This is the Concella on Liberty podcast. I think it's going to be episode 207 Usually on the podcast lately I've just been putting up interviews that I do on other people's podcasts Have it done many original or some of my speeches at conferences On occasion, I'll do an original thing It's actually Sunday, February 21st early in the morning About to go to bed. There's something I've been thinking about doing I'm a little bit tired, of course of talking about intellectual property all the time, but it is a very important issue and There's something I want to clarify a few things I want to clarify. There's terminology. There's confusion so many people have opinions about intellectual property or IP And they talk about it all the time without really understanding it I pointed this out in other talks before it's routinely Misunderstood the different types of IP are often almost always confused by non-specialists Patent copyright trademark Sometimes trade secret will be used interchangeably someone to talk about I don't know copywriting and invention or Patenting a novel or something like that so they don't really even understand The systems which I understand The only time it really bugs me is when there's someone who is a proponent or an advocate of IP who doesn't even understand the legal system That they're in favor of seems to me Irresponsible, but So just a brief overview Well, first of all, let me say something. I think that a lot of the My fellow opponents of IP Often object to the term intellectual property I'm not really a big I don't really worry too much about terminology it is called that in the law So to communicate with people we need to use some terms I don't think that validates the underlying arguments for it just by calling it as a local property But I do think it's good to point out that It's The term intellectual property was come up with as a sort of propaganda term by its opponents by its Proponents to argue in favor of it to overcome arguments against it One reason I'm not too bothered by the term is that I try to use the term property in a more careful way to refer to the relationship the ownership relationship between a Human being and a given scarce resource Most people think of the thing owned as a piece of property and I think that can be misleading So to them they'll say something like no, these are people that I agree with usually on being opposed to IP or IP law I should say IP rights they'll say Is our ideas property and I don't really think that's the argument against IP law That ideas are not property. It's that ideas are not scarce resources that are not ownable things Okay, that's the better more precise way to put it So the other confusion is and I'm gonna get to the heart of my Comments here. I was about to go to sleep and I was just thinking about I didn't want to wait till tomorrow I just thought I would do this before I go to bed The heart of my talk is I'm just gonna try to explain why Intellectual property is not about theft it's not about Contract it's not about fraud and it's not about plagiarism and I'll explain why I want to emphasize that in a second But let me just briefly explain what the four types the four classical types of intellectual property rights or law are Primarily the two biggest ones that we really have to worry about are patent and copyright and Patents are basically legal monopolies granted by the state that last roughly 17 years That cover inventions practical useful processes or machines Copyrights laughed usually over a century the life of the author plus 50 or 70 years depending on the country so almost a century or sometimes more than a century For original works of authorship like novels or paintings or even software things like that movies So that's creative works and then trademarks identify the source of goods like the Nike symbol coca-cola some symbol the McDonald's mark so trademarks Identify that and then trade secrets is just a realm of law that protects It it allows you to use court force to keep a secret from getting out If it's about to get out if it becomes public it's too late So it's not just the practical ability to keep things secret which you don't need a special realm of law for you Just keep things secret It's a way to keep the secret from getting out if it's about to be leaked by a former employee or something like that I think all four types are totally illegitimate laws for various reasons the worst offenders being patent and copyright They do the worst the most damage and Then one more point of clarification People use the term intellectual property in various ways sometimes ambitiously so sometimes a businessman or An engineer or technologist will use the term intellectual property to refer to the Technology of the company or the secret the know-how of the company So they'll refer to their designs as their intellectual property Which is not exactly precise I think they do that because such designs are often subject to intellectual property rights Not always but they just use it broadly in that sense So they'll say their intellectual property is valuable to them when an IP lawyer says that we're talking about these set of legal rights They have and that is also valuable to some companies To have and to be able to enforce these IP rights So you have to be careful what's being referred to and people talk about intellectual property so quite often the people struggling with this issue or trying to argue for Patent or copyright or trademark usually will say something like Well, number one though they'll refer to They'll refer to copying someone else's design Or their their novel or their Are their words they'll call that stealing or theft Okay But the problem is that It's not stealing or theft even under the current copyright statute the copyright statute does not Call or label an act of copying that's unauthorized as theft or stealing and of course under libertarian law It's not theft or stealing at all because you're not taking anything from someone that they own you're just using information to To manipulate things that you own which is not theft at all And at most at worst its emulation or competition Which is not a crime or or an act of Any kind of offense under libertarian principles, but even under copyright law It's not theft. It's what's called infringement. So basically the copyright statute and the patent statute Specify an offense of infringement. That's the unauthorized use of some some pattern of information Which carries certain liability with it, you know, the obligation to pay certain Monetary penalties or damages etc. But it's not theft and even the Supreme Court has has made this clear So that's one thing we should quit calling it theft because even under the current positive law, it's not theft One of the worst arguments for IP involves the this sort of challenge that That equates copyright infringement to plagiarism now Plagiarism has almost nothing to do with copyright and copyright has nothing to do with plagiarism copyright so plagiarism means the Presentation of usually like the literally quoted work from someone else while presenting it as your own work Like changing the name of like not giving proper credit to someone that you're quoting Pretending like you wrote the words. That's just an act of dishonesty or possibly Contract breach or possibly fraud in some cases usually not usually it's just a violation of like an academic code of conduct or academic scholarly standards and customs and You can get embarrassed or get in trouble for it or expel from school or we get a low grade on a test If you're caught plagiarizing, but it really has nothing to do with copyright and the way to explain this is Well number one let's suppose I copy a DVD of a Hollywood movie or I copy the latest bestselling novel But I keep the name of the author or the producer on the film or on the DVD or on the book So that's not plagiarism at all. I'm not pretending that I produced it I'm just making a copy and giving it someone else or selling it or using it on my own I'm not committing plagiarism at all and the law would still prohibit that so copyright law is not concerned with Honesty is concerned with stopping you from copying something even if you're not dishonest about it even if you don't plagiarize and another example would be to consider works that are in the public domain like the Bible and Shakespeare's plays and lots of older works Older novels there is nothing in copyright preventing people from Copying these things now because they're in the public domain or from plagiarizing you know I could I Could I could take Hamlet and Republish Shakespeare's play and put my name on it as the author and I could try to sell it on Amazon It might violate some terms of service with Amazon. I don't know I doubt it But the point is it has nothing to do with copyright. So plagiarism is And furthermore, we don't see that happening. We never see Classic works from the old days being Repackaged under someone's name and someone trying to pass it off under their name. So plagiarism is only a very narrow problem in a certain context and it's already dealt with by by academic and scholarly customs and and by Institutional rules at at universities and schools and things like that So it really has nothing to do with IP law or copyright. So the problem is the advocate of copyright will try to trap Opponents of it by accusing us of being a favor of plagiarism as if getting rid of copyright law means that we're in favor of plagiarism Or as if copyright law is the mechanism designed to stop plagiarism and as if that's basically all it does and that's just Frankly false. So that's a false argument. It's it's I don't know if it's dishonest in every case I think it's either based on ignorance or it's dishonest in most cases and The point is You can easily tell this because if you talk to the advocate of copyright and Say well if I'm willing to keep the name of the author on the novel am I free to reproduce it and sell it then and they'll say no So you see their goal is not really to stop plagiarism. So that's really just a Dishonest argument that they use So it's not about theft and it's not about Plagiarism it's also not about fraud. You'll hear this quite often in the copyright plagiarism context or especially in the trademark context And I've written a whole article on this in response to Frank Van Dunn's criticism of me and Walter Block for being overly Libertarianly legalistic or something the The argument is that If a trademark law is justified, this is usually the argument Because fraud is a is something that we libertarians oppose so they're presupposing that the main purpose of trademark law is to stop fraud and Therefore it's justified Well, okay, so the problem with this is Fraud is already In offense under the law It's you know, it's either contract breach or some kind of fraud So to the extent fraud ought to be impermissible It's already impermissible under the law and to that extent if trademark law Really stopped it then it's just redundant with already existing law So if we got rid of it, we would still have fraud and contract law But the thing is trademark law is not aimed at stopping fraud And Either the opponent the proponents of trademark law either know this and they're being dishonest or disingenuous Or they don't know it in which case they really shouldn't be running their mouths and talking about trademark law because trademark law doesn't have a fraud standard in it it has a standard That has to do with the likelihood of Confusing consumers Okay, so it's not actual confusion of consumers is likelihood But under under the way the law works this permits the so-called owners of trademarks to Sees goods that are counterfeit goods and to sue people who are selling counterfeit goods Even when the consumers that are buying those counterfeit goods are not defrauded So for example, you know someone who buys a $20 fake Rolex watch or a $10 fake Chanel purse Almost in every case knows that they're buying a fake and They want to buy a fake so they can save a lot of money. That's exactly why they're doing it so the consumer is literally not defrauded and the seller of the fake item is not defrauding anyone so Fraud is not at the basis of the Right under the law of the trademark holder to stop that sale or to seize those goods So trademark law has nothing to do with fraud And again to the extent fraud should be prohibited It can be taken care of by contract law and fraud law You don't need trademark law trademark law should be totally abolished for the same reasons by the way that that Rothbard explains in the ethics of liberty I think in the chapter on knowledge true and false Why defamation law okay should be? Abolished and is incompatible with the libertarian society and libertarian principles The idea of defamation by the way is the general term that covers libel and slander libel is the written Form of defamation and slanders the the oral form of defamation And by the way not the verbal form that people make this mistake all the time. I always correct people about this They'll use the term oral contract. I said they'll say verbal contract When what they mean is oral contract most contracts are verbal that means they use words a written contract is a verbal contract And so is an oral contract. They're both verbal contracts So when you want to distinguish between the two types of contracts written or Oral say written or oral and by the way not all contracts are verbal you could have Implied contracts or you can have contracts between people that just gesture.  There's a contract, but there's no There's no words being exchanged. So there's different types of contracts and by the way, and before we get to the final sort of a fallacious argument always trotted out in favor of IP which is the contractual argument on the fraud issue and this gets back to the also to the The plagiarism charge the argument given for copyright Fraud you have to understand what fraud really is and I've written about this in my contract theory article in other places fraud is not Just deceiving someone or being dishonest If it if it means something so broad then it can't be a crime or an offense under libertarian principles or law Because being dishonest per se is not a crime You have the right to lie and you have the right to be deceitful and you have the right to be dishonest There's only a certain context in which your deceitful Actions give rise to an offense which we call fraud and the best way to think of that in my view is What the common law calls theft by trick? If you understand that number one All human rights all rights all individual rights or necessarily property rights Okay, as Rothbard points out in the ethics of liberty So all rights are property rights. That's what rights are they are property rights But what that means is all rights all property rights or The exclusive right to control a given scarce resource Okay From your own body to other resources out there in the world that we need to use as means of action that we could have conflict over with other people who might want to use those resources to but Because of their nature of scarce resources They cannot be used by multiple people at the same time. That's why we have property rules So all property rights all human rights or property rights to control scarce resources, so that's what rights are and Contract is simply a way that owners of resources can temporarily or permanently Or partially or completely Transfer control of those resources to someone else in other words the owner of a thing By virtue of being its owner by having a property right in the in the resource You have the right to Permit someone else to use that resource or to deny them permission to use the resource to exclude them from using it That's what ownership Really means it really means the right to exclude other people from using the resource or to Consent to them using it whether that be your body or some of the resource that you own So a contract is just a more formal Usually a more complete or final Grant of this consent, you know if a girl consents to a boy kissing her We don't really call that a contract, but that is the the exercise by her of her property rights in her body She's consenting to it being used in a certain way, you know, if I invite people to My home for a meeting or a party I'm granting them permission to enter and use my home for limited purposes for the duration of the of the specified event Until I eject them or change my mind or whatever Okay, and sometimes you want to make this permanent So I want to sell you a half ownership interest in my home That's a contract or I want to sell you my home for good or I want to sell you a Life estate or an easement. I'm sorry or a user fruct in my in my home Or if I want to lease you my home for a month That is you can rent it from me your tenant for a month or a year or whatever These are different more or less formal agreements by which I alienate some of my rights I I grant consent to someone to use the property in some kind of specified way and In the simplest case, I just simply transfer complete ownership for me to you So that's what a contract is the contract is just the manifestation of ownership of a resource by the owner Instead of just giving temporary permission for someone to borrow or use the thing They're grant they're turning over title to it completely in most cases to someone else So that's what contracts are contracts are not Binding promises as most people conceive of them contracts are simply the transfer of title to Owned resources, which is one of the things you can do as owner of a resource You can grant permission for someone to use it or you can alienate title to it to someone else then this is Rothbard's We're path-breaking I believe in revolutionary and underappreciated theory of contract as developed by him and Williamson Evers of Someone who collaborated with him on some of these ideas decades ago now The reason I go into that is the nature of property rights what property rights are and the nature of what rights are And the nature of what contract is Helps to explain what fraud is in the sense that it could be an offense or a Tort or some kind of contract breach under libertarian law And now I the reason I said it's sometimes characterized as theft by trick is that you know if two people are making an exchange I give you a coin In exchange for your apple Then there's an understanding between the parties. It's usually implicit. Sometimes it could be explicit It could be written or it could be oral. It doesn't matter The point is there's an understanding their meeting of the minds the common law calls it as to what's going on here And that is I'm giving you title to my coin Conditioned upon you giving me title to Quote the apple unquote now that has a meaning the coin has a meaning we understand. It's a real coin It's not a fake coin We understand there's an apple. It's not a plastic apple. It's not an apple with worms in it So we both are giving title to our things to the other conditioned upon the other person reciprocating with the title to their thing and there's a host of other conditions there, you know The condition that the other party is not knowingly Misrepresenting the status of the thing he's giving to me So if someone gives me a knowingly gives me a rotten apple in exchange for my coin knowing that I'm Expecting a good apple and knowing that I'm expecting the apple seller not to be deceiving me Okay, and the apple seller knows that he's getting my coin conditioned upon that then if he knowingly gives me a bad apple It takes my coin. He's taking my coin without my Without my genuine consent. Okay, because my consent is in effect conditioned I'm basically saying I'm giving you this coin But only if and to the extent you're not deceiving me like that's one of the conditions I'm effectively placing on the transfer of The title to the coin and if the guy receives the coin knowing that the condition hasn't been fulfilled Even if I don't know it yet that he's in possession in effect of my coin the title hasn't transferred So if he goes and spins it, he's basically committing an act of conversion or theft That is what fraud is fraud is the The use of trickery or deception to obtain someone's property Shouldn't say property someone's re-owned resource without their genuine consent and there's an analog to this idea of genuine consent by the way in like in the field of medicine when you have Say surgeries being performed and you can send it to that there's a question of whether there was informed consent depends upon what the surgeon told you and All those kind of things but in any case that's a that's a digression My point is that's what fraud is and that's why we ought to have a type of contract or property tort or something like that that that recognizes that this type of fraud is a type of wrongdoing under libertarian law it's type of Trespass to property in a sense or theft of property in a sense But that is not what happens in trademark law. That's not what trademark law stops What trademark law stops is a as I said was it basically protects the reputation rights of The so-called owner of the trademark which is why I analogize it to defamation law So Rothbard explained the defamation law is not a legitimate Tort under libertarian principles primarily because to have a right to a reputation Is to have the right to other people's brains because your reputation is just what other people think of you So if you have a right to your reputation, you would have to have a property right and other people's minds or brains Which of course you don't have so you can't have a right to a reputation and really the arguments for trademark are similar to the rights The arguments for reputation rights, which is what defamation law is aimed at stopping protecting The idea for trademark is that your company builds up The goodwill in its customers and in its name and its reputation and its brand marks And so therefore has created the value in those marks and owns it But as you can see that's very similar to reputation Anyway, the argument that trademark law stops fraud is just wrong because once you have a right to your reputation as embodied in a trademark This permits you to sue People using a similar Name or mark as you even when they're not defrauding anyone. Okay, so it's really not based upon fraud So these are all false arguments given for To argue in favor of patent copyright and trademark law the fraud argument the plagiarism argument And of course the theft analogy, which is not a good analogy nor is the piracy by the way piracy is when you know a Ship of thieves Boards another ship and shoots people and breaks things and takes things that people own. That's what piracy is Of course, that's not what happens in copyright infringement When people copy copy information that's publicly available and use it to guide their own behaviors and modify their own Resources in the privacy of their own factories or houses That's not piracy or theft and the final argument. That's always given is that When you argue against patent or copyright someone someone will invariably say that that That Patent or copyrighted justified because People are free to make contracts with each other So what they don't understand here I think or maybe they do and they're being disingenuous is that copyright and patent law Have literally nothing whatsoever to do with the practice of making contracts First of all contracts and the Rothbardian since they're only transfers of title to alietable information Alietable resources, but even if you regarded contracts conventionally, it's just binding promises let's forget about that distinction a Contracts only bind parties to a contract a and b can have a contract that does not create property rights Property rights or what's called in rem that's rights in real things that are good against the world I don't have to have a contract with the rest of the world to have a title to my farm that I homesteaded and and constructed myself Right, I don't have a contract people. I have a property right in that farm and in my home and in my body I don't have to contract with someone to Prevent them or to have a right against them murdering me or using my body without my permission It's a it's a property right and this is exactly what the patent and copyright systems Attempt to set up for creative works and for inventions. They make them in rim rights or real rights Because no contract is required. So when people say that in contract rights are what's called in personum That's just rights between the the enumerated parties to the contract so you could never get in rim rights from a contract because They would the contract would not bind third parties They're not parties to the contract whereas property rights do and one way to To show this is to just ask the proponent of patent and copyright Ask any typical proponent of patent and copyright whether they would be okay with modifying patent and copyright so that they didn't affect people that had not voluntarily agreed to be bound by Some kind of regime some kind of contractual regime and of course every patent lawyer and copyright lawyer and advocate The Hollywood, you know the movie industry the music industry Hollywood The pharmaceutical industry they would go in completely insane over the idea that That only people that are contractually bound Or affected by their copyright or patent rights Because they know that that would totally eviscerate and got the entire system because it would transform it from an in-rem property, right? Which the law protects right now to a contract right which would only affect people that had agreed to be bound by it They would never accept that Because they understand that Copyright and patent law set up real rights that are not based upon contract, right? Which means that you could not You can't justify patent or copyright or anything like it based upon the notion of freedom of contract Yes, in a free society, we ought to permit people to enter contracts as they see fit but that would not and could not ever result in a Patent or copyright type system as I've explained in detail in my against intellectual property So those four things really annoy me when I hear them repeated over and over and over and over again by people who usually don't even Understand the basics of the different types of IP law Especially when all these things are just completely false and have been refuted many times But I guarantee they'll come up again and again and again. I'll hear all these again Probably in the next month on Facebook or other places But in the future, maybe I could just refer people back to this podcast All right signing out. See you guys next time


Hello everybody welcome back to another adobe photoshop tutorial and this one I'm gonna show you how to make your icons in The toolbar larger you see these icons over here on the left They're very very small by default and they can be made larger. Why would you do that? Well a few good reasons really one Maybe your eyesight's going maybe a little older and you know you want a bigger icon because your eyes aren't working The way they are or in my case Yeah, I have a tablet a pen tablet and clicking on them can be quite difficult when you're really in close with the tablet So let's just show you how to do it. Here you go. You got to do is go up to your top here I'm gonna go to Photoshop and preferences This is if you how you do it on a Mac you're on a PC right now I believe it's under file and you go down to preferences, but I'm gonna show you how to do it I'm back works the same way go to file and then you're gonna want to go to interface All right, here we go and under interface you're gonna see here.  Do not panic We're gonna go ahead and close Photoshop because you have to close it in order to see the results Gonna go to Photoshop quit Photoshop and after that. I'm gonna reload it and show you the final result Alrighty, let's just keep on rolling and I go to the finder Applications go back up to Photoshop 2022 double-click on it. There we go Now when we load it, you're going to see quite a significant difference Do do do come on computer here we go. All right We're just gonna click on new file. You still won't see it. I was gonna create a pixel grid and now when I left click on create Much bigger. It's not a huge difference, but it is a significant difference And this is very very useful like I said for people with you know, not so great eyesight Or if you're using a tablet and you have to do very very precise Motions and you don't want to keep using hotkeys this how you do it guys. Thanks for watching ton more stuff coming up Stay tuned be back soon


Escaped. Escaped tonight to ancient Egypt. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escaped. A new series of programs of which this the sixth is the Ring of thought by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle produced and directed by William Ann Robeson. Wherever the English language is spoken, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known for two things. His immortal character Sherlock Holmes and his unshakable belief in life beyond the grave. So great is the stature of Sherlock Holmes that Conan Doyle's earlier stories are all but forgotten. Stories like the Ring of Thought, which so clearly anticipates the author's later fascination with spiritualism. We invite you now to escape to ancient Egypt and the Ring of Thought, an adventure told in the words of John Bansett Art Smith, British Egyptologist. I arrived in Paris on the 314 Express from Dieppe and went immediately to my hotel in the Rue de la Fite. My actions so far had worked out according to my plan schedule. I slept for exactly two hours, got up and dressed, donned a great coat, walked down the Avenue de l'Opereur and entered the side door of the Louvre. Once inside and amid surroundings entirely familiar to me, I made my way immediately to the Chamber of Egyptian Relics or more specifically to the cabinet in that chamber which contained the El Carb collection of papyri. Drawing out the particular role I wished, I placed it on a nearby table, sat down, began to study it when I noticed one of the museum attendants who was polishing some brass work across the room. His face struck me as being curiously Egyptian. On sudden impulse, I decided to cross the room and speak to him. Approaching closer, I was impressed at once by the appearance of his skin. Drawn, tautly, across temple and cheek, it seemed as glazed and as shiny as varnished parchment. And out of narrowed slits, there glowed two green and vitreous eyes, misty with a dry shininess. Eyes of a kind never seen in a human head before. I beg your pardon, I need one of the papyri from the Memphis collection. Could you tell me where it is? You'll find it in the last cabinet at the end of the room, Monsieur. Thank you. You're Egyptian, aren't you? No, Monsieur. I am a Frenchman. Oh, I thought the half... If Monsieur will excuse me now, I have other work to do. I went back to the table and took up the papyrus I had been studying before. But my former calmness in translating the intricate hieroglyphics was gone and out of the depths of my mind welled a feeling of terrible familiarity. I concentrated more deeply on my studies, pushing aside those thoughts conducive to mental turmoil and at last, worn out by the inward struggle, I fell asleep. I awoke with a start, not remembering where I was. It was quite dark for a moment. Then gradually my eyes focused on the glints of moonlight reflected from the glass tops of specimen tables from the shiny varnish of the mummy cases. And I realized with a feeling of sudden dread that I was alone in the Egyptian room of the Museum of the Louvre locked in for the night. And I saw at that moment approaching through the moonlit halls a dim yellow flame. Nearer and nearer it came until I could perceive above it, as though floating in the air, the eerie glistening face of the man I'd spoken to earlier. I shrank into the dark shadow of my corner and he passed without seeing me, stopping before the mummy cases a few yards away. Scarcely daring to breathe, I watched him place the light on a table and begin feverishly to examine the tags on the specimens. In a moment he gave a cry of delight and drawing one of the mummies from its resting place laid it on the table in the full glow of the lantern and set to work. He was unwinding the wrappings from the head of the corpse. A few turns revealed a tumbled cascade of black curls. A few more, the snow-white brow, then the delicate nostrils and at last the full warm passionate lips, the face of the most beautiful woman the world has ever seen. Ah, my poor petite, so long it has been, so very long. You must forgive me, beloved. I could hardly believe my eyes. The man was obviously in love with this mummy. After a while he left the body, turning his attention to one of the glass cases filled with an assortment of rings. From a pocket of his garment he'd taken a small glass bottle containing some kind of liquid and he used this now to test the rings, rejecting them one after another. Then at last... This is it. It's the one. At last I found it, the ring of thought. In his excitement he dropped the bottle and I gasped in surprise at the sudden sound. Who's there? I beg your pardon. So it is you. No, do not move. I didn't mean to spy on you. I fell asleep. Who are you, Monsieur? I am John Vansitart Smith, a student of Egyptology. No matter. You will observe this knife. Yes. Had I discovered you five minutes ago, Monsieur, I should have slain you without a word. What? As it is now, I have found the ring, but I warn you not to interfere with me in any way. I really haven't the slightest intention of it. After all, I'm only here by accident. Perhaps. I say you shouldn't have unwrapped that mummy, you know. It's starting to deteriorate already. Oh, my beloved. Yes, before our eyes, the lovely face was crumbling, the hair falling away, the skin shriveling and cracking, the lips fading. The man hovered over the decaying body a moment, murmuring sorrowfully, and then he turned again. No matter. That will not make the least difference in a little while. Of what importance is the dead shell so long as her spirit waits for me at the other side of the veil? What are you talking about? What is it you're proposing to do? Tonight, Monsieur, I have ended a quest and broken at last the ancient curse. Nothing now can prevent my joining her.  She was Atma, daughter of the governor of Abaris. And both she and I lived in the reign of Tuthmosis 3,500 years ago.  Perhaps. But not in the way you think. There may be design in this. You're coming here. It may be decreed that I should leave some account behind as a warning to other mortals as rash as myself. Very well then. So be it as you're surmised. An Egyptian. My name was Sassra. And my father had been the chief priest of Osiris in the great temple of Abaris which stood in those days upon the bubastic branch of the Nile. I was brought up in the temple and was trained in all those mystic arts and sciences known to the priesthood. Of all the mysteries that I studied none intrigued me more than the question of life and death. And even to this question in time I found an answer. But for a man to live beyond his allotted span of years, Master Sassra, the gods have not so ordained it.  It is not well to jest. I trembled for though I've labored in your service for a year I knew not the goal of your endeavors. May Osiris forgive me.  For I'd thought that in return for your assistance I should grant you too the gift of centuries of indestructible life. I would not have it, Master Sassra. And I beg that you too forgo it. Forgo it. I've produced the fluid into my veins one month ago. Oh no, then you are lost indeed. Lost? Do you call this being lost? Let's see now. My heart should be about here. Oh that knife. No, don't.  Not at all. See? It bleeds a little. But in a while the wound will close up. And that's all. You. It's... It's immortality. No, I shall not live forever. But for five thousand, perhaps six thousand years I shall be immune from all dangers of violence, poison, disease, starvation. You cannot die. Now with this fluid in my veins nothing, nothing in this world can end my life. Dothra, Dothra are you there? Someone cross. Parmes, the priest of thought. In here my friend, enter.  If you will excuse me, masters. I go to make my peace with Osiris. What's wrong with your helper, Sosra? The thought of a well-nigh eternal life has frightened him into gibbering superstition. Then you still believe in the discovery? Believe in it? Parmes, my friend. Look. By the heavens, what a scar. It pierces the heart. You've done only a moment ago with this knife. Hmm? See, I can put it back in the wound, so. You, you suffered no ill effects? None whatever. And if I, if I turned the knife in the wound, that would do you no harm? You may try it. I feel nothing. I walked last week in the snake pits by the river, was struck innumerable times. It caused no harm. By the greater nubus. Will you have it then? In Egypt, I have chosen only you, my friend, to share the gift. But the choice is yours. I'd be a fool to refuse, Sosra. I'll have it. And now, what must I do? First, we must open a vein in your wrist. Like this. Then, we drip the elixir slowly into your bloodstream. Steady now. I don't feel anything. There is no sensation. It is done. So simple? There is nothing more? That's all. And now, done, it can never be changed. It seems incredible, supernatural. It's no more than a chemical discovery, but with it, while all this about us passes away, you and I, Parmes, will live on for 50 centuries. Think of it, my friend. 5,000 years of life. 5,000 years. Only the two of us. Listen, that noise, some procession must be passing in the street. I have an idea what it may be. Come on over to the window. She's being carried on the shoulders of slaves, Parmes. She must be some woman of rank. Her name is Atma. She's the daughter of the new governor. Her curtains are drawn back. Perhaps we'll have a look at her. Parmes. Is she not beautiful?  I saw her yesterday at the temple. Then you're most fortunate, my friend. You've had 24 more hours to dream about her than I have had. I must know her, Parmes. I must make her love me. I'll send gifts. I'll call on her tomorrow. Oh, it has to be then. I couldn't wait any longer than tomorrow. Call upon the beloved of the universe. He is Sathro, priest of the temple of Osiris. Well bid him approach. Enter, Sathro. Oh, most beautiful of all Egypt. I cast myself at your feet. That's a noble ambition. But wouldn't it be much better to sit here beside me and watch the fish in the fountain? Much better. You will all withdraw. Except you, my girl. Play something for us. At a distance. Well, Sathro, for so I understand you're called. Am I to deem this an official visit by a master of the temple? Oh, I might be loved. That is, no. It is not official. Oh? Perhaps then you wish to see my father on personal business of your own. Oh, no. No. I shall pay my respects to him at some other time. Then could it be I you've come to see? Yes. Yes. And since you've said the visit's not official, your reason must be a personal one. Oh, it is. Well, what is it? Atma. I have known women who are famed for their beauty throughout the valley of the Nile. But not one, not all of them, are so lovely as you. How thoughtful of you to come here and tell me. Atma, I've no wish to intrude my desires, my hopes, beyond such extent as you may wish to hear. But I'm finding this very difficult. Sathro, I've been told that you're a master of science, that you've unlocked the secrets of the universe, learned all the mysteries of nature itself. Your informants have been most generous. Yes. I'm inclined to think so. Why? Because you've discovered nothing at all about such a simple thing as a woman's heart. What do you mean? I come from thieves. And the women of thieves are warm-blooded, passionate. And we know what we want. Atma. I saw you first three days ago. Why do you think I told my bearers to carry me down that street beneath your window? And so, miracle of all miracles, Atma loved me. Worshipping the very ground her feet had trod upon, I lived through those glorious weeks. And with it all, our love grew apace. But one thing bore heavily upon my mind, and I came to speak of it more often to my beloved as we sat and talked by the fountain in her garden. Look, Sassra, see how the stars shine from the water. Yes, Atma. More lovely even than their glow in the heavens. Are they very old, the stars? Very old, beloved, as old as time. And they'll go on gleaming there. Long years after you and I are gone and forgotten. Atma, my dearest, we've talked of this before, and I know it distresses you to think of it. No, Sassra, tonight everything is beautiful. We shall not talk of death. Not of death, but of life. There are only counterparts of one another.  But how much better to live and love 5,000 years? Will you not do it? Does so long a time seem too great for the love you feel for me? Beloved, no. The time would pass in an instant, and the last then be no easier born than now. Then why draw back? Will you not take the elixir now tonight? I'm afraid, Sassra, we'll anger the gods. We will outlive the gods. They will have their revenge. Whatever occurred, we'd be together. Yes, I've thought of that. Were it not so, I'd not even consider doing it. Then you'll do it. Atma, you'll do it. I need more time, only a little more to assure myself. How much? Tonight, Sassra. Give me tonight. Every hour you live without the elixir is another hazard. All right then, tonight. And may Isis herself guard over you until the fluid courses in your veins. And so on that accursed night I went to my chambers and slept. And while I slept, the moon of Isis came over the delta of the Nile, shown but to light as foul a scene as was ever done on Earth. Some hours had passed away. Master, Sassra, master, Sassra, awaken, master, awaken at once. You know, who is Isis?  Let me turn up the light. You, you're one of Atma's slaves. Why do you come here? Oh, master, master. What has happened? What's the matter? Speak. It is she, the light of the world. What has happened to her? Master, master, Briggans came in the night. She, she is dead. You lie. You lie. Oh, Sassra, the slave speaks the truth. Armies, my friend. What foul jokes behind these words of his? It's not a joke. Atma is dead. You, slave, depart from us. Yes, master. By your gracious leave I depart. Such a thing cannot be. Oh, of course. The two of you planned it together, sought to frighten me out of my wits. It's very amusing, really. But I was terrified for a moment. Atma no longer lives. She was stabbed to death only a short while ago. No. Oh, no, no. She can't be dead. She is dead, Sassra, and for all eternity. I must go to her. Something, surely something can be done. I killed her. What is it? What has happened? I killed her. I struck her through the heart with this very knife. You? You, Parmes. Why? Because she loved you. Why? And because I loved her. You, my friend. She would not look at me. And for that you would lose her to both of us forever? To both of us, Sassra? I think not. By the living Osiris, give me that knife. That's it. Strike. Again. Here's the heart. Here. Strike. Again, and again, Sassra. Wait. What foolishness.  You're wrong, Sassra. You have killed me. Those were grievous blows. But the fluid, that cursory elixir of life, it runs in your veins as well as mine. True. But in mine is also the antidote. You lie. There is no antidote. Yes, day and night. These many weeks I've worked and I've found it. You couldn't have. Is there more of it? Yes, a very little. But you'll never find it. Where is it? Tell me where it is. In the ring, Sassra. In the ring of thought. And you'll never find it. I will. I will. I must.  And every hour of them. Think. It was your hand that struck me down with the same knife that took her from you. Think while I go to join her. Oh, no. You're not dead. You're not. No. No. No. No. For months I searched the papers, test tubes and the chemical flasks in the chambers of the dead priest of Thoth. Searched and found nothing. I sifted the sands where he'd walked, questioned his slaves and servants, and learned nothing. Every moment of my life, my terrible and unwanted life, was devoted to an unceasing hunt for the ring of Thoth. And all to no avail. And in time, a horde of barbarians overran the city of a barris. And the sands of the desert buried forever the last of my hopes. And so began the deadly march of the centuries. How can you know how terrible a thing time is? You who've experienced only the narrow course between the cradle and the grave. I've floated down the whole stream of history. I have traveled in all lands. And I have dwelt with all nations. Every tongue is the same to me. I need not tell you how slowly the centuries drifted by. Centuries without end. Years without number. And so I came to be one day, a few weeks past, in San Francisco, where I came across a certain item in a newspaper. One recent discoveries in Lower Egypt is an unopened mummy case containing, according to the inscription on the outside, the body of the daughter of the governor of a barris in the days of Thutmoses. In the same burial crypt dropped into a crevice between the stones was found a large platinum ring of singular design. Both specimens have been sent for examination to the Louvre in Paris. So I presume you came here to Paris, obtained this position of attendant in the Louvre with the idea of... Only yesterday, Monsieur Smith. As you may imagine, I had little difficulty in convincing the director of my knowledge of Egyptian relics. What is the ring, then? The one I saw you remove from the case is the Ring of Thoth? Without question. You've discovered how the ring must be used? The secret is obvious. See, the stone is hollow and drops of liquid move within it. Have you considered the possibility that this antidote may not perform the function which has been claimed for it? And there'll be no need of a knife to strike me down. My death was due in a time long past. And only this damnable fluid that runs through my veins supports the weight of my years. I delay no longer. I go to join her where she waits for me in death. No! Don't! Oh, too late. I've broken the gem. I've taken the antidote. I stood and watched him with a terrible fascination, but without pity and without compassion. He turned away from me and reeled toward the mummy he'd left on the table across the room. But even as he turned, the parchment skin of his face cracked and shredded. Discoloured lips shriveled away from the yellow teeth. The vitreous eyes withered into nubs of formless plasm, and the full weight of his 3,500 years descended on him in an instant. I left that room of death and walked over the marble floors toward the exit. My footsteps echoing through the empty halls, even as they had echoed for so long in the corridors of time. And I wondered as I walked if Sosra knew now what I knew, that the antidote in the ring of Thoth can bring death to the body, but not to the soul. And I wondered in what cloak of flesh his spirit now dwelt. Just as I, Parmy's priest of Thoth, had for the last 40 years of my 3,500, dwelt in the body of John Vanseter Smith. A little and so red. Well, now he's only two days old. But he doesn't look a bit like either his father or me. Given time, my dear. All babies look pretty much alike when they're first born. Well, I don't know. His eyes are... It's silly, of course, but he looks like an Egyptian. Produced and directed by William M. Robson, the Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, with Jack Webb as Sosra, Thomas B. Bairn Smith as Vanseter Smith, and Joan Banks as Atma. The special musical score was conceived and conducted by Sy Fuhrer. Escape is presented by the Columbia Broadcasting System, and it's affiliated stations each week at this time. Next week, we invite you to escape to a raft in the South Pacific with John Russell in his unforgettable story of human frailty, The Fourth Man. And so goodnight until next week at this time, when again it will be time to escape. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello everybody and welcome back so Andrea here I want to talk to you guys just kind of a recap on what you need to know for your professional portfolio because if you have not been audited before or if it's been a while since you've been audited or you just simply haven't had to submit the portfolio before this is your first time it's kind of good to have a little recap on how the process works. So your professional portfolio basically tells the dental hygiene association that you are following up and keeping up with continuing education courses. Basically the goal of our quality assurance. Sorry guys that's my puppies they have decided to play right now working from home that's what happens right of course. But basically what the quality assurance does is it ensures that we are telling our association that we are keeping up with everything because that's what we should be doing what they want us to do is make goals for the year. Every year on what we want to improve on what we want to learn about. That's basically what they want us to do when I submitted my portfolio. I actually worked backwards so I personally don't create goals for myself every year, because I am constantly taking courses. I love the website, Viva learning, which I talk about inside the course. I take courses probably weekly where I'm just doing something around the house. I'm just listening constantly to new updates new courses I am a mobile dental hygienist with my own practice. So I do feel like I have to be up to date on more things than maybe the average hygienist does. So I'm constantly taking courses but I do not plan for the goals per year. So if you haven't done that, don't worry if you're looking at your portfolio on the smile portal you're like I don't know where to start. Don't worry you guys I can help you this is what I am here for so working backwards is absolutely fine and that's what I talked about more inside the course so what that means is you need 75 hours of total hours over the three years 15 of those hours you need to be goal related. Take advantage of that because when you create a goal per year it could be one goal per year it could be two goals it could be five goals that's up to you. You do not need the same number of goals per year if you have one goal in one year. That's okay our association doesn't care the main thing they care about is they want it to be 75 hours in total, and they want your, your goals to be specific to what I go through as well. They don't like to see goals such as I want to learn more about gingivitis. You should be very specific you might want to say, I want to learn more about how to talk to patients who have light gingivitis or even to be specific. You want to improve your practice by learning about how to talk to patients how to talk to teenagers sorry that's what I meant to say how to talk to teenagers about their gingival condition and how to reverse it. See how that's very specific our association loves that. So you want to do that for all of your goals per year and definitely make your, your hours based on, I guess how much you're writing for your report on learning so I teach you guys how to do that too. For example, if your goal on gingivitis is going to be 30 hours, and you have a little paragraph in your report on learning, you just have two activities. They're not going to accept that goal if you're putting in 30 hours for example on one goal, you better have like 1020 different activities that you took, and your report on learning should be pages long. So I suggest if you can to do several little activities say one hour webinars each time and make each goal maybe five or six hours at the most. So that way if our association doesn't accept your goal, they don't like your report on learning and they make you do another one, you don't have to worry about trying to find 30 hours worth of a goal activity. But I talk about that more as well inside the course but basically think you need a well range of goals, well range of activities, and 15 of those goals can be put in for additional activities, such as just additional webinars you wanted to take that aren't really goal related. I do suggest in those additional activities, putting down more than 15 hours worth because that's so easy to do just take you know, two webinars let's say every day that are an hour long little listen to them in the background and then you can put those in for additional activities, you want to show your association, you're not just submitting your portfolio because you're audited, but you are already doing it so working backwards is fine, but have good quality goals and good quality additional as well. So that's basically the portfolio in a nutshell. I go through all of that with you in the smile portal. And once you are done, please send me your portfolio. You would save each goal page as a PDF file email that to me so I can go through everything for you before you submit so I can offer help. I can I can offer suggestions I might say to you, your goal number two isn't specific but I suggest changing it to this, or I suggest adding two additional activities to additional webinars to go number two to make it really fit in there properly so you don't get a call by the association. So you don't get the onsite visit all of that because that's what the portfolio is doing. It's basically you in a portfolio what you have been learning, you are submitting it to them and then saying okay is this good enough. It's very hard for them to not say anything. They might want clarification on one or two things but that's why I'm here to help. I don't want you guys to have to get that phone call to stress you out more. Let me help you I've had to submit my portfolio twice in my career actually sorry maybe three times now. I've been in the dental profession for 17 years my more recent submission was last year so I am up to date with everything because I have done it myself so let me know at any time if you guys have any question I am so happy to help and good luck. I am here to make this less stressful for you.


Trump rejected Zelensky's proposal. He has no intention of going to Ukraine. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump does not think it would be a good idea for him to travel to Ukraine, while he does not hold public office. Reuters reported citing his campaign. Earlier Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky told outlets of the German-based Axel Springer media group that he had privately invited Trump through intermediaries to visit his country. The former U.S. leader, who is likely headed for a rematch with incumbent Joe Biden in November's election, has previously claimed that he would resolve the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours if he were president. While Trump offered few clues as to how he might accomplish this task, the Washington Post reported that it would involve Kiev recognizing Russian sovereignty over some of the territories currently claimed by Ukraine. The ex-president's aides, however, have dismissed the report as speculation by uninformed sources. Zelensky has been skeptical about Trump's ideas for making peace with Moscow, saying that if the deal is that we just give up our territories, then it's a very primitive idea. In a statement to Reuters, Trump's team insisted that there had been no formal outreach from Zelensky to the 45th president. President Trump has said publicly it wouldn't be appropriate for him to go to Ukraine right since he's not commander-in-chief, the statement added. Trump has repeatedly criticized the Biden administration's approach to the Ukraine conflict, saying Washington is sending too many weapons to Kiev. He has also floated a proposal to provide Ukraine with loans instead of non-repayable aid. While Ukrainian officials said they were ready to explore the idea, Politico reported that Kiev was offended by this plan. Meanwhile, commenting on Trump's remarks about peace in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow has had no contacts with Trump on the issue, adding that the ex-president's plan had too few details publicly available. U.S. General Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine. Russia's armed forces have grown larger and not dwindled during its war in Ukraine, a top U.S. general said according to Business Insider. The army is actually now larger by 15% than it was when it invaded Ukraine. U.S. Army General Christopher Cavalli, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told the House Armed Services Committee in a hearing. Over the past year, Russia increased its front-line troop strength from 360,000 to 470,000. Cavalli continued, adding that the bolstered numbers stemmed from Russia raising its conscription age from 27 to 30. The increase Cavalli said meant that Russia was able to enlarge the pool of available military conscripts by 2 million for years to come. In some, Russia is on track to command the largest military on the continent, Cavalli said in his opening statement to Congress. Regardless of the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russia will be larger, more lethal, and angrier with the West than when it invaded, he added. Cavalli isn't the first U.S. official to have highlighted the threat posed by a resurgent Russia. Last week, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said that Russia has almost completely restored its military after sustaining heavy losses in Ukraine. Its newfound capabilities pose a long-term challenge to stability in Europe, and threatened NATO allies. Campbell told attendees at a dialogue hosted by the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank, on April 3. Cavalli and Campbell's warnings of an invigorated Russian army come amid warning U.S. support for the Ukraine war. The GOP has repeatedly blocked attempts by the Biden administration to send aid to Ukraine. If we do not continue to support Ukraine, Ukraine will run out of artillery shells and will run out of air defense interceptors in fairly short order, Cavalli said.


so youtube team keep it clean happy saturday what's going on is engraven here with another video before we get into this to review the pressure that the ravens just had a little while ago i gotta say that i love y'all and i really appreciate y'all and we put this on twitter but for those of you that didn't see i gotta say it on here too let's really try to uh lift lift some people up today do something small something small to lift somebody up because it's a lot of people everybody got their own problems everybody got their own struggles that they're going with that they're facing that they're dealing with so please just try to lift somebody up do something positive for somebody shed some light on something for somebody in a positive way just be there for people because we all need it man we all need it we all go through things everything ain't all peachy 24-7 stuff happen so just be there for each other man anyway the ravens they they called us this morning well they called me i can't speak for everybody but they certainly called me by surprise this morning because i ain't know they were going to do a presser today i had no clue but earlier this morning i was brushing my teeth and i was looking through my youtube notifications and subscriptions and stuff and then it said ravens presser at 12 30 and i was like oh okay and it said rishabh bateman and adafi away were gonna be speaking at that presser and i was like okay i didn't know it was coming but i'm with it i got no problem with it so i was looking forward to it but then they started early and i'm like man y'all usually start late and i can relate to that myself but they started at like 12 15 or something or 12 10 something like that and i'm like okay but then it was john hardball speaking and he was just going over some of the basics going over some of the schedule going over some of the tryouts going over some of the injuries uh minor injuries nothing surprising anything been mason they said he tore some skin on his foot due to something with his shoe they said jacob brielyn he he had the injury from last year that he was dealing with and he still isn't fully recovered but they said they expect him back by training camp so that'll add some more no just so happen to be two tight ends but that will add more competition to the tight end room because that tight end room just like the wire receiver room that tight end room is full the wire receiver room is full so it's going to be some tough decisions that are made but we'll cross that road when we get there so first up out of the rookies was adafi away and adafi somebody asked a question about just his name being used now him going by his first name now instead of going by jason um and he said hey it's a new chapter man it's a new chapter and he that he loves that he can actually do that now and that's big because when you first meet somebody the first thing you get to know about somebody is their name that's usually the first thing you get to know and if it's somebody who hasn't even been going by their first name for so long they may feel like the world like really doesn't even know them yet so for him the timing we always say timing is everything so for him to decide you know what now i'm going into my professional career now i'm going to go by my real first name adafi and he knew like we remember the press conference from a couple weeks ago where the reporters would some people were saying it wrong and whatnot and it's a process it's a process so but now it seems like everybody got it right and it can just make you feel that much more at home and that much more comfortable and that much more at ease so shout out to adafi away and he continued to be strictly business to this guy like when you hear him speak it's no nonsense no nonsense like it seems like when if you talk to him like if you tell a funny joke like not even one of my dad jokes but if you actually tell a joke that's really fun even though some of my dad jokes they'd be hitting them but if you tell a joke it seemed like he'll look at you with a straight face and go ha that was really funny tell me another one because he's he's all business man all business but i love that and again he he i'm sure he's excited and he's very proud and happy to be a baltimore raven but this dude he seems like hey give me the pads let me strap up my helmet i'm ready to go i'm ready to go i ain't trying to have all these interviews i'm trying to get on the field and make something happen so every time i hear this dude speak and i think i've only heard him speak twice uh but all strictly business so shout out to adafi away um they also spoke to the other first round pick rishad bateman and rishad bateman they had a plethora of questions for him some of them he was laughing at the questions but they had a lot of questions for him and they asked him about like is there any pressure with you being the first round pick with having to learn the playbook and stuff and he said hey whether i was a first round pick or a seventh round pick my job is to learn the playbook and my job is to contribute that's my job no matter where i got selected that it does not matter and it doesn't that's true it's very true but my favorite question uh from the presser it came from cliff cliffton brown and you know what let's just listen to let's listen to the question so the question just in case it was a little blurry for you hearing it he said in minnesota you were the number one guy so defenses what they needed to do was cater to you they needed to adjust to you they needed to watch you extra close they needed to have a defensive game plan for you because you were the number one receiver but now that you're going to be a baltimore raven how does it feel knowing that there are going to be other weapons too that it won't just be you how does that feel mr rishad bateman and that's a really good question i i love the question but one thing that i loved even more than a question was the answer loved it i loved it loved it so i'm not worried about being the number one wide receiver i don't need that i just want to contribute any way that i can and do my job i want to do my job he said so whatever hardball needs whatever lamar needs whatever the offensive coordinator needs whatever the passing game and the wide receiver coach needs whatever anybody needs sammy walkins whatever hollywood needs hey y'all boys need me to take some pressure off i got you whatever you need hey jk you about to break for 60 yards oh you need me to throw a block extra hard i got you oh lamar hey you're gonna scramble in the backfield for a little bit and then find me okay let's go i got you oh you about to throw me a fade right in the end zone y'all gonna implement that in the playbook actually wow i got you so rishad bateman what i got from his presser from his part of the presser i got you and that seemed to be his message to the baltimore ravens i got you and i loved it i appreciated it and again man we saw some of the different the little highlights from uh earlier today from minicamp and stuff and i know ravens they they doing that on purpose they they know we like we're ready for football man they know this they know especially after that draft that we ready for football even after they signed them undrafted rookie freeators which we were going to talk about some of them specifically we were ready for football they know that after free agency we were ready for football they know that even after that buffalo bills playoff loss well we didn't even get to see a full game from all of our guys because lamar went out we've been ready for football and again when you listen to adab fail way he is ready for football man so we got a while to go but team keep it clean we're going to be here every step of the way i love y'all i appreciate y'all and i know that y'all are ready for football and just like my guy rishad bateman said and what the theme of his part of the press conference was i got you i love y'all i appreciate y'all thank you for supporting we out


Congratulations, Frano. I'm reaching 300 AFC born with appearances. It's been success year on year. It's been a pleasure to be part of it with you. That attire there, when you're swimming attire, going out attire and training attire, we're back on the side, unbelievable mates. If he can combine his talent with a more positive attitude and show enthusiasm, he has the potential to become one hell of a player. Frano, congratulations on 300 games mate. What an achievement. You've made me very proud Simon. To have hit this landmark of 300 games during the most successful year of the club's history is something you should really be proud of.  You're a great dad and as I say, someone I most definitely look up to. What an amazing achievement. 300 games of born with is certainly some landmark and worthy of celebrating. Wow. I don't normally get emotional, but all them, that's amazing.


Coming up on DTNS whether Netflix is actually in trouble or not. Do we want mixed robot made drinks and smart diapers? This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, July 18th 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane and From the outskirts of the LA County Empire. I am the shows producer Roger Chang we were just having a lovely reminiscence about chewing gum and Local brands of soda on our expanded show a good day Internet you can get that by becoming a member at patreon.com DTNS let's start this show with a few tech things you should know The European Commission has fined Qualcomm 242 million euros for blocking British phone software maker I sera which is now part of Nvidia from the market using predatory pricing about a decade ago This is Qualcomm second EU antitrust penalty. Now the company said it would appeal and that the fine is quote Unsupported by the law economic principles or market facts. Wow Slack sent emails to users. It believes were affected by a data breach back in 2015 when attackers gained access to its user profile database including their scrambled passwords However, the attackers inserted code that scraped plaintext passwords Slack said it recently was contacted through its bug bounty program about a list of allegedly compromised slack account passwords Which the company says is only about 1% of users, but they are contacting all users who haven't changed their password Since 2015 out of an abundance of caution. Yeah, I got that email as well And you know better safe than sorry right a few months after Instagram started testing a new design that hides The total number of likes on other users posts that they've received the company is expanding the test Originally, it was just based in Canada and the test is now rolling out to users in Ireland Italy Japan Brazil Australia and New Zealand Now to be clear users with this new design will still see that everyone liked their own photos and videos and have that total number But not anyone else's memory chip spot prices rose for the first time this year 15% for DRAM weak demand and oversupply are considered the major factors behind the rise But a curb on chip making material exports from Japan to South Korea that we talked about on the show before Could make the price increases worse the spot market makes up about 10% of the market It refers to immediate purchases versus long-term contracts But something to keep an eye on if you're thinking about building a computer for sure All right, let's talk a little bit more about Nasty apps on Google. Yeah, if you've not heard of stalker wear It doesn't really have anything to do with malware at least not on the surface Antivirus company Avast reports that it found seven stalker wear apps in the Google Play Store that had been installed more than 130,000 times so quite a few times Google has removed all seven apps of the last couple of days If you're not familiar with the concept of stalker wear the app tracks things like Location data and provides contact information call logs text messages very you know personal stuff They often build themselves as a way to track children or find lost phones But the descriptions if you dig down into some of these apps involve giveaways like catching cheaters Somebody who is spying on someone else for example They require access to the target's phone But once obtained a user who installed one of the seven apps would be prompted by the attacker to then install separate software And then delete the initial download which leaves no app icon and no real trace To indicate that this had happened and the spire had actually been installed. Yeah, this is this is nasty. So first of all Let's make it clear Apps that are meant to help track your children are fine Not not all of those apps are catching cheater apps These specifically you can tell because their descriptions are different than what the title says same with fine lost phone apps but the nasty part is that okay, you're in a combative relationship and Yet you still have enough trust that they're like, hey, can I use your phone? Right? I mean that is the situation where they just don't lock it and then go to the bathroom Yeah, yeah, exactly something like that So while the other person in the relationship has the phone they could go in install one of these apps Install the separate software have it sent to their email address and then delete the icon and the other person would never know It was there. It's really bad. Yeah, the folks from vast said listen This is just unethical stuff. These apps are you could use them for non nefarious reasons But that's not really what they're being used for and you know, we wanted to bring it to Google's attention and Google agreed Yeah, and Google has removed all seven apps. I guess they did like it in two phases They removed a few right away and and then took a while to look at the others to make sure that they were falling a foul Because they don't want to be removing a legitimate app that is for child protection or finding your phone, right? And and none of these qualified for that, right? Just just bad stuff a report from the Paulson Institute in Chicago says that while China leads the way in data depth and Access for use by AI the US has better data quality and Diversity you hear a lot of headlines out there saying China has the lead in AI Mostly based on the fact that it has a lot of data Because the government is more permissive in collecting it people give it up voluntarily in China more often as well So those two facts combined mean there's a lot of data available for companies to use China it does have a lead in the depth of data it has a lot of that is because there are 800 million Chinese users who have internet access and It it has a depth of access because there are high use of services like we chat Yeah, some of it is government surveillance Some of it is just people saying I use we chat for everything and therefore now they have access to all this information from Hundreds of millions of people. However, the US AI efforts are global So they're not limited to one country like a lot of the China databases are that gives US companies access to a greater range of languages ethnicities cultures and Nationalities so that's going to give you a higher quality Because you have more room for error control and more diversity in the kind of data You have yeah I mean that was my first question when I when I when I first was digging into the story was well How does the US have more diversity? But it's true if if if if China and apps that are that are Somewhat walled garden Chinese apps that have a lot of data, but still are one region specifically then You think like well, I mean wouldn't the US be the same, but no I mean it's the apps are used by far more folks and so you do get that diversity Yeah, this is this is just a good note to have when you're hearing the discussions of the AI race It's not as simple as China has more data. So China's ahead Both countries governments are doing a lot to try to boost their AI development and I you know China's going to have to change a lot of its practices if it wants to get access to data outside of its country and and the US is going to be battling headwinds of access because Especially in Western countries in Europe in the United States There's a push to limit access to user data right now. So both countries have the challenges Both countries also have babies Yes, they do and here's where I'm going with that Pampers announced its new Lumie all-in-one connected diaper system With two activity sensors for the diapers a Logitech camera Wi-Fi baby monitor and also a companion app Lumie's sensor detects and monitors a wider more visible blue strip on the outside of specially made diapers to detect Wetness now these aren't the only smart diapers the Monit smart sensor diaper In Korea can be attached to any diaper So kind of has a leg up so to speak the baby cam measures temperature and humidity and serves as a hub for the activity Sensor it is very much a smart diaper the app takes all this data to then view activity trends because babies are active Let's be honest no price on the system yet But it will include two packs of diapers when it launches in the autumn and you can sign up for pre-orders now Yeah tracking baby activity is a huge trend among parents right now as a way to sort of measure health And and and sort of track infant progress You know as far as their diet nutrition and all kinds of things like that So this is a move by Pampers to try to get in on that action a little bit by measuring it It doesn't do weight some of these like diaper changing pads will do will like weigh the baby every time you lay it down and stuff like that But it is trying to collect that data and put it in an app make it easy for for parents to see Obviously the one that that everybody is going to be interested in is oh is it's gonna tell me when the diaper needs changing So I don't have to guess but it doesn't tell you when it's dirty only when it's wet so Sometimes does mean dirty I'm specifically using dirty to mean more than just wet it's not gonna tell you that you're still gonna have to use the sniff test Sometimes wet and dirty or not me chilly. Oh sure sure. No, no, no, absolutely But I'm just saying you're only gonna get the wet part of it and yeah, there's always all the information You need well, you know when we're in Roger and and Tom and I were at CES earlier this year And there have been stuff like this in the past But we did notice there there was definitely a surge in baby monitoring smart cribs, you know and and and And you know cameras that were specifically meant for checking in on your baby and and could give you more data than just like Oh, is my baby asleep or is it a way kind of thing? So I don't know Roger if you feel like this is something that is useful or just a little bit of a marketing scheme I mean I don't want to poo poo any of the The stuff that they're doing the data is very valuable However, in a lot of these instances to to get the data you need to strap something to the diaper or you need to Set them in a specific place And after around five or six months your kid starts booking it all over the place. They're very they're very um boisterous and so You know when you're changing diapers, you may not remember to stick the sensor back on or you might not remember to Put them in a specific place because you're half awake just trying to keep up Yeah, um, and again, it's not that this information isn't useful. I'm just wondering In a long term with with thousands of people using this Like there are times where we don't even put clothes on my kid because it's just like, you know They're gonna wet their diaper again, and I'm gonna have to change it Might as well just leave it off And then make things because there's a point where you just I mean you especially you have two kids You just kind of like well, whatever makes things the smoothest What you're saying is is the trouble of remembering to put the sensor on might that be something that Or remembering to put them in a specific location, you know, like I don't know that this requires a specific location For the cameras and stuff. I mean like, you know, do I There are times where I've changed my kid on my lap or I've just changed it on the chair Where's the most convenient and not necessarily the most Well, the the camera part isn't about the wetness detection the camera part is when you've put her put her down in the crib Yeah, it's letting you do the baby monitor thing. I think that's No, that's like but even with the diapers It's like, you know, my kid will my kid is gonna cry when her diaper's full Like this is the thing to get a full night's sleep and if she sleeps through it Great her diaper's super full in the morning. I'll take it off and I'll swap it But if we don't have to change it in the middle of the night and it's not given diaper rash leave it on Well, I think it's kind of like, okay Do we wear activity monitors on our own rests at night to to gain some data about how we slept and maybe, you know, how our rim sleep Was and see how many times we turned over But when you're talking about babies in many cases the babies will precede the data anyway Like the kid's already crying like she's up that and this stuff is pretty pricey Like yeah around around six seven months, you know, there's a whole set of metrics, you know If you've never had a kid you you don't realize how fast they grow Like you think like uh that our adults don't love, you know, you might gain weight a little bit But once you've grown you've grown with kids There's a growth spurt growth spurt growth spurt and then I'm I'm tossing out the crib next month because she's too big for it All right, folks if you have thoughts on this feedback at daily tech news show dot com Meanwhile amp pruit brought to our attention The story that amster dam is pausing approval of new data centers until the end of the year in order to adjust the city's policies Because amster dam thinks it probably has more data centers than any other major city in the world Part of that is due to low taxes. There's also cheap electricity sustainable electricity And the city worries that it is putting too much strain on its power networks As well as affecting the property market property values in amster dam are going through the roof Amster dam is in fact home to about a third of the data centers in europe So it's no joke. There's a lot of data centers. There are a lot of companies google microsoft, etc Etc. Etc. I have data centers in the amster dam area The government wants to give municipalities more control over location And making sure that new construction fits in as little space as possible as well as blends in architecturally And while data centers run on 80 green energy, amster dam wants to do more And wants to set requirements that data centers make residual heat available for free So that people in amster dam can use that for heating their homes or other green energy uses Something that a lot of the data centers are doing voluntarily already and a lot of the data centers are upset about this pause Because they wanted to put some more data centers in development existing data centers being developed will be allowed to continue They're just putting a pause on approving the new ones, but you know companies don't like that First of all, god bless the dutch Second of all the fact that amster dam is home to about a third of all of europe's data centers If you haven't been to amster dam recently, wonderful town Not that big That is that is that is a high concentration of data centers in in one place So I can definitely see where the city's like hold on a second Might you know, we might have been giving a few more incentives and we have to rethink this I happen to have a friend who writes for Newspaper a local newspaper in the netherlands and I said, you know Is this something that you know people are up in arms about and she said Most of the most of the public is not talking about this So, you know, it's definitely still more of a tech story and might might be getting a little bit more attention in other places such as here But uh, but yeah, I wonder where Okay, if amster dam puts a clamp town on the the the very Very attractive situation that data centers have enjoyed thus far. Who's the next city? Well, I I tried to look up some stats on that It seems like germany is is a home to a lot of these data centers. So so maybe somewhere like Or somewhere uh in germany, but but yeah, it doesn't sound I I don't think amster dam is clamping down I think what's happening is amster is like amster dam saying look we love getting all these data centers But it's starting to become a problem So we just need to put a pause for the rest of the year and figure it out how to make it not a problem We're not going to take away the tax incentives. We're not going to charge more for our electricity But we are we do want to put in some requirements that keep amster dam livable and I think that probably makes sense There's a trickle happening and they want to stop a flood They have a lot of experience with that sort of thing Imagine if san francisco was like, hey We need we need to maybe you know, not keep this flood of data centers going on and make sure that they blend in architecturally, you just wouldn't hear that I mean, I I I actually think I could imagine that in san francisco But what would happen here is they just go to san osa. I'd be like, I'll see you later. So yeah, right exactly Uh, let's talk about food at food tech live at ces mentioned ces a little bit earlier on the show We also saw several automatic drink makers They are exactly what they sound like bar sys 2.0 is one of those drink makers launching adding bluetooth For up to three devices at a time and some machine learning to help drinks consistent making drinks consistent Bar sys 2.0 will be available on july 22nd for $1,500. So not super cheap probably not going to put it in your home But might be better targeted at bars that want to save money on those bartenders with a heavy hand And you know keep things consistent drink works home bar sales for $299. That's another option.  Yeah, I mean $299 a lot for me to spend to make this at home. I'm definitely not spending $1,500 So that's got to be a restaurant thing. Yeah, um, I I don't know how y'all feel. I don't mind in some cases if my drink is made by a machine It depends on what I'm ordering if I want a gin and fresco then I just say, you know, it's made by a machine. That's fine Uh, I'd rather have it made by my friend Dave because he's good at it. But you know, it's not complicated However, if I'm like, ooh, uh, I know this bar where they just make the perfect Manhattan I mean theoretically a robot could mix it the same way, but I don't know if I Maybe I'm silly enough to trust it It's all about proportions and the amount of of mixing in the order of ingredients. I guess a robot could do this Yeah, it's all about portion control having Having received a number of restaurant magazines when you're in a restaurant industry You get magazines whether you signed up for them or not because they just want you to read the ads but all of them Number number one or two item in their in their in their advertising is portion control How do I maintain portion control because that is 50% of your business? If you can keep you're not saying what makes a good drink is portion control. You're saying what the appeal Robot bartender. Yes is the restaurant owner having control over how much liquor is being used in each Basically so that the bartender doesn't make a drink too strong. Yeah So and you know, they even had I don't know if you ever when you go to a bar you look at the tip They have those pourers there's a little ball in there that limits how much you comes out with each pour because that was something That someone came up with in the 60s for portion control So this is where I see this being most effective is restaurants who don't want an actual bar But still want to serve something more than just beer But not necessarily like we have a huge selection of wine. You just want a cocktail with you know your lunch Uh, like my like I know people or some people are inclined to do I I am not a big mixed drink drinker So mixology I understand and I'm using air quotes because that's just the term that you hear a lot I know that that that is a real skill and it matters and yeah, I would never say Oh, well people who are super skilled should just be replaced by robots because it's all you know a matter of just, you know Liquid and making sure that your your portions are are correct and then you get the perfect cocktail However, I personally would not care if a robot or a person made my drink Sure, the bartender Dave if I like the guy, you know, give him a tip You know, happy to happy to chat at the bar for a second, but otherwise this makes perfect sense I think the robots are pretty good listeners, too Although the best bartender they don't argue with you the best bartenders are the ones that keep the conversation going That I've seen at least from the I've had some bad bartenders. 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All right, yesterday We mentioned that netflix reported it added 2.7 million subscribers last quarter about half of the five million it expected In the united states it lost 130,000 subscribers the first drop in subscribers since 2011 Which was back when it split dvds and streaming apart The company noted it saw it missed its forecast by wider margins in areas with price increases So they're saying it looks like price increase Definitely had an impact on uh us missing our forecast Netflix also says its original content in q2 drove less growth than it had anticipated And it's still hopeful for next quarter netflix expects to add 7 million subscribers in q3 They expect to bounce back and add 800 000 subscribers in the u.s And netflix also announced it plans to introduce a lower cost mobile only plan in india Within the next three months if that happens within q3 then that could help boost some numbers in india Which is a huge potential market Uh for netflix, but I was like I was looking at What they released in q2 versus q3 and their argument I know this is all spin on netflix's part, but that just because it's spin doesn't mean it's necessarily untrue And their q2 hits are not nearly as appealing as their q3 hits and q2 Dead to me had 30 million viewers When they see us the avid du verne Film 25 million the perfect date had 48 million and always be my maybe had 32 million Now a lot of you are probably saying what are those again? I think I remember the avid du verne thing, but the other three Maybe maybe not here's what's coming up a coming quarter stranger things season three Is in this quarter The final season of orange is the new black ozark season three jerry seinfelds comedians and cars getting coffee the dark crystal age of resistance As well as the comedy specials from aziz and sorry whitney comings katharine ryan Original films include the irishman from martin scores sazy And movie six underground directed by michael bay starring ryan reynolds So I don't think q2 and q3 even compare as far as original content goes Yeah, and I think that there is and tom and roger and I were talking about this before the show The the narrative of well netflix is about to lose a lot of people who just watch it to watch reruns pretty much because those reruns are going to go to um NBC universal and warner and disney fox's new upcoming as fawd services And that's true It that will happen in some capacity, but it does seem like q2 was a little bit of a Yeah, I mean I I watched always be my maybe a good movie But it was it was a little bit of a lull in the content spike that you see coming up in q3 I mean stranger things alone. That's that's it's a big deal for a lot of folks The q2 stuff was good stuff that probably kept you as a netflix subscriber if you liked it The q3 stuff is the kind of stuff that could bring people back to netflix. Yeah You know what I really want to watch that dark crystal I can absolutely see that and netflix says that when it drops its catalog content Like stuff like friends it sees members shift to other content rather than drop subscriptions People have been saying this since stars left netflix years ago that oh when they lose their third party Their subscriptions are going to go down and it never has so just be you know Stop clock is right twice a day right just because this is the time where a threatened Departure of content that hasn't actually happened Was at the same time as a subscriber dip. I don't match those two up First of all the content's still there. Why would you cancel your subscription when it hasn't even disappeared yet? I don't think most people pay attention enough to to think that far ahead If they were going to cancel they'd cancel when it disappeared and netflix says You know people have been saying this about us for a long time Which is why we started doing original content generally people just find something else to watch And the keen for netflix is do they have that something else? And if you look at q2 Not they didn't have it as much as they will in q3 And that's going to happen with with any service That that that that just is what netflix's q2 was and I think that yeah, it's it's interesting that At least for myself There are times where especially when i'm talking about content like let's talk about the office right or friends Which which are very very popular on netflix Most of the time that is Nostalgic watching because people have already seen the show and they just kind of want to have it on And there have been times in the past where i'm like, you know, maybe i'm on hulu or a netflix or or some similar service Where i'm like, where'd it go? I don't know i'll just watch something else because it's kind of background stuff Now i'm not saying that you're not going to netflix to watch friends specifically because you might be doing that but I think that the the company has a point that In many cases, you're just sort of looking to put something on And you're going to find something else that is in the catalog You know i take it back I guess the office did leave but i don't think it left till late in the quarter if not in q3 So again, I don't think that has as big an impact as people think a bigger deal is choice People are deciding. You know what? I i'm not watching that much on netflix now Maybe i'll stop it down and watch hulu. Maybe i'll watch prime video. Maybe i'll watch playstation view Maybe i'll watch cbs all access. Maybe i won't watch anything. Maybe i'll just buy some stuff and rent it Maybe i'll play some video games. I mean this market is getting saturated And it would be unthinkable for netflix not to see any kind of impact from that They also say that they saw a bigger advance in subscriptions in q1 than they expected and maybe that impacted q2 That's possible as well. I I think People just they always want to jump the gun and say this is it. This is finally the time that netflix is crashing If we see them miss their expectations again next quarter, then it's time to say, okay Maybe they are doing something wrong and I will always be looking at their originals to be like are their originals compelling enough Maybe the dark crystal ends up not being that good. I I don't think it will but you know If if we have a series of like orange is the new black wasn't that great dark crystal was a disappointment Then you might start seeing people dropping off more often, but I think it's going to be more about the originals than the library content Well, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit There are lots of cord cutting stories there and other tech news as well You can be one of those people by submitting a story and voting on others and bringing them to our attention at daily tech New show dot reddit.com or also on facebook join our group if you haven't already facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech New show. All right, let's check out the mailbag We got an email from nick who said I heard your podcast yesterday And that would have been Wednesday's show a thought I'd chime in on the amazon choice discussion When you see amazon choice when you're when you're when you're searching for a product on amazon Nick says I've sold them for over five years There are two types of amazon choice number one Certain categories such as networking that amazon will bid out to top vendors in the space to hit certain price points They'll have them compete against each other to find the best value for a particular price band They don't validate that it actually works best Just that the specs and price line up with what they want number two amazon will algorithmically Generate an amazon's choice for almost every search that you make It's decided based on a combination of run rate reviews return rates and a variety of other factors With that said they do tend to lean towards the cheap option Which is almost always an amazon basic option as well So there is an algorithm trying to generate the amazon choice based on what they think is the best choice But then they in certain cases Just sell it. So it's not always the same thing. That's annoying. Uh, I don't like that Thank you nick though for the insight. Yeah And in a screenshot of open sky the app from alphabet subsidiary wing designed to serve as air traffic control for drones Uh, if you look the uh red means no fly at all in the app Orange means fly with conditions The condition to be aware that there is a private helipad nearby For instance, uh, so you don't want to stray too far into that You don't want to stray into that space. You want to be aware that that's nearby. So there's limits So thank you for for for opening that up michael and sending us the screenshot. That's awesome. Yeah at the same time I looked at it and I was like, oh my gosh There's a lot of information here. I'd be afraid to fly at jones. Yeah, exactly. 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