May 15, 2019
It's 7:38 on a Wednesday, Craig is on with Ken and Matt. Today Craig gave Ken some instructions on how to upgrade his Windows machine. They also talked about the Pokemon region in the brains of the adults who played the game as kids, and how Facebook is a government protected monopoly.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 05/15/2019
Risks Of Upgrading Windows - Pokemon Changed Our Brains - New Google Privacy Feature Coming
Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody Craig Peterson here. This morning, I
got to answer some questions. I helped Ken out with how to upgrade
his Windows machine. Gave some, I think the best advice possible
when it comes to an upgrade. And it's not just upgrades for Windows
but we talked a little bit about Mac, I gave him some hints on what
to do, because on his Mac, he's got windows seven, as well as Mac
OS, he's got to get to Windows 10. So we talked about that. We
talked about a Pokemon region in the brain of adults. Now this is
kind of cool, too. And why is Facebook a government protected
monopoly? What's that all about? And Google, automatically deleting
our data? So all of that and a couple extra things too this morning
with Ken and Matt. It was kind of a fun time again today. What a
week. Alright, guys, we will be back Saturday with our weekly radio
show wrap up. Take care of and I have a big warning too but you'll
hear that right near the beginning.
Matt Gagnon 1:05
He's back ladies and gentlemen Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He's
at this time every Wednesday. And it happens to be Wednesday at
this time. So he's back again. Craig, How are you this morning?
Craig 1:18
I'm doing great. How are you guys?
Ken Altshuler 1:19
You know, the other day I was going to email you because I had a
question. I forgot what it was. But another question has come up
since then you have recommended everybody should upgrade to Windows
10. Correct?
Craig 1:30
At the very least Yes. And there's a huge, by the way, a huge I
mean, how does President Trump pronounce it? There's a huge which
is a new pronunciation, security vulnerability on every Intel
processor made since 2011. I mean, we haven't had anything this bad
in like for ever. So those people that are on my email list and my
text list are going to get a link today with more information. But
this came out yesterday. And all of the major guys Microsoft and
Apple have already issued patches are there they're working on
they've got them done. They should be out soon. But this is we've
never seen anything this bad before. Thanks Intel. But of course
your iPhones are fine. And other Samsung Galaxies and anything
that's not using an Intel chip is ok. But this is like the hugest
security problem we have seen I think maybe in a decade or two so
anyway.
Ken 2:43
So when I upgrade to Windows 10. And is it something I can do or do
I need somebody who knows something about computers like Matt could
do it for me?
Craig 2:50
Well, if you can't handle...
Matt 2:53
He says this in the wake by the way of me having to clean up his
computer last Friday.
Ken 2:56
Evidently I had asked Jeeves on it. I don't know how I put it on
and they really made fun of me and and I was ashamed. They
shamed me.
Matt 3:06
He was shamed.
Ken 3:08
So I used to think I was somewhat tech savvy for an old man. But is
it something I do myself?
Craig 3:15
I knew you had that it was coming. I knew that you had that sound
bite.
Matt 3:19
I got it on ready all the time.
Craig 3:21
Well, if you can't handle tabs on your browser, I think there's a
little bit of a clue there. But here's the here's the bottom line,
here's the recommendation. If you aren't going to upgrade to
Windows 10. And this is true, particularly with Windows, but really
kind of any operating system. Here's what I do, I don't upgrade,
what I do is I make sure I have two backups of my computer. I do a
virgin install, I do completely wipe the computer, reformat the
hard disk, and particularly with Windows. And then I get it
installed, I get it all patched up up to date. And then I get the
newest versions of the software that I had been running. And then I
restore my files from backup. I don't restore the whole
backup.
Ken 4:15
This is not going to happen. For me to do that is impossible.
Just so you know.
Craig 4:24
So you need help then. We knew that. You need help with your
computer then Ken. And yes, absolutely. And here's why I do that.
And here's why I recommend people that have the ability to do it,
do it. There are, and this is kind of a technical term, but there
are turds all over your computer. Okay. The Ask Jeeves.
Ken 4:48
Matt fixed that for me.
Matt 4:49
I did. I got rid of it.
Craig 4:50
Yeah. Yeah, he got rid of it. And all these plugins remember when
people were installing these bars on their browsers, right?
Probably Ask Jeeves, yeah, don't do that people including today.
But there's just all of these remnants from over the years that are
there things are partially configured, the poorly configured. Your
Windows machine crash right in the middle of updating the registry,
all kinds of things happen there's a power failure, which never
happens in Maine. There's a power failure when you're doing
something and that messed up stuff just enough so the computer
works but some things get weird and get slow, etc, etc. So that's
why I recommend you just do a from scratch install, and then
restore just your files. Now Apple is a little bit different. Apple
can still have some of these types of problems. Apple doesn't use a
registry, it has a much better system. But like even with that,
there are different types of problems with your computer. So when
you do an upgrade on the apple, it takes some liberties and cleans
things up on your behalf. But every two or three or four major
releases of Apple operating system, I advise people to make sure
you've got at least one good time machine backup, which is the
built in backup software with Apple. And with Apple, you can have
two or more copies of your backups. So have two USB drives, plug
them in, put them both on time machine, leave it alone for flow,
you can use the computer but leave the backup alone for a few days.
It'll backup everything. You'll have two copies, and then do a from
scratch install. And then with a time machine backup, you can just
restore the user account information. So all of your files and
things and and then just reload your programs to stuff. So it's
really good. It's like a then we take it to your car into the
dealer and get an oil change. You get your transmission fluid
changed, the coolant changed, everything changed. It's a good idea
to do that with your computers and the way you do it is to good
backups and then that thing out and start from scratch.
Matt 7:11
Craig Peterson tech guru joins us Wednesdays at this time to go
over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig I'm too
curious to not ask about this one. The Pokemon thing. I mean, I so
there's some people who played as kids have some sort of brain
scan, the brain scan is revealed that there's a region their brain
that essentially tells you that they played this game like explain
this thing.
Craig 7:34
Yeah. Yeah.
Matt 7:35
And why is that? Like what happened?
Craig 7:36
Pokemon. Well, here's what happened. This is just amazing. This is
specifically that now any Pokemon gaming when you were young, now,
you know, you had to do a fair amount of it, right? But any Pokemon
gaming when you were younger, throws this little switch in your
brain. But they found that particularly people who played Pokemon
on Game Boys from the 1990s, are apparently kind of very
susceptible for that. It's kind of cool, because here's what
happened. They did an experiment, they did a brain study with some
of these people who played Pokemon when they were kids. And they
wanted to know, did it affect their brains? And you know how many
years we've been talking about stuff like this right? Violent video
games. Does that make you violent as an adult and stuff? Right. And
I know, Matt, you've been saying no, it doesn't, right?
Matt 8:35
No, it does not.
Craig 8:36
Yeah, exactly. So I thought. So they scan the participants brains.
These were all self selected, and everything. You know how that
goes. So this wasn't like the best sort of study in the world,
showing them images of all 150 original Pokemon. And they were
showing them eight at a time and they mixed in other images, like
animals faces, cars, words, hallways, other cartoons. And what they
found in experienced players was a specific region of the brain
responded more to Pokemon than to any other images. Absolutely
amazing. This was the, you know, the occipital region, which is the
rear back of the brain here. It's the occipital temporal sulcus. I
think it is. S-U-L-C-U-S. Some will know how to pronounce that. But
it was absolutely amazing. And novices did not have this region
respond in any different way to anything. So basically, Pokemon
programmed your brain to selectively notice Pokemons more than
anything else as part of a theory called extra sensory bias. And it
suggests the size of the images and the types we're looking at. And
even in your peripheral vision, by the way, will make your brain
respond. So fascinating. You know, what, what does that tell us? I
don't know.
Matt 10:07
You got to catch them all. That's what it tells you.
Craig 10:10
Yeah. Exactly. So you've been programmed Matt, and you just don't
realize it.
Matt 2:50
I'd like to make clear with the audience that I did not actually
play that game growing up, but I am familiar with it.
Ken 10:20
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us Wednesdays
at 7:38. Is Facebook a monopoly Mr. Peterson?
Matt 10:27
What does that have to do with milkshakes? I guess I didn't follow
that.
Craig 10:32
Wow, man, we could go on for hours. But here's the bottom line, not
just milkshakes, Matt, but hamburgers. And there's a great example.
This is an article that I have up on my website from Amgreatness.
And Ray Kroc. Of course, you might remember the story of the start
of McDonald's, right? A couple of brothers had a hamburger stand.
And it was amazing. And so Ray Kroc visited them trying to sell
milkshake mixer, and was wondering why they needed four up
milkshake mixer for such a small stand. The story evolved into
McDonald's and, and he took what they had done and license issues
everything else in the legal side. So the point here is that with
the way the patent laws are today, they go far beyond what most
people think the Constitution requires. They now have patent laws
that allow you to patent processes, business processes, for
instance. And it's gotten to the point where companies like
Facebook, have patents on things that were obvious next steps, that
even the patent law says aren't supposed to be issued. But the
patent office is so overrun their patent issuing patents for things
that should never been patented. And so now you have companies
like, like Facebook out there, and Microsoft, who have patents on
things that may be shouldn't have been issued, I don't think most
of them should have been issued. So they can have and they don't
have any competition. You know, we have people being that deep
platform, we have conservative voices saying, Hey, listen, we're,
we're not able to make any money anymore, because YouTube has cut
us off, Facebook has cut us off, etc, etc. We should have five
different alternatives out there for people to go to if Facebook or
YouTube or someone else does something that kicks them off. And
they say, Well, fine, I'm going to like conservative Facebook
called XYZ book or whatever it might be. But we don't. And a lot of
the reason for that is the state of the patent laws. And I
personally have said for a very long time, we've got to change
them. With technology moving the way it is, we are hindering our
progress in the technology world in a huge way, by allowing these
corporations, big ones and small ones, to take an obvious idea
patented, and then use the federal government to be there and for
sure, for what's now effectively a protected monopoly.
Matt 13:08
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us at
this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world
of technology. I guess the last question for us in the last couple
minutes we have here Craig I'd love to ask you about about Google
and deleting our data. This obviously sort of goes into privacy
questions and everything we've been talking about recently in the
online space. Will they be deleting my data? What do I need to know
about this?
Craig 13:34
Yeah, you can manually go in right now and get a bunch of your data
deleted manually. There's some simple on off controls for location,
history, web app activity. But you have to go into your Google
account constantly to delete it and ask for it to be deleted. So
Google has a new rollout coming within a month or so that is called
auto delete controls. So you will be able to go in and I'll let you
guys know when this happens, right. So you can go and turn it on.
But you'll be able to go in and say, I want to place a limit. And
you'll have the amount of time Google you keep my history, my web,
my app activity, my location, I want to put a limit on that. And
you will get to choose between three months and 18 months, and the
data will be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. So this is
really good news. It comes in the wake of Facebook staring down at
$2 billion fine, the largest in history, I think Google is kind of
getting the impression that maybe we don't want all of our data
tracked. So this is a good thing. I'll let you a little more when
it happens. I'm also going to be putting info up on the top of my
homepage today about this Intel vulnerability. It is huge. It's the
worst ever. Update update update people. Bottom line.
Ken 15:01
Craig Peterson, tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. This
not being an exception. Thank you very much. And I will let you
know how my upgrade of Windows 10 by myself does next week.
Craig 15:12
So you're upgrading from XP. What are you doing?
Ken 15:15
No. Windows 7 because I have a Mac it's on my VM Fusion side of my
Mac.
Craig 15:21
Okay, so a little hint here, before you do this, because you're
using Fusion, VMware Fusion, you can take a snapshot of your
Windows machine before you upgrade it.
Ken 15:35
How do I do that?
Craig 15:36
Okay, you go into your fusion, and you click on the machine because
you got a virtual machine, a Windows 7 machine, and then it has
snapshot up in the menu at the top. And just go to snapshot and say
take snapshot. And it'll it'll it'll completely preserve absolutely
everything in your Windows machine. And then you can go ahead and
do the upgrade and everything goes.
Ken 15:58
Nice. I'm going to do that right you now. Thank you.
Craig 16:01
You can roll back.
Ken 16:02
All right. Thank you so much. There you go.
Matt 16:02
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is Craig Peterson. American
hero and friend of the show. Joins us every Wednesday at this time
to go over the world of technology.
Ken 16:10
American hero.
Matt 16:12
American hero. Coming up at 8:08. we have our eye on politics team
and Jeremy Fisher
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