Being targetted by SCO would then become a can't-win situation. Either you pay SCO and then get shunned by the Linux world, or you don't pay and SCO sues you to death.
He knew what SCO was, and what they had a reputation of doing. What he didn't know was the strength of the anti-SCO backlash, and how there's a tendancy to spread anti-SCO FUD that's just as bad as anything Darl does.
People claimed that EV1 didn't like the OSS movement, truely thinks that SCO owns the IP, or other such nonsense. All EV1 did was sign a deal that prevents them from getting the lawsuit that apparently landed in AutoZone's lap.
Yeah, they paid off the lawsuit extortionists, that's true. However, sometimes when you're running a business you have to make a decision you don't want to make for the safety of the business. Robert thought that he could explain that to the anti-SCO folks, but apparently those people didn't want to listen to him.
SCO is in the business of making fools out of people. Marsh was convinced that if he didn't do this deal, his company would be sued by SCO. He made the decision that signing the deal would be better for his company, but he didn't quite realize what the fallout from the deal would be. Now that he's seen the outcome of his decision, he admits he would have chosen the other path.
Robert Marsh is an honorable businessman. He did his deal with SCO, and abided by it thinking that it was in the best interest of his business to pay off SCO to get them to go away.
And, it turns out SCO, in its usual behavior, spun the deal in a way that generated false rumors and is now trying to use EV1 as a model for future deals. The fact that Marsh is now telling the public that he is experiencing buyer's remorse should serve as a warning to all other hosting companies.
AAC is sort of like MP3 in that the base standard contains no DRM at all... it's not Apple's to license either.
But what Apple owns is FairPlay, the DRM tech that they use over AAC in order to make the iTunes music store a happy place for both consumers and the RIAA.
In order to be hit by this worm, you would have had to have installed a product that, according to its box label, makes Windows more secure. These boxes were 0wned by a flaw in firewall software.
This is very possible... that the 100 to 200 seed boxes where this worm started from at once were all pre-existing installtions of the hacked product, and that the community that was having fun with this exploit had this planted and just waiting for the go-ahead when they found out their jig was about to be up.
What's most disturbing to me is that this worm appeared on about 200+ distinct hosts at such a rate of speed that it could not have done so that fast using it's main random-checking method. There clearly was some plan to pre-seed the worm into at least that many places before the worm started to spread on its own.
I doubt whomever programmed this worm had legit access to that many well-destributed computers... so it appears that some carrier hack occured before this worm was released, which effectively took about 12 hours off of the reaction time clock before the white hats even realized what was hitting them. Are we about to see a rash of compound attacks where one worm has a second worm baked in?
Yes, but we know that is not an exhasutive list of combined productions because they are promising more than 800 episodes per year of at least 20 original shows in other materials. That FAQ only names 10 titles, so there are at least 10 others who aren't named yet.
I'm not talking about the yellow star. The so called Video-to-video feature already exists and has been used before. The only thing that's new is TiVo's push to sell more such ads...
Unfortunately it misses 5 state capitals: The five State capitals not directly served by the Interstate System are Juneau, Alaska; Dover, Delaware; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carson City, Nevada; and Pierre, South Dakota.
Wow. How'd they get Honolulu, Hawaii connected to the Interstate system?:)
Really, when it comes to an extended form of an existing ad, it's close to zero. Everybody's already paid to be on the set all day to create 30 seconds. They usually also create a 60 second edit using material left out of the 30 second version. Just find some more good footage in the day's shooting and they have their 180 second edition... it's all done in editing.
TechTV holds the USA broadcast rights for the rest of the english-dub of Last Exile, except for the fact that the conversion process is not done yet. Unfortunately, this is one of those "It'll be done when it's finished!" projects, so it's not clear when the rest will be available, but it's certainly the case that as each episode does become available, TechTV has the rights to it. They aired the 13th episode recently which is not on the DVD because it wasn't available when that was made.
They haven't failed. The network is still on the air, and all that's really happening is that they're changing hands at a valuation that puts it worth about twice what Comcast has already sunk into G4.
It's much more likely that the surviving network will look more like TechTV than G4 does today.
Leo most certainly wanted a reduced broadcast schedule from TechTV. Presently, the man is hosting 10 hours a week of live TV, and then doing 6 hours a week of live radio on his weekends, in addition to his book-writing projects. He needed a break...
This is one interesting prospect opened up by the G4 merger. Eventually, when the two stations combine into one, they're going to have a leftover C-Band transponder lease and quite a bit of master control equipment... They very well could create a west coast feed since they'd already be halfway there...
G4 and Style Network are not on DirecTV because DirecTV refuses to talk about those networks until Comcast SportsNet Philly is made available to them. However, Comcast's E! network continues nice and safe on DirecTV because it was already there... it's hard to take away a network subscribers already have without some canceling, but much easier to not add new ones.
So, by aquiring TechTV, Comcast picks up another network that DirecTV is bound by contract to keep for a few years, and can't really drop very easily. No wonder they're paying for TechTV more than double what they've ever spent on G4.
This is his farewell tour as host of TSS. He'll host tonight, and four episodes next week. (Friday has been a scheduded rerun day for a while now.)
This actually is of Leo's own doing. He actually doesn't want to host TSS anymore, he'd rather be hosting Call For Help. His new work schedule, which starts the week after next, calls for him to only be at the studio two days a week, during which he'll record five episodes of Call For Help and contribute some segments to TSS. On the remaining three weekdays, he'll work from home preparing research for both his TechTV duties and also for his KFI radio show which he does live based out of a barn-turned-radio-studio on his own property.
So, this really is the end of a overbooked 7-day-workweek schedule he's been on for about the last six months. He's basically going into a semi-retirement, while also assuring that he'll still be employed even if he's no longer with TechTV.
The better somebody is at being a geek, the worse said person is at appearing on TV. Leo's interruptions are mostly of the nature of keeping the guest on topic and on pace, which is the responsiblity of any TV host. Sometimes, you've just got to cut the guest off because letting them ramble is even worse TV.
No. TechTV has long-term deals with DirecTV, Dish Network, and nearly every cable operator (other than Comccast, interestingly) that would be mighty expensive to break. Any serious changes to TechTV will have to be signed-off by these players or there'd be the risk of a breach of contract lawsuit forming.
That, and to buy TechTV, and then take it away from its existing distribution structure would be like buying a $300 million dollar toy, playing with it for a day, and then throwing it in the trash. There's not much value in taking TechTV and then making it as weak as G4 is today...
However, this G4 FAQ needs to be taken with a grain of salt because it appears to be written by G4 employees whose jobs are just as uncertain as TechTV employee jobs at this point. At a business level, G4 is not buying TechTV... Comcast is buying most TechTV from Vulcan Ventures, with Echostar being fussy and refusing to sell their shares in TechTV, Inc.
That, and the FAQ really doesn't ammount to anything newsworthy. The listings of shows aren't exactly promises that any of the shows listed will continue or those left out will not, and the fact that the network's "headquarters" will be in L.A. just means that the PHBs will be located there. For example, CNN presently houses their executives and master control operations, but most of their weekday lineup is originating from New York City and Washington D.C. moreso than Altanta at this point. The content people don't always have to be at "headquarters".
Another thing that the FAQ nicely dodges is whether the new network will be called "TechTV", "G4", or some other name.
TechTV is only showing imported episodes from the UK with commercial breaks inserted into the program. (They've yet to aquire the latest season that's presently airing in the UK.)
TNN, which is now called SpikeTV, aquired the rights to produce a US-based version of the show along with rerun rights to one of the UK seasons. Their main mistake was bringing in poor choices of US personalites to host their edition of the show, and completely editing out the Brit hosts from the imported episodes in favor of an even worse selection of American talent. TechTV, by contrast, is not editing out the British personalites.
TechTV however cannot produce their own edition of the program since SpikeTV still holds that option through 2007.
Yes, but TechTV's outgoing owner is Vulcan Ventures, which is a VC firm that's mainly owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. So, one link to MS out, another in. I don't think this is much of a net change at all from that perspective.
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Being targetted by SCO would then become a can't-win situation. Either you pay SCO and then get shunned by the Linux world, or you don't pay and SCO sues you to death.
He knew what SCO was, and what they had a reputation of doing. What he didn't know was the strength of the anti-SCO backlash, and how there's a tendancy to spread anti-SCO FUD that's just as bad as anything Darl does.
People claimed that EV1 didn't like the OSS movement, truely thinks that SCO owns the IP, or other such nonsense. All EV1 did was sign a deal that prevents them from getting the lawsuit that apparently landed in AutoZone's lap.
Yeah, they paid off the lawsuit extortionists, that's true. However, sometimes when you're running a business you have to make a decision you don't want to make for the safety of the business. Robert thought that he could explain that to the anti-SCO folks, but apparently those people didn't want to listen to him.
SCO is in the business of making fools out of people. Marsh was convinced that if he didn't do this deal, his company would be sued by SCO. He made the decision that signing the deal would be better for his company, but he didn't quite realize what the fallout from the deal would be. Now that he's seen the outcome of his decision, he admits he would have chosen the other path.
Robert Marsh is an honorable businessman. He did his deal with SCO, and abided by it thinking that it was in the best interest of his business to pay off SCO to get them to go away.
And, it turns out SCO, in its usual behavior, spun the deal in a way that generated false rumors and is now trying to use EV1 as a model for future deals. The fact that Marsh is now telling the public that he is experiencing buyer's remorse should serve as a warning to all other hosting companies.
AAC is sort of like MP3 in that the base standard contains no DRM at all... it's not Apple's to license either.
But what Apple owns is FairPlay, the DRM tech that they use over AAC in order to make the iTunes music store a happy place for both consumers and the RIAA.
Apple's DRM technology is FairPlay, and the files they offer for download on iTunes Music Store are AAC files wrapped in the FairPlay encoding.
In order to be hit by this worm, you would have had to have installed a product that, according to its box label, makes Windows more secure. These boxes were 0wned by a flaw in firewall software.
This is very possible... that the 100 to 200 seed boxes where this worm started from at once were all pre-existing installtions of the hacked product, and that the community that was having fun with this exploit had this planted and just waiting for the go-ahead when they found out their jig was about to be up.
What's most disturbing to me is that this worm appeared on about 200+ distinct hosts at such a rate of speed that it could not have done so that fast using it's main random-checking method. There clearly was some plan to pre-seed the worm into at least that many places before the worm started to spread on its own.
I doubt whomever programmed this worm had legit access to that many well-destributed computers... so it appears that some carrier hack occured before this worm was released, which effectively took about 12 hours off of the reaction time clock before the white hats even realized what was hitting them. Are we about to see a rash of compound attacks where one worm has a second worm baked in?
Yes, but we know that is not an exhasutive list of combined productions because they are promising more than 800 episodes per year of at least 20 original shows in other materials. That FAQ only names 10 titles, so there are at least 10 others who aren't named yet.
I'm not talking about the yellow star. The so called Video-to-video feature already exists and has been used before. The only thing that's new is TiVo's push to sell more such ads...
Unfortunately it misses 5 state capitals:
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The five State capitals not directly served by the Interstate System are Juneau, Alaska; Dover, Delaware; Jefferson City, Missouri; Carson City, Nevada; and Pierre, South Dakota.
Wow. How'd they get Honolulu, Hawaii connected to the Interstate system?
Really, when it comes to an extended form of an existing ad, it's close to zero. Everybody's already paid to be on the set all day to create 30 seconds. They usually also create a 60 second edit using material left out of the 30 second version. Just find some more good footage in the day's shooting and they have their 180 second edition... it's all done in editing.
TechTV holds the USA broadcast rights for the rest of the english-dub of Last Exile, except for the fact that the conversion process is not done yet. Unfortunately, this is one of those "It'll be done when it's finished!" projects, so it's not clear when the rest will be available, but it's certainly the case that as each episode does become available, TechTV has the rights to it. They aired the 13th episode recently which is not on the DVD because it wasn't available when that was made.
They haven't failed. The network is still on the air, and all that's really happening is that they're changing hands at a valuation that puts it worth about twice what Comcast has already sunk into G4.
It's much more likely that the surviving network will look more like TechTV than G4 does today.
Leo most certainly wanted a reduced broadcast schedule from TechTV. Presently, the man is hosting 10 hours a week of live TV, and then doing 6 hours a week of live radio on his weekends, in addition to his book-writing projects. He needed a break...
This is one interesting prospect opened up by the G4 merger. Eventually, when the two stations combine into one, they're going to have a leftover C-Band transponder lease and quite a bit of master control equipment... They very well could create a west coast feed since they'd already be halfway there...
G4 and Style Network are not on DirecTV because DirecTV refuses to talk about those networks until Comcast SportsNet Philly is made available to them. However, Comcast's E! network continues nice and safe on DirecTV because it was already there... it's hard to take away a network subscribers already have without some canceling, but much easier to not add new ones.
So, by aquiring TechTV, Comcast picks up another network that DirecTV is bound by contract to keep for a few years, and can't really drop very easily. No wonder they're paying for TechTV more than double what they've ever spent on G4.
Leo is still hosting, he hosted today
This is his farewell tour as host of TSS. He'll host tonight, and four episodes next week. (Friday has been a scheduded rerun day for a while now.)
This actually is of Leo's own doing. He actually doesn't want to host TSS anymore, he'd rather be hosting Call For Help. His new work schedule, which starts the week after next, calls for him to only be at the studio two days a week, during which he'll record five episodes of Call For Help and contribute some segments to TSS. On the remaining three weekdays, he'll work from home preparing research for both his TechTV duties and also for his KFI radio show which he does live based out of a barn-turned-radio-studio on his own property.
So, this really is the end of a overbooked 7-day-workweek schedule he's been on for about the last six months. He's basically going into a semi-retirement, while also assuring that he'll still be employed even if he's no longer with TechTV.
The better somebody is at being a geek, the worse said person is at appearing on TV. Leo's interruptions are mostly of the nature of keeping the guest on topic and on pace, which is the responsiblity of any TV host. Sometimes, you've just got to cut the guest off because letting them ramble is even worse TV.
Yes, the mess-up process took fully functional 45-minute commercial-free shows and made 30-minute commercial-filled shows.
TechTV's process, on the other hand, takes the 45-minute episodes and makes a 60-minute commercial show out of them. Much more sane...
No. TechTV has long-term deals with DirecTV, Dish Network, and nearly every cable operator (other than Comccast, interestingly) that would be mighty expensive to break. Any serious changes to TechTV will have to be signed-off by these players or there'd be the risk of a breach of contract lawsuit forming.
That, and to buy TechTV, and then take it away from its existing distribution structure would be like buying a $300 million dollar toy, playing with it for a day, and then throwing it in the trash. There's not much value in taking TechTV and then making it as weak as G4 is today...
However, this G4 FAQ needs to be taken with a grain of salt because it appears to be written by G4 employees whose jobs are just as uncertain as TechTV employee jobs at this point. At a business level, G4 is not buying TechTV... Comcast is buying most TechTV from Vulcan Ventures, with Echostar being fussy and refusing to sell their shares in TechTV, Inc.
That, and the FAQ really doesn't ammount to anything newsworthy. The listings of shows aren't exactly promises that any of the shows listed will continue or those left out will not, and the fact that the network's "headquarters" will be in L.A. just means that the PHBs will be located there. For example, CNN presently houses their executives and master control operations, but most of their weekday lineup is originating from New York City and Washington D.C. moreso than Altanta at this point. The content people don't always have to be at "headquarters".
Another thing that the FAQ nicely dodges is whether the new network will be called "TechTV", "G4", or some other name.
TechTV is only showing imported episodes from the UK with commercial breaks inserted into the program. (They've yet to aquire the latest season that's presently airing in the UK.)
TNN, which is now called SpikeTV, aquired the rights to produce a US-based version of the show along with rerun rights to one of the UK seasons. Their main mistake was bringing in poor choices of US personalites to host their edition of the show, and completely editing out the Brit hosts from the imported episodes in favor of an even worse selection of American talent. TechTV, by contrast, is not editing out the British personalites.
TechTV however cannot produce their own edition of the program since SpikeTV still holds that option through 2007.
Yes, but TechTV's outgoing owner is Vulcan Ventures, which is a VC firm that's mainly owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. So, one link to MS out, another in. I don't think this is much of a net change at all from that perspective.