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http://www.thebroken.org/

For a nice video of thermite destorying a laptop.

There was a good interview of Kevin Mitnick in the third release by "The Broken".

He is a reasonable sounding guy, and I think in the interview with "The Broken" sort of dispells some of the myths that were started about him in the book "Cyberpunk" by Katie Hafner and John Markoff.

I read that book when I was in 6th grade and I was totally blow away. I got a modem and started war dialing and memorizing "at" commands just so I could try and be a badass like Kevin Mitnick.

I think we are on the cusp of the P2P Television era. I have been watching http://www.thebroken.org/ and http://www.systm.org/ . Two really great Tech shows. My only real bitch about P2P TV is that there is no organization. Does anybody do a website about P2P TV content? Were the hell are all the pirates that take a lousy VCD quality cam of Batman Begins and turn it into a somewhat watchable DVD? They should be distributing content on P2P and the other.... thing... Use... something or another. But back to my point. This is the 1940's/1950's of P2P TV. Now, one of you web monkey's, get out there and code up a site!! Get the word out, so we can choose. 1) Set up a website about P2P Television 2) Come up with a catchy name for said site 3) Organize video distribution and editing on things like Use... something or another 4) Get sponsors 5) Profit!!!! Sorry, I couldn't resist.

As long as we're handing out Kevin Rose links, someone should mention the broken, where he has an interview with Free-Kevin, and where he drinks 40's and sets a laptop on fire. You know, in order to protect your data.

~Will

He has already done an entirely Internet-based show before, but it only lasted 3 episodes
(they probably ran out of alcohol budget).
http://www.thebroken.org/

http://www.thebroken.org/ ?

I used to watch it during 2000-2002. After that, I only watched during sweapstake answers live hour:08 - hour:15 (I still didn't watch the show). After that, as you all know, it went down hill. The marketing geniuses that come from the same pool that keep bringing us crappy movies thought that they'll be able to teach us what quality is, and that they will make a few dollars at the same time. They were wrong, and a good show was destroyed. A little more time passed and the entire station was destroyed. Maybe Leo and Patrick they will make a video show like The Broken if the audio show is successful.

That's right, Ramzi will show us how to download Bonzi Buddy again but this time from eXeem when it will become the next p2p full of useless leet junk for us "hackar beatches".

Seriously though, whatever happend to the time where we had great clean clients like Scour Exchange and Morpheus (the first).

BitTorrent is "the thing" of today and no matter what site shuts down, people will never understand and they'll just continue to download and download, and upload.

> [...] what I wouldn't give for a network for real computer geeks. Some Linux shows, watching people write code and secure systems. Fun for all ages! But they probably won't create a show for 5 people to watch. Oh well.

The is already a now defunct show for this purpose: http://www.thebroken.org/ . Rumor is the show will be restarting again sometime in the future.

http://www.thebroken.org/

Just hope that in their contract they aren't barred from continuing that creation...

What Comcast did to TechTV was sad. Funny thing is I always think back to the merger and I thought it was good at the time. I thought it would bring new content to TechTV, who had some great shows, but not enough to fill a full day.

Comcast's purchase of TechTV was really the equivelent of a hostile takeover. They wanted to get G4 in as many homes as possible, but they couldn't get new markets cause cable companies weren't biting on it. So the only option they had was forcing those cable companies to take G4 by buying a station they already carried, merging the two for a little while, then stripping the TechTV part out of it. They never intended to keep TTV, it was all just a scheme to force cable companies to carry G4 overnight, and unfortunately TTV was the channel they picked to destroy. It is basically G4 = a virus and the host it found to take over was TTV.

Something to the people who quit watching after Leo left. I was pissed too, and quit watching for a while, then slowly and reluctantly got back into it. Kevin Rose ended up being a great replacement. Still wasn't Leo, but if that's why you quit watching, you would have liked Kevin.

I'm always an optimist, and I hold hope that someday, something will come along to fill the hole on TV for the geeks. In the meantime, we can get our fix by http://www.thebroken.org/. Basically, that is The Screen Savers that isn't allowed to be on the air. Great stuff, so check it out.

Kevin, Dan, Yoshi, Leo, Pat, Megan, etc... I'm sure you guys are reading this thread and we beg you, get together and get back on the air somehow, hell just do a monthly internet show, anything. You guys entertained people for years and it's sad what corporate america can sometimes do to a great product.

I hope a lot of people get fired for the abortion G4TTV is.

Check thebroken.org for a video explaining how to load software onto the GC using the optional ethernet port. It's Episode III.

Gee, that sounds like a good idea...

Check out episode 3 of TheBroken.org.

the broken rocks!

http://www.thebroken.org/

I would follow the recommendation of our friends at thebroken.org and burn your computer from the inside out.

1. There is virtually NO free space inside an iBook. They are constructed very tightly.
2. There is no parallel port. Macs have NO legacy ports of any kind, the iBook (assuming the dual USB) has only USB and Firewire.
3. The thermite trick was already done on The Broken, episode 3

Yeah, I've been a fan for the last year or so, while there was a lot of stuff that wasn't relevant to me, I learned a lot, and was exposed to things that I hadn't thought were relevant. Kind of nice to hear media slamming MS, or complaining about how hard an install was(away from slashdot anyways).
Made for great background noise to studying. I'm hoping that some of these people get hired back - maybe another broken show soon??? Otherwise, hope someone fills the gap and we get a bit more geek tv.

He should have taken some advice from ramzi

PAYBACK'S A BI*** ISN'T IT MOTHER FU****!!!!! Bout time people called the bastards on this. This could be good or screw us all... I guess they could try to soak me for 10 million.... but Kevin Mitnick told me how to get a new identity anyway. Right Here.