The WAN Show: Gamestop fingerprints customers, Yoshi's real name revealed - August 8th, 2014

Timetable here now.

Meanwhile here is a link to the WAN show doc: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/194638-august-8th-the-wan-show-document/

Sponsors:

lynda.com link: http://lynda.com/wanshow

Five Four Club link: http://bit.ly/linusffc

Table of Contents (thanks to AmateurPCGuy, Diffin, DoozyDiglett, jesseySNiPENL, PlayModeOn)
0:00:00 Barnacules a.k.a Large Linus is here
0:01:37 Intro
0:01:59 Sponsors (Lynda, Five-Four Club)
0:02:25 Five-Four Club Giveaway!
0:03:05 Fractal Josh is awesome. and so are cats
0:03:11 Technical difficulties...
0:05:14 USB bug
0:08:32 GameStop now fingerprints customers....
0:12:45 Twitch.tv's changes...
0:14:21 Twitch CEO does Reddit AMA
0:14:50 Luke's Theory
0:18:09 Jerry's Idea: The one that can break Twitch's music copyright algorithm? Speeding up the music
0:18:58 IBM recreates the brain... on a chip?!
0:21:43 Xbox One lost Microsoft ~$400M
0:24:45 Mass Exodus of XBOX ONE Titles coming to PC
0:27:39 Apparently, some Halo 2 Online players tried to resist the server closures
0:28:54 Linus invades the no-Linus stream
0:29:48 The Cat
0:30:01 Barnacules' War Driving Story
0:33:53 ChannelSuperFun Prank video and Pran
0:36:13 PhysX disabled when non-Nvidia GPU detected
0:41:45 Source 2 leaks
0:45:34 Five Four Club Sponsor Spot
0:49:34 Lynda.com Sponsor Spot
0:51:56 Silverstone SST-SX600-6 SFX PSU
0:55:45 Room Watercooling Project Update
0:58:43 Forum Shoutout
1:00:31 Yoshi's real full name revealed
1:05:25 Toxikk PC only arena FPS announced
1:08:30 Crytek CEO delayed paychecks
1:10:25 Battlefield 4 Free Trial
1:11:25 Barnacules has BF4 on 4 Platforms
1:14:32 Console Vs PC Gaming Discussion
1:23:19 Techquickie and JayzTwoCents Giveaway Draw
1:27:26 Sierra is Back
1:29:30 Linus, take care of your newborn... please
1:32:18 Outro

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