Speaker 1: What happens if you don't accept those cookies? So where
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Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 3: This is tech Talk, brought to you by sky Natch.
Speaker 2: Mark Saltzman joins us in talk tech. It's been a
Speaker 2: couple of days.
Speaker 4: How you've been, Mark, Yeah, I don't think we've ever
Speaker 4: gone two weeks or three weeks without doing this segment.
Speaker 4: But well, yeah, a little you know, traveling a lot.
Speaker 4: So well we'll get into your travel here in just
Speaker 4: a minute.
Speaker 1: We have a little blow up Mark Saltzman doll that
Speaker 1: we have when you're gone for longer than a week
Speaker 1: that we rely on. We put them up right here
Speaker 1: in the studio. So yeah, so I often wonder this Mark,
Speaker 1: do I really have to accept those cookies? And what
Speaker 1: does it all mean? Does it just mean do I
Speaker 1: accept that they're taking more information from me?
Speaker 3: And don't they already have it already?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Essentially there's two kinds of cookies, and yeah, both
Speaker 4: of them are not the tasty kind. But yeah, no
Speaker 4: doubt your listeners when they're on their phone or on
Speaker 4: a laptop or tablet, they've seen when you land on
Speaker 4: a website, do you accept or reject cookies.
Speaker 3: So what are they?
Speaker 4: They're just little bits of information that the website owners
Speaker 4: are getting based on your clicking or you're tapping. So
Speaker 4: there's first party and third party cookies. You do not
Speaker 4: need to accept the third party ones. The good ones
Speaker 4: are where you land on a website, your bank remembers
Speaker 4: your logging infos, so you just have to type in
Speaker 4: your password. You don't have to type in your debit
Speaker 4: card every time, or that when you type in whether
Speaker 4: it knows that you're in La, it's not going to
Speaker 4: give you whether in I don't know Boston. There's advantages
Speaker 4: to first party cookies because it gets to know you
Speaker 4: and where you are geographically. Third party cookies, as my
Speaker 4: friends at McAfee told me in this Reader's Digest article
Speaker 4: that I wrote, are tracking cookies. So these are companies,
Speaker 4: usually advertisers that want to know where you're going on
Speaker 4: the website, where do you click first, and then where
Speaker 4: do you go after that website or where did you
Speaker 4: come from before you landed there that website or app
Speaker 4: that is, and so you may get a prompt saying do.
Speaker 3: You want to accept these? And that's also.
Speaker 4: Called non essential cookies. So the short answer, Shannon and
Speaker 4: Gary is that you will have to accept some or
Speaker 4: you may not be able to use the website at all.
Speaker 4: But you can click to only accept the first party
Speaker 4: ones or essential cookies, and then you can disregard or
Speaker 4: click deny or reject the third party ones where you
Speaker 4: know they want to know more about you. You're still
Speaker 4: going to see ads, mind you, but they won't be
Speaker 4: related to you, So you're going to see ads perhaps
Speaker 4: for diapers when you don't have kids, so it's not
Speaker 4: necessarily evil, but it is tracking your whereabouts and your interests.
Speaker 3: And then obviously they allow you.
Speaker 2: Most of these browsers will allow you to go back
Speaker 2: and clear your cookies.
Speaker 3: Do you do that on a regular basis?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't do it myself, but yeah, it's in
Speaker 4: the article as well if you want to know why
Speaker 4: and how to clear your cookies again. When I've done
Speaker 4: that in the past, then I have to type in
Speaker 4: my information all over again that I don't want to
Speaker 4: type in, like when I log into my mail. I
Speaker 4: don't want my password automatically there, but I want to
Speaker 4: know I want to have my login info all queued
Speaker 4: up right or or again going to your your your
Speaker 4: go to Amazon and if it doesn't remember your credit
Speaker 4: card and then you're going to type it all in
Speaker 4: all over again. It's not convenience. So you've got to
Speaker 4: straddle the line between convenience and peace of mind and
Speaker 4: see what fits within your comfort level.
Speaker 3: Would would you say you had peace of mind when
Speaker 3: you drove up?
Speaker 1: I was going to say, what's going on to the
Speaker 1: important stuff on an F one track?
Speaker 3: No less?
Speaker 4: So yeah, So I went to Italy with AWS, which
Speaker 4: is part of the Amazon family, and then I went
Speaker 4: to Taiwan from Italy to a convention called Computechs. It's
Speaker 4: basically computers as the name suggests. But yeah, Italy was
Speaker 4: fun because AWS has partnered with Formula one, the organization
Speaker 4: to help the teams analyze their racing data, like the
Speaker 4: tele tree of the vehicles. So there's three hundred sensors
Speaker 4: on average on at any given F one car that
Speaker 4: gives data back to the teams on how to shave,
Speaker 4: you know, little milliseconds here and there which can all
Speaker 4: add up. So they brought twenty journalists from around the
Speaker 4: world to kick the tires on this new tech. And yeah,
Speaker 4: and I got a chance to drive a Ferrari on
Speaker 4: an F one track, which was pretty fun. I was
Speaker 4: a little afraid to, you know, because I haven't driven
Speaker 4: like gearshift in I don't know how many decades. But
Speaker 4: it turned out to be like paddles behind the steering wheel.
Speaker 4: So and then one time I took the track was
Speaker 4: just automatic as well. But that, yeah, it was fine.
Speaker 4: I didn't, you know, I was afraid.
Speaker 3: To really push it.
Speaker 4: I got up to I don't know, one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty miles an hour. That was about it on a
Speaker 4: straight away. I was too afraid to go any more
Speaker 4: than that. Maybe one forty but yeah, and some hairpin turns,
Speaker 4: but it was fine. And then again they then they
Speaker 4: we analyzed our performance. We popped the SD card out
Speaker 4: of the car, popped it into a computer, and then
Speaker 4: an engineer walked us through our data and we got
Speaker 4: to watch a race and visit the Ferrari factory. We
Speaker 4: had given our phones, so we couldn't take pictures or anything.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was it was a really cool trip.
Speaker 4: I'm not a huge F one fan, but my friends are,
Speaker 4: and so they were pretty jelly.
Speaker 3: It was a great trip. Yeah, Okay, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Was it one hundred and fifty miles an hour one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty kilometers now.
Speaker 4: Because it was I think one fifty max miles, So
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know what is it one
Speaker 4: ninety two hundred kilometers. I don't even know that the
Speaker 4: one point six I'm trying to think of.
Speaker 3: The two forty one forty aliometer on that. Then I
Speaker 3: was not going that fast.
Speaker 4: I was over two hundred kilometers and that's what the
Speaker 4: stage was in. But was so I'm wrong. It wasn't
Speaker 4: that fast as one hundred and fifty. But honestly, I
Speaker 4: was afraid it was like six hundred thousand euro vehicle.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I did the driving simulation at the
Speaker 1: NASCAR Museum in Charlotte, and I know I was terrified,
Speaker 1: and I knew it was a simulator.
Speaker 4: Well, there was one part where we got to practice drifting.
Speaker 4: They spray part of the track with water and then
Speaker 4: you do basically donuts and you have to you know,
Speaker 4: so you slam on the gas and then you have
Speaker 4: to spin the steering wheel the other way. And I thought,
Speaker 4: I'm from Canada, I know how to drive in the snow.
Speaker 4: This is easy. I'm going to ace this part, but
Speaker 4: it was just it was tough because of so much power,
Speaker 4: you know, under the hood of these vehicles. But it
Speaker 4: was It was a cool trip, and so I wrote
Speaker 4: a piece about if anybody's interested, they can google my name,
Speaker 4: Mark Saltzman, Mark with the Sea and then Formula one
Speaker 4: and you'll see the tie in between tech and sports
Speaker 4: and in this case racing sports motorsports.
Speaker 3: Really it was a fun.
Speaker 2: Trip, very cool and if one is one of those sports,
Speaker 2: I think, at least in the United States, it has
Speaker 2: room to grow. It's gaining popularity and has a lot
Speaker 2: of room to grow.
Speaker 4: I think, aside from soccer, it's the biggest sport in
Speaker 4: the world, but yeah, in the US it still has
Speaker 4: a room to grow. Yeah, I've been to NASCAR events
Speaker 4: as well, including Daytona five hundred. It's obviously a whole
Speaker 4: different animal all together. But yeah, it was a pretty
Speaker 4: exciting being there.
Speaker 3: Very cool. Well lucky you, Mark, Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 4: And I got some nice messages from KFI listeners going
Speaker 4: hey where are you for tech talk Thursday on X
Speaker 4: which was nice.
Speaker 3: So I'm bad good to see you again.
Speaker 2: You likewise, Mark Saltsman, then make sure you follow mark
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