Okay, they also ask you for additional social networks if you use any so if you link out to other ones that might have more subs maybe And then they ask for your social security number And then you find somehow it's run by Equifax Well, if you get accepted you do have to put in your tax ID info. Oh, right? Yeah, so they can pay you So we're all we're all screwed is what you're saying. Yep. We're all Amazon get hat good It's not the day's coming. Well, we were all in Equifax anyway, right? You know what?  Oh, they said I'm not in the breach. So the breach didn't get all their records Yeah, theoretically apparently But if yeah, you didn't need to choose to be in there to be in there. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's part of the Part of the scariness of us farm and raise your own chickens and that's right We're you know what it's go back to a simpler life. Yes, everyone like this I think this is where the conversation started about bartering So we go back. Let's simplify our lives everybody Let's let's do that right now.  Yeah, we haven't started the show yet either. I know Are you are you good? Thank you. Sorry for my apologize for my ludicrous appearance I am Not on oh no, you look great The world's greatest blanket for it because it's That's fine. Can you turn yourself up a little? Maybe or maybe get the mic closer to your mouth. I'm not sure. I don't know how yeah, I can I can be more on mic and less In face. Yeah, anything you can do the boost Yeah, oh There might be some things on the microphone I can do It's funny. This is like one of those like Pretty closer to your mouth Like right when you're talking right there was getting louder. I'm not sure if that was Yeah, a little bit noticeably, but not how would you think Tom? Well, I can't tell now. Oh Because I stopped talking. Yeah You there was when you were moving around it you you started talking into it and it started it got louder and I'm not sure why Maybe it just needs a point. Yeah Maybe it's backwards Or maybe it's side address. I don't know I'm curious about whether it's backwards because that would be hysterical if it was backwards all this time And by hysterical I mean some engineer installed this and See, I think it sounds louder to you guys, but I don't hear myself at all. So that is not the right Yeah, yeah No, it's just that you're farther when you're when you're on that side because of the pop screen I think that's all it is you're closer when you're on the other side. Oh, I see I can move the pop Yeah, I get it in a little closer. I Think that'll do it. How do you feel about this? Oh, yeah, there we go. That's better. Okay. Good. All right Do you hear any annoying background noise that's might be me let me see Yeah, now from me. I'm talking about. Oh, no, I don't hear it from you, Shane. Okay, cool. Thanks. Molly. What's your apocalypse name? How many minutes do I think about that done we're about to start the show before Len drop that bomb I know Like it Here we go three. Oh wait, do I have control? Yes, you do three two The Daily Tech News show is brought to you by people like me not outside organizations to learn more go to Daily Tech News show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, September 8 2017. I'm Tom Merritt with me and this Friday is Shannon Morse. How are you? Hello Hello Mr. Merritt It's good to have you. Len Peralta is here to illustrate the show as well It's good to be here and perhaps one of the reasons I'm tongue-tied is Molly Wood has dropped by as well Stinker hello everyone so exciting We are going to It's the studio Oh, that's fantastic Molly Wood from marketplace and marketplace tech, of course Shannon Morse from tech thing threat wire and hack 5 and Len Peralta from Len Peralta store.com Molly's dropping by because we're gonna talk a lot about Equifax today, right Molly. Oh My god, I am just an Equifax rage It's possible it's some sort of last straw situation and like a whole other bunch of things have built up And I've snapped over the Equifax thing, but I have snapped. Oh, I don't think you're the only one So let's get right into it with a few tech things you should know The gist of it is credit reporting firm Equifax and that's Thursday that it discovered on July 29th that attackers access data for 143 million US customers the data included addresses credit card numbers social security numbers birth dates and some drivers license numbers We are going to talk about this more in-depth in our main discussion in a few minutes And the Wall Street Journal reports that the US FBI is investigating whether Uber use software to illegally interfere with competitors The focus is on software that could track Uber drivers who also drove for Lyft Wall Street Journal has sources who say Facebook is willing to spend a billion dollars on original video content going into next year Apple has been reported to have a similar budget and if you've missed the comparisons Netflix is spending about six billion dollars on original content this year and Amazon is spending four and a half billion That's kind of interesting to me because Facebook could end up being a competitor to YouTube as well Since YouTube has a lot of their own content that they've created. Yeah, and spending a few billion themselves Boy Taiwan's commercial Times reports Its sources say Google is in the final stages of acquiring all or part of HTC a report in Lake August Indicated HTC was investigating a sale HTC makes the Google Pixel phone. Yes, they do and mine just died. Oh, no I don't know if that's a sign I'm about to derail us but man the the difference between the regular size pixel and the pixel XL is Startling in that one of them is a good phone and one of them is not I have a pixel XL and I've gotten to this past year under warranty that I had to get our Aramaid because each of them died in some way or another. Oh, really? Yeah, they should not acquire Maybe that's what HTC needs. I don't know the Google needs it. They've kind of been down this road with Motorola before Yeah, they don't get patents or that are valuable out of this one. I don't know. Yeah Here are some more top stories AT&T sprint T-Mobile and Verizon have formed the mobile Authentication task force in order to develop a more secure solution for two-factor authentication Hooray the task force hopes to have an advanced mobile authentication solution sometime next year The idea is to do things like analyze network activity patterns to determine if an account owner is really behind an action Group says it will take an open approach working with app developers and other third parties I mostly approve of all of this. I think it's great that they're working on two-factor authentication But Shannon, is it the answer? Separate authentication mechanism that doesn't require SMS. Yes, absolutely I mean, that's the point of having a second authenticator is so that you have one thing that you have one thing that you know or Something biometric doesn't necessarily matter Which choice you make as long as it's two separate things that allow you to log into some kind of Authentication website. Yeah, and I get what they're saying here Which is they'll analyze SMS to make sure there's not a man in the middle attack or that someone's hijacked your account By by spoofing you and and getting access to your account somehow, but maybe just don't use SMS Yeah, I think that's the way that everybody should go is stick to an application for 2fa instead of SMS Moving on could Casper ski labs started a pop-up shop in London this week in partnership with London Street artist Ben I'm called the data dollar store Shoppers in the old street tube station could buy products by giving over personal photos emails or text messages That would be displayed on two full-length screens in the shop windows the last three photos on your camera roll or last three text Messages you've got a t-shirt if you hand it over your phone for a staff member to choose any five photos or three screenshots You got some original artwork. Oh boy Yeah Some members of Congress are saying, you know, we should ban from yes government computers. That would be the same one. Yes Check in. I mean, I think those are fairly spurious Kaspersky is in Russia and so anything that happens in Russia is is gonna get that kind of attention these days. This is Simply a publicity stunt, right? to but at the same Related I guess that's what I was wondering. Well, it's Kaspersky in trying to say like hey folks You need to protect your personal information. You need to be aware of privacy. We got this artist who agrees with us on board I there's a lot to like about this particular publicity stunt It's a good message But in the end Kaspersky would like you to sign up for their services to protect your privacy, right? I really like the idea that they're coming For here in the fact that it kind of remorse reminds me of signing up for reward cards Like we've talked about on previous episodes of Daily Tech News show where you how much how much private data Are you willing to give away in order to get something for free or in order to get a discount in this case? To get some original artwork, like I have personal text messages with my husband like financial stuff that we talk about I wouldn't want to give that away and show up up on a screen So I would definitely pass on that but other people might be like, oh, hey, I was just talking about making dinner I'm okay with sharing that on a pop-up shop window So it's convenience over privacy Like I mean, it's pretty funny because when you just read it, right when you just look at this sort of paragraph about what they did I would imagine that most people would think that sounds great Maybe even maybe even in the new PE post-equifax world that we're living in. I think people would still say Yeah, no, it's funny is I didn't wait it's not all about me because I love that I Would easily give three photos off my my phone for for something but not a t-shirt I don't need another t-shirt so that my dividing line is there where it's like I don't need a mug Don't need a t-shirt. Ooh the original artwork. Oh hell. No. I'm not giving my phone to anyone else to look at. No A paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from Stanford scientists Mikhail Kosinski and Yilan Wang Describes a machine learning algorithm that can estimate a person's sexuality from a picture I was trained on 35,000 images the algorithm was able to identify a Self-identified gay person from a self-identified straight person in a pair of images So it didn't do as well if you threw a thousand images at it and said identify who's gay and who's straight But if you gave it a pair and said one of these people is straight one is gay So you're giving it some information They were able to pick with 91% accuracy for men and 83% accuracy for women now compared to humans Humans were about close to a coin flip on these so it did much better than a normal human The authors debated releasing the results at all and made it clear in their authors notes on the paper that they Decided to do so in order to make people aware of what machine learning can do and the potential privacy threat there That's so weird. I Wonder how they based the learning off of like how were they able to tell one person from another because yeah So so they were self-identified so they would put a picture in there and the and the machine would know okay This person says they're gay this person says they're straight and then they would look at morphology how the face is constructed expressions and and Decoration like you know beard shapes and and earrings and things like that and the machine doesn't have a stake in the game Right. It's just saying can I find any things there that that indicate? Oh, it's probably this versus that and it was able to do that the machine doesn't have a bias like humanity does and As such they were able to What's that Molly? No, I was just a the humanity in this case did not introduce any bias like it didn't see Any into the data set any notions about gay or how gay or straight people might look It just put in there But I think this is there there is increasingly a conversation a really long overdue conversation about facial recognition, you know, they were there They were talking is it in korea where they were using facial recognition mass scale facial recognition to target individual faces within train stations And that's technology. I mean I did a story For cnet about that. So at least five years ago about how far we've come In facial recognition alone. And then when you layer on this kind of ai Yes, it is the other thing that is notable is that it's 91 accuracy for men and 83 accuracy for women, but the That's a lot wrong, right? So if you're talking about using facial recognition Um for identification purposes and it's wrong 17 percent of the time you start to get some scary false positive Yeah, I mean this is going for a particular characteristic not full-on identification So it's a little bit apples and oranges, but but you're right like this This nine percent of the time did not what was not able to tell The the correct uh distinction so it can have false positives.  Who isn't it could say someone who is straight who isn't uh And they could get round up round it up and shot in you know I mean who knows right russia. Where are they doing that? There's the horrible um They're not rounding up people and shooting them in russia But but yes, there are certainly places where it's not safe. I should be a little more accurate But yes certainly places where it is very dangerous. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely and and There's so many ways to go with the story on the one hand. It's fascinating from the perspective of being able to tell Not only based on natural characteristics, but but human characteristics like expressions Something about someone that that I think is great. I think there's all kinds of positive uses for that And there even could be positive uses for it exactly in this Don't forget also that it didn't do well at a mass amount if you just threw all the pictures at it It did much worse at trying to figure out who was who in there It it had to kind of be set up for success with this one or the other situation Moving on camera Moving on camera maker red revealed a strategic partnership with leia ink The company behind the holographic display for the upcoming $1,195 hydrogen one smartphone leia is a spin-off of hp labs. They were founded in 2014 They used a fraction to produce light field illumination with a layer of nanostructures added to a conventional lcd supposedly without affecting battery life or display quality the hydrogen one is supposed to launch in the first half of 2018 So now we know how they do it also leia because help me owe me one come ill be yeah, I love that I know that's a really good nerd shout out. So cute still skeptical I know people have seen it marquez brownlee actually saw it and said it's okay It was a little stuttery and of course he's seeing a pre-release version. So it's not expected to be great Um This is about 1200 bucks though. It's got to work I'm curious if this is going to be the first step that we see towards a new technology That is used in more smartphones in the coming years or if this is just a gimmick that's not going to last Yeah, no, it could be could be that I mean it could be both. It could be a gimmick. That's not gonna last but I'll point the way To the thing that actually will Finally, google is working with the state of florida to mark road closures as they happen on google maps during hurricane urma Google said it will use algorithms and manual updates They are working hand in hand with the state to keep that information current The closures will also appear on the urma crisis map as part of the sos alert on google search And you know, this this is not a tech story, but this hurricane as justin robber young said yesterday is no joke It has already caused devastation on several caribbean islands including st martins and barbuda And it's headed for the florida keys. So It's important to have resources like this Mm-hmm Folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com You can get it as a podcast an amazon echo flash briefing and on the uh anchor app at anchor dot f m Okay So 143 million customers Out of 324 million u.s residents to keep in mind that those 143 million customers are not children And they're not people without credit histories of which there are many So it is a huge percentage of the united states that said it's not every single person that's in the aquifax database Uh because you don't have to be a customer of aquifax to be part of this database They're a credit reporting agency. They have your information If you've transacted business in the united states as a u.s resident There's also the manner of how this was discovered. It was discovered in july on july 29th It apparently had been going on since may there was a private investigation that is now finished and the state and federal authorities are involved Names birth dates social security numbers addresses And some drivers license numbers. We think the drivers license numbers are coming from dispute documents Which had more personal identification about 182 thousand of those were in this breach And 209 thousand u.s credit card numbers were in this breach Shannon What could someone do if they have that information if i'm an attacker who has exfil traded all of this info Is it useful? Oh, yeah Yes, sir. It is Obviously there is the go figure thing where they could open up a new line of credit in your name They could start a new loan in your name Or they could social engineer your bank and start withdrawing money from your accounts by purporting that they are Indeed you they're using your identified viable information to be able to social engineer people over the phone and stuff like that So there is that issue and a lot of people will probably come back and say well, you know You just put a credit freeze on your account. Yes as long as They're not social engineering a bank or something like that which will still be able to create a new You know bank account in your name or something even with that credit freeze in place if they don't check your credit Another thing that they could do is potentially social engineer a Cell phone carrier and be able to recreate a new sim number in a brand new phone And be able to receive two-factor authentication numbers on the attacker's phone as opposed to your phone if they're able to You know be able to transmit That phone number over to a brand new phone That's a serious issue and we've been seeing that attack a lot lately So if they for some reason maybe your cell phone number is out there in the public Now they have your phone number your social security number your address your full name your date of birth They could easily easily social engineer Uh a cell phone carrier employee to be able to get a new sim card made with your same phone number And be able to steal your two-factor authentication numbers and that's a serious problem in the the last few months Not to mention the fact that It's your physical address people now know Easily where you live if you are a celebrity if you're somebody who does a youtube show for example if you are anybody who has some kind of Figurehead if you are out there in some way where people can find you if they know what your name is They could easily just start showing up at your door. There's a lot of potential for Um, obviously the criminal issues here, but there's also potential for people to just dox you Be be able to put your information up online if they wanted to Um, it's a really really serious problem. And that's why we brought in mollywood to talk about it I feel like you to talk in him because you just you know went ahead and scared the crap out of me Which was awesome. Well, I think the other thing No, it's okay because the other thing that's terrifying is is look I mean, we all know that that these sort of identity theft bundles, right? That's like one stop shopping kit for identity theft have been available Uh to people for a long time. Sorry about my slack. I'm trying to make it stop. Um But What is disturbing about getting all of this that long list all in one place is that most of this information Is the information that you would use to verify your identity if you were trying to right say Dispute identity theft or open I had my identity theft stolen actually not longer long after the the target hack and um One of the things they told me it Okay, fun fact the bank Uh that provides the in-store credit cards for fries Is like a little tiny bank in the midwest and they do not they're not having this crap And so they like launch an investigation and track these people down Well, one of the things they told me was that the people who'd opened up these accounts in my name Had my credit history information. They were able to answer the challenge questions So when they got a call to verify my credit, they had all that information at their disposal now These hackers have that same information for 143 additional people assuming they didn't have it already It just goes on and on million additional people. Yeah And uh 143 Million I mean, this is honestly the big thing to me too A sort of setting aside all like setting aside all of the every way that they have technologically bungled this since The almost certain insider trading of the three executives that sold stock before the information about this was revealed is that it is It is absurd to me that in the united states We do not have overarching federal laws that dictate how companies Store and protect the personal information of their customers. Yes. Thank you We should have that that should be there for iot that I mean that should just exist Even if it didn't exist for every other company even if it doesn't exist for facebook There is no earthly reason why it should not exist for credit reporting agencies This is you cannot opt out of this credit is the foundation of your financial life in the united states This potentially affects every single human being with a bank account or like a paycheck and the fact that there are not Bank-level rules for how customer data is treated and how disclosures are handled is a Crime I did not say a bad word, but I wanted to I agree with you. I mean we have we have seen international groups coming together and trying to start forming some kind of laws in place for iot manufacturers but we have not seen the same thing happening for uh for banks and for the credit agencies and Being that aquifax is one of the largest credit agencies in the united states There were even even some canadians that got their information in aquifax Maybe because they married somebody over here Maybe because they came over to open a bank account in the u.s. Who knows? But there's a it doesn't just affect american citizens It also affects people internationally because aquifax is such a large firm Yeah, and these agencies just keep getting hit by the way. This is the second time aquifax has been hacked They all three or they had a subsidiary that did hr payroll and tax and tax services. That was hacked in 2015 I think all three big credit agencies were hacked in 2013 and there's no reason why it won't continue because Well a their treasure troves and b their security and shannon, you can probably test this appears to be Hilarious It appears to be null There is no security there It's null and the the ability for somebody to come in and be able to do some kind of social engineering with this information Is my biggest fear. I was giving tom an example before we started recording where I've had to call up my bank before to verify Some info information with them about one of my accounts. I didn't have my bank account number on hand I didn't have my identification number on hand But I was like well, can I just give you my social security number because that was able to verify my identity over the phone Yes, they do have a phone password in place as well But if somebody has gotten my information off aquifax or if they if I had a publicly facing facebook account They could probably find that information too for any consumers because chances are they use something that's easily memorized Yep And I don't see evidence that aquifax has been or continues to take this as seriously as they need to You you alluded to the fact that the chief financial officer The president of workforce solutions and the president of information solutions all three sold stock on august 1st That's the tuesday after the saturday on which this breach was discovered now aquifax has said they were not aware of the breach If the information solutions president was not aware of this breach by tuesday I think there's a problem at that company right there if they're telling the truth There's a problem that these three people did not know that there was this level of a breach by the tuesday in which they sold their stock If they did know that as aquifax says they didn't Then there's insider trading accusations. So it's bad either way add to that That aquifax security 2017.com which is the good thing that aquifax did they said we're going to set up a site You can go find out if you were in the breach whether you were in the breach or not We're going to give you free credit monitoring for a year which all of that's great Except they ask for your last name and the last six numbers of your social security number That leaves only three to guess and they're running it on stock wordpress They were actually banned by sysco because they had an improperly Unrevocable security certification on the site and the admin's user id was in the source code for a while This was not properly implemented granted. None of these are like critical vulnerabilities But hey if you're asking me for six numbers of my social security number after losing 143 million accounts I want you to be dot in the eyes and crossing the t's on everything from here on out Well, that's just that oh good Oh, that that just makes me so angry that totally grinds my gears is the fact that they had all these vulnerabilities with a website that they had How many months to set up since they've known about the breach before they made it publicly available And yet they still had these vulnerabilities Don't even get me started on the whole thing that could potentially be insider trading However, I do not have any proof that it was such but come on talk about ironic timing there Yeah Yes, I will say it generated my most my most viral tweet ever Like you never know what's gonna, you know, you never know what's gonna be a thing. Um Also, Zach Whitaker from cd net reporting that if you enter test and 1 2 3 4 5 6 on Equifax's hack checker page It says your data has been breached because it would appear that that site which tom really generously characterized as a good thing It would appear that that site only exists To enroll people in Equifax's credit monitoring service their own by the way They did not even go to a third-party credit monitoring service, which at this point I think is almost required and when you sign up For that service the terms of service say that you agree not to sue them or be part of a class action lawsuit Which the new york attorney general's office is already demanding that that language be removed Because a it's insane And b it's unenforceable. Yeah It just goes on and on and on with this company I did try this site out and it told me I was not breached so it obviously is checking something because it's returning two different uh two different Responses depending the fact that test is breached as hilarious because it really is just reading directly out of the database I'm sure there's a test entry in the database that they're that they've got exfiltrated Uh, and the other thing is they have added opt-out information to their terms of service saying you can In 30 days of writing to equifax opt out of that arbitration clause and go back to being able to sue them Or go to small claims court with them But as you said molly, I think that not only the new york states attorney But probably a lot of states attorneys are going to make sure that these terms of service are unenforceable no matter what Oh, yeah, I mean there was a great headline today that said that that that the equifax hack Hack is essentially the only thing that has generated an outpouring of bipartisanship Because look this is this is like We have arrived over and over at the worst case scenario, right? But this is the time when we have really arrived at the worst case scenario. This is this is the inevitable response I mean regulation of credit reporting agencies was totally watered down if not almost stripped out of the To the 2014 dodd frank regulations after the financial crisis like this is the inevitable Conclusion of companies that are out of control because I want to do a whole thing on credit agencies in particular, right? This is that this is such it's always been a black box. They hold the strings to your entire life There is no transparency and apparently no accountability either equifax is stock part of the reason these guys like The most generous interpretation of the stock sale I sound so marketplace right now is that They were they were within their quarterly window to sell Yeah, so the quarterly open on august 26. They were they sold on august 1st or july 26 They sold on august 1st like it's very it's possible that they were even informed that there was a breach somebody had this all in my twitter like there are probably Many many many hack attempts all day every day against artifacts. So maybe best case scenario They had been informed that there was a breach. They didn't know how serious it was They were within their quarterly window to sell and why wouldn't they sell because the stock Has tripled in the last few years tripled. Yeah, these guys are making money handover fist Just just frankly holding every consumer in america hostage I mean I could I could make that scenario work your window opens on the 26th You file the paperwork on friday before you head out on the weekend It doesn't get executed until the following tuesday, right that could happen On the other hand if 143 million if you're aware now, aqua fex says they weren't aware Let's be clear on that. But if you were aware 143 million would be enough for you to go. Hmm Maybe I should stop that sale because that's not gonna look right Right if you're a company with a sense of fiduciary responsibility and accountability to your customers then you stop Any sale of any stock by any executive within that company you freeze it Immediately once you find out that you have been breached, but this is a these are these are companies that Don't care. I mean it has been a trend in america for a long time, but in these ones they don't care I have a question by just checking if you have been affected Uh, do you are you opt out? Can you opt out of that?  Well, you can still opt out after 30 days now no matter what but yeah, the the words were If you purchase a product or register for a product you can't you have waived your right to sue and you agree to arbitration I don't know that checking is registering but that would be a matter for a court of law. I guess Yeah, my my sense from reading through that was that it wasn't Just checking because what happens is you check you get this big language if you if you have been it says Oh, it looks like you may have been affected continue on with registration for our product Yeah, and I think so I think you're probably on the right side of the auto charge you after a year So if you don't if you don't uh, follow through through the registration Or have you registered? You know for example, uh, again matter for a court of law and whether aquifax wants to fight it. Yeah good question Because it's you probably have to check at terms of service and once you check that terms of service The service are linked at the bottom of every page and you agree to them by using the site So you're already in I mean, I think you're already in and that's what that's what Zach Whitaker was reporting And I really his reporting is outstanding and and yes, I mean those are the terms of service over the page You know lock your credit. We should probably mention as well. Yeah, just like roger said How to protect yourself after this kind of breach does happen because there's only so much faith that we can put in companies to protect our data And us as consumers need to make sure that we're putting in Way more effort than the companies are to protect our own data because they don't care A lot of times with companies we are a number where we are some kind of way for them to make profit For us we have the most value for our own lives Way more than anybody else will so Make sure that you're freezing your accounts if you do have credit With aquifax or with trans union or any of the large agencies make sure that you are freezing all of those So that nobody can open up additional loans or additional credit Lines in your name also make sure that you are using good internet hygiene as well Just you know use password managers use two-factor authentication if you do if you can And if you do have things that you're worried about with social engineering attacks make sure that the Websites the accounts that are most valuable to you make sure you're using proper internet hygiene for those two And maybe even call up the agencies and change your phone passwords or change your two-factor authentication change your pin codes Just do whatever you can to update that information so that The information that was leaked might possibly be old obviously I don't expect anybody to physically move addresses But there are some things that we can do as consumers to update our information and to freeze the Lines of credit that are currently out there That's good If you use any kind of social Um, uh, social networking or media account don't load it with your personal information Yes, don't put a dress. Don't put your phone number Like it's don't take a picture of your flight details because those qr codes are easily hacked Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit and helps us keep up on these We had a lot of great links about this story in our subreddit today Go check them out daily tech news show dot reddit.com and our facebook group facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show We just have one more email before we're out of here, but molly. I know you're you're working on a deadline. Do you need to jump? I Yes, that's what all those slacks were about. I do have to scamper But before I do I hope you'll all listen to my not at all competitive show I just I as of this week I just finished my first week as host of marketplace tech the radio broadcast Uh, and we have a podcast and it is someone asked me on twitter is that could that be called a daily tech news show? Um, but it's a very different approach Whereas tom keeps you updated on the actual events of every single day practically in real time because you guys are amazing with uh, the subreddit and the communication with tom This is more of a of a A dot connecting kind of show. It is a it's a trend show. It's a um, it's a it's complimentary It is complimentary exactly. So I think hopefully if you listen to them both ideally back to back You'll get everything you need. Uh, but please subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. I'm excited Thank you molly wood for jumping in today. It was great, haven't you? Thanks for letting me rant because god you guys I am heated Ah, we needed molly rattle this one Angry you're like, well, who do we get to berate and browbeat and get something done and a lot of people just As usual no one That's why we have each other thanks again. Uh, and if they want to subscribe to marketplace tech, where should they go? Go to marketplace tech dot org and then uh, you can also of course subscribe on itunes and all the places you podcast Uh Except at the moment google play, which i'm having a big huge fight about man. Tell me about it I've always had I had issues with other podcasts too. So It's yeah, it's a tricky one So everywhere currently except for google play and i'm sorry about that and I hope to get it worked out soon You can manually add it to your to your google system. Yes, but but you just got to know how to do that All right. Thanks again molly. It's not my favorite. Bye Now i'm sorry that we uh, that molly had to go because in our analyst slack today, ohioan big jim jim thatcher Pointed out a bipartisan bill. We were just talking about bipartisanship I bought partisan bill in the ohio senate to make a hundred million dollars available to expand broadband To some of the 300 000 rural ohioans without broadband access so far So good for two years interested groups, uh, and they're targeting this at nonprofits community groups, etc Civil organizations could apply to the state's third frontier program That's a loan program that the state has operated for a while And you could receive five million dollars in grants to help subsidize the cost of an internet Infrastructure roll out and you'd have to show that no commercial service could be or is planned to be brought to an area There's a lot of restrictions. It's really meant to help people who otherwise would not be able to get broadband The groups can be free to install it themselves. There's no restrictions saying they have to hire somebody else to build it Uh, or they can partner with a telco to build it if they want to lawmakers estimate that 14 000 households could receive broadband under the plan So it's not going to cover all 300 000, but it's going to make a start This sounds great, but Jim pointed out that the senators are promising no new taxes would be needed For this funding He supposes that that means that the third frontier program would have to take its existing budget and reallocate it So money used for other programs by third frontier Would be reduced or eliminated and what worries him about that is among those other programs Are two opioid abuse programs and there was just a thing today that heroin use in the united states Is skyrocketing by hundreds of a percent. This is a huge problem not only in ohio, but all across the us so Jim said well, wait a minute. Who sent me this email about this program and and i've checked it out cleveland.com has a Story about it. It's not a spam email, but connect ohio, which is quoted in the cleveland.com Article about this is campaigning for the bill connect ohio is a subsidiary of connect nation Which counts among its advisory council at and t comcast us telecom horizon and the cti a also microsoft i'm not saying that connect ohio or connect nation are in some way nefarious But it definitely is a play to get some money headed the telcos way In order to roll out rural broadband now I I don't have a problem with that if you want to take some some money and say hey We know you wouldn't do this otherwise We're going to give it to community groups who will decide where it goes And then you guys will benefit because they may need to hire you to run this right? That's fine, but if it's taken it away from opioid abuse that would be a problem so Jim's like that is the question He's like I don't know who to ask and where to get an answer on how they're going to get this money without Raising taxes, but it was a really good investigation by big jim Into this email that he got to be like hold on. How is this going to how's this going to work? That's really interesting. I'm glad he I'm glad he also brought up the fact that They said no new taxes would need to be increased which honestly I know it's an unpopular opinion But I feel like if if it's going to help the entire state something like broadband access Which I come from a very small town where we didn't have that we had dial-up for a very long time And it was the worst thing ever when you're in high school and you have dial-up But it was anyway besides the fact I'd be okay with a slight raise of taxes if it meant that I would receive much faster internet Which in in the long term would probably benefit a lot of people In their near futures for their jobs for schooling for education anything like that because so much information is now available on the internets That is very hard to access if you don't have a good internet speed Really curious About where how this is going to be financed the fact that he thinks it's coming from third frontier, but of course that that isn't That isn't proven yet Well, it is coming from third frontier that that part is that part is in the in the proposal the bill text has not been put out So we don't know well. Is this because third frontier is retiring? Maybe one of its entrepreneurial programs, right? And so it'll have some extra money and they won't have to raise the budget that that could be a perfectly innocent explanation We're sunsetting this other program that people weren't really using and it was a waste of money anyway The opioid abuse program is not going to be touched right that that could be the answer But we don't know that's yeah, we don't know and it's always suspicious when someone says no new taxes Like okay, but where is that money coming from because that money was being spent on something before and it's not going to be Spent on that anymore Len i'm actually curious if you know you're in cleveland the cleveland area. Uh, what what do you think about this? I haven't heard anything about it. This is the first time i've heard about it um, I know that uh, there are cities that are trying to get Broadband for every city, but I haven't this is the first I've heard of it. So Well, we'll we'll uh, keep an eye on this I'm I know big jim will be keeping an eye on this for us as well So we'll let you know if we find out an answer to that question Meanwhile, we got a sneak peek there on the video of what you've been drawing Len Yeah, you know, um, I along with molly and everybody else are pretty upset about this I don't know if this drawing is is upset enough about what went on with ecofacts over the past couple months Uh, but this is uh, this is I bought as editorial as I get With my cartoons. Um The cartoon is of course a kind of older ceo Equifax ceo who is having a historically awful security breach pushed into his face by a us consumer and the us consumer is saying Well, according to this your credibility scores hosed along with all our personal data Uh, and I think that's uh, that's how it's uh, that's that's that's how I feel about it Man, this is this is editorial cartoon level stuff here. This is this is really good. You could see this in the sunday paper Yeah, yeah, if there was I have I have to give a shout out. It was nor who came up with the with the credibility score thing That's good. I thought oh, that's really funny. So yeah Uh, so go check this out folks.  Len peralta store.com and take a look. This is a good one. You're not going to want to miss it Shannon morse. Thank you as well. What else do you have going on? Thank you tom. Yeah, that was a super fun main discussion topic today. 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I've always been using any named another security researchers Security number for all these years Anytime something bad happens. I tweet about it and then my my friends who are like Like they work for agencies.  I'd be like, here's their info. I've got a posse.  Oh man. So many good Roger Sorry So many good equal ones Just do equal hacks and I won't say any offending words Oh, you were you were reading bio cows, weren't you? Yes. I was reading the last one. You have to think about what you're reading You know what bio cow needs to I just read what people take in front of me You got you got you Ron burgundy them bio cow No, seriously if you can try to just lock down your credit report Which is I run any because yes that is good blanket advice If you only have a short amount of time to tell someone some advice There are reasons why you wouldn't want to do that in which case it gets more complicated You know so you're in the middle of buying a house for instance So yeah, so I mean so this is my experience Yes for things but typically for for example, let's take a house I actively called the the mortgage broker and it's like when you're done I'm gonna call you back in two days if you're done with it. I'm going to relock My credit report and they and I call them they said we're all good It's all been approved and I locked it right right then and there It's it's really one of those things we need to be pro No, that's the thing I'm saying is you know, you you may need to unlock it In which case unlock it and then go back and relock it and that will cost money to Unfreeze it and then relock it again, but it's a it costs a lot less than having your identity stolen. Well, it's a big, you know Ironically enough. I actually have an Equifax account like just credit monitoring So you need to be concerned the other thing is I know it's 143 million people So a lot of you need to be concerned, but you know make up your own mind Look and see was I affected check it out Maybe even call them if you don't trust that website, which is kind of untrustworthy And then and then decide okay if I was affected. How worried am I? What are the things I need to protect? Do I have the money to to freeze it? You know Or do I take some of these other measures that Shannon was mentioning and then leave it at that? Like everybody's going to have a different approach But freezing it isn't ridiculously expensive and it's the simplest thing you can do It would I will say it will save you a lot of grief Uh, especially because I've I've been in circumstances where people have tried to basically open the account under my name And that's why I started freezing my accounts. I was lucky because the store called me like Somebody opened up a Verizon account under my name and I got a bill in the mail and I was like, uh Hey guys, and then they were like, oh Somebody probably just stole your info and I was like That's kind of serious. Why are you just saying? Oh, it's okay. It's not okay. It's just people stealing your info happens every day Yeah Ironically mine currently is not frozen because I was opening up a new account somewhere. So I was just like Great timing. Just great timing Well, you can re-freeze now. Yep, I guess I'll have to You know, my I was thinking about uh, this breach when we were talking about one of the uses of it being Uh, the challenge questions where they're like, which of the following is an address that you previously lived at, right? When I first signed up for a cell phone. So this was 2000 I think 2001 maybe probably 2000. No, it was 2000 I was I was getting a a sprint cell phone at a radio shack. So that tells you Right there. How long ago was it when was singular? Uh, and yeah, I was uh, I think I was getting a Is it getting a scene? No, it was getting sprint. You're right. Never mind. Um, so I was getting I was signing up and so the clerk is on the phone with the credit agency to make sure they can give me this and they're like What's uh, what's one of your previous addresses? And I move around so often and I'm like, yeah, well, I don't know, uh, try this one They're like, nope Like what about this one? Nope. Like I couldn't remember all my previous addresses. So I'm not sure which one they had Uh, it was a real pain. I I have like eight. I have eight addresses depending on what part of my life you pick Oh, I have way more than that. I'm not even talking about like anything pre 2000 it's just to have there's a lot and so Um, it's just I'm not sure if that helps or hinders me. Yeah, I don't know Well, I was thinking like if they get a hold of my full credit report, they probably have all those addresses right there in front of them like Makes it easier Yeah, I already I already got my first free credit report for the year. So What's your score? I wasn't expecting it He's bragging Yeah, we did as soon as he started with 800.  No, I would say I would have no, I would say it would have like 400 or something then no one would want to Yeah, exactly. That's like I have horrible credit. Don't try to open anything 200 no two scores two two I got a log off. I have to record a bunch of Thank you so much. Bye everybody. Disneyland next week. Yay Have fun. All right. Y'all take care. Bye. See you later. Bye And then there was us Roger Chang Just me you and your 180 credit score Yeah, yeah You know The thing about hey Our credit system is so weird Like your your credit score isn't based on really how much you earn It's based on how much you can when how much monthly payment you can afford to make How much monthly payment they believe you can handle Because it's not even about It's not it's not about money or money in the bank.  Maybe, you know, maybe he can't sustain payments They want people who can sustain payments for a long time. I have pretty good credit. I think I don't know I don't bother looking at the score anymore I mean if you're if you don't actively need to The only reason I find credit reports good is to see if someone's open account under your name Well, that's different than credit score though. Those are two different. 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This is TFNN, the Tiger Financial News Network Update. Good morning, everyone. On this Thursday, the 22nd of June, looking at the Dow down 20 at $32,929. Now, remember, in Chathamway Methodology, peak D is where other things can happen. That's where you get somewhat cautious. It can have a recycle to the upside. That's where you can have your steepest decline. So far, this is the steepest decline since the 32,586 low on the 25th of May. Right here on the 14-period moving average is where we need to see some kind of a balance. And I'll talk about this Chathamway Roman candle, the two Roman candles that we had in the last four sessions. In my show coming up, the Tiger Technicians Hour, what it implies, what should happen, S&P is also down some. It is down 1 and 43.64 came back nicely after being down earlier on. Futures are down even more. But this is most important because, yes, an alternate account, G-Stash-C, but look at the distance between the 9 and 14-period moving average. To me, that's important since there's still a residual strength, QQQ, trading at $363.20 up to $32, holding a lot better when you look at it. Also, the 9 is over the 14 quite nicely. IWM, the Russell 2000, very weak today, down $1.72 and $182.97, so much for trying to lead. It did in the dating, but not in the weekly chart. Okay, Gold. Gold is down 13 at 1931. Now we're testing the 200-period moving average. That was my target on the downside, 1937. But my real target has been the left side, right side price time match, which would have been if there's a sharp close underneath the 14-period moving average in the weekly, then the low of 1999, that can't be 1999. Oh, I'll have to check that out. I think that's 1800, 1899. 1899 will be the next target. We're looking at the dollar, and that's interesting. Remember, I said, look at the VIX, et cetera, all separately. Well, the dollar and the gold have been going down in the same direction. So this is very, it's a little unusual. It does happen. Dollars up to 16 ticks. Crude oil is down sharply, very sharply. And the TLT, I'll talk about that when I get back. I will talk about it. I have to talk about it, is down and yields are coming up a little bit. I'll be right back for the Tiger Technicians Hour.


Hello everyone and welcome today to Retro Tech. I have a special episode. We're going to be working on a series now We're going to go through and restore at JVC Consumer CRT. This is going to be one of the top-end best CRTs that you could get that's a consumer grade in the United States the one we're going to be working on specifically is the AV 36 D 501 and Surprisingly even to this day JVC still has the information on this television directly on their website So if you Google this television, you'll find a lot of information here still available on it It says 800 lines of horizontal resolution now. I've seen other documentation. It says 750 So it's a high line CRT 36 inch diagonal shadow mask dark tinted picture tube with high definition audio and it also supports every great Input that is for analog video like a component input it has two AV inputs in the rear and one in the front and then there's also s-video on There so one of the big things to look at here though is the weight of this Television it's right at 150 pounds and it is just like that you would think very very heavy So today we're going to go through and I want to show you the specific one that I've had for a while now And you might have seen a couple of videos. I've done on this one in the past But today we're going to go through and start actually tear it apart and restoring it now this one I have is right on 20 years old and Again a real beauty and I wanted to start by showing you some of the current situation on the TV so we could look at how it looks right now and Because honestly it doesn't look bad at all There's not even any troubles with it at all. It has a very good looking screen as is I do hope we can get it to look a little bit better But I wanted to give you guys an idea of where we are starting with I've got a super Nintendo hooked up with the 240 T P test suite from our team yo and I want to show you a couple of test patterns right off to begin with here The first one is this crosshatch style pattern. You can still see a little bit of Issues in the corner, but to be honest with you. It's not really bad I mean, there's not a whole lot of problems with even the calibration on this as it sits today The screen is very linear Circles look very nice. So that tells me that the capacitors in it are probably still pretty good Because if there was a problem and one of them was failing you'd notice some troubles but there is some problems in a couple of the corners that I want to show you specifically up here in the top left hand Corner, we've got some convergence problems I shouldn't have the separation to this extreme between the red green and blue there So that's something we help to work on now. I doubt that's a cap issue. It's probably more of a magnetism issue But we'll see if we can get any improvement off this picture Once we recap it. So I just wanted to show you that everything works fine. All the color guns work fine Similarly, if you were to find a television like this and it was in really good condition I mean even with the convergence in the two corners that I'm pointing out here You may still get it and it looks great, you know, but That doesn't mean that you wouldn't want a future proof it and so as I go through this process I was you know, I'm going to go through everything pretty much in a lot of details So that way if you want to get in here and do something like this To a crt that you like that you can you can have an opportunity to maybe do it and just use this kind of as a guide as to how you would go through and Refurbish or future proof your crt So this one again is 150 pounds. It's very difficult to get around and work around as as one person, but I still have done it and I'm going to be doing it here Uh, let's take a closer look now at the inputs real quickly There's the two Inputs that are av and s video and then under that you've got the component video For input two and that is switchable. So you do have to go through the main menu to switch that back and forth and then We're just going to go ahead now and start taking it apart and the nice thing about these higher in crt's is that The companies marked them with nice little arrows generally where you need to get a screw out most of the time It's a phillips head screw So just go around the entire crt and make sure that you get every single screw that you see that has an arrow next to it and double check make sure you get them all And then you most of the time be able to pull the shell off Of the crt. Now this one, uh, I wasn't really sure about because I had never opened it This is the very first time I've opened it. You could tell it's been in my garage. It's not even been in my house It's it's very filthy So we'll get into a little bit more on where I got this So I originally bought this from a bait shop in florida if you can believe it or not when I was on vacation Two years ago maybe and I just looked on the ground and saw the largest crt and the guy was like, you know I'll sell it to you. So I paid him $50. So it might be crazy, but then I had to get it From tampa up to tennessee where I live So I had to get some help From my family while they were down there. They had to throw this in the back of their minivan and drive it back for me But I mean, this is why it's been in my garage Just look at this is the dirtiest Most disgusting crt that I've ever opened And if it wasn't such a rare crt and one that I wanted to refurbish I probably wouldn't even work on it. It's so disgusting. I mean You get in here and you could tell right away That whoever owned it before the guy was a smoker because it's got not only a film of dust But a disgusting layer of like soot that you might find in a chimney and that soot is just On top of the dust and caked on top of each other and it's extremely disgusting And it's never been cleaned in here before. So It was just one of the grossest crt's you've ever worked on Where are going through right now and discharging the crt? I want you to see something because I get a questions about this a lot I'm hooking up to a ground loop right here This large crt has this it's got like a spring on it But that's actually tied into the corners And into the major ground loop and that that's connected to another ground cable that actually goes in here and connects to the Main chassis and up through everything is grounded to itself that way So that's just a cable around it For easy access. So I'm hooking right into that if you had alligator clips you just clip onto there and you get in here with your Discharge tool and actually just you know poke under the anode cap pull up the anode cap and tap That little metal area that you see to begin with And then you can actually push that metal clip in and and get it out and they just tap the anode Ring right there on the back of the tube So you don't want to just slam your tool in there and scrape the back of the tube that That's not really good. You want to avoid trying to damage it. There's a quick look at the tube model But I just wanted to show you another close-up of how disgusting Even the yoke is and the back of the tube It looks like you know looking under a Old vehicle where you're changing the oil or something. It's just one of the grossest Again things it really kind of makes me a little squeamish just watching it and looking at it Look at the flyback cable. It has a good solid three I don't know millimeters of just soot nastiness all around it. So It's going to need a lot of cleaning and that's what we're going to start with next. I'm going to pull The whole chassis out as long as along with the neck board I'm just going to get it out of the way to begin with and we'll see a closer look at this Board and how just filthy it is to begin with and Just one of the reasons again to always check and see What the condition is inside your crt Because honestly after a while this could become a fire hazard Where just this dust is so thick that Something happens it something heats up and fails. You know, there's going to be a couple resistors I'll show you later on and that just get it up to an incredibly high temperature And this stuff could eventually settle down on there Ignite maybe and it's just all and all disgusting and It's a good reason to always look inside your crt Even if you're not going to recap it You're not going to hurt it by doing this just take it apart and cleaning it to begin with because That amount of soot is not good It's it's a wonder that there wasn't any failure after 20 years for this crt And how much soot and just build up there wasn't it and frankly I'm glad that I never brought it inside my house I could tell it smelled bad a little bit when I got it because I couldn't tell when I smelled it when it was in the Bait shop, you know, it's in the middle of a bait shop. So Here's a look I took it outside I'm just gonna again if you squeamish you might want to look away for the next 30 seconds But I want you to see just the condition Haven't even started cleaning it at all There's an intense amount of build up on the chips on the capacitors On the tuner here There's even some rust built up that I want to make sure I clean all that area off the chips The board it was covered and it's not again a just light dust that you can sweep off easy or blow off It is a soot style dirt That is stuck onto it Almost like with a mini type of adhesive it feels like so This is really going to have to be intensely cleaned and The plan is to replace every capacitor That you see on all these boards for this crt But I'm not doing any of that before we clean it Look at the ic's these are extremely high temperature areas over here next to the flyback and it just That's that's what's inside a lot of these old crts All right, so I'm going to start by taking this back in my shop and disassembling the boards to Kind of analyze things a little bit closer As well as get into these areas and start cleaning I'll show you how I'm going to begin cleaning because this is going to be a couple stage process of cleaning it More than once it's got so much soot on it And I'm not even decided yet what the final cleaning is going to be on it But I start with taking a brush now. I know a lot of people are going to be like you need to use the Protective static brush, but I am using a horsehair brush that's non-conductive at all. So I couldn't I mean this would have taken some really heavy-duty brushes that I didn't have available So I was just using what I had and without ordering extra tools I've had a lot of I've had never had troubles using just this horsehair brush But if you look look behind the board over here and the amount of just soot that's piled up in between the capacitors that's coming off the back here And just hunks and gunks And again, this is the kind of stuff that even when I go through here and do this It's not going to be nearly enough to get all that off I do thankfully have a full-on air compressor So the next step is going to be blowing as much of that soot and nastiness out of every little cranny and I'll try to get out from cleaning around the chips and all the Mulex connectors And you know even the backs of the boards and I do the same with the other boards These are video input board and the tuner and picture and picture board because again I'm repairing refurbishing this whole thing entirely To see if we could get every inch of Performance back out of this it maybe even a little bit more because some of the capacitors I'm going to be upgrading and I kind of walk through that when I get started with the capacitor kits and how I worked around You know developing the capacitor kit for this particular television so back inside and I've got the chassis here and I just wanted to show you I've taken a towel just a paper towel with a little bit of water on it and just rubbing that on the Cable to the anode and oh man I just You know like again, it's one of the grossest things I've ever seen So don't be afraid if you see that and you've disassembled the thing to this point There's really no danger in getting it there and cleaning it. You're not going to shock yourself at any point Thankfully, it's already discharged all the energies out of this So it's not again a problem to go in here and thoroughly Rub down a lot of this because there's really no other easy way to get at least that initial outer layer of the dark nasty soot off of there and Just again, it's a it's surprising to me that that this television didn't have any kind of issues When I was using it because it just didn't seem to have any problems except for again, it did stink sometimes so The rest of this Shell I had to clean outside again. I didn't even really want to touch it It's fine to take this plastic and just hose it off. That's what I did.  You can tell where you're you'd sit in front of the television or areas where the Air was flowing in and it would just be layered with soot from cigarettes from a bait shop And I just remember this guy would sit around in the bait shop and he wasn't actually using this television he had a new flat screen in there and He didn't he doesn't even smoke now, which is crazy Because I've been going to the bait shop for like five years. It's right down the street from this place where I generally go to get bait and vacation in an area in Tampa and he He just had it one day sitting on the floor in the middle of his His bait shop and I asked him and again, I just bought it from him and he again He didn't smoke. He just said that he wanted to get 50 bucks out of it And I just okay because I'm a sucker for crt's I guess but I had to do the same thing with the brush On the inside of this crt tube again It just look at the bounded dust that's coming off of this the inside There's no easy way to do this I couldn't start by just blowing it off everywhere because it would have gotten all over the place and made a big huge mess It wouldn't have been very effective But the brush brush is soft and it gets in nicely around the yoke And just look at this yoke. I mean look at the after that's how much soot and look again up here where the coil on the yoke is just Lined in sooty tobacco dust so There's no easy way to get that off This is really the safest is to go all indiana jones style and archaeologist, you know Jurassic park and Slowly brush that dust off Because this black area on the back of these crt tubes is a special paint That's been applied to the exterior of the tube To avoid back reflection so you can't see through the tube Would you're like watching something if that paint wasn't there you'd possibly be able to see straight through the tube Translucently a little bit So you have to be extremely careful not to disturb that 20 year old paint on the back of the air So I started with the brush and then I took a very soft old t-shirt and just sprayed windex On it and rubbed the rest of the inside down And this is just the piled up soot at the bottom here Very thick very disgusting again from everything now has been brushed off those top layers to the bottom I have to remove all the cables and the speakers and stuff and really get in there And just clean now a brush in it and then I did continue to wipe it down more with hand Wiping it. I mean for probably another 30 minutes and this is how good I got it afterwards. I mean just a huge amount of difference sparkling clean now I went in there and I had to Get in there with those brushes I had to pull the speakers out because I was afraid around those speakers There would have been built up soot and you could have probably gone and sniffed in there and smelt smoke Even if I want to clean it So I want to take a look at the yoke and just show you how much different it looks now You can see the green in the copper. There's actually green layer of protective almost plastic around there That I had not seen before But this is the build out on the jvcd series just a beautiful tube And now you can pretty much eat off of it after I've cleaned it I really wouldn't recommend that yet, but still up here at the top Of the crt. I will clean around that a little bit more and I've got some new fresh die electric grease We'll be applying to that later on when we actually finish the restoration and rest you'll put everything back together That's one thing that we will be cleaning a little bit more But every other area has been swept out and The best way I was able to get rid of a lot of that soot at the bottom was just to use a shop vac and vacuum it out That's how I cleaned the shell and the tube and then you know going forward. We're going to be looking at the capacitors now this is the cleaned up board. This is what it looks like now But I'm going to show you in the next video how to get the board out of The plastic and separate it out fully.  That's electrolytic I got a positive and negative on it and everyone on the rest of these boards It came to a total of 157 Different caps and I'm going to show you the process of how I made my cap kit Which was all had to be done by hand there wasn't actually a A part list for this monitor. I found a lot of documentation on it and servicing and how it worked and and schematics, but there wasn't actually a part list So I had to go through myself and Manually record every single capacitor Off these boards. I had to write it down. I had to write the position Which is like a c and then a number and then I had to write the value of the capacitor and then I had to record all that Individually and as I did that I marked each capacitor after I recorded it with a tick From a sharpie. So I knew I had recorded it That's what it looks like here Why you see me with the ticks on the tops of these capacitors and then I had to manually write this down But I'll show you the next video too How I broke that down into an order sheet and again So you get the 157 caps, but it makes it a little bit easier because and then I'll show you Which caps you can upgrade and that's all going to come in the next video folks So look I'm getting my name is steve Is this your if this is your first time the channel and you've stayed to this point in the video I really appreciate you coming and watching the video today And I think that you should subscribe and check out the rest of the playlist on the crt as it comes out Because it's going to be a lot of fun And hopefully everything will go well because as of the time I'm filming this I'm waiting For the capacitor kit to arrive in the mail and we'll get to see you know the after effects Of how much the screen is improved or if it hasn't improved at all But I have a good feeling that it will But thanks again. I'll see you guys in the next episode of retro tech And have a great evening


Ladies and gentlemen silent Mike back with another video We're gonna talk today about a little bit of a stall whether it's in fat loss or weight gain But before we hop in the video be sure to give this thing a thumbs up subscribe Follow me on iTunes 50% facts new podcasts every Wednesday, and we're twitching live live streaming every single night So come hang out link in the bio silent Mike on twitch I got a user submitted question or comment and my man basically said I don't I don't have the exact quote I lost it somewhere in the mix of the social media world, but he basically digs in It says Mike I've been eating a boatload, and I can't gain weight if I do gain weight I want to gain muscle and not fat help me out my man I'm here to help you out, and it's quite simple actually You know a lot of people ask similar like questions But they're leaving out much of the picture and much of the variables that we need to define if we want to make Consistent progress steady progress and be sure that we're gonna make progress It's great to throw things on the wall, and some people can some people can just eat whatever they want Train a little bit, and they get really jacked for the majority of us It's not gonna work that way, and we got to be a little bit more precise with the procedures We do the information we give out and how we attack our goals people ask all the time Mike I'm squatting three times a week, and I plateaued my squat There's so many more variables involved with this whether we're talking about the squat or we're talking about gaining weight Or losing weight that we need to control in order to make adjustments in order to continue to progress So in the fact that we're trying to gain weight, let's hypothetically say we've been training in about two years We're about a hundred and sixty pounds our lifts have stalled a little bit The scale has stalled a little bit or maybe we're not even checking the scale And my body my physique and my strength has stalled So what are some things that we can track every single day to make sure of it? If you're say you're eating a boatload, and you're not gaining weight. You're not eating enough That's just pure fact thermogenics if you're not if you're eating enough You're gonna gain weight if you're not eating enough you're gonna lose weight simple as that if you're eating a maintenance You're gonna maintain your weight, and the only way we can really track these things are simple We're gonna track our body weight every day or every other day We're gonna write it down first thing in the morning wake up take a pee pee, and then you're gonna write it down Use the same scale wear the same things whether you're just using underwear or whatever you want to do Mark it down every single day Either on your phone or sometimes it helps to physically write it for us to remember and keep track I used to keep when I was really dieting Piece of paper right next to my scale Sign in date it wait by the boom by the bank The next thing we want to do is is strictly track your food And I suggest everyone does this for at least six months to an entire year Get some kind of measuring cups and get some kind of food scale sometimes the food scale can handle it all and Way and measure and track in an app similar to my fitness pouch is free. I'm not sponsored It's just easy to use and track it in your phone wait on the scale before you put it in your mouth Sometimes it will help to track an entire day ahead of time if you like kind of the prep idea You track, you know the night before You track the day before every single meal and make sure that your macronutrients line up If you don't have any macronutrient goals or calorie goals will figure that out as we go But basically track everything eat weigh yourself every day and see what it's like if you're averaging You know after seven days your body weights the same and then you average your calorie intake and you're averaging around 2,000 calories now we need to eat 2,225 or 2,500 calories if we want to gain weight Hopefully if you're gaining muscle We're gonna be have to do some kind of training program You need to add some stimulus to your muscles if you want them to grow with the extra calories now Also, if you're trying to gain a little bit more muscle and less body fat and less body fat when you bulk Although you're likely to gain both. It's just how our bodies work It's gonna be very difficult to gain no body fat while you're gaining weight We're gonna need a good program with a good amount of volume Hair frequency in there and we're also going to need to up our protein intake typically We want to do is about a gram of protein per pound of body weight we weigh So if you're 160 again training two years We want to eat about 160 grams of protein and then how much fat and carbs we have to get to the 2,500 calories again These are all examples. I'm just throwing out numbers. These are not Recommendations on calorie intake or anything like that, but it's a general guide You get 2,500 calories in and 160 that from a protein Grams and then the rest you can kind of feel in carbs and fat and then We're gonna continue to weigh ourselves on the scale every morning every other morning write it down And once we plateau again, we're gonna add a little bit more calories involved So now we're 165 pounds. We've been to eat in 2,500 calories and we plateaued again now We're gonna go to 2,600 750 calories and continue the progress until we're at the end of our bulk or at the physique We like and then we figure it out. Now dieting is the exact same thing. There's so many fat diets going around There's so many information being thrown left and right and if we're talking about purely fat loss purely fat loss weight loss what's going to Determine that overall is how many calories we intake so it's gonna be the exact same process. We're gonna weigh ourselves every day We're gonna write it down. We're gonna track our food and weight our food every single day before we put it in our mouth And we're gonna keep those calories consistent and as soon as we plateau We're gonna just take a little bit of calories away or add a little bit of cardio burning extra calories We'll have the same effect as eating slightly less and that'll allow us to continue this progress over time Now it seems so simple because it absolutely is now the most difficult parts this whole thing is the discipline and Staying consistent on the athlete themselves. The science is simple. The procedure is simple Many people have done it over and over and over now The trouble is the adherence to stick to it over years and years and find a method that works for you That's I guess if you want a place for these fad diets are different things that are people are buzzword and around That's where a place that it may help because some people may do better with a slightly less carbs and slightly higher fat And when I say do better, it's not because of physiologically Magically they do better when they eat bacon than when I eat turkey bacon.  I'll try to help you out the best I can give this thing a thumbs up again I'll see you guys on to a new video dropping here every Monday and Thursday. I appreciate you guys sound Mike I'm out of here