Steam Box, Monkey Love - Tech Addiction Episode 12

**Tech Addiction Episode 12: A Deep Dive into the World of Technology**

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**Introduction**

Welcome back to *Tech Addiction*, where we dive into the wild world of technology, bringing you the latest, craziest, and sometimes downright bizarre stories from the tech industry. In this episode, we’re covering everything from patent trolling to monkey-related mishaps, and even a little bit about toilet paper (yes, really!). So, buckle up, because this one’s going to be a wild ride.

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**Patent Trolls Are on the Rise**

One of the most pressing issues in the tech industry today is the rise of patent trolls—companies that don’t develop any technology themselves but instead sue companies that do. A law professor from the University of Santa Clara decided to dig into this issue and found some staggering numbers. In 2012, a whopping 61% of patent infringement lawsuits were filed by companies or individuals with no track record of developing the technology in question. This is up from 45% in 2011 and just 23% in 2010, showing a clear trend of trolls preying on legitimate businesses.

These companies are essentially “ patent farmers,” spotting unclaimed technologies, patenting them, and then suing anyone who uses the tech without developing anything themselves. It’s a disturbing trend that shows no signs of slowing down.

Speaking of patents, here’s a fun fact: your host has now secured the patent for using paper to wipe your butt. That’s right—every time you blow through, it’s two cents on the nose for me. (Insert evil laugh here.)

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**Lawsuits and Missteps in the Tech World**

Reuter’s recent coverage of a lawsuit involving Widelands suing Research in Motion (RIM) is another example of this patent trolling epidemic. Widelands claims that every single cell phone manufacturer in the world, including RIM, has infringed on its Bluetooth technology. While it’s strange to target RIM—a company known for its struggling BlackBerry line—it makes sense from a business standpoint. After all, suing a company with no money is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Meanwhile, over at Apple, we have another story of corporate missteps. A man in New Zealand bought $1,600 worth of Apple peripherals for just $35 after the company mistakenly undercharged him. When Apple tried to retrieve the items, they sent a kind note apologizing for the error. It’s a classic example of how even big companies can mess up.

But not all tech giants are handling mistakes poorly. Best Buy recently made headlines for doing it right. A woman ordered an iPad and received five instead of one. Instead of trying to reclaim their mistake, Best Buy offered her the extra iPads as a gift, asking her to keep them or donate them. It’s a PR move that could have been planned by a team of branding experts. Kudos to Best Buy for handling this with grace.

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**Twitter vs. Instagram: The Social Media Showdown**

Switching gears, we’re diving into the world of social media and its inner workings. If you’ve noticed your Instagram photos disappearing from your Twitter feed, there’s a reason. It turns out that Twitter is none too happy about Instagram’s recent acquisition by Facebook. As a result, Twitter has removed the code that links Instagram photos to their platform. Now, instead of seeing the actual image in your tweet, you’ll just get a link.

While this might seem like a small inconvenience for users, it’s a significant blow to the seamless sharing experience that made Instagram so popular. For now, Twitter is focusing on its own photo filters and effects, but we’ll miss the days when one post could reach multiple platforms with ease.

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**Valve’s Linux-Based Steam Console: The Future of Gaming**

In exciting news for gamers everywhere, Gabe Newell of Valve dropped some major hints about their future plans. After spending years perfecting their Linux-based Steam system, Valve is now looking to expand into the living room with a console designed to compete with the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation. This new device will allow console gamers to play a wide range of PC games that aren’t available on traditional consoles.

When asked about the openness of this new platform, Newell was clear: it’s going to be a controlled environment where Valve has significant control over what happens on the system. While this might sound restrictive, it also means that developers will have more support in creating high-quality content for the console. It’s an intriguing blend of PC and console gaming, and we’re excited to see how it pans out.

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**When Life Imitates Tech: A Woman vs. Apple and the Cops**

Now, let’s take a trip to the Apple Store where things got *very* interesting. Zhe Li George, a Chinese woman living in Newton, Massachusetts, decided to make a trip to the Pheasant Lane Mall to pick up some iPhones. But what started as a simple shopping excursion turned into a full-blown altercation with police.

George wanted to buy more than two iPhones, but Apple’s store had a limit of two due to shortages of the iPhone 5. When she was asked to leave after trying to purchase four iPhones, George decided to fight back—literally. She started filming everyone in the store, apparently through her daughter, as a way to document what she felt was unfair treatment. The manager wasn’t happy and called the police.

The situation escalated quickly, with George getting into an altercation with the officers. Despite a language barrier (she doesn’t speak English), she continued to resist, leading the mall cops to deploy a taser on her. It’s a bizarre and tragic end to a story that could have been avoided if Apple had handled the situation more carefully.

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**Monkey Business: The Lab Technician Who Went Wild**

Finally, we have this week’s “Technology Dumbass of the Week” award going to Cooley Mitchell, a lab technician at the Georgia Health Sciences University. Mitchell was working in the animal services department when he decided to let loose one night.

According to reports, Mitchell was found naked (pants around his ankles), drunk, and surrounded by monkeys. The incident ended with him being subdued by police, but no harm came to the primates involved. It’s a story so absurd it almost feels made up—but believe us, this one is 100% real.

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**Conclusion**

And there you have it—another wild week in tech! From patent trolls and monkey mishaps to lawsuits and social media showdowns, the world of technology never fails to surprise us. If you haven’t already, make sure to subscribe to *Tech Addiction*, follow your host on Twitter, and check out our Facebook page for all the latest updates.

As always, we hope you enjoyed this week’s episode. Stay tuned for more tech craziness next time, and don’t forget to like, comment, and share if you found this episode as entertaining (and slightly insane) as we did.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys you're watching tech addiction it is episode 12. oh my god i've been doing this for 12 weeks now the time just goes by so fast and we've got some crazy things to cover this week we've got crazy things every single week to cover when it comes to the world of technology but you know it gets a little bit serious when old women are getting tasered by the police for buying too many iphones so i talked about it in a couple of other tech addiction episodes where patent infringement lawsuits are just running rampant in the country and so a law professor of the university of santa clara in california took it upon himself to do some research about how many patent infringement lawsuits actually involve companies that developed the technology that the patent is being covered under for instance i've already said that a lot of companies do nothing more than go out and find technologies that haven't been properly patented get the patent on it and then sue the company to actually develop the technology or another company that's using the technology without ever actually developing anything themselves so this law professor decided he wants to know what the figures look like for these companies that are going out and doing nothing but getting patents and he found that 61 of the technology infringing patent lawsuits happening in 2012 being initiated by companies and individuals that had never actually developed anything then cells whatsoever they have absolutely no track record of developing anything creating anything or having any sort of intellectual property whatsoever all they did was realize that something wasn't patented went out patented it and are now suing these larger companies now this number 61 in 2012 is up from 45 in 2011 and up from 23 back in 2010 so you can see a serious trend here where the trolls are really catching on and they're going after legitimate companies when they've never developed anything themselves whatsoever oh and by the way i heard back from the uspto the united states patent and trademark office the use of toilet paper now belongs to me so you know i told you that i was going to get the patent on using paper for wiping your butt guess what every time you wipe a butt now cha-ching yo two cents a quarter speaking of lawsuits reuters did a story about a company by the name of wideland that's now suing rim or research in motion for apparently infringing on some bluetooth technology now this isn't bluetooth technology that only rim is apparently infringing on it's every single cell manufacturer in the world is apparently infringing on this particular patent but right now they've set their sights on rim which is really interesting considering rim doesn't have any money in fact a lot of you are probably going what the hell is rim i've never heard really intense midgets rim stands for research in motion and that is the developer of the blackberry i'm sorry if you own a blackberry i don't mean to offend you but i just can't seem to get that word out all the time you know without you know losing my dinner the same company has apparently launched an entire string of patent infringement lawsuits against various companies like lg apple htc samsung rim obviously i just talked about rim so a few weeks back i brought you a story about a man in new zealand who bought sixteen hundred dollars worth of apple peripherals off of apple's website for a mere thirty five dollars and how apple made a mistake and they accidentally severely undercharged for these accessories and the man bought it up well then apple went and uh you know fetched the package back from ups and then sent the mana statement saying sorry you know we made a mistake and we're taking this stuff back it's a good thing that that story went public because you see best buy best buy made a mistake where a woman ordered an ipad she gets her box and there's five ipads in there she's expecting one and five are in the box so being the good samaritan and honest person that she is she called up best buy corporate and let them know about the situation when they had made a mistake and they accidentally sent her two thousand dollars in extra ipads that she didn't legitimately purchase and she didn't feel right about keeping so best buy corbett wanted a little time to think about it and they went ahead and emailed her back and said in the spirit of the holidays we ask that you go ahead and keep the extra ipads on us as our mistake and uh keep them give them out to friends give them to some charity donate them to a school do whatever you want to do with them but please in christmas spirit keep them this is a really neat story where it goes to show how you know you're a big company you make a mistake and you have an opportunity to look really good in the press so you look at that as just a cheap two thousand dollar publicity stunt maybe not on purpose but had the opportunity of turning it into a great story and now here they are looking like great you know best buy oh we should go to best buy now because they give away free stuff and how many ipads do you think people ordered now hoping that maybe they'll get an extra one chances are you're not gonna this really goes to show how you've got a super company like apple that can look like complete douche bags when it comes to peripherals and you got another huge company like best buy who is willing to eat their mistake and let the customer benefit from their mistake good one best buy this is the way pr should be done so i use twitter i recommend that you all follow me on twitter the link is right down there it's right you know at the bottom here where the description is it's the very first thing it says hey follow me on twitter but i've been realizing as i'm using twitter that hey a lot of my pictures are disappearing and i understand what's happening i just don't get it i take pictures i put them up and then slowly they're disappearing and i'm going what the hell is going on but then it dawned on me i use instagram and i use i like to use instagram because i can take one picture in one place and link it to all my social media at the same time saves you a lot of time because you take one picture and it shows up everywhere well apparently because of instagram's uh you know acquire ship by facebook twitter isn't too happy about the fact that that they're integrating some of facebook's property into their system so what they've decided to do is they've removed the code that allows the system to recognize that this is an instagram photo and they're now starting to disappear from your twitter feed so now instead of opening up somebody's tweet where they have an instagram photo and it automatically opens now you just get a link and no longer will those photos show up anywhere in the twitter feed or the little recent photos uh icon there this is i guess okay considering the fact that twitter now has incorporated some of the filters and effects in their photos so taking some photographs on twitter won't be so bad but i am going to miss the fact that i was able to take a photo in one place and have it show up everywhere so gabe newell i think that's how you say his name newell n-e-w-e-l-l who is the boss over at val had a conversation with a blogger over the bgas the other day and he spilled the beans on the fact that they're really looking at pushing their linux based steam system and once they're done with that they're really looking at making a living room pc or better known as a console designed to compete with next gen console so in the future you're gonna end up having xbox playstation and now the valve box or whatever it's gonna be called don't really know as early as next year they're really looking to expand their clientele to more than just pc users when he was asked about how open source his console will be he was pretty honest and said that you know it's going to be a pretty controlled environment where we control a lot of what's happening on the console but the cool part about this is it's going to allow a lot of console gamers to start playing a lot of steam games that are not available on console i think this is really good it's kind of a hybrid between pc and console and maybe it's the kind of device that could finally bridge the gap between the two communities and maybe once and for all just who cares about whether or not your console or your pc if you get one of these things you can be both and you can expect to see something like this coming out next year from so it turns out there's a little chinese woman by the name of zlg she lives in newton massachusetts and she travels up to new hampshire to take a trip to the apple store in the pheasant lane mall and she bought herself a couple of iphones online and went and picked them up and at some point got into an altercation with the store manager and was asked to leave she wanted to buy more than two iphones but there's a two iphone limit right now imposed by apple because of the shortages of the iphone five so she says fine screw you when she leave what she does is she goes home and she goes back online and she orders two more iphones and drives again out of state to apparently avoid some of the state taxes and goes to try and pick up two new iphones so if you're keeping track that makes four iphones for this particular customer well the store manager recognizes her and says no you are not allowed to get more than two iphones so what does she do she takes out her phone and she starts filming everyone she starts filming everyone in the apple store and this is really pissing off the manager and he says why are you filming and she says well apparently through her daughter because i guess she doesn't speak english that she's recording other people that she feels are being treated differently because they're buying more than two iphones so she starts filming and the manager gets pissed and asks her to leave and she won't leave she continues to film and record so naturally the police are called and she gets into an altercation with the police apparently because of a language barrier again she doesn't speak english and next thing you know this is happening that's right the mall cops apparently had enough of her lip and decided to go ahead and taser her all because she wanted to buy more than two iphones and got just a little bit mouthy with the manager and apparently things get really serious if you go against the almighty apple what do you mean what do you mean i can't have these four no it is time once again for technology's dumbass of the week this week's technology dumbass of the week is coley mitchell this guy right here and trust me this one's going to get a little bit weird mr mitchell here is a lab technician for the georgia health sciences university working specifically in the animal services department wait wait wait wait before you start jumping to any conclusions let me tell you the entire story turns out mr mitchell here was found naked pants around his ankles drunk angry and combative with police officers and surrounded by monkeys officials did say that it didn't appear that any of the monkeys were harmed in whatever happened that night something tells me this is one of those times he's gonna wake up the next morning and really really regret whatever happened the day before maybe this is how the whole planet of the apes thing started but coley mitchell for being a lab technician at the georgia health sciences university's animal services department for getting drunk taking off your clothes and having some sort of a rave or don't even want to imagine what else with a group of monkeys your technology's dumbass of the week all right guys that's it for this week's technology addiction i am your host jay's two cents and i hope that you guys have enjoyed this week's episode do me a favor check out a couple of other episodes check out a couple of other videos make sure you're subscribed follow me on twitter and friending me on facebook for the latest news for what it is i'm doing on youtube thought nothing of it until all of a sudden that afternoon a random picture popped up on her facebook that's this picture that you see right here timothy jackson is sitting there at home in his kitchen he's going i've got this bad iphone now i'm gonna start taking pictures with itwhat's up guys you're watching tech addiction it is episode 12. oh my god i've been doing this for 12 weeks now the time just goes by so fast and we've got some crazy things to cover this week we've got crazy things every single week to cover when it comes to the world of technology but you know it gets a little bit serious when old women are getting tasered by the police for buying too many iphones so i talked about it in a couple of other tech addiction episodes where patent infringement lawsuits are just running rampant in the country and so a law professor of the university of santa clara in california took it upon himself to do some research about how many patent infringement lawsuits actually involve companies that developed the technology that the patent is being covered under for instance i've already said that a lot of companies do nothing more than go out and find technologies that haven't been properly patented get the patent on it and then sue the company to actually develop the technology or another company that's using the technology without ever actually developing anything themselves so this law professor decided he wants to know what the figures look like for these companies that are going out and doing nothing but getting patents and he found that 61 of the technology infringing patent lawsuits happening in 2012 being initiated by companies and individuals that had never actually developed anything then cells whatsoever they have absolutely no track record of developing anything creating anything or having any sort of intellectual property whatsoever all they did was realize that something wasn't patented went out patented it and are now suing these larger companies now this number 61 in 2012 is up from 45 in 2011 and up from 23 back in 2010 so you can see a serious trend here where the trolls are really catching on and they're going after legitimate companies when they've never developed anything themselves whatsoever oh and by the way i heard back from the uspto the united states patent and trademark office the use of toilet paper now belongs to me so you know i told you that i was going to get the patent on using paper for wiping your butt guess what every time you wipe a butt now cha-ching yo two cents a quarter speaking of lawsuits reuters did a story about a company by the name of wideland that's now suing rim or research in motion for apparently infringing on some bluetooth technology now this isn't bluetooth technology that only rim is apparently infringing on it's every single cell manufacturer in the world is apparently infringing on this particular patent but right now they've set their sights on rim which is really interesting considering rim doesn't have any money in fact a lot of you are probably going what the hell is rim i've never heard really intense midgets rim stands for research in motion and that is the developer of the blackberry i'm sorry if you own a blackberry i don't mean to offend you but i just can't seem to get that word out all the time you know without you know losing my dinner the same company has apparently launched an entire string of patent infringement lawsuits against various companies like lg apple htc samsung rim obviously i just talked about rim so a few weeks back i brought you a story about a man in new zealand who bought sixteen hundred dollars worth of apple peripherals off of apple's website for a mere thirty five dollars and how apple made a mistake and they accidentally severely undercharged for these accessories and the man bought it up well then apple went and uh you know fetched the package back from ups and then sent the mana statement saying sorry you know we made a mistake and we're taking this stuff back it's a good thing that that story went public because you see best buy best buy made a mistake where a woman ordered an ipad she gets her box and there's five ipads in there she's expecting one and five are in the box so being the good samaritan and honest person that she is she called up best buy corporate and let them know about the situation when they had made a mistake and they accidentally sent her two thousand dollars in extra ipads that she didn't legitimately purchase and she didn't feel right about keeping so best buy corbett wanted a little time to think about it and they went ahead and emailed her back and said in the spirit of the holidays we ask that you go ahead and keep the extra ipads on us as our mistake and uh keep them give them out to friends give them to some charity donate them to a school do whatever you want to do with them but please in christmas spirit keep them this is a really neat story where it goes to show how you know you're a big company you make a mistake and you have an opportunity to look really good in the press so you look at that as just a cheap two thousand dollar publicity stunt maybe not on purpose but had the opportunity of turning it into a great story and now here they are looking like great you know best buy oh we should go to best buy now because they give away free stuff and how many ipads do you think people ordered now hoping that maybe they'll get an extra one chances are you're not gonna this really goes to show how you've got a super company like apple that can look like complete douche bags when it comes to peripherals and you got another huge company like best buy who is willing to eat their mistake and let the customer benefit from their mistake good one best buy this is the way pr should be done so i use twitter i recommend that you all follow me on twitter the link is right down there it's right you know at the bottom here where the description is it's the very first thing it says hey follow me on twitter but i've been realizing as i'm using twitter that hey a lot of my pictures are disappearing and i understand what's happening i just don't get it i take pictures i put them up and then slowly they're disappearing and i'm going what the hell is going on but then it dawned on me i use instagram and i use i like to use instagram because i can take one picture in one place and link it to all my social media at the same time saves you a lot of time because you take one picture and it shows up everywhere well apparently because of instagram's uh you know acquire ship by facebook twitter isn't too happy about the fact that that they're integrating some of facebook's property into their system so what they've decided to do is they've removed the code that allows the system to recognize that this is an instagram photo and they're now starting to disappear from your twitter feed so now instead of opening up somebody's tweet where they have an instagram photo and it automatically opens now you just get a link and no longer will those photos show up anywhere in the twitter feed or the little recent photos uh icon there this is i guess okay considering the fact that twitter now has incorporated some of the filters and effects in their photos so taking some photographs on twitter won't be so bad but i am going to miss the fact that i was able to take a photo in one place and have it show up everywhere so gabe newell i think that's how you say his name newell n-e-w-e-l-l who is the boss over at val had a conversation with a blogger over the bgas the other day and he spilled the beans on the fact that they're really looking at pushing their linux based steam system and once they're done with that they're really looking at making a living room pc or better known as a console designed to compete with next gen console so in the future you're gonna end up having xbox playstation and now the valve box or whatever it's gonna be called don't really know as early as next year they're really looking to expand their clientele to more than just pc users when he was asked about how open source his console will be he was pretty honest and said that you know it's going to be a pretty controlled environment where we control a lot of what's happening on the console but the cool part about this is it's going to allow a lot of console gamers to start playing a lot of steam games that are not available on console i think this is really good it's kind of a hybrid between pc and console and maybe it's the kind of device that could finally bridge the gap between the two communities and maybe once and for all just who cares about whether or not your console or your pc if you get one of these things you can be both and you can expect to see something like this coming out next year from so it turns out there's a little chinese woman by the name of zlg she lives in newton massachusetts and she travels up to new hampshire to take a trip to the apple store in the pheasant lane mall and she bought herself a couple of iphones online and went and picked them up and at some point got into an altercation with the store manager and was asked to leave she wanted to buy more than two iphones but there's a two iphone limit right now imposed by apple because of the shortages of the iphone five so she says fine screw you when she leave what she does is she goes home and she goes back online and she orders two more iphones and drives again out of state to apparently avoid some of the state taxes and goes to try and pick up two new iphones so if you're keeping track that makes four iphones for this particular customer well the store manager recognizes her and says no you are not allowed to get more than two iphones so what does she do she takes out her phone and she starts filming everyone she starts filming everyone in the apple store and this is really pissing off the manager and he says why are you filming and she says well apparently through her daughter because i guess she doesn't speak english that she's recording other people that she feels are being treated differently because they're buying more than two iphones so she starts filming and the manager gets pissed and asks her to leave and she won't leave she continues to film and record so naturally the police are called and she gets into an altercation with the police apparently because of a language barrier again she doesn't speak english and next thing you know this is happening that's right the mall cops apparently had enough of her lip and decided to go ahead and taser her all because she wanted to buy more than two iphones and got just a little bit mouthy with the manager and apparently things get really serious if you go against the almighty apple what do you mean what do you mean i can't have these four no it is time once again for technology's dumbass of the week this week's technology dumbass of the week is coley mitchell this guy right here and trust me this one's going to get a little bit weird mr mitchell here is a lab technician for the georgia health sciences university working specifically in the animal services department wait wait wait wait before you start jumping to any conclusions let me tell you the entire story turns out mr mitchell here was found naked pants around his ankles drunk angry and combative with police officers and surrounded by monkeys officials did say that it didn't appear that any of the monkeys were harmed in whatever happened that night something tells me this is one of those times he's gonna wake up the next morning and really really regret whatever happened the day before maybe this is how the whole planet of the apes thing started but coley mitchell for being a lab technician at the georgia health sciences university's animal services department for getting drunk taking off your clothes and having some sort of a rave or don't even want to imagine what else with a group of monkeys your technology's dumbass of the week all right guys that's it for this week's technology addiction i am your host jay's two cents and i hope that you guys have enjoyed this week's episode do me a favor check out a couple of other episodes check out a couple of other videos make sure you're subscribed follow me on twitter and friending me on facebook for the latest news for what it is i'm doing on youtube thought nothing of it until all of a sudden that afternoon a random picture popped up on her facebook that's this picture that you see right here timothy jackson is sitting there at home in his kitchen he's going i've got this bad iphone now i'm gonna start taking pictures with it\n"