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John C. Morley
Hello, everyone. It's that time for the JMOR Tech talk show where we answer questions about technology, explain the way they should work and why they don't sometimes. And now, here's your host, John C. Morley. Well, Hey, everybody, and welcome once again to the JMOR Tech talk show. It is another fun fabulous Friday here on the JMOR Tech talk show. And again, it's nice to see your smiling face. Marcus, how are you doing this evening?
Marcus Hart
It's good to be part of the future.
John C. Morley
It definitely is. And this is one time when we actually look backwards to what's happening when we talk about the 2021 Olympics. It's really the 2020.
Marcus Hart
Yeah.
John C. Morley
We have a lot to talk about on this show. And one thing that really caught my eye was the Olympic, I'm going to call it the 2020 because that's what it is cauldron, and that's spelled cauldron, they call it a vision of beauty and the future. And at the end of the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Mr.-- was it Naomi Osaka. He lift the Olympic cauldron as a white ball peeled open like a flower. And that metal set of pedals just reflected the light of the ignited Olympic plane, it was pretty cool.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, I mean, that is absolutely beautiful. It's a real great structure and designed by a Japanese company, by the way, too so it's really impressive.
John C. Morley
Yes, it was designed by a Nendo helmed by a Canadian born Japanese name Okaosato. The cauldron is a skip deleting site, it's how they define it. And most Olympiads the flame remains in the cauldron for the extended the games. But in the 2020, they had this little bit of the flame that was moved into a small lantern. And then it was basically transported about 13 kilometers to the other stadium to the bridge that connected the two manmade islands in Tokyo Bay, which you know is where they did the run. So I'm guessing that's why they did that because they want to have the Olympic spirit in both places. They call it the Great Bridge of dreams
Marcus Hart
That's truly really symbolic there in terms of what they did. And the fact that what we know about this one is it's not the same one that Naomi--
John C. Morley
Right, it's not it's not the same one that Naomi Osaka ignited. It's a replica of about 1/3 the size of the one still at the National Stadium.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, yeah, but it's still it in its glory. It's still pretty, pretty beautiful. And I just wonder what the NF T's going to sell on this day?
John C. Morley
I know.
Marcus Hart
When we talked about crypto.
John C. Morley
Exactly. And you know, according to stadium designer, Kengo Kuma, these names are really killing me. The cauldron wasn't in the original specifications. And so he just said that he would try to do it like other Olympiads, where the cauldron was situated inside the stadium during the opening ceremony and then moved. And the fuel that was keeping this puppy burning was people were asking was hydrogen, it was not propane. It's a cleaner burning gas that represents Japan's drive to become a carbon neutral by 2050. So everyone thought it was propane, but I'm like, how could Japan be doing propane? And sure enough, they're not.
Marcus Hart
No, is this very Japan, and they are at the front for being a carbon neutral country. So, especially when you think about their MVD Park few sale vehicles that they used to transport [] to athletes and officials. So, it's very, very much so in terms of the culture what they're doing.
John C. Morley
It's very interesting and you wouldn't appreciate this just by looking at it because the flame didn't look different than a propane flame. From far away, it really didn't look that much different. So definitely I mean, it really wowed a lot of people. And what I liked is how they did the closing ceremonies, when the person gets up, it's a very sad time and he says, I declare the 2020 Olympics now, Summer Olympics now closed. And then that's when they slowly went around. And then that cauldrons basically will just kind of spun very slowly kind of collapsing into like, the ball that it was in. And it started going out. And as the petal started to come together as it was rotating, the cauldron was basically all extinguished before the last petal came in. That was pretty unique. But speaking about unique things, we're always talking about robotics and technology and all kinds of great things. But here's something we've never ever talked about before. I'll probably because it never was around before. How about robotic pollinators?
Marcus Hart
Who needs the bees, right?
John C. Morley
A $1 million. Grant is going to help researchers explore the use of robotic bees for crop pollination. So Washington State University researchers are leading the team to explore the use of robotic pollinators to assist fruit farmers. And the project has just received a three year grant totaling nearly 1 million from the United States Department, of course of agriculture, through the Washington State Department of Agriculture.
Marcus Hart
What immediately jumps out in me, John, and I know you're gonna have a little bit more insight that I will, it's like, do you think we're going to see more of these types of projects pop up like this where the department air culture is investing in this type of--?
John C. Morley
Well, the thing is it all comes down to money markets. It comes down to supply and demand, and it comes down to a cost. Everything comes down to unfortunately. And my concern is that these are going to pop up a lot more. And I don't mind that they're doing this. I mean, I think it's a great idea. And it's definitely different to take it away from nature and do it robotically. But I just feel that there's got to be a limit with this. You know what I'm saying? There's certain things in nature that you're just not going to want to be robotic, and I know why they're doing it and I get it. Just like, we talked about the drones that would help spray other crops and stuff like that, and I get those kinds of things. But this is really on the edge. I don't want to say I'm against it. I'm not in love with this idea. I feel that you know, nature is nature. And I feel like we're kind of messing with nature.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, you talk about things that nature naturally does on his own his own and it kind of balances out on his own, it is kind of getting in the way of that and we're trying to speed things up a bit.
John C. Morley
They claim, Marcus, the only reason that they're doing it, I don't know if it's true or not, because you know the numbers they give us are never really true. They claim that they're doing this because the USB population has been struggling, I didn't even know this, since the mid-2000s with colonies collapsing, and facing the threat of a deadly now Asian giant Hornet or murder Hornet. And they've been spotted in Washington State and British Columbia. So I don't know. I mean, I get the idea and where it's going, but I don't know who to believe. And a robotic pollinator could provide, as I'll say, and I'll quote, a stable and efficient process according to the WSU scientists. But researchers elsewhere have been developing flying drones and brush wielding wheeled robots to pollinate crops in 2018. So a little bit different. Walmart applied for a patent for an unmanned vehicle crop pollinator. I mean, this is just getting a little crazy if you ask me.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, it is getting the least on the edge of creepy and science fiction coming to life. And we know how those movies turned out.
John C. Morley
We do. But the other interesting thing when we talk about robots. And robots have two types of, let's call, thinking. One is an athletic type brain and one is more of a human brain like you and I have. So an athletic brain is something that actually helps The robot to be able to do agile things, such as there was a very famous robot, I'm sure you remember, with the Japanese that cost quite a few pennies. And this robot had been around by a company called Boston Dynamics, you may be familiar with them. And so they make all these great little robots and they do things for the military and the different armed forces. And I think it's great. But there's something that really bothers me, I watched the show the other day, it goes on 60 minutes. And what bothers me is not that they're doing this, what bothers me is when they talk to the CEO, and we found that this is not the first set of ownership, it's like the third. And also, when they asked about the cost, and they asked what they're doing, like their latest project was having the robots dance. So they asked a question, well, how long did that take? And they said, about 18 months. So knowing what we know and what it cost to have all these robot engineers programming these robots, that's a lot of wasted resources and money.
Marcus Hart
It is and for these projects to drag out as long as they do sometimes just to ultimately have an AI or robot replace a job.
John C. Morley
Exactly. And you know what he said? He said something very interesting, I'm going to quote. They asked if they have any plans, like what this is going to be in the market and how they're going to make money. He says, what's a profit, no but we had fun. We had fun. Now getting robots to dance. I don't think it's worth millions of dollars in research. He says, But yes, now we know how to do things so we can apply it to other things. I don't know. I don't just buy don't buy that. I think there's better use of our time. What happened, Marcus in a fast food industry, I'm not a fast food person but let's look at the fast food industry. They were trying to retrofit all these restaurants, Wendy's, Burger Kings, all the fast food restaurants. At Kentucky, they were trying to set these up so they could have these robots, but they have to retrofit the kitchens. And then a human could not be working there with the robots there. Because the human needs different handles, the robot just plugs in with a peg and lifts it. So that was a real waste of money. I don't think the pollinators gonna be a waste of money. I think people are gonna pay for that and I think it's different. But I'm very disappointed with Boston Dynamics. I mean, they're doing a lot of great things. I think they're hoping that the government was going to order more, but the government's really not putting a lot of money into them. They're ordering a couple things but they're really not ordering a lot.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, and when you look at just this example right here, a million dollars is not really a lot compared to the billions of dollars that we hear thrown around lately during the pandemic for--
John C. Morley
Yeah, and they just find reasons to do something else or create money or unemployment or do something. It's like, they don't really solve the problem, Marcus, I mean, if somebody gets a cut, you put a band aid on it and the cut eventually heals, hopefully. But that solves the problem. That’s the one place you can use a band aid. But if you try to band aid another type of solution in life, it's not fixing it. It's just temporarily delaying it from breaking or from not working. I don't know, we're gonna have to see where they're going with it because it's a lot of money. And I don't think they're going to be around. If they get another company, they're gonna get somebody from Japan, or somebody's gonna come on board. And I don't think they're gonna want them building robots that dance and sing. But my point is that you could take these robots and you can push them anyway. It was like to be pushed yourself, you would move to readjust, and you can push them, push pretty hard. I get that but I don't get the demonstration of why we need to have them dancing. I mean, I don't want music and-- it's absolutely crazy. Yeah, but we would talk about spyware and recently spywares have become even more of a problem. And iPhones, you can now detect spyware on iPhones for free using device managers app iMazing, it's actually Pegasus software, and it can now be detected. It's called Pegasus spyware and it can now be detected on an iPhone using this free tool without requiring any coding skills. And it's actually Geneva Switzerland based Digi DNA. And it's updated iOS device manager. iMazing has spyware detection features that can be used to detect Pegasus. Now my question is why the heck would you put out a piece of software that's gonna detect spyware for free? I don't like the smell of this.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, this is not right.
John C. Morley
This just seems like I don't know, privacy experts are praising the tool. But what do they do with the data? Who knows? Maybe they're making something worse? I don't know. I think that's crazy. It's gonna get you to see what happens. But I think a lot of people are being very trusting.
Marcus Hart
There's too much optimism around this. And it's a setup, it's a set up for disappointment in the end.
John C. Morley
So another thing that's been happening is, we'll talk about the Generation Z. We don't talk about the generations too much. And they're generally right now between six and 24 year olds, Generation Z, we talked about the millennials which is basically a little bit greater. You're talking in the 20s to mid-20s to like 30s roughly. But the generation Z's kind of overlapping. And currently, they're between six and 24 years of age. And this is, as of the 21st of July, we're saying that we're about 68 million in the United States. And so the interesting thing about them because if we compare what age, let's say, are millennials, and if we think about millennials, they're about 25 to 40. So, before millennials were always said to be around the 20s, or 30s, but they've extended it now, Marcus, to the 40s. So that means that technically, people like before, I wouldn't be considered a millennial, but now people in their 40s are considered millennials.
Marcus Hart
I think this has a lot to do with the why use of technology now within this generation and just pop culture in general, and how much involved people within these age ranges. I started to share a lot of similarities.
John C. Morley
I think you're right, and the other thing is that the generation, let's say, the millennial generation, they were always like, we're different. But you know, they're not much different than the other generation. I mean, they tried to say they are. One thing I have to say about a lot of the millennials, and I'm sorry, if you're watching is that, not all but most, they always look for an easy way out. And they don't do things for money, Marcus, which is okay. They do things, for the way of doing something because they want to do something because it doesn't exist. Similar to my philosophy, which is I always say, if it doesn't exist, I'm going to build it. But they also have a nasty side to them. And that's the fact that they just want to do what they can to get ahead, but they don't care who they step on. Millennials are also very known, Marcus, for switching their jobs six to 10 times. A millennial is not a good person to hire. I mean, we're Equal Opportunity employer but they're not a great person to hire because they flip. I think the way you gotta motivate a millennial, say, Hey, here's your bonus but you got to hang around 15 years for it.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, you gotta kind of doing like the army does for the bonus, a certain amount of years.
John C. Morley
So speaking about Generation Z, which is where we are right now, Generation Z is starting to claim the emojis back again. So again, Generation Z, so because they're broadening that now myself being in that scope, and I'm starting to see that I don't go crazy with emojis, but I do see a little more use of them. It's growing in generations, and it's dividing around how many emojis are used and interpreted based on a person's age group and demographic. Now, that's not how old you are but the age and demographic of the people you hang around. So if you're in your mid or late 40s and let's say you're doing that, but now you're associated with people that are in their 30s. They're going to be more emoji. They're going to be more text happy. I remember a friend of mine that I'm going to tell you was probably at the time about, what would I say? He was born, he was probably right around, probably around 15 years younger than me. And he had the philosophy Marcus, two philosophies one is, he didn't like people. He didn't like people. And everything always obviously had to be his way. But he just had this way about him. And he just didn't like people unless they were making him money. And I always pass the joke to him. I said, Well, gee, what am I? He says, well, you're different, you're not a people. So, I guess I take it as a compliment. But my point is that they're very brash and they're very rude. I don't think they mean to be this way but they're rude son of the guns. And the big thing I noticed is that with them, their text happy, Marcus. If you're not into texting with them, well, you better get a new life. So like, for example, we were going to go somewhere, and the person sent me Oh, John, don't call me. Don't call me, no, text me. And so we're having this text message back and forth. And finally, I'm like, I don't know about you. But I don't really feel like texting my phone. Can we talk on the phone? Oh, I can't. And you know why they can't, Marcus? Because they're trying to multitask. And this is the one problem I have with the younger millennials. These are the millennials that are probably below 40. They just believe that they can do what they can. And they're always, I'm not saying 'trying to beat the boss'. But like, there was a gentleman, he worked from home. And he was right away trying to do everything and sneak in and get back or before the office knew he was gone. I mean, he got a 30 minute lunch, or what hour lunch, but he was still trying to like beat it. You know what I mean? And so, yeah, what's that?
Marcus Hart
Trying to gain the system.
John C. Morley
Yeah, and the other thing I don't like about them, and this kind of goes off on a conversation. It's generational hiring, but one thing I don't like about them is that they just have a way. Let's say somebody is a little bit younger than them. Okay, so we got a millennial in their 30s and now you got something in their 20s. We're going to do Marcus, let's say and my friend was a financial person. And let's say now they needed to do spreadsheets and excel sheets and charts. And now let's say they have to prepare the report. And now let's say they bring it to the boss for the meeting. If there's something wrong with it, oh, yeah, that's the intern, I gave it to Joe. He didn't really know what he was doing. Okay. Oh, this was an amazing report, you really put detail. I know, I have lots of experience when it comes to excel. And I really looked at our projections, and I wanted to make sure they were impressive for you and for our clients. When they didn't do a darn bit of work on it, Marcus. And so I find out that eventually will come and bite them in the rear because they're going to be asked to do something. And I see him in my own business, Marcus. I usually will test people a little bit. But then what I'll do is I'll trust them, I'll hire them. And then what I'll find out is I'll ask them to do something and I'll make sure nobody else is around. And when they can't do it, I know that they're really not able to do the job. And usually I don't fire them, Marcus. What I do is I just make them quit because I just get them where work like that. Well, you're your jobs gonna be nothing but that now. And you know what happens? They quit. Instead of telling me Hey, John, I don't know how to do this. Well, they could learn right? But they don't want to swallow their pride. Yeah, that's terrible. I know that would that got off on our conversation, but what I was trying to get on there was the millennials, they're using emojis, but some people are using emojis too much in the last topic because I could go on this emoji talk for hours. There's g emojis. There's PG emojis, pG-13, there's r, there's x emojis. And there's also what I want to call texting slang and texting language. You know there's a book market you can buy. I remember one lady was texting me and I was like, What is he texting me? And because it wasn't something I was commonly hearing. And when we hear lol, right? Always I use one of the time TY or TYL. What's that? Talk to you later? They don't get it. But then they'll send me something like a call me back, CMBT. And I was like, What the heck is that? Call me back tomorrow. Call me back tomorrow. Why don't you just say CB or CBT? I think they try to make things more complicated, Marcus. Yeah, I think they try, I don't want to be disrespectful to them if they're listening, but I think a lot of them just try to appear more intelligent than they are. They're already intelligent but they're trying to show off. So when you've got different generations working together, it's not an easy thing. And if you can't manage texting or slacking and stuff like that, you're just not going to work well with them. Because that person that's doing your work is never going to pick up the phone with you. You're going to have to communicate in their language. And that's a problem for some employees. Oh, I don't text. I think my own parents, they don't really text. But their friends texted me say, hey, and then my mom, like, Oh, you have to teach me how to text. I was like, I'm happy to teach you. But every time I sit down to teach you, you always tell me you're tired and you had enough. And we've only been doing it for 10 minutes. And it's like, well, we'll take time and you don't show me. Like, do but you're not, just teach me. I'm trying. Like there's things you got to memorize, things you got to-- Well, like maybe I could take a course on like, we can't really take a course online how to text. I think there's a course online yet for that. But who knows, that might be one who knows. Um, but there's a book, Texting Slang and you can literally find out whether this is something that-- you know what somebody's saying and what they really found out to be honest with you is that when people were texting was parents, they were using all these terms, sometimes dating terms, and they have no clue what they meant. And they got this book. That was a complete disaster. I like to call that code.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, that's code.
John C. Morley
It's like a hieroglyphics. And I remember one time, Oh, yeah, that just meant to-- And I don't want say the person was stupid, but they were like giving the parent the whole playbook. And I'm like, I don't think you should be sharing that with them. Like, oh, that just means she's, uh-- oh, was I not supposed to say that? So my point here is that working, we'll have more conversation but working with millennials and technology, It's challenging. There is a great synergy with them. But there's also that attitude where they got to be right or they got to let you know something, Marcus. And that just doesn't wash well with me. So my first thing is, are you a team player. Everybody could say their team player. As soon as you bring a team in, oh, I don't want to work with him or her. I'll work on a team but I don't want to be in the same room with them. Or I'll team with them but I'll email them. Or I'll team with them if we can just slack or we can just message each other. That's a really being a team player.
Marcus Hart
No, not at all. Like, yeah, man, I can just--
John C. Morley
It's amazing how the values of the different generations are kind of changing. And the biggest thing I've learned from the millennial generation is that they don't want what most of us like you and I want when we're in a job, of course, we want to do well, we want to please people, we would like to make money. But they're not into it for that, that's not their primary reason. They're into it because they want to show somebody something or they want to prove something. And then if you don't respect them, they'll turn around and screw you by trying to start their own company to do what you do.
Marcus Hart
I've seen a lot of that. It's very disgusting behavior.
John C. Morley
And this is why Marcus, people say to me, why don't you trust people? And I said, Well, we treat everybody the same, but you have to understand that when you've been burned, you have to still treat everybody the same. But the people that are getting the most pissed off about it are the millennials, not the older people. They say, oh, why should I have to deal with this? Or I have a degree from Harvard, I have a degree from Fordham, I have a degree from Harvard. I have a degree from-- Okay, who cares? I have a philosophy, Marcus what it's called? It's called work or get fired. That's my philosophy. And when I tell people that they're like, Oh, you can't do that. I'm like, you're discriminating. On what basis? Well, I don't know. But I gotta talk to my lawyer. I'll find out but you're discriminating. I know you are. We're just asking you to do work. That's part of the job description. Yeah, but you're discriminating. Am I being rude to you? No, but you're discriminating, I'll figure out how and then they never come back. They usually just quit. I think when they realize that they're not all that or that when they can't do something-- I remember one time we had a millennial and they use the law, because they thought the law was going to be able to get them out of trouble. And they were going to fabricate a story to the police. And they pay their hard earned money to a law firm, to create a BS case. You know, eventually what's going to happen, Marcus, it's going to blow up in your face. But all the people you expose and all the people's lives that you mess up, even if it's temporarily, they just don't realize that you can't lie about things. You can't just do something. And unfortunately, the police say they don't believe you. But this is what's weird about it, Marcus, they have to act upon it. So I don't believe you. But why would I act upon if I don't believe you? That’s just like an oxymoron.
Marcus Hart
Yeah, totally.
John C. Morley
I mean, we don't believe you, but we have to act upon it for everyone's safety. And they just make up these stories so they can get this false protection. And they think they can just use the law to be like their-- I don't know, tattletale police. I mean, we were taught many years ago, you don't tattletale on people, if it's something major, there's a situation, but you just don't tell on your friends. But when they're just making these things up, and they're just using the police or the law, to try to protect them because they have an insecurity about themselves. And now they try to put that off on you or me, that's not really fair.
Marcus Hart
That's totally what it is and nailed it. The key word there is insecurity. There's a lot of insecurity nowadays.
John C. Morley
They will just do whatever they need to do to save their rear end. And I don't mean they're in trouble. But I mean, save themselves because they'd rather save their pride, their waste all kinds of money. But when they start realizing that now they started this legal battle, they can't just flip a switch and end it. You have to go through the process. And you can see how huffy and puffy they get. But the court doesn't respond very well to that.
Marcus Hart
No, not at all.
John C. Morley
I mean, you're the one that started this Gerald the Rivera show or whatever. And it's a shame. I don't see it with people, my generation or younger are, I'll say older. You know what saying, You don't just fabricate a story. You just don't do that. So that's why I've lost a little respect for them. Not all them. But I've seen too many of them just try to, like you say this disgusting behavior. They don't understand being on time. That's not everybody. But I share this with our listeners. Because if you are a millennial, and you have other millennial friends and they want you to act like this, or they act like this, I'm here to tell you it's not cool. And you might think it's great because they're going to get you the beer because you're going to act like that like sorority or fraternity. But it's just not the way that you're going to be regarded and maybe you're going to get up the ladder quite a while. I got to tell you something, when push comes to shove, you're gonna have to demonstrate something on your own someday. And when people find out you can't do it, you're not going to fall one or two wrongs. You're going to fall all the way down. I don't care what kind of degree you have. Doesn't matter. They're just lazy Marcus. That's the problem. They're lazy.
Marcus Hart
You got that right.
John C. Morley
But I don't know what happened because the parents aren't lazy, I don't know what caused it. And then they try all these fangled things. I had another gentleman, that he came up with a weird price to do something, it was an organizer to come in organize some things. The job should have been 200 bucks, right? You know what his job, his price is going to be? 1500. But here's the thing, he complains, he doesn't get work. His Price Is 10 times, five times higher than what it should be. Yeah, but I'm good. We're good doing work. Want a professional organizer? How many jobs--? Well, I do if my grandfather and I do if my father and I do if my mother. Okay, and how many paying jobs you-- how many clients do you have. But I'm really good.
John C. Morley
You can't make that up, Marcus. I'm not sure if we lost feed on you there for a moment. Hopefully, you'll be back in a minute or two. We're going to move on to our next topic. I hopefully you guys have learned a lot there about millennials and some of the good some of the bad. Hopefully, Marcus will be back with us in just a moment. Looks like we're having a little bit of transmission issues from the remote studio. Talk a little about Sony. So Sony has the new SRS xp 700. And you can now get up to 30 hours of battery life. And this was launched in India not too long ago. in case you're wondering the price tag, it's been set at 32,990 rupees. So if you're wondering because I nobody's saying, John, how many rupees is that? So if you take 32,000 rupees, and you convert them to US dollars, you're going to actually come up with $443.20. So that's a little bit of a price tag there. Hopefully, Marcus will be joining us back in a little bit. Like I said, I know we're having some transmission issues here. So imagine that. And for $443, I mean for a speaker, $443.20. Or if you're in India, just 32,990 rupees. This neat little speaker has some colors on it, it launched just recently, and it's supposed to be able to deliver some mega bass to enhance your current bass effect. The speaker also includes a live sound mode as well as a carry feature to use them for karaoke or maybe as a guitar amplifier or whatever you'd like to do. The Sony's xp 700 also comes with a front and a rear [] as well as two woofers that joy produce a surround sound experience that their company calls and correct, quote, omni directional party sound. Definitely an amazing thing there. And I'm not sure if it's really worth that amount of money, that's my whole thing. I don't really know if it's worth that amount of money or not. Because it's just something that-- I just not finding it. Like I said, hopefully, Marcus, will be back soon. Again, we're having transmission issues. I'm hoping he will be back. I'm not sure how the weather is out there in the remote studio, but hopefully he'll be joining us so before we close in a little bit. But that's definitely an interesting thing to pay that kind of money for that type of speaker. And Sony saying that the 700 delivers 25 hours. Okay, it looks like Marcus, we'll be back in just a moment. So we'll keep the stage hot for him till he gets back. And so I don't know, this seems like it's not very big of a unit. And it does sound like a pretty high price tag for what it is. It actually measures 313 millimeters. Just so you guys know because they do everything in millimeters. If we convert three and 30 millimeters to inches, that's going to come down just into 12 inches, so it's just about a foot-- over a foot. I don't know. So you got a foot by roughly two and a half feet by maybe a foot and a half. That's not a very big unit. Not a very big unit at all. Anyway, another interesting thing that's been hitting the news is can cryptocurrency actually be hacked, stolen or scammed? I mean, can it be? That's a very interesting thing because everyone, their mother and their brother and their cousin and their, let's say, brother in law and sister in law. They're not regulated. And it makes users extremely vulnerable to many of the daily scams. So cryptocurrency especially we know, Bitcoin, Ethereum, now there's dodgy coin, they've taken our world almost blind in the last year. And they're saying that they're becoming more mainstream now and allowing users to buy goods and services with them and trade them for profit, like real currency. But it's a problem. And it may have just this past year 2021, The FTC Federal Trade Commission reported that scammers are impersonating Elon Musk as he had stolen over 2 million roughly 14.63 Cr or cryptocurrency since October 20. And the US Consumer Protection Policy body revealed that nearly 7000 people have been defrauded of their money in digital currencies. That's an awful lot. But how can you avoid scams? Well, one thing is, you don't want to just go to any site, you don't want to just buy from anybody. I think that's probably the biggest problem. You definitely don't want to just buy from anybody. You want to make sure you're getting them from a viable source. And you know who you're dealing with that they are pretty much reputable. And the company you're buying from is obviously reputable, because a lot of people, there's brokers, there's agents, and there's so many turning up over the sun. The problem that I see is that everybody sees this as a get rich quick scheme. So if an individual company or group of people promise you a guaranteed payout, for example or will double your amount in x days, it's a scam. So there's no single entity that can claim to be in control of how an entire industry will behave. So as someone promised you free money, the possibilities that they have, or they're trying to trick you at no cost. Should you trust them and deal with them? Probably not. Before you think of trusting someone, do some research. Look for the name of the company on Google, check the reviews, see if they've been accused of any scams earlier or have they been complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau or consumer protection acts, agency offices. Traders store their digital assets on crypto wallets. And you'll note that when scammers want to invade you, they always tell you to come with basically Bitcoin or they to come with usually random gift cards because a lot of times they can't be tracked. I don't know. I think we got to be careful about it. But the other important thing is that monies are still going to be needed to be paid for the income on them. So that's been another little caveat. And hot wallets that are always connected to the internet, because that's what these e wallets are. So you have to be cognizant about what's going on and avoid a threats of hacking. And I always recommend two factor authentication because you can never really know if somebody didn't get ahold of your account. And if you're just using email or something, they could hack that. So don't use your email as a two factor whatever you do. Make sure you have a true two factor like a Google Authenticator or Microsoft authenticator or other authenticator app. And that's what I recommend because this is a tragedy, what's going on here. And it's gonna be interesting to see what's happening. But I think the biggest challenge is that there's so many that are just dying to do it. And they don't really know why, but their friends are doing it. And then I've known people that have put money into cryptocurrency and they've lost so much. They've lost so much but it's starting to change a little bit because the regulations are starting to pop up. Like I said, hopefully, Marcus will be back with us soon. So we can close out our show Pretty soon, but it's definitely something that you've got to think about. If somebody you don't know just tells you to go buy cryptocurrency, be leery about it and also understand what the conversion ratio of It is. You know what saying, that's really important.
John C. Morley
I think what you're gonna find is that a lot of these companies is they're unregulated investment companies, and they are not reliable and abuse the regulations. So you want to make sure that you stay away from investment companies that are anonymous as they can just disappear anytime without notice. And so some websites may be suspicious, scam detectors can offer reviews of businesses if you want and contract things. But the thing with a lot of these is they have things like G-999 coins. And now with some companies it's not a pyramid scam. It looks like a scam with things like teams and things like that and lack of information with some of them. And using buzzwords like that that can really hurt people and it looks like Marcus is actually got a thunderstorm near his studio over there so we may not be able to see him. Let me see if he's gonna join us again. If he's able--
John C. Morley
Again, just be careful as what I'm telling you of Ali Baba, who I'm sure you will know about Ali Baba. Well, Ali Baba fires a manager who allegedly sexually assaulted a female staffer. Yeah, that's pretty bad. This Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings, what it's called fired a manager who allegedly sexually assaulted a female employee, and is establishing policies to prevent sexual harassment in the future. This is what the chief executive, Daniels Zang said this past week. And so the manager at Alibaba's city, they have a retail unit, which offers grocery delivery from local supermarkets has been fired and will never be rehired. Wow, that's pretty bad. Zang said in the memo published on Alibaba internet that was seen with routers. And the manager told management there were intimate acts and I quote, so with employees when she was basically inebriated or drunk, Zang said in the memo, adding that the police is investigating the matter. And router's was unable to reach the individual for comment. Of course, you knew that and I want to make another quote, Alibaba Group has a zero tolerance policy against sexual misconduct and is ensuring a safe workplace for all our employees is Alibaba is top priority". So a company spokesperson told routers when they were asked about the memo, but another thing I want to quote over the weekend, a female staffer posted 11 page account on Alibaba intranet, in which she said her supervisor and a client sexually assaulted her while on a business trip, and that managers had failed to take action. That's pretty serious. So it's hard to understand if this is true or not, we don't know. More hopefully will come out. I also want to quote, Xang also said Alibaba is staunchly opposed to the ugly culture of forced drinking. So regardless of the gender as they said, whether it's a request made by a customer, as I quote or supervisor employee, they're empowered to reject it. Zang said to the memo, that was another quote. And the last quote I want to give you from them is this incident is a humiliation for all Alibaba employees, we must rebuild and we must change he said. And I don't know, ladies and gentlemen, It's hard especially when you have people and you can't keep track of things going on. And so when you have just one or two people that are a loose link, that could be a very, very serious, serious problem. I mean, really serious problem. I'm happy that Xang is on top of this Mr. Daniel Zang. But again, I can't believe anything anybody says until I actually see them take action. So I'm just gonna say right there. I love what he said but I don't believe anybody until I actually see action being taken. Well, YouTube is testing a new drag and hold gesture for controlling video playback. Yep. YouTube only allowed skipping or rewinding a video by tapping on the left or right half of the video player. So now YouTube is reportedly testing this new slide to seek feature for forwarding and rewinding videos on its Android and its iOS app. So users will be able to use a drag and hold gesture to skip to their favorite parts of video. Pretty interesting, slide left or right to speak. So they're trying different things and we'll have to see kind of what happens.
John C. Morley
Okay, so Marcus is just going to join us in just a minute, so we can wrap up with him. Beauty of using slack. Sometimes when weather is a challenge, that can be a slight problem, right? So with all this going on, I'm very thankful to have my water at my desk. It's amazing because, everything you hear about today is about a persuasion. We talked about millennials. And they said that millennials were typically anyone born between 1981 and 1996. That was what they said. So millennials-- just to give you the heads up, your Millennials are 1981 to 1996. So that's basically to 40. A generation X is 1965 to 1980. Boomers too is a 1955 to 1964. So again, a generation X would be someone 41 to 56, a boomers would be 57 to 66. And if you're Generation Z, well, that means you're only nine to 24 years old. And you're basically were born between 1997 and 2012. The thing that I've noticed a lot with these different generations is people are looking for identity to their previous generation and older generation. But sometimes they don't get the right information. We'll see if Marcus is going to join us here. Hopefully, he'll be back in a moment
John C. Morley
When it's all real time, so hopefully he'll be back here in a moment. But before I do wrap up the show and we'll do give Marcus just a second to join us back again. I think it comes down to this, ladies and gentlemen. It comes down to understanding culture. It comes down comes down to understanding your value as a person. And you've heard me say this once before. Welcome back, Marcus, how are you? We missed you for a few moments. Do you have some bad weather there?
Marcus Hart
Yeah, got some bad weather going on here.
John C. Morley
What do you have thunderstorms?
Marcus Hart
Yeah, thunderstorms, real bad severe thunderstorms.
John C. Morley
Well, we're just wrapping up. So we were just talking about the new feature that YouTube's gonna be launching, they're testing out data on the Android and the iOS devices July to skip forward by scrolling back and scrolling forward, that's gonna be a slide function. They're testing that out. So we'll see when they're going to roll that up. But we're just kind of wrapping up with everybody and talking about two things, which was the different generations. Regardless of what the generations are, it's important that everybody understands that they need to all understand their culture, they need to understand who they are as a person. And I think sometimes the generations and cross generations get blurred because their identities, they look for somebody usually older than them. And when they do that, and that generation does not have the right message, It kind of destroys them. And so the generation that they're supposed to be or act like gets changed because of what somebody else says. And I always think to be honest with you, it's best to learn about your generation from your generation. So if you have somebody that's a millennial, and I mean, if you have somebody that's a generation X, and you want to-- so I think it's okay that you talk with them and you have friends with them. But I think it's really important that you don't make your life changes, basically what anyone else says. But it's really important that you never do it from someone who's not in your generation. So if you say, Well, he does this, He says what? Well, you don't need to act like that. And I think that's what's messing everything up right now. Because they're all feeling they could just do what they want, or, oh, well, my brother does it and he's, like, 10 years old. Well, that doesn’t mean it's right. And that's the biggest problem I see is that it's a respect issue. It's a cultural issue. And I just really wished that our generations would more embrace each other rather than trying to be the heroes of each generation.
Marcus Hart
I like that. That's well said, John. And I couldn't agree any more. There is a lot of people trying to play hero ball nowadays instead of just trying to figure out what their purpose is, and just really trying to be within their respective generations.
John C. Morley
Yeah, I think that's important and I think it's important not to prejudice. Like I said to you whether no prejudice for any reason, but especially not for anything, but also not for generations. And I think you have to understand the limitations of a generation and an age group to know what you can ask them to do and what not. And I think it comes down to a maturity level, Marcus. I know when I was a lot younger, I was a grown up as an adult when I probably was in my teens, because I had run my parents business. And I think that's a problem with a lot of people, they go and they get an internship, they know what they want, Marcus? They want to get paid. They don't want to really learn. So it's not easy. And I'm finding that a lot of generations out there-- there are a few that are good eggs, I will say that, but there's a lot that like okay, what are you going to hand me? What are you going to do? Well, no, you're going to train me, you're going to teach me you're going to pay me, right? And you see, our culture has taught this Marcus, you go work for a call center, oh, we're gonna pay you and we're gonna pay you while we train you. Why should we pay you while we train you? You're not able to do the job yet. So that's a serious problem, but we'll just have to see what happens. And then we also just told people be careful when it comes to cryptocurrencies, because a lot of hacking going on, and make sure you're dealing with a legitimate company because a lot of these companies, they're anonymous and they could just disappear off the earth tomorrow and so could your money.
Marcus Hart
That's true.
John C. Morley
But we also talked about the Sony some speaker was coming out, and it's $443 or 32,000 rupees, expensive speaker, 25 hours of time, that's a lot. I can think of a lot of other speakers that are not. They claim it's gonna have some woofers in it and []. And it's going to give you a surround sound, but I can think of a lot of other speakers that are better than 443 dollars and it gives some killer sound. And has some lights on it too. But anyway, that's pretty much you know where we're at. And I know we have to kind of wrap up, I was kind of waiting for you to come back in. So basically, that's where we're at, Ladies and Gentlemen, we had a pretty good show tonight. And I want you to encourage you that when you think about technology, or you're thinking about something, think about what your strengths are, how can you help somebody else? And sometimes people don't want mentoring, but a lot of people do. And the good eggs are the ones that mentor others. The other good eggs are the ones that want to be mentees. If you find somebody who wants to be mentored, that's a good egg. You want to somebody wants to be a mentee, they're a good egg. So if they're coming to you as a mentee, and you're a mentor, and you have the skills, and you have the time, I would tell you to pass it on, because that person might just bring you insights, the things that you didn't really see before. Well, we do need to wrap up our show unfortunately. And I do want to encourage you that if you have an idea for a show, go to jmor.com click on reach out us on the right hand side. Tell us about it. We'll review your information. Remember it has to be educational, it can't be a sales pitch. Or if you have a product you'd like us to unbox and review, go to our site as well and let us know. We unbox and review lots of products. Like I've told you before. If you're looking for us to take your lemons and squeeze them into lemonade, please just keep your product or throw it in the garbage because I'm not gonna do you any favors. I had a light The other day I reviewed and I gave it a very bad. It looked really nice. And I gave it a few points because it had good construction, but had expensive bulb and it was no better than my LED in the ceiling. And every time you had a buy a light-bulb, it was more than the fixture. That tells you got the right wrong product. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you've enjoyed the JMOR Tech talk show today. We have a great show coming up next week. We have some amazing authors. We have a gentleman coming up in September, that is a master of remote killing.
Marcus Hart
Wow.
John C. Morley
So we have some amazing guests coming up. And I think you're gonna really enjoy some of those that are coming up in September. So unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, I do have to say goodbye to everyone. I wish you guys a great weekend. Please share the content. And if this is resonating with you, pick some friends and let them know about the JMOR Tech talk show. Show us some love. Okay. Have a great one, everyone. Thank you for tuning in to the JMOR Weekly Technology Show where we answer your questions about how technology is supposed to work and sometimes why you have challenges getting it to work that way. For more IP support and tips, just text IT support to 888-111, that's IT support to 888-111 and you'll get tips on technology. I'll see you next week right here on the JMOR Tech Talk Show.