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(00:09):
Hi everyone, I'm John C. Morley, Serial the host of
The JMOR Tech Talk Show and Inspirations
for Your Life.
(00:53):
Well hey guys, it is John Seymour here,
serial entrepreneur.
It is great to be with you on
another fantastic Friday on, yes, The JMOR
Tech Talk Show.
I hope you guys have had an amazing
week and of course we have a great
show to share with you tonight.
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So the topic of the show, which I
think is something important to share with you
before we get this all kicked off, and
so the topic tonight is a really good
one.
And that is Tech Turbulence, Today's Shocks, Scams,
and Game Changers Unveiled, series four, show number
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40.
Can you believe guys, in just a few
months, we are actually going to be finished
with season four and on to season five?
I can't believe that already.
I mean, it's hard to believe that we've
been on the air that long, but it's
amazing.
I know that a lot of people, you
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know, see technology challenges as a nuisance, but
you know, if we can understand why something's
not working, we not only can help ourselves
with any frustration, we can help others too,
and of course benefit society and many around
us.
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want to miss today's show.
And I do want to take this opportunity
to thank everyone for joining me today, whether
this is your first time or, well, whether
you're coming back many, many times.
So I think it's important to understand the
facts, and so let's get right into them.
(03:02):
So let's step inside the minds of people
in technology everywhere.
I'm John C.
Morley.
I'm a serial entrepreneur, engineer, a video producer,
marketing specialist, keynote speaker, podcast host, podcast coach,
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(03:24):
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So ladies and gentlemen, our first point is
device prices are set to soar.
That's right.
Device costs about to spike as President Trump's,
well, administration rolls out new tariffs suddenly, targeting
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foreign electronics based on the number of microchips
inside.
So this aggressive move is meant to bring,
well, for lack of a better term, manufacturing
back to the United States.
But experts are warning it could push inflation
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even higher for everyday tech.
Is this the dawn of a new era
for American innovation, or will your next phone,
laptop, or TV burn a hole in your
wallet?
So we were told that the iPhone was
going to cost, oh, around $3,000.
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Luckily, Apple kept that price down, and they
did that by, let's just say they made
a very nice size contribution to Mr. Donald
Trump's campaign.
And well, he miraculously did not invoke any
tariffs on the Apple devices.
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But I don't know if that's going to
continue.
And so over 8,000 kids, ladies and
gentlemen, profiles were leaked in a London nursery
cyber attack.
This is really a crime.
It's a shocking cyber attack that we've seen
now.
Thousands of children's personal data, including names, addresses,
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and photos stolen from London nurseries.
I'm not talking about the nurseries that grow
flowers.
I'm talking about the ones that have kids
there.
With the Radiant gang threatening to leak even
more sensitive information, both families and schools are
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under a little bit of pressure to step
up the digital defenses.
And I've always said, guys, it's not a
question of if you're going to get attacked,
but when, if you're not properly protected.
I think that is the most important thing
that I want to share with you.
If you're not properly protected, you will get
attacked at some point in time.
And so ladies and gentlemen, when hackers target
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the youngest and most vulnerable, the need for
better privacy protection is clearer than ever before.
You know, not only are they going after
people that are younger and of course more
vulnerable, but they're hoping to prey on them
to possibly, let's say, learn about their family's
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empire.
And whether it's something they want to tackle
and possibly steal or corrupt.
And ladies and gentlemen, EA, yes, EA Sports
could go private recently in a ruling that
they made in a historic $50 billion gaming
deal.
This is pretty amazing.
Electronic Arts, EA Sports, the powerhouse behind global
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gaming hits may, ladies and gentlemen, right now
be taken, well, private for an eye-popping
$50 billion.
This would be the biggest deal in gaming
history and promises sweeping changes to fan-favorite
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franchises like Battlefield and FC.
As private investors move in, how will the
games and the way you play them change
in the future?
I think that's something that we definitely have
to be mindful of.
But I think not only from a future
perspective, but more from a security and a
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safety perspective, this is something we definitely have
to understand.
And if we don't make the effort to
understand this, you know what's going to happen?
Well, we're going to contribute to more of
that, let's say, technical mumbo-jumbo attack by
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not being aware of things.
We possibly could spread that information or those
programs or bad actors, let's say, plan to
combat the world so they could steal things
and make money off of it.
And ladies and gentlemen, Google was recently hit
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with a landmark European Union fine.
Everybody said that they were not going after
Google.
Well, let's think again.
Google is bracing for a massive penalty under
the new Digital Markets Act as the European
Union cracks down on tech giants privileging their
own services.
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So you might be saying to me, hey,
John, this is a very good question.
What is the Digital Markets Service Act?
And so the Digital Markets Service Act is
a European Union law designed to regulate large
gatekeeper digital platforms, such as major search engines,
social media networks, and operating systems to foster
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fair competition and innovation in digital markets.
The DMA establishes a list of do's and
don'ts for these gatekeepers, requiring them to allow
users more choices, give explicit consent for data
tracking, for advertising, make messaging services interoperable, avoid
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self-preferencing their own services, and provide better
access to data for business users.
So the DMA, basically, the DMA, the Digital
Markets Act, aims to curb the market's power
of big technology companies by setting out obligations
and prohibitions for keeping their gatekeeping status, let's
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say, in control.
It creates a level playing field for smaller
businesses and promotes innovation and consumer welfare within
European Union.
Think about, you know, keeping things fair.
When you play golf, you can establish a
handicap.
So in order to play golf, if you
play against somebody who's very good, well, you
can use the handicap and, you know, you
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can easily come close to them because of
the handicap.
So the handicap helps you play, even if
you're not the same level as they are.
So key requirements for gatekeepers right now with
the DMA, the Digital Markets Act, user choices.
Gatekeepers must offer more choices to users, such
as allowing users to easily uninstall pre-installed
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software and choose alternative apps or services without
having to jump a lot of fences and
ropes.
Data consent.
Users must provide explicit consent for their data
to be tracked and cross-used by gatekeepers
for advertising purposes.
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Interoperability.
Basic functionalities of messaging services, like messaging and
file sharing, must be interoperable, allowing users of
different platforms to communicate.
The fair access for businesses.
Gatekeepers must provide access to their services and
data on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms
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for business users.
No self-preferencing.
Gatekeepers are prohibited from favoring their own services
or products over those of competitors on their
platforms.
Data portability.
The gatekeepers must provide users with access to
data they have provided or generated through their
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use of gatekeepers services.
So you can see this is kind of
getting a little bit sticky.
This is definitely not an easy thing that
is happening.
And I think the most important thing when
we think about these things is that they're
being set up in a way so you
can be protected.
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So like I said, a lot of these
people are really out for the kill, if
you would.
And so I think that that makes some
sense.
And hopefully you'll be safe with that too.
But a lot of times people are trying
to avoid this and then they're getting stuck.
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Like you know the way you can't cancel
a subscription for a long time, right?
I think if you can understand what technology
is doing, even if you don't agree with
it, you can at least make the choice
of what you should do and what you
should not do.
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All right.
So this landmark I was talking about in
Google has this fine raising the stakes for
big tech accountability.
And as I said, it could be a
turning point as governments try to balance innovation
with fair competition.
Is this finally the year regulators tip the
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scales?
It might be.
And a little topic that was not exactly
planned, the government official shutdown.
So that's kind of really big in the
news right now.
And people are still want to understand like
why did it happen?
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So basically the Senate failed to pass the
Republican and Democratic short-term spending bills for
a third time.
The Senate Majority Leader John Thune, RSD, previously
said if the measures are blocked again, the
Senate will adjourn until Monday, extending the government
shutdown into a sixth day.
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Local funding.
The Trump administration announced that it's putting 2
.1 billion in funding for Chicago infrastructure projects
that are on hold.
The latest move to target Democratic-run cities
during the government shutdown.
Trump is also announcing, which he did not
too long ago, that the administration was reversing
cuts to law enforcement funding that would have
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affected counterterrorism operations in New York following the
backlash from New York City's Police Department and
Democratic government Kathy Hochul.
And so no job report.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not be
releasing a jobs report as it usually does
on the first Friday of every month because
of, well, the government shutdown.
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So what does all this mean?
And I think the question is how does
something like this happen?
Like I said, when the government does not
pass the appropriate bills, um, then they go
ahead and they shut down.
So this is an interesting, um, point that
came up from the Social Security Administration.
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Um, they wanted one to know that during
the federal government shutdown, payments to all people
who currently receive the Social Security benefits and,
uh, supplemental Social Security will continue with no
change in the payment dates.
Well, that's nice.
Your clients will still, uh, receive their payments
on time to help manage their benefits and
access important services.
Please note that they can go online to
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the My Social Security account at the www
.ssa.gov, of course, slash my account.
And, uh, you know, local offices, uh, will
remain open to the public, but will provide
reduced services.
During this time, your clients can still apply
for benefits, request an appeal, change their address
or direct deposit information, report a death, uh,
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verify or change their citizenship status, replace a
lost or missing Social Security payment, obtain a
critical payment, change a representative's payee, and make
a change in their living arrangement or income
SSI recipients only.
Now, obtain a new or replacement Social Security
card.
So there are some things happening.
So we were saying, John, so what is
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closed with the government, uh, shutdowns?
I think that's a little bit of a
confusion.
I thought, uh, and I guess I was
wrong that the mail would be stopped because
isn't the post office a government agency?
Well, they are, and they're not.
They're kind of quasi, as I was told.
So they don't get any funding from the
United States government.
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They get money from their products or services
that they, uh, basically run.
Stamps, uh, different types of delivery services, et
cetera.
So, um, what does it affect?
National parks and facilities like visitor centers, campgrounds
and restrooms are closed.
We reduce staff for maintenance and law enforcement.
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In some cases, open air parks and trails
may remain accessible, but without any supervision.
Uh, the Smithsonian museums and national zoo, all
Smithsonian museums and the national zoo are closed
to the public.
Taxpayer services.
While the IRS remains partially staffed for the
start of the physical year, services like taxpayer
assistance, hotlines, and help desks are severely limited.
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Research programs, government funded research, such as the
national Institute of health NIH and centers for
disease control and prevention.
CDC will be significantly disrupted.
Loan grant, uh, processing centers, applications for new
federal business loans, SBA and housing loans, FHA
and USDA are stopped.
And some housing voucher programs are at risk
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in a prolonged shutdown.
Government facilities, public tours of facilities like the
white house, US Capitol building and the FBI
building are suspended during this time.
Food safety.
The FDA will pause routine inspections of domestic
food production facilities, um, through inspections of imported
food, um, uh, situations, but, uh, they will
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continue to monitor those that are being, um,
let's say shipped in from outside of the
country.
It's good they're doing that.
Um, so services continue with reduced capacity.
Social security, veterans affairs, uh, federal courts, uh,
services that generally remain open.
You'll be happy to know the United States
postal service is open.
It's a self-funded entity.
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As I mentioned, the USPS is not affected
by the government shutdown and mail delivery.
Yes, we'll continue.
So I think those are some, uh, handy
things to, to understand.
And so, um, very, very interesting there.
Um, military law enforcement, active duty military personnel,
law enforcement agents, example, the FBI, the DEA,
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and border control agents will continue working without
pay until the shutdown ends.
Air traffic control.
Air traffic controllers and TSA agents are deemed
essential and will work without pay.
But the 2018, 2019 shutdown demonstrated that staffing
charges can lead to other delays that we
were not expecting.
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Benefit payments, uh, payments for programs like social
security, and Medicaid continue because they are funded
by mandatory spending, not an annual appropriation.
So, um, if we want to understand, so
what is the government, uh, shutdown, you know,
in summary, because I think this gets a
little bit close, let's say confusing for a
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lot of people is, um, you know, when
everybody wants to know this question.
So when will, uh, the government, uh, shutdown
end?
Um, you know, that's a very good question.
Um, we don't have an answer.
Um, they tried to negotiate, but it didn't
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go anywhere.
Um, so they said that if the vote,
uh, has a problem again, they will just
basically leave and they will not revote again
until Monday.
So basically they have to kind of, uh,
come to a consensus.
Um, so people are talking about how the
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government shutdown could end.
So the Democrats could quickly break ranks, sent
Democrats, um, shut down a Republican spending bill
that would have kept the government operating until
November, but that vote may have contained the
seeds of their defeat.
While 44 Democrats and Republican iconolists, uh, ran
Paul voted no to Democrats and one Democrat
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allied independent sided with the Republican majority.
Independent Angus, uh, King of Maine is always
a bit of a wild card.
So it's not sure what's happening there.
So, um, the question is, you know, what's
going to happen?
Uh, Republicans making concessions, the shutdown is stretching
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on both sides.
Um, and the question is, you know, does
Congress, uh, care if there is a shutdown?
I mean, do they really care?
Uh, you know, I don't know the answer
to that.
Whether Congress cares about a government shutdown is
complex and it depends heavily on political, well,
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nomenclature and public perception.
Well, members of Congress continue to be paid
and are insulated for the most severe direct
impacts.
They are deeply affected by the public backlash,
calls, um, things like that.
Uh, reasons why Congress may care is a
public backlash.
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A government shutdown is often seen as a
sign of a congressional dysfunction, damaging the public
perception of the entire institution, political damage, cost
to taxpayers.
Past shutdowns have cost taxpayers billions of dollars
and caused delays in essential services.
Damage to the party, uh, leverage, uh, impact
on federal workers.
A shutdown halts pay for hundreds of thousands
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of federal employees, including essential workers like TSA
officers and military.
Um, so the question is when we are,
you know, in a shutdown, uh, the president,
um, can just fire people.
This is, this is the, the, the, the
thing, um, is that, uh, it can't legally
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fire federal employees at will during government shutdown,
but while president can dismiss political appointees, the
vast majority of federal workforces are career civil
service employees protected by law from arbitrary dismissal.
So I want to get that, um, you
know, cleared up because that's always a big,
uh, confusion for some people.
A government shutdown does not provide any new
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legal authority for mass layoffs.
And so, uh, there's things like civil service
protections.
There's the RIF reduced in force.
They're governed by the extensive regulations that require
a valid legal justification.
There is the 60 day notice period.
RIF regulations requires a minimum of 60 day
notice, uh, period for affected employees.
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And, uh, furloughs are being put in place,
not firings.
During a shutdown, non-essential employees are typically
furloughed.
They're placed on a temporary unpaid leave, uh,
except the essential employees that need to work
and that are vital for life safety.
Uh, union lawsuits, federal unions, including the American
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Federation of Government Employees, AFGE, and the American
Federation of State County Municipal Employees, AFSCME, um,
have already filed lawsuits to block the Trump
administration's efforts to issue mass layoff notices during
a shutdown.
So they're a little concerned.
Uh, the back pay, the law guarantees back
pay for both furloughed and essential federal employees
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once the government is reopened.
This right would likely be eliminated for anyone
who is permanently fired.
Uh, legal conflict.
The administration has faced internal warnings and external
legal challenges over its plans for mass firings.
The Office of Management and Budget has defended
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its position by citing the president's constitutional, uh,
of constitution authority, but critics argue the move
is an illegal power grab.
Um, the big question is, and everybody wants
to know this, when will the government reopen?
Well, um, don't know.
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I mean, if they do this again, it's
going to cause more delays, right?
More problems.
Uh, the bill to reopen the government has
failed.
Uh, though the final votes are still in
progress, currently 54 to 41 today on Friday,
five, uh, that took some time to still
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cast their votes out.
Um, we'll have to see what happens, you
know, and, uh, the real pushback, uh, is
going to be what happens when the government
gets back open again, right?
Because one thing to fund a bill, right?
But we have to make sure we're doing
it the right way.
So I think a lot of people right
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now are concerned because they don't know what
this means for them, right?
Uh, people say there's no end in sight.
Um, they're saying it could extend into the
next week.
So I think the longer we get into
a shutdown, the more serious it is to
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actually come up with, well, a plan to
reopen.
Um, and Fetterman says, and I'm not going
to quote what he says, but he says
no, and he uses the S word.
Uh, he's worried about the White House firing
federal workers during the shutdown.
And so Senator John Fetterman told reporters he's
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worried about permanent damage that the White House
budget chief Russ Vought could do to the
federal government as part of the administration's response
to the shutdown, which has included layoff threats.
Uh, that's why he said, um, I wasn't
going to shut our government down.
Fetterman said, when asked about the concerns about
Vought's threats of the mass firing quote, you
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want to give him, you know, a lot
of free time to figure out other ways
to do these things.
This is why part of the reasons why
I would never shut it down, Fetterman said,
close quote.
And the Pennsylvania Democratic, uh, department has, uh,
broken with much of the rest of the
party in voting in support of the GOP
proposal to reopen the government.
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Um, again, the Senate recently was voting on
the proposal to fund the government.
The Senator's, uh, voting on the short-term
proposal.
Uh, it needs 60 votes to advance, meaning
Republicans would need Democrats to sign on as
well, since there are not enough, uh, Republicans
to complete the bill on their own.
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And so, uh, as I said, uh, the
Senate did fail to advance the Democratic stopgap
funding bill.
Once again, um, this past afternoon in a
46 to 52 vote.
Um, a bill to reopen the government needs
60 votes to advance.
So, um, they're basically off on a hiatus
till next week, but this could take a
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very long time, guys.
This might not be ending like right away,
but I just wanted to share that with
you.
Uh, also the air traffic controllers, um, they're
not getting paid right now.
They will when the, everything ends, but just
a lot of chaos, if you will.
And, uh, United Airlines gets FAA approval for
Starlink wifi soon.
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So you heard the phrase you got mail.
Well, you got wifi, actually your planes got
wifi.
So soon flying will mean streaming and gaming
at 30,000 feet.
Thanks to United Airlines FAA approved partnership with
Starlink.
For the first time travelers on select jets
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will enjoy high speed satellite internet above the
clouds.
Now this major upgrade could redefine business trips,
vacations, and your expectations of what it means
to be connected in the air.
The question everyone is asking is how much
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will it cost to use the new United,
um, wifi?
And, you know, that's a very, very good
question.
Um, so United Airlines offers free wifi powered
by Starlink for all United mileage plus members
on aircraft equipped with the system.
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So there's no cost to join the mileage
plus program and passengers can use the free
service with their own devices and, um, the
inflight portal.
So I think that's great that they're doing
that.
Cause right now they were just getting like
hammered so much.
Um, if you do not have that program,
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well, you can expect to probably pay about,
um, $8 more.
So, um, starting at about $74 and 50
cents domestic and $149.50 is national per
traveler per direction.
So they are going to kind of increase
the price a little bit.
Uh, so that's going to happen and, uh,
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but they got to pay for this service.
So I think it's a great thing, what
they're doing.
Um, you know, I think a lot of
people will use it and, uh, I think
more planes will eventually do this.
So again, your plane is now got real
wifi.
And in case you guys did not remember,
I just want to bring back an old
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nostalgic moment.
Uh, AOL, in case you didn't catch my
show a while back, AOL has discontinued dial
up.
Yes.
It's like losing an old friend.
They actually announced this.
Uh, and I mentioned it on our show.
This was an August AOL ditching dial up
service, a relic of the internet in the
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nineties and the early, uh, two thousands, um,
the online service provider, uh, and did their
service on September 30th.
So if you didn't watch my show then,
and you were concerned, well, now, you know
that it's actually the truth.
Um, the company also known as the phrase,
we all know you've got mail greeting and
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the CD trial disc.
So many CDs, uh, made the announcement on
its website that that's not happening anymore.
AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and
has decided to discontinue dial up.
So the question you might be asking is
who owns AOL?
Now, I don't know if I'm going to
surprise you by this.
Um, so AOL is an American web portal
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and online service provider based in New York
city and a brand marketed by Yahoo, Inc.
The service traces its history to an online
service known as play net, uh, and licensed
its software to quantum link, which went online
in November, 1985.
So you might be asking the question who
owns, um, who owns Yahoo?
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And if you want a new owns Yahoo,
uh, it's operated by the namesake company, uh,
Apollo global management, and, uh, 10% of
it, this is the misconception.
10% of it is, uh, owned by
Verizon.
So Verizon doesn't own the whole company.
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I think a lot of times when we
get, uh, you know, stories, people say, oh,
gee, you know, this is the way it's
going to be, but then they don't really
understand the truth.
They just, they hear something from one person.
And so I wanted to give you the
truth about that.
And so, you know, uh, people were asking,
you know, did Yahoo get bought by Microsoft?
So, uh, the dot-com bubble burst as
you know, a while back, and it reached
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an all time low of $8 and 11
cents in 2001.
Yahoo formally rejected an acquisition bid from Microsoft
corporation in 2008.
Did not accept that.
So, uh, Apollo funds, complete acquisition of Yahoo
September 1st, 2021.
Um, but I think the reason that they
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dropped the real reason that they dropped it,
uh, the reason they, the reason, uh, is
cost.
You know, the reason that AOL dropped, uh,
dial up its costs because, you know, it
was costing them more money to maintain this.
Cost played a role in the broader decline
of dial up internet.
And the primary reason they will drop the
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service was they said the dwindling customer base
and the widespread adoption of faster, more modern
broadband technology.
So you might've heard something on AOL called
bring your own, um, internet BYOE is what
it was called.
Um, so the question is how much is
AOL today?
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So, um, the live AOL American price, um,
is 0.01007 with a current mark cap
of 10.07 million.
And, uh, the price is currently down by
0.05% in the last 24 hours.
And the 24 hour trading volume is just
over 720 some thousand.
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So how much is AOL today, uh, to
purchase, uh, this, this, the service.
And so, um, it changed, right?
They had a really low, but AOL's, uh,
service plans have gone up quite a bit.
Um, AOL still has, still has, I believe
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they still offer, they still do it.
AOL has a, uh, free plan.
Uh, and so, um, offers a free plan,
which includes email web-based access to AOL
features like AOL search and video, and you
can get a free AOL email account, other
services by signing up for a one or
by switching from a paid plan to a
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free option.
So, um, you also don't get support and
you have to do everything.
Um, and hopefully you've had everything set up
correctly.
So they have something called the AOL advantage
plan.
Um, and so, you know, the thing is
they really made it very complicated.
So, um, AOL plans right now offers a
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range of paid plans, including a free plan
for accessing AOL mail, um, and the web
and paid products like AOL desktop gold, which
costs around $6.99 a month for an
ad free experience and browser features and premium
tech support assist.
Um, which starts approximately at $12.99 a
month.
So again, um, you might think, John, that's
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not a lot, but you see they're banking
on the number of users they have.
Right.
So the question right now, this is a
good question.
How many, how many users, uh, paid does
AOL have?
How many do you think they have?
So right now, and this is just an
approximate, okay.
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Uh, AOL has approximately in paid users, 1
.5 million.
Um, and then, um, we can multiply that
times 6.99 plus you got tax on
top of that.
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So you're easily, uh, over 10 million easily.
Uh, I think a lot of people don't
realize this is what we call funny money.
1.5 million times 6.99. And so,
you know, at, at 10 million, 485,000,
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that's what they take in.
And that's without including the advertising, right?
If we, if we look at how much
they take in an ad revenue, well, that's
a whole different ballgame.
And ladies and gentlemen, the luxury retailer Harrods
exposes customer names and contacts in a recent
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cyber breach.
The cyber, uh, crime has hit the luxury
sector as Harrods admits the customer details were
exposed through a third party provider while passwords
and payment info they claim are safe.
The breach is a wake up call about
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data security.
No brand, no matter how exclusive, how big
or how small is immune to modern threats.
Shoppers everywhere, guys need to ask this one
question is privacy.
The new luxury is it.
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And ladies and gentlemen, drones force Denmark's airports
to close recently.
The aerial security is front and center.
And as the mystery drones fly over Denmark's
military bases, causing a little bit of stir
airports, uh, shut down and it raises suspicions
of Russian involvement in response, uh, authorities are,
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uh, considering stronger defense measures, including shooting down,
uh, laws, the skies above Europe are changing
and can new rules keep up with the
new threats.
I don't know, guys, we're going to have
to see what's happening, but I know one
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thing, guys, we're definitely going to have to
tighten our belts on how we secure public
places.
And we know that tragic incident that happened,
uh, several weeks ago, we have to understand
that the world has changed since nine 11,
the world has changed.
It's never going to be the same.
I'm not telling you to live with fear
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every day, but I am telling you to
be vigilant and to watch your surroundings.
Right.
And ladies and gentlemen, uh, nine one, one
lines, uh, went down across Mississippi and Louisiana
after a fiber cable cut, a single fiber
cut left millions in the Southern United States
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without access to emergency services.
And it highlights the astonishing fragility of today's
digital infrastructure during the outage, uh, residents had
to find alternative ways to contact help, uh,
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proving how much we rely on technology and
how quickly it can fail.
So nobody wants to think about technology fail.
Let's face that.
Right.
But what they realize is that we've got
to make sure that we're vigilant, that we
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know what we're doing.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you
know this, but only roughly eight out of
47 Instagram safety features for teens actually work.
Now meta claims, it protects young users, but
testing shows more than 80% of its
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safety systems for teens are unfortunately flawed or,
um, let's say they're broken.
With features that are easily circumvented by bad
actors, teens, um, they're remaining exposed to everything
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from self-harm content, unwanted adult interactions, and
real world safety is far behind tech company
promises.
Vigilance is needed now, folks, not later.
Russia actively tracks German military satellites.
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The space race just got serious as Russia
targets German military satellites, prompting Germany to invest
35 million pounds in defense over the next
five years.
Uh, that would be technologies like satellite jamming,
uh, surveillance and safe warfare are now key
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concerns in Europe and they never were before,
but now they're, they're important showing them that
modern defense doesn't end at earth's surface and
take me out to the ball game.
Well, uh, MLB, the major league baseball association,
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uh, introduces yes.
Robot umpires with team challenges and instant replay
tech.
Get ready everyone for a new error in
baseballs as robot umps and high speed cameras
ensure more accurate calls than ever teams can
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challenge human rulings with instant feedback appearing on
scoreboards for maximum transparency.
The fusion of human and, uh, machines could
turn every game into a fair, more exciting
contest, but will that be the way the
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teams want to push it?
Because if they push it a certain way
and they're wrong and the call is caught
outside of their favor, not going to like
this very much.
Uh, now everyone, did you know you can
enroll for TSA, uh, the transportation and security
administration?
Uh, you can enroll in the TSA.
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They call it the pre-check as well
as just enroll in clear at where?
Well, not a restaurant, but close staples.
They claim that you can skip the long
airport lines by enrolling in TSA pre-check
at your local staple store.
So they claim it's with a simple fast
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process, families and businesses, uh, that fly can
save precious time, those valuable minutes, even up
to a half hour on their next trip
for frequent, uh, flyers.
This is the travel hack everyone's talking about,
but I think, um, there's some fears with
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this, right?
Safety, right?
So the question is, is there a downside,
uh, to TSA pre-check?
And of course, everyone's going to tell you,
no, there's no downside.
Um, but they are, TSA is now, um,
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with this, uh, storing your info.
And I think that's a big concern for
so many people today that they're doing it
this way.
And I get why they're doing it.
So TSA pre-check collects both biological data,
like your name, your address and physical description.
And as I said, biometric data, such as
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the fingerprints and a photo when applying for
the program, this information is used to conduct
background checks and assured with the FBI for
screening.
However, uh, they claim that the TSA or
the department of Homeland security gains, uh, unrestricted,
warrantless, and indefinite access to all of an
applicant's personal information, including health records, social media,
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and court history are not substantiated by the
official policy.
To me, I think you're giving away your
freedom.
Data collected for TSA pre-check is covered
by federal privacy policies.
Yeah.
Let's, uh, see what that's really about.
And there are specific data retention rules.
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If an applicant opts out or leaves the
program, most personal information is deleted after a
set period, often one year and not kept
indefinitely.
They said most, they didn't say everything.
The main ex, uh, exceptions are fingerprints, which
may be stored in the FBI systems for
identity verification and security purposes.
Additionally, TSA says it does not use publicly
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available data like social media for threat evaluations
and any retention or sharing of information is
governed by the privacy act, which was put
into effect in 1974.
So, um, I use clear, but clear does
not share data with the government.
So you can have clear, which does help
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you get past the line, but TSA pre
-check allows you to have some more benefits.
So what are they?
And that's a good question.
So what are the benefits from going from,
let's say clear to TSA, uh, pre-check?
So there are some benefits.
I told you some of the, the, the
problems, right?
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So going from clear, uh, allows you to
keep your shoes, belts and light jackets on
and leave laptops and three one, one liquids
in your bag, uh, during the security screening,
as well as potentially accessing shorter lines for
the screening itself while clear uses biometrics to
verify your identity and quickly move you to
the front of the security line.
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TSA pre-check expedites the screening process through
the metal detector and bag screening.
The combination of both services offer the fastest
path through the airport screening systems by streamlining
both the identity check and the physical screening
process.
But again, I still have a problem and
I don't trust how they keep our information.
And if it really is that secure, um,
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long story short, there was a government agency
that, uh, wanted me to respond to something,
but, um, I couldn't do that until I
went and verified my steps.
Well, they use a company, uh, I think
it was ID me if I'm not mistaken.
And so the problem with this company is
(46:39):
when they came back, my own security systems
actually flagged them as a potential threat because
I flagged them that actually violated, uh, the
process.
And then I gave up and finally they
got back to a few days, but it
was just run so poorly.
Very, very.
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And ladies and gentlemen, meta aims to license
powerful AI as the brain of, well, the
future of humanoid robots.
Meta is going all in on this one,
powering the future of robotics, aiming to be
the Android operating system for real world humanoid
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robots.
So by focusing on open source, artificial intelligence,
the company wants to spark a 38 billion.
We said it again, in case you were
sleeping, 30 billion, a $38 billion market and
change how robots help humans by 2030.
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So this is like Facebook's new kind of
thing, but you know, we already don't trust
Facebook on things.
Then they want to do things like add
the Facebook, um, system now that'll use AI
and the AI is going to serve up
ads to you based on well, what the
system hears you saying.
So did you know that the data that
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you say, if you don't have a block
actually can cause a big problem and they
could actually use that data and they could
sell it to third parties.
Um, they claim that they have rights to
do this, but do they really have rights
to do this?
I don't know, guys, I don't know, but
I know that it is a very, very
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big problem.
Um, and I know that, um, it's something
that we have to be at least vigilant
about.
I think that's probably the most important thing.
And so, uh, uncovers now pay bribes or
something interesting by the crypto scammers, uh, to
(48:47):
reinstate banned accounts.
Where is this X?
Yes.
Formerly called Twitter just exposed a major insider
bribery ring where crypto scammers tried to quietly
nonchalantly unban their scam accounts, teaming up with
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the FBI.
X is ramping up defenses against internal corruption
and drawing a new line in the sand
for the platform security across the entire industry.
So here you are having a blue check
Mark, and now you have people behind there,
basically just letting you do whatever you want
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so much for that blue check Mark.
Right.
So I think a lot of us out
there, um, get concerned with what's happening at
the moment.
And I think that's an important thing to
understand because if we can understand our moment,
then we can understand the next moment.
But if whatever happens in our life changes,
then I feel that can be a very,
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very, um, big problem.
And the reason I say it's a big
problem is because it's not the impact that
it has today, guys.
It's the impact that it has tomorrow.
I think that's probably one of the most
important things that I want to share with
you.
One of the most important things that I
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definitely want to share with you.
All right, guys.
So we've talked about a lot of things
in security.
I want to dive back and let you
know that Apple, uh, supposedly has released, um,
this new, um, OS that, well, the new
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26.
So this is a question I'm going to
ask you.
So what is new in the 26.0
update?
So, um, they claim they mostly did some
bug fixes.
Um, that's what they claim.
I did install it.
It's available for the iPhone 11 and later
and the iPad pro 12.9 and third
generation and later the iPad pro 11, uh,
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inch, uh, first generation and later and the
iPad air third generation and later and the
iPad eight generation and later and iPad mini
fifth generation later.
So, uh, the one thing was the font
parser.
They're able, uh, the impact was processing a
maliciously crafted font.
It could lead to unexpected app termination or
corrupt, uh, process memory.
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Um, and out of bounds, right.
Issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
Okay.
So, um, great.
They did that, but they still haven't fixed
the one major bug that I have, um,
really been unhappy with when I got my
phone, you know, um, let's say set up
and I was, you know, transferring my data.
It's still brought in all my email, which
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it should not have done that.
And not only that, I could not just
click select all and delete.
I had literally had to hold the message
and then swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe to
get everything selected.
And my phone got pretty warm when I
did that.
I have to be honest with you.
So not happy with that.
Um, also a little bit of update on
the, uh, Lenovo.
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Um, yes, uh, Lenovo P one, um, G
six.
I had the P one G seven.
And, uh, just the other day I took
out the second, uh, M dot two, um,
memory chip.
And guess what?
I, um, basically set it back to the
factory standards, you know, reinitialized it.
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So it was just like a fresh install
and I sent it back.
And so, um, the new, uh, P one
six G threes have just announced they're shipping
in a few weeks.
And I think now that we understand this,
um, I want to just tell you that
a lot of these people, I don't care
what's Lenovo or other companies.
I trusted this guy in the Lenovo team.
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Cause he's like, oh, like, you know, this
is much better than P one six.
And I was a little leery about it,
but he said, no, no, this is definitely
better.
So I got the P one G G
seven, and I was not happy with the
P one G seven, to be quite honest,
uh, didn't have the extended numeric keypad.
Um, it did have wifi seven, but who
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cares?
Um, it crashed.
I told you my, my streams just literally
crashed out of the blue.
And when I called Lenovo, they basically said,
well, you know, that's kind of beyond their
scope.
We don't support third party applications.
Like really Lenovo?
Like really?
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I know that if IBM still owned Lenovo,
like before Lenovo, you know, got the rights
to basically the engineering and the, uh, the
sales company, I think IBM would have handled
it differently.
I had over 1900 latencies in less than
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a minute.
I mean, that's like, like atrocious guys.
So, um, the P one G six, uh,
P one G six, the P one P
the Lenovo, uh, P one G seven has
severe, uh, latency issues.
And you might be saying to me, John,
well, it's not that bad.
Not that bad.
Uh, multiple reports, um, so, um, caused by
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combinations of hardware drivers, firmware and bio settings.
Uh, the LP cam to memory, a common,
uh, thread among reports points to the new
LP cam to memory modules as the potential
source.
Uh, users have cited memory latency, uh, scores
in benchmarking software that were, as I said,
abnormally high.
The hybrid graphics mode, the hybrid graphics, uh,
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mode setting in the bios, which automatically switches
between integrated and discrete GPU can cause lag
and shoppiness outdated drivers, uh, faulty NVIDIA drivers
and track pad and firmware.
So, um, latency is something you don't want
anywhere.
But I think the fact that Lenovo rolled
this out, like I was just so disappointed
(54:57):
that a company like that roll the product
out.
I am hoping my P one six, this
is going to be my third P one
six.
I had the P one.
I had the one, this is the two,
and this is supposed to Lenovo's, uh, most
powerful workstation laptop.
So going to be ordering that soon.
And I'll definitely let you know my thoughts.
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And I am posting some reels and some
longer videos about that.
I also am posting some videos about how
to, um, basically migrate your one, uh, iPhone
to your other iPhone.
I also talked about, um, you know, how
do you, um, how do you activate it?
How do you erase the phone once you
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know everything is working properly?
So I think these are important things.
And unfortunately, a lot of companies, they're just
about the money.
They're not about the actual service.
Um, and unfortunately they don't stand behind things.
And when people don't stand behind things, you
know what happens?
Oh, it becomes a big issue.
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And the big issue happens because to the
company, it's all about the money.
Now I should tell you this.
I actually emailed the whole string of people
at Lenovo because I was not happy with
the answer I got from their tech support
team.
So a lady called me back very snotty.
And the only thing she told me she
was going to do for me, uh, was
(56:21):
to give me another, um, laptop the same
one.
I'm like, that's not going to help me.
So I wrote her an email back.
She says, okay, uh, I'm willing to, and
I said it to the admin team.
I am willing to, um, you know, give
you your money back.
You send it to us and I'm willing
to give you, I think it was like
10% for my inconvenience.
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10% lady, 200 bucks.
Like that, that's not even, you know, I
make more than that a few minutes.
So, you know, you can't insult me with
that.
But I was very, very disappointed with the
way they treated me.
And ladies and gentlemen, I want to invite
(57:02):
you right now to check out all the
episodes, uh, at believeinmitchie.com.
You will be very, very happy with those
episodes.
Again, I am John C.
Moorley, serial entrepreneur.
You have been watching The JMOR Tech
Talk show.
I invite you to discover even more exclusive
insights at, well, site I gave you, believeinmitchie
(57:27):
.com.
Security is everybody's business.
Even if you don't care about it, you
better because it could affect your life, your
safety, and even your identity.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, have yourself a fantastic
rest of your night.
Have a wonderful weekend.
And guess what, guys?
I'm going to see you back again next
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week.
That'll be October 10th.
Until then, use your technology in a way
that will be safe and for the greater
good of all concerned.
Remember, technology is a tool.
It's not good or bad.
How we choose to use it makes it
so.
Have a wonderful rest of your evening, everyone.
Be well.
Hi everyone, I'm John C. Morley, Serial the host of
The JMOR Tech Talk Show and Inspirations
for Your Life.
(00:53):
Well hey guys, it is John Seymour here,
serial entrepreneur.
It is great to be with you on
another fantastic Friday on, yes, The JMOR
Tech Talk Show.
I hope you guys have had an amazing
week and of course we have a great
show to share with you tonight.
(01:14):
So the topic of the show, which I
think is something important to share with you
before we get this all kicked off, and
so the topic tonight is a really good
one.
And that is Tech Turbulence, Today's Shocks, Scams,
and Game Changers Unveiled, series four, show number
(01:35):
40.
Can you believe guys, in just a few
months, we are actually going to be finished
with season four and on to season five?
I can't believe that already.
I mean, it's hard to believe that we've
been on the air that long, but it's
amazing.
I know that a lot of people, you
(01:59):
know, see technology challenges as a nuisance, but
you know, if we can understand why something's
not working, we not only can help ourselves
with any frustration, we can help others too,
and of course benefit society and many around
us.
All right guys, if you are thirsty, feel
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And don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, to check
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want to miss today's show.
And I do want to take this opportunity
to thank everyone for joining me today, whether
this is your first time or, well, whether
you're coming back many, many times.
So I think it's important to understand the
facts, and so let's get right into them.
(03:02):
So let's step inside the minds of people
in technology everywhere.
I'm John C.
Morley.
I'm a serial entrepreneur, engineer, a video producer,
marketing specialist, keynote speaker, podcast host, podcast coach,
a graduate student, and a passionate lifelong learner.
(03:24):
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the show.
So ladies and gentlemen, our first point is
device prices are set to soar.
That's right.
Device costs about to spike as President Trump's,
well, administration rolls out new tariffs suddenly, targeting
(04:05):
foreign electronics based on the number of microchips
inside.
So this aggressive move is meant to bring,
well, for lack of a better term, manufacturing
back to the United States.
But experts are warning it could push inflation
(04:26):
even higher for everyday tech.
Is this the dawn of a new era
for American innovation, or will your next phone,
laptop, or TV burn a hole in your
wallet?
So we were told that the iPhone was
going to cost, oh, around $3,000.
(04:50):
Luckily, Apple kept that price down, and they
did that by, let's just say they made
a very nice size contribution to Mr. Donald
Trump's campaign.
And well, he miraculously did not invoke any
tariffs on the Apple devices.
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But I don't know if that's going to
continue.
And so over 8,000 kids, ladies and
gentlemen, profiles were leaked in a London nursery
cyber attack.
This is really a crime.
It's a shocking cyber attack that we've seen
now.
Thousands of children's personal data, including names, addresses,
(05:37):
and photos stolen from London nurseries.
I'm not talking about the nurseries that grow
flowers.
I'm talking about the ones that have kids
there.
With the Radiant gang threatening to leak even
more sensitive information, both families and schools are
(05:59):
under a little bit of pressure to step
up the digital defenses.
And I've always said, guys, it's not a
question of if you're going to get attacked,
but when, if you're not properly protected.
I think that is the most important thing
that I want to share with you.
If you're not properly protected, you will get
attacked at some point in time.
And so ladies and gentlemen, when hackers target
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the youngest and most vulnerable, the need for
better privacy protection is clearer than ever before.
You know, not only are they going after
people that are younger and of course more
vulnerable, but they're hoping to prey on them
to possibly, let's say, learn about their family's
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empire.
And whether it's something they want to tackle
and possibly steal or corrupt.
And ladies and gentlemen, EA, yes, EA Sports
could go private recently in a ruling that
they made in a historic $50 billion gaming
deal.
This is pretty amazing.
Electronic Arts, EA Sports, the powerhouse behind global
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gaming hits may, ladies and gentlemen, right now
be taken, well, private for an eye-popping
$50 billion.
This would be the biggest deal in gaming
history and promises sweeping changes to fan-favorite
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franchises like Battlefield and FC.
As private investors move in, how will the
games and the way you play them change
in the future?
I think that's something that we definitely have
to be mindful of.
But I think not only from a future
perspective, but more from a security and a
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safety perspective, this is something we definitely have
to understand.
And if we don't make the effort to
understand this, you know what's going to happen?
Well, we're going to contribute to more of
that, let's say, technical mumbo-jumbo attack by
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not being aware of things.
We possibly could spread that information or those
programs or bad actors, let's say, plan to
combat the world so they could steal things
and make money off of it.
And ladies and gentlemen, Google was recently hit
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with a landmark European Union fine.
Everybody said that they were not going after
Google.
Well, let's think again.
Google is bracing for a massive penalty under
the new Digital Markets Act as the European
Union cracks down on tech giants privileging their
own services.
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So you might be saying to me, hey,
John, this is a very good question.
What is the Digital Markets Service Act?
And so the Digital Markets Service Act is
a European Union law designed to regulate large
gatekeeper digital platforms, such as major search engines,
social media networks, and operating systems to foster
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fair competition and innovation in digital markets.
The DMA establishes a list of do's and
don'ts for these gatekeepers, requiring them to allow
users more choices, give explicit consent for data
tracking, for advertising, make messaging services interoperable, avoid
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self-preferencing their own services, and provide better
access to data for business users.
So the DMA, basically, the DMA, the Digital
Markets Act, aims to curb the market's power
of big technology companies by setting out obligations
and prohibitions for keeping their gatekeeping status, let's
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say, in control.
It creates a level playing field for smaller
businesses and promotes innovation and consumer welfare within
European Union.
Think about, you know, keeping things fair.
When you play golf, you can establish a
handicap.
So in order to play golf, if you
play against somebody who's very good, well, you
can use the handicap and, you know, you
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can easily come close to them because of
the handicap.
So the handicap helps you play, even if
you're not the same level as they are.
So key requirements for gatekeepers right now with
the DMA, the Digital Markets Act, user choices.
Gatekeepers must offer more choices to users, such
as allowing users to easily uninstall pre-installed
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software and choose alternative apps or services without
having to jump a lot of fences and
ropes.
Data consent.
Users must provide explicit consent for their data
to be tracked and cross-used by gatekeepers
for advertising purposes.
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Interoperability.
Basic functionalities of messaging services, like messaging and
file sharing, must be interoperable, allowing users of
different platforms to communicate.
The fair access for businesses.
Gatekeepers must provide access to their services and
data on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms
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for business users.
No self-preferencing.
Gatekeepers are prohibited from favoring their own services
or products over those of competitors on their
platforms.
Data portability.
The gatekeepers must provide users with access to
data they have provided or generated through their
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use of gatekeepers services.
So you can see this is kind of
getting a little bit sticky.
This is definitely not an easy thing that
is happening.
And I think the most important thing when
we think about these things is that they're
being set up in a way so you
can be protected.
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So like I said, a lot of these
people are really out for the kill, if
you would.
And so I think that that makes some
sense.
And hopefully you'll be safe with that too.
But a lot of times people are trying
to avoid this and then they're getting stuck.
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Like you know the way you can't cancel
a subscription for a long time, right?
I think if you can understand what technology
is doing, even if you don't agree with
it, you can at least make the choice
of what you should do and what you
should not do.
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All right.
So this landmark I was talking about in
Google has this fine raising the stakes for
big tech accountability.
And as I said, it could be a
turning point as governments try to balance innovation
with fair competition.
Is this finally the year regulators tip the
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scales?
It might be.
And a little topic that was not exactly
planned, the government official shutdown.
So that's kind of really big in the
news right now.
And people are still want to understand like
why did it happen?
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So basically the Senate failed to pass the
Republican and Democratic short-term spending bills for
a third time.
The Senate Majority Leader John Thune, RSD, previously
said if the measures are blocked again, the
Senate will adjourn until Monday, extending the government
shutdown into a sixth day.
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Local funding.
The Trump administration announced that it's putting 2
.1 billion in funding for Chicago infrastructure projects
that are on hold.
The latest move to target Democratic-run cities
during the government shutdown.
Trump is also announcing, which he did not
too long ago, that the administration was reversing
cuts to law enforcement funding that would have
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affected counterterrorism operations in New York following the
backlash from New York City's Police Department and
Democratic government Kathy Hochul.
And so no job report.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not be
releasing a jobs report as it usually does
on the first Friday of every month because
of, well, the government shutdown.
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So what does all this mean?
And I think the question is how does
something like this happen?
Like I said, when the government does not
pass the appropriate bills, um, then they go
ahead and they shut down.
So this is an interesting, um, point that
came up from the Social Security Administration.
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Um, they wanted one to know that during
the federal government shutdown, payments to all people
who currently receive the Social Security benefits and,
uh, supplemental Social Security will continue with no
change in the payment dates.
Well, that's nice.
Your clients will still, uh, receive their payments
on time to help manage their benefits and
access important services.
Please note that they can go online to
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the My Social Security account at the www
.ssa.gov, of course, slash my account.
And, uh, you know, local offices, uh, will
remain open to the public, but will provide
reduced services.
During this time, your clients can still apply
for benefits, request an appeal, change their address
or direct deposit information, report a death, uh,
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verify or change their citizenship status, replace a
lost or missing Social Security payment, obtain a
critical payment, change a representative's payee, and make
a change in their living arrangement or income
SSI recipients only.
Now, obtain a new or replacement Social Security
card.
So there are some things happening.
So we were saying, John, so what is
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closed with the government, uh, shutdowns?
I think that's a little bit of a
confusion.
I thought, uh, and I guess I was
wrong that the mail would be stopped because
isn't the post office a government agency?
Well, they are, and they're not.
They're kind of quasi, as I was told.
So they don't get any funding from the
United States government.
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They get money from their products or services
that they, uh, basically run.
Stamps, uh, different types of delivery services, et
cetera.
So, um, what does it affect?
National parks and facilities like visitor centers, campgrounds
and restrooms are closed.
We reduce staff for maintenance and law enforcement.
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In some cases, open air parks and trails
may remain accessible, but without any supervision.
Uh, the Smithsonian museums and national zoo, all
Smithsonian museums and the national zoo are closed
to the public.
Taxpayer services.
While the IRS remains partially staffed for the
start of the physical year, services like taxpayer
assistance, hotlines, and help desks are severely limited.
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Research programs, government funded research, such as the
national Institute of health NIH and centers for
disease control and prevention.
CDC will be significantly disrupted.
Loan grant, uh, processing centers, applications for new
federal business loans, SBA and housing loans, FHA
and USDA are stopped.
And some housing voucher programs are at risk
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in a prolonged shutdown.
Government facilities, public tours of facilities like the
white house, US Capitol building and the FBI
building are suspended during this time.
Food safety.
The FDA will pause routine inspections of domestic
food production facilities, um, through inspections of imported
food, um, uh, situations, but, uh, they will
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continue to monitor those that are being, um,
let's say shipped in from outside of the
country.
It's good they're doing that.
Um, so services continue with reduced capacity.
Social security, veterans affairs, uh, federal courts, uh,
services that generally remain open.
You'll be happy to know the United States
postal service is open.
It's a self-funded entity.
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As I mentioned, the USPS is not affected
by the government shutdown and mail delivery.
Yes, we'll continue.
So I think those are some, uh, handy
things to, to understand.
And so, um, very, very interesting there.
Um, military law enforcement, active duty military personnel,
law enforcement agents, example, the FBI, the DEA,
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and border control agents will continue working without
pay until the shutdown ends.
Air traffic control.
Air traffic controllers and TSA agents are deemed
essential and will work without pay.
But the 2018, 2019 shutdown demonstrated that staffing
charges can lead to other delays that we
were not expecting.
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Benefit payments, uh, payments for programs like social
security, and Medicaid continue because they are funded
by mandatory spending, not an annual appropriation.
So, um, if we want to understand, so
what is the government, uh, shutdown, you know,
in summary, because I think this gets a
little bit close, let's say confusing for a
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lot of people is, um, you know, when
everybody wants to know this question.
So when will, uh, the government, uh, shutdown
end?
Um, you know, that's a very good question.
Um, we don't have an answer.
Um, they tried to negotiate, but it didn't
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go anywhere.
Um, so they said that if the vote,
uh, has a problem again, they will just
basically leave and they will not revote again
until Monday.
So basically they have to kind of, uh,
come to a consensus.
Um, so people are talking about how the
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government shutdown could end.
So the Democrats could quickly break ranks, sent
Democrats, um, shut down a Republican spending bill
that would have kept the government operating until
November, but that vote may have contained the
seeds of their defeat.
While 44 Democrats and Republican iconolists, uh, ran
Paul voted no to Democrats and one Democrat
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allied independent sided with the Republican majority.
Independent Angus, uh, King of Maine is always
a bit of a wild card.
So it's not sure what's happening there.
So, um, the question is, you know, what's
going to happen?
Uh, Republicans making concessions, the shutdown is stretching
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on both sides.
Um, and the question is, you know, does
Congress, uh, care if there is a shutdown?
I mean, do they really care?
Uh, you know, I don't know the answer
to that.
Whether Congress cares about a government shutdown is
complex and it depends heavily on political, well,
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nomenclature and public perception.
Well, members of Congress continue to be paid
and are insulated for the most severe direct
impacts.
They are deeply affected by the public backlash,
calls, um, things like that.
Uh, reasons why Congress may care is a
public backlash.
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A government shutdown is often seen as a
sign of a congressional dysfunction, damaging the public
perception of the entire institution, political damage, cost
to taxpayers.
Past shutdowns have cost taxpayers billions of dollars
and caused delays in essential services.
Damage to the party, uh, leverage, uh, impact
on federal workers.
A shutdown halts pay for hundreds of thousands
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of federal employees, including essential workers like TSA
officers and military.
Um, so the question is when we are,
you know, in a shutdown, uh, the president,
um, can just fire people.
This is, this is the, the, the, the
thing, um, is that, uh, it can't legally
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fire federal employees at will during government shutdown,
but while president can dismiss political appointees, the
vast majority of federal workforces are career civil
service employees protected by law from arbitrary dismissal.
So I want to get that, um, you
know, cleared up because that's always a big,
uh, confusion for some people.
A government shutdown does not provide any new
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legal authority for mass layoffs.
And so, uh, there's things like civil service
protections.
There's the RIF reduced in force.
They're governed by the extensive regulations that require
a valid legal justification.
There is the 60 day notice period.
RIF regulations requires a minimum of 60 day
notice, uh, period for affected employees.
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And, uh, furloughs are being put in place,
not firings.
During a shutdown, non-essential employees are typically
furloughed.
They're placed on a temporary unpaid leave, uh,
except the essential employees that need to work
and that are vital for life safety.
Uh, union lawsuits, federal unions, including the American
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Federation of Government Employees, AFGE, and the American
Federation of State County Municipal Employees, AFSCME, um,
have already filed lawsuits to block the Trump
administration's efforts to issue mass layoff notices during
a shutdown.
So they're a little concerned.
Uh, the back pay, the law guarantees back
pay for both furloughed and essential federal employees
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once the government is reopened.
This right would likely be eliminated for anyone
who is permanently fired.
Uh, legal conflict.
The administration has faced internal warnings and external
legal challenges over its plans for mass firings.
The Office of Management and Budget has defended
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its position by citing the president's constitutional, uh,
of constitution authority, but critics argue the move
is an illegal power grab.
Um, the big question is, and everybody wants
to know this, when will the government reopen?
Well, um, don't know.
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I mean, if they do this again, it's
going to cause more delays, right?
More problems.
Uh, the bill to reopen the government has
failed.
Uh, though the final votes are still in
progress, currently 54 to 41 today on Friday,
five, uh, that took some time to still
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cast their votes out.
Um, we'll have to see what happens, you
know, and, uh, the real pushback, uh, is
going to be what happens when the government
gets back open again, right?
Because one thing to fund a bill, right?
But we have to make sure we're doing
it the right way.
So I think a lot of people right
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now are concerned because they don't know what
this means for them, right?
Uh, people say there's no end in sight.
Um, they're saying it could extend into the
next week.
So I think the longer we get into
a shutdown, the more serious it is to
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actually come up with, well, a plan to
reopen.
Um, and Fetterman says, and I'm not going
to quote what he says, but he says
no, and he uses the S word.
Uh, he's worried about the White House firing
federal workers during the shutdown.
And so Senator John Fetterman told reporters he's
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worried about permanent damage that the White House
budget chief Russ Vought could do to the
federal government as part of the administration's response
to the shutdown, which has included layoff threats.
Uh, that's why he said, um, I wasn't
going to shut our government down.
Fetterman said, when asked about the concerns about
Vought's threats of the mass firing quote, you
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want to give him, you know, a lot
of free time to figure out other ways
to do these things.
This is why part of the reasons why
I would never shut it down, Fetterman said,
close quote.
And the Pennsylvania Democratic, uh, department has, uh,
broken with much of the rest of the
party in voting in support of the GOP
proposal to reopen the government.
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Um, again, the Senate recently was voting on
the proposal to fund the government.
The Senator's, uh, voting on the short-term
proposal.
Uh, it needs 60 votes to advance, meaning
Republicans would need Democrats to sign on as
well, since there are not enough, uh, Republicans
to complete the bill on their own.
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And so, uh, as I said, uh, the
Senate did fail to advance the Democratic stopgap
funding bill.
Once again, um, this past afternoon in a
46 to 52 vote.
Um, a bill to reopen the government needs
60 votes to advance.
So, um, they're basically off on a hiatus
till next week, but this could take a
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very long time, guys.
This might not be ending like right away,
but I just wanted to share that with
you.
Uh, also the air traffic controllers, um, they're
not getting paid right now.
They will when the, everything ends, but just
a lot of chaos, if you will.
And, uh, United Airlines gets FAA approval for
Starlink wifi soon.
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So you heard the phrase you got mail.
Well, you got wifi, actually your planes got
wifi.
So soon flying will mean streaming and gaming
at 30,000 feet.
Thanks to United Airlines FAA approved partnership with
Starlink.
For the first time travelers on select jets
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will enjoy high speed satellite internet above the
clouds.
Now this major upgrade could redefine business trips,
vacations, and your expectations of what it means
to be connected in the air.
The question everyone is asking is how much
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will it cost to use the new United,
um, wifi?
And, you know, that's a very, very good
question.
Um, so United Airlines offers free wifi powered
by Starlink for all United mileage plus members
on aircraft equipped with the system.
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So there's no cost to join the mileage
plus program and passengers can use the free
service with their own devices and, um, the
inflight portal.
So I think that's great that they're doing
that.
Cause right now they were just getting like
hammered so much.
Um, if you do not have that program,
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well, you can expect to probably pay about,
um, $8 more.
So, um, starting at about $74 and 50
cents domestic and $149.50 is national per
traveler per direction.
So they are going to kind of increase
the price a little bit.
Uh, so that's going to happen and, uh,
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but they got to pay for this service.
So I think it's a great thing, what
they're doing.
Um, you know, I think a lot of
people will use it and, uh, I think
more planes will eventually do this.
So again, your plane is now got real
wifi.
And in case you guys did not remember,
I just want to bring back an old
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nostalgic moment.
Uh, AOL, in case you didn't catch my
show a while back, AOL has discontinued dial
up.
Yes.
It's like losing an old friend.
They actually announced this.
Uh, and I mentioned it on our show.
This was an August AOL ditching dial up
service, a relic of the internet in the
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nineties and the early, uh, two thousands, um,
the online service provider, uh, and did their
service on September 30th.
So if you didn't watch my show then,
and you were concerned, well, now, you know
that it's actually the truth.
Um, the company also known as the phrase,
we all know you've got mail greeting and
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the CD trial disc.
So many CDs, uh, made the announcement on
its website that that's not happening anymore.
AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and
has decided to discontinue dial up.
So the question you might be asking is
who owns AOL?
Now, I don't know if I'm going to
surprise you by this.
Um, so AOL is an American web portal
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and online service provider based in New York
city and a brand marketed by Yahoo, Inc.
The service traces its history to an online
service known as play net, uh, and licensed
its software to quantum link, which went online
in November, 1985.
So you might be asking the question who
owns, um, who owns Yahoo?
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And if you want a new owns Yahoo,
uh, it's operated by the namesake company, uh,
Apollo global management, and, uh, 10% of
it, this is the misconception.
10% of it is, uh, owned by
Verizon.
So Verizon doesn't own the whole company.
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I think a lot of times when we
get, uh, you know, stories, people say, oh,
gee, you know, this is the way it's
going to be, but then they don't really
understand the truth.
They just, they hear something from one person.
And so I wanted to give you the
truth about that.
And so, you know, uh, people were asking,
you know, did Yahoo get bought by Microsoft?
So, uh, the dot-com bubble burst as
you know, a while back, and it reached
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an all time low of $8 and 11
cents in 2001.
Yahoo formally rejected an acquisition bid from Microsoft
corporation in 2008.
Did not accept that.
So, uh, Apollo funds, complete acquisition of Yahoo
September 1st, 2021.
Um, but I think the reason that they
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dropped the real reason that they dropped it,
uh, the reason they, the reason, uh, is
cost.
You know, the reason that AOL dropped, uh,
dial up its costs because, you know, it
was costing them more money to maintain this.
Cost played a role in the broader decline
of dial up internet.
And the primary reason they will drop the
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service was they said the dwindling customer base
and the widespread adoption of faster, more modern
broadband technology.
So you might've heard something on AOL called
bring your own, um, internet BYOE is what
it was called.
Um, so the question is how much is
AOL today?
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So, um, the live AOL American price, um,
is 0.01007 with a current mark cap
of 10.07 million.
And, uh, the price is currently down by
0.05% in the last 24 hours.
And the 24 hour trading volume is just
over 720 some thousand.
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So how much is AOL today, uh, to
purchase, uh, this, this, the service.
And so, um, it changed, right?
They had a really low, but AOL's, uh,
service plans have gone up quite a bit.
Um, AOL still has, still has, I believe
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they still offer, they still do it.
AOL has a, uh, free plan.
Uh, and so, um, offers a free plan,
which includes email web-based access to AOL
features like AOL search and video, and you
can get a free AOL email account, other
services by signing up for a one or
by switching from a paid plan to a
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free option.
So, um, you also don't get support and
you have to do everything.
Um, and hopefully you've had everything set up
correctly.
So they have something called the AOL advantage
plan.
Um, and so, you know, the thing is
they really made it very complicated.
So, um, AOL plans right now offers a
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range of paid plans, including a free plan
for accessing AOL mail, um, and the web
and paid products like AOL desktop gold, which
costs around $6.99 a month for an
ad free experience and browser features and premium
tech support assist.
Um, which starts approximately at $12.99 a
month.
So again, um, you might think, John, that's
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not a lot, but you see they're banking
on the number of users they have.
Right.
So the question right now, this is a
good question.
How many, how many users, uh, paid does
AOL have?
How many do you think they have?
So right now, and this is just an
approximate, okay.
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Uh, AOL has approximately in paid users, 1
.5 million.
Um, and then, um, we can multiply that
times 6.99 plus you got tax on
top of that.
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So you're easily, uh, over 10 million easily.
Uh, I think a lot of people don't
realize this is what we call funny money.
1.5 million times 6.99. And so,
you know, at, at 10 million, 485,000,
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that's what they take in.
And that's without including the advertising, right?
If we, if we look at how much
they take in an ad revenue, well, that's
a whole different ballgame.
And ladies and gentlemen, the luxury retailer Harrods
exposes customer names and contacts in a recent
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cyber breach.
The cyber, uh, crime has hit the luxury
sector as Harrods admits the customer details were
exposed through a third party provider while passwords
and payment info they claim are safe.
The breach is a wake up call about
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data security.
No brand, no matter how exclusive, how big
or how small is immune to modern threats.
Shoppers everywhere, guys need to ask this one
question is privacy.
The new luxury is it.
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And ladies and gentlemen, drones force Denmark's airports
to close recently.
The aerial security is front and center.
And as the mystery drones fly over Denmark's
military bases, causing a little bit of stir
airports, uh, shut down and it raises suspicions
of Russian involvement in response, uh, authorities are,
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uh, considering stronger defense measures, including shooting down,
uh, laws, the skies above Europe are changing
and can new rules keep up with the
new threats.
I don't know, guys, we're going to have
to see what's happening, but I know one
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thing, guys, we're definitely going to have to
tighten our belts on how we secure public
places.
And we know that tragic incident that happened,
uh, several weeks ago, we have to understand
that the world has changed since nine 11,
the world has changed.
It's never going to be the same.
I'm not telling you to live with fear
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every day, but I am telling you to
be vigilant and to watch your surroundings.
Right.
And ladies and gentlemen, uh, nine one, one
lines, uh, went down across Mississippi and Louisiana
after a fiber cable cut, a single fiber
cut left millions in the Southern United States
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without access to emergency services.
And it highlights the astonishing fragility of today's
digital infrastructure during the outage, uh, residents had
to find alternative ways to contact help, uh,
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proving how much we rely on technology and
how quickly it can fail.
So nobody wants to think about technology fail.
Let's face that.
Right.
But what they realize is that we've got
to make sure that we're vigilant, that we
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know what we're doing.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you
know this, but only roughly eight out of
47 Instagram safety features for teens actually work.
Now meta claims, it protects young users, but
testing shows more than 80% of its
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safety systems for teens are unfortunately flawed or,
um, let's say they're broken.
With features that are easily circumvented by bad
actors, teens, um, they're remaining exposed to everything
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from self-harm content, unwanted adult interactions, and
real world safety is far behind tech company
promises.
Vigilance is needed now, folks, not later.
Russia actively tracks German military satellites.
(40:26):
The space race just got serious as Russia
targets German military satellites, prompting Germany to invest
35 million pounds in defense over the next
five years.
Uh, that would be technologies like satellite jamming,
uh, surveillance and safe warfare are now key
(40:50):
concerns in Europe and they never were before,
but now they're, they're important showing them that
modern defense doesn't end at earth's surface and
take me out to the ball game.
Well, uh, MLB, the major league baseball association,
(41:11):
uh, introduces yes.
Robot umpires with team challenges and instant replay
tech.
Get ready everyone for a new error in
baseballs as robot umps and high speed cameras
ensure more accurate calls than ever teams can
(41:35):
challenge human rulings with instant feedback appearing on
scoreboards for maximum transparency.
The fusion of human and, uh, machines could
turn every game into a fair, more exciting
contest, but will that be the way the
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teams want to push it?
Because if they push it a certain way
and they're wrong and the call is caught
outside of their favor, not going to like
this very much.
Uh, now everyone, did you know you can
enroll for TSA, uh, the transportation and security
administration?
Uh, you can enroll in the TSA.
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They call it the pre-check as well
as just enroll in clear at where?
Well, not a restaurant, but close staples.
They claim that you can skip the long
airport lines by enrolling in TSA pre-check
at your local staple store.
So they claim it's with a simple fast
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process, families and businesses, uh, that fly can
save precious time, those valuable minutes, even up
to a half hour on their next trip
for frequent, uh, flyers.
This is the travel hack everyone's talking about,
but I think, um, there's some fears with
(43:04):
this, right?
Safety, right?
So the question is, is there a downside,
uh, to TSA pre-check?
And of course, everyone's going to tell you,
no, there's no downside.
Um, but they are, TSA is now, um,
(43:26):
with this, uh, storing your info.
And I think that's a big concern for
so many people today that they're doing it
this way.
And I get why they're doing it.
So TSA pre-check collects both biological data,
like your name, your address and physical description.
And as I said, biometric data, such as
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the fingerprints and a photo when applying for
the program, this information is used to conduct
background checks and assured with the FBI for
screening.
However, uh, they claim that the TSA or
the department of Homeland security gains, uh, unrestricted,
warrantless, and indefinite access to all of an
applicant's personal information, including health records, social media,
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and court history are not substantiated by the
official policy.
To me, I think you're giving away your
freedom.
Data collected for TSA pre-check is covered
by federal privacy policies.
Yeah.
Let's, uh, see what that's really about.
And there are specific data retention rules.
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If an applicant opts out or leaves the
program, most personal information is deleted after a
set period, often one year and not kept
indefinitely.
They said most, they didn't say everything.
The main ex, uh, exceptions are fingerprints, which
may be stored in the FBI systems for
identity verification and security purposes.
Additionally, TSA says it does not use publicly
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available data like social media for threat evaluations
and any retention or sharing of information is
governed by the privacy act, which was put
into effect in 1974.
So, um, I use clear, but clear does
not share data with the government.
So you can have clear, which does help
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you get past the line, but TSA pre
-check allows you to have some more benefits.
So what are they?
And that's a good question.
So what are the benefits from going from,
let's say clear to TSA, uh, pre-check?
So there are some benefits.
I told you some of the, the, the
problems, right?
(45:35):
So going from clear, uh, allows you to
keep your shoes, belts and light jackets on
and leave laptops and three one, one liquids
in your bag, uh, during the security screening,
as well as potentially accessing shorter lines for
the screening itself while clear uses biometrics to
verify your identity and quickly move you to
the front of the security line.
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TSA pre-check expedites the screening process through
the metal detector and bag screening.
The combination of both services offer the fastest
path through the airport screening systems by streamlining
both the identity check and the physical screening
process.
But again, I still have a problem and
I don't trust how they keep our information.
And if it really is that secure, um,
(46:18):
long story short, there was a government agency
that, uh, wanted me to respond to something,
but, um, I couldn't do that until I
went and verified my steps.
Well, they use a company, uh, I think
it was ID me if I'm not mistaken.
And so the problem with this company is
(46:39):
when they came back, my own security systems
actually flagged them as a potential threat because
I flagged them that actually violated, uh, the
process.
And then I gave up and finally they
got back to a few days, but it
was just run so poorly.
Very, very.
(47:00):
And ladies and gentlemen, meta aims to license
powerful AI as the brain of, well, the
future of humanoid robots.
Meta is going all in on this one,
powering the future of robotics, aiming to be
the Android operating system for real world humanoid
(47:21):
robots.
So by focusing on open source, artificial intelligence,
the company wants to spark a 38 billion.
We said it again, in case you were
sleeping, 30 billion, a $38 billion market and
change how robots help humans by 2030.
(47:42):
So this is like Facebook's new kind of
thing, but you know, we already don't trust
Facebook on things.
Then they want to do things like add
the Facebook, um, system now that'll use AI
and the AI is going to serve up
ads to you based on well, what the
system hears you saying.
So did you know that the data that
(48:03):
you say, if you don't have a block
actually can cause a big problem and they
could actually use that data and they could
sell it to third parties.
Um, they claim that they have rights to
do this, but do they really have rights
to do this?
I don't know, guys, I don't know, but
I know that it is a very, very
(48:24):
big problem.
Um, and I know that, um, it's something
that we have to be at least vigilant
about.
I think that's probably the most important thing.
And so, uh, uncovers now pay bribes or
something interesting by the crypto scammers, uh, to
(48:47):
reinstate banned accounts.
Where is this X?
Yes.
Formerly called Twitter just exposed a major insider
bribery ring where crypto scammers tried to quietly
nonchalantly unban their scam accounts, teaming up with
(49:09):
the FBI.
X is ramping up defenses against internal corruption
and drawing a new line in the sand
for the platform security across the entire industry.
So here you are having a blue check
Mark, and now you have people behind there,
basically just letting you do whatever you want
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so much for that blue check Mark.
Right.
So I think a lot of us out
there, um, get concerned with what's happening at
the moment.
And I think that's an important thing to
understand because if we can understand our moment,
then we can understand the next moment.
But if whatever happens in our life changes,
then I feel that can be a very,
(49:52):
very, um, big problem.
And the reason I say it's a big
problem is because it's not the impact that
it has today, guys.
It's the impact that it has tomorrow.
I think that's probably one of the most
important things that I want to share with
you.
One of the most important things that I
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definitely want to share with you.
All right, guys.
So we've talked about a lot of things
in security.
I want to dive back and let you
know that Apple, uh, supposedly has released, um,
this new, um, OS that, well, the new
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26.
So this is a question I'm going to
ask you.
So what is new in the 26.0
update?
So, um, they claim they mostly did some
bug fixes.
Um, that's what they claim.
I did install it.
It's available for the iPhone 11 and later
and the iPad pro 12.9 and third
generation and later the iPad pro 11, uh,
(50:58):
inch, uh, first generation and later and the
iPad air third generation and later and the
iPad eight generation and later and iPad mini
fifth generation later.
So, uh, the one thing was the font
parser.
They're able, uh, the impact was processing a
maliciously crafted font.
It could lead to unexpected app termination or
corrupt, uh, process memory.
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Um, and out of bounds, right.
Issue was addressed with improved bounds checking.
Okay.
So, um, great.
They did that, but they still haven't fixed
the one major bug that I have, um,
really been unhappy with when I got my
phone, you know, um, let's say set up
and I was, you know, transferring my data.
It's still brought in all my email, which
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it should not have done that.
And not only that, I could not just
click select all and delete.
I had literally had to hold the message
and then swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe to
get everything selected.
And my phone got pretty warm when I
did that.
I have to be honest with you.
So not happy with that.
Um, also a little bit of update on
the, uh, Lenovo.
(52:01):
Um, yes, uh, Lenovo P one, um, G
six.
I had the P one G seven.
And, uh, just the other day I took
out the second, uh, M dot two, um,
memory chip.
And guess what?
I, um, basically set it back to the
factory standards, you know, reinitialized it.
(52:22):
So it was just like a fresh install
and I sent it back.
And so, um, the new, uh, P one
six G threes have just announced they're shipping
in a few weeks.
And I think now that we understand this,
um, I want to just tell you that
a lot of these people, I don't care
what's Lenovo or other companies.
I trusted this guy in the Lenovo team.
(52:44):
Cause he's like, oh, like, you know, this
is much better than P one six.
And I was a little leery about it,
but he said, no, no, this is definitely
better.
So I got the P one G G
seven, and I was not happy with the
P one G seven, to be quite honest,
uh, didn't have the extended numeric keypad.
Um, it did have wifi seven, but who
(53:06):
cares?
Um, it crashed.
I told you my, my streams just literally
crashed out of the blue.
And when I called Lenovo, they basically said,
well, you know, that's kind of beyond their
scope.
We don't support third party applications.
Like really Lenovo?
Like really?
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I know that if IBM still owned Lenovo,
like before Lenovo, you know, got the rights
to basically the engineering and the, uh, the
sales company, I think IBM would have handled
it differently.
I had over 1900 latencies in less than
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a minute.
I mean, that's like, like atrocious guys.
So, um, the P one G six, uh,
P one G six, the P one P
the Lenovo, uh, P one G seven has
severe, uh, latency issues.
And you might be saying to me, John,
well, it's not that bad.
Not that bad.
Uh, multiple reports, um, so, um, caused by
(54:10):
combinations of hardware drivers, firmware and bio settings.
Uh, the LP cam to memory, a common,
uh, thread among reports points to the new
LP cam to memory modules as the potential
source.
Uh, users have cited memory latency, uh, scores
in benchmarking software that were, as I said,
abnormally high.
The hybrid graphics mode, the hybrid graphics, uh,
(54:34):
mode setting in the bios, which automatically switches
between integrated and discrete GPU can cause lag
and shoppiness outdated drivers, uh, faulty NVIDIA drivers
and track pad and firmware.
So, um, latency is something you don't want
anywhere.
But I think the fact that Lenovo rolled
this out, like I was just so disappointed
(54:57):
that a company like that roll the product
out.
I am hoping my P one six, this
is going to be my third P one
six.
I had the P one.
I had the one, this is the two,
and this is supposed to Lenovo's, uh, most
powerful workstation laptop.
So going to be ordering that soon.
And I'll definitely let you know my thoughts.
(55:19):
And I am posting some reels and some
longer videos about that.
I also am posting some videos about how
to, um, basically migrate your one, uh, iPhone
to your other iPhone.
I also talked about, um, you know, how
do you, um, how do you activate it?
How do you erase the phone once you
(55:39):
know everything is working properly?
So I think these are important things.
And unfortunately, a lot of companies, they're just
about the money.
They're not about the actual service.
Um, and unfortunately they don't stand behind things.
And when people don't stand behind things, you
know what happens?
Oh, it becomes a big issue.
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And the big issue happens because to the
company, it's all about the money.
Now I should tell you this.
I actually emailed the whole string of people
at Lenovo because I was not happy with
the answer I got from their tech support
team.
So a lady called me back very snotty.
And the only thing she told me she
was going to do for me, uh, was
(56:21):
to give me another, um, laptop the same
one.
I'm like, that's not going to help me.
So I wrote her an email back.
She says, okay, uh, I'm willing to, and
I said it to the admin team.
I am willing to, um, you know, give
you your money back.
You send it to us and I'm willing
to give you, I think it was like
10% for my inconvenience.
(56:41):
10% lady, 200 bucks.
Like that, that's not even, you know, I
make more than that a few minutes.
So, you know, you can't insult me with
that.
But I was very, very disappointed with the
way they treated me.
And ladies and gentlemen, I want to invite
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you right now to check out all the
episodes, uh, at believeinmitchie.com.
You will be very, very happy with those
episodes.
Again, I am John C.
Moorley, serial entrepreneur.
You have been watching The JMOR Tech
Talk show.
I invite you to discover even more exclusive
insights at, well, site I gave you, believeinmitchie
(57:27):
.com.
Security is everybody's business.
Even if you don't care about it, you
better because it could affect your life, your
safety, and even your identity.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, have yourself a fantastic
rest of your night.
Have a wonderful weekend.
And guess what, guys?
I'm going to see you back again next
(57:48):
week.
That'll be October 10th.
Until then, use your technology in a way
that will be safe and for the greater
good of all concerned.
Remember, technology is a tool.
It's not good or bad.
How we choose to use it makes it
so.
Have a wonderful rest of your evening, everyone.
Be well.
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