MrRant
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Yeah this isn't good for most people on the board who may not be able to afford a $20 tape of a indy promotion and don't want to spend that much just to see if they even like the promotion.
Just to let you know... I've ratted you all out to the WWE, FBI, CIA, NBA and NAACP.
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They are probably working on it. Both series air on Toon Disney though.
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I suggest Mozilla 1.4 (However Firebird rules all but it's not at version 1.0 yet even though the 0.6 version I am using right now is rock solid.)
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Magnavox is the low end arm of Phillips so it's good stuff.
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Yes it will be on digital cable. That is how you get VOD.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have been exploited by hackers to hijack AOL instant messaging (news - web sites) accounts and force unsuspecting Web surfers to run up massive phone bills, computer experts cautioned on Friday.
Some Internet Explorer users are also finding that malicious Web sites are secretly slipping trojan programs onto their computers, which could prove an even more dangerous exploit, said Drew Copley, a research engineer at Aliso Viejo, California-based eEye Digital Security, who discovered the original security vulnerability.
Such stealth programs can include keystroke loggers that record everything a person types or software to erase the hard drive, among other things, he said.
Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) has released a patch for the original hole, which was reported about a month ago, said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center.
The company is looking into what it says are variations of the original hole that have been discovered since then that the patch does not fix, Toulouse said.
"We will release a fix for the variations," he said.
Security experts are reporting the variations as new security holes, disclosed within the past three weeks and used for different types of attacks, Copley said.
Microsoft and eEye Digital Security said they have issued information for temporary workarounds.
In general, the attacks are accomplished by leading Internet Explorer users to a malicious Web site, either by sending an e-mail with a link to the Web page or distributing a link through instant messaging, Copley said.
When the Web site appears, it downloads code that can execute commands on its own onto the unsuspecting computer user's machine, according to Copley.
An attacker has written a program that uses a security hole in Internet Explorer to hijack an already running AOL Instant Messenger account, changes the password and send a message to the buddies list with a link to the malicious Web page, according to postings on the Bugtraq security e-mail list.
The Web site the posting listed as stealing the AIM passwords appeared to have been shut down.
An AOL Time Warner(NYSE:AOL - news) spokesman said the company was looking into the issue.
'PORN DIALER'
Another attack is being accomplished by sending computer users to Web sites -- typically porn sites -- that change the computer's dial-up settings to an expensive long-distance phone number without the user knowing it, said Richard Smith, an independent Boston-based security researcher.
In the so-called "porn dialer" attack, victims are being charged as much as $5 a minute instead of paying their normal Internet service fee, he said.
A third type of attack steers computer users to pay-per-click Web sites, where the spam marketer gets paid each time someone goes to the Web site, Copley said.
"These kinds of bugs are really spooky" because they work in the background, undetected by the computer user, he said. "With these kind of holes, a lot of roaches crawl through."
Computer users can protect themselves by applying patches, following the workaround instructions or changing their settings in Internet Explorer to prompt them before a Web site downloads programs that can execute on their own, Toulouse said.
Also on Friday, anti-virus company Global Hauri of South Korea (news - web sites) warned about a new medium-risk computer worm that spreads through Microsoft Network's MSN Messenger system, attempts to connect to a porn Web site and passes itself around to others in the victim's contact list.
Toulouse said Microsoft was looking into the matter.
Information about the security holes and how to fix them is at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security.
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No one ever takes me to indie shows, no matter how much I bitch or moan.You have options:
1. Get a car
2. Take a bus
3. Hitchhike
4. Taxi
5. Walk
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I enjoy minor league hockey and baseball.
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And Boston. Wait...I'm from Franklin, which is closer to Providence...DAMN YOU, COMCAST!
Hey now.....
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I should look into transferring to Philly just due to the sports discounts I would get. All of these teams are owned by Comcast (my employer):
Philadelphia Flyers - NHL
Philadelphia 76ers - NBA
Philadelphia Phantoms - AHL (Hockey)
Philadelphia Wings - Lacrosse
Philadelphia Kixx - MISL (Soccer) Probably wouldn't go.
Philadelphia Charge - Now of the defunt WUSA.
Owned by Comcast but not in Philly (Dr. Tom should know some of these teams)
Bowie Baysox - AA affiliate of the Orioles.
Frederick Keys - A affiliate of the Orioles.
Delmarva Shorebirds - A affiliate of the Orioles.
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I like shrimp, lobster and shell fish but I can't stand fish, oysters, clams or any muscle type thing. Yuck.
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NORFOLK, Va. - A sudden, irresistible urge. A portable toilet. A confrontation with an angry construction worker. Now, a federal lawsuit.
William Tremmel, 68, of Altoona, Pa., needed to go. Badly. So he dashed to the nearest portable toilet on the Virginia Beach boardwalk.
Problem was, it belonged to construction workers for Weeks Marine, a company hired by the city to replenish the beach. And those workers were fed up with outsiders using the company can.
They retaliated, Tremmel claims in a lawsuit filed last month, by driving a bulldozer or front-end loader to the toilet and blocking the doorway, pinning him "inside the rank tomb."
Tremmel is seeking $100,000 for the Aug. 19, 2001, incident.
Weeks doesn't deny its employee blocked Tremmel in the toilet but says the worker was within his rights.
Tremmel says he was locked inside for 25 minutes. He claims members of his family shouted at the worker, but the man left and returned with his foreman, who chastised Tremmel through the closed door and accused him of trespassing.
Tremmel says the "abduction and false imprisonment" caused him "humiliation, mortification, shame, vilification, injury to his feelings, mental suffering, insult and indignity." Tremmel and his wife were celebrating their anniversary.
The lawsuit also says Tremmel has emphysema, was recovering from prostate surgery and had undergone double-bypass heart surgery.
Weeks Marine denied that the workers chastised Tremmel or that he was locked in the toilet for almost half an hour. Weeks says in court papers that its workers believed blocking Tremmel's exit was "reasonable" because he was "wrongfully using the port-o-let."
No hearing date has been set.
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Cloves are ok... seeing I don't like the smell of cigs.
Flavored cigars though rock.
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NFL Films owns the rights to it I believe. Just like MLB owns all their stuff.
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I'd do hockey for the price. I get all the college ball I need on locals+ESPN+Fox Sports+Fox Sports Digital to get me through.
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Star Trek may end up having a hiatus again like the space between the original series and TNG. If Enterprise doesn't pick up steam you may see a 5 year absence or so of any new Trek series.
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That is because horror is lumped with Sci-Fi and such. They are similar of course... but different. In general I consider an alien killing a whole bunch of people Sci-Fi but a janitor burned by parents killing a bunch of kids to be horror.
And don't forget the mindboggling subsets of both genres.
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Depends on the sponsor. XBOX for example. Movie trailers.
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Yes.. ECCW certainly does suck.
There is a WA state startup in Chelais but I don't want to drive the 2+ hours. Same with ECCW.
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If they wish to not be part of a premium package (HBO etc,) then what they will probably have is something like "The Hills Have Eyes" brought to you by Mr. Clean or something of that nature.
Perhaps commercials before and after each movie. I would be okay with commercial breaks even if the movie ended up uneditted.
However Thriller MAX (DirecTV doesn't have it) is already into this niche but with a mix of horror and sci-fi.
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Fright fans will soon have a cable station to call their own with The Horror Channel, the first 24-hour national digital genre cable network, which will debut in October 2004. FANGORIA has been given the exclusive scoop on the ambitious project, which will involve many of the industry’s key chillmeisters and broadcast a mix of classic and new fright flicks and television shows, as well as original programming.
“I truly believe we can bring the genre into the limelight, where it deserves to be,” CEO and founder Nicholas A. Psaltos tells Fango. ”There’s no reason why the Horror Channel should not exist and thrive. Comedy Central and Sci Fi are both doing extremely well. Both are very valuable enterprises and they’re each only about a dozen years old. And they are both descendants of movie genres. Today there are the Golf Channel, Food Network and DiscoveryWings. None of these borrows its content from a proven, successful or hugely profitable movie genre. But the Horror Channel does.”
“We hope to create a compelling and successful company whose identity is fomented by the true grassroots horror fan,” says co-founder Kim Bangash, who has helped finance a number of films, including STRANGELAND and SLING BLADE. “We want to take that vision and then create an international brand that pays homage to all the different genres of horror in this country and abroad.”
To create this vision, the Horror Channel has turned to the filmmaking community and signed many familiar scream greats to its advisory board. In addition, the Channel has brought FANGORIA editor Tony Timpone on board as a consultant and has an interest in developing a “FANGORIA Fridays”-type programming block, as well as licensing some of the company’s video titles as broadcast premieres.
“One of the first things we did was to reach out to the key horror filmmakers,” Psaltos says. “The masters of horror were all quite happy to meet with us. We met with the established fathers of the genre: George Romero, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Mick Garris, Guillermo del Toro, Roger Corman, Stuart Gordon, et al. It was like a dream sequence. Every meeting was positive and collaborative. Later on, we reached out to some of the younger guys, up-and-comers like Rob Zombie, Eli [CABIN FEVER] Roth, Lucky [MAY] McKee, Uwe [HOUSE OF THE DEAD] Boll, Robert [LOVE OBJECT] Parigi and Victor [JEEPERS CREEPERS] Salva. These guys are all brilliant and worthy of the honor of carrying the torch for the next several decades. Ultimately, we will be collaborating with many of these people on new programming such as films, miniseries, anthology shows, behind-the-scenes specials and branded guest-hosting spots.”
The next stage involves bringing horror buffs into the endeavor, and Psaltos says that he’s all ears. “Our fans are extremely important in this process,” he explains. “We are launching our consumer website, www.horrorchannel.com, this October 1. We need the fans to fill out a survey so that we can petition every cable operator in the land with their unified voice clamoring for a horror channel. In addition, the fans will become part of our programming and content creation process. We will develop programs that they ask for and, in some cases, produce scripts that they write or air films that they’ve produced. We also have a strong desire to connect with the Goth music and lifestyle scene. Talent like Rob Zombie will be a strong proponent in the music area, and we’re already in discussions with the Costume Network and several others regarding the lifestyle aspect.”
Psaltos says that the lack of a cable station for genre enthusiasts inspired his gargantuan and risky undertaking. “John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Channel, was a personal hero of mine,” he says. “I saw him on an elevator one day when I worked at Discovery and thought, ‘Why not me?’ All I needed was the right idea. Then a friend of mine was talking about how huge horror was and that it needed its own channel. I thought, ‘Yes, this is interesting.’ So I began visiting all the websites and attending FANGORIA and Chiller Theatre conventions and talking to intriguing people. At the time I was working in a dead-end job at Bravo/IFC. My wife was seven months pregnant, and we’d just bought a house. So what else was I supposed to do? I waited until Henry Nicholas was born, then three weeks later I quit my job and began working on the Horror Channel.”
“It’s hard to believe that no one has put a Horror Channel on the air before,” Bangash adds. ”There have been attempts before that for one reason or another petered out. With the growing penetration of digital cable, today’s environment seems to be the most viable time to launch the Horror Channel. People can now get service with up to 1,000 channels, which makes this idea all the more of a no-brainer. I don’t need to tell you how popular this genre is. It is the last major feature-film genre that does not have a cable channel dedicated to its fanbase.”
So what took so long? “Network executives are not rewarded for risk-taking,” Psaltos says. “Launching a new channel is a big risk. They don’t understand the consumers that flock to this genre. Sci-fi won its own channel because their fans were ‘easier’ to identify and categorize. But the paradox here is that horror fans are even easier to find, because everyone loves horror—even if they’re too afraid to admit it. About a dozen years ago, when Sci Fi first launched, they were supposedly the answer to all fantasy genres, including horror. And at first they were, dedicating about 35 percent of their programming to horror. Over time, this changed because Sci Fi wanted to hone their appeal more specifically to the sci-fi audience. Fan complaints were not loud enough within the cable industry to ignite a unique horror channel offering. Plus, at the time, analog channel launches were hugely expensive because shelf space was limited to about 60 channels. Things have changed over the past four years. Direct broadcast satellites [DBS] and digital cable boxes enable homes to receive hundreds of channels. But despite the increased bandwidth, it’s still not easy—or cheap—to launch a channel.”
To deliver the Horror Channel to your living room by fall 2004, Psaltos and company must continue raising at least $3 million in the months ahead. They’ve assembled a number of choice cable executives and business people to facilitate the process.
“We have put together a team that is a healthy mix of veterans from the cable TV, film, consulting and finance industries,” Psaltos says. “Also, we are all horror fans and movie lovers. Kim is from the independent film scene. Our head of marketing, Chris Apostle, was at Showtime Networks. Our CIO and project launch manager, John Giunti, is a huge horror fan and a management consultant. I myself come to the table with 10 years of experience in the cable industry. I was most recently in programming and acquisitions at Bravo/IFC. Prior to that, I was in finance and business development at both A&E and Discovery. We also have several part-time consultants, full-time advisors who are from various cable networks, investment banks and film production/distribution entities.”
“This concept, this team and its timing could not be more right,” Bangash adds. “Many channels are launched by accountant and lawyer types. We are fortunate to not only have the right team of professionals needed to launch a cable network, but most of us are also horror enthusiasts.”
Of course, the question on every Fangorian’s lips is whether the programming will be shown uncensored. “Yes,” answers Psaltos. “Films will be uninterrupted and uncut. Older TV series will have the commercial interruptions that were originally edited into them. Some of the more graphic films will probably only be available on our sister Video On Demand channel.” Adds Bangash, “The advent of digital cable allows us many creative ways to keep the movies coming uncut.”
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MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese video game company Nintendo (news - web sites) Co Ltd said on Friday it plans early next year to offer a device that allows GameBoy Advance users to play games together without the use of cables.
The device will be included free of charge with the purchase of one of two "Pokemon" games, due to be released early next year, for Nintendo's hand-held game machine.
"We've had a lot of discussions about how to extend the networking capabilities for games such as 'Pokemon', to enhance head-to-head battles, exchange of information and communication with others," said Nintendo President Satoru Iwata in a speech on the opening day of the Tokyo Game Show.
The wireless (news - web sites) module will be bundled with Nintendo's "Pokemon Fire Red" and "Pokemon Leaf Green" titles for GameBoy Advance that will go on sale in Japan early next year. The games will sell for 4,800 yen ($43).
Nintendo said it planned to roll out other titles for the GameBoy Advance compatible with the device in the future.
Motorola Inc designed the chip that powers the device's wireless functions.
"It was designed primarily with the gaming experience in mind," Bridgette Cosentino, director of wireless connectivity at Motorola's semiconductor products group, told Reuters. She said the chip was customized to maximize battery life.
Iwata said the technology was similar to Bluetooth, which allows devices to communicate with each other without a physical wire connection. The wireless network extends for "several meters," Iwata said.
The most recent "Pokemon" title for GameBoy Advance sold over 10 million titles worldwide, Nintendo said.
Shares in Nintendo ended up 2.33 percent at 9,670 yen compared to a 0.08 percent rise in the Nikkei 225 average.
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