A horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. From the range country of Texas to the hills of Wyoming, the lone ranger led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. It was his vision of the future that brought hope to the pioneers, and it was his strength and courage that made possible the fulfillment of their hope. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days when the west was young. Come out of the Pascua and the thundering hoof beach of the great horse silver, the lone ranger rides again. The lone ranger has sent Tonto into the little mining town of Brownsville for supplies. But in less than 15 minutes the faithful Indian raced back to the grove of trees where the mask man was waiting. Tonto, what's the matter? You come. Come plenty fast. Did you go to the store in town? Tonto, go there. Not too long. Plenty trouble in town. Come fast. But this mask, I'll have to take time to disguise my face. That's why I didn't go with you in the first place to get food. Nobody see you. Why not? Nobody in town. Everything dead. Dogs sleep like dead. Are you sure? You come. You see. I will. Let's get going. There was no sign of life on the main street of the town. The dog which Tonto had seen was still sleeping on the porch of the general store. He didn't stir as the lone ranger in the Indian walk past him. Inside the store, everything seemed to be in perfect order. No dust here. No man here. Him gone. The cash box hasn't been touched. It wasn't a robbery. We'll have a looking back. The storekeeper might be there in his living quarters. No, Tonto, look afar. Him not there. Plenty strange thing here. You see? There was a plate of food partially eaten on the table in the kitchen. A half filled cup of coffee was still warm. We'll have a look in some of the other houses, Tonto. I can't understand this. It was the same in every house. There were signs of recent occupation, but no signs of a hasty departure. Nothing was disturbed. In one house, the fire still burned in the stove. Bread was baking in an oven. There's smoke coming from the oven. Look, the bread's burnt to a crisp. Tonto, fix it. We've been in five of the houses, Tonto. We'll see if there isn't some sign of life in the last one. Town plenty small. Yes. I don't think there are over 20 people in the town cutting everyone. Most of those 20 work in the mine. We'll check the last house. Maybe accident come to mine.  But even if everyone who worked in the mine was gone, the women and children would be around. That's right. Those dogs we found, Kimosabe. All of them so sound asleep that we couldn't wake them. That's our only clue so far. Oh, it's the same. Nobody answered. This is still on the table. And here's the kitchen. Another thing touched. We know the people were still in Brownsville a few hours ago. That's right. Then something, somebody made those people disappear. Come upstairs. We look in the bedrooms. Did you hear? Hello. That sound came from one of the bedrooms. We'll start in here. Nobody here. This room is yours. Someone alive at last. I'll get you out. I'll show you. Hold on there. Take it easy. I'll fix it. You'll all hurry. Me. Hold him, Tata. Hold me. We're going to find out a few things. Stop your struggling.  There was just one of you. Me. Hold him. There. Now you take it easy, fellow. They got me, Betty. Now they get you. One minute. Guess who do you think we are? Please don't hurt my brother. You've done enough already. Now hold on. There's a misunderstanding here. You seem to think that we're to blame for some strange thing that's happened here in town. Well, ain't you? No, we're not. Now tell us. What did happen? I don't know why I should tell you. Stop. What matters? Don't let that water leave that picture be. Let me take drinks. No. That's what's happened to the town. They all took a drink of their water. The water? Oh, if there was only some way I could be sure I could count on you. Why not tell me what you know? Don't tell him, Jimmy. He's got you. He may as well tell what we know and suspect. I don't know how. Maybe they can help get Paul back to us. Where is your father? We don't know. He just disappeared. Oh. We don't know that either. You see, we were all at breakfast the same as usual. Paul and Betty and me. And what's your name? Jim Lanson. I was eating breakfast and fell asleep. I come to and found Paul gone. A hundred for Betty. And where were you? In my room. I had gone there to tidy up the bed and things after breakfast. I felt awful dizzy all of a sudden. When I came to, Jim was telling me Paul was gone. What about that water? I figured there was dope or drugs of some sort. Maybe poison in the water. It had a mighty funny taste. Doesn't your father run the mine near here? Yes. Nearly everyone works there. Paul was late and getting started there this morning. Jim. Remember Jim. Remember Tully last night. Yeah. I wonder. Maybe that's the answer. You say everyone's gone from town? Yes. I bet I got it then. Tell me. Paul had this fellow Tully arrested last night. He'd been stealing cash from the office. Yes. Oh, Tully was furious mad. He swore he'd get square with the whole town for jailing him. There was always an odd duck, scheme and queer things. He was sly too. I wouldn't put her past him to poison the whole well. Does everyone get water from the same well? Yeah, they ain't but one well in town. Oh, Jim. Huh? What is it, Betty? I thought it was strange at the time. It didn't seem to make much sense. What's that, Betty? The wait Tully wanted to stop at that well for a drink on his way to jail. I wouldn't be surprised if you were right. I remember he wanted to stop at his house too. It was just after he'd been arrested. There was quite a few men there. Betty and I were there too. Tully finally calmed down at his arrest and came along as far as his house. Keep right on, Tully. Wait. Wait for just a minute. You've got to wait. For what? I want to get something in my house. It won't take but a minute. You can tell us what you want. We'll bring it to you in the jail. Yeah, go on, Tully. Shove on. Where you're going, the county will supply you everything you need. No, let me go. Hey, you local. I'll be back. Wait. Well, I'll be there. That critter is local. Oh, if there's something he wants as badly as that, Jim, why don't I let him get it? Then we wondered what Tully was so all fired eager to get from his house. He came on in a couple of minutes holding a small package wrapped in paper. He didn't tell anyone what it was, but the next thing, he wanted to stop again on the way to jail. To get a drink of water from the well. Yeah. We got to the well and he balked like a stubborn whore. Now what's the matter with you, Tully? Drink. Last drink of water. You can't stop me from that, can you? Well, get your drink. Look out there. Oh, hang it. Look what you're doing.  Oh, well. Was that all you got to say? Let's go to jail. Might as well. I still say the guy's local. The package and the well. The thing that made me sure he was local was that after being so anxious to stop and get it, he didn't seem to care a hoot about losing whatever it was when he dropped it into the well. And everyone drank water from that well this morning? That's it. Some of the people and most of the men would be overcome by the dope after they reached the mine. Sure they would. And the rest... But what's happened to the rest? You're the only folks we've seen. We've looked everywhere. You looked into the jail? Yes. Tully might have got loose. It wouldn't be hard if everyone was sleeping. Oh, where is he? Let's go look at the mine. We'll have a look at the mine. I'm going too. Good-bye. We'll see if we can find him. You're quiet. What is it? I'm going to come in house. Oh. Not a sound. The entrance to the mine is right in back. It's come from there. I'm going to see. There he goes down the stairs. Stay with Betty. I'll get after him. Tully, you stay with the girls. Got it. We're going after that man. The Lone Ranger and Jim Lansing race down the stairs and after the man is seen heading for the back door. Tonto and the girl remain behind. A few moments they waited in silence. And then... Tonto. That's your name? That's right. Oh, they must catch Tully. What do you think he's done with everyone in town? Oh, me not know. Maybe find out plenty soon. Pa said a dozen times he thought Tully was acting strange. I'm sure he did. Maybe that's right. Locally. Tully. You're covered, Redskitten. Make a move. Go on. Make a move. I'd like an excuse to shoot. Tully, listen to me. You. Why should I listen to you? You listen to me. Turn around. Walk straight ahead. Go out the back of the house. You, Redskitten, you keep behind her. I am taking no chances having you shoot over a shoulder at me. How did you get here, Tully? I thought... You did. Yes. You thought. So the others, the mask man, your brother, they thought I went into the mine too. But I didn't. Now walk. That's only a warning. Get moving. Tully forced Betty and Tonto to go downstairs. But when they reached the first floor, the girl turned to the gunman and... Go on. Right through the back door. Into the tunnel. Your father's in there. Knew what him say and best for now. All right. Keep right going, Betty Lansing. Out the door now. Those others didn't see me duck back inside the mine entrance. Then come out again. No, it's too eager to get me. Tully, don't you realize you'll hang for what you're doing? Me? Hang. Who'll hang me? Who's left to hang me? If you and Jim had drunk as much water as the others, you'd still be sleeping like the others. But don't worry. You'll sleep. You'll sleep. We all right, Jim. He'll recover, I'm sure. I reckon the others must be further back in the tunnel somewhere. Probably. Likely Tully went back to where they are. Then we can get him if he tries to come back out again. Yeah, we can do that. There's no other way out of this mine. Oh, he's moaning. Oh, fuck, can you speak? He's coming to now. What happened? Oh, you're all right, Pa. You're in the tunnel. Now, now take it easy, and you'll be as good as new in a few minutes. What happened? Jim, is that you? Yes, Pa. Tully done it. He's drugged the drinking well. Everyone in town was drugged to sleep. I came here, and that's all I remember. Tully's brought the women folk here, too, but he's local. We'll get him in a minute. Someone's coming. Jim, is that you back there? Betty, what are you doing here? Who's behind you? It's the Indians. Tully slipped back out and made us come here. Him, local. Look, there he is at the entrance to the mine. Tully, I want to speak to you. Speak. There's nothing to speak about. What are you doing there? Stop that. Wait, Tully. I'm lighting a fuse. See? Watch it burn. Now I'm leaving you. Goodbye. Good-bye. He's fixed a blast there. Down, down on your face. You better hurry. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Lansing, the owner of the Brownville Mine, his daughter Betty and his son Jim, were with the Lone Ranger in Tonto when an explosion roared to the tunnel of the mine, and a landslide sealed the entrance. Well, that does it. That does it plenty. Now we're sealed in our own tomb. When's the tiny spot of light at the opening, Lansing? We'll probably get air to last us for some time. You! From what I gather, if it hadn't been for you, Jim and Betty wouldn't be here. They'd be out in the open anyhow. Pa, don't hold it against this man.  I'll do the talking. Lansing, we're all in this together. It doesn't matter how we get here. The thing to do is find a way to get out. Yeah, well, you figure that out. Tonto, have a look at the entrance. See how badly we're sealed in. Tonto, do it. First place, is there water that's fit to drink in here? No. Of course, there's no food supply. Of course there ain't. How about blasting powder? To keep any of that inside the tunnel? That'd be downright foolish. Where are the rest of the people? We'd better have a look at them. They're back further than I am. Must be if they're in here. They're between us and the entrance. What sort of man is this fellow Tully? Must be local. That's all I can figure out. What does he to gain by this act of his? Nothing. Only what I said before, stranger. He was so at everyone in town for arresting him. This is his way of getting revenge. It's a mighty strange way of getting revenge. What has he against everyone? It's just the way his brain works. He can see that he's local. I wonder just how crazy the man is. Gosh, mister, you don't have any doubts about it, do you? I wonder. Eh, you wonder. What's there to wonder about? The way he's going about this whole thing. The way he put a drug into the well to start with. The way he tricked us into coming in here and getting Tato and your dover in here. Lane crazy. Finally, the way he set off that blast. It takes a lot of skill to fix a blast so it would drop the stone just where they do the most good. You should realize that, Lansing. Sure, I realize it.  That's just it. He's crazy. But lots of crazy men have mighty foxy ways about him. Who's coming? It's me, Lansing. Miller.  Yes. The rest of the folks have been back there with me. They've all come around now and are wondering what happened. We heard you talking here. Who's a stranger? I don't know. How's the rest? Who all's there? Everyone in town. The men that didn't come here to work must have been lugged in. The women are back there too. Miller, it strikes me that you might be blamed for this whole thing. Me? How do you figure, Lansing? You had charge of the Blaston powder. Tully couldn't have got at that without your help. Well, there's loco talk. I had the key to the shed in my pocket. Tully took the key when he found that I'd been knocked out by the confounded drug of his. Miller, you studied a lot of this here chemical stuff when you was in school, didn't you? Yes. What'd you say that dope in the well might have been? I don't know. There's a lot of things that could have been used. Uh-huh. How'd Tully know about them things? It got me, Lansing. I don't know. I felt for a long time that Tully was deeper than anyone knew. I'm going back to join the other women. Oh, just a minute. Well? I suggest that we all go back into the tunnel further. I happen to have a supply of drinking water there. If we ration it, we can make it do for a few days. You've got drinking water? Yes. I keep a big canteen of it on hand when I'm working. I fetched it in yesterday and didn't use much of it. One canteen won't go far. Split up about 20 different ways. Well, that's what I say. We'll have to ration it out so there'll be a little to what everyone will throw and let it go with there. Let you tell them? That's right. Hunter will look at stone. Is there a lot of it? Oh, plenty. We have powder. Maybe we blow way out. Not get out any other way. Then we have no powder. Well, we may as well take charge of the ration out of that drinking water. Come on, all of you. Here's Mr. Lansing, folks. No tunnels at home! Lansing on a plane for them! Lay off Lansing. Take his fall. Quiet down! There ain't no use having hard feelings here. Where's that drinking water? I'll get it. It's cast over here. If we only had some lighter, it wouldn't be quite as bad. The sitting in the dock just waiting for death! Why don't we do something? What's the sense of sitting and waiting to die? Actually, let's do something! As soon as you're ready to listen, I have a suggestion to make. Let's have the water first. We make light. Say what matches you got. Uh, plain water first. Here it is. I've got it. Let her tell it to me. Speak to you. Yes, you come this way. Well, what about the water? You got it, Miller? Yes, let me see. A little bit leaked out, but the canteen is still over half full. Now he got to put everyone on his word to do no more than take a sip of it. Is that agreed? Just one minute. You better keep out of this, stranger. Don't you think it would be easier to pass that canteen if we had some light? I have a bit of candle here. Let's hold things for a minute. I don't see what difference it makes if there's a lighter now. Hey, Lansing, you take care of the canteen. All right. Now, if there ain't no object... Hey!  Now, about that canteen, Miller, I'll take it. What? Hey, he's doing us out of that water. The safest place for this water is right here on the ground. Stop that! Stop it! Get in the canteen. Stand back. He's gone local. Stop it. Rush him. Take the canteen. You keep back. Rush him. Save that water. Stand back. Don't make me shoot. He's gone local. Who's got a gun? Shoot the last man. He's robbing us. Take the water. Rush him. He's gone local. Oh, that was crazy! Stranger, I think we'll get you. Wait, wait. All of you listen to me. I've stopped pouring out the water. There's still a little of it left. Enough to prove to you why I poured it on the ground. What are you talking about? You'll find out if you listen. In the first place, what water there was wouldn't prolong our lives enough to matter. If we're not going to get out of here alive, we might as well perish one day sooner. But we are going to get out. Hey, I'd like to know how. Me too. It wasn't intended that we should all die in here. Let me tell you something. Then, if you disagree with me, I'll surrender my guns. And you can do what you want. That sounds fair enough. We're trapped here because of carefully made and perfectly carried out plans. Someone wanted us all to die, perhaps so the mine could be taken over. Perhaps a plotter knew of a lot of other valuable claims that might be staked, and the present owners of the land were not here. What are you getting at, Stranger? Whatever the motive. It wasn't simply because Tully was out of his mind. Tully was just a willing tool in the hands of the real killer. Oh, he's crazy. He's talking no sense at all. Well, let's hear him anyhow. We ain't nothing else to do. That's right. Might just as well listen to what I have to say. Now about this plotter. He knew he couldn't kill everyone in town without having a lot of explaining to do. He couldn't explain it. So he drugged the water to get us all into this tunnel. Tully done that. We all know it. Yes. But when we were in here, the plan was to give us more water. The water we'd have in here wouldn't contain any drug. It would contain a deadly poison. That calls for a side approach, Stranger. That's as much as saying I'm a murderer. He's charging Miller with murder. A quiet let me finish, won't you? Go on, Stranger. We'd all perish except the one who planned the tragedy. And he would be allowed to escape from here. The tunnel would be sealed once more until there'd be no way to tell how we died. And doesn't it stand the reason that this is the work of a man who knows medicines and poisons, a man who can plan carefully and use Tully as his tool? That's a fine story, Stranger. But there ain't a shred of proof in any part of it. But proof is in this canteen. Yeah, but it still ain't proof. Drink it, Stranger, and show us how it kills you. The canteen leaked a bit. Once out of light of the match, he saw where the ground was moist. And he saw a rat that had sipped the water. The condition of that rat was all that was needed to prove that this was dangerous water. Oh, that's a lot of... But we'll make sure. Miller, you filled this canteen, didn't you? Well, I... You said you did. Are you going to deny it? I filled it, and it's all right. Then take it. Drink what water remains in it. I ain't thirsty. Go on, drink it. Just moisten your mouth with it. That's all you have to do. You'll likely put poison in it yourself. That's why the candle was lighted. You've all had the chance to watch me. You know I put nothing into the water. Say, Miller, you ain't afraid, are you? I don't trust that man. You're going to drink this or confess? I ain't. We'll see. Come on. Let me go! Let me go! We gotta help, Miller, that man's been dragged phone guns on them, Tully. Don't let them interfere. We gotta stop this. We gotta stop this. Come on, Miller, open your lips. Take a swallow of this. Unless you're ready to talk. Well, we can't help him. This is worth watching. How about it, Miller? Do you talk or not? I'll talk. Fasten, you won't put us out of the way with poison.  I'll show you. I'll show you. Get up, then. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. Never mind the talk. This shows how you plan to get out after you'd murdered all of us. Folks, this man's local. You're going to stand by and... That's enough. Now you'll drink. No! No, no, wait! The way out! Quickly! Just follow me. Go ahead. Leave the way. Maybe he does know a way out. The rest of you, wait where you are. I'll see if this man's telling the truth. Go on, Miller. I'm right behind you. And I'm bringing what's left of the water with me. Look. Look, stranger. Keep going. I'm going to use it. Tell her we'll hold the others back until we find out where you're going, Miller. All right. I done it just as you said. Now, look. Maybe you and me can make a deal. The way out? You're not heading toward the tunnel's mouth? No, it's this way. There's another place where we broke through in the digging. Nobody else but me knew about it. I fixed it with a blast, all set to touch off. I figured this out a long time ago. How much further? Right here. This is where we stop. The fuels? It's there. See it? I had this thing worked out perfect. I'd have been the richest man in the state. I'd own this whole town. All the gold there was in all this ground. And no one to argue with me for it. Even if my scheme failed, you've got to admit it was slick. Is there powder connected to that fuse? Sure. It was all set to touch off as soon as the rest of you were down for. Light it. All right. Look. Before we open the hole. How about it? Light it. There's still to know all of my scheme. I even went beyond what I told you. It's gone. Back back. Very well. This way. The fuse ain't none too long. It'll let go in a second. Down. Down in your face. Right. There's the service and the thought. Free, my friend. Can't take back all I said about that man's man. Miller's the crook. We'll string him up. Gosh, that is so... That smells great. They're a horse. Him is over here, old boy. Miller, you got anything to say? Yes, I got plenty to say. You got nothing against me. You try and prove I'm crooked. You can't do it. Murder and coyotes. This man's hurt. Tully, you...  You didn't tell me the blast was coming here. He told me, he said, sit here. He said, right here, you said. Wait here. And you know it all the time. This is where the blast would come. Look after him, Tully. Him bad. Is he done for? Not right. Him dead. Miller. Looks to me as if the dying words of Tully would be enough to hang you. They will. We're all witnesses to what Tully said. Miller fired that blast that killed him. Well, come on, boys. Throw that killer in jail till the judge comes around next time. You have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


Okay, gives us a chance to make sure everything's working before we actually start the show. And so far so good. Laura, you're in San Francisco, right? Yeah, Bay Area. Nice. And you guys are in LA? Yeah, all three of us are. Yeah. I was just telling somebody my last three years in San Francisco because I lived there for a million years. We're right next to Sightglass Coffee and Soma. And I was explaining to a friend here in LA, Sightglass, because it's like hard to get in LA for whatever reason. And he was like, yeah, that sounds nice. And I'm like, you don't know how nice it was. It's like the one thing about San Francisco besides beloved friends, I truly mess on a daily basis. I don't remember if it was Sightglass or if it was a different one that I found in Montreal and I couldn't find it in LA. Okay. Yeah, somebody claims that they found somebody who carries Sightglass Coffee like on the West Side somewhere, I don't know, some rando cafe I've never heard of. But I'm like, I'm not going to disrupt my life for it, but I am going to miss it. Is it something you can order? No. Oh, okay. Although, I don't know. You could probably figure something out, but... Yeah, because you can order Blue Bottle. But there's a Blue Bottle near me. Like, I don't know. I'm just saying. I wonder, because Blue Bottle bought Tonks, which was an LA company that delivered. And now they do this. Actually, I didn't know that. Well, yeah, I have plenty of coffee nearby. It's all be okay. But I just miss going to Sightglass. The coffee's good, but I also liked, it was just one of my little favorite San Francisco experiences. I lived in LA for a while. It wasn't my favorite place.  Even though I moved up here, and so I moved back to New York after LA, but now that I moved back here, I didn't buy a car again because I was like, oh, my God, that was so horrific in LA. I would rather. So I live near a bar, and I ride my bike mostly, or I live, and it's fine. I actually drive my car less in LA than I did in San Francisco when I lived up there. Oh, really? It's just all about where you live and what you need to do. Because I happened to find a nice walkable neighborhood, and now I work from home. So, you know... Well, I was actually working from home when I lived there, but it's still, I don't know. If you're used to New York, it's like a big, nothing's the same as New York. Well, it's weird because we drive, but I drive shorter distances because we live so close to everything, which was unlike when I lived in San Francisco, I would need to drive a good, you know, eight to 10 miles to get somewhere, like a Costco or something. Here, there's like two Costco's within a five mile radius of me. Yeah, well, LA's just a bigger city, obviously. Yeah. All right, you guys ready? I'm ready. All right. Here we go. The Daily Tech News show is powered by its listeners, not outside organizations. If you get value from the show, consider giving a little back. As little as a dollar a month keeps great tech news and analysis coming your way commercial-free. Find out more at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, March 26, 2018 from DTNS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline. I'm Sarah Lane. Joining us today, very happy to have the host of the Unchained and Unconfirmed podcast, Laura Shitens with us. Welcome, Laura. Hi. Thanks for having me. Thank you for joining us. We're going to talk, of course, a little bit about cryptocurrency here in a little bit, which is, it sounds like something you're constantly talking about. Constantly talking and thinking about and, yes, dreaming about it seriously. Oh, good. The blockchain of dreams. I can already see it. That would be scary. I've never talked about licensing Unchained Melody for your show, because that would just be amazing. I've actually never thought of that, but I will look into that. Yeah, free advice. Our producer, Roger Chang, is here as well. Roger, how are you feeling? Much better. Much better. Good to have you back. Yay. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Uber agreed to sell its Southeast Asian ride-hailing business to Singapore-based Grab, which leaves Indonesia's Gojek backed by Google Intensent as the only other major ride-hailing and meal delivery competition in that region. Uber will take 27.5 stake in Grab as part of the deal. The competition commission of Singapore still has to approve the acquisition for it to go through. XTA Developers reports that Google logins on unlicensed devices now fail. You get a device not certified by Google Message. This is likely to stop official Google Android apps from being distributed without Google's permission outside of the Play Store. There's a lot of knockoffs. They use Android, don't have the license, but sideload the Google apps anyway. If you're a user of a custom ROM, there is a workaround. You have to register your Android ID with the Google account. That generally requires hooking it up to a PC and running some Dev software, but it can be done if you need to get around that restriction. Microsoft released a public version of its Edge browser for iPad and Android tablets today, Monday. The browser has a continue-on-PC function, very helpful, and scales the Edge interface for tablet screens. New York Times says entertainment executives told that Apple plans to roll out its new TV programming next year, between March and summer 2019. Apple currently has 12 TV projects that we know of in the works. All right, let's talk a little bit more about Facebook. I know we talked a lot about it last week, but there's something else going on. Something new, right? Yeah, because there always is. This weekend, Dylan McKay, who's not fictional person on Beverly Hills 90210, real person, and a few other folks found that their call history up to mid last year, so 2017, mid 2017, was stored in their Facebook data prior to Android 4.1, giving permission to Facebook's Android app to access contacts also gave it access to your call history. That API was depreciated in October of 2017, when most of the collection seems to have stopped, seems to anyway. Facebook Lite and Messenger may still ask explicitly for call and text logs. However, requesting a purge of contacts doesn't seem to successfully delete the call history. Facebook now says the feature was used only to find friends and that users always had control over the data. In related news, the FTC confirmed Monday its investigating Facebook and its data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Yeah, so this is again, much like Cambridge Analytica, an example of Facebook being bit by its past permissions. They've changed the way this API works. It doesn't do this anymore, but everybody's sniffing around to find out what Facebook has been up to. And so when people found this in there, they're getting upset. Facebook's saying, hey, we always ask for your permission and we ask even better now that we used to, but Laura, what do you make of this? Well, there was a lot of chatter in the crypto community about how blockchains will enable us to manage our privacy. And so in the future, we should have a crypto based social network where we would be in control of our privacy and the use of cryptographic private public keys would enable us to reveal whatever we wanted to whoever we wanted. And so things like this wouldn't happen. But as I was talking about in the pre-show, I think a lot of people get really scandalized when news like this breaks. And then afterward, it just sort of blows over and people keep signing away their privacy. It's going to continue. I imagine we're going to have a few more revelations like this, especially of what Facebook used to do. Facebook changing policies, as you mentioned, Tom, is one thing. Knowing that somebody might look back on how the policy used to be and be like, well, that doesn't seem right. What's going on here? And then having the purging of data not be successful, that's the thing is if you were to put it all together, Facebook saying, changing policies, want to purge your data, here's how to do it, it will work. And we're very clear and communicative about this. Probably would have been a different story altogether. Well, and maybe it'll take a day. Sometimes when you press delete on stuff, data takes a while to clear out of the cached servers and all of that. Well, it's for a few days into this now.   But since the Falcon 9's payload was light, it took a nearly vertical path that caused circular shock waves that punched a 559 mile hole in the ionosphere for about three hours. A paper in the journal Space Weather estimates that about a one meter error in GPS could have resulted, though no errors were detected. The point of the paper was to say if we get more of these rockets taking light payloads up and going straight through and we start to punch holes regularly in the ionosphere, this could cause issues. So these holes are not permanent, if I understand the story correctly. Right. No, it only lasted for about three hours. Three hours. Okay. And one meter, if you were to say, okay, well, we don't want two rockets to crash into each other, right? They're probably going to win. It's changing it for us on the ground. It's like suddenly your GPS downstairs don't work as accurately. Oh, well, yeah. I mean, a meter is not the end of the world, but if it were any more than that. What if we have 20 different private space agencies around the world punching holes in the ionosphere and we get a 20-meter error, which is one of the scenarios speculated on in this paper? Yeah, then my Uber Eats is not going to come to the right address. Well, you mean your grab, because you live in Singapore now. Right. This is where you, Laura. A day area. No, you're fine. She's like, they're like 40 companies with better solutions already. Ionosphere. Myonosphere. I've never even heard of the ionosphere. I've learned something new today. There you go. Yeah, I know. Yeah. It's a weird truth. Forging new ground. Usually what keeps radio waves bouncing back. So it's one of the reasons we're able to do global broadcasts, which is one of the problems of a bunch of hole in it. Suddenly, things don't work the same way. Ford and Alibaba are partnering on a car vending machine in Guangzhou, China. We talked about the fact that this was happening. Oh, it's happened. Now, the multi-story super test drive center, as it's called, has dozens of Ford vehicles. It looks like about 20 or so. If you haven't seen pictures of it, it's, I don't know, pretty impressive. Mechanical system lowers the selected car to the street because they're kind of stacked on top of each other. Users select a car they want from the Team All app, and then they have an option to take it for a three-day test drive. Now, maybe I'm just the kind of person who abuses things like this, but I mean, isn't this just getting a free rental car for three days? Sort of. Yeah, it is. Also, I never parked my car in that mechanical thing across the street from CNET because I was afraid it was going to get stuck. And we all know vending machines get stuck.  I was also talking to a couple of friends about the story this morning. And one of the friends was like, well, hold on though, if you're buying a car, right? This isn't a car rental. It's supposed to be about buying and purchasing a vehicle. Isn't haggling part of the deal? You know, you're going to get a better rate. Like if there's nobody to haggle with and they're not paying sales agents. Really? Your friend was going to miss that? I think our whole car industry has been moving against that. Like all the online car dealers are like, no haggle pricing. We give you the best price right up front. I would think that'd be one of the benefits of this. Okay. Maybe she wasn't going to miss haggling as much as know that whatever the sticker price was, it would be negotiable. If you're at a vending machine and there's nobody to talk to, I mean, sticker price is sticker price. You buy the car, you don't. Yeah, I don't know. I see that as a positive. Laura, would you buy a car from a vending machine? Well, as you know, I don't want to buy a car so vending machine or no. You like no car anyway. It sort of out of that market. Yes. I would buy a bike from one. Acer introduced the Chromebook Tab 10 Monday, the first tablet to run Chrome OS. It has a 9.7 inch 2048 by 1536 display, an estimated nine hours of battery, four gigabytes of RAM, 32 gigabytes of storage, a micro SD card slot, headphone jack and USB C port, and it's big differentiator from the iPod is it has a Wacom branded stylus built in as well that doesn't require charging. So you can just pull it out, put it right back in the tablet, and it's bundled in at the $329 price. That is the same price as Apple's current entry level iPad. If you want a stylus, you have to pay separately with Apple 99 bucks. So this is theoretically cheaper than even a cheaper iPad that Apple is suspected of announcing tomorrow. They're both focused on the education market. We know Apple's going to announce something for the education market tomorrow. The Acer Tab 10 goes on sale in North America in April worldwide in May. Really, really trying to steal the thunder from Apple by doing this, I think. Well, also, you know, the $100 stylus, which I don't have, I never got one for my iPad, but I mean, it was such sticker shock when that was first announced like, what $100 for a stylus? So if you're really looking for something comparable and that's bundled into the same price, that's for an entry level iPad, right? Then this is really attractive. Yeah. And Chrome OS is already dominant in schools along with Windows. So if Apple's trying to make their way in, this is going to make it even more expensive. In fact, Chrome OS laptops with keyboards are less expensive than this tablet. So if you're like, I just have to have a tablet, this is going to be a more affordable tablet, one would think even if the Apple one has a lower price because of that stylus. Twitter announced it will no longer accept ads for initial coin offerings or crypto wallets or token sales or most exchanges, although the company did not disclose a time when these restrictions would begin, not specifically. Google and Facebook have previously restricted such ads as well, which leads us nicely into our discussion today, doesn't it, Tom? Yeah. Before we get into the main discussion, how do you feel about all of these restrictions, Laura? And how do you feel like the industry is taking it? So there has been quite a bit of chatter around this. I was talking with someone and she was saying that for their company, they are just changing their ads, so that way the ads don't have specifics of the sales. But then I read something else. I don't remember where I read it, but it was saying that an analysis showed that only 1% of all traffic to initial coin offering pages actually come from Google and Facebook, so they don't think it's going to change things very much. And CoinMarketCap is apparently the biggest driver of traffic, but even then it only accounts for 8.5% of all traffic to these sites. So I don't know how much of an impact it will have on those token sales. I do think though that one thing that's just nice, if you're the kind of person who browses the web a lot in the crypto world, is that you all have a much nicer experience and you won't be getting all these scammy ads directed at you. So I personally am pretty excited about it. For a while when it was like James Altucher all the time, I was like, oh my God, please stop. So now that I don't see his face anymore, my everyday existence is a little bit more pleasant. Well, and it does seem like it's just a defensive measure on the part of all of these companies to say, you know what? We don't want to get busted for having an advertisement that was fraudulent. We'll just throw them all out. And it doesn't sound like they're losing out on much revenue anyway, since not that many ads were coming in. Yeah. And the thing is that actually a lot of these weren't even legitimate ads, but like for instance the other day I was on LinkedIn, I even tweeted about this at the top, like right under the link.  Which of course, like every crypto person, at least the smart ones knows that that's a scam, right? And so I immediately screenshot it. It's just said to my followers like, please don't you ever click on anything like this. But you know, even on LinkedIn, we were getting these sort of like scammy ads. So I do think like, you know, whatever harm there was being done, at least like now that will be mitigated. Folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, subscribe to Daily Tech Headlines available on the Amazon Echo, Google Home, the Anchor app, and of course, at DailyTechHeadlines.com.  Now, there's a long list of questions and answers about that. But for now, cryptocurrency falls under federal property taxes. Laura, help us make some sense of this. Let's start with the IRS. What's going on beyond this memo? So the backstory of this is that about, let's say, a year and a half ago in late 2016, the IRS issued what was called a John Doe summons to Coinbase, which was pretty broad in its scope. They wanted the information on every single user over a three year time period. And they wanted all the information, including things down to like chat logs. And at the time, there was a big outcry about this in terms of privacy and Coinbase fought it in court. And a year later, so here we are now again in November 2017, there finally was a decision in a court order that Coinbase should hand over the data. But it was restricted only to people who had had transactions exceeding $20,000 in one year. And the company determined that I think that was limited to something like 14,000 users, whereas like Coinbase total, at least by the end of 2017, obviously, I'm sure this is a much bigger number than just the customers affected by those three tax years. But by the end of 2017, they had more than 10 million users. So who knows, I don't remember how much the initial John Doe summons might have affected, maybe it would have been $5 million or something. But obviously down to in the tens of thousands is much restricted. But the point is that the IRS did this because they were trying to catch tax evaders and they contended that a lot of people were trying to evade their taxes by putting your money in cryptocurrencies and then not paying taxes on whatever gains they were making there. And cryptocurrency is actually taxed like property. It's subject to capital gains tax. So if you have a long term capital gain, then you pay, I guess, what is it 15% or something, if it's long term or short term, then it's 20%. And so people, some in the industry say that this is actually kind of hindered the ability for cryptocurrency to take off as a payment system because then you would need to record how much you bought every Bitcoin for and then record how much you kind of quote unquote sold it for even when you sold even when you bought a coffee with Bitcoin. And so people are saying that that kind of pushes people to treat a little bit more like investment. But anyway, I think the reason why the IRS did this announcement recently is probably because as we all know, 2017 was a huge year for crypto and a whole bunch of people came into the space. I was actually talking with one of the top sources in this case and he contended and he's been in this since 2011 and he was like, oh, I imagine now that the median users he was calling it came in 2017. Just like so many people came into the space in 2017 that like more than half of all crypto users probably came in in that year. So he, I'm sure that a lot of those people probably were trading and so therefore may have some gains to report or losses, although that would be a little bit difficult in 2017 that losses. So they probably want to make sure that everybody is paying their taxes on that. Yeah. I mean, the coffee shop is pretty interesting there because not only do you have to, it'd be like paying for your coffee with an antique car, right? You'd have to be like, well, I bought the car for $500 but I'm giving it to the coffee shop for a thousand. And then the coffee shop has to say, I got this car in payment for coffee. So now I have to declare that because it's an asset that was given to me in exchange for the coffee. It's just so weird. Yeah. It's so cumbersome. And so there is an industry proposal to tax it a different way. But I actually have been working on this other story. It isn't out yet and it won't be out for, I guess, another couple of weeks. But as far as I can tell, even though they have identified this problem or at least the industry has, I don't know if the government would say it's a quote unquote problem. But there are no kind of real proposals to tax it differently. So I think we are kind of stuck with this system for a while. Now, the other side of this is coins can be used as currency or coins can be used as security with initial coin offerings. And the SEC is looking into whether they should ever be defined as securities, right? Yeah. So I actually think that definitely as tokens kind of continue to develop, we will certainly see a category of tokens that are just securities. They're what anybody would recognize as security right now, just a tokenized format. So like a stock that can be traded on a blockchain or maybe a share of some real estate share or something like that. Again, that can be put on a blockchain and traded. However, there are these other classes of tokens that function differently from how we might recognize the security today. And for that reason, there's a lot of questions around whether or not the IRS will call the securities. And one of the very interesting things that's going on right now, which is sort of the big question and sort of the cloud, frankly, hanging over the space, is that it was discovered recently that the IRS has been issuing a lot of subpoenas to token issuers, to their lawyers, to their advisors. And they apparently are trying to work this question out. And last summer, they issued their very first report on the subject. And in that report, it sort of seemed to indicate that they were saying things like Bitcoin and Ether are not securities, but that this other type of token called the DAO token, which you may remember that it was a decentralized venture fund that raised $150 million in a month and then promptly lost a third of it because there was a bug in the code and a hacker exploited that bug. Anyway, the SEC should report last summer saying that DAO tokens were securities, but they seem to kind of imply that something like Ether wasn't. However, Ethereum did have what we would recognize today as an initial coin offering. And since then, the chairman of the SEC has made some statements where he says things like, oh, every token I've seen or every ICO I've seen is I would recognize this as security or I would call it security. So suddenly we're in this phase of like, oh, my gosh, are they going to call all token securities? And if so, then that kind of raises a whole nother can of worms. So basically right now, we know they've issued subpoenas, which is kind of like a fact finding operation. And so I imagine out of that, there will be a little bit more clarity, but I don't know how soon it will happen. So you'll need to bring your broker when you buy the coffee, if this happens. Right. And that's why actually, so on one of my podcasts, Unconfirmed, this woman who helped push through a few laws in Wyoming that actually create a new type of token called actually, they don't name it a utility token, but that's what in the crypto space we would call a utility token. Because it basically carves out a category of tokens that would not be classified as security, at least in the state of Wyoming. And so some people are saying that this indicates a way that the federal government could move forward. But obviously the chairman's statements conflict with that. So I don't know if that will come to pass. Everybody's still figuring all this all out because, you know, a token used to mean Bitcoin, right? And then it began to mean Ethereum and Bitcoin. And then it began to mean thousands of different types. A token doesn't tell you enough. You need to know what it's meant for and how it's used, I think. Exactly. And I think by the end of it, there will be different classifications. That's my personal take. Yeah, that seems likely. Well, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show onward to the thing of the day. Let's check in with Chris Christensen on the travel industry stands on artificial intelligence. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. There's some interesting feedback coming out about AI, perhaps a little ahead of its time, but coming out of the travel industry. And that's from the American Society of Travel Agents. They are saying that maybe we should start thinking about regulation. Specifically, one of their spokespeople is saying, I firmly believe that when you're talking to a piece of software, you should know that it's a piece of software. And I don't think that's a whole lot to ask. That's Zane Kirby, the president of ASTA and the CEO. And that seems a little funny because that is certainly not a problem that we're running into right now, certainly with anything voice related. But even with chatbots, I think it's still relatively easy to tell. I don't think we're passing the touring test just yet. But the question is, is it time to start thinking about regulations? In the US, that has started happening. There is now an AI caucus that has been established in Congress and a bill introduced in December would create a federal advisory committee on AI. Is it too soon to regulate? Or is this just the perfect time? What do you think? This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Certainly a good time to start thinking about the effects of it. I don't know that I particularly need a warning that I'm talking to an AI or not. I don't know that it makes any difference. Does it matter to either of you? It doesn't. I also like to think, oh, I can tell the difference. Those lines will become more and more blurred. I'm not sure how much that's something I need to be disclosed if I'm getting the information that I seek. There's probably instances I'm not thinking of where I'd be like, oh, yeah, it should have. But no, this wouldn't bother me, I don't think. I think I would want to know actually because if it's an AI, then it's probably collecting data on you. Although I guess they're already doing that because every time you talk with the customer service rep, it always says this call may be recorded. For instance, I don't want to buy one of those home assistants because it's constantly listening to you. That just freaks me out. So I guess I personally would want to know if I was talking to an AI. It's sort of like having that customer service rep on the line recording all the time, but that's your Alexa or whatever. I think that's an excellent point. It's not that you need to know that it's an AI, per se. It's that you need to know what it's doing. Like being told your call will be recorded. This AI will be using your conversation to train itself. But yeah, that'd be something I'd like to know. That's a really good point. All right, let's check the mailbag. What do we got, Sarah? Well, we got an email from Brandon and I know we don't have a ton of time on this particular show to get into all of the responses that people would have. But you know when we would, our monthly mailbag episode, which is where we try to take some of your feedback, your questions, your comments, and unpack it a little bit more. Brandon's question is, I've been in technical support for over 10 years. In that time, I've had to keep up with updates and trends and technology on my own. Thanks to buzz out loud and TNT and now DTNS for making that much easier. Good to hear that, Brandon. I've only taken one class that led to a certification. I find myself needing more training, but I don't want to bankrupt myself trying to pay for all of this training. I'd like to know how my fellow techs in the community deal with keeping up. Thanks in advance. Keep up the good work. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. And I know a lot of you have responses for where you think Brandon might be able to get some updates, perhaps free or certainly not something that would break the bank. All feedback, welcome. Yeah, and we'll pass them along to Brandon and read some of the best ones out on the show. I've known Brandon forever. I've got pictures of him from buzz out loud meetups on my phone, like from back in 2008 and stuff. That's crazy. Hey, how about that? Ten years in the making. Yeah. 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We're also live Monday through Friday at 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 2030 UTC. If you can join us live, we'd love to have you there too. Find out more at DailyTechNewsShow.com slash live. We'll be back tomorrow with Allison Sheridan. Talk to you then. Thanks so much for having me. You guys were a very well-oiled machine. Thank you. It's nice to hear, especially on a Monday. Yeah, it's good to have outside confirmation. Well, it just makes me realize minus so fly by night and it's literally like just me and then my sound engineer. So... Yeah, I feel pretty fly by night still myself. Well, I mean, part of the reason the structure works so well is because we try to keep it always to that 30 minutes. And so you just have to do that or it won't work. But I mean, the fly by night approach, those are some of my favorite podcasts. Yeah, I don't think people can tell that I'm kind of stressing out the whole time about whether or not I'm going to hit my marks or whatever. But yes, I am. Yeah. No, you've got a very calm appearance. Okay, thank you very much. Now, this is the part of the show where we talk, but also pick a title or rather I pick a title and Tom agrees or not. All right, I would use myself from this then, Roger. Yeah, seriously. Oh, no, Sarah is well, Sarah is well. The Daily Token News Show, which I think is quite funny. That's funny. And then there was another one I saw at the bottom. Why am I missing it? This show is off the chain, isn't bad. The blockchain of dreams and the IRS wants its crypto cut. No, IRS wants its crypto cuts. Not bad. I don't know. We should ask our guests. Laura, do any of these titles of the show appeal to you? I think maybe I like the first one. Daily Token News Show? Yeah. The one thing about the IRS bit is, so first of all, I don't know if people will find taxes boring. Oh gosh, no, yes they do. So I worry about that. And then the second thing is that in a way that news is a little old. I mean, it's obviously pegged to this reminder that they made, but as I mentioned, this story has been going on for a year and a half now. So, yeah. Daily Token News Show. And then we, I don't remember, what was the middle one? The show is off the chain was the one I mentioned. Oh yeah. And that and the blockchain of dreams. Oh yeah. I know. I feel like Daily Token News Show. Yeah. Sarah, what do you think? Like it. Yeah. Everybody's in. Like it. Yay. It all works. We can't agree. No, I like that one too. All right. Done. Well, Laura, I know you probably need to get going, but thanks so much again for joining us. Oh yeah. Thanks. It's been super fun. And then I guess I'll see you guys around on various podcasts. Yeah. Or yeah. And if you have any new stuff, just ping me on email and we can schedule like a revisit. Okay. And this show should be live by like or should be up on the page by early afternoon today and then you can share it or... Oh yeah. No, the audio is going to be up in 20 minutes. Okay. Perfect. I will tweet it out. All right. Thank you so much. Thanks Laura. It was great having you. Come back soon. Yeah. So nice meeting you. And you're all the way in Singapore. I was like surprised by that. No, that was a joke. She's in LA with the rest of us. We're just in different parts of LA. Trying to be funny about the fact that I order on Uber Eats quite a bit and now it's Singapore based, the next time I'm in Southeast Asia. Oh, now I got it. Okay. Yeah. All right. Like I would laugh more but I like ordered Uber Eats for breakfast. Oh, oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. I was kind of like, isn't it like 2 a.m. there? Still sunny. Super dedicated. I know like I've got like the fakes on and everything. Okay. Glad that we cleared that up before I left thinking that you were just like the world's most dedicated employee ever. No, it was the worst joke in the world. That was entirely my fault. And yet I fell for it. So, no, that's what happened. That's how I know it wasn't very good because it's like, well, it can't be a joke. He must be serious. Right. Oh, she's in Singapore. She must be very dedicated. Oh, Laura, that's not it. It makes me feel better. I was voted amongst other things. I was voted most available in high school. So, oh, I know. That and smartest, both. Which is a weird contradiction. But you're so focused on being smart that you just don't care about bad jokes. Good thing, actually. Yeah, maybe, maybe.  I'm smart. Anyway, okay. Well, thanks guys. It was super fun being on the show. Yeah, good talking with you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Yeah, Laura was great. Yeah. Excellent. I just, I love, I mean, I love every guest we have always. But when somebody knows a lot about something that I struggle to, like, get my head around constantly, it's just so great. It's like free school. Yeah. No, she's obviously way up on this beat. Yeah. Which is fantastic. So. Yeah, we didn't really even get into like the state legislator, legislature stuff. But, you know, that's another where I'm like, I understand that it would be complicated, but like, you know, what do we do? What do we do? Well, next time we get a big crypto story, we should see if she's free. Absolutely. She knows her stuff. I am not surprised she was voted smartest in her class. So wait, is she in New York now? No, she's in San Francisco. No, she's in Singapore, Roger. We're all in Singapore. Everything's in Singapore. Please keep up.  Yeah. You know, and you like voted at some point, you know, and somebody that was on the yearbook staff to be mean to me would be in the category of most confused as an option. I was a most confused nominee. I did not win because the rest of the school knew better. But yeah, most, can you imagine if that was in the yearbook? Like that's like, I mean, that's real. That's that's like the worst thing to get voted in, I think. We did not. Why did your school even allow that as a category? Who knows? I mean, it was it was that in yearbooks like 10 years before my time. It was just one of these things that my high school, that was one of their categories. Most confused basically means dumbest. That was the basically the same thing. You're the dumbest. It was a night trying to be nice about calling someone dumb. Well, or just trying to be able to be like, we have a dumbest category and like the teachers like, let us do it because we called it most confused. Anyway, I didn't win. But I will always remember being a most confused nominee senior year of high school. Well, we didn't even do them. I was just looking because I have a copy of my yearbook right here. Late night. Late night with Greenville High. We didn't do that. We did some some people got nicknames in their index entry. That's the closest they are to find. We also had senior quotes, right? So you'd have like a quote next to your senior portrait. It was voluntary. So you didn't have to have one. But I do remember, this is probably why somebody at the yearbook staff did not like me, is I submitted the fire walk with me quote from Twin Peaks, which is like a really psycho. One chance out between two worlds.  You went the whole way. I had the whole thing written out. Yeah, because there was quite a bit of space and like someone was like, we're not printing that. And I was like, okay, well, I won't have a quote then. Then I got voted most confused, which actually in hindsight makes a lot of sense. You're most confused about my quote. Harris seems really crazy. That's her senior quote. The magician longs to see my quote. Oh, memories, you know, memories. So in the ongoing saga of, well, some of you, at least in the pre or post show from a couple of weeks ago, know that I got that call where they pretended to be the IRS taking me to jail unless I paid them. So there's a new thing. And I'm not sure if this is a scam or just total mistaken identity. But a very nice woman has called me now three times. And her initial phone call was at voicemail. And in the voicemail, she said, you were involved in a vehicular accident on, it was, you know, November, something 2015.   I didn't actually have a car at that time. I did not, because I was still in San Francisco and I had gotten rid of a lease and I didn't have a car. Like there was no accident that I was in. So I called her back and I said, hey, I don't know what you're talking about. And she kept saying like, well, what's the case number? And I was like, I don't know, man, you called me. Can't you like look at my name? Like I'm just telling you, like I wasn't in an accident at that time. And she was sort of just like, well, I'll just have to figure this out. And I said, okay, that was about a week ago. And she just called me right before the show again. I didn't answer because I didn't see that. I didn't recognize the phone number and left another long message about this 2015 accident. Does that seem scammy or is it just like? No, it's a scam because they would send you a legal document in the mail first. Why? Why must I be targeted? Roger may be right, but it also sounds like an overworked police officer who's trying to just wrap up a bunch of cases and is like, well, let me just look up her name and I'll call her. And then when you call her back, she's like, I don't know, which case number was it? Like I've got 50 of these things. If it was a scam, I feel like your call back would have been more like, oh, well, Ms. Lane, you need to pay. You know what I mean? That's the thing is like, she'd like, I called back, I got her on the phone, it was the same person who left a message and she was just like, couldn't find me. And so I was like, well, sorry. Wish I could be of more help, but gotta go. And that sounds like, that sounds like a public official, like a public employee. Because like, I don't know either, but you know, these are the sorts of things where she worked back through her pile of cases and got back to your names like, oh, this lady, I'll call her again. See what happens. Yeah. Well, because every time I've ever dealt with the police in some, I've always gotten physical mail from them. She's not part of the police department. Oh, she is. From some like insurance company. Oh, well there, that would be why then. Okay, that resolves that part. Right. I don't know. I'm just like, I'll call her back again. Cause I don't, you know, I don't want that, you know, my name to be associated with some accident, but I'm like, okay, I just don't want to waste time if this is just some scam that I can't figure out what it is. And it might still be a scam. I'm not saying it's not, but. Yeah, I know. I've always wondered about that. Remember Spookio when you were able to find out all this information? Like I used to do run searches on myself all the time. It would generally be 50-50. They would give, they would either apply the wrong career and place of business to me or where I lived or like a bunch of other stuff. And I've always wondered, because there's frankly a lot of Roger Chang's in the US. And you know, what if someone just makes a mistake that somehow implicates me into something I was never involved in? Like that, we'll see. That's my thing.  I mean, I wasn't in someone else's accident even. You know what I mean? Just didn't happen. I know exactly the time period. But if for some reason, there's some record linking me with something where, you know, I did something legally wrong, like that can't fly. That's the whole Brazil thing, right? You know, in the movie Brazil. It's been a while. It's all because of a clerical error. Right, right. Yeah. Well, I'll just have to call her back when we're done here. When I was in San Rafael, where somehow my insurance company, my car insurance company, just decided that the Tom Merritt that lived in Florida was me and sent me his bill. And I was like, wait, this isn't my car. But thankfully I looked at it and I was like, so I went online and paid my bill online where they had the correct information, but I got mailed this other guy's bill. So I sent it back to them and then I called them and they're like, oh, okay, sorry for the error. Then like six months later, I got a collection agency asking for Tom Merritt because he didn't pay his insurance bill and I had to send them the incorrect bill, the receipt that I had paid my own bill and a certification that that wasn't me.  When I first got my driver's license, please stop me if I've told you the story before, just one of the weirdest things. 16 years old, it's my birthday. I'm at the DMV. I'm getting my driver's license. And the woman, I already had my learner's permit, right?  And the woman behind the counter is like, well, I'm sorry, we've already issued you a driver's license. I was like, there's no way. It's not possible. There was another Sarah Lane with my same birthday from the same county, which was Sonoma County at the time, who had gotten a driver's license. She was older than me, but the system couldn't handle it. And they were just like, no, you're already in the system. Wait, when you put your name in, do they also take your middle name or initial? Well, it's on my driver's license now. I don't remember, you know, in 1992, whenever this was exactly what was going on, but it was like, I mean, we got through it. I was like, I'm not her.  But it was, yeah, it was something where it's like the system was like, everyone was just sort of like, what do we do? What do we do? She's already in the system, you know? Yeah, it was really funny. Sarah Lanes are prominent. Yeah.  They're in the driver's license database already. They're all sorts of, yeah, yeah, they're everywhere. Every once in a while, someone, a Sarah Lanes will friend me on Facebook, and I always say yes, because I'm just like, oh, you know. Do you guys have a group for all of the Sarah Lanes? We don't. You should. I don't think we have enough in common. There was a Tom Merritt who listened to Buzz Out Loud who lived in Texas and then moved to England. And I think he lived in Oxford last I knew. I got to meet him in England at a meetup. He came, he took the train down. I got an email recently from, with a receipt for me. It said to Tom Merritt, here's a receipt for, you know, like five pounds something at some store in Oxford. And I'm like, swear to God, it must have been that Tom Merritt bought it and they just typed the email in wrong and sent the receipt to me. So, yeah. He needs the receipt. I've got it. Casey needs to return it. Other Tom Merritt, don't worry. Don't worry, Tom Merritt from Oxford. We have kept you receipts. Yeah, good stuff. Well, I changed my desktop wallpaper. I know you guys were. Someone on Twitter. Very curious to know why I would do this. Someone on Twitter four minutes ago said, Tom, that is a scam listed on our sheriff's list. I'm going to assume that they're talking about your story. It must be. I don't know why they wouldn't at me or give me a little more context, but there you go. It'd be nice if there was a list, if there was a link to that list. So, okay. So let's just say this is a scam. And as soon as we're done here, I'm going to call her back. So I'll have more to tell you all about this tomorrow. But how does it work? Let's just say it was a scam. Like she left a very nice voicemail. When I called her back, she was very nice, however confused or pretended to be. Or maybe she was just like a really bad scammer and like doesn't have the hang of this yet. But I mean, there was no sort of like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, before you get off the phone, just like, just, you know, because that's what usually happens, right? Because they feel like they'll never get you again. There wasn't any of that. She was sort of my thing is like, what are they trying to get out of you? Just like money by like, I don't know. I don't know. Well, as soon as they said, if you'd like to settle this matter, send a check, I'd be like, ah, scam, right? Like the fact that they never asked you for money, that's either a very subtle scam, which- Right, and an entire week went by before she ever called me back. So I kind of expected to get another call back right away, like from another angle. Yeah. It's weird when you're a homeowner, you get a lot of those. They keep telling you, well, you're not up to code. You need to pay for blah, blah, blah service or you need this insurance. It's like, I don't need a gas line insurance. All right? Well, the guy that told me that I was facing eight to 10 years behind bars, and that's exactly the words that he used. You know, okay. He did end up calling me back again because on the phone that day, that initial day, once I was like, okay, got it, scam, got it. I kept him on the phone for a while, just getting information and just, he was very frustrated with me by the end of it. Um, but somehow I never really said like, I know this is a scam, right? So I was still like a person to call back because I was just sort of like, okay, if the sheriff's coming to my house, that's cool. Like I'll just get dressed and they'll come to my house. Do you think they'll want coffee? Yeah, like sure. Okay. I'll just, I'll just wait. Like I'll just, they'll bring the buzzer. I've seen Twin Peaks. I'll have donuts ready for that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Piping hot coffee. I don't know how sheriffs work. Right. I know. Exactly.  And then he called back and the next one was, we need you to go to your local IRS office immediately. And it was the same guy, same voice. Do you think they had like a front, like a location set up? No. I think that what they wanted me to say is like, well, I don't know where that is. How much money do you need? You know what I mean? But I, but at that point I was like, I can't keep up the charade anymore. I know this is a scam and he hung up right away and that was the end of it. And he said, you were voted most confused. We were told to it and understand that. You're not confused at all. You're confusing me. You've been misrepresenting. Your book misrepresented you. I'm just a lowly scammer trying to make it in the world. Trying to get you to go to a local IRS office that does not exist. Oh, man. Oh, good stuff. Well, so on that note, I'm going to call this gal back if we feel like we're, we haven't said bye to everybody. I'm sorry. We should say goodbye. Thanks everybody for watching and we will talk to you tomorrow. Beware of scams. Bye everyone. See you tomorrow.


And inward is where it can be found. The light in the mind that the false beliefs and the concepts and the constructs is covered over is where happiness is, is where love is, but in a sense it's the direction, it's that outward inward, not looking outward to the projections, to the idols to complete me. So removing the obstacles to that love is removing those constructs from my mind. Or dis-identifying those constructs. Okay. Yeah. It's recognizing that they are just constructs. Yeah. And a sense there's nothing to remove, it's just recognizing that that's all they are, unlike you say, not identifying with them, disregarding them. It's not a destroying process here, it isn't a process of destroying the false or destroying the evil. It's a matter of not being fooled, not believing that the false is true, not believing that the unreal is real. You know, the truth is in a recognition, but you have to be able to look and identify the false as false before you can experience that recognition. It's really a sorting out of thoughts that the Holy Spirit is helping the mind with. And false thoughts are no longer valued, they're no longer invested in, just since they fade. Because they're recognized for what they are. Yes. So life just becomes one big holy encounter in the sense of there's nothing, it's an inward direction of how to step out of the maze and time and space, the inner voice, the intuition. The Holy Spirit keeps guiding the mind to let go of the limited constructs, a sorting out of the false from the true or helping the mind to stay at the mind level, not raise the body thoughts, the world thoughts, the attack thoughts to the level of mind, to see a projection as a projection.  Don't try to be a teenager, a teenager, a teenager as a split, and in a sense, that's the way that the mind deceives itself. A good example would be television. I mean, there's a, we could take a particular topic like television where the mind has projected out a world, the ego has projected out a world and now the mind, the seed mind believes it's a person in a world. And then hit events and continues the projection continues to fragment and splinter in the sense that then we have this so-called invention in the projected world of television which then mirrors images and then we have it seems like the image watching more images and so on so forth when it's it's simply the fragmentation of images seems the multiplicity of the world as as more images are produced and television and advertising and distribution of products and more variety and more things to see and do and everything is just the multiplication of images when in fact that's all just part of the construct that things aren't getting worse in the world things aren't getting better in the world the world is the world that there's a way of seeing the entire world as a fabric of not ordering the thoughts and not judging that literally releases the mind from its belief in littleness and in that sense some you know television is just a neutral in the sense that it can be used by the mind by the Holy Spirit or the trained mind to help just see the false is false and to not buy into particular images and so on so forth to the untrained mind you know this this these images reinforce the beliefs in separation and fragmentation in the mind so to the untrained mind the television the learning continues the the perceptions that the mind sees and the fragmentation and the things that sees just are reinforced as being real the beliefs continue to be reinforced as being real so oftentimes for a child seems can learn from watching television many many many hours of television and actually it's just that the projections are reinforcing the images are reinforcing the beliefs in the mind but it can be very helpful to to either take time with the child to talk about what does that mean to you and really start to to speak and to use the the dialogue the conversation and whatever is on the screen as a as a teaching learning device to talk about the meaning that that is given and to get into a discussion of values and to use it as a way to get into questions of deeper deeper levels of the mind that's when the Holy Spirit is at work as it were to use the images as part of training the mind to greater discernment and sorting out the truth from the false and it's also where it can be helpful that if one doesn't have a lot of time to take to take to sit down and talk with the child who's watching to to very carefully select programs that that are reinforcing more helpful values or to limit television in that sense when it's unsupervised or there's no one to really discuss and go into the the different meanings and everything so these are once again that would be a case of of taking it down to a presenting problem which a lot for a lot of people television is is something in our area and arena part of their life that they really have some questions about you know it can it can seem to be very seductive sitting there and watching these images seems to present a picture of reality once again it has nothing to do with the reality in the ultimate sense but it can be used as a symbol by the Holy Spirit to undo the false concepts as well as it can be used by the ego as a purpose of reinforcing the beliefs and fragmentation victim victimizer the ego can be very drawn to competition to battles fights you know so on and so forth because that reinforces the belief in competition seeing the rights or seeing differently the same images are simply seen as a call for help or in the ultimate sense are seen as unreal so to train mind it can be used as a tool for the intention in my mind it's what is it for for me you know what if I'm trying to get something from it what what is it that that makes me value this program over that program you know and I get back to thinking that there's something to be gotten right yeah I'm not already hauling complete and full the stunning between the Holy Spirit and the ego's purpose I mean when you were talking about the body identification obviously you know you could break it into many different ways and levels in the world in the sense of fashion in the sense of you know physique training the body to look to a more standardized form of beauty accept the beauty weight loss just on and on and on and on the important thing is to get at the purpose the ego's purpose is a focus on the body because the body is the chosen home you know it tells the mind you know this is your home now the body and and even though the body is not a very good home for the for the mind in the sense that it's fallible and it breaks down and so on and so forth the ego you know wants to emphasize the form identity because that's what protects it in the mind the belief that's what protects the belief in separation is the form identification that's the substitute so therefore you could look at the intention I mean it comes down to pulling back away from thinking that you can see the ego in anything or anywhere I mean some people might say well a shopping mall you know with all the emphasis on the form and the body and the clothing the convenience and all the different services made available to the body it's like the temple of the ego and you could use that metaphorically but but ultimately remember that the desires for the things of the world are are in the mind not in shopping mall not in the shopping mall that's just once again it's back to that level getting past level confusion but there are altars in the old sense of like having a temple with an altar and a very holy place altars are like devotions and what the mind is devoted to really says it all I mean it's coming back and seeing past the ego's tricks and withdrawing the devotions from the ego


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. I'm continuing talking about similarity. In this case, we will talk about similarity of triangles. Well, as I'm sure you've noticed, we are trying to consider more and more complicated geometrical figures. We considered angles, segments, now we are combining them together into triangles. Next will be polygons, obviously.  Alright, so today is about triangles. What we have learned from the previous lectures is that transformation of scaling, homoththy, as they call it, preserves the angles and converts, transforms all segments into other segments, parallel to the original ones, having the lengths equal to the lengths of the original, multiplied by the factor of scaling. So if there is a scaling, which is a center, and a factor, then the image of every angle is angle congruent to the one which is given, and image of every segment is the one which is parallel and lengths of which is multiplied by the factor. Therefore, if you have a triangle and some center of scaling, let's say scaling by factor of two, it goes this way and that would be our new triangle. So this new triangle is similar to the original triangle and what's important is angles are exactly the same and sides are proportional to the sides of the original, proportional in terms of the ratio between the lengths of any corresponding sides is exactly the factor of the scaling. Now the question is whether the reverse is true, which means if two triangles have three angles equal to each other and sides are proportional, which means there is the same ratio between the lengths of all corresponding sides then they are similar to each other, which means they can be transformed one into another using some scaling. Well, the answer is yes. So the proportionality of the sides and the quality of the lengths of the angles is not only necessary but also a sufficient condition for similarity of triangles. Now actually there are some much simpler statements you don't really have to have all angles equal to each other and all sides proportional to each other to get to the similarity. You can suffice with a simpler statement actually three different simpler statements, for instance it's sufficient to have only two angles equal to each other. Well, obviously because the third angle will also be equal because the sum should be equal to 180 degrees but it's also sufficient to have two angles to have sides proportional to each other and I'm going to prove it. Another simplification is you don't have to have all three angles equal and all three sides proportional, you can have only one angle equal to another and sides which are making these angles proportional to each other. That is also sufficient for similarity. And the third again you don't have to have three angles equal and three sides proportional, it's enough to have three sides proportional. It's sufficient for similarity. Now when I'm saying it's sufficient for similarity it means that there is a scaling which would transform one triangle into another. Maybe combined with some parallel shift or anything like that, that's obvious. So we have three different theorems. Each one of them states some kind of a condition which is sufficient for similarity and I'm going to prove one after another. However before doing that I will prove auxiliary theorem called lemma. Lemma is auxiliary theorem and using this lemma I will prove each one of those three theorems. So what is this lemma? If you have a triangle and a point somewhere on one side and the line parallel to the base and n is point of intersection of this line which is parallel to base with another side, then triangle Bm and is similar to triangle B1, ABC. Now how to prove the similarity? Well to prove the similarity we have to actually find the scaling which transforms one into another. So scaling means we have to define what's the center and what's the factor of scaling. So I choose point B as a center and I choose the factor am over mb as a scaling factor. So what I have to prove is that if I use exactly the same scaling factor and apply to segment Bm, I will hit the point C. So how can we do it? Well I went in a similar fashion to the way how I was proving that during this transformation of scaling all segments are changing their lengths proportionately. Let's assume that this factor is some kind of a rational number, P over Q. Now what does it mean that the ratio between lengths of this and lengths of this is some rational number PQ? Well it means that there is some kind of a unit segment which would fit P times in am and Q times in Bm. So let's say we will do it this way. So it fits 1, 2, 3, 4 times and 5, 6, 7, 8. Let's make it a little bit less obvious. So it will be 4 times here, 5 times here, so it will be Oh, sorry that's wrong. Not am to mb, ab to mb. So it will be 9, 5. So what does it mean that this ratio is equal to PQ? Like in this case 9, 5. It means that there is some unit segment which fits 9 times in the big one and 5 times, no this is 4. Again my mistake. And 4 times in this case. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 here so it's 9 all together. So 9 over 4. So this unit segment, this small one fits 9 times in ab and 4 times in mb. That's what basically factorization means. Alright. What do we do now? Now since we have this unit segment we basically divide the whole ab into 9 partitions, divide the whole ab into 9 segments and draw parallel lines. 1, 2, 3, 4. So the fourth point of division starting from B to A will fall onto point M and the 9s would fall onto point A. Or if you wish the point number Q in a general case M and point number, division point number P will fall onto A. Now since I have drawn all lines parallel to the base AC line MM will be among them because M is one of the division points. So they will coincide. So I will have whatever number of lines here but the line number Q would coincide with MM. Now obviously as we know and again I mentioned this in the previous lecture about segments. If you have equal segments on one side of the ankle and parallel lines which are intersecting to another you will have equal segments here. Which means the number of segments will be exactly the same. Which means P in this case or 9 in our particular case and the number which fits into this part will be also the same as this which is Q or for another case. Which means that the ratio of these two would be exactly the same as the ratio of these two which is P to Q or 9 to 4. So this actually proves for any rational factor that the ratio between BM and BA is the same as BM to BC. So all I need to do is for any point M draw a parallel line and now I have a top triangle which is similar to the whole triangle as long as these lines are parallel. Now I have proved that only in case BM to AB is a rational number. And again as in the previous lecture I'm not going to oversimplify saying okay it's obviously that for any real number that's true. It's not out this because irrational numbers are not easy to define and it needs significant amount of efforts to really rigorously prove it for irrational numbers. However since any irrational number can be approximated to any degree of precision with rational numbers you can probably say that it's kind of obvious that this theorem can be proven and it is. Yes it can be proven so let's just take it for granted that for irrational numbers the theorem can be expanded and that's why I'm basically staging that this particular lemma, this auxiliary theorem that if you take any point on the triangle's side draw a parallel line you will cut the triangle similar to the big one. Okay we will use this particular lemma to prove our three theorems each one of them basically states a sufficient condition for two triangles to be similar. Okay theorem number one it's angle one and angle two are congruent to angle one and angle two. Now what does it mean? It means that you have two triangles and they have this angle and this congruent to each other it's sufficient for these two triangles to be similar. I think I have to correct it slightly. Alright how can we prove it? Okay let's say this is ABC and this is A' B' C' so I know that these angles and these angles are congruent to each other. Now what do I do? Okay let's take this segment A' B' and find the point M in such a way that these two segments have the same lengths. So AM as a segment is congruent to A' B' and I draw a line parallel to my side BC. So MM is parallel to BC. Well since these are parallel lines these angles are corresponding and that's why they're equal. Now this angle and this are equal to each other and that's why since these are equal these two angles are equal. Now if you consider these two triangles the line A' B' and AM are the same by construction this angle is again equal by condition of the theorem this we have just proved that this angle is also equal so what do we have? Triangles are congruent to each other by angle, side and angle. So these are two congruents to each other but these two the small one and the big one are similar to each other because of the angle we have just proven. We took the point and draw a line parallel to an opposite side. That's the proof that this triangle being congruent to this and this being similar to this that's why this is similar to the ABC and the proof. So this is angle and angle. So if you remember for congruency we need like three elements. Angle, side, angle or side, angle, side or three sides for similarity we need slightly different conditions. The first condition we were just facing was two angles. That's sufficient for similarity. Now the second condition is side well it is side angle side but it's a proportional side angle and another proportional side. So if you have one triangle and then another triangle and you know that these angles are congruent to each other and side a prime, b prime, c prime, a, b, c and a, b over a prime, b prime is equal to a, c over a prime, c prime. So if you know that the sides which are forming this angle are proportional then triangles are similar. Compare it with congruence. Compare it with two triangles are congruent if two sides and angle in between are equal to each other. In this case sides must be proportional and angle equal. So whenever you're replacing equality with proportionality you are basically shifting from congruence to similarity. Because similarity again is something which is proportional as far as the sizes of the sides but the angles are supposed to be the same. So that's why we have this particular difference. Whatever was equal for congruence proportional for similarity. Okay, how can we prove it? We'll do exactly the same way as in the previous theorem which means I take this length and find the point m and draw a parallel line. So this is equal to this. Now, what do I know? I know that a m is the same as a prime b prime. Now in which case I can replace this with a b divided by instead of a prime b prime I will put a m. I know that triangle a m m is similar to triangle a b c. Which means that a b to a m is supposed to be equal to a c to a m. Right? Which means a c to a m. a b to a m, a b to a m like a c to a m. So it's exactly the same thing. But now look at this. This is a c and this is a c. Which means a c a prime c prime should be equal to a m. So this should be equal to this. Now what we have triangle a prime b prime c prime and a m m. It's obviously that they are congruent because this is the same by construction. The angle is given as equal and this we have just proven are equal. So we have a side angle side equal to side angle side. So triangles are congruent. This one is similar to the big one. Which means this one is similar to the big one a b c. And to prove. So we are just using this proportionality to expand proportionality of these sides to basically equality of these segments. Now the third theorem will be again similar to this one. Third is proportionality of sides. Let's do exactly the same thing. So we have a prime b prime and c prime. And I know that all sides are proportional. Which means a prime b prime relates to a b s. a prime c prime to a c equals b prime c prime to b c. Right? Okay. Do exactly the same thing. A prime b prime find the point m here. And draw a parallel line. Always the same thing. Now we know that this triangle a m m is similar to a b c. Which means that a m which is by the way equal to a prime b prime relates to a b as this to this and this to that. So in this particular case on the left, since a prime b prime is equal to a m we can try this. So a m to a b instead of a prime b prime to a b. But a m to a b a m to a b is exactly like m n to b c. Now using this as you see we conclude that m n and b prime c prime are equal to each other. And again the same ratio is equal to a m to a c. Using this you see a c are the same so a prime c prime should be equal to a m. So this one we construct it as equal. And we have just proven that these lines, these segments are also equal to each other. So these two triangles are equal to three sides. So since these two triangles are congruent and these two triangles are similar this is similar to that. So we have proven the third theory. So there are three theorems about similar triangles. In a way it is similar to three theorems about congruence of triangles. So for triangles we have what? Side angle side. For similarity we have proportional sides equal angle and proportional side. For triangles we have two angles and side in between for congruence. For similarity two angles are sufficient. And finally for congruence of triangles we have three sides supposed to be equal to each other. For similarity it's sufficient that they are proportional to each other. So in a way it is basically similar. Okay I think I've covered what I wanted about different theorems of similarity. Yeah. So for triangles you basically have to remember these three theorems and the way how they are all proved is basically the same way. I find one of the sides of the bigger triangle if you wish. I find the point to cut the same lengths as the side of the smaller triangle and then we're just using proportionality of the sides to basically prove the theorem. All based on the same lemma which is if triangle has a line parallel to its base it cuts from the top at triangle similar to the big one. That's the most important part of it. And the most difficult actually. That's it for triangles. 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