My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you this evening about my highest duty as President, to preserve peace and defend these United States. But before I do, let me take a moment to speak about the situation in the Philippines. We've just seen a stirring demonstration of what men and women committed to democratic ideas can achieve. The remarkable people of those 7,000 islands joined together with faith and the same principles on which America was founded, that men and women have the right to freely choose their own destiny. Despite a flawed election, the Filipino people were understood.  We salute the remarkable restraint shown by both sides to prevent bloodshed during these last tense days. Our hearts and hands are with President Aquino and her new government as they set out to meet the challenges ahead. Today, the Filipino people celebrate the triumph of democracy, and the world celebrates with them. One cannot sit in this office reviewing intelligence on the military threat we face, making decisions from arms control to Libya to the Philippines without having that concern for America's security weigh constantly on your mind. We know that peace is the condition under which mankind was meant to flourish, yet peace does not exist of its own will. It depends on us, on our courage to build it and guard it and pass it on to future generations. George Washington's words may seem hard and cold today, but history has proven him right again and again. To be prepared for war, he said, is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. Well, to those who think strength provokes conflict, Will Rogers had his own answer. He said of the world heavyweight champion of his day, I've never seen anyone insult Jack Dempsey. The past five years have shown that American strength is once again a sheltering arm for freedom in a dangerous world. Strength is the most persuasive argument we have to convince our adversaries to negotiate seriously and to cease bullying other nations. But tonight, the security program that you and I launched to restore America's strength is in jeopardy, threatened by those who would quit before the job is done. Any slackening now would invite the very dangers America must avoid and could fatally compromise our negotiating position. Our adversaries, the Soviets, we know from painful experience respect only nations that negotiate from a position of strength. American power is the indispensable element of a peaceful world. It is America's last best hope of negotiating real reductions in nuclear arms. Just as we are sitting down at the bargaining table with the Soviet Union, let's not throw America's trump card away. We need to remember where America was five years ago. We need to recall the atmosphere of that time, the anxiety that events were out of control, that the West was in decline, that our enemies were on the march. It was not just the Iranian hostage crisis or the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the fear felt by many of our friends that America could not or would not keep her commitments. Pakistan, the country most threatened by the Afghan invasion, ridiculed the first offer of American aid as peanuts. Other nations were saying that it was dangerous, deadly dangerous, to be a friend of the United States. It was not just years of declining defense spending, but a crisis in recruitment and retention and the outright cancellation of programs vital to our security. The Pentagon horror stories at the time were about ships that couldn't sail, planes that couldn't fly for lack of spare parts, and army divisions unprepared to fight. And it was not just a one-sided arms agreement that made it easy for one side to cheat, but a treaty that actually permitted increases in nuclear arsenals. Even supporters of salt, too, were demoralized, saying, well, the Soviets just won't agree to anything better. And when President Carter had to abandon the treaty because Senate leaders of his own party wouldn't support it, the United States was left without a national strategy for control of nuclear weapons. We knew immediate changes had to be made, so here's what we did. We set out to show that the long string of governments falling under communist domination was going to end, and we're doing it. In the 1970s, one strategic country after another fell under the domination of the Soviet Union. The fall of Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam gave the Soviet Union a strategic position on the South China Sea. The invasion of Afghanistan cut nearly a half Soviet flying time to the Persian Gulf. Because takeovers in South Yemen and Ethiopia put the Soviets astride the Red Sea, entry way to the Suez Canal, pro-Soviet regimes in Mozambique and Angola strengthened the Soviet position in Southern Africa. And finally, Grenada and Nicaragua gave Moscow two new beach heads right on the doorstep of the United States. In these last five years, not one square inch of territory has been lost, and Grenada has been set free. When we arrived in 1981, guerrillas in El Salvador had launched what they called their final offensive to make that nation the second communist state on the mainland of North America. Many people said the situation was hopeless, they refused to help. We didn't agree, we did help, and today those guerrillas are in retreat. El Salvador is a democracy, and freedom fighters are challenging communist regimes in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, and Ethiopia. We set out to show that the Western Alliance could meet its security needs despite Soviet intimidation, and we're doing it. Many said that to try to counter the Soviet SS-20 missiles would split NATO because Europe no longer believed in defending itself. Well, that was nonsense. Today, Pershing and cruise missile deployments are on schedule, and our allies support the decision. We set out to reverse the decline in morale in our armed forces, and we're doing it. Pride in our armed forces has been restored. More qualified men and women want to join and remain in the military. In 1980, about half of our army's recruits were high school graduates. Last year, 91 percent had high school diplomas. Our armed forces may be smaller in size than in the 1950s, but they're some of the finest young people this country has ever produced. And as long as I'm president, they'll get the quality equipment they need to carry out their mission. We set out to narrow the growing gaps in our strategic deterrent, and we're beginning to do that. Our modernization program, the MX, the Trident Submarine, the B-1, and Stealth Bombers represents the first significant improvement in America's strategic deterrent in 20 years. Those who speak so often about the so-called arms race ignore a central fact. In the decade before 1981, the Soviets were the only ones racing. During my 1980 campaign, I called federal waste and fraud a national scandal. We knew we could never rebuild America's strength without first controlling the exploding cost of defense programs, and we're doing it. When we took office in 1981, costs had been escalating at an annual rate of 14 percent. Then we began our reforms, and in the last two years, cost increases have fallen to less than 1 percent. We've made huge savings. Each F-18 fighter costs nearly $4 million less today than in 1981. One of our air-to-air missiles cost barely half as much. Getting control of the defense bureaucracy is no small task. Each year, the Defense Department signs hundreds of thousands of contracts. So yes, a horror story will sometimes turn up despite our best efforts. That's why we appointed the first Inspector General in the history of the Defense Department, and virtually every case of fraud or abuse has been uncovered by our Defense Department, our Inspector General. Secretary Weinberger should be praised, not pilloried, for cleaning the skeletons out of the closet. As for those few who have cheated taxpayers or have swindled our armed forces with faulty equipment, they are thieves stealing from the arsenal of democracy, and they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Finally, we set out to reduce the danger of nuclear war. Here too, we're achieving what some said couldn't be done. We've put forth a plan for deep reductions in nuclear systems. We're pushing forward our highly promising Strategic Defense Initiative, a security shield that may one day protect us and our allies from nuclear attack, whether launched by deliberate calculation, freak accident, or the isolated impulse of a madman. Isn't it better to use our talents and technology to build systems that destroy missiles, not people? Our message has gotten through. The Soviets used to contend that real reductions in nuclear missiles were out of the question. Now they say they accept the idea. Well, we shall see. Just this week, our negotiators presented a new plan for the elimination of intermediate range nuclear missiles. And we're pressing the Soviets for cuts in other offensive forces as well. One thing is certain. If the Soviets truly want fair and verifiable agreements that reduce nuclear forces, we will have those agreements. Our defense problems five years ago were immense and drastic action was required. My predecessor in this office recognized that and projected sizable increases in defense spending and I'm proud of what we've done. Now the biggest increases in defense spending are behind us and that's why last summer I agreed with Congress to freeze defense funding for one year and after that to resume a modest 3% annual growth. Frankly, I hesitated to reach this agreement on a freeze because we still have far too much to do. But I thought that congressional support for steady increases over several years was a step forward. But this didn't happen. Instead of a freeze, there was a sharp cut, a cut of over 5%, and some are now saying that we need to chop another 20, 30, or even 50 billion dollars out of national defense. This is reckless, dangerous, and wrong. It's backsliding of the most irresponsible kind and you need to know about it. You, after all, paid the bill for all we've accomplished these past five years, but we still have a way to go. Millions of Americans actually believe that we are now superior to the Soviet Union in military power. Well, I'm sorry, but if our country is going to have a useful debate on national security, we have to get beyond the drumbeat of propaganda and get the facts on the table. Over the next few months, you'll be hearing this debate. I'd like you to keep in mind the two simple reasons not to cut defense now. One, it's not cheap. Two, it's not safe. If we listen to those who would abandon our defense program, we will not only jeopardize negotiations with the Soviet Union. We may put peace itself at risk. I said it wouldn't be cheap to cut. How can cutting not be cheap? Well, simple. We tried that in the 70s, and the result was waste, enormous waste. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost because the cost of each plane and tank and ship went up, often way up. The old shoppers' adage proved true. They are cheaper by the dozen. Arbitrary cuts only bring phony savings, but there's a more important reason not to abandon our defense program. It's not safe. About 25 years ago when John Kennedy occupied this office, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he commanded the greatest military power on earth. Today, we Americans must live with a dangerous new reality. Year in and year out, at the expense of its own people, the Soviet leadership has been making a relentless effort to gain military superiority over the United States. In 1970 and 1985 alone, the Soviets invested $500 billion more than the United States in defense and built nearly three times as many strategic missiles. As a consequence of their enormous weapons investment, major military imbalances still exist between our two countries. Today, the Soviet Union has deployed over one and a half times as many combat aircraft as the United States. Over two and a half times as many submarines. Over five times as many tanks. And over 11 times as many artillery pieces. We have begun to close some of these gaps, but if we're to regain our margins of safety more must be done. Where the Soviets once relied on numbers alone, they now strive for both quantity and quality. We anticipate that over the next five years, they will deploy on the order of 40 nuclear submarines, 500 new ballistic missiles, and 18,000 modern tanks. My five-year defense budget maintains our commitment to America's rebuilding program. And I'm grateful the Secretary Weinberger is here to fight for that program with all the determination and ability he has shown in the past. But my budget does not call for matching these Soviet increases. So one question must be asked, can we really afford to do less than what I've proposed? Today we spend a third less of our gross national product on defense than under John Kennedy. Yet some in Congress talk of even deeper cuts. Barely six percent of our nation's gross national product, that's all we invest to keep America free, secure, and at peace. The Soviets invest more than twice as much. But now, strip away spending on salaries, housing, dependence, and the like, and compare. The United States invests on actual weapons and research only 2.6 percent of our gross national product, while the Soviet Union invests 11 percent on weapons more than four times as much. This is the hard-core reality of our defense deficit. But it's not just the immense Soviet arsenal that puts us on our guard. The record of Soviet behavior, the long history of Soviet brutality toward those who are weaker, reminds us that the only guarantee of peace and freedom is our military strength and our national will. The peoples of Afghanistan and Poland, of Czechoslovakia and Cuba, and so many other captive countries, they understand this. Some argue that our dialogue with the Soviets means we can treat defense more casually. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It was our seriousness about defense that created the climate in which serious talks could finally begin. Now that the Soviets are back at the table, we must not undercut our negotiators. Unfortunately, that's exactly what some members of Congress have done. By banning any U.S. tests of anti-satellite system, Congress not only protected a Soviet monopoly, it unilaterally granted the Soviets a concession they could not win at the bargaining table. So our defense program must rest on these principles. First, we must be smart about what we build. We don't have to copy everything the Soviets do. We don't have to compete on Soviet terms. Our job is to provide for our security by using the strengths of our free society. If we think smart enough, we don't have to think quite so big. We don't have to do the job with large numbers and brute force. We don't have to increase the size of our forces from 2 million to their 5 million as long as our military men and women have the quality tools they need to keep the peace. We don't have to have as many tanks as the Soviets as long as we have sophisticated anti-tank weapons. Innovation is our advantage. One example, advances in making airplanes and cruise missiles almost invisible to Soviet radar could neutralize the vast air defense systems upon which the Soviets and some of their most dangerous client states depend. But innovation is not enough. We have to follow through. Blueprints alone don't deter aggression. We have to translate our lead in the lab to a lead in the field. But when our budget is cut, we can't do either. Second, our security assistance provides as much security for the dollar as our own defense budget. Our friends can perform many tasks more cheaply than we can. And that's why I can't understand proposals in Congress to sharply slash this vital tool. Military assistance to friends in strategic regions strengthens those who share our values and interests. And when they are strong, we're strengthened. It is in our interest to help them meet threats that could ultimately bring harm to us as well. Third, where defense reform is needed, we will pursue it. The Packard Commission we created will be reporting in two days. We hope they will have ideas for new approaches that give us even better ways to buy our weapons. We're eager for good ideas, for new ideas. America's special genius. Wherever the Commission's recommendations point the way to greater executive effectiveness, I will implement them, even if they run counter to the will of the entrenched bureaucracies and special interests. I will also urge Congress to heed the Commission's report and to remove those obstacles to good management that Congress itself has created over the years. The fourth element of our strategy for the future is to reduce America's dependence on nuclear weapons. You've heard me talk about our strategic defense initiative, the program that could one day free us all from the prison of nuclear terror. It would be pure folly for the United States not to press forward with SDI when the Soviets have already invested up to 20 years on their own program. Let us not forget that the only operational missile defense in the world today guards the capital of the Soviet Union, not the United States. But while SDI offers hope for the future, we have to consider today's world. For too long, we and our allies have permitted nuclear weapons to be a crutch, a way of not having to face up to real defense needs. We must free ourselves from that crutch. Our goal should be to deter, and if necessary, to repel any aggression without a resort to nuclear arms. Here again, technology can provide us with the means not only to respond to full-scale aggression, but to strike back at terrorists without harming innocent civilians. Today's technology makes it possible to destroy a tank column up to 120 miles away without using atomic weapons. This technology may be the first cost-effective conventional defense in post-war history against the giant Red Army. When we fail to equip our troops with these modernized systems, we only increase the risk that we may one day have to resort to nuclear weapons. These are the practical decisions we make when we send a defense budget to Congress. Each generation has to live with the challenges history delivers, and we can't cope with these challenges by evasion. If we sustain our efforts now, we have the best chance in decades of building a secure peace. That's why I met with General Secretary Gorbachev last year, and that's why we're talking to the Soviets today, bargaining if Congress will support us from strength. We want to make this a more peaceful world. We want to reduce arms. We want agreements that truly diminish the nuclear danger. We don't just want signing ceremonies and color photographs of leaders toasting each other with champagne. We want more. We want real agreements, agreements that really work with no cheating. We want an end to state policies of intimidation, threats, and the constant quest for domination. We want real peace. I will never ask for what isn't needed. I will never fight for what isn't necessary. But I need your help. We've come so far together these last five years. Let's not falter now. Let's maintain that crucial level of national strength, unity, and purpose that has brought the Soviet Union to the negotiating table and has given us this historic opportunity to achieve real reductions in nuclear weapons and a real chance at lasting peace. That would be the finest legacy we could leave behind for our children and for their children. Thank you. God bless you and good night.


there isn't much more to add except one thing and that is going to take a while. Let me introduce you to the team who organized EuroPython. First, there's nobody here. First, the project coordination, the Zen master of EuroPython 2014. Fajt Schiele, also in the project coordination, Karina Haupt, pairs of EuroPython 2014 and members of the board of the German Python user group, Mike Müller and Daniel Soska, program committee, Martin von Löwis, Holger Krekel, Sarah Mount and Reimer Bauer. The controlling team, first our financial guru, Christian Kreuzer, Daniel Soska again and Fajt Schiele. For the sponsoring, Christian Kreuzer and Fajt Schiele and also Fabio Plieger who isn't here yet. Who does communications, including Twitter, is Andreas Mackjett, team everything online is Marcus Holtermann, Horst Gutmann and Daniel Neuheuser. The travel and partner program was organized by Christian Rota, Andrea Glodek and Heiko Weinen. For everything graphic, there was an armada of people involved. Andre Hänze, Fred Bordfeldt, Malene Schuffort, Armin Schrossalchinski, Stefania Trabucci, Dino German, Patrick Fassauer, Dimitri Katz and Zess. The video operations center is still very active and working right now, so they can't come down here. They're sitting up there in the dark. They are Daniel Meisner, Manuel Hartkempa, Florian Larisch, Peter Hasse, Bern Riemer and Peter Körner. Also the BCC has been housing us for the last week and for the next two days and I would like to thank them as well and come up here, Pia Sofi-Wilm, Valentin Dreeves, Marc Stender, René Gitter, Mario Hatschief, Dirk Matschei, Dennis Hegemann and Philipp Waldo. These are already a lot of people, however, there is the volunteer organization. So Karina Haupt and Marcus Holtermann, can you raise your arms just to show again? Those two guys were organizing even more people. Wait, where's my slide? Ah, there, there we are. These are all the volunteers. Stand up if you see your name. As a reminder for your volunteers, we still need you. We need to dismantle the place and we will give you a barbecue tonight at 8 p.m. for honoring all your services. Additionally, Fabio Plieger, who isn't here yet from the EPS, he says hi and he also says thank you to all the organizers. And one more specialty. We're very, very grateful for the work that Pyleides and Django Girls made, did put in here for making Europe Python even more fantastic experience for everyone. So please give an applause to Patricia, Alexandra Sendeka and Ola Cytarska. Thank you very much, Christian, for this very nice, thank you to everybody. Thank you, Christian. Okay, we're not done yet saying thank you. Can you go back? No? Yeah, okay. Of course, this conference wouldn't be possible in the form and it's now without the sponsors and that's why we put all the logos up here for all the sponsors. You can see many of them and then different levels, please look at the website. Though we have bronze and silver and gold sponsors that help us to make this conference affordable and special things I would like to say to our three platinum sponsors and I would like to call their name. So it's Google, HP and road code. So thank you very much for all our sponsors. I think we're not quite done yet because there's a group of people missing that we haven't thanked yet and actually that's you. That's all of you who came here. We are extremely grateful because without you, all of this would not make sense at all. So thank you to all of you. Please! So to everybody who leaves today, see you next year and have a safe trip home. To everybody else who stays, see you tonight and on Saturday and Sunday enjoy the sprints, the bar camp and the pie data conference. This leaves only one thing for me to say, oh no, it's starting, great. This leaves only one thing for me to finish with after this slide. Everybody on there? So one thing to say at the end, that Python, dammit! There you go.


Before we start, let's do a quick show of hands. How many of us believe that continuous integration, CEI, is an integral part of the development process? Please raise your hands up. Okay, cool. Keep your hands up. If your CEI takes less than 30 minutes to produce stable build artifacts after running all the available tests. That's nice. What about 15 minutes? What about 10? Wow, cool. So we have at least two people here who can help us out if you have any questions. If you have any questions, you can reach out to them. In our case, though, around 10 to 12 months ago, our CEI system used to take around 60 to 90 minutes to produce stable build artifacts after pulling the code, building the code, and running all the available tests. Now, that's a pretty slow time there. And it used to get really bad if the test failed because while the prior build was running, multiple developers would commit their code. And now to go and isolate which commit actually caused the problem and then to fix the commit, it would take four to five hours to get the next set of stable build artifacts. And you can only imagine a situation when there was a mistake in isolating the problem or fixing the problem. It used to be much more longer. Now, clearly, the team was not happy about it because our ability to get quick feedback, to quickly learn from it and to take a course correction, that was getting impacted. Now, having these long-running build cycles also had a specific developer behavior impact. They were discouraged from committing their code frequently because if they commit their code frequently and the build fails, then now they have to spend their time making sure that whether they were the cause of the problem or was it someone else, so it's a waste of time. They were also afraid of committing their code during evening times. You can imagine, right? If I commit my code during evening and if my build fails, my entire evening is lost. So they'll prefer to keep their code on their machines and come next day morning and then commit their code. Now, that leads to other problems, like the longer, the more away you are from your repository, it takes longer time to integrate the code with the repository. So it's a waste of time. And God forbid if the hard disk crashes, then your entire efforts are lost. Now, these are profound business impacts. But apart from these business impacts, there are also some social impacts. Like me, has anyone been in a situation when you had to stay back late night to integrate your code with your colleagues just because your CIS system does not exist at the first place or your CIS system takes longer time to run? Anyone? Okay, cool. Okay, have you been in a situation when you had to rush back home living behind an unstable build just so that you don't miss the dinner with your family or friends? Okay, this is how your colleagues would be looking and pointing at you when that happens. Or have you decided to stay back, make sure that the builds are successful, all the tests are passing, the build artifacts are produced.


That's a retribution. Oh! I'll be more than glad to show you around. But, um, later, perhaps. Wait. Oh, I didn't know he wasn't dead. So, guys, we're back with more Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update. The part where we are currently at is we just went through the... How could I possibly line that this redeem doesn't apply right now? We just went through the club. What was the club called? Wait, where are my lights? Hello? Sick. Okay. We just got back from clouds. We just went through clouds. We got an update on Evelyn and all that. So, we're gonna go back. We're doing the automatic love quest, is what it's called. Hope you guys enjoy. If you guys are watching on YouTube, make sure to subscribe. Like the video. Let me know what you guys think. Turn on your notifications. Or else. Nice work back there. Ever thought of applying for the diplomatic corps? Dude, can I make Johnny Silverhand the default TTS? Oh, I can. Uh, I think we'll find her there. You think fingers got her? I think we'll find her there.  Yeah, resubs too. So, ready? Don't have time as as he goes. I respect that. Of course you do. You'd have loved to have dropped an H bomb in this place. No need to go so OTT. I've got other methods. You down with OTT? One thing's for sure though. Claws won't forget this. Sit and wait until evening. Okay, so we can sit and wait until evening. Or, let's visit Takamura and a RipperDock. So, how do I get to a RipperDock? Can somebody tell me? Oh, the sphere. La-claw. Regina Jones. Yeah, this game is totally like a futuristic GTA game. Oh, I'm right next to a RipperDock. Okay, right click and set wha- wha- waitpoint? Dude, the Johnny Silverhand TTS is so good. Okay, why does that kill you? That happened last night too. Like, I could literally do that in real life. Uh, no. Well, how's that any different from some dollhouse ass?  That's so hard to understand. Meat, right. No feeling going on, no thinking, no awareness. It's empty. Might as well be latex. Masturbation, sophisticated kind. That's all it is.  Makes perfect sense that. And the employee. Tecton, Tecton, conversation. Actually, dude, I can't, man. I could imagine Tecton having macros. Wait, what? You had a plan. You tried. It fell flat. Now you're flat. Don't look in any condition to find a stand. Hey.  Can you hear me, buddy? The hell's that? You're living a dream. No, no. Damn it. Make the frick up. The titty. The timing of the titty. It's all going too slow. Gonna decommission before we learn how to rip the chip out. You don't care if I live? Wanted me dead. Said so yourself. Made it pretty clear since that I changed my mind. Wanted you to live, Frank.  I just needed a calmer moment to think. And, yeah, figured since fate gave me another shot. I'll take it. To live life to the fullest? Sup. You didn't know what that was? One of the mac bowls are with gazelles on a safari. To finish what I started. I'm back in the game. Wanted Saka out. So I'm gonna need you in. Wait, Juan. No one said about the bug. The choice is bug. Wait. Let's get out of here. Oh, really? I should just go back now, shouldn't I? Don't pick second dialogue? Okay. Okay.  Asked you already.  I gotta get out a jail-free card. I'd be a fuckin' fool not to take advantage. See, me and Arasaka. We got a half-century-old score in each settlement. And I plan to do it. That's what I need you for. Are you gonna make a terrace to me? Any gifters wide are due. Dude, the job is so very- Let's get out of here. That's so funny, dude. Never been recruited into a terrace cell before. Listen, I know things. Where we can save your life. Who can help us do that? You'll get rid of the chip. I'll smash Saka. Win-win, kid.  And Makoshi's how we grab it. But I don't trust you. Can I say I don't trust you?  Let's get out of here. Don't trust you. Clear, right? So why would I trust in your plan?  So if you're done bitching, I'd be happy to explain. Sound good. Makoshi, what's that exactly? Okay, so... Is Makoshi? What is it exactly? Okay. Basics. If you're jacked in, cruising the net, our Asaka can use Soul Killer, an AI, to trap, fry, and pack away your psyche, your mind, and your soul. Following so far... Yeah, someone have it at you. Yeah, I've seen the memories. They're a real number on you. Okay, seems we've got a few more things to approach than I thought, but that'll come later.  But the contents of your mind get copied to an engram first. Sure. That's how you became a construct. Exactly. Now, Makoshi's the place Soul Killer operates out of, where it stores its victims' engrams. Love this game so much. How are we linked at all in Makoshi? Still don't see how Makoshi's linked to my chip problem. Not the brightest bulb on stage, are you? 50 years back, ops on the human mind. Makoshi was the sole place on Earth where they did anything like that. Bet it still is today. Tellin' ya, all roads lead there. It's where we'll settle our bids. You, yours, me, mine. How do you plan to strut Arasaka this time? How do you plan to smash Arasaka this time? Got another nuke tucked away. This time, bombs named Alter Cunningham. I'm supposed to know who that is. Not yet. But you will once we find what we need. For now, we got no time to lose. Need to get inside Makoshi.   Gotta push her down the stairs. You good? I've way too much fun doing that, dude. Alright. B, you called. Evelyn's not at clouds anymore. Behavioral chip was damaged. Apparently they carted her off to a ripper dock, and the ripper dock goes by fingers.  Alright, later V. You know what's funny? We're gonna go back to that food truck. So some tacos that looked amazing.    Man on a cyber freak be like for real. That's so funny, dude. The Johnny Silver Entity has the best idea, man. Okay, so here's what I wanted to check. Ripper dock. This ripper dock is fingers, right? Can you say whoa? Should I go to this other one? Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. V, can we check out the special toy store in Jig Jig Street? No. No, Johnny. Stop. We're not going to the toy store in Jig Jig Street. Alright, let's talk to this ripper dock. I'm shopping for new chrome. Looking to upgrade my chrome. Okay. You sit. Be comfy. And we will start. Ooh, is this my first time going over a ripper dock? Outside of the first time? That would be the second time. Memory boost. Oh, so you get 0.4 RAM when you neutralize an enemy. Gorilla arms, lightweight, efficient, hard hitting, replacement cyber room. Nervous system. It allows you to aim for range attacks while sliding, dodging, or dashing. Quieter movement and faster crouch movement speed. Projectile launch system. So I can be like, phew, and shoot a rocket. Melee attack speed. Dude, I feel like there's so many things for melee, and there's not a lot of stuff for shooting. Like, maybe that's why everybody goes melee, is there's not a lot of things for, like, better shooting. Okay, I'm going to get this. Okay, let's run it with this for now. Yeah. Is this just a jack of all trades build? Yeah, I want to do, like, a hybrid build. Another perf? Hey, I don't know what you're watching on your iPad. Okay. Oh, look at that. Double jump. I've double jumped now. Here, kitty, kitty, what's the rush? Wait, why did Johnny just show up and not say anything? Oh, he just does that sometimes? Backpedal away. Go the direction he's looking. Pee-pee. That's what you're looking at, Johnny? Ooh. Well, don't you look delicious. Come here and let me have a lick. What is this? You're looking for some company tonight? Oh, I know what that is. Yes, you found it, baby. Would we go somewhere or is this a dark alley type of party?  I got my own place. Oh, I'm sorry. Hey, not one step closer. Here to see who? I'm looking for fingers. Looking for a ripper dock goes by fingers. Know where I can find them? Who's asking and why? Uh, I got a busted implant. Got a problem with an implant. Not from around here. Couldn't find another ripper in the city to patch you up. Her fingers was the best. Yeah, the best for joy girls. Are you a whore? An escort. Yes. For special tastes. Looking for a ripper who can cater to my special needs. Good.  Let him through. Wait, what? Something got a crack head. Got a hold of the wrong stuff.  Think fingers would have fixed a cracked faceplate for free. That's a lot of me. Oh, that's a weeback. Let's go talk to fingers. Nam. V, hey. Rosie Harper. Mitzi Sparks. Ross Austin. Janet Brewer. Fingers guy. You know him? Heard some things, yeah. Like? His hand sometimes slips. Glad to see a familiar face. I'm worried sick about her, V. Had no idea anything had happened. We'll find her. I know we will. Why did Evelyn go back to Clouds? After the heist. Evelyn holed up with the mocks for a while, right?  Meaningless words. I thought you'd be safer there. God knows why. Tried to get her to see straight, but she wouldn't listen. You talk to fingers yet? If only. He's harder to get in to see than the best docks in town. Maybe you could talk to those girls. See if we can cut in front. You see a woman with blue hair around here? Had a doll chip. I think I know who you're talking about. Fingers worked on her, sure. She's still here? No idea. God ask him. Wait, I pay them? My friend here is in really bad shape. Could we cut in front? Ooh, hold on. This is my five head strat. I have been not using my attribute points until I need to go to a skill check, and then I use them. My friend here is in really bad shape. Could we cut in front?  My friend here, she's in real sorry shape. You could have just cut in front, just this once. Scoomba, thank you for the two gifts. My guess. Well now, hold on, hold on a sec. It didn't seem so bad just a minute ago. She's a toughie. Keeps it inside, mostly. Thank you, Russell, for the theorem. Don't try to open those luscious lips of yours. Come on, let's go. Don't worry. Yes? Hello? What can I do for you? Uh... Something wrong? Can we talk a minute? Need a minute of your time. A minute? That's all? James, could watch those juicy lips of yours. Who did he look like? He did. He looks like... You tiger claws. As far as I know, I'm all paid up. It's not Abbot. We're with the monk. Dude, you know what he looks like? He looks like Abbot and Costello. He looks like Abbot. Why didn't you say so? So... Old school. Like, it's a black and white show. My dad loved it. So what brings you here? Are you helping working girls? I heard you helped the working girls around here. Well, very few children will play with broken toys. So when skin goes flabby, sockets go out of whack, implants malfunction. I'm sure you get the gist. You pay for goods, you expect top quality. Consumerism 101. You install faulty implants? These girls know you're chipping faulty implants. You might say so. I'd say they're the very best I can find. See? What's in it for you? Whatever they have to offer. And they always have something to offer.  Know that? Step into my office, please. Many girls come through here. I haven't watched a drama. So many. But let me put it to you this way. I believe in giving each of them the personal touch. Ask anyone. I'm more than a chop-dock. See, I know what people truly want. To be flattered, praised, padded. To feel like... Like they deserve it. You remember her, I know you do. Went cheater as soon as I mentioned her name. Don't try getting out of this. I know you remember her. I have a neurological condition. It's not easy living with ticks. Really, I'd love to help, but if only I knew who you were talking about. Does the name for us help? Check your logs. Show me your logs. What about your logs? Gotta have some kind of record. Tech like this, you don't register. Don't put any names down for it. Blue hair, doll chip, best spring dance gear ever, though damaged. Was she here? Poor girl. Tried to help her, I did. But as you can see, this isn't exactly a state-of-the-art facility. Help her with what exactly? If I only knew I wager she'd be standing here, happy and smiling. Instruction register on her chip was burnt to a crisp. Tried replacing it. Nothing. Damage was caused by a netrunner using homebrewed malware. Sounds about right.  What'd you do to her, you freak? Either you put a muzzle on this... creature, or put her down. It's impossible to have a conversation with her around. Calm down, Judy. Jude, calm down, okay? You're not helping. Let me do the talking. Now. Evelyn Parker. Where is she? Could very well be on her way to becoming the next underground braindance. That's all I know. Like a big, strong man. Unlike fingers there. Johnny? You know that for sure? I'm sure about this. Four days I had her here. She was out cold in La La Land for practically every minute. Underground BDs? What do you mean by underground? I don't know. I mean, I don't watch that sort of stuff. Snuff? XBDs? I told you I don't know. Where are these BDs recorded? Where do we find her?  You're frisky. Intrepid. When I realized I wouldn't be able to help her, patch her up, I called my fixer.   Who'd you call? Who's your fixer? We're cacko.  Where did they take her? I told you already. I don't know. They weren't the talkative kind, and I'm no gunk. I know better than to ask questions of people like that. You're no gunk? What do you think? Why did all these girls come in here? Let you grope around them? Think it's for your charm? Your caring attitude? They do it because they got no choice. And in the end, they despise you.  What were they planning to do with her? The two that came for her didn't say anything about where they were going to take her, what they were going to do to her. Mention something about virtues with a moth of all things. Said she'd be perfect for them, whatever that means. But that's really all I know.  Because that's exactly what she was.   Need air. I'll be outside. I feel like if I punch him, I feel like aggression is not the answer. But man, he's got a really punchable face. Eye for an eye, everyone goes blind. That's why you don't go eye for an eye.  That's retribution. I'll be more than glad to show you around. But later. Wait, is it bugged? CSGO went off line one last time. He petrified me. Oh, I didn't know he wasn't dead. Is there anything else in here? I scanned everything. I picked something up. What did I pick up? Oh no, I don't want that. I let her go back to Clouds. Could have stopped her, but I didn't. And you two got along swimmingly, didn't you? Exchange numbers, too.  Wait, no, what do you mean I just killed it? Can we not lose our cool? Say what I needed to learn what we now know. Really? You seemed forgiving to me. Like you were letting him off easy. I literally killed him. Losing our cool won't do us any favors. It's a waste of time. Oh, I'm cool.   You don't know that. Well, I'm not going to squander precious minutes. We could spend looking. Only we got an XBD. Where does that get us? We also know we're looking for something related to the dead's head. It's better than nothing. I need to find out where they scroll these things. We need to figure out where they're scrolling this stuff.  Doubt they didn't want shooting on location. Yeah, gotta be somewhere quiet out of the way. It could be. We'll see something appointment in their direction in one of their virtues. Ah. Have to be real gongs to leave a clue. Everyone and everything leaves a trace behind. Everyone. Everything leaves something behind. Just need to know where to look. Lucky for me, I'm running around with the best BD specialist in town. Has an extra pair of expert eyes. Well, your BD expert has a better idea. Pleasures of Night City. A domain with its twin on the dark net. Might stumble on something. Super fun. I'll take a look around Jigg Jigg Street. I think I've got a better idea. Saw a smut shop on Jigg Jigg Street. All kinds of stuff there. Think you might find a death's head? I can't hurt to try. Meantime, see if I can't find something in the NCP domain. I'll wait in the van. Got something that'll keep you hard for hours. Slow down. Treat yourself to a little R-E-L-A-X-X-X. What is that? Is that Aaron Rodgers? Relax. This one do. Use your imagination. Yeah, I can see that. Got anything to my interest, me? Um, junk vendor? Looking for something special. A brain dance to really... You mean smut? Nah, more hardcore. I'll find it here. But there's a guy on Jigg Jigg Street. Has a whole lot of Julia Flicks. And I mean peculiar. Okay, so we're trying to find the XBD dealer. Down here. Looking for something. I'll come back some other time. Oh, my bad. How about you?  What do you sell? What have you got? Virtues. Any special kind? Well, let me put it to you this way. You know, don't need to ask. Looking for BEDs. A particular kind. Particular? You a badge? Cop would have enough evidence to detain already. If I was a badge, you'd already be in cuffs while you sold the customer before me. Alright, alright. Can't be too careful. What do you want? Give me the best of the best. The ones with the death's head. The death's head? Didn't know I was dealing with a connoisseur. Death's head will cost you, though. No discount? How about a discount for your newest customer? Only give regulars discounts.  Okay, illegal brain-dance. XBD, deep-fried death's head maw. Acid bath, hardest disc. Okay, I bought... Pleasure doing biz with you. Pleasure doing biz with you. Can meet Judy at the van. Okay? Hop in. I'm in, I'm in. No! That's my first crash! No! I thought they fixed it. Nah, that's okay. Crashed in a parked car. How do you crash in a parked car?


Coming up on DTNS Europe cracks down on tech Walmart pulls the safety drivers and Patrick Beja gives us the lay of the land in gaming after the release of the new consoles This is the Daily Tech news for Tuesday December 15th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane and from the eternally dark forests of Finland. I'm a very tired Patrick Beja And I'm the show's producer Roger Yes, but from those dark forests Patrick helped us uncover all kinds of mysteries about sting in our wider conversation on good day internet I believe I believe Tom the word you were looking for is yes and you don't say yes, but It gets a wider conversation a good day internet become a member of patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know Nikai Asia sources say that Apple plans to produce up to 96 million iPhones in the first half of 2021 which would include the latest iPhone 12 range and older iPhone 11 and iPhone SE phones That's nearly 30% year-on-year increase although industry-wide component shortages could still bring that number down a source also says that Apple is working on a new Apple TV and Preparing an aggressive production schedule for new MacBook Pros and the iMac Pro in 2021 and one chips for everybody the elect comm sources say that LG display may convert its Gumi factory From making automobile and wearable displays to making panels for the iPhone with a name to supply 40 to 50 million OLED panels for iPhones in 2021 Signal has added support for end-to-end encrypted video calls You can have up to five people in your call and signal hopes to increase the number of participants. It allows over time Ireland's data protection commission issued a 450,000 euro fine against Twitter for failing to promptly declare and document a data breach that the GDPR Requires breaches of personal data be notified within 72 hours about the company apparently was not aware of it so anyway Twitter was fine the bug was in the Protector tweets feature that may have exposed some Android users to private tweets to the public Internet way to go Twitter said that Inadequate staffing over the holiday period in 2018 when the bug was discovered caused the delay Twitter also announced it will shut down its periscope mobile apps by March 2021 We've got the official word New users will no longer be able to sign up through the app starting now an archive of all periscope videos will stay Online and you'll be able to download your periscope videos by March as a big ol archive You can continue to stream live through the Twitter live feature on Twitter. Gosh, I wonder if I have any periscopes I should download have not checked in a while Samsung president of mobile TM Row confirmed that Samsung will hold an event in January and implied that the S pen support might come to more phones Row also indicated that Samsung will have a portfolio of foldable phones There will be more accessible to everyone, which probably means cheaper He also said that Samsung wants to do more with you at WB for things like opening your car door. We're finding lost objects All right, let's talk a little more about these big new proposed bills in the EU Let's do it the European Union proposed two bills on Tuesday So we'll start with the digital markets act that would preemptive preemptively block Competitive behavior by companies with 6.5 million euros in revenue or a market cap of 65 billion euros or more Which also serve 100,000 active business customers and 45 million active end users So these are you know big companies so Google and Facebook got it. All right It would create obligations towards smaller firms and end users such as price transparency for online advertisers better data portability for end users And the like so that's the digital markets act the second bill called the digital services act would require large tech companies that reach more than 10% of the EU's population to actively look for and mitigate risks from illegal content and goods that might be available on their services with annual external audits New transparency rules so users understand what's going on It allows for the application of local laws as well The proposal keeps the current liability shield that protects services from content posted by their users as long as a good faith effort Is made to correct problems, but it also increases the obligations needed to keep it Penalties could include periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of daily average daily income and continued violations Could lead to divesture of business units each bill must be approved by the European Council and European Parliament Which is likely to take years, but they're taking some steps it's it feels like something that The European Union has been kind of asking for these kind not these specifically but these kinds of laws Your the EU has been dancing around these things and you know implementing things like GDPR like essentially trying to take back control over the big companies that make up the internet today, which means they make up a lot of our even physical world and I think There might be good things and bad things in every law, but I think from a European perspective We don't usually don't think those would be a bad idea Maybe we would squabble about the details, but I would suspect that most people would think you know what yeah Let's hold them up to a certain standard Yeah, and it seems like what they're targeting with this is the criticism that if you over-regulate You'll squash new businesses from entering so they put these very large Revenue and market caps on anti competitive behavior. They're really trying to stop Tying in services to say well if you use Android you have to also use this and that And so so they're they're really targeting. I mean I jokingly say Google and Facebook But they're also targeting Amazon and Apple and and other big companies They're trying to make this still be open for smaller companies to grow Which is the big concern the big concern is that these companies are elbowing out everybody else And there's no there's no more room for any other tech companies the second bill is is very interesting because it is trying to address the same thing that section 230 addresses in the United States that idea of You're not responsible for what your people say on your platform Unless you're aware of it and we've told you you have to take it down and they're just kind of Increasing the penalties for that. I found that the local law part of this very interesting so for instance if there's let's say Hamburg says Anybody who doesn't Airbnb has to register with the city Then you could get in trouble under the digital services act if you're not Enforcing that if you're not saying okay, if you're on Airbnb in Hamburg, you got to register with the city I mean, I'm not saying Hamburg does that but I'm just using that as the kind of example where they will allow for local Variation and still require these big companies to know what all those local variations are and enforce them Yeah, I mean Airbnb great example, right because you've got I mean I I have quite a bit of experience with Airbnb and What the company is doing and what it assumes that the hosts people who you know offer up places for other people to stay and Understand is not always the same thing Communication could be better and it should be and this is probably going to force better communication But yeah, like you said the local laws could make things very convoluted I Want to re-emphasize the fact that that second bill specifically only applies to companies that reach more than 10% of use population So maybe reach should be defined a little should be clearly defined But it's not the tiny mom and pop shop that you know just shows up, right? It's not going to be an imposition on every small company that tries to get its its services out and I do want to mention It seems like these things don't happen unless governments force them and That is what the EU is trying to do maybe clumsily sometimes, but I don't think I mean It's difficult to judge from here, but doesn't seem like they're horrible laws on the face of them Yeah, Facebook even was fairly positive in its reaction to this There was little little more trepidation from from Google and Amazon about it, but There's been a lot of work with these companies to to take in to account their legitimate concerns Well, the UK also announced Tuesday It's plans to introduce a bill next year to cover what it calls online harms requiring social media companies and search engines To help prevent a range of illegal or potentially harmful material from being distributed on their platforms or Face fines of up to 10% of annual global revenue Sounds kind of familiar it would let UK regulator off-com demand action against child abuse imagery shared an encrypted message for example, even if end-to-end encryption was As a last resort it would cover all kinds of user-generated content with exceptions for product reviews and news Publishers comment sections that bill won't come before Parliament until next year at the earliest would go into effect in 2022 All right that one. I'm not too sure about Well, and we need more details about it to be sure about it. It's in the earliest stages More details continue to come out related to the attack on solar winds Orion Network management platform And it's used to intrude on email networks at government and corporate networks We talked a lot about that yesterday if you need to catch up researchers at Vilexity said Monday that they had encountered the same attackers penetrating a think-tank organization three times in 2019 and early 2020 and the attackers were able to buy pass multi-factor authentication provided by a company called duo by gaining Administrator privileges on a target network and then stealing the secret key What duo calls it a key from a server running the Outlook web app They could use the a key to generate a valid cookie That would be set when accessing an account that they had already acquired the username and password for That would bypass multi-factor authentication. It just wouldn't happen So MFA wouldn't fail MFA would never be called because they could forge the cookie to look like it already had Been called essentially fooling the authentication server into thinking multi-factor authentication was satisfied Some more details on the malware that was actually implanted into Orion also came out It identified its network traffic as the Orion improvement program when it was passing around It stored data inside legitimate files to try to keep it from being detected it would also search for security and antivirus tools in order to avoid them and The operators never communicated from outside the network with the same computer or network more than once That that way there wouldn't be a build-up of suspicious traffic from a particular source And they would only connect to the malware from outside the minimum amount of time they needed to To gain access to stolen credentials, then they would just use the stolen credentials and not access the malware again reducing The ability to detect that something wrong was going on The malware also didn't use any code from previous malware, which is often Something malware makers do which made it harder to detect Can't wait for the movie. This is so Convoluted and complex and I mean there's a movie to be made about a lot of this. I'm pretty sure Sorry, this is my technical take Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's fascinating stuff and we're gonna keep getting more revelations about this obviously just the number of Important organizations is going to keep building up We talked about a few of them yesterday, but but more US government organizations More corporations and it is going to be fascinating to find out how this operated. This is a Sophisticated actor. It's obviously nation-state backed This is not the kind of thing that your average attacker out there can pull off It may sound easy to be like, oh, yeah, you get admin privileges and you steal the secret key But even admins don't necessarily know how to extract that key and create the forged cookies And if you're gonna come at duo and say well, why don't you protect your secret key more duo's point is well If you are an admin you should be able to access that secret key for creating these cookies Because most people wouldn't be able to create a cookie out of it And there's certain administrative reasons why you'd need to be able to access the a key and flush it out And all of that so their point is the real bone, you know the real Problem here was that they got in and were able to get admin privileges because once you got admin privileges You have all kinds of things you can do bad All of this is really, you know the the super technical aspect what impresses me even more is the care the care and The carefulness with we with which they access the network, you know Not using the same computer or the same IP more than once and all of that aspect It it streams like spy thriller to me again. Yeah movie stuff, but It's very impressive For 18 months Walmart has been conducting a pilot of autonomous trucks from Gattuck the two companies plan to pull the safety driver next year new drivers Just doing it on their own Gattuck added its tech to multi-temperature box trucks to make autonomous trips with a safety driver On a two mile route between a dark store Those are the stores that you can't actually go in they're not like retail stores But they supply things for people who order them and a Walmart neighborhood market in Bentonville, Arkansas The pilot program has covered 70,000 miles in autonomous mode Next year the trucks will start operating on that route without safety drivers The companies also plan to start a pilot with safety drivers on longer routes in Louisiana Those trucks will take a 20 mile route from a walmart supercenter in new Orleans to a pickup location in metterie Gattuck claims that its approach is different than other autonomous vehicle companies though It breaks the deep neural networks into micro models And then gives them specific tasks Gattuck claims that this allows for optimization with less data and implement gatekeeping mechanisms to ensure more safety Now you might recall that walmart is also working with Waymo cruise neuro Udlev Baidu for and postmates on autonomous vehicle delivery. So safe to say They think it's got some legs And wheels We've literally uh, we've we've been talking about this for for years Tech news today and daily tech news show both and A lot of people have been saying it'll be 40 years before you you were able to to pull the driver And this is not the first time we've seen someone pull the driver And I think it's also notable that walmart is one of the companies forging ahead not by Trying to create the technology themselves, but by working with almost everyone who's doing it To say like let's try this let's try that I mean that that's how you figure out what works with new technology like this And the fact that they're now going to be doing that on on what what is a real route a 20 mile route From an actual walmart supercenter I mean the dark store just feels like they made a small warehouse just to test this out going from an actual walmart super center in New Orleans to to metterie again, probably not terribly practical for a lot of people, but it's a it's a Thing that is closer to what you would use this for in practice Yeah, it's it's becoming serious.  So they were a little bit optimistic a little bit too optimistic but for all of the sort of Disappointments that some of the big companies trying Their hand at this have been Showing in the past couple of years maybe There's also a lot of companies that are holding steady and maybe it wasn't going to be five years but you know Tech people are terrible at estimating the rate of tech advancement advancement when a new technology arrives People think it's going to be like oh in three years. It will be Everyone will use this it actually takes a little bit longer, but it doesn't take 40 It's like you can double it that maybe you're right and it seems like we're on that track I don't think everyone's going to be in an autonomous car Soon, but you know these kinds of trucks are Couldn't change a lot about the way we we envision society. So we'll see Yeah, I I think you're right. I think both are right It will it'll be 40 years before everybody can take advantage of this and it's widespread Right because it just takes a long time to work out all the details and be able to work in all the different environments But the five years for you know having actual services out there. It seems like we're on track for that What do you want to hear us talk about on the show folks? One way to let us know is in our subreddit submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com All right patrick, we got all the new hardware out for gaming. What is how's it doing? What is it doing to us? How's it going in there? It is creating stress and anxiety because they're selling out all the time. You can't get one So we have the playstation 5 and the xbox series x and series s These are the latest consoles from those manufacturers the previous generation was from 2013. So it's been a little while They're a lot more powerful than the playstation 4 and xbox one were at the time they launched They're also significantly more expensive. These are Let's round it up to 500 dollars The xbox is a little bit different though. If you haven't heard the x is the really powerful one at 500 bucks but there's a less powerful one at 300 bucks the series s and So but all of them are are sold out. So if you don't have one yet, it's very unlikely you're gonna get one Yeah, I keep seeing all these stories come across my feeds if like best buy says they'll have a couple more in stock tomorrow And then of course by the time everybody jumps on that they've sold out of whatever they have It's a really successful launch. Um, it's kind of we don't yet know exactly what the reason is but it is they produced They they manufactured Apparently as many as they could which is more than they did in the past And even with covet they managed, but I think my explanation which might be wrong is that Gamers grew up and have a little bit more Available income and we have new gamers and so the population of gamers is just growing and so more people want consoles um So the on on paper the series x is a little bit more powerful than the playstation 5 We haven't seen that pan out Yet and there are some, you know, technical reasons might why it might not be that important But the playstation 5 also has some interesting hardware. So if you're You know, if you're not sure which one you want to get then that's probably not gonna help you because they both have their advantages The playstation 5 has a super fast ssd that Could lead to actually streaming the assets from the game directly from the ssd into The ram fast enough that you could actually move your character and it would stream the the assets as you're moving So that's like for people who understand this really exciting technically and the controller has some interesting innovative Features like the adaptive trigger, which is the triggers on the you know on the controller can resist your pressure and it can be said to simulate for example a bow string or A bowl you're breaking and it locks it and then when you keep pressing a little bit more you force a bit more It unlocks and so you feel like you've broken it stuff like that Technically they can do 4k 120 hertz ray tracing. They probably can do all at once Because that's for some games are very demanding and they both have backwards compatibility Although the ps5 has backwards compatibility with the ps4 and the xbox has Xbox one and all of the previous consoles as well So it I mean it sounds on paper like the xbox is the better console, but that's not what's happening That that it's it's more neck and neck or even sony. Maybe having a slight lead I mean defined better. It's kind of difficult to you know, it's right like a well the sex So, you know, but in practice not necessarily So computing power wise it seems like the the xbox does have a slight edge But things like the ssd on the playstation 5 which is a lot faster twice as fast as the xbox is one Is also a paradigm change for game development So it's really I would say at this point. It's difficult to say which one is The better one even if you want to you know, take into account the The the rope the raw the raw power that Even that is kind of not certain yet. Although. Yes, it seems like the series x might have might take it Now the the the real reason to buy a console though is always what games you can play, right? Absolutely, and you know the that is where the real battle is going to happen And they again, it's really difficult this year because or this generation because they both have really strong Assets the playstation has a lot of exclusive games, which will only appear on that console on that Series I'm sorry not series but on the console on the playstation 5 things like god of war horizon zero dawn and a bunch of others And microsoft has game pass which i'm sure most people know but if you don't it's essentially a subscription that will give you access to hundreds of games Day one including the ones from microsoft that has purchased like 20 studios over the past years So they're going to have a lot of games and they're all going to be available day one for that 10 bucks a month subscription of game pass and that's only on on Series x and to an extent on pc but for consoles. So it's it's really difficult to make a choice But if you want to buy a game for this Holiday season, I would recommend, you know, if your niece likes video games don't buy cyberpunk It's bugged and it's very much a mature game. So not that But there are a few games that are really fun. Hades Is a cool one on pc and switch immortals phoenix rising is a is a kind of a surprise a little bit more mature with Like swordplay and killing ghost of tsushima is a fun open world game set in medieval japan And if you want something a little bit more harrowing the last of us part two is an absolute masterpiece Cool. Thank you so much. Patrick. Good recommendations, man No, probably Well dust collected from the rayugu asteroid 300 million kilometers from earth was returned by the hayabusa Space probe and opened up this week the japan space exploration agency where jacksa was hoping for 100 milligrams of material They got a lot more than that jacksa's hero takasawada said that he was speechless when they opened the container and said I think that next I probably screamed. I really don't remember Next time the team will remove and weigh the samples to see exactly how much was obtained. Yeah We got we got asteroid dust for the first time like wrap your head around that we went To an asteroid. Yeah, chinese just brought or on the way to bring them back some more moon rocks We've had those before it's cool. They were getting some more, but we've never seen asteroids before and I I love this story about how they're like, okay We think we got enough to work with and they open it up and I can't wait to find out exactly how much But it sounds like they got way more than 100 milligrams. Yeah, it's going to be 120 and it's going to be like, oh, but it's so much more understand So much research to be done. No, it's great. This is great. I I love when when people who care about this sort of thing and make the effort to go ahead and collect Asteroid dust from really far from where we live are pleasantly surprised with what they get back Cool. All right, let's check out the mailbag Let's do it. We have good news for the good day internet folding team, which has broken into the top 200 Yes, good job donating those cycles everybody Keep it up. 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So, I'm live. Hi everyone. I'm gonna say good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you may be across the planet around the world. I'm Greg from this place and right here. And I'm gonna do a little hurricane update and talk a little about this dream I had about an earthquake. But it's kind of like that. I told you, you guys had been following for a while. I had this dream back in 2015, like seven years ago of these three tidal waves that come. But it wasn't a scary dream. They're just waves of energy, basically. And this kind of falls along that line. No fear whatsoever. And I'll get into that in a little while. Got my apple cider. They're anticipating people losing their electricity here. So, I have a chest freezer. And what I did was I put a case, well, I've got like a case of water underneath on the bottom of it. But then I put a case of water on top of it as well. So in case we lose electricity, I can take some of the ice out of that case of water on top and put that in my refrigerator and help save whatever's in there. You're saying that this is gonna be a category three. I was living on the key at the time when we got hit with a category three. When was that? Tell me in a second. But yeah, it was a September of 2017, a category three came through. And it wasn't that bad, honestly. You know, I guess, you know, maybe it was for, I didn't have power for five days. And I've got this like battery charger. It's like that big for, it's supposed to be for a car, but you can also plug stuff into it. I can charge my cell phone on it. And we'll see. I'm just hoping that I have a place, you know. I did a video, just a quick live video before I came on here. And I was outside, just kind of showing everybody what it's like right now. It's just a light rain. There's really hardly any wind blowing whatsoever. But these outer bands are still coming across right now. And I live in a mobile home park, 55 and over mobile home park. Fortunately, they never have bad things happen to them when hurricanes and tornadoes go through. Oh God. I heard that we're expecting tornado warnings throughout the night. I'm spending the night here. Allie and I will be doing our, well as long as I have communications available, we'll be doing date night at 8 p.m. Eastern and then our global predictions at 10 p.m. Eastern. So, oh, this is so yummy. It's apple cider time of the year. Allie was saying that in the UK, they don't have apple cider. The only apple cider they have is hard cider. They don't call it hard cider. It's just assumed that apple cider is gonna have alcohol in it. But I bought this over at, oh, where did I get this? I don't know. Just right around the corner. Yeah, it's delicious. Aldi's, yeah, that's right. I do a lot of shopping there. Just a quick hi to everyone that's joining us here. Aw, thank you, thank you, Josie, to think about you with hurricane coming, praying for you, all the residents safety. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. Hi to LZ from Georgia. Yeah, you're gonna be getting that probably in a couple of days. It's just taking its time going up the coast. Hey, Tommy, how are you, dude? Oh, I'm sorry, Tammy, how are you, sister?  Hi, Michelle. And Michelle, Gemini Moon. How are you? Good to see all you here. Hello to kind spirit. You'll be fine, you are protected by spirit and are needed here, praying for you and so on. I appreciate that, thank you. And I believe that too. I think everything's gonna be fine. Do you have a tornado bunker? No, no, we don't. I'll be safe. I have lots of guides. Hi, Vera. I'll do my best. Thank you. Speaking of which, I have a new Swami Tommy video coming out on Thursday. So, yeah, let's hope you guys enjoy it. Look, one of the mountains and getting apple cider. Oh, it's so good, this stuff. You know, it's, as you can tell, it's like a little darker than regular apple juice. It's like less filtered and just more pure. It's like the pure essence of an apple, so good. And this particular one, I don't know if they put it in there or not, but I can almost taste like a hint of cinnamon in it. It's yummy, so yeah. All these, yeah. All these have the best watermelons, period. I certainly hope so. Yeah, watching it too. I'll stay safe as I can, Marnie. Thank you. Hi, Sarah. I'll do the best I can. Hello, just wanted to, hi, Michelle. Michelle number three. Hope you have plans to go to safety. Yeah, I'll be, tomorrow I'm going to a school shelter. There's an emergency shelter at a local school about four miles away. Yeah, I'll be spending the night here. Hi, sister. Hi, Tara. I'll be safe. Like I said, I'm going to a shelter. I'll be okay. Hi, Sonia. Yeah, so it'll be okay. I'm kind of bumming though, because my daughter was supposed to come down Thursday night. The airports are obviously closed down now and it doesn't look like they're gonna be able to make it. Her and her mom were coming down to Florida and I was hoping to see, hoping Brit and her mom and my sister, Tara, we were all planning on going to the drum circle on Sunday. I have an N5D beach meetup. It's gonna be beautiful on Sunday after the storm goes through. So if you're in Sarasota or the area, stop on down to Siesta Key. I'm having an N5D beach meetup at 3 p.m. from three to 6 p.m. Behind the Green Lifeguard Tower on Siesta Key Beach this Sunday and the next one will be on November 20th. So hopefully, if you're in the area, you can come on down. So let me get into some of this stuff that I got put aside here. Let's go like this, this is the new one. Okay, so this is what happened back in September of 2017 when the last category three came through Sarasota. That was a direct hit as well. And this was amazing. They say that Sarasota is protected by the Indians. There's a lot of Indian protection here. And as you can see, there was a space of clear skies in the shape of a heart as this hurricane went by. It's just amazing. So, I do believe that we are protected here. I put out some videos on my TikTok channel. It's at Greg Prescott, no, at G.J. Prescott. That's my TikTok handle. They put out a video yesterday. It's got 71,000 views. It's about New World Order crypto. This one was doing really well until it got taken down. And then I got this one here. That's got like 42,000 views. So I'm not banned on TikTok. That's a good thing, but I hardly use it. This is the extent of my videos. That's all I have. And I don't know how long I've been on TikTok. I'm starting to use TikTok a little bit more though. Okay, so yeah, this is on Sunday for the beach meetup. We're looking at 83 degrees for a high, 71 for low, partly cloudy. It's going to be a beautiful day for the beach meetup. If you're going to be in Sarasota, definitely come on down, check it out. This page is one of the pages I use. And I recommend for anyone, especially a Floridian, it's a Spaghetti Models page. It's called Mike's Weathers page, but it's called SpaghettiModels.com.  And well, here's a great shot right here of the infrared satellite of what we're looking at. Now, Ceciki's up here a little ways. This is Charlotte Harbor and Ceciki would be right up around here. So it's still a little ways away. This gives you a better idea though. Let's refresh this. So yeah, this would be Tampa up here and Charlotte Bay is right here. Sarasota, Ceciki is right about here. So you can see some of these, you know, the outer bands are already coming through, right? And it's covering all of Florida. Now, what's interesting, and I'm not a meteorologist, you know, I'm gonna say this is just my opinion for entertainment purposes only. I, you know, all I'm doing is watching the eye. The eye was originally right here and now it's kind of going up in this direction. And it kind of looks like it's gonna be heading more towards Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte than it is. Right now they're saying it's gonna be in Venice which is about 20 minutes south of Sarasota. But who knows? I'll show you how crazy it looks here in a second. And here's another one. And what's happening is you can see this area of high pressure here kind of guiding it and pushing it to the east. So yeah, and that's why this, you're seeing this eye going in this direction. Now it's not gonna go all the way down to the tip down here, although it could, it could. I don't know. I'm not a meteorologist, but what they're saying is it's supposed to go up in this direction right here.  Well, they're saying it'll be here by tomorrow night around seven o'clock. So, it's about 28 hours from now. Now here are some of the spaghetti maps right here. Let's take a look at some of them. Let's go here. Now this one, pretty much the consensus has it right in the same area, you know, somewhere between Tampa and maybe Fort Myers and most of it coming right through here, you know, Sarasota area. This one, who knows? Still pretty much, you know, in this area, right? In the, you know, Tampa to Fort Myers area, but pretty much going through Sarasota. This one, this spaghetti, this spaghetti's all, someone was drinking on this spaghetti map. They, I don't know. What's a good Italian wine? That's, that's what they had for their spaghetti. It's, it's like spaghetti everywhere. Who knows? They're like, okay, well, maybe it'll come up here and then maybe it'll go west and curl around and maybe some will go up here and who knows? Crazy, absolutely crazy. No one knows. The M stands for major hurricane. So it's not gonna become anything less than a major until once it comes on shore and it'll stay, it'll stay as a hurricane for a short period and then turn into a tropical storm and then once it finally leaves South Carolina heading into North Carolina, it'll be a depression, but it's still gonna bring a lot of rain, a lot of heavy winds and damage to, you know, this whole path that it goes through. So bear with me here. Yeah, those were the maps that we were looking at. Now, yeah, as I mentioned, all flights. Sarasota Bradenton International Airport is closed starting 8 p.m. today due to the hurricane. All scheduled flight operations will be suspended following our last departure at 6 p.m. So yeah, I thought it was supposed to fly in Thursday evening. And who knows?  I don't know. I'd love to see her though, but not at the expense of her safety, not at all. You can go to, if you live in Florida, Floridadisaster.org slash shelters. You can just look up your county and find a shelter. That's what I did. I, you know, here's the Sarasota County shelters available. Now, yeah, there's a lot going on here with that storm. And as, you know, as much as they build it up, it's probably not as bad as what they're making it sound like, but what they're doing is, and they always do this, they err on the side of caution. And I remember one time, I was living in New York at the time, I think, and I'm watching the weather channel and Jim Cantor is on the beach, right? And he's got his weather gear on, he's holding his hat down, he's got his microphone. Yeah, and he's got the beaches behind him and you see the waves crashing. He's holding his hat down. He's like, yeah, weather's getting really bad here. You know, weather, the wind's picking up and you know, look at the waves and it's getting really, really rough here in the meanwhile, there's this elderly couple walking their little dog casually behind him.   But yeah, when that last hurricane came by, I was like one of the last people to leave Siesta Key when I was living there. And that's when they said that the storm surge might go up to, you know, was it seven to 10 feet and where I was living was only like six feet above sea level. So, indeed, it was funny too about Jim Cantori is the guy I played bocce ball with, my friend Tim, he looks just like him and he'll tell people that on the beach and they'll take their pictures with him. He'll walk up to people, you know, hey, I'm Jim Cantori or they'll say you look like Jim Cantori and offer us beer or something like that, it's funny. He's a good bocce ball player. Not as good as me, but yes. Brandy's here in Florida. I know I'm protected as I was sent a red hawk feather. Ah, beautiful. And that's just your hair, right? Oh, that's interesting. I'd like to know more about your earthquake. What happened in your dream? Were you scared? Was it, what? Because I really, for example, when I had that dream of three tidal waves, numerous people had came up to me after I had published that and said they also had dreams of tidal waves. Not necessarily three, but one. I think one person also had another dream of three tidal waves. But yeah, it's really cool. I'd like to learn more about your earthquake dream. I'll tell you a little bit more about mine. I'm not on TikTok way too much. Yeah, it can be. You know, my daughter's on there and all the kids use TikTok. I'm not really a TikToker, but I put relevant stuff on there to help wake people up. Did I just say waking? Waking people up? Is waking a word? I wakened this morning to wake people up, yeah. Yeah, and all prayers. All love is appreciated, Terry. Thank you. Earthquake is going to hit the English Channel. That's interesting. Gonna bring us a lot of flooding. Yeah. Yeah, I'll be talking about the earthquake in a second here. I just wanna get caught up on this chat. Yes, this is so true. This is kind of like cloud busting, right? You can do the same thing with hurricanes. We can all collectively and individually do some hurricane pushing. Kind of like cloud busting. To see in your meditation, you are literally pushing the storm back to the West or dissipating it, which would be even better. Becky says, hi, everybody, this may sound crazy, but I've been sending out pure positive energy and love to this storm. Just slow it down. I love that. That's wonderful. You know, Allie and I, we looked into that, the storm, on last week's global predictions.  At the time, the following day or two later, they were showing these spaghetti maps and that's exactly what they said. It was gonna go up to the Panhandle and as it went through the Gulf of Mexico, it was gonna weaken until it got to the point of hitting the Panhandle, where it was barely gonna be a hurricane. At the time, that prediction was right on. So, but things shifted since then. And, you know, who knows, let's do what Becky says. We'll put that energy into that and try to dissipate, do some cloud busting, right? Yeah, not scared of the rain. Just a little concerned about living in a mobile home with the wind. So, let me share this. I have an article I'd like to share with you guys. So, back in 2016, I wrote this article, three massive tidal waves are coming and it's not what you think. And I go on to say that I recently had a dream where I saw three tidal waves. For most people dreaming about a tidal wave can be very traumatic, but in this dream, I saw quite differently. In my dream, I was at the beach and I saw this huge tidal wave coming my way. I turned around to seek shelter in a beach house when I noticed another tidal wave 10 times bigger than the first one coming up over the mountain in the opposite direction. And it's odd because there's no mountains here in Florida. I went into the beach house as the waves converged over me. At no point in this dream was I ever scared or frightened. While the waves converged above me in this beach house, I could stick my hand through the window and touch the water. Eventually, the waves resided. So, I went outside to see only another tidal wave coming over the mountain. So, I go back inside the beach house until it resided once again. As I got out of the beach house, I remembered that my truck was parked up on the mountain. I don't own a truck. And like I said, there's no mountains here in Florida. This is all metaphor. So, I went up there to find it. Once I got to the top of the mountain ascension, right? In dream analysis, there were a number of people milling around, but the energy had changed to something quite peaceful and relaxing. The energy felt completely new as well. At this point, I woke up. In a typical dream analysis, a tidal wave may mean that there is something very overwhelming going on in your life, but because there was no trauma or feelings of fear, I looked at this dream from a metaphysical standpoint. Water is immutable energy. It can be solid, liquid or gas. If you think of a tidal wave, the wave can be viewed as a wave of energy, right? A metaphysical wave of energy. This is what I feel the dream was portraying to me. There's a huge wave of energy arriving that all of us will be focused on. In the meanwhile, another wave of energy will be coming from the opposite direction and will converge with the initial energy wave. At that point, something magical will happen. So, that's how I see the three tidal waves. Now, I just had a dream. This is last week, and I talked to Ali about it. And I kind of debated whether I should, or when I should tell everyone about it. But in this dream, it felt like I was in like a high rise, kind of, maybe like on the sixth, seventh floor of some building. And all of a sudden an earthquake happens. And I was looking out the window and I could see, it felt, you could feel the building coming down and sliding, like shifting to the right. And it shifted quite a ways, but it didn't collapse, right? And while this is happening, I'm just looking around, there was no fear whatsoever in my train. Not scared at all about this shifting of the building while this earthquake was going on. And there were other people with me, and I don't remember who they were that were in this apartment, I guess. So, I looked into that dream. I felt, because I have a psychology background. I was a child and family therapist for at-risk youth, and I took the psychology of sleeping dreams when I was in college, one of my favorite classes with Dr. Rainfield. And when I look at that dream, like I said, number one, there was no fear. And I saw it as, what's happening is, well, let me go back a little. Whenever you see a car or a house in the dream, even though you may be in the car or you might be inside the house, the car or the house is you. Did you ever have that dream where you're driving and you hit the brakes and you can't stop and no matter how many times you pump the brakes, the car won't stop? Well, many of us have had it. I know I've had that dream. And what that means is that, especially at some point, during that part of your life, your life was out of control. That's what that dream means. Your car is the body. Your body is the car, rather. And your body was out of control at some point at that, when you had that dream, most likely. If you're in a house, same thing. I had a dream one time where I was standing in the foundation of a house being built and there's all these concrete cinder blocks all piled up and there were three ladders and I'm straddling the one in the middle. So I had a one foot on the ladder to the left, one foot on the ladder to the right and a ladder in the middle. Now, when you're climbing up in dream analysis, that might be ascension. Well, typically in dream analysis, that would be, you might get a promotion, right? You're rising up into society. But metaphysically, if you look at it metaphysically, ascension number one, number two, look at what a ladder looks like. It looks like DNA, right? We're moving to three strands or higher. I couldn't envision myself straddling 12 ladders or strands of DNA, but that foundation is, well, it was me, but it was us. I'm interpreting that on a global level. This is where humanity's moving. We are moving into that new house, the new earth, right? So getting back to the earthquake drain, I felt that the whole building shift, and that's a key word. No fear and there's a shift, a major shift is happening or it's about to happen real soon. That's what I got out of that drain. Now, it could be multifaceted. I'm not saying that there's not gonna be a major earthquake happening sometime soon because it's inevitable. It always happens at some juncture, unfortunately. But that's not the message I got out of that drain. Major shift is coming. So I'll go back and take a look at some of the comments. Okay, so yeah, here's Earth Hope about Earth Hope's interpretation of the drain. Totally not scared of the earthquake. Outstanding and surfing the earth movement while everyone else was experiencing the mess. Okay. Yeah, so no fear whatsoever. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so we're tapping into something. They say that like whenever major inventions occur, the same idea goes around the world. Other people get that same idea, basically grabbing it from the aether, right? Tapping into some kind of etheric message that they all get at the same time. One person gets credit for it, like electricity or the light bulb or whatever, just like the tidal wave drain. People tapped into that. And now we're seeing just right now, the first time I put this out there, Earth Hope also tapped into that same drain. Allie had a dream recently. She had a dream though of a volcano and then a subsequent earthquakes. And in her, and she hardly ever dreams. That's why we kind of made a pact before we incarnated here that she would visit me. Because that's all I do is dream. I have tons of dreams. I immediately go into the dream stage and I stay there all night. I have a sleep anomaly that they tested me for and all I do is dream. I'm a literal dreamer, but Allie doesn't. So, but this recently she had that dream and she remembered that dream in some of a volcano. So maybe that might be another heads up, you know, but no fear and the earthquake, subsequent earthquakes, that'll be happening. Shifting, the shift is happening. I think there's a metaphor in there. And it's shown to us because maybe in such dramatic fashion that we would remember it and be able to share these dreams with people. And they're shown to us without fear. It's almost as you're looking at the dream as an observer, right? Like you're watching TV, you're seeing it on TV, right? No fear whatsoever. Hi, Diana. Greg, I just got on. My family is there to honey Cape Coral, Fort Myers. Yeah, Rosie sent me a message. She's up in Atlanta. She said, you know, if it gets too bad there here in Sarasota, I can go down to Cape Coral, but, you know, it seems like more and more the storm keeps dropping a little bit further south. And who knows, it might end up going in Cape Coral. And, you know, I know where Rosie's house is that she's not too far above seawater. They have Cape Coral that there's like channels all throughout the city. It's basically a boaters town. So, you know, I hope everyone stays safe there as well. Hi to Lucci from Galveston. Yeah, lots of prayers for everyone, period. Yeah, it seems more and more that the storm is heading, you know, toward that direction. And no one's, no one's safe. There's no safe place in the Gulf Coast right now. You know, you could be in Naples and you're still gonna get lots of wind and rain and storm surge. Yeah, so sending lots of love, safety and protection to your boys. Sharon, Port Charlotte, brother in Sarasota and many friends all over the West Coast, Florida, stay safe everyone. Yeah, we'll do our best. Exactly, 100th month monkey effect. Naomi's having dreams about the lights going out, not worried when they come back on, but everything is different. Oh, that's interesting. The 10 days of darkness, right? Yes, gotta stay out of fear indeed. That's a great question, kind spirit. The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say, this isn't natural, but that's just an opinion, right? Yeah, they can create them and drive them and yeah, I don't know, we'll see. Okay, yeah. Boy, yeah, hi Andrea. Ocala, man, they got nailed. What was it, back in 2008, was it? When the three storms basically all kind of went over that area in Polk County. Wow, thank you. Appreciate any love, life, protection that you guys are sending. So yeah, I'm gonna wrap it up there. I wanna thank everybody for joining me here. Thank you for any prayers and love and protection that you guys are sending. I really hope that, you know, they're just blowing this out of proportion. Like I said, the last cat tree that went through here wasn't really that big of a deal, but they can be destructive and being in a mobile home probably isn't the best place for me right now. So anyway, I'll be back on tonight at eight o'clock. Allie and I will have date night at eight o'clock tonight. And then at 10 p.m., we're doing the global predictions. So that's what they switched around so Allie can spend more time with her family. So 8 p.m. for date night, Eastern and 10 p.m. for global predictions. So hope to see you guys back in about five hours, a little less than five hours or so. To all my fellow Floridians sending you lots of love and light, especially extra lots of love and light and protection. And I'll stay safe, everyone. Till the next time. Love you all. Peace.