the whack. Wait, were you? Man, listen. Why, why, why? What happened? What are you thinking? All right. Which one? First of all. What? What was that? Alex? Alex, Alex, Alex. Alex, would you like to explain the beef between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans? No. I would like it explained. Hi, guys. I'm curious. Andrew knows about all cultures. Andrew, do you know anything about Dominicans and Puerto Rican beef? I do know about Dominicans and Puerto Rican beef. They think they're different. We don't. All right. Got you. Got you. It's all the same, though. It is. Yes, okay. All right. Now, anything else about that, though, specifically? Not just in general. I'm just saying. I'm just saying maybe there's a little Dominican Puerto Rican beef that you can talk about maybe. No. Nothing at all? What are you talking about? Are you in love? Just answer the question. Listen, man. I'm out here chilling this holiday time. I'm trying to enjoy it more. I'm trying to enjoy this life. Are you in love? Just answer the question. Why not be in love to be chilling? I'm chilling. Do you like her? Yo, why I gotta like anybody? I'll just chill. Wow. Wow.  I'm gonna grab and put my fave. And that's your response?  This girl, this girl. Do you want to do me like that, yo? No, no, no. I'm just saying it's not disrespectful, yo. The reason I don't like that is because I know these women and they're good women. I'm chilling, but I'm just saying why are you trying to, I'm not trying to do this all the time. Y'all doing this all the time. What are we doing all the time, yo? Do you like her or not? Just admit it. Yeah, we good. We chilling. Nah, man.  What's up with y'all, man? Do you have a pair of Timbs in our house? Timbs there. Whoa! When the Timbs are there. When the Timbs are there. When the Timbs are there. When the Timbs are there. Hey. That is beautiful, man. Timbs are there. That is beautiful. Wow. That's all you need to know. Hey, let's pay some bills, man. So did you walk on barefoot? That's his way of mocking his territory. Huh? That's his way of mocking his territory. Some people plant trees, wax plants the boot that have the tree on it in the house. Boom. Genius. And then other guys would know if they came in they'd be like, hey, why is there a size 13? Exactly. Don't stay away from my girl. There you go. So it is your girl. Okay. I like this. This is really great. It's beautiful, man. Listen, I'm not mad. I'm cool. This holiday time is cool. You know what I'm saying? You going to get something for Christmas? I guess. What are you supposed to do? Is that what you're supposed to do? Come on, Taylor. Now when you're supposed to go, oh. Yeah. Give us another, oh. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Yo, you know you should get her. You should get her that subscription at Disney Plus. Whoa. Can we come back and talk about that? Yes. It's probably free in Florida. It's probably free. Disney Plus. Wouldn't you make a sentence? How do you do it? What? No way. What? No way. No way. What? No way. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.


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Okay, the next talk is titled efficient side channel protection for arcs ciphers by Bernhard Jung, Richard Petri and Marc Stöttinger and Richard is on the stage. Yeah, thank you for your introduction. As said, we are talking about efficient side channel protections of ARX ciphers. ARX ciphers as a short introduction consist of addition, rotation and exclusive aura as their basic building blocks. And the things about these ciphers they're quite easily protected against timing side channel attacks, but they're quite hard to attack against power or EM leakage attacks. And the usual culprit is the modular addition as seen in the previous and attacks from previous released attacks. And early work on this by Goubon suggested that we use Boolean masking for the to protect the rotation and the XOR and then do a conversion to arithmetic masking to secure the modular addition. And this is quite costly. It has a cost of K, K being the bit width of the addition. This was later lowered to lock K with the suggestion that we apply Boolean masking directly to an addition algorithm. And we do this in software directly. And previous talks already mentioned threshold implementation. So I'm not going in too much detail with this. But it was mainly of interest in hardware implementations due to needing three shares for first order security, but recent developments have reduced this to two shares by introducing a registering stage. And we use threshold implementations to implement a mask addition algorithm. And we introduce some optimizations. The first of this we introduce a mask versions of combined gates or combined gadgets. It's also often the term which perform a shift and and optionally also an XOR in one step. And we, these combined gates allows us to use the flexible second operant of the ARM platform which will perform an operation including a shift in one single instruction and usually in a single cycle. And we introduce a method to reduce the number of necessary remasking steps and reduce the amount of required entropy for the implementation. Not in this presentation is reintroduced a simpler algorithm for modular subtraction which is needed by some Cypher, like the spec Cypher in the decryption slab. And as an addition algorithm we use the cork of stone adder here shown as a simplified circuit diagram. This adder is a parallel prefix adder which means it processes each bit in parallel, not just like a ripple carry adder which will process each bit sequentially. So this is quite optimal for software because each software instruction will process n bits in parallel. So we use this and what I want to highlight is these blue gates which is a combined shift and an XOR which we'll use to speed up the operation. All right I'm going to introduce the first introduce an and XOR gate. As shown before the goal is to split the operation into multiple shares. In this case two shares and this would be a quite straightforward approach to implement an end gate, secure end gate. The problem is the one of the properties of the threshold implementations was violated which is the uniformity. To gain uniformity we need to introduce a guard share M. And this is where we stepped in to optimize a bit and developed a method to reuse one of the inputs as a guard share as because as said all the bits are processed in parallel so we can use one of the inputs shifted by the left and we need to shift in essentially one random bit. So the software just needs the end gate just needs a single fresh bit but in the case of an end combined with an XOR we don't need a refresh at all we just simply replace the M with the shares of the XOR operand. Then we can do a shifted end XOR gate which is quite heavily used by the corgis stone adder and this lends itself quite well to the arms flexible second operand which can perform for example one of these calculations in the single instruction. And of course we can also combine this with an XOR so we don't need a refresh mask at all. So now to protect corgis stone adder this would be the algorithm we use to perform the modular addition and we simply replace all the gates like the end gate XOR gate and these special shift end XOR gate and just the shift end gate with the secured variants like this. And what I want to highlight here is this part we as said we reuse a single bit of one of the input shares in this case for example before the addition the first bit of the XOR zero or each time the first bit of one of the propagates we reuse in the next iteration and to highlight why this works I'm going to show the simplified diagram again as said during the iterations the first bit is never used so we can reuse this as a guard share. So this allows us to implement a modular addition which just requires a single random bit the U for remasking the entire addition. Further optimization as possible previous works introduced a special end gate which doesn't require any remasking at all and we can combine this with our approach of the combined end shift or the end shift XOR gate which we will call the secure end optimized and secure end shift optimized gates. And we compare this with previous works of course we are a lot faster in the secure XOR gate or the secure shift gates which we don't need at all we're not really a lot faster with our secure end gate but notable here is the combined gates the second shift and the optimized versions where we will only need eight instructions in the ARM case and we can lower this to even six instructions and even more notable the previous work here requires always requires a refresh mask for an end gate which we don't we only need a single bit and generating this single bit will only cost us three instructions. We also did an instruction count measurement for the complete modular mask addition for a 32 bit modular addition on an ARM platform and we were able to improve by almost 31 percent when we combine this with previous works senior and our subtraction algorithm which I wasn't getting which I haven't mentioned yet is a lot faster than this and to reiterate our complete addition algorithm only needs a single random bit and it also outputs a single random bit so we can implement for example the Chacha cipher where each addition in the Chacha modular addition in the Chacha cipher will produce the next random bit for the next addition and we measured the performance for the Chacha cipher as well and as we see the overhead of the mask implementation is quite large with our reference implementations implementation just needing below a thousand two thousand cycles the overhead is quite immense we compared this to previous results which we didn't find a lot of previous results but this is less and if we use the optimized gates we can shave off a bit more and we see that masking the addition is quite a driving factor in protecting the Chacha cipher and just to note that the cycle counts aren't quite comparable because we measured on multiple platforms and the results varied a bit we think due to differences in the memory architecture we simulated we also simulated our Chacha cipher with using the micro architectural power simulator called maps and we extended the simulator by 11 instructions and the simulator the simulator samples the hamming distance for each risk register assignment and performing a t-test on a fixed versus random setup with 100 000 noise free traces will not result in any leakage but we think it's still noise amplification methods like shuffling should be used because it's just a simulator that's it thank you for listening thank you any questions okay can you get back to one of your source codes that you showed about where you use the for instance one of this can you explain more about this secure and shift or secure or secure and shift x or you are following a particular concept which should be you mean you refer to threshold implementation about this yeah yeah can you explain more about what you do here and what is the difference between this shift x or and shift and probably I imagine that the x or is helping you because you don't need more fresh randomness we went into this with this part so this would be a basic implementation without x or and without our mask reuse such scheme so we do a cross product with the with the two shares with the end gate and the threshold implementations the the work we are basing this on which would allow us which allows us to do to reduce this to two shares requires that we can't recombine these shares without registering the the s shares without registering them first but in software implementations everything is registered so we don't need to use that and we if we want to later recombine this we need to put in a refresher mask the end and what else now my question here is do you completely ignore the architectural issues of the market controller means that you have a pipeline for instance and you are not completely aware of the details of the pipeline and then consecutive instructions in the pipeline may have effect on each other we know that that the pipeline has an effect on this we did measurements on a real platform we need to add a few instructions to flush the pipeline in some cases but it's some kind of ad hoc or you you identified which parts you have to introduce new instructions or it's a systematic way to say that okay if you want to implement or if you want to run this secure and x or then then you have to put those extra instructions between two consecutive instructions this is just a baseline implementation for for protected a baseline for a protected implementation any micro architectural micro architecture will introduce some leakage which we don't know about for example pipeline leakages and so you need to add some for example in the arm case we added some x or instructions which don't process any valuable data which will flush the pipeline and will remove additional leakage you know what i'm concerned about if you look at the first two instructions at the left if you if if they are in the pipeline and if you are going to the same bus the x or between them will be actually leaking right for instance the x or between s0 and s2 in the middle it may lead to direct leakage yeah it might yeah okay good but the simulation that you have done doesn't consider such an issue just as you simulated just the values which are processed exactly it just shows that the the register distance during the assignment the hamming distance that this won't leak and the simulator also considers two pipeline registers so we also show that these won't leak but of course for example we might the especially the shift might leak doing glitches we're not sure thank you and the simulator i said pick up slides i wanted to say okay okay thank you any more questions okay let's thank thank the speaker again


With Burns Night Upon Us, what are three facts about Robert Burns that may surprise you? Firstly, Burns was massive in Russia. In fact, he became known as the people's poet of Russia. His poems were translated into Russian during the imperial period and also the Soviet period. In 1924, an astonishing 600,000 copies of Burns' work was sold in Russia. In 1956, Burns even featured on a Soviet stamp. Secondly, when Burns was in financial difficulties, after not making a success of farming, he was on the verge of moving to Jamaica to work on a sugar plantation as a bookkeeper or the assistant overseer of slaves. To fund his passage overseas, however, he was encouraged to put his poems into a collection and sell it through a subscription model. He comprised his best poems into a work and sent it off to John Wilson, a printer in Kilmarnock. On the 31st of July 1786, John Wilson published poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect by Robert Burns, known as the Kilmarnock Volume. It sold for three shillings and it was an instant success. So much so, the Burns never travelled to Jamaica and moved to Edinburgh instead. Thirdly, Burns fathered 12 children, nine with his wife, Jean Armour. Initially, Burns' reputation as a womanizer was so bad, the jeans father forbade the marriage, but they eventually got married in 1788. Burns, a man who died at the age of 37 in 1796, is still celebrated across the world on Burns' night, a reflection of the quality of his work. Thanks for watching and happy Burns' night.


According to the arrest citation, 36-year-old Matthew Amell of Defiance, Ohio, was coming through a curve in Dorton at a high rate of speed while on the wrong side of the road. After estate troopers stopped Amell, he allegedly told the officer he did not have a license and it was suspended in Ohio. Police say Amell acted nervous and was stuttering. Amell allegedly told police he was coming from his cousin's house but didn't know his cousin's name. Police say Amell attempted to stick his hand in between the seat and the console. When troopers told Amell to get out of the vehicle, he allegedly said without prompting that, quote, there's a ton of drugs in the car. Amell, allegedly told police he had ice, coke, heroin, weed and rock seas in the vehicle. Police allegedly found drugs bundled together in clear plastic wrapping and over $1,000 in cash. Police say he told them he purchased the drugs in Detroit and brought them here to sell them for profit. Matthew Amell was arrested and lodged in the Pike County Detention Center. He's now facing numerous drug trafficking charges as well as a charge of importing heroin. Amell is due back in court March 8th.


There are many ancient places upon our planet which we are yet to cover upon our channel. Many intriguing, unexplainable, and thus controversial ancient ruins that, although more than likely discovered and noted by an academic at some point within modern history, has since been banished to selective ignorance deliberately overlooked, this often in favor of retaining one's funding within a certain field of study. Ancient quarries is an area of study that is indeed filled with these ancient anomalies. Seemingly machine stones litter many of the more intriguing locations, one of them undoubtedly Aswan quarry. Not only containing an unfinished obelisk of gigantic proportions, but also seemingly later additions carved as if left by a later advanced civilization. Additionally, the more prehistoric quarries that can be found dotting America's Great Lakes, notably Superior, Copper mines and quarries, fly in the face of currently attested chronology regarding ancient man. We presume that the most compelling of these sites had indeed since their initial modern rediscovery been widely studied by alternative researchers. However, Cava di Cusa seems to have been largely overlooked, regardless of its astonishing ancient relics which can be found at the site. Located 3 km south of Campobella di Massara in the province of Trapini, Italy, the entire quarry and indeed the length of the ruin is an astonishing 1.8 km long, located upon a natural ridge spanning from east to west. According to academia, this site was quarried from the beginning of the first half of the 6th century BC. This regardless of the clearly shifted, mysteriously abandoned, gigantic unexplainable megaliths which still litter the site. We feel, with such unexplainably large stones seemingly left in situ at the site, like many other unexplained sites that can be found on Earth were built by an advanced ancient civilization, capable of building with such enormous stones. The quarry was abandoned in 409 BC when it was captured by the Carthaginians. Regardless of academia's limited opinions regarding the quarry, we feel the most interesting and possibly most controversial anomalies to unravel are the abandoned cuts still at the site. Just what were these ancient people making? Why did they abandon these curious megaliths where they lay today? How were they able to shift such enormous stones? We feel there is strong evidence to suggest that Cava di Cusa was an ancient quarry once used and mysteriously abandoned by a lost civilization once capable of shifting unimaginably enormous stones and as such is highly compelling. On a number of occasions we have covered the unexplainable remnants left by a civilization which once undoubtedly flourished here upon this planet, a true mysterious history. The most notable and presumably the evidence which will remain upon our Earth for the longest being the unimaginably enormous megalithic structures which rest in many areas of Earth. These structures built using stones so large we cannot explain how they were moved. The quarry known as Yangshan is such an impressive example of this lost knowledge and or technique for moving these stones we felt it deserved an in-depth discussion. What is special about Yangshan is the fact that it was seemingly abandoned quite possibly due to cataclysm. In the midst of actually cutting some of the largest stone megaliths ever found on Earth, revealing in all its glory just how these stones were indeed detached from the Earth's bedrock, a question which had also remained unanswered for many years, Yangshan also reveals invaluable clues to how they could have been moved. The star of the show, an enormous steel weighing 16,250 metric tons, disputed to have been cut during the reign of the Yonkel Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. However, although academia is seemingly willing to approach such subjects with an air of arrogance often due to its in-depth accurate understanding of said era, it inevitably becomes unstuck once one begins to explore their knowledge or indeed explanation of how these enormous stones were intended to be moved. Academia's illogical explanation of the site is as follows. In 1405, the Yonkel Emperor ordered the cutting of a giant statue in this quarry for use in the Ming Zhao Ling mausoleum in dedication of his deceased father. Three separate pieces were being cut, the rectangular base, the body, and the head. After most of the stone cutting work had been done, the architects conveniently realized that moving stones from the quarry to Ming Zhao Ling and installing them there would not be physically possible. The body weighed 8,799 tons, and the steel's apparent head weighed 6,118 tons. According to, quote, experts, it would have stood 73 meters tall. A supposed legend attached to this possible fallacy has it that workers who failed to produce the daily quota of crushed rock of at least 33 shang would be executed on the spot. But is this the real story of Yang Shan quarry? Or could there possibly be a more interesting history attached to this site and indeed its accompanying stones? Within Baolback, one of the countless examples found around the world, there are stones well over 1,000 tons in weight, which seem to have been effortlessly placed atop one another using technologies or methods unexplained by these so-called experts. Is it really that unthinkable to believe that they could indeed once shift these enormous stones found in Yang Shan? Not only move them, but lift them on top of one another? Fortunately, more and more people are beginning to look at this exact possibility, and with the mounting evidence in support of far greater antiquity surfacing every day, it is only a matter of time before these sites are truly revealed for what they actually once were. To truly understand the astonishingly true history of the unfinished obelisk, one must first wade through a quagmire of well-financed fallacy, infested with many a false prophet, incomplete or simply illogical conjecture, all of which, defended by countless academic figures of institutions of influence and power, acquired via the funding in their defense of a form of mass worship of academics' perception as if an all-knowing authority. So, with things like the obelisk, for example, one begins to wonder if this all be by design.  Ergo, all well-funded explorers, reporters and journalists alike, with the expectant pressure of their return with a deciphered mystery. It would appear this explanation never arose, yet was skilfully averted. Firstly, the rock had indeed been abandoned abruptly at some point in history, conveniently allowing academia to make nearly all those interested in the obelisk overlook this eventual intention by its original creators, a distraction made by a fault line. Chris Dunn, an independent investigator, held in varied regard, found that details of decoration were already being added to the stone as it was being hewn, running exactly through this so-called fault, disproving this so-long-held academic fallacy. Yet, alas, although the unfinished obelisk lay still attached to the strata of Earth, like that of the larger of the two megaliths in Yangshan Khori, the largest some 16,000 tons, academia is not required nor would even attempt to provide any logical explanation as to how these blocks would have been moved. Additionally, however, and perhaps most revealing, is the pregnant lady of Lebanon, a 1,000-plus ton megalith, so large that just like that of the unfinished obelisk, no attempt was ever made to explain the ancient civilization responsible could have moved such stones to their final placements. Yet, remarkably, the proverbial nail in the coffin and vindication of our claim was the excavations made around the pregnant woman, recently revealing that this stone was not abandoned on a slight incline, as claimed, but was placed atop another stone of even bigger proportions. Not suggesting it was part of a once enormous structure and exposing this reoccurring academic strategy when it comes to dismissing the controversial, it is a reality which we find incredibly annoying. There are a considerable number of ancient anomalies located within Egypt. These ancient feats of engineering litter sites in the quarries the stones were sourced and shaped at, and although many of you would have heard of Aswan quarry, Elephantine may be a less familiar location to you, and for good reason. Not only are the pyramids one of the most perplexing near perfectly constructed and as yet unexplained ancient architectural accomplishments on earth, but how an ancient civilization supposedly placed within permitted known archaeological history accomplished such a feat, or indeed why? What was their original purpose? Academic contradiction, a severe lack of anomalous artifacts explored, never mentioned or somehow conveniently go unnoticed. However, in the real world, beyond the boundaries of the fenced or so-called schools of education, thanks to our own work and the presentation of such a volume of inexplicable events artifacts, ruins or megaliths along with many others allied within similar fields, independently funded researchers, investigative agents, and many more sometimes even noticed first by a viewer credited with its rediscovery within our coverage. Thanks to all this movement working to expose such enigmas has meant that not only are these incredible characteristics now being documented, mentioned, popularized, photographed and studied more and more each day. Now being recognized by more and more critically thinking individuals individually finding evidence of lost technologies that had until then either been undiscovered or deliberately overlooked by the funded academic, the vast catalog of unexplained architecture, again growing by the day, but also the often accompanying curious stone cuts, scars, and striations, all clearly left by high-speed disc-cutting machine, a signature toolmark, identical to that which is left by modern-day power tools, along with the still absent demonstration of the methods used to construct the pyramids, leads anyone to this ongoing and seemingly most controversial of arguments regarding the origins of the ruins found across Egypt. The Colossus of Memmon, each one weighing far over 1,000 tons, would sing every morning an amazing ability we have covered in a previous video, a curious characteristic reported all the way up until the Roman era. We also covered the thick layer of sea salt once found coating the pyramids' ground and underground caverns, along with a waterline reported at around 40 meters up their sides, still visible during the Spanish invasion. This clearly suggests that the pyramids, and their accompanying Sphinx, are in reality so old they even had once been submerged in ocean waters. An ancient ocean which over the eons has shifted, leaving behind sediment in the form of the desert sands. There are many enormous ancient megalithic stones hidden in and around the three great pyramids of Egypt. Not only are their enormous ancient stones virtually hidden in plain sight, thus although walked across, largely overlooked, hardly ever mentioned, and never explained in regards to their transport and placement, as modern academia will never be able to provide a logical sound explanation for these feats. The casing stones, an area of interest we have explored and documented, not only displayed vastly different ages, but also construction methods and types of stones sourced and used. Ultimately, undeniable proof of efforts to preserve the outer stones of these incredible ancient pyramids later on within their history. Signature tool marks, unique features such as protuberances, masonry shapes, polygonal stonewalling, and many other features which we have discovered during our explanations into the relics of lost antiquity. Yet Egypt's most intriguing assets, and we feel the most baffling relics which all alternative historians should have within their debacle armory, are undoubtedly to be found within the once abruptly abandoned quarries. The unfinished obelisk found at Aswan, being one such relic, the most well known of these incredible stones by a long way, not only is the obelisk over 1000 tons, but also due to the identifiable scoop-like tool marks left upon its granite sides, a signature scarring, which again we have so far found explored and shared this marking at many other ancient sites around the world. Who were the original builders of the Great Pyramids? Were they the same group that quarries Aswan? What tools did these people use to cut many of the relics still left at the Elephantine Island quarry? How can anyone gaze upon such precision stonework, and not ponder? How did he accomplish such an incredible finish with such hard stone, with such soft chisels and those made of copper? Not only do we find the currently attested tale of events vastly incomplete, but in many ways virtually impossible. Predictably, we are often confronted with an illogical explanation as to the origins of many unexplainable ruins. Yet Egypt, in particular Aswan and Giza, were clearly the work of a group capable of working and building with 1000 tons plus stones, with columns of pink Aswan granite weighing over 14 tons each over 10,000 km to Baalback. Was this connection mere coincidence? Or are the builders of said sites connected somehow? Possibly one and the same? Questions we get closer to answering every day. We find it highly compelling.


The movement of evacuees from Afghanistan to other transient locations is not as simple as getting on a plane and going. Sometimes there are complications. And when there are, the 512th Army Field Hospital is ready to assist. We're able to treat anything from a heart attack, to appendicitis, to just the coughs and the allergies that we're seeing with this patient population. Some are needing EVAC to launch field medical center, and most we are able to treat right here on the station. And while they expect nothing in return, validation comes as its own reward. It's tremendously impactful and emotional to all of us. The significance of this operation from start to finish is that we're saving lives. The evacuees who have been treated by the 512th have found a unique way to say thank you. Some of them who speak English have found volunteer opportunities to come and work as our translators and help us talk to the ones who don't. Ensuring not only less stress for the medical team, but also that their fellow evacuees get exactly the help they need.


Would you recommend lucid dreaming to live another life? And what I assume they mean by this question is would you recommend actually living an entirely separate life where you're doing and experiencing different things in a lucid dream which is sort of a second life compared to your real life? Yes I would recommend doing that but not in the way that you're thinking. So you're probably thinking that you can lucid dream and it's going to be like a brand new world where you can do anything without any consequences and it's completely separate to what you're doing in your waking life which might be for example you might be in a routine job you might be studying you might be doing whatever it is. Now when I say you should live two lives one in a lucid dream one in waking life what I mean by that is they should complement each other right so you shouldn't have them so separate that you're fulfilling all your world's dreams in your lucid dreams right but you're not actually doing anything special in your waking life. I would always suggest to make sure you focus first on your waking life make sure you're doing things you love doing right make sure you're expressing yourself and you're doing you're moving in a direction that is where you want to go. I would not suggest to follow what people tell you to do if some if everyone's telling you to go in a certain direction or to you know study a certain thing to become a certain person in a certain profession completely ignore that unless it feels right to you and your gut right because your gut feeling or your heart feeling is the most reliable thing that you have to go on if you really feel pulled in a certain direction in life you should absolutely follow that direction without doubt right you should completely ignore everyone else and follow that direction unless it's obviously something illegal or immoral but as long as it's like you know you have good intentions and it's not against the law you should absolutely follow your what you want to do your calling right you should focus on that first then you can start thinking about what you want to do in a lucid dream because what I don't want to happen and what I assume you don't want to happen either is you don't want to get into a position where you're doing really exciting things in lucid dreams but then you wake up and you're sort of sad it's sort of like a gray gel version of your dreams that's really unhealthy and it's you know it's sad to even think about that as a situation you want to be doing exciting things both in your lucid dreams and in your waking life and they'll compliment each other they really will so you'll do you'll do exciting things here in your dreams that will inspire you to then wake up in the morning and say right I'm going to book a trip to Argentina or I'm going to go completely the other side of the world and do something that I've never done before and then that will inspire more dreams because when you have new experiences you have more dreams you're more likely to become lucid if you experience new things as you know dream memory consolidation and without getting into the science of it it's just more fun right why would you want to have really cool experiences in a lucid dream and then wake up and do some boring job that just sucks the life out of you like it's just not worth doing you might as well do fun things in both situations right have fun lucid dreams and have a fun life and I'm not saying this is as if it's sort of some easy option that you can just do at the drop of a hat right obviously there's going to be work involved but just try and move towards what you want to do in life I'm not going to make this into a motivational video it doesn't need to be right motivation should come from within you anyway don't have all your crazy experiences and your most wild adventures in a dream right because you can actually do a lot of those things in real life as well so focus on doing both firstly have a fun exciting life and then secondly have a fun exciting dream life


The US House of Representatives has passed an unprecedented bill which could eventually outlaw the popular social media platform Tiktok. The bill titled Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, if also passed by the Senate that is, would demand that by dance Tiktok's parent company divest all its US assets to another US company or face a total ban of operations. Now while the bill has been forwarded to the Senate, it is reignited so-called US-China trade war in the tech industry. We talk to Anish for more. Anish, thanks so much for joining us. So maybe could you first take us through what has been happening in the US House of Representatives? What are the arguments that are being right now presented? It's been a long, it's been an issue that has been in the news for a very long time in the United States, especially in the houses of Congress. Yes. So when it comes to Tiktok, it has always been the center of, one of those companies that has been at the center of the US-China trade wars, not primarily much because of its own doing, to be very honest, but because it has been identified as one of the targets, especially in the United States by, say, President Trump, former President Trump, and some of his acolytes. So in many ways, it's coming back right now in the entire debate is essentially an indication that this whole US-China trade dispute is going to re-emerge and as a major election issue in the coming days, probably it might, because primarily because there is a good chance that many people believe there's a good chance that Trump is set for presidency next year. So definitely it is going to be at the center of the debates and the election cycle as such. So obviously, a bill like this is going to also put Democrats at a very precarious state because many of them definitely do not want to come across as non-patriots or apatriotic. So obviously, you see the kind of bipartisan support. Definitely many of them did not support the law because obviously it has its own set of legal problems that can actually backfire for very many companies in the future. But nevertheless, we are seeing this sort of bipartisan support. The bill as such, if you look at it, doesn't really deal with the necessity of TikTok or any kind of thing, but it pretty much just compels, it will compel TikTok to essentially sell all of its shares and stakes or assets in the United States to a US company within a span of six months or risk being banned completely from operating in the country. The primary reason given by the makers of the bill is essentially that the new security laws in mainland China pretty much has a clause which can compel companies to tech companies, especially to cooperate with them when it comes to intelligence gathering for certain national security cases. But the thing is, it is not out of the ordinary for a country to have a legislation of that sort. Whether or not we think how problematic it might be, it definitely is not something new. The United States itself has its own set of laws that actually compel tech companies, their own tech companies to divulge information and intelligence to the United States. And that has been a debate set aside. But to use that as an excuse to essentially put the owners on a foreign company to pretty much diverse itself from the United States, not simply diverse itself, but actually to give it away to a US company of their choosing is something that is unprecedented in many ways, especially considering the fact that the US has always prided itself as being this place of pre-trade or competitive trade and business. So this is definitely brings back to the spotlight some of the hypocrisies, but also some of the debates that we are seeing. But the move itself is quite unprecedented in many ways. Anish, of course, like you said, this law is not out of any concern of the kind of problems big tech has because clearly there is no action being taken against similar big tech or US big tech companies. But what do you think what is first of all what lies ahead for this legislation and also how do you think this sort of affects the larger US China trade war, which is the term that is used as trade war, but how do you think it affects that in the coming years? Then Bill, let's begin with that. Its future is quite uncertain because the Senate is a very, you know, it can behave differently. We do not know how each of the senators stand. A large part of that depends also on how much threat other foreign companies actually view such a bill because obviously something of the sort can set a precedent for other companies as well, even companies that hail from allied or friendly nations. So that is definitely something that is going to be a matter of concern for many foreign companies. It's not a matter that only affects TikTok and the lobbying money and how that flows through the Senate will eventually decide how the votes are going to line up to. There is obviously that. But if it comes to fruition, what we're looking at is essentially a political window of sorts because the person that right now is coming up with a plan to buy off TikTok is essentially somebody who was in the Trump campaign as well, who is very close to Trump. In fact, it pretty much lines up as a very political attack on another company. But on the long term, this will be viewed as an attack in itself because China has obviously raised a statement, a position to such a bill saying that it is a sort of banditry that the U.S. is trying to impose on TikTok. The scan actually escalated. Something of this sort actually gets passed and we have heard already from Biden that he will not veto it. It will, in fact, sign the legislation into law. It clearly shows that this is only going to escalate if the Senate eventually passes the bill. And that definitely will have its own set of impact because we already saw what happened with Huawei, the entire extradition process, which never really came to fruition. There was the entire thing of espionage, which was actually quite, there was no evidence that was substantiated in any court of law. So we have seen that kind of process and that can actually bring back the whole entire trade wars as quote unquote trade wars dispute that can actually create global ripples that is not very good for anybody to be very honest. And we have talked about that before, but this pretty much is going back to that era of very uncertain trading disputes that can actually affect global supply chains already at a time when everything is pretty much stressed. So that definitely is something that needs to be kept in mind for anybody observing this, but we are not looking at, we have to first wait and see how the Senate is going to act on the bill and how things are going to move forward from there. Right. Anish, thank you so much for that update. India recently signed a free trade agreement with a block of four European countries. The trade and economic partnership agreement has been signed with what is called the European Free Trade Association. Now this comprises Iceland, Leichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. And it aims to bring in 100 billion dollars in foreign investment to India in the next 15 years in addition to creating 1 million jobs. However, activists have expressed concerns over some of the provisions in the deal, especially in the health sector. We go to Jyotsana for more. Jyotsana, thank you so much for joining us. So free trade agreements often are seen as something a bit esoteric, so to speak. It's a bit difficult to sort of go through the nuances. So maybe could you first take us through what this agreement is about in the first place before we go into some of the matters of concern? So India has been discussing many free trade agreements with the different countries or trade blocks. So this is a particular trade block of four countries of Europe, which is Iceland, Leichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. And it is about, it's a trade agreement. So it has a gamut of things regarding agricultural products, pharmaceutical products and certain general guidelines about trade between India and this trade block of four countries. So that had been in discussion for many years. And as happened during COVID, a lot of free trade agreements, their negotiations were stalled. And, but they have made a comeback again in the past couple of years, and especially last one year. So this is one of the first trade agreements, free trade agreements that India has concluded with a country or a trade block. And this was signed on 10th March this month. So yeah, so that is where we are. Right. So could you maybe tell us what are the reasons for concern that activists are like yawning out? I mean, it is well known. Firstly, the entire politics of free trade agreements is to really bypass the negotiations and the agreements that you arrive at at World Trade Organization, because that is the body which actually where all the countries came together to discuss how the international trade should be conducted. Well, their provisions are really problematic. But when we go for free trade agreements, then developing countries lose even further ground and rather than gaining any. So it has happened again in this case. And I will speak from point of view of access to medicines and the concerns that we have, because India has given in majorly in terms of intellectual property rights. It has given so much rights to the big pharmaceutical companies, it is going to help them and actually work against the generic industry of India, which actually means that the prices of medicines in the long run are going to increase if the provisions that exist in the free trade agreement start to be applied to India. So on that front, it is a major loss for India as we see it. Right. Jyotsa, to maybe explain this a bit more, could you talk about how these intellectual property barriers, as in how do they sort of work and in practice, how does it really affect say a customer, for instance, in India? Right. So the point is intellectual property when a company claims intellectual property over a product, the idea is that there has to be a balance between public health and innovation. So that's what it came about. But as we can understand, the big companies pushed for as much monopoly as possible over their product. And then there are certain provisions which help them. So we know very well about patents and where a company has monopoly and nobody else can produce that product on which the company has a patent till the patent exists only after it exists. Now there we have lost a lot. Firstly, pre-grant opposition, this is something which is very well built in Indian law where anybody, a common citizen of India or any other country also anywhere in the world, a common person or civil society or activists or generic industry manufacturers, they can go to the court or to the government before the grant of the patent to say that this is a bogus patent. Here is out why you should not grant it. Now there this is how the courts function and law functions. But here what we have agreed to is that a lot of power will be given to the controller of the patents in the Indian patent office. And on prima facie, a case can be rejected. So even before hearing the people who have objections, it can be rejected, which we think is going to be really problematic because there is always a tendency to grant patents rather than not to grant. And so we are losing ground there. One good thing probably that has happened is it has been said that the patents granted or opposite not grant should be done in a time bound manner. Maybe that is good. But it should again lead to a proper analysis. And just because we need to maintain some time, we should not be granting more patents than we should be. So that is one major problem. The secondly, working of a patent. So there is, if a company wants to claim patent and if there is an opposition filed, then the company has to prove that it is providing sufficient quantity of medicines in India and only then it can continue to hold the patent. There again, and it actually depends a lot of information is derived from an annual information annually that the company serves to the Indian government and it is available publicly. So anybody can see and you can see, okay, this company is not providing the medicines to India. So we should go to the court. It's an important medicine and let's fight for it. Now, after this agreement, it is saying that the companies have to provide that information, if at all, once in three years. Now, so for the longest of period, people will not be able to find a lot of data which helps in the filing oppositions. Thirdly, and there I would like to say somewhere Indian government, maybe it is not correct to say light, but misled media and the civil society and activists majorly last month because there is something called data exclusivity which means that the data that the company provides will be saved. Now, according to Indian law, there are many ways in which that data can be accessed. So that as soon as the patent expires before that research can be done and the medicines can be produced. So we made a lot of noise about it because a leaked text showed that India was going to give into data exclusivity. The Indian government is on record saying that we are not going to give up on data exclusivity. But in the agreement where we see, so right now they have not done it, but the agreement says every year, once every year, they will revisit whether data exclusivity should be included or not, which actually means extended monopoly will be discussed. And this is a sword which will be hanging on India all the time now. Lost majorly. So the thing is, it is going to impact India's laws. So also, if you agree to these terms in one negotiation, in one free trade agreement, then you have to change your laws, which actually means no other country has to go through so much negotiations with India because we will have to change our laws, which is going to be a big problem. Thank you so much, Joseph, for the update. And that's all we have in this episode of DDD Brief. We'll be back with a fresh episode tomorrow. Meanwhile, do visit our website, peoplesdispatch.org. Follow us on all the social media platforms. And if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit the subscribe button.


This is Dave Vellante, we're live, SiliconAngle.tv's continuous coverage of VMworld 2012. We're here with a couple of CUBE alums, good friend of the CUBE, Rich Napolitano, who's the president of EMC's unified division, and Eric Herzog, who's the senior vice president of marketing for that division. Gentlemen, welcome to the CUBE. Good afternoon. Good to see you guys. Thank you for being here again. Things are good, you know? I mean, Rich, they keep coming at ya. Keep knocking them off. That's right, that's right. It's like Andre the Giant with all these guys coming at him. And you guys are still king of the hill. Congratulations, by the way. Wikibon just released the results last week of its VMware integration study. Independent study of the quality of VMware integration. You guys came out number one again. We're very excited about that. The independent survey of customers. We asked, you know, who's the number one storage supplier in VMware? You guys, we asked customers that were not EMC customers who was number one, and EMC came out number one in that segment. So, across the board, you know, congratulations. No, no, we're very excited. And you guys do a great job on that survey and it's the voice of the customer, right? So, there's no greater truth. Yeah, right. There's no greater truth. Yeah, we're proud of that. We put a lot of time into it. Like you say, it is what it is. It doesn't lie. Yeah, no. And we invest a lot in that space and we'll continue to do that. There's some innovations that are coming this year and next in that space. We're going to continue our leadership. It was the end of the day. If we created, you know, tight solution with VMware, we would use complexity in the data center. And that's one of the key propositions for the market. Reduce complexity, reduce cost. And that's fundamental to really improving IT as we roll forward. So, complexity has been this kind of perpetual inhibitor to growth in the industry. Do you think we've solved that problem? Well, we'll never solve it completely, but we'll make it better. And I think, you know, with every innovation comes the introduction of some complexity. So, the trick is leveraging innovation while taking complexity out. And there's some things that we announced in our DMC world, which I think we'll talk about perhaps a little later, you know, vCenter ops, and just how do we make our technologies, whether it be flash or virtualization or management, how do we remove complexity to get people to receive the benefits of the underlying technology? That's the trick. So, get the benefits of the technology in terms of cost, cost for transactions, cost for capacity, cost to deploy a VM, you know, cost to deploy a seat, take cost out, but make it easy to consume. So, Eric, what's your point of view on all this? I mean, you're relatively new to EMC, a couple years now, right? Yeah. And Ccommon is an outsider. There was actually a lot of change going on in the unified division when you joined. So, from a marketing standpoint, what have you done and where do you want to take it? Well, our key thing at Unified is to drive application integration and application centricity. Everyone can talk about IOPS and gigabytes a second, but not many people can say, here's why our product is best for VMware, here's why our product is best for SQL or Oracle or SharePoint or wherever the app is, including vertical market apps. You know, 50 some percent of all healthcare institutions use EMC storage, for example, integration with a total different set of applications that most horizontal companies wouldn't be aware of. So, our key is focused on application integration and still continue to meet the needs of the storage admins and the storage architects, but at the same time, meet the needs of the CIO and the application owners with the same set of tools that allow them to easily integrate, manage, and monitor and optimize the storage that we provide. That's a critical thing for unified storage. So, Pat was on this morning, I know Rich, you just got here. You're old boss, I guess, was that there? I'm an old boss. Well, you never lose Pat as a boss, that's how it works. There were guys that didn't tell it still worked with Pat, actually, I should point out. And that's through EMC proper now in VMware, they still work with Pat.  But he talked about this museum of legacy systems and, of course, it's VMware's objective to bring all those together. Are you seeing organizationally those changes take place? I mean, Eric, you were just talking about all these different sort of application areas that you guys go after. Is that changing or is it just becoming sort of one ubiquitous IO blender or do you see that sort of staying fairly heterogeneous for a while? I'm not sure I understand the question. So, let me take a shot and then, okay, I guess we could. There's no question that virtualization provides an environment where you can collapse many applications into a common infrastructure. So, we certainly see that where many different types of apps come onto a common infrastructure. I think you had the New York Stock Exchange on here a minute ago. And they talked about very much the same thing from a kind of service provider to their clients. And they have a variety of different applications they build onto a converged infrastructure. The opposite of that is that some applications tremendous scale have discrete infrastructure.  If you look at certain large scale genomics, et cetera, which are file oriented, they'd use Isilon for very, very large scale file implementations. When you look at kind of unified, we live in this kind of hybridized world of kind of block and file, transaction and capacity. And so, many things that have a diverse set of applications on a common infrastructure would be on a kind of unified device. Is that what you were going at? Yeah, okay. So, now how does Flash affect all this? So, Flash is important because Flash is one of those innovations that, you know, we're probably 10, 15% into absorbing those technologies into our products at this time. And so, when you look at Flash, one of our kind of key adages is a little bit of Flash can go a very long way. What we mean by that is you can buy a little bit of Flash and have a dramatic implications on your application's performance. So, some 5% Flash, you can drive 80% of your IOs to that small percent of the Flash, but more importantly, drop the average response time for your applications in half. In other words, reduce response time to your apps literally by 50%. And that has big implications on people's applications. And you couldn't do that with just spinning this. You just can't.  Correct. That's exciting. It's kind of scary. No, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing, right? It's a good thing, right? If you own the assets to be able to do it. And we own all the assets, so we have VMAX, we have Icelon, we have Project X or Extreme IO, we have our hybrid arrays, you know, VNX, Icelon and VMAX, and we have Lightning, we have Thunder, you know, VF Cash. So at the end of the day, we have all the host footprint of, say, like a Fusion IO, we have all the external stuff of IELIN, we have all of the kind of all flash arrays of Pure and some of the startups in the space, and we have a huge portfolio of these hybrid arrays. So at the end of the day, we have every single technology base covered, and which really puts us in a unique position in the market to actually be able to position not a product, but the right solution, because we have everything in the arsenal. There's no one else in that position in the marketplace. Yeah, so how do you see that solution evolving? Does it become more hybridized, more consolidated, more, you know, it's a big thing about converged, or do you see still very specific requirements for different use cases? Well, I think, you know, we talked a minute ago about complexity, and part of the challenge of having this rich portfolio is the complexity that it represents. So one of the things that we work on a lot in the unified storage divisions, and now even across with symmetrics, is to get into things like common management and common replication. So, say, symmetrics and the mid-range now have unispheres, common management. We also have recovery points on common replication. So we drive commonality of those touch points that are really, really important to the customer. Our APIs are getting more and more consistent about how we plug into things, like vCenter operations manager, et cetera. So underneath it, kind of right tool for the right job is our strategy, and understanding the use cases and the technology, but we need to simplify how we articulate that because it's going to be a little overwhelming. So, Eric, I wonder what you'd make of this? I don't know if you were in the keynotes this morning, you may have just arrived yourself, but there's a big discussion about the Software-Defined Data Center, which is all about abstracting the physical, logic from the physical, pooling the resources, and then automating. And there's also been some discussion about software-defined storage. So what do you make of all that from a marketing standpoint, messaging? Is it just sort of industry buzz? Is it real? Well, we see that actually with the unified products is fitting right into that. So VMware has already talked about VVol, and EMC will be their day one with VVol support, which is sort of their first progression. There's always going to be hardware underlying that software infrastructure, and while some people think that will commoditize, what has been proven that if it was all commoditized, it would be naked flash. If it was all commoditized, it would be basic naked disk drives. And quite honestly, people haven't seen that for 20 years, yet EMC and its big competitors are still all in business. And it's sort of proven that when you do these levels of abstraction, you still need tight coupling of what's underneath up to that level of abstraction. So Software-Defined Data Center, as well as Software-Defined Storage, and all of those, will still need a strong storage underpinning from a physical perspective. And what's key is the right stitching between the hardware underneath and how it operates with that software abstraction. So we actually think it's an ideal opportunity, actually for us. And we sort of proven that, for example, with our VMware integration already today. And with integration with other technologies and other software vendors that we share, is we can, as they progress forward with this, we still think we will be the strongest underlying physical devices that will have to stay there. And we will optimize our software and our RAID stack to optimize whatever they've got on the software layer.  It hasn't cut it for 20 years. And the fact that EMC and all of its primary competitors are all still in business and doing well, sort of shows that it really won't change much. It'll just get faster and faster and faster. So let me reinforce some of what we just talked about. You know, these, as Eric talked about, these trends have been going on for a long time, but more importantly, if you take it to a big scale, you're still gonna need core networking. You're still gonna need core networking, switching and storage, right? Because the expectations for centralization, availability, failover, et cetera, big pipes, big infrastructure, you're gonna need that. So if you look at these things, they have to work together. And certainly you have to not, to enormous install base of all this infrastructure. And so very often when we start to find these standards, et cetera, the world wants to go from black to white or white to black and just kind of draw a strong contrast. At the end of the day, these markets are growing so rapidly, there's more than enough space for these technologies to coexist and coexist and must, right? So when we think about software defined networking and storage, that's gonna take a piece of the market and Eric talked about it. We've always had direct attach out there. And so those use cases may expand, but the fact is those, these markets are growing so rapidly that they'll need to be synergistic. I think what's most important about software to find networking and storage is around the control path and the management because that's one of our biggest challenges. So how do you integrate that? How do you make it seamless? Eric talked about and you talked about the awards around VMware integration. That is fundamental to taking the complexity of the infrastructure. So at scale, there is no question you will have dedicated networking and storage infrastructure. And then you can talk about the great agents in between and how you do that and then how do you deal with an install base. But I think there's more than enough opportunity but innovation in software to find networking and storage is fundamental to attacking the complexity of the infrastructure. And it's a system. I mean, you're right, Eric. I've been here for 20 years. Ah, hardware is irrelevant. It's all commodity. It just keeps getting more and more important. It keeps growing because it is a system. Well, I think what happens is when people sort of prognosticate the future, what they prognosticate is we need it to be simpler but at the same time it always ends up getting more complex. So when you look today for example at our hybrid arrays, we're addressing two fundamental problems with the same solution, which is the need for incredible IOP performance. At the same time, the need for IT, whether it's in the mid-market, the enterprise, even in SMB to drive the cost per gigabyte down at the same time. And those are fundamentally diametrically opposed goals. Yet with our hybrid array, the VNX and the coming VNXE, we can actually solve that problem and deliver the IOPs they want which is going through the roof as everything becomes more and more virtualized and more and more applications run and take big data, everything at the same time, we're driving the cost down at the same time. So people who forecast it, software's going to overlay all the hardware and commoditize everything seem to forget that as more and more apps become incredibly complex that you need that power of that hardware coupled with the right coupling, interstitching between the virtualization layer to come together. And I don't think that's really going to change. If anything, more and more and more and more apps are going to get more and more and more complex. So it's going to need pretty soon, two million IOPs won't be fast enough, right? And people will say, oh, you only got two petabytes installed, would it?  So I remember that too very well actually. Now you guys are in the heart of this disruption and I want to get your point of view on something else which is for the last 15 years we've seen function move out of the host, serve into the array and that's been, you guys have capitalized on that and delivered value through a variety of different functions whether it's replication or snapshotting or BCVs or whatever it is. And you're starting to see with flash function move back. And Rich, you talked about the control path and the management. So today, in the last 10 years or whatever, IOs been a scarce resource and you really had to manage that quality of service with flash and all flash arrays and the like. IOs maybe are no longer the scarce resource. Are we going to be managing those from the server view, from the array view, yes? I think it's yes. But don't you need a single point of control? So you need to really take the natural extension of the things that I think we've been doing which is you really look at the manager in the mid-range, Unisphere and VNX, we really approach it two ways. From the top down with our deep integrations with VMware and then from the bottom up which is kind of the element managers up and crossing into the virtualized world. Because at the end of the day, the storage subsystems are special purpose built devices and they have unique properties. And so the average administrator may never want to explore that, but the specialist wants to tunnel into the details of what's happening in these systems. Got to admit if something went wrong and we still live in the physical world. So you really need both, but they need to be seamlessly integrated in a way that you need to be able to peel the onion and not see everything up front. You don't need all the visibility up front. The benefit of virtualization is that abstraction because it allows you to mask the complexity. So as you come down from the top down, you peel the onion, as you cross into these subsystems, they have very specific technologies, et cetera, underneath them and you need really both. But things are morphing too.  I don't even know what defines mid-range. But we just had NYSE on and I was surprised to learn that basically their whole back end is VNX. And I'd say, well, wait a minute, these are the most demanding applications. They're really good. Yeah, we love it. We eat that stuff up. Yeah. You think a bit more from an application perspective, right? I don't think people really blink. If you say to them, what applications are you willing to put on your mainframe? What application are you willing to put on your open system? What application are you willing to put on Windows and Linux? You intuitively know that. Because really it's not about performance. It's not really so much about price. It's really about the SLA, the quality of the overall service. So you still look at many enterprises and their most mission, mission, mission critical thing is still on the mainframe. And it has been in probably a long, long time. And as you come down that tier, so when you really approach it from what's the application requirements, then you get clarity on what the infrastructure is. And it just so happens that these mid-range systems, as we call them, have tremendous price performance. Eric's talked about what's interesting about these mid-range systems on, they're on a tear in terms of technology and innovation to produce IOPS and bandwidth that you could only get historically in a much bigger system. And by the same token, their capacity points are tremendous because they're very, very large now, right? But they don't have 27 controllers in SRDF and Time Finder and all these very broad bus services like you'd find in the mainframe infrastructure. So it's really kind of cool. And it's really extreme my own to the mix and it's like, sure, okay. And VMWare is a software mainframe. Exactly, exactly. So the beauty is there's lots of innovation. There's a lot of innovation. And you guys, you got a lot of resources. You got good cash in the bank. You got a good M&A team.  I was just down in Mexico four or five days ago giving the overall EMC story. And I was jazzed just going because you don't often tell the whole story. And then Joe talks about, we have two methods of innovation, right? One is organic and the other is inorganic. And so we build a lot of stuff. We spend 11% of our revenue in R&D and we continue to invest both organically and inorganically. And, you know, unlike many companies, we've kind of have the equation of how to take something inorganic and bring it into the family and really capitalize on it. A lot of companies struggle with that. A lot of companies will buy assets. Won't name anybody. He's up on the screen over there right now. But it takes him a decade to get benefits out of a technology acquisition. We just don't have it. Well, you know, I mean, in fairness, right? EMC wasn't always good at acquisitions, right? I can remember some early days, but you know, you got it right. I got it right now. The EMC's right up there. VMware, Data Domain, Icelon now. Extreme will be one of the next ones, which just, you know, we figured out and that's really a testament to Tucci and the strategy there. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously got a good process there. I mean, I've said a number of times on theCUBE. I mean, I put you guys up there with Oracle, with IBM, and there's a handful of companies that are really good at acquisitions and you're clearly one of them. Greatest acquisition in the history of the industry, of course, is VMware. Sitting right here, right. So, well, anyway, congratulations on all your successes. I really appreciate you guys coming on theCUBE. Thank you very much, Dave. I really appreciate it. Keep it right there. We'll be right back. SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage. We're live from VMworld 2012. We're right back. Bye bye. Thank you.