Deb kissing is the first item of business this afternoon is the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body Question Time. My Tory members are wishing to ask a supplementary to press the request of people at the end during your relevant question. doubt of the relevant question. To ask the Scottish Parliament corporate body whether it will provide an update on the efficiency of the Pass holder secure entry system to the Parliament in light of reports that pass holders are experiencing difficulties in gaining access. I thank the member for the question. Since April, we have had around 800 pass holders attending Parliament on business days. Although I recognise that there have been a few instances of pass holders experiencing difficulties, those have all been resolved. If anyone is having persistent problems with their pass, I would urge them to contact the pass studio. We would be happy to discuss any particular issues with the pass holder and provide support. I thank the member for that answer. I do not know if the system records how often someone fails to get access, but, one day last week, it took me nine attempts, I tried each of the turnstiles twice and it kept turning me down. Since I lodged this question, a number of colleagues, MSPs and Parliament staff have spoken to me that they also have had similar problems. I do not know if the advice is that we, I think that some people have got their fingerprint removed from the pass would be one answer or get a new fingerprint retaken or if there is some other way we can take this forward. I thank the member for raising the issue. I do appreciate how frustrating it is to have intermittent difficulties with the system. I appreciate the member raising the fact that he spoke to other members and pass holders who experience the same. I would encourage him, in the first instance, to book an appointment at the pass studio and they can check the pass. I will also ensure that the contractor is made aware of the intermittent issues and ask if there are any upgrades that could address any potential glitches and could speed up the process. To ask the corporate body when it will next review the car parking arrangements for MSPs and staff. As the member will recognise, the increased security measures for the car park were recommended by Police Scotland following terrorist attacks in the UK in 2017, and the car park was updated in 2021. While there is no intention to formally review the car parking arrangements, the operation of the car park and experience of users is constantly reviewed and monitored as we seek to balance the need for security with the ease of use for members and their staff. Can I thank Claire Baker for that response? SBC members will know that some time ago I wrote to the chief executive and to them about the difficulties encountered in both exiting and entering the car park. At that time, fairly frequent malfunctions of the barriers that had made that entry and exit extremely slow. Things improved markedly, mainly as a result of careful and judicious manual operation of the entry and exit system, but in recent weeks the process has again been exceptionally slow, although I think that it has been a little better in recent days. Can I just get confirmation, which I think will be of interest to many other members, that the more efficient manual operation will be in place from now on so as to avoid the lengthy delays, especially when several cars and motorbikes are waiting with the resulting car fumes that that entails? I thank the member for the question. I understand that she has a letter with clopart body at the moment and will respond as soon as possible. It is fair to say that there have been teasing problems with the vehicle entry system and those have been dealt with by facilities management and contractors. The member is asking whether we intend to remain in manual mode. I would have to say that that is not the intention, but the more secure operation is to work as it should be operated. There is one outstanding issue to resolve with the vehicle entry gates in the induction loop system. Work to resolve that will be disruptive. The plan is to take it forward during the summer recess. That will lead to a reduction in the need to operate in manual mode and restore the integrity of the system. It is about ensuring that we have the level of security that is required. I know that that is not the answer that the member looks for, but it is an intention to move away from operating in manual mode. To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what action it takes to ensure that children and young people from across Scotland can visit their Scottish Parliament. I thank the member for her question. SPCB provides a school engagement programme through its Public Engagement Services office. We offer schools free sessions and hours at the Parliament. Understandably, Covid changed things for schools and our service. We now have a digital school service, as well as restarting our team who visit schools across Scotland. Those services are popular and especially appreciated by those who do not want to travel to Edinburgh and offer a number of reasons to find coming to Edinburgh to be too challenging. Across our services, we have reached schools in 69 out of 73 constituencies and we are continuing to improve ways of maximising our engagement with schools. Children and young people also visit the Parliament to take part in committee meetings, meet their MSPs and our engaging events programme. I thank Christine Grahame for that answer and appreciate the good work that the Parliament does in the education team. Members will, like me, have visited schools in their own constituencies and seen the interests that children have in the workings of our Parliament. I have been disappointed on the last number of occasions that the young children that I have visited have not been able to visit the Parliament due to cost constraints. They find the cost of transport very expensive. Is there anything that the Scottish Parliament can do to assist pupils in less well-off areas or perhaps those in rural areas who find the travel to Parliament too costly? We are continuing to review how best to deliver our education services in the most effective and inclusive way post Covid. It is important to the SPCB that we can ensure equity and meet the aims of our public engagement strategy to break down barriers for those least likely to engage with us and that we take into account other commitments such as reaching net zero and ensuring the most effective use of our resources. There are many factors around distance travel and deprivation that we would want to consider. From our evaluation forms, we know that 25 per cent of schools say that cost is a factor. To date, the SPCB's approach for those who cannot travel to Edinburgh to visit us has been to provide targeted services in schools. Our outreach and digital services are popular and move other significant barriers such as time away from the classroom. The SPCB is happy to explore whether, as part of this review, offering some sort of subsidy is within its power and helpful to meet our engagement goals of inclusivity. It is important that we consider the feasibility of any subsidy within the context of reviewing our education service as a whole in the context of our wider corporate commitments, including public engagement and sustainability. We will ask officials to engage with schools from across Scotland and look to other legislatures to ensure that any decision takes account of the needs of schools alongside our service capacity to support those needs. I wonder if I can ask Christine Grahame and the corporate body whether or not in the recent memory of the institution there has been any attempt to organise a parliamentary week or a parliamentary fortnight across all of the schools in Scotland that would then allow us to promote the activities and the work that goes on in this Parliament, so in effect reverse the situation that has been described previously in relation to visits but actually taking the Parliament, as it were, into the classrooms of Scotland. I think that my answers have given the endeavour to do this all the year round, but this is a specific question that he is asking me and I am happy to make inquiring into this with the corporate body and report back to him. To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the newest developments are in the creation of Scottish Parliament apps to allow the public easier access to parliamentary papers and other resources. The corporate body does not develop mobile applications ourselves, however, we do utilise several mobile apps to help deliver services to the public. The latest development in this area involves officials working with suppliers to establish how we can bring access to broadcasting material via an app which will be available to the public to download. This app will allow the viewing of live proceedings as well as archived material. The main source of information about parliamentary proceedings remains the website. This has been designed to be accessible and compatible across different types of devices, including mobile phones and tablets. Members of the public, with any device with a web browser and internet connection, will be able to access all parliamentary business papers and other resources from this website. I do not happen to think that that is the satisfactory line that we should be taking, because I know that the corporate body will be aware of my keen interest in the matter of apps, apps that we can download from all the various stores that exist. I welcome the fact that Maggie Chapman has been able to tell me that there is work on going on a broadcast app, which I welcome. We should all be motivated to try to make it easier for the people of Scotland to access this Parliament and view its proceedings. I wonder whether I can ask Maggie Chapman to give me a couple of assurances. First, when we are developing these apps, will there also be space in that development work to create access to business papers, the official report? Will there be a digital annunciator that would allow someone that accesses the app to see what the current business of the Parliament is, who is speaking at any one time, what is being debated? Will there be, in the app that she has already mentioned in her first answer to me, a single-click access in the app to allow viewing of live broadcasts, because one of the problems with the website access to Scottish Parliament TV is that there are too many clicks and it is too difficult to find? My second question is, is it possible to say if a pilot version of the app that she has described or the app that I am describing might be possible to be trialled later this year? I thank Stephen Kerr for that supplementary and I take his point about the multiple clicks that you often have to go through on the website. That is something that we can take back to the web developers and maintainers to see if we can make that a much more streamlined process. On the specific questions of different apps, one of the reasons we do not go down the route of having different apps that members of the public and indeed members have to download from the app store, from Google Play, from other providers, is because that will require constant interaction and engagement with those providers to ensure that updates are compatible with our systems, that our systems are compatible with those apps, including security concerns. That is one of the fundamental reasons why that is not the preferred method of app provision for systems within the Parliament, whether that is for our own use as members or for the public. However, I hear what he says about the business papers, the digital enunciator as well, and we can certainly take those forward into conversations that we have about that. In terms of the pilot scheme, I think that that would be something that I would have to come back to to Mr Kerr on. I am not sure exactly at the stage how far our developments are, but I do know that Mr Kerr is meeting with our head of digital services next week, and I am sure that he can pick up some of those points as well. Thank you, Ms Chapman. That concludes Scottish Parliament corporate body questions. There will be a brief pause for the front bench's change before we move on to the next item of business.


Now, here is your host, Dave Vellante. We're back at Oracle Open World here at Moscone Center. We're in Moscone South in the QLogic booth. Please stop by and see us. This is theCUBE. theCUBE is SiliconANGLE's live mobile studio. We got to the events. We extract the signal from the noise. This is our fifth year at Oracle Open World and we were able to get here in 2010. Really, there were two companies that enabled us to be here. First is QLogic. QLogic gives us this great space within their booth, very generous. The second was EMC. EMC at the time said, we think that the Oracle customer base is important. It's one of our biggest customer bases. It's strategically important for us and we want to help our customers understand what's going on at Open World. So EMC helped us get here. So thank you for that EMC and QLogic. Vinay Gankar is here. He's the director of product management for Extreme I.O., which is a division within EMC. So we're going to talk about Flash. Flash is one of the biggest disruptive changes in infrastructure. It's got a huge affinity to databases generally and Oracle Database, specifically Vinay. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Thanks a lot Dave. Really happy to be here. So it's been an interesting week already. You know, Sunday night, Oracle comes out. They got the slide. We're X times faster than Extreme I.O. We got this new product. And it's quite interesting to me because it's sort of an apples to oranges comparison. Extreme I.O., and I believe it's called FS1, is the Oracle product that's a sand that has spinning disk in it, it has Flash in it. Do you have spinning disk in your product? I don't think so. So what do you make of all that? Hey, great question to start off. It came out last night. We don't have all the time to look at it, but reading through their marketing materials and datasheet, it looks like a hybrid array to me so far. One of the key things that kind of came out after combing through their datasheet, there's no mention of latency in there. It's really interesting when you talk about Flash, Flash starts with latency, right? So to me, it's a hybrid array with Flash and disks. So we have to see more data in terms of, you know, what exactly it can do and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, you're right. It's surprising that Oracle's not talking about latency, especially given that we're talking about a database environment. Why does latency matter in a database environment? Can you explain that to our listeners? Yeah, absolutely. Think about Oracle.    Latency directly transformed into the business value. The amount of money you can save and the faster process you can complete, right? So latency is an important aspect for certain Oracle applications like OLTP kind of databases. So that's why you see that Flash has been this transformation technology, especially for databases. So to me, the number one characteristic of Flash array has to be this latency, which is consistent and which can be consistent when you start loading your system, when your data growth increases what you have when you start loading up your system. So latency's all, Flash is all about latency to start with and there are obviously other things that Flash has to do. Yeah, so that's how I get, DBAs want an application as they want consistent performance. That's what they always tell us. You know, raw performance, that's nice. The benchmarks are nice and I love benchmarks because it's a stake in the ground but it's that consistent performance in a real world application. So my question to you is, give us the update on Extreme I.O. What are you seeing in terms of your ability to affect that consistent performance, that desire for consistent performance? Sure, absolutely. So one thing we see trend that's happening is in the database environment, now the DBAs take the center stage. DBAs wants to have all the productivity tools in terms of reducing their complexity in terms of managing the database infrastructure. Like a recent I.O.U.G, independent Oracle user group said, DBAs spend about 70% of their time looking at performance issues. They're not able to spend enough time on strategic issues like, can we consolidate? Can we bring more efficiency to your infrastructure? Unfortunately, they're not able to do it. Now with consistent performance, you're taking away the performance issues associated with your database, right? That's number one. So as part of that, you have to make sure that you can deliver the consistent performance while delivering other storage capabilities that you have. For example, deduplication. On Extreme I.O., deduplication comes as part of the architecture. Running deduplication does not have any impact on performance. The consistent latency remains consistent. We also have Snapshot, which we released about a quarter ago. Snapshot have almost zero impact on our storage performance. And then, and we're going to announce, we have announced as part of an upcoming 3.0 release of compression, right? Now together with consistent performance and data reduction technologies and data copying technology like Snapshot, we have a complete solution for databases. And if we talk about this to any DBA, the DBAs like this story very well. We have done so far very well in the few quarters we've been selling. So it's a great ride so far. We think we have a very, very strong, effective, interesting product in Extreme I.O. for databases, Oracle databases. I've seen that Oracle user group study. The independent I.O.U.G. Independent Oracle user group study talks about how DBAs spend their time. We actually went out and talked to them and some of the ones that had brought in a converged infrastructure to understand how that affected their time. Whether it was an Exadata or a Vblock or whatever, who's ever converged infrastructure and studied that. And we found that it dramatically impacted their time positively. And they spent now more time on the application. Have you seen, do you have examples or proof points where folks have brought in Extreme I.O.  Absolutely. I can talk about a big medical analytics company in the New York area. So these guys manage one of the biggest medical analytics shop in the United States. In their case, they have production databases. The production database, in that case, is kind of OLTP and also data warehouse. It kind of merges your traditional OLTP and data warehouse, which means that you have small, random I.O. and large, you know, sequential reads, right? So that's one aspect of the production database. So they moved that to on Extreme I.O. And they're seeing huge benefits. Now that is kind of expected that we can provide the consistent, you know, low latency, consistent performance. But in addition to that, they have a huge ancillary infrastructure, which is they're testing there. There are other infrastructure that are needed to be making sure their production runs fine. Their new applications are tested, right? So now they're able to bring all that into one infrastructure where they can manage, they can consolidate the whole thing, they can manage it more in a simple way and also brings out more agility because their infrastructure is not one infrastructure. They can create copies on demand. They can, you know, finish their testing and development more quickly because they're testing them, now runs on their production system, which is same as production, unlike in previous cases where they had to isolate this to make sure their production runs okay. But because of the consistent performance Extreme I.O. provides, they don't have, that is not an issue anymore. So it's like, and then for this, there are other customers like this, we're seeing on a day-to-day basis now Dave, so it's amazing to see this story is coming in. As you probably know, early on Wikibon did some research on how to sort of optimize your Oracle license spend and what we discovered was, and this was sort of pre, before the days of all flash arrays really exploded, but we started with taking Flash, putting it into an existing hybrid array and optimizing the I.O. infrastructure. And what we found was, you could dramatically cut, I mean, I think it was up to 30% plus in the cases that we studied, the number of cores, which had a direct impact on database licenses because Oracle licenses its database based on the number of cores, which then ripples through to the maintenance. So I wonder if you could talk about that, what you've seen in the customer base. Of course, not just Oracle, it's true for SQL Server, it's true for IBM DV2, which just makes sense, that's how they all price. So the bottom line is beefing up your storage infrastructure a little bit, maybe spending a couple hundred thousand dollars more actually could save you significantly more than that. 500, 600, 700, maybe a million over the life of those database licenses. Have you seen that in the field? Absolutely, we see that almost every day. Now, the reason for that is that the typical sizing for cores is based on what is your storage can provide, the latency it can provide, right? So- Oh, we're talking about latency again. Exactly, I mean, it finally comes down to latency. Now, when you talk about that, the latency impacts the utilization of the CPUs, the cores, right? So now, if you can provide better latency, you can make your cores run in better utilization than it used to before. So, which also translates to reduced number of cores. That's the, you know, that's a natural way of thinking about. And that's how our customers are thinking, can I run my 100 queries that need, let's say 20 cores today or 24 cores today in less number of cores? That's the question they're asking. Now, because I have faster storage, I should be able to do that. And that's been the proof themselves. So obviously, like you said, it is reduced number of cores, right? It's kind of very obvious how that happens. And also all the other costs associated with the core, maintenance and what not, right? Yeah, this is a very interesting solution flash, especially for XTMIO in terms of how you can consolidate and reduce overall infrastructure cost. You know, I saw the Gartner Magic Quadrant come out. Obviously, you guys must have been pretty happy with that.  I have to say, I was a little surprised. Can you talk about that a little bit?  Maybe a different class of product. Why do you think you were able to achieve that? I mean, that's a horrible question, but I want to unpack that a little bit. You know, people used to say, well, it's because you spent a lot of money with Gartner. Okay, I know the Gartner guys. And while they get criticized a lot for that, it's not that easy. You know, you got to have some chops. So, but I was a little bit surprised given the newness of XTMIO. You guys were in directed beta for so long. What am I missing? So, we are really happy to be figuring the top right corner as part of the Magic Quadrant. So, Dave, it all starts with the EMC brand value. EMC has been selling storage for years and we've been the leaders, right? XTMIO is the new form of array, new all-flash array as part of EMC bigger portfolio. So, the brand of EMC automatically is now attached to XTMIO. The sense of quality EMC brings to the table and our ability to execute, right? All these different aspects of EMC comes into play when we talk about XTMIO. That's what we're not surprised that we are there because we are EMC and we have a great storage array, all-flash storage array, which is very unique in the industry. Like I said, we've been shipping only for now three quarters. We're not done, this is the third quarter we're shipping. So, we're happy to kind of getting that. We hope to improve upon that in coming quarters, coming years. Now, what should customers know about XTMIO? We've got new software release coming out. Can you talk to practitioners about the migration plan from where they are today for the existing customers? Obviously, the new guys have to have to think about it, but for the existing ones, how do they go from A to B and how do you minimize that disruption? Can you talk about that migration plan? So, I believe you're talking about our upcoming 3.0 release. Yes. So, let me highlight some of the key aspects why we are doing 3.0. So, 3.0 is essentially very relevant to the audience here. Now, 3.0 will improve article performance by 30% to 40%. And it'll cut down storage costs by half because of our compression. That is the biggest value 3.0 is bringing. So, we are offering an EMC service. It's a free service to our customers, existing customers, to move from the existing version to 3.0. Now, our customers have been appraised from beginning. They see the huge value 3.0 brings in terms of performance, in terms of compression that we bring into the table. So, for us, it's about providing them the part and we are doing it through a free service, EMC service. It is like, Dave, it's like you have a Mercedes car. EMC will bring with another Mercedes car and a chauffeur and they will take you for a weekend ride while your existing car is being serviced, upgraded. When you come back, your car is now more performance and more efficient. So, that's the way we're thinking about it. It's a service that we are offering. So, we are really excited that this is coming along and we're really great to see all the input and appreciation from our customers. Well, that's classic EMC, right? I mean, migration's never been an easy thing. So, okay, so you're wrapping services around that to make it as seamless as possible for customers and then these customers get compression, D-juice already there. What else do they get? So, 3.0, like I said, it improves Oracle performance by 30 to 40%, right? So, that's the biggest thing that you're going to get in addition to compression, right? And we think that this is a new platform for us to deliver new services on top of this architecture. So, now your competitors would say, oh, it's a disruptive migration. Can you promise me that this will be the last disruptive migration that I'll have to face or no? Yeah, absolutely. That's what we are thinking about it. So, this was a tough decision there. This was a tough decision to have this what we call upgrade which needs EMC service, right? It was a tough decision, but we had to do it. I think we're doing the right thing because we wanted to deliver more value to our customers. Well, it's early on too. Had you done this four years in, would have been a different story. No, absolutely. And then note that this allows you to keep your existing investment. We're not asking to throw away your hardware that you've already bought from us. So, it'll keep your existing, you know, intact. It's a software upgrade. I don't have to buy new hardware. And EMC has a lot of experience with this, but you know, especially with Symetrics and VMAX, and that was big. So, you learned a lot from that. And you've been able to keep your customers to your point about EMC's execution. People are always telling me, because they always get accused of being an EMC fanboy, but you have to give the company a lot of credit for its ability to migrate through some of these really difficult hurdles. Right. And customers keep coming back for more. Oracle, same way. You know, you got to give companies that are able to migrate to those transitions a lot of credit. And the reason is because the delivering value.  There's a crowd out there that says, oh, it's going to replace spinning disk. Greg Shearer was on this morning and said, even if you want to replace every spinning disk out there, there's not a flash capacity in the planet to do that. So, obviously that's not going to happen anytime soon. Having said that, there's really alluring value in flash. All active data will be on flash. So, where do you see this whole thing going in the next three to five years? So, if you look at the data growth day, the most of the data growth is happening in the active data, like you mentioned, right? I believe that my personal opinion is that most of those active data will be on flash. So, which means that there is a huge growth in active, there will be huge flash adoption because to serve this active data. What happens to other kind of data? Obviously, you know, data is made of different kind of different storage out there. People said tape will go away, state still exists in enterprise boundaries. Same thing happened to a disk. But, the amount of huge growth that you will see in active data will really propel this flash adoption. Vinay, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE and helping us unpack some of the innovations that are going on in Extreme I.O. We're very interested in seeing EMC's formal response to the Oracle's claims. That'd be great to see. It's a lot of fun here at Oracle Open World. It always is. So, again, thanks for coming to theCUBE. Thanks a lot. Really happy to be here. All right, keep it right there, buddy. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE. We're live from Oracle Open World 2014 and we'll be right back.


The secret to making money with your laptop. Hey, do you have a laptop? You plan on getting a laptop? You can make money with it. I know I have this laptop here. So matter of fact, since I've started my business, oh, 2009, I've had three laptops. I had a PC. I'll never go back to PC again. And then I had a Mac Air. And then about a year and a half ago I got this laptop right here. This is a MacBook Pro. I didn't need this. I got to tell you, my Mac Air was probably fine. It was starting to get a little bit slow. I had had it for, I want to say, about six years, something like that. And I wanted this one because it was nicer. Now, this, this here, this laptop, has made me millions of dollars. No, I'm not kidding. It's made me millions of dollars because of the things I did with it. In this video, I want to share some of those things with you so that you can do the same thing. 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Vlogging is video documented subject matter. Now, how do you make money there? You go, well, if I write, how do I make money off that? How's that gonna work? Well, the vlog or the blog, just like this video I'm making right now is just to get an audience, okay? Once you have that audience, you need to sell them something, okay? So down in the description there, I've got a free course. You could opt in for a free course down there. It's a $97 course, click and learn. But if you opt in for my free course, I have some other stuff and I'd like to show it to you and sell it to you. I mean, I really do wanna make money, okay? That's my whole point online. But you could also have affiliate links within your blog or vlog. So these affiliate links could go to Amazon and you could make money from products they buy. And even if they click on that link and they go to Amazon, they don't buy that product. If they buy anything within the next, I think 72 hours, you're gonna get a commission on it. So you could do that also in your vlog or blog. Also on your blog, you could put native ads on there. Ads could pop up on there and you could make money from ads since on the ads on your blog. So that's another way to make money. If you have a video channel like I do here on YouTube, YouTube can put ads on your videos and you get paid as those ads run. So that's another way to make money. So blogging and vlogging in itself doesn't make money. It's all the ancillary things that are hooked into it that help you make money. Number five, sell your services. What are your services? What can you do? Can you make a website? Can you write emails? Can you build a sales page? Can you do data entry? Can you answer a phone? You know, there's so many things you can do and all of these are online and you can get paid for them. You can go to sites like Fiverr. Put your profile on Fiverr and put what your talents are. And if you don't have talents, I tell people this over and over again, get some. Just go get them. They're out there, okay? Go watch YouTube videos on how to make a website and start selling your services on how to make a website. Go watch YouTube videos when doing Facebook ads or heck, I have a Facebook ads course down in the description. You could grab that course, learn how to do Facebook ads and you could sell that service to businesses in your town. There's plenty of restaurants. There's plenty of nail salons, especially after COVID-19, that are gonna need business. They need to get their business in and you say, why don't they just do it themselves because they don't have time. They're running their business. They're running the nail salon, the barbershop, the restaurant. They don't have time to get into ads, but you do. And you can charge people 1500, 2000, $3,000 a month just to do their ads. What if you had 10 clients at three grand? That's $30,000 a month you could have coming in from this laptop right here, okay? It's that simple. Next thing you can do is sell digital products, digital products.  I have courses and I have downloads. I have all these things that I can sell and they generate money for me on a daily basis. Digital courses are a great thing to learn how to do. Now I have a lot of videos on this channel and if you search digital products or digital courses within my channel, you're gonna find some more videos and I'll teach you how to do it. I'll teach you for free how to do digital products and you can have monthly income every single month off your digital products. So I don't want you to think of this laptop as something that cost you money.  It's gonna go down in value. This laptop here has made, and my other laptops have made me millions of dollars. They have, they just have. Because of the things I can do with them, I can take this laptop to any country in the world and start typing on it and have money coming in. I mean, that's really pretty cool. I mean, that didn't exist 25, 30 years ago. That wasn't even a thing.  If overnight means six months to a year, I mean, in six months to a year, you can make a lot of money. It was, I think, within the first 24 months when I started my business, we hit a million dollars. And I was like, wow, that's pretty cool because that didn't exist before. And I also wanna prefix it with this. I didn't know how to make money online, okay? I didn't have a product to sell. I wasn't good at sending emails. I can't type to this day. But I made money online because I learned those things. And you can learn the same things too. On this channel, I would challenge you. Go through my channel and watch 100 videos. And I bet you if you watch 100 videos, you'll be able to make money online. Probably 50, but I would say 100. Watch 100. I need the watch time, okay? Really, honestly, I need to watch that. But it will help you because all of the videos on this channel are there to assist you in making money online. Now, have you tried some of these things? Have you tried to make money online? Do you have a laptop? I wanna hear about that. There's a comment section below there. And I want you to tell me about your experiences. Maybe you have some special skills that you're not certain would make you money. Put that comment below because I'll look at that and I'll direct you to where you need to go with that skill or I'll let you know if I think that'll make you money. Maybe you've already made money. Maybe you're saying, hey, JR, I figured this stuff out and I've made a lot of money. Put that in the comments below. Not only is that cool for me to read but all the other people that see your comments there, it will encourage them. And isn't that what you wanna do? Encourage people, make their lives better. And if you've got some other talents, the one thing I wanna give you as a bonus is eBooks. EBooks, eBooks, eBooks, they're so good. And you can also turn eBook into a hardcover book or softcover book. But the point with eBooks is somebody actually can buy a book from you and when they buy the book from you, they get an electronic file. So that doesn't cost you anything, okay? So they can actually give you money and you can give them electronic file. And if you are not skilled at writing books, you can certainly hire somebody on five or Upwork, give them the idea, give them the outline and they can actually write the eBook for you. And one other thing I would tell you about eBooks is people like shorter rather than longer. They don't want a 600 page book. They just don't, okay? Most people would really shy away from 600 page books. As a matter of fact, I've never seen a survey on this but I'd like to see a survey on how many pages is in a book versus how well the sales are.  But if people are judging books by their cover and they do and they look at how many pages are there and your book is 60 pages and you say, hey, you know, in two hours you could go through my book and know how to ski better, know how to run better, know how to cook better, know how to exercise better, know how to lose weight faster. If you could do that in two hours most people are gonna be in. If I say, well, it's gonna take you about three or four days to read this book they're gonna go, maybe not. So you don't have to have a long book either but eBooks can really make you some money.  Do me a favor, give me a like, don't forget to subscribe, there's a button there and once you subscribe you want to ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so that I can let you know every time I do a new video. And when I go live, so me and you can talk one on one. I really appreciate you watching this video and I'll see you in the next one. Hey, thanks for watching my video. 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Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Matt Zaglin, Scott Hepburn, and Bjorn Andre. Coming up on DTNS, David Spark is here to tell us the security trends coming out of the RSA conference, plus the Insteon Smart Home Server mystery, and how much you should worry about the Apple M1 chip vulnerability. DTNS starts now. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, June 10th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Shen. And joining us, co-host David. Yes, David, I'm sorry. I almost left you to introduce yourself. Co-host and producer of the CISO series, David Spark. Welcome back. It's good to have you back, man. I'm thrilled to be back. Let's start right in with a few tech things you should know. Netflix announced several new game titles that are tied into its TV show. For example, the Queen's Gambit chess game is, as you might assume, a chess game coming sometime later this year. Shadow and Bone Destinies is a single-player RPG set in the world of the show too hot to handle. If you're not familiar, it's designed to mimic the reality show where singles are on an island competing for shockingly very little money. And Casa de Papel is a heist game. There are also several other games not directly tied to Netflix franchises. That's what I thought they'd be doing right from the beginning, but interesting. Truckers in South Korea increased a strike action on Friday. This is a story worth keeping an eye on because it could reduce delivery of material needed for semiconductor manufacturing. Container traffic at the port of Busan was down by a third. Port activity at Incheon was down to 20 percent, and port activity at Ilsan was suspended as of Tuesday. It also has cut Hyundai's factory production by half and affected steel maker Posco. The truckers are protesting the effect of rising fuel costs, and President Yoon Suk-yool is taking a neutral stance, which means an agreement may take longer. And if this drags out, that's going to affect the supply chain. If you might recall, Seth Green, the actor and producer, built a TV show around a board Ape NFT that he owned. Board Ape NFTs carry intellectual property rights with them, unlike many other NFTs, but that's what they do. You also might recall that his board Ape was stolen and then sold to somebody who went by the alias Darkwing84 and Mr. Cheese. Well, we've got some good news. Board Ape 8398, aka Fred Simeon, has been transferred back to Seth Green as of Tuesday. Our long global nightmare is over, everybody. A wallet controlled by Green transferred 165 Ether to a wallet controlled by Mr. Cheese. So it looks like Mr. Green paid about 100,000 more than Mr. Cheese had paid for it. So that's where we land on this one. I love the screen and cheese and a story about money. At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD announced that Zen 4 CPUs will arrive later this year, offering 8 to 10% faster instructions per clock than Zen 3. Single threaded performance gains greater than 15% and more than 25% improved performance per watt. Company will also introduce Zen 5 in 2024 with all new micro architecture and integrating AI and ML optimizations. On the graphics side, AMD said its RDNA 3 GPU architecture will be built on a 5 nanometer process and offer at least 50% improved performance per watt and be built on a chiplet design for efficient scaling. Two government regulatory stories worth keeping track of today. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority plans to launch an investigation into Apple and Google's market power and mobile browsers, as well as into Apple's cloud gaming restrictions. The CMA also launched a separate investigation into the Google Play billing requirements in the Play Store and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted documents saying it's upgraded its investigation into incidents with Tesla's autopilot to an engineering analysis. That's its second and final phase before it could determine a recall. Could get a recall there. That's worth keeping an eye on too. All right. Let's talk about Insteon. Back around April 16th, smart labs apparently shut down the company. Just shut down and Insteon's smart home servers went down with it because smart labs owns Insteon. Now, Insteon light switches, outlets and sensors all still worked over RF, but users couldn't access their hub remotely and cloud integrations with Google and Amazon stopped working because they relied on those servers. A few days after that shutdown, smart labs said it had failed in attempts to sell Insteon and had therefore handed over the intellectual property to a third party for sale. That's all we heard until this week. Tuesday, Stacey on IoT, Stacey Higginbotham's newsletter reported that some of her users as well as folks on a Reddit thread reported that their hub just started working again. No warning, which I mean, that's a good thing, but nobody told him it was going to happen. It just happened. It seemed that Insteon servers had come back on. Sarah, we had a mystery. We did. The mystery cleared a little bit on Thursday when somebody named Ken Fairbanks, that CEO of Insteon Technologies, posted that a small group of passionate Insteon users that have successfully inquired Insteon. They explained that their first priority was getting the servers back online. Then they did that before they had access to the Insteon website or email or social accounts, hence the lack of communication. It was a clandestine move. That makes sense, but it'd be interesting to find out how Fairbanks' group was able to purchase the company when others could not. Stacey Higginbotham, as you mentioned, Tom, reported that Universal Devices CEO Mike Conanim said in June that his company, which makes a popular hub, that works with the Insteon system, made a bid but was rebuffed. I've got a clue on why Fairbanks may have succeeded where Mike Conanim didn't. In his LinkedIn profile, he has a history of business development and investing, as you might expect somebody leading an investor group that bought Insteon. But it includes a stint with Smart Labs as VP and General Manager from 2004 to 2007, where he was, quote, responsible for the development, marketing, and business development of the Insteon home control networking technology and products. So he kind of helped bring Insteon about in the earlier days. Obviously, he says he's part of a passionate group that wants to restore it and he's got a stake in that, but he probably had some connections that he could pull to get this deal to happen. And good too, right? Because Insteon users get their service restored. However, I don't know, David, does this give you confidence that if you buy smart home material? Too much hot potato here, or is it just kind of business as usual? This was the thing with all these smart home networks, whether you had to choose one, whether ZigBee was one and was a direct competitor to ZigBee. I'm trying to remember. Z-Wave. Z-Wave, thank you. And they were, I remember at CES, this goes back a number of years, the two of them were kind of fighting tooth and nail and their booths were right next to each other. And it was all of like, you got to choose one environment, another, and it's of the, you know, the beta VHS days too. Pick a team and hope you picked the right one. The Insteon people picked the wrong one, but luckily not all is lost. Yeah, and even when matter comes, which I'm cheering for, it's going to come. Yeah, don't hold your breath. Later this year. No, it's going to come, Sarah. I believe in it. When matter comes, it'll end that war. It'll end that HD DVD blu-ray war for that part of the battle. But something like this could still happen because even if you're using matter, you still might have servers that are providing at least integration with cloud, right? In which case, if you're a smaller company and your servers go away, you could have this kind of disruption. So it is a weakness in the system if you've got cloud based service for stuff, which you kind of have to have.  That's a good question. I'm sure I have.  Well, you were essentially setting a trend. But I don't know if I ever had something go away while I was, oh, you know what, Google Reader. That's the closest I can think of. All right. I guess that would apply to me as well. And many other Google services, but that was one I was relying on quite a bit for my daily driver. Let's talk some chips, shall we? Apple's M1 chips like some ARM chips implement something called PAC or PAC, which stands for pointer authentication code. PAC checks are used to protect the CPU against attackers with memory access. PAC was introduced in ARM 8.3. It adds a cryptographic signature to pointers in memory. So if an attacker tries to replace the pointer, like with a buffer flow attack, for example, it won't have that signature and will be rejected and the attack will fail or it should fail if all things go well. It's a last line of defense though. If an attack has succeeded against the operating system and is compromising memory pointers to execute its attack, PAC can still stop it unless you do this attack method that folks at MIT discovered. Tom, I know you looked into this a bit. Yeah, yeah. This is both very interesting, bad for people in certain situations, but for most of us, a curiosity and good that they found it, not somebody else. Scientists at MIT CSAIL developed what they call a PACMAN attack on Apple M1 systems on chip that can find correct values to pass the check. So first, there would need to be a successful vulnerability on the software side that would otherwise be stopped by PAC. If you don't have that, this attack doesn't work. You've got to have that vulnerability. Then the attack uses a speculative execution attack. These are pretty common now. If you've heard of Spectre and Meltdown attacks on the x86 instruction set, this is a similar type of attack on ARM. Speculative execution tries to anticipate tasks before they're called for in order to speed up processing. So speculative execution is a good thing. That's what the processor is using to speed up its work. Speculative execution attacks can read patterns in how the processor anticipates those tasks and then deduce data from that through a side channel. The MIT scientists conducted a speculative execution attack and then judged whether they had guessed the correct PAC value or not through the side channel because there are only so many possibilities for a PAC value. They just kept guessing until they got the right one. And then they were able to get past the PAC defense and let the vulnerability happen. So the PACMAN attack requires physical access to the machine. You're not going to be able to do that speculative execution attack over software, not remotely anyway. That's the good news and the bad news.  On the other hand, it also means it cannot be patched. So the question you're probably asking is, how bad is this?  No. I mean, unless you have some other beef with it, don't throw away your laptop or don't get angry at Apple in the same situation because the attacks work against any ARM chip that is implemented PAC, including chips from Qualcomm and Samsung. So it's not just an Apple issue. The attack wouldn't be necessary against chips that don't implement PAC as those chips don't have that protection. But PAC also doesn't bypass all security on the M1. Only bugs that otherwise would only be stopped by PAC checks. Because of that, Apple told TechCrunch that it had concluded this issue does not pose any immediate risk to our users and is insufficient to bypass operating system security protections on its own. The forthcoming M2 has not been tested for the flaw. I'm sure it will be. But as of right now, still juries out. The scientists who discovered the attack will present findings on June 18 at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Yeah, and we'll probably get a few more details about this. David, you're right there in the security space these days. How does this make you feel? Honestly, I'm not a Mac user, so I'm not as concerned. But you might be a Qualcomm user. You might be a Samsung user, right? Yes, it was.  I mean, speaking of vulnerabilities in general, one of the from Canada security, their big vulnerability security company, and they'd calculated like 60% of all vulnerabilities you can flat out ignore. So I mean, every company is dealing with thousands. You really need to understand how this impacts your environment. So for me, it's not really impacting my environment, but for someone else, it could be a monstrous. And so the answer to how do you feel is, how is this connecting to your environment? Yeah, right. If you are a high value target, and you might be in a situation where you'd have to hand your laptop over to somebody, or your laptop might be out of your control, maybe you leave it in a hotel room or something, you might need to think about this. You might need to think about the fact. And you'll be very curious on June 18th to find out, okay, physical access, but how long do they have to have physical access? Does it require soldering, that sort of thing? And most of us are not going to be in that situation. And the other thing that Apple's saying is, we're also trying to protect you from these vulnerabilities in the operating system. It's not like the M1 was the main defense against these vulnerabilities. We're hoping to shut down all these kinds of memory attacks that you would need in the first place before they ever get to the processor. This was just the safety of last resort. So it essentially sets the security on an Apple back to where it was before PAC was implemented in the ARM chip set, which it isn't always implemented on a lot of chips already. So yes, it's a good thing they discovered it. Hopefully they get it fixed in the M2. I don't think it's devastating for 99% of M1 users. What you should be more concerned about talking about physical access is when you hand your phone over to one of those fix-it companies to put a new screen on. Yeah, you make sure that you're super trustworthy, that they're not going to go in and do something. But there's all kinds of other things they could do in that situation more than this. This might not be the one that they try to use. Yes, I know what I'm just saying. You didn't need this for them to cause it. Yeah, exactly. No, that's a very good point. Essentially, if someone's having physical access to your machine, that's... It's a whole different ball game. That's a whole different ball game. That's concern one.  Our email address is feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Send us a long note. WWDC was not the only tech conference going on this week. The IT security-focused RSA conference ended Thursday. David attended the event. And as it has become tradition on Daily Tech News Show, has showed up to talk to us about some of the trends you noticed. Honestly, I think this was my 10th RSA, and I may... This might be actually close to 10 appearances with you. It could be. I think you've done it pretty much every year we've done the show, yeah. Yeah, I've come many, many, many times. So I will always precursor this with the show is enormous. There's no conceivable way I can see all of it. So this is Dave's review from what I saw, what my eyeballs and ears could see and hear because it's... And this is... By the way, these are just views of the show floor, which was plenty packed. It wasn't the volume of people. I think the volume was probably half, about 20,000 people. They've had like 42,000, I think was back in 2020, at the beginning of 2020. But I will say that in terms of booth sponsors, it was completely packed. They sold essentially every spot on the floor to cybersecurity companies. And the thing that's amazing for those of you not in the world, that world only is growing with new competitors, essentially new players in the marketplace. And that, again, these are just numbers I've heard. In the early days, I had heard 3,000, 4,000. And then I was hearing 5,000 companies. Now I've heard as high as 6,000. Who the friggin... No, and real quick, this happens in San Francisco, correct?  Well, the venue is enormous now. So for those who've ever been to the Moscone Conference Center, there used to be a North Hall and a South Hall for all the booths. But there's been such a demand that the Moscone Center actually did a major conversion. And there is no North and South Hall. It's just one giant hall, because they connected the two. And so there's like, pretty much now they added another 50% more space, if not even more. For a booth. So it's just, it's overwhelming. It's just an enormous marketplace, period, cybersecurity. And most consumers don't know it, because they're not selling to consumers. They're just vendors selling to other businesses to secure their environments. All right, so obviously one of the trends is, you keep hearing about all these vulnerabilities, folks. Guess what? That means security is booming. There's more companies needed than ever. Does it feel like companies are taking it seriously? More factors come in. This is the thing is that, there were days that you only needed firewall and some identity management type thing. But now there's all these new vectors. Oh no, there's IoT, Internet of Things. And we need to secure that environment too. And oh, now we also have cloud. We now have to secure that environment. Oh, but there's many vectors of cloud. And there's the issue of how are you configuring your cloud? Well, you need a security program to handle that as well. And are you multi-cloud? Well, you need to have security to manage your multi-cloud. The number of vectors, it's endless. And then Gartner, the research firm, keeps coming up with a new category. There was one called, that came out a while ago. I don't know if Gartner didn't coin it, but called XDR. Actually, I think it was Palo Alto Networks that coined it. And nobody was really glomming on. But at this year, the show XDR, which is the next generation of what EDR, which stands for Endpoint Detection. Crowdstrike, probably the biggest player in that space. XDR is kind of the next level of, how do I detect on the endpoint, but how do I connect it to all the other knowledge I have in my environment to tell the story of what the heck's going on? And it also includes my cloud endpoints as well. So it's more, there's more acronyms to learn, more categories, more confusion, it's overwhelming. What's the messaging around security? What was the tone that you felt? The tone, I think the tone is a lot less negative, even though it's such a horrible situation we're all kind of dealing with and nobody's wrapped their arms around it by any stretch. There's a need to be more positive about cybersecurity in that we can win, we can beat, it is a manageable thing to a degree. There is no such thing as 100% security for that matter. But mostly the reason for the positive messaging is actually to get more staff in the industry. If you keep talking about it being scary, people are not going to work in this industry. And the good news is, it's a very lucrative industry if you can get into it. The demand is high. Every single CISO, essentially Chief Information Security Offer that I speak to is hiring, everyone's hiring. It's the big joke we have on our show. I always ask, are you hiring? And rarely does someone say no. You talked last time you were here about the hiring practice gap between the people who want the jobs and the experience that they require. Was that pretty much the same at RSA? Or did you see any improvement there? But there's one of the big issues to solve the gap issue is training. And then you probably heard the classic line of, well, I'm fearing if I train the people and they leave and I've wasted the money on this training. But it's kind of such an incestuous group that people do bounce from one to the next and they will come back and they will refer you. So actually the reverse is true. If you don't train them, they're going to leave because people coming into this industry want to move up. They want to be trained. And if training is not part of your organization's culture, then A, they don't want to join. And if they find out, they're going to leave because everyone wants new skills and they want to move up. Nobody comes into this level, into this industry to stay at the green level and just stay there. I feel like as consumers, we often hear the story of this company didn't spend the time and resources it should have and then it got breached and now the damage is worse than if they had prepared. RSA is one of the places where these companies have the opportunity to strike the deals, spend the money, get the resources. Do you get any sense that that's getting better? It's a fire hose of information. Often what forces companies to get there is actually not the stories of, oh, this company got breached, that company got breached. Yes, they do want to beef up their security, but it's honestly, it's regulations. And now the Security Exchange Commissions, the SEC, has proposed new rulings forcing public companies to disclose what their security posture is. Now, again, it's just a proposal that's going through a lot of debate right now.  One of the things they don't have is disclosing what your security posture is. And this is quite important to, and also if you have insurance too.  And more and more companies are getting rejected for cyber insurance. We're talking 30 to 40% of companies that apply for cyber insurance get rejected because they don't have the security controls in place. So they realize, well, if I want this, I have to get to this level. So it's often not the fear that's forcing the sort of the rapid movement, but rather if I don't do this, I can't get insurance. If I don't do this, I'm going to get fined. So there's an immediate, very visible danger in front of them that will for sure happen. And it's not an attack. Yeah, once you focus the CFO's mind, suddenly things start to happen. All right, let's check out the mailbag before we get out of here. Let's do it. Rob, who lives in Germany writes, and this is in response to our Fido conversation from the other day. Rob says, one issue I see with Fido, at least in my smallest group of people, is what if you can't have your phone with you? I work for the U.S. military and there are many of us who work in areas where no personal wireless devices are allowed. Phones, wireless headphones, smart watches, even air tags and tile devices are a no go where I work. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there another alternative? Good news, Rob. While we usually use a phone as an example, since almost everyone has one, there are alternatives to using your phone with Fido too. One example I pulled off of Army.mil, the U.S. Army's page, reading about multifactor authentication that a fast identity online or Fido certified cryptographic USB hardware token is an acceptable way to do logins on Army computers. So there are alternatives beyond the phone and then there are ways to use secure phones as your login instead of your personal phone, stuff like that, and sometimes those kinds of accommodations are made. But yes, Fido is actually being taken up by military organizations as well as private organizations. I imagine Fido was a big quick topic conversation at RSA too, right, David? Yeah, well, password list has been a hot... Like what you were describing, passwords are an antiquated element of the Internet. They were never... It's ironic. They were designed for some level of security, but they were never designed to be secure to start with, which is bizarre, I find. But there has been this long drive to get off a password or move to multifactor authentication where MFA is really literally putting a bandaid on a bad process. But we talk about this all the time, that if you're going to do one thing to beef up your security, or actually two things, one is always MFA, and that will greatly, greatly reduce the potential for account takeover. That's multifactor authentication, not a master in fine arts, but... Multifactor, yeah, not master fine arts. Why not both? If you have both, it's great. It can be both. And then the second thing is getting a password manager. But if you don't have to use a password manager, it's great. But it's interesting, last pass, one of the biggest password managers is the one who's pushing the password list model. And then in response to Justin and I kind of discussing whether Xbox Cloud gaming is the mushy middle which Justin thought, or I thought like a pretty advantageous thing for a lot of folks who just don't want to have to use a console or a PC, Josh Grisdale wrote us a night's note saying that he loves living in the mushy middle. And Andrew wrote, I am the exact target demographic for all these cloud gaming advances. I'm a lifetime gamer, even scrimping and saving for new consoles in college, but his marriage career, vacations, etc. have taken priority. $300 plus gaming consoles that I get to use for less than 10 hours a week have dropped off the budget priority list. But a monthly Xbox Game Pass subscription fits in nicely now that my PC can't run wow anymore. I imagine there are a good number of folks like me who used to game more frequently and would like the option to check out modern titles without needing to outlay so much money. The all-you-can-play model also works well for the times that you learn quickly that a certain type of game isn't for you. Well said. Andrew, thank you for that. Yeah. And thanks to everybody who sends us feedback, questions, comments, feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Keep them coming. I want good stuff over this weekend. I'm going to plug for the two of you because we love feedback and I don't think the audience knows how much your show is based on it because ours is like that. So I'm plugging for them. Give them more feedback.  You're wrong. We do. Yes, we do. You do want to hear from them. Yeah. Also, we wanted to hear from Len Peralta, but he couldn't refuse his son being in a rap competition. So he had to go do that instead of being on the show, which I almost would rather be there myself. If this show wasn't so fun, I'd be like, I don't know how to see that. They said it's extreme. I mean, what do we all do? Yeah. But Len, being the consummate professional that he is, still drew us something for today's show. It's called Pac-Man Attack.  We're talking, of course, about the video game Pac-Man in this case. If you'd like that print, Len has it available at LenPeraltaStore.com.  David Spark, always good to have you on the show. Great stuff, as always. Hope you had fun at RSA this week. Let folks know where they can keep up with your wrap-ups from the show and everything else that you do. Yeah, just go to CSOseries.com, C-I-S-O, series.com. And actually, if you look right there at the top of the page right there, there's that little black icon that says the finals of the C-I-S-O. Right there, where your cursor is. Yeah, that. 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Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, The Gaudiest, The Most Violent, The Lonesomeest Mile in the World. Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. When it's June, the breeze that sticks against Broadway is straight from the geographical belt of romance. The tropical flowers bloom in 2nd Avenue push carts, and but 15 minutes trek away, 20 girls, 20 dance the hula like regular Hawaiians, and for refreshment, coconut milk from contented coconuts. And t-shirts are festooned with vat-dyed surfboard riders, and the wiener goes down well with papaya juice, and authentic island music perfumes the air on an LP record. So take a trip to the top of the old Woolworth Pagoda, look down at it, inhale it, it all belongs to you. In the afternoon of it, where I was, Rockston Hotel in four flights up, neat room in neat hotel, and neat man, groomed in necktie and smoking jacket in precise center of bed, stabbed to death. And Detective Muggevin, cleaning lady found him, Danny, called the manager, or called it in. Who is he? Name's John Nelson, registered that way. Been living here for the last three, maybe four years. Manager's checking. The manager tell you anything else? I wouldn't know whether any visitors today, big hotel and all. Also that Mr. Nelson was a quiet sort of man, no trouble. Only thing even a little bit out of the ordinary is asking for and receiving permission to hang all those pictures on the wall. Take a look. What's this one? A taigline, crossed between a tiger and a lion. How about the rest of those pictures? Elephants charging, crocodiles snapping, speaking of crocodiles. Danny, you know there's a difference between alleys? Yeah, I've heard and brooded about, Muggevin. Stick around for technical, huh? Huh? Oh yeah, okay Danny, I'll stick around for technical. Hi Danny. You happy, Gino? Crazy man, crazy. What? A saying I picked up from around one o'clock last night. Oh well. At which time Tina, my eldest, did return from a June prom in Hawaii lace formal. At which time I was waiting up for her in the dark and she danced tippy toe through the living room spun and I asked, You happy Tina? And she said, lie crazy Papa, crazy. Oh I see. Tina must be very lovely now. Now she's going on 19, comes home from a dance at one o'clock. Soon Mrs. T will be putting crocheting needle to wedding veil. And Tina will slip away from us soon Danny. And you, you who could so easily be number one boy. Yeah, yeah, you got something for me Gino. All right, you don't want to discuss it, far be it? Just if you got something Gino. As indeed I have. Anytime. Concerning the deceased of earlier this afternoon, one John Nelson, Detective Muggevin having made a routine check and interrogation of the employees of the hotel has come up with an item. You need a glass of water Gino? No Danny, thank you kindly. Item to it, that John Nelson deceased had no visible means of support. That he could indulge himself in late rising in his hotel room. In taking sun and moon on the hotel roof at odd hours. And never fumbling for a tip for hotel service. Man of lesion means. Anything else? Report of medical examiner that on John Nelson was found a scar of an old bullet wound, right shoulder. And this from his belongings which I lay on your desk to read at your lesion. A newspaper clipping concerning the daring and intrepid adventures of a husband and wife team, Lila and Victor Sutro. Big game hunters with many an orc scalp to their belts. Where are the technical boys in the folds of an adventure magazine? Which one of them happened to pick up on the job for something to read? The name John Nelson could be an alias. Pardon me Danny. All right, what is it Gino? This same thought about Nelson occurred also to the thoughtful detective Muggevin. And? And what? And what is? So he looked into it and came up with Victor Sutro died in Tibet seven years ago while under hunting expedition with his wife. Muggevin found out where Lila's Sutro. As indeed he did. Last year at the conclusion of a farewell lecture tour, her third farewell, she keeled over in her apartment and was there in the tearful presence of her widower Lionel Foster. Where do I find Foster? I was coming to that all by myself Danny. Lionel Foster 1823 E 60. Danny? Well this afternoon you've been splendid Gino. Thank you. I will relay this to Mrs. T. Thank you. Evening now and ride the streets of it. Drive the squad car in the shallows between crests of crowd headed toward Central Park. People with paraphernalia, bedding, brown paper bags, and some adventures enough to trust in potluck. Right turn toward the E 60s, find an address. Ring a bell and a small man in a white coat takes your name, breathes almost audibly at your badge and bid you wait. Time enough to walk around the museum of a room, to wonder out the circumstances which put a zebra's head on the board and was nailed against the wall next to the Ibex. Know that it's an Ibex because the sign under it says so. Pause at the uncaged black leopard which had been stuffed in stride by the magic of modern taxidermy. Be on your way to envy the elephant guns when a voice stops you. Mr. Clover? That's right. I'm from the police. Yes, I'm Lionel Foster. Very busy, Mr. Clover. What can I do for you? You know a man named John Nelson? No. Well, is that all? A man by that name was found murdered a little while ago in his effects of clipping about Mr. and Mrs. Victor Suto. And you traced and you're here. Now what? You were married to Lila Suto. Lila. All this was hers. Makes you feel small, doesn't it? Not particularly. Then you weren't married to Lila. No, I wasn't. No, did you know her? The woman she was. I heard she was a big game hunter. Compare any woman you want to with her. Think... How long had you been married to her, Mr. Foster? Five years before she died of an unheard of melody. So strange that next month would have been our sixth anniversary. If doctors here had been competent and had diagnosed... I understand her husband was killed. For Lila. One thing I can say about Victor Suto is that he gave me Lila. An account of him. An account of he was a... Well? A hero. Oh? Seven years ago on safari in Tibet. There were marauding bands of cutthroats. You wouldn't think so in this day and age, would you? Go on. Well, somehow Lila didn't like much to speak of it. Only Victor died and Lila lived. And she got back and Victor didn't. That's why I say what I did. How did you meet Lila, Mr. Foster? I did her writing for her, you know. No, I don't know. Secretary? The books. There were four of them of her adventures around the globe. She told them to me. I wrote them. The most spoken part of her travel arcs. Mine. If you have no more suggestions, Mr. Clover, may I make one? What? I've written a book about Lila. Anything you'd want to know about her as a huntswoman... I'm sure it's fascinating, Mr. Foster. If I ever need one, I'll send out for it. Goodbye. Nanny, are you ready to go home? Nah, my good man. A couple of things I need to clear off my desk. Sure there are. Mind if I sit down and clutch for a while? Sure, sit down. Thanks. Mrs. Fone a little while ago said it was such a nice day. She didn't get around to cooking. Said bring home some delicatessen.  No, thanks. No, my good man. I have some... Yeah, sure you have. Some other time. What's all that stuff you got? These? Adventure magazines, a couple of books. All about that big game hunting man and wife combo. Lila and Victor Sutro. Thought no one would mind if I took them home to read in bed. You mind? Have fun. Intend to. This stuff fascinates me. Yeah, I've been skimming through it. Man and wife living like that. Man and wife. Depths of the Amazon jungle. Sitting around a jungle fire. Watching natives dance. Native dances. Just for you. Sleeping on the ground. And against the jungle sky. The snow caps of the Andes. In July you get a couple of weeks off. I'll give you an answer.  Sorry. Now you take that Lila and Victor Sutro. They got an itch. They went to answer it. The Amazon. Borneo. Africa. Gold Coast. And what'd they get? Chislers. Pitch Boys. Wynos. Penny Atty. Murders. No. No, they got tribes where women were six feet tall and walked like princesses. And wore materials no one ever heard of. They got pygmies who high jumped seven feet. They battled it out with wild bandits. Man and wife. Ten of Clover's office. Muggerman speaking. Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it. Fingerprints. Everything you checked it thoroughly. Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell them. Well. Something they said to tell you. That guy you found dead this afternoon murdered. John Nelson? What about him? Not John Nelson. That was a lab. They said your man wasn't John Nelson. They said someone else. Who? They said the corpse belonged to Victor Sutro. Positive identification. The guy's supposed to have died seven years ago in Tibet. Died last night in hotel room on 43rd Street. Careful, some adventure reading matter, Danny. You're welcome to it. You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Family Skeleton, premiere performance Monday night. Yes, this coming Monday, CBS Radio premieres a new five-a-wood day week dramatic series, starring Academy Award winner Mercedes McCambridge as Sarah Spence. You'll find yourself a complete captive of the day-to-day adventures of this small town school teacher who became a community scandal by eloping. Monday through Friday evenings over most of these same stations enjoys CBS Radio's new dramatic series, Family Skeleton. Sunlight of June drifts in from the sea, scans the city, touches the morning, warms it, and Broadway reacts. Leans against the subway exit with fists, rubs the last dream of night out of its eyes, which was the reflection of a woman's summer laughter in a soaked bar mirror. The shutter, and the new day now, and prophesy its points of interest, the heat, the beads of perspiration glistening on the lips of the office secretary, and the ten-minute break to really observe the phenomenon. Old prophecy, tried, true. So flip the cigarette into the gutter, edge into the day of the comptometer. At police headquarters, another quality to the new June morning, embellishing your office, gentlemen in dark blue raw silk suit, gentlemen with Panama hat banded in scarlet, gentlemen of gold-tipped cane, and gentlemen who takes a gold-tipped wallet from his breast pocket extracts a thing handed to you. My card, Mr. Glover. Thank you. Alistair Grover III, how do you do, Mr. Grover? Very well, thank you. Exceedingly well. And you? You wanted to see me about... About an arrangement I have in mind concerning the dead Victor Sutro, call it the business proposal. Yes, let's call it that. All right. My name didn't register with you and press you. Alistair Grover III, not nothing to you. No, should it? No, by no means. A vanity that the publisher and editor of the Travel Magazine Horizon would be known in all walks of life. A pure vanity. You said it was about Victor Sutro. Yeah, his death, the manner of it. I should like to enhance Sutro's death, which involves you, my business proposal to you. What are you talking about? Victor died in a sorted hotel room stabbed with a common knife. Right? Uh-huh. And you have not as yet released this particular information to the newspapers? No. Good. My proposal? That we concoct a legend. That the knife that murdered Victor was in a cursed knife. A Tibetan, or let's say, Tata origin. Perhaps, Hu Blachans. Victor's death, an oriental curse in vengeance, the lingering death that was not his seven years ago. Are you kidding, Mr. Grover? My magazine is of slick paper. It pays slick paper rates. There are movie rights, subsidiary rights, years. I'll get a hack to write it for you. And I am not kidding. You could make a pile. A question, Mr. Grover. Of all you want. Did you know Lila and Victor Sutro? No, them personally, I mean. Oh, yes. Matter of fact, I financed the expedition to Tibet. Made a pile on Lionel Foster's articles about it. Lila, dear man, was a renowned huntress. World renowned. And for this, she had a publicity agent. Who? Johnny Courtney. An office in the Whitaker Building on Broadway. And I've discussed this angle with him. And Johnny is in absolute agreement and will promote. Yeah. Another question, Mr. Grover.  Ah. A man who laid for me a golden egg? Stunning thought. Any annuity within reason, Mr. Grover. Goodbye, Grover. I built a fortune on exotic lies, Mr. Clover. Sorry you haven't the feel for it. Off the side. Thank you. Goodbye.  That's right, Mr. Cardin. You gonna take it, Mr. Clover? No.  I told him no honest cop had fall for a phony setup like that. Mongolian knives, curses. You're leveling. You didn't take it, though. Permit me to shake your hand, Mr. Clover. Look, Mr. Courtney. You want me to level about Lyle and Victor Sutro, don't you? Yeah. Victor I got sympathy for. He wanted to be a hero. But together, phonies. A thousand percent phonies. I got rich off them and I hated them. Why? I told you phonies. Big game hunters. Two big-time chislers who hired professional hunters to do that job. Hired experienced natives who made the kills, did the dirty work. While Victor and Lyle Sutro posed the stride fallen rhinoceroses. You're saying? Yeah, I'm saying. You've seen their movies where the rhino charges right at Lyle like he was panning the... You know where we got that rhino? From a bankrupt one-ring circus in Jersey and the movies were taken against a processed screen in a warehouse in Astoria. Hey. You never noticed it was always the same rhino no matter in what jungle? No. I tell you the same. And not even a male. An old cow female made up with sharp tusks, the name Bessie. Phony, phony, phony. My words for Victor and Lyle Sutro. Still they did expose themselves to dangers. What dangers? Tell me what dangers. Lyle Sutro died of some rare mystery disease. A tropical disease, no doctors. Mr. Courtney. How rare is mumps? Tell me how rare. What? What Lyle died of. Mumps! You're... Go ask a doctor. Dr. Edward Dowd on Park Avenue. Go ask him what Lyle died.  Black magic. Mumps. Big, large lumps of mumps. So on to the streets again, Ride Up Park Avenue, which owns its own brand of sunshine. Less hot, but somehow warmer. Which causes women to appear who somehow look alike, but for a reason dress in different color linen and different harlequin glasses, but who wear exactly the same tan, have the same walk and give the brief impression that they're married to the same man. Only their poodles are different. And doctor's office, cleverness with wrought iron and canvas called chairs and people who have discovered how to slip into them. Paintings and colors never discovered before of things never dreamt of for framed exhibition before. And receptionist in a lime colored material designed to call one's attention to her necklace.  It's made of Mayan artifacts. My husband brought it from Mexico. Who looks at your badge with interest and at you with the new interest and lets the doctor know you're here. Lieutenant Clover to see you, doctor. Lieutenant. Lieutenant. Tell him to wait. So do what the doctor suggests. Wait. And finally... The doctor will see you now. Lieutenant Clover. That's right. Please be seated, sir. Thank you. What can I do for you? How well did you know Lila Sutro, doctor? She was a wonderful woman. Well, let me rephrase my question. Did you know her well? She was one in a million. You got along fine. I miss her. Now it's important that you be honest, doctor. It's about the murder of... I know. I read the papers. You were an old friend of hers, weren't you? A mercurial woman. Sometimes I was her friend. Sometimes her very good friend. Sometimes a buddy. Sometimes she wouldn't even pretend I was alive. How about professionally? When she wasn't going off to all those places to check up once a month. Also shots before she would sail or fly or motor. Well, you know what kind of a woman she was. What she did, I mean. I understand she died of... A very rare disease, akin to encephalitis, but exhibiting not quite the same symptoms. I don't think medical science... I understand she contracted mumps, complications sent in, she died. How can you say it? I heard about it, so I'm saying it. I mean, how can you say Lila Sutro died from mumps?  A woman like that, a vital dynamic... But that's what happened, isn't it? Yes. A reporter suggested that she died from something rare, something contracted on one of her journeys. I thought it wise for Lila's sake to perpetuate it. What about Victor? Who killed him? That's two questions. About Victor, his motivating emotion, his reason for being? To be worshiped, to be a hero. Who killed him? I have not the slightest idea. I didn't like him much, merely because I was out of my mind about his wife. But, well, you know. You're married, Doctor? Definitely, he is. Well, well, thanks a lot, Doctor. Of course. Yes, what is it? Very well. Well, Mr. Clover? Thanks again. Hi. Hello. I rang the elevator bell for us. Thanks. Not only am I the doctor's receptionist, I'm his wife. Oh. Mm-hmm. My place is by his side, if not he plays around. Married long, Mrs. Down? For many years, long before he met Lila Sutro, would you like to have coffee with me, Mr. Clover? I was going to suggest it. I had a feeling. Two lumps, Mr. Clover? None, thanks, sir. Well, well, now, here we are. Cream? No, no, thanks. You're not going to like me. I wouldn't say that. As a woman, I mean, oh, I'm attractive enough, I know that, but completely frightened on account of it, yes, possibilities, I mean. Aside from that... What are you trying to say, Mrs. Down? The unforgivable sin for an attractive woman. I'm malicious. I'm a tale-bearer. Even after the grave. You didn't like Lila Sutro, is that it? My husband and husband. He said so. Proudly? No, I wouldn't say that. Reverently, then. What about Lila, Mrs. Down? I hated her. Victor hated her, too. Did you know that? No, I didn't. Victor was frightened of her. Scared to death of her. But then Victor was a coward. Coward? You know about the man afraid of his own shadow? Victor was afraid of the man. He went on those trips because Lila made him. He was very nice, but he was a coward. And more than anything, more than anything... Victor wanted to be a hero. Exactly, exactly. Because he was a frightened man. The fact that he won such a woman as Lila from Lionel Foster was a constant source of wonder to him. Lila knew Lionel before... Much before Victor. You might wonder how I knew so much about Victor. Well... Well, I had to get back at my husband somehow, didn't I? More coffee? Hey, Danny. Come on over here and look at this head. Shot in Kenya, June 1940. You know giraffes don't talk, Danny? Don't talk? I mean, they can't make any sound.  Not so.   You know, I could spend a lot of time, Mr. Foster's home museum. You're entirely welcome. Anytime. I consider it a tribute to Lila. Mr. Foster, this is Detective Muggerman. Hi, Mr. Foster. Mr. Foster was married to Lila Sutro after Vector Sutro was killed in Tibet. Must have been a privilege, Mr. Foster.  Well, uh... Yeah, yeah, sure. To let you know the kind of woman she was this way. This gentleman is a wild boar which Lila stuck while riding a horse in India. One thrust. There's a small spot on the boar which if pierced... So, Penny, she had to die. Such a brave and wonderful woman. Sticking boar and shooting giraffes. A lot of woman. But what'd she die from? Medical science had no name for it. They sent my kid home from school with the same thing your wife had. They called it mumps. I went to the doctor and took shots. Get out of here. I'm afraid we can't do that, Mr. Foster. We've got a lot more talking to do. How'd you find out? The tenant here saw our agent. He said so.  Then I saw our doctor. Then you've made a trip here to ridicule Lila. Is that it? You want to destroy her? She was quite a woman, wasn't she? One little slip.   We didn't say that. A woman who went into the darknesses of the world. The way I heard it, she got proposed to work for her. And that's what you'll tell everybody? No, no, she's dead. There's no need to destroy her. I loved her. I know. No, please. Just don't. Well, we'll... Her daughter Lila came back from Tibet and Victor didn't. I walk around this room at night and I remember Lila. Did it have anything to do with that bullet wound Victor carried the secrets I know about her? Listen, Mr. Foster, the secrets are yours. She shot him. They got drunk someplace in India. They never got close to Tibet, did they? After she shot him, a month later or so, she got permission, she flew over it. Okay, she shot her husband. She thought he was dead.  Did you know that if you tell yourself something, no matter if it's a lie, a terrible lie, if you tell yourself something enough times, you've come to believe it. When did Victor get back? After we were married, he appeared. She hadn't killed him. Any threatened to tell what a phony his wife was? He would have, no matter how much money we gave him, except for the story Lila had told the world about him, that he was a hero. And being a hero was what he wanted most, wasn't it?  When Lila died, when she died, he wanted more money, isn't it? At first, not much. Then more and more. Then I didn't have enough for him. Then he threatened to tell. It didn't make any difference to him. So you killed him? Yes. And in killing him, I was closer to Lila. How she felt when she hunted and killed. You think she ever killed anything, Mr. Foster? I don't know. I really don't know. She never was a very good shot. Night leaps down on Broadway, and the crowd swarms the street to embrace it. Laughter pours out of the shadowed places, and for a time kid, no despair. Just small shock. And sweet promise, have a drink on me. For a while. Just for a while. It's Broadway, the gaudiest. The most violent. The lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat. Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Trotaglia, and Jack Krushen as Muggevin. The program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, her Butterfield was heard by Lionel Foster, featured in the cast were Irene Tedrow, Ben Wright, Hal Gerard, and Tom Tully. Bill Anders speaking. The Johnny Mercer Show bows in over CBS Radio this coming Monday evening for songs, music, and conversation of Tin Pan Alley. We know you'll want to get next to the Johnny Mercer Show, starring one of the top personalities of the singing and songwriting trades. You'll be on most of these same stations starting this coming Monday. CBS Radio's new Johnny Mercer Show. Come and get it. And remember, for thrilling dramas of escape, listen Sunday nights to the CBS Radio Network.