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Tonight on CEP!Marc finds an article that explains the extreme disparity between backward, slow, reactionary government, and ultra-rapid Silicon Valley. Disaster will ensue.BMW's unpopular heated seat…

Tonight on CEP!Marc …

Tonight on CEP!Marc finds an article that explains the extreme disparity between backward, slow, reactionary government, and ultra-rapid Silicon Valley. Disaster will ensue.BMW's unpopular heated seat subscription service surfaces in South Korea.The delusional "recurring revenue" cult spreads to other automakers.What's going to save us? Laws that prohibit rentals? That would just create tons of chaos. So what's going to save us? I've got the answer.Unbeknownst to most of humanity, every picture you take is usually sucked into a cloud service. Lately, the cloud service is starting to peruse you…

Today on CEP! We're coming at you from Cousin Joey's garage on the coast of Maine! We discuss:The 2022 prediction that electrification will make cars unattainable for the Average Joey.A real-world sol…

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Today on CEP! We're coming at you from Cousin Joey's garage on the coast of Maine! We discuss:The 2022 prediction that electrification will make cars unattainable for the Average Joey.A real-world solution to BMW's unreal scheme to rent people features in their own cars."Nothing controlled by software is safe."How Skynet is already here, it's just not run by the AI yet.The McLaren "Artura... has so much technology baked in," it's like a disobedient smartphone, at 1,000 times the price.Do TIRES pollute more than TAILPIPES?The Myers Manx "dune buggy" is resurrected as an EV - but is it out yet?W…

This morning on CEP!What is The Second-System Effect?Another scam arrives in the mail: DOMAIN LISTINGS is a scam organization that tells you your website is about to expire, then asks for $288 for ABS…

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This morning on CEP!What is The Second-System Effect?Another scam arrives in the mail: DOMAIN LISTINGS is a scam organization that tells you your website is about to expire, then asks for $288 for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.More ways Amazon crushes its own sellers, and how incredibly ineffective Congress is to stop them. What's the only thing that can save us from them?The Light Bulb Conspiracy and other products designed to die.Should Full Self-Driving be banned? Should Waymo (ha!) be banned?How Instagram tracks everything you do, within its built-in browser.Australian courts discover the Google Hist…

This morning on CEP!I interview rising star YouTube gamer "Grand Captain Speedy Dash" (best gamer name ever)Yes, rather than watch TV shows, young people now watch each other play video gamesWe discus…

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This morning on CEP!I interview rising star YouTube gamer "Grand Captain Speedy Dash" (best gamer name ever)Yes, rather than watch TV shows, young people now watch each other play video gamesWe discuss the upstart Amico console, inspired by Intellivision and WiiWe then explain the DRM scandal and read excerpts from my forthcoming book!Any music, movies, or video games that are infected with DRM mean they're completely dependent on their creators, and can be rendered useless at any time.Since it can never prevent piracy, logically, it can only punish those who were trying to do the right thing …

This morning on CEP!We discuss the Retirement of Microsoft's chronically insecure Internet Explorer, and what it was mainly used for.Volkswagen wants to set up EV battery recycling plants throughout E…

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This morning on CEP!We discuss the retirement of Microsoft's chronically insecure Internet Explorer, and what it was mainly used for.Volkswagen wants to set up EV battery recycling plants throughout Europe, and a comment from a techie that left us pleasantly surprisedVW's 2026 ID.Buzz electric microbus takes a break - learn why I think they'll become collector's items!Microsoft created the Surface Tablet, an extremely thin and sleek laptop the size of a tablet. It was great, but brittle as a graham cracker. Then in the early 2020s, the KANO PC came along. It was fairly easy for kids to build a…

Today on CEP! I interview longtime friend Pastor Domenic and we explore some profound topics:Are new scams truly new?Is all technology truly bad?Rather than throw our gizmos away, can we get them to t…

Today on CEP! I inte…

Today on CEP! I interview longtime friend Pastor Domenic and we explore some profound topics:Are new scams truly new?Is all technology truly bad?Rather than throw our gizmos away, can we get them to those who need them?Where does our talent come from?Geofencing: You're controlled based on your locationThe European Union requiring cars to SLOW THEMSELVES DOWN according to the speed limit.If the robots take over, what happens to all those people who need work?Is the Garden of Eden scene happening again?Can AI have a soul?A group of Swedes measured how long it took to perform an operation on a mo…

Tonight on CEP, it's Torment a Scammer!The first call is a Paypal-Bitcoin scammer, trying to convince me that someone hacked into my computer and that's how they got into my paypal account (not at all…

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Tonight on CEP, it's Torment a Scammer!The first call is a Paypal-Bitcoin scammer, trying to convince me that someone hacked into my computer and that's how they got into my paypal account (not at all how it works, but most people believe it). Foghorn misinterprets his instructions and take him on a wild ride.One lady did the usual "russia, nigeria, and dayton ohio" line, and i gave her back my usual "whoa OHIO! i heard that was scary!"Next, Foghorn gets a fake email from a geek squad impostor. I called and drove the lady nuts. Every time a guy asked me how I was, I'd keep saying "I'm fine, ho…

This morning on CEP!How Apple and Facebook themselves fell for a scam!Whenever ANYONE puts an ad on Facebook, immediately scammers try to scare you into thinking you've violated a copyright, and lure …

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This morning on CEP!How Apple and Facebook themselves fell for a scam!Whenever ANYONE puts an ad on Facebook, immediately scammers try to scare you into thinking you've violated a copyright, and lure you into a trapHow cell phone manufacturers are FINALLY designing phones to be a little more repairable - and what it took to get them there.If you want to save $ and care about the environment, repair your phone instead of replacing it!Fan mail from clients who were told they needed overkill Internet connectionsOne day, all of a sudden Twitter users noticed their numbers of followers went dramati…

This morning on CEP!Nepalese youth, sick of starving while their rulers flaunted their wealth, used social media to overthrow and rebuild their government.Chromebooks (those cheapie laptops your schoo…

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This morning on CEP!Nepalese youth, sick of starving while their rulers flaunted their wealth, used social media to overthrow and rebuild their government.Chromebooks (those cheapie laptops your school district blew millions on) come with an expiration date. Surprise! If you keep using this past the date, you miiiight get viruses, or websites won't work anymore! At that point, they want you to throw them away, but I have found a solution that could save millions of dollars, computers, and kids.They knocked down the 3G cell towers so we all had to buy new smartphones. But wait - what about all …

This morning on CEP! I start going through articles, and then a surprise special guest stops by. We catch up on some articles:Not only are VPNs unnecessary for normal consumers, but they introduce ton…

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This morning on CEP! I start going through articles, and then a surprise special guest stops by. We catch up on some articles:Not only are VPNs unnecessary for normal consumers, but they introduce tons of side effectsHundreds of HP printer models feature a critical-severity vulnerability... on top of the sanctioned malice from HP itself.Senior communities add local tech support as one of their perks, and people need itThe third generation of iPhone SE - the perfectly fine $399 alternative to the thousand-dollar iPhones they try to push on seniorsApple's plot to RENT you the iPhone so they can …

It's time to take a break from articles to have some fun! Most of y'all know the drill by now: We torment phone scammers and expose to you HOW they deceive, so you can WARN YOUR FRIENDS.A Paypal scamm…

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It's time to take a break from articles to have some fun! Most of y'all know the drill by now: We torment phone scammers and expose to you HOW they deceive, so you can WARN YOUR FRIENDS.A Paypal scammer tells me someone used my account to purchase cryptocurrency. He told me to connect to his "secure server", at which point he would jump into my computer and destroy it. They keep hanging up on me so i keep calling them back. At one point I told them i was attorney Denny Crane and had a lot of Money. He made up a big thing about how spyware and viruses got into popups on my computer and bank acc…

Tonight on CEP!I dig up an old piece of fan mail from a guy who labels my book as "Unacceptable Misinformation" (yet hasn't read it)! He urges people to do updates, but is completely unaware of their …

Tonight on CEP!I dig…

Tonight on CEP!I dig up an old piece of fan mail from a guy who labels my book as "Unacceptable Misinformation" (yet hasn't read it)! He urges people to do updates, but is completely unaware of their downsides. I explain (yet again) how an update fixes one thing and breaks a few other things, slows your machine down massively, and can never, ever protect you against The New Threats, such as fear-based Support Scams.What IBM execs called their older employees, and what they Love doing with anything old.How to use an old tablet as a portable monitor, as long as you understand the caveats.Tesla's…