Right-To-Repair, Exercise Recovery, Gov. Inslee. April 5, 2019, Part 2
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🗓️ 5 April 2019
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| 0:00.0 | This is Science Friday. I'm Ira Flato. A bit later in the hour, science debunks your workout recovery routine. |
| 0:08.5 | If you have a workout recovery method you swear by, give us a call. Our number, 844-724-8255, or tweet us at SciFry. |
| 0:18.9 | We'll have our guest evaluated. |
| 0:22.7 | Tell us if you're wasting your time. |
| 0:27.6 | But first, whenever you accidentally drop your phone or your gaming console breaks, |
| 0:31.1 | you usually have to take it to the manufacturer to get it fixed, don't you? |
| 0:34.6 | Or you have to take it to a company-approved repair shop. |
| 0:40.8 | But if it's your device, shouldn't you be able to change the screen or tinker with it yourself? |
| 0:47.5 | Well, since so much hardware, even cars and tractors, so much of it is controlled by software, |
| 0:52.0 | it has been argued that just like the software you don't own, but you license, |
| 0:55.9 | well, you really don't own your tractor. So you can't fix stuff. That doesn't belong to you. Twenty states have adopted legislation called Right to Repair |
| 1:02.3 | that would let consumers do that, fix their stuff. And last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren called |
| 1:08.6 | for a national law that would allow farmers to repair their tractors and farm equipment. |
| 1:14.1 | Companies are still pushing back, citing security, and copyright concerns. |
| 1:18.5 | My next guest is going to take us through the debate. |
| 1:20.7 | Jason Kebler is editor-in-chief at Motherboard here in New York. |
| 1:24.6 | Welcome, Science Friday. |
| 1:25.8 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:27.2 | When you talk about this right to repair, what are we repairing? Is it the software or the hardware here? |
| 1:32.3 | It's usually the hardware. So we're talking about iPhone screens, batteries, refrigerator, filters, |
| 1:38.4 | tractors, anything that is electronic and has chips in it. |
| 1:42.0 | Now, let's go to the tractors because I know you spent a lot of time with farmers and their tractors. |
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