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Speaker 1: On January first, the Online Protection for Minors or HB
Speaker 1: three Law goes into effect here in the state of Florida.
Speaker 1: This is the whole no miners under the age of
Speaker 1: whatever on social media and adults websites are going to
Speaker 1: be required to, you know, verify the age of its users.
Speaker 1: With that comes the news that Pornhub has made Florida
Speaker 1: the latest state that will be blacklist did and inaccessible
Speaker 1: as of January first. The bill, signed in March of
Speaker 1: this year, focuses on limiting children's access to social media platforms.
Speaker 1: It also requires pornographic or sexual explicit websites to use
Speaker 1: age verification to prevent minors from accessing sites that are
Speaker 1: inappropriate for children. To do this, this is where the
Speaker 1: porn hub part comes in. To do this, sites would
Speaker 1: have to use an official form of identification, something that
Speaker 1: porn Hub is not in favor of Ther's president for this.
Speaker 1: They've already done this in several other states that have
Speaker 1: similar laws. They say, rather than even jump through the
Speaker 1: hoops and worry about getting dinged for violating the law,
Speaker 1: they're just going to block access to anybody trying to
Speaker 1: access it from Florida. It doesn't matter what age you are,
Speaker 1: just on principle. Now, keep in mind those of you
Speaker 1: are tech savvy, know you go swerve right around this
Speaker 1: and use.
Speaker 2: A VPNVPM from so Okay, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's the bottom line here.
Speaker 2: I was almost just opening a business in my head
Speaker 2: called porn hubcap which is open to all. Okay, but
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it anymore VPN.
Speaker 1: In some other tech related Florida tech related news, a
Speaker 1: guy posing as a Volusha County official is arrested for
Speaker 1: scamming forty eight thousand dollars worth of Starlink kits from
Speaker 1: a vendor. Keith Mirard is a twenty six year old
Speaker 1: dude out of Miramar in South Florida. He was booked
Speaker 1: into Broward County Jail this week charging of an organized
Speaker 1: scheme to defraud in criminal use of personal identification. This
Speaker 1: according to the Vlusha County Sheriff's office. In October, a
Speaker 1: company that sells Starlink satellite kits became suspicious of a
Speaker 1: high end order from Vlusha County's purchasing director, which turned
Speaker 1: out to be a fake order. So what this guy
Speaker 1: is doing, He was posing as the director of purchasing
Speaker 1: for Valusha County making these setting up a delivery, say
Speaker 1: you know, and then pay for it later type they'll
Speaker 1: bill me, you know, ninety days out or whatever. And
Speaker 1: his stuff was being delivered to a warehouse or a
Speaker 1: storage place in South Florida. And they connected all the
Speaker 1: dots and this guy was taking the stuff and then
Speaker 1: trying to sell it off and convert the funds into
Speaker 1: crypto so he couldn't be traced.
Speaker 2: I saw chit would crack the hammer on this dude. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So his his little uh fraud parties over. Speaking of Starlink,
Speaker 2: told you about this a while back. T Mobile and
Speaker 2: Starlink teaming up to provide a service which we'll have
Speaker 2: blanket coverage when it comes to cell phone use here
Speaker 2: on planet Earth, utilizing these Starlink you know, network of
Speaker 2: satellites low over its satellites to fill in the blank
Speaker 2: spots where there's no cell phone or real poor cell
Speaker 2: phone service. Yeah, they've already now are accepting people who
Speaker 2: want to beta test program nicknamed Cell Towers in Space. Now, obviously,
Speaker 2: if you live and operate in an area where your
Speaker 2: cell service is perfectly fine, you're not going to need
Speaker 2: to sign up for this beta program. But if you
Speaker 2: live in an area where the cell phone service sucks,
Speaker 2: or you travel a lot to places where it's bad,
Speaker 2: and you're a T Mobile customer, you might want to
Speaker 2: look into being a beta tester for Cell Towers in Space. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean think about driving to the mountains or whatever.
Speaker 2: If you have you're going on a trip to the
Speaker 2: mountains as you did recently, you'll have you can hit
Speaker 2: your hotspot and still do your work or whatever all
Speaker 2: your wants driving.
Speaker 1: This will eventually do away with the traditional satellite phone
Speaker 1: that you see in the movies, you know, and they
Speaker 1: got to hold it up and find a signal out
Speaker 1: in the middle of the desert or something. The Supreme
Speaker 1: Court has said they will hear TikTok's appeal of you know,
Speaker 1: the dictate that that the US version of TikTok be
Speaker 1: divested and sold off to a non Chinese entity or
Speaker 1: face being you know, not offered here in the US anymore.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is going to take up the oral
Speaker 1: arguments on January tenth. Ironically, the head of TikTok in
Speaker 1: the US was able to get an audience with President
Speaker 1: elect Trump down at mar A Lago earlier this week,
Speaker 1: so you know, they're trying to come some sort of
Speaker 1: solution here over the mandate that TikTok divests themselves of
Speaker 1: their Chinese owners here in the United States. We'll see
Speaker 1: what the Supreme Court has to say on that. The
Speaker 1: Federal Trade Commission officially banning hidden junk fees from hotel
Speaker 1: and ticket prices good. The FTC has approved a new
Speaker 1: rule preventing hotels and ticket sellers from hiding extra fees
Speaker 1: associated with a purchase. Under the rule, businesses must provide
Speaker 1: upfront disclosure of the total price of a hotel, stay,
Speaker 1: vacation rental, or live event tickets before checkout. No more
Speaker 1: of this. Hey, you're whatever is forty five dollars and
Speaker 1: then you get to the checkout and it's all of
Speaker 1: a sudden balloon to you know, hundred and forty five dollars.
Speaker 1: We'll expect that, they say to be implemented early twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. AI. Here you go, Taco Bob, your requested
Speaker 1: AI stories. AI poses a threat to the North American
Speaker 1: electricity grid. According to a watchdog group, North America's electricity
Speaker 1: grid faces critical reliability challenges as power generation fails to
Speaker 1: keep pace with the surging demand from artificial intelligence. Soaring
Speaker 1: electricity consumption in the next decade, coupled with the closure
Speaker 1: of coal fired plants, will place huge strains on both
Speaker 1: the US and Canadian grids. The shortfall could cause blackouts
Speaker 1: during peak demand periods in both countries and will be
Speaker 1: worsened by delays in adding solar generation capacity, batteries, and
Speaker 1: hybrid resources to the grid. We're just not ready for
Speaker 1: primetime yet with the strain that's going to be put
Speaker 1: on the electrical great as the translation.
Speaker 2: Here, yeah and blackouts are bad news. I mean, when
Speaker 2: you're in the dead of winter up north, you know,
Speaker 2: forty below and you have a blackout and no power.
Speaker 1: This is interesting most iPhone and Android phone users for
Speaker 1: that most part, if you have a newer, an updated
Speaker 1: iPhone or androids, you know that AI capabilities are now
Speaker 1: being packaged in. They asked iPhone and Android users, Hey,
Speaker 1: so how's it going utilizing the AI capabilities of your phone?
Speaker 1: Most like not using. Don't really see a difference, and
Speaker 1: don't really use it at this point, you know, not
Speaker 1: for nothing here. I think there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: who hear the term AI or artificial intelligence. Okay, I
Speaker 1: hear it's I'm not quite sure what it is, maybe
Speaker 1: kind of like mahole crypto coin type stuff. You know
Speaker 1: what it is, but you're not quite sure what you
Speaker 1: do with it or all the ins and outs of it,
Speaker 1: not yet anyway exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you google something on your phone, AI
Speaker 2: generated thing takes care of it already, so you're kind
Speaker 2: of I've been using it even though I'm against using it.
Speaker 1: And finally there's this. America's political divide is likely to
Speaker 1: get even wider thanks to a new real estate platform
Speaker 1: that lets potential buyers see the political affiliations of their
Speaker 1: future neighbors. Oh god, so you're thinking of moving to wherever.
Speaker 2: Nope, there's a Republican next door.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm moving to No libby neighborhood with everybody.
Speaker 2: Seriously, just just deep rough, relax and remember it's the
Speaker 2: holiday time. Be nice to everybody, your neighbors especially.
Speaker 1: Let's have a nice holiday season. Retool, get ready for
Speaker 1: a new year, and hopefully, you know, we'll see some
Speaker 1: positive moves that will benefit everybody.
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