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twit.tv — Leo is testing out the bandwidth capacities of Stickam for a new Live show he wants to start at www.twit.tv. Watch the show, or leave it running in the background and mute it. Either way, do what Digg users do best! Break Stickam!
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- Demeth, on 03/17/2008, -1/+33But I like the stream...
- t0ny, on 03/17/2008, -1/+17Dont cross the streams!
- kazamx, on 03/17/2008, -3/+3Don't forget to subscribe to http://twit.tv/twit The best Podcast going.
- HeyDriver, on 03/17/2008, -1/+29okay, let's do it folks. I'd love to show these video promotion sites that they've either get with it or get out......bring it on
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -1/+9Are they going to bring it? Only time, a broken stream, and us kids at the back of the class freaking out will tell.
- HeyDriver, on 03/17/2008, -0/+12yes, I'm doing my part. killing my bandwidth here. but, I've got four machines running twit.tv/live
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -1/+16Eh, I better boot up my other five or so macs. Maybe I should also have more than one browser running!
We're going to bring down the intarnetz.
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -1/+16Eh, I better boot up my other five or so macs. Maybe I should also have more than one browser running!
- HeyDriver, on 03/17/2008, -0/+12yes, I'm doing my part. killing my bandwidth here. but, I've got four machines running twit.tv/live
- TheTaoOfBill, on 03/17/2008, -3/+80Anything for Leo. Man I miss Tech TV.
- mysedai, on 03/17/2008, -3/+10Ramen.
- dfeifer, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4The day TechTV went off the air, was the day i pretty much stopped watching TV.
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -1/+9Are they going to bring it? Only time, a broken stream, and us kids at the back of the class freaking out will tell.
- mrchin, on 03/17/2008, -0/+31Break it! go watch the show. Live. He's doing a test
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -7/+1Do it or we'll kill your puppy, and your kitty too..
- illu45, on 03/17/2008, -0/+7I think you meant to say "and your little dog, too"....
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Somewhat. I based it on that, but I wanted to just show people peer pressure.
Oh well.
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Somewhat. I based it on that, but I wanted to just show people peer pressure.
- endersadvocate, on 03/17/2008, -1/+9LEAVE STICKAM ALONE!!!
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -7/+1Do it or we'll kill your puppy, and your kitty too..
- ross., on 03/17/2008, -0/+73We can't do it captain. We don't..have..the power!
- mastahack, on 03/17/2008, -0/+28*smack*
YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE! - mike81890, on 03/17/2008, -1/+18Reroute the power through the phaser array and the subspace generators Scotty. You can do it!
- mastahack, on 03/17/2008, -0/+28*smack*
- craterburnsu, on 03/17/2008, -1/+27Lets test their limits. Plus it is always fun killing things.
- Alegoo92, on 03/17/2008, -6/+1I have no idea what's going on.
Someone please fill me in on why things need to be killed. Don't you guys like TWiT?- mysedai, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10Yes, we like it so much we're lending them the digg effect to test their servers.
If it holds up, they're gods, if it doesn't they know how much work they need to do.
- mysedai, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10Yes, we like it so much we're lending them the digg effect to test their servers.
- Alegoo92, on 03/17/2008, -6/+1I have no idea what's going on.
- laaabaseball, on 03/17/2008, -4/+49The official equation of the tech world: Digg + Leo = broken
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -5/+1I thought anything dealing with digging something meant broken.
That or Twitter.
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -5/+1I thought anything dealing with digging something meant broken.
- sputnike, on 03/17/2008, -3/+8Well we're getting there.
- serrebi, on 03/17/2008, -3/+18Digg it, peoples.
- EmitStop, on 03/17/2008, -7/+86Everyday Digg becomes a little bit more like 4chan...
- TheTaoOfBill, on 03/17/2008, -3/+24True but how is that relevant to this article. This article is a heavily tech based article and is about one of the most respected members of the tech community. This is what digg was all about in it's concept.
- rjam710, on 03/17/2008, -10/+2It's relevant because instead of discussing this tech story, we're organizing an attack on a video hosting site for no other reason than to try and bring it down? And for what, our own childish enjoyment?
And I swear if I see another damn LOLcat, I'll... I'll throw this puppy off a cliff! (...too soon?)- razrielle, on 03/17/2008, -2/+7and as a 4 channer would say: "Do it *****"
- piwy, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4Since you obviously don't listen to twit, Leo is planning on doing a video show now. This of course cannot be done on a crappy streaming service. What we are doing here is how much it can take.
It's not childish enjoyment. Streaming services like this do it themselves all the time. Id say it's one of the better ways to get actual real world results.
- rjam710, on 03/17/2008, -10/+2It's relevant because instead of discussing this tech story, we're organizing an attack on a video hosting site for no other reason than to try and bring it down? And for what, our own childish enjoyment?
- mattmcm, on 03/17/2008, -6/+40Digg is not your personal army.
- Lewie, on 03/17/2008, -2/+3Why not? It's always fun when like-minded people assemble to do cool stuff. It's also easier to get things accomplished when there are thousands or millions of people to help out (strength in numbers).
- Rockiroad278, on 03/17/2008, -7/+0Rules 1 & 2...
- robotosaurus, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Project Mayhem grew out of hand. It was beyond Fight Club now. Rules didn't apply to viral anarchy.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 03/17/2008, -3/+24True but how is that relevant to this article. This article is a heavily tech based article and is about one of the most respected members of the tech community. This is what digg was all about in it's concept.
- whatthefu, on 03/17/2008, -2/+22I'm digging this because I hear the guy on the radio over the weekend. I didn't know he was that popular.
EDIT: Right when I opened this he mentioned Digg.- Nothlit, on 03/17/2008, -0/+18Leo's been around since the stone age of tech media...
- ch4os1337, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3He has his own ***** tv show????
- jsg7, on 03/17/2008, -1/+10no, but he had his own tech tv show. I think cinemax has the ***** tv shows...
- zackkitzmiller, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3The Lab with Leo in Canada. Still on the air for now, Just got canceled last week.
- jsg7, on 03/17/2008, -1/+10no, but he had his own tech tv show. I think cinemax has the ***** tv shows...
- mike17032, on 03/17/2008, -0/+6Leo was on Tech TV with Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg. Kevin also used to be on most of the early TWiT podcasts that Leo hosts.
Leo is awsome, and still makes some great stuff. - glialisback, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Welcome to the 90s.
- dfeifer, on 03/17/2008, -1/+1I thought he started a new show that airs up in canada a couple of months ago?
- Anonchrist, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Leo was the star of Call For Help, before TechTV was destroyed by G4.
- Cyre, on 03/17/2008, -31/+25Who is he?
- scrag10, on 03/17/2008, -1/+12He hosted G4 tech TV's "screen savers" and I believe so did Kevin Rose (digg founder)?
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -2/+9Right. Kevin was Leo's replacement on Screen Savers after Leo quit/was fired/left from Techtv.
- JeffD, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Sort of, they were on the show together for a fair bit of time too though.
- piwy, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1They were both on at the same time for a long while. Kevin used to bring us dark ti[s from time to time.
- 15thPD, on 03/17/2008, -0/+8I miss when Kevin was the "Dark Tipper" and Martin Sargent was the "Twisted Lister".
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -2/+9Right. Kevin was Leo's replacement on Screen Savers after Leo quit/was fired/left from Techtv.
- omnithought, on 03/17/2008, -1/+36Don't digg im down, folks, educate him! More people should know of the goodness that was TechTV (before MTV...erm G4 took over)
- mysedai, on 03/17/2008, -0/+13I wish I could digg this a thousand times.
- GeonRebirth, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2I wish i could digg that and this a million times!!
- mysedai, on 03/17/2008, -0/+13I wish I could digg this a thousand times.
- geoken, on 03/17/2008, -18/+5He has a show where people ask tech related question and he answers them incorrectly while acting like he knows what he's talking about.
- Walker2323, on 03/17/2008, -0/+7Actually, Leo usually pretends like he doesn't know what he's talking about in order to have his guest explain it in their own words to the audience.
Nice try, though. - geoken, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1You mean like last time I watched his show and he told some guy that the low framerate on his webcam was due, mostly, to the bandwidth limitations of USB? I guess the 720p HD-DVD's I watch with the 360 HD-DVD add-on, which connects through USB, must be imaginary.
I can't remember ever watching the show and not seeing a similarly erroneous comment.
- Walker2323, on 03/17/2008, -0/+7Actually, Leo usually pretends like he doesn't know what he's talking about in order to have his guest explain it in their own words to the audience.
- Rabbethan, on 03/17/2008, -1/+6Who are you?
- 0xbaadf00d, on 03/17/2008, -0/+6Remember ZDTV?
- centran, on 03/17/2008, -1/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Laporte
There is a crappy wiki article. In short. Started off writing tech articles -> moved on to tech talk radio -> worked on some shows and started one in mid 90s -> most famous for hosting a tech help/talk tv show on techtv -> has moved back to his radio roots with "netcasts"
- scrag10, on 03/17/2008, -1/+12He hosted G4 tech TV's "screen savers" and I believe so did Kevin Rose (digg founder)?
- Nobiting, on 03/17/2008, -17/+37JOIN REV3 LEO!!!!
- G33k0ft3chz, on 03/17/2008, -4/+29I really doubt Leo would want to go to Revision3. Totally different fanbase. One has frat boys and "myspace" teens, and the other has people that are willing to know technology.
- Okari, on 03/17/2008, -4/+23And what, host a show that's not about technology? Rev3 has become crap, and the one tech show they do have is dumbed down.
- sickswaystop, on 03/17/2008, -7/+1it is what it is
- EBFoxbat, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10Which is... a huge disappointment. I don't care if they have dumbed-down tech shows. I just won't watch those. if they add content I like I'll watch those. It's hard to do folks. Think about it, other then Tech TV (et al) who else has EVER done it?
- mab0111, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1To be honest I always saw TechTV as a sort-of intermediate expertise level required to watch most stuff. They catered to the beginners and the experts, but never went too far either way. This is most of what got me tuning in and associating myself with something that i would've otherwise found geeky. In the short 3 years I watched TSS and TechTV, not only did I feel a bond with the hosts but the viewership. Importantly though, I found the segments they covered mainly catered to neither side, they were both interesting and informative. Whether you were a beginner or an expert, TSS had something for everyone. This is what I feel Rev3 has tried to replicate with Tekzilla, though with not as much success at first. The segments they've been producing lately, though they will never replace TSS, have done the best I've seen to reproduce that same feeling. I love Leo and TWiT, but Rev3 staffers is like a list of who was who of TechTV, and that has always excited me about their potential, especially with some of their shows going somewhat mainstream ie cult followings these days. So while you may see Rev3 as a fledgling network with crap, it's caused me to reminisce more of the glory days of TSS, which coincidentally ended 3 years ago tomorrow. This post ended up being long enough to blog about actually, but I had to put in my 2 cents.
(Come to think about it I should blog this, submit it, then make the front page tomorrow!, jk)
- EBFoxbat, on 03/17/2008, -0/+10Which is... a huge disappointment. I don't care if they have dumbed-down tech shows. I just won't watch those. if they add content I like I'll watch those. It's hard to do folks. Think about it, other then Tech TV (et al) who else has EVER done it?
- sickswaystop, on 03/17/2008, -7/+1it is what it is
- ma11man, on 03/17/2008, -10/+4Once it breaks he can use Ustream.tv. Then he'll be golden.
- EBFoxbat, on 03/17/2008, -1/+6hahahahahahahahaha
- daiguitar, on 03/17/2008, -8/+3use all the 1.21 jigawatt of power!
- jmhyer51, on 03/17/2008, -0/+7There are 5 problems with the comment above. See if you can spot them all!
- sandeepg, on 03/17/2008, -6/+1Leo's gonna regret this..
- EBFoxbat, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5Regret? Somehow I don't think it's going to cause personal injury.
- redfox2600, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1When digg crashes the stickam server it will take out a 2 mile radius with it.
- EBFoxbat, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5Regret? Somehow I don't think it's going to cause personal injury.
- JSKYs, on 03/17/2008, -1/+11Let the Digg Effect do it's work
- ShootTheCore, on 03/17/2008, -0/+6Is he recording TWIT right now!?
Nice cigar btw...- ShootTheCore, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1On second thoughts it was actually a pipe...
- deadnoob, on 03/17/2008, -5/+15id rather be seeing veronica than leo. (sorry leo, nothing against you)
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Who's veronica?
And how can she possibly be greater than Leo Laporte?
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1Who's veronica?
- troydoogle7, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2its working pretty good.
- moogydoogy, on 03/17/2008, -1/+3Its still up and running. Pretty good if it does not suffer the Digg effect.
- SeaweedWater, on 03/17/2008, -3/+19Am I the only one that doesn't know whats going on?
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2Nope.
:)
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2Nope.
- str3ama, on 03/17/2008, -0/+12it'll hold up, but I'm sure the bandwidth consumption on their side will be insane..
- ross., on 03/17/2008, -0/+9It held a consistent 1000 to 1300 viewers for 5 hours.
From my own observations, I download about 120Megabytes an hour watching stickam, therefore 1300*120*5= 780gigs of data...oh wow.
- ross., on 03/17/2008, -0/+9It held a consistent 1000 to 1300 viewers for 5 hours.
- A2TrueBlue, on 03/17/2008, -0/+14The feed finished up when the story was around 100 diggs.
- xb00t, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5You can't stop the signal...
- sickswaystop, on 03/17/2008, -1/+4AW he needs to keep his cam on Live, I'll stream the videos though out of thier ***** player
- ma11man, on 03/17/2008, -5/+8He's offline. Buried.
- test5477, on 03/17/2008, -1/+8Leo is the best, Rev3 needs to do a show with him. He's expensive but worth evey penny.
- mptsxtps, on 03/17/2008, -0/+80Submitted: 5 hr 9 min ago, made popular 3 min ago. There's your problem
- evilbunnys2, on 03/17/2008, -6/+2Mythbusters reference?
- TiCL, on 03/17/2008, -13/+1Paid digg?
- bromac, on 03/17/2008, -1/+6With 200+ diggs before it hits the front page? I don't think so.
- soccerman90, on 03/17/2008, -4/+19:48 pm est and its still running
- tamurlane6, on 03/17/2008, -3/+3In one of the pics of Leo and the skateboard, he's flicking me off!
- bingobongony, on 03/17/2008, -18/+2I know one person who will be gald to try. Digg's own resident child molester ussoldier. He loves "webcamming" with 14 year old girls. That is until they find out he is in his late 30s and kick him out. Then he calls them bitches. (Imagine if they knew that he said there is nothing wrong with a 40 year old man having sex with a 4 year old girl as long as "she wants it too.")
- coit, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5How am I so lucky as to always run into your ussoldier bashing comments?
- bingobongony, on 03/17/2008, -3/+1Are you suggesting that he doesn't DESERVE it? He is someone who spent time in jail for molesting a FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL, yet still says that there is nothing wrong with doing so. And because of that, he thinks that the world owes him something. The man is a sick individual
- coit, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2Perhaps digg.com is not the place to achieve your goals?
- bingobongony, on 03/17/2008, -3/+1The amazing this is that you are actually using this account as if you expect to not get banned. You are making friends, and posting comments to regular stories as if you expect to be using this account for a long time. It is a violation of the TOS to impersonate another digg user. Reported.
- bingobongony, on 03/17/2008, -3/+1I am simply pointing out a dangerous man whenever he continues with his dangerous actions. Again...this man REPEATEDLY tries to have inappropriate relations with underage girls, and says there there is nthing wrong with having sex with a 5 year old.
Trust me, if I know who he was, I would see if he is violating his parole by trying to anonymously chat/webcam with 15 year old girls. But I don't know who he is.
- coit, on 03/17/2008, -1/+2Perhaps digg.com is not the place to achieve your goals?
- bingobongony, on 03/17/2008, -3/+1Are you suggesting that he doesn't DESERVE it? He is someone who spent time in jail for molesting a FOUR YEAR OLD GIRL, yet still says that there is nothing wrong with doing so. And because of that, he thinks that the world owes him something. The man is a sick individual
- coit, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5How am I so lucky as to always run into your ussoldier bashing comments?
- DEIx15x8, on 03/17/2008, -0/+18Always happy to break things for Leo!
- IanCube, on 03/17/2008, -0/+7Offline.
- Rapter09, on 03/17/2008, -0/+12"On some broadcasts audio is turned off to protect copyright holders."
Now, I'm not exactly sure what that means. I'm presuming some sort of music, or content that he shows.
Wow, that's really sad. Not sad for Leo. Leo's frickin awesome. It's sad that we've come to that point in history, though.- rbond, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1The funny thing is that I can pull up his radio stream and I can hear and see the action at the same time. So it really is just one big inconvenience.
- Nothlit, on 03/17/2008, -0/+6It has to do with his radio show. For a while, he used to stream his radio show live over Stickam / Ustream. However, some of the affiliate radio stations that carry his show got upset that people could listen to the show ad-free on Leo's site instead of being forced to listen to their commercial-laden streams (or actually listen over the air). So now he typically just streams the video with no audio, so you have to go listen to one of the affiliate radio stations' streams, which is never in sync with the video stream.
- Borramakot, on 03/17/2008, -1/+5So did he mention something about this in some broadcast I missed, or could sputnike be setting us all up for the best DDoS attack of all time?
- Sethwm2, on 03/17/2008, -0/+6Digg Digg Digg!! Come on guys really test this bitch out!!
- ma11man, on 03/17/2008, -11/+3Help Chris Pirillo break ustream.
http://digg.com/software/Help_Chris_Pirillo_Try_to ...- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Chris is the man also.
We'll never forget techTV,
or comcast/G$.
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Chris is the man also.
- merit, on 03/17/2008, -9/+0Mirror?
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1I dont get it?
- merit, on 03/17/2008, -9/+0Mirror?
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+1I dont get it?
- truspect0r, on 03/17/2008, -20/+6Digg is not your personal army.
- Solis, on 03/17/2008, -2/+18If Leo wants an army, he gets an army. Show some respect for the man, he's a legend.
- marvinmatthew, on 03/17/2008, -0/+7But many digg users are members of the TWiT army. I am.
- robthom, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Alright everybody, you know what to do.
Buried.
- MuslimGhost, on 03/17/2008, -7/+3Sounds like a conspiracy to commit a DoS attack to me ;)
- PaulGriffin, on 03/17/2008, -9/+4What's taking him so long to give up and go to Revision3 already?
- datcrazydj, on 03/17/2008, -5/+4Stickam is already broken.
- Evolutuon, on 03/17/2008, -2/+63I miss TechTv. Stupid G4.
- amanilaenvelope, on 03/17/2008, -8/+1G4 is not so bad i guess i mean they're pretty good i like it but i wouldn't know right cause im the demographic
- mradules, on 03/17/2008, -2/+6G4's demographic: tweens who don't use punctuation.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5They only have like 5 shows. 80% of their air time is Ninja Warrior and Cops. It's pretty sad.
- RevToTheRedline, on 03/17/2008, -1/+3I was flipping through the DTV guide and saw Cops 2.0 on G4, having not touched G4 in a long time I decided to have a good laugh and check it out... Looks like they just took old 1990's Cops episodes and put a information bar at the bottom, call it a new show? Go G4, raising the bar on stupidity.
- amanilaenvelope, on 03/18/2008, -0/+1touche'
- mradules, on 03/17/2008, -2/+6G4's demographic: tweens who don't use punctuation.
- alexgut, on 03/17/2008, -3/+4Stupid TechTv. I miss ZDtv
- yabos, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3They cancelled The Lab With Leo in Canada already after about 170 episodes or so.
- amanilaenvelope, on 03/17/2008, -8/+1G4 is not so bad i guess i mean they're pretty good i like it but i wouldn't know right cause im the demographic
- mghwom1, on 03/17/2008, -0/+11It's not hard to crash Stickam. Howard Stern's Eric the Midget does it every night.
- diggerphelps, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4"Ack Ack!"
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2If all of Stickam's shows sound as awful as Eric The Midget's, then Leo should look elsewhere.
Here's a link in case someone is interested in this train wreck.
http://www.jfsc.tv/index.php
(I believe the live show runs during the west coast feed of American Idol)- SeaweedWater, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Don't go there its like crack. I can't keep my eyes off this midget.
- IpwnZnoobs, on 03/17/2008, -0/+18Anything for Leo.
- GhengisKhan, on 03/17/2008, -0/+6Absolutely. A true class act and entertaining person.
- Informationator, on 03/17/2008, -0/+11Leo, you're the man. Glad to see you around again. Loved you on TechTV. I've always hated G4 since they ruined everything.
- amanilaenvelope, on 03/17/2008, -0/+16TECH TV FTW!!!!!!!!!!
- p03tctrag3dy, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4ZD TV FTW
- bossm4n, on 03/17/2008, -0/+13Mission accomplished. Got to 2:22 and it totally froze. Hope that helps Leo. I miss the old Tech TV.
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