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QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 5, 2007 -> 11:50 AM) The Blockbuster commercial was my favorite. The first Doritos one was quite funny though. The snickers one was funny too. The rest were eh.

My favorite was the blockbuster one where they had the rabbit and the guinnie pig using the mouse. They are pushing on the mouses back and he is squeaking(its not working, try dragging it the mouse speaks more, then they figure they need to plug it in).

Good luck my friend, and good hunting. Come back safe. We are all proud of you and the rest of our military. You and your brothers are the tip of the sword, and are taking the fight to these islamofacists on their own ground.

My wife is an oncology nurse and she has seen and has talked about the pain and suffering of cancer patients at the hospital. 70% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV. A couple of months ago they did a special on the HPV vaccine, and then about the outcry of how people were upset about giving it to girls. My wife turned to me and said, our daughter is going to get that shot. I looked at her stomach and said, well she has to be born first I said with a smile. No, this is not up for discussion, our daughter will get the shot when she is old enough. The funny thing is that even though I am pretty conservative this wasn't something I was even contemplating keeping from her. Our daughter will be born sometime in the late March/early April time frame. My wife said that they have discussed this at work and that its no different then men over a certain age getting their PSA test. Anything and everything that can be done to prevent cancer. So when my daughter can, she will get that shot. As a father, I want her to have everything, and that includes a healthy happy life. The logic not to get this shot doesn't even make sense. So let me get this straight, people are worried that if you get a shot to protect you against one, count them one STD, that immediately the morality of their children will be compromised. Come one now. If they want to scare morality into their children, there are plenty of horrible diseases out there that are totally incurable, painful and deadly that can keep their kids in check. The upbringing and the environment and the love I give my children will present them a blueprint of morality. This is all a parent can do. Scaring your children into morality doesn't work, well strike that it works until they get into high school. A shot is not going to change your childs morality.

Shall we play a game? Proof of concept code works.

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 02:57 PM) This is were I have gotten in trouble,manager walking in on me when Iam supposed to be working on ins policies and she sees Rockraines avatar and it looked pretty bad. You have to balance your individual work environment. My boss doesnt care, as long as things I am responsible get done. If I spend some time on soxtalk trust me when I get called at 2 in the morning next week and am up all night it, the time makes itself up. But then again that is my boss now. I have had bosses before that were paranoid on what we did, and I kept it strictly business at work. Your job is more important than what is on here. As great of a site as it is, it doesnt pay for your bills. So if you are worried about your situation, I would cut it out and catch up at night or on your lunch break.

QUOTE(Y2HH @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 02:55 PM) I cannot wait for the regular season to begin. Football is great and all, but it's not baseball, nor will it ever be. I cannot wait to see the added green seats and the smell of the grilled onions again... Baseball is coming... Yay! To me the ballpark is a cathedral. Nothing like looking down at a Roger Bossard kept field. Tailgating at the ballpark. Having a polish and a beer. Fireworks after a homer. Walking out to a whitesox winner. I cant wait.

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 02:02 PM) After repeated times that I have got in trouble at work for being on Soxtalk,it occurred to me.How many others are on Soxtalk in a disobedient manner?Wether it be at school,work,meetings,babysitting,or any other inappropriate time.Who are the soxtalk hooligans?!!! I have no problems, but then again I am the one operating the big brother equipment. This is kind of a wierd ethical subject, that has been played out on this board before. My view is this, I would rather put in blocks at a company that stop unauthorized access than worry about policing the people. However at my company its a mix of both. We work on the least privilege principle that means that we block it and make everyone go through a content proxy. Now on the other hand I have other items looking for certain words and phrases on our network and email traffic for corporate espinonage. I am more worried about our trade secrets going out, than worrying about the fact that you are looking at soxtalk. The only person that should be policing you on that is your manager. However in todays day, HR uses internet policing as a lock step path to fire someone without getting into a legal debate afterwards. Security professionals hate being the HR strong arm. It takes way too much of my time to prepare internet usage reports, perform forensics on a machine and deal with court dates. I would rather be looking for corporate spooks and hackers. For saftey at work, just assume that you are being watched at all times and everything you do is being filtered, categorized, and watched. At some companies, the security people are so sick of dealing with this subject, they have panned the administration of the web filters to HR. Now talk about dangerous.

QUOTE(Balance @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 11:07 AM) In college, I was an avid Mac user. When I started working in the legal profession, however, everyone was using PCs. I converted to the Dark Side. Every now and then, I go to the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue, I look around, and all the Apple machines look great. But the OS has changed since I was a Mac user; it looks so unfamiliar to me. I'd definitely consider going back to a Mac when I get a new computer. But I'd have to be absolutely sure that I could work with Windows files (mostly Word and Excel) seamlessly. I currently have a Macbook intel with a a core duo proc, I run XP under a parallels virtual machine session that has my office apps, and some of my windows based apps on it on my 22 inch wide display, and my mac apps under the laptop display. With the virtualization extensions under the newer processors I get pentium 4 performance in my virtual xp session which works great. If you didnt know it you would think its running under its own machine. Now that being said, I wouldnt run a major math program like some advanced analyitics tools or CAD under a virtual machine. But for office apps and some proc intensive tools, they work fine under my virtual machine. Now the next version of parallels which is in beta has support for coherence, which will allow you to not have a virtual session up, but just have shortcuts natively on your mac to run microsoft apps under the veil of Apple. http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/coherence/ http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 2, 2007 -> 06:45 AM) This had me thinking. Who/What is Apple? Hardware? Software? OS? Balance of the three? It's not Motorola chips anymore. Would Apple be Apple if Dell started making computers that ran on the Mac OS? Would Apple be Apple if they offered a choice of Mac OS or Windows on their hardware? Would Apple exist if everyone was smart enough to use a PC? You can run windows on an apple with Bootcamp or as I do with parallels virtual marchine under OSX. To me when they went with the Intel Architecture they should of opened it up and allowed it to run on other systems. That would of helped OSX jump to a new level and would help with corporate acceptance. Apple has some of the most talented engineers, and some of the worst marketting strategic planning guys on earth. Microsoft has won this battle with the best marketting group on earth. Now on another note, I have been able to get Apple OSX to run on a Dell and also in a virtual session on vmware. It works relatively well.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 07:52 PM) Mac OS 10.4.6 The funny thing is in reality, Vista is a Tiger rip off. Their new search engine was modeled after spotlight, the look is very mac like. And then in a few months Leopard will be out with a whole new set of bells and whistles. The only thing holding Apple back is being locked into proprietary hardware. If Jobs takes the gloves off and has Leopard ready for all intel based systems then we would be ready for a fight.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 06:12 PM) I have had problems with XP on my computer for a while. I have missing cabinet files, can open winzip files because of CRC errors etc., certain games won't work, so I think I'm gonna bite the bullet and buy the Premium Version of Vista. Some of you can get a student discount that is pretty good. Outside of that the rest take a beating on the actual price. If you "build" or say modify your computer by buying a small part such as a fan for like 5 bucks you can qualify as a PC Builder and get the OEM edition. The price difference is significant. This was the route I took a few years back to get XP Pro for a 90 bucks. I built a PC for my brother and picked up the OEM edition and saved a ton for him. Remember google is your friend. OEM Vista edition should get you some prices and some comparisons. Some places will require you to purchase a small part or something, some others dont care at all. Here is an example of one place that has Vista pricing for OEM editions. There are others, just let google go the walking for you. provantage.com has a full line-up of 32- and 64-bit Vista OEM editions for sale at the following prices: * Home Basic: $96.98 * Home Premium: $120.89 * Business $152.62 * Vista Ultimate $205.31 Edit: Newegg has some pricing also. http://www.newegg.com/msvista/Vista_Produc...s&ATT=Vista

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Feb 1, 2007 -> 02:09 AM) The Mac OS is not "safer". It's just that if writing viruses is your thing, you get more bang attacking a PC because there are so many more PC's out there. It's kind of like using Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. More use IE, therefore Mozilla floats under the radar. All operating systems have their flaws and all, however the model that microsoft has operated under has been the reason that they are a target. Its not just that there are more of them out there, its how tightly they have tied their application APIs to the core of the operating system. It makes them easy for a developer to write some code to, however its also easy for a malware writer to do the same thing. A lot of their applications run in a privileged state and cannot be jailed off. Where as MacOS, Linux and other Unix like operating systems can jail off processes. Most Unix-like operating systems operate under the security principle of least privilege, where as microsoft believes that the Administrator and administrator access should be acceptable for most of their applications. You can lock down a Unix like machine without changing the user experience that much, if you lock down XP or even Vista to a high security standpoint you seriously impact the user and most likely have some operational values. But hey, Gates a long time ago figured out how to make a ton of money. He made it as easy as possible for as many developers in the world to crank out applications. That and making it secure are almost impossible to do. You are correct that the Microsft Firewall is horrible. It provides protection for inbound attacks only and ignores your machines source traffic as trusted. It would be nice to see a popup, like in a Zone Alarm or other products that my machine is running some process I have never heard of and is trying to contact China for whatever reason. But the reason I stated to use it, is that any firewall is better than no protection. Its easy for the user to use and provides adaquate protection against inbound worms. As far as the automatic updates. The best way to protect yourself from most crap on the net is to patch your system and your applications as much as possible. Most exploits that are used are actually older problems that do not get patched. There are still Code Red/Nimba/Slammer infections on the internet due to the lack of patching. If you can handle the patching yourself and can get on a good schedule then by all means. However for the average user its better just to have the automatic updates set and let it take care of it for you. In a corporate environment I would recommend the Windows Server Update Services which allows you to have your users point to a central repository that you can manage. You approve the updates and then publish them. Its one of the better microsoft tools out there.

QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 10:11 PM) Well, I got and am currently using Vista on my new computer. It seems ok so far. Its a lot more different then I thought it would be. Make sure that you have your AV, the Vista firewall, and your antispyware on and ready to go. Also turn on the autoupdate feature, as they are already getting patches ready. The first exploits for Vista will be through the applications on Vista probably through email or messenger spam. They will target vulnerabilities in IE and messenger like in older versions. Just because this is on Vista doesn't mean you will be invulnerable. If I was going to target the system, I would look at the IPv6 stack as it is enabled on all Vista machines by default. You could encapsulate a normal IPv4 packet in IPv6 and see if it will answer and pass it through without checking it for security. I will probably install it on a VM just so I can mess around with it. First one to write an exploit will be famous.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 06:54 PM) The hacker thing is interesting. How would it be different that loooking for something in all the other versions of Windows? It would more than likely effect the entire Windows family. Or do you think they would want to find something that attacks Vista and not all the others? Microsoft is paying a lot of the puppet security research facilities funded by Microsoft to proclaim the security better than anything out on the market, which is a load of crap. These are the same moronic research facilities that state that large Unix systems are not as powerful or reliable than a Windows box The gaunlet has been thrown down. There will be a mix of malware and attacks, some that affect all of the Windows family due to compatibility issues and ones that are Vista specific.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 05:52 PM) Not this year. That was a big help for those that didn't get there in time and just wanted to get in lines for wristbands or get in on the Oz seminar. I'm happy they are there and hope they extend their contract past the next 2 years. My overall experience was pretty positive this time. The lines were manageable, and there were plenty of guest relations people around helping out with how to get from point A to point B. The sox are also trying to make this better and better every year. They had some guest relations people going around with PDA's doing surveys of how this soxfest compared to others and things you liked and didnt like trying to get feedback. The stairs were not that bad. Brooks and the sox are trying to make an effort of trying to improve on the sox experience year in and year out. My favorite touch was the Pride Crew asking the trivia questions. As always I picked up something from the vendor area that was pretty original. I picked up a 18 wheeler Sox championship truck for Brendan, and a cool picture that had the park at 1917 with the old sox logo, and it was split with the parade with the 2005. I think they did a great job, and would say that it should stay at the Palmer house. It was better than the crazy people event of last year.

I wouldnt be first on the block to get this. I would wait until the first service pack is out for it. That is usually the gage we use to put it into production. The next thing is to verify that your apps will work with it. And make sure your PC can handle it. The new security features look promising, however I will wait until its out in the world in production when the malware people get their hands on it. The religious OS wars will be pretty snippy this time between Apple and Microsoft.

The thing that everyone needs to remember about Boras and his client is that this relationship is not a chance meeting. Its not like Joe just looked into the rolodex for agents and stopped at the Bs. Boras makes contact with impact or potential impact players. Players sign with Boras because he makes them money. Boras goes to these players because they will make him money. Its not like Crede was forced to go with Boras. Joe Crede has one group of people to worry about when he considers where to play. His wife and his kids and himself. That is about it. He like a lot of players have been roasted by the fans and media, almost traded how many times, etc. This is a business relationship, and nothing more. We as fans get in love with a name on the back of a jersey and identify with them. When they go its sad. However its an inevitiability that year to year that the dynamic of the team will change. New names will appear, new heros are born every day. Eventually you will see your favorite player go. As a person that has seen countless favorites move on, Move on and find a new favorite player. edit: Damn you Kalapse for getting my point in ahead of me. I need to type faster.

QUOTE(LVSoxFan @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 10:36 AM) Well, uh yeah. What's the big mystery? So yes: I prefer the lower runs/better pitching '05 team the feast-or-famine runs/iffy pitching of '04 and 2nd half '06? I'm not sure what we're arguing about here? And don't tell me the '06 team was clutch hitting like '05, more runs or not. Our offense in 05 sucked. It was horrible at times. Remember Dye and Konerko couldnt hit at all starting out the season and we survived on crazy pitching. Remember Timo Perez as our DH, remember how in August no one could hit at all. Our 05 team's offense got hot towards the end of September and crazy hot in the playoffs. Outside of that period of time our offense was horrible, and a lot of us were worried how it was going to do in the playoffs. Everyone can have fantasy memories of 05 as how clutch the offense was, it wasnt. Clutch hitting teams dont jumble their lineup right before the playoffs because our number 3 hitter(Jurassic) couldnt hit all and we needed a desperate change. The formula for 05 was pitch like crazy, catch the ball and dont do stupid things The thing that made us a championship team was the fact that the hitting decided to show up in the playoffs. The reason our team didnt make the playoffs last year was a few items. From the management side Ozzie putting in a corner OF in CF, Joey Cora waving everything that wasnt anchored down around. From the pitching side our pitchers not pitching a good entire season, some of them not pitching at all. Our bullpen being crappy and not holdling leads. And our Jeckle and Hyde Offense. The first part of the season they hit the ball like crazy, line drives, lots of homers not pressing. In the 2nd half it was terrible. Guys trying to hit home runs, and our offense morphing into the 2004 whitesox.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 11:01 AM) First Mark needs to get into shape and stop eating every piece of meat he kills in missouri. He is in good shape. The only thing he needs to do is pound righties inside with his cutter, and keep the ball down. He has been a proven pitcher for years.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jan 28, 2007 -> 03:28 PM) You should have refused to answer out of protest. She didnt accept my first answer which was a curse word. \

I had a great time today at the Sunday soxfest. I was able to park for free 2 blocks on the street, bonus. The wierd thing was the layout. In soxfest's past everything is pretty much on one level, this time it took a while to figure out where everything is at. Using the narrow stairs between some of the floors was a bit interesting. This was about as quick of an autograph line I have seen. they strictly enforced the sign one item routine and kept the lines moving. I was able to get a good amount of autographs. Konerko, Cintron(which no one showed up for), Sweeney who stole Brian Anderson's hair and shirt from last years Soxfest, Fields, and Owens. Out of everyone Fields seem to go out of his way to personalize things. He asked me my first name, and then personalized the item for me. That was pretty cool. I won about 5 shirts and 5 hats with the silly trivia stuff from the Chevy Pride Crew. The first question to me was "Who is the whitesox hitting coach".

Hopefully this means we will see some more stuff guys from the draft instead of some safe picks. Passing up Garza and others for Broadway based on Broadway being safe might have finally sunk in for Kenny when he saw Garza make the bigs last year.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 09:05 PM) Which means that if that moment comes, the entire middle east will cease to exist. Trust me, when a mushroom cloud is going off over Tehran I dont think that other governments in the middle east will be willing to run into the frey.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 09:00 PM) Do you really think Israel would launch a war with an unprovoked nuclear strike? How long do you think that Israel exists the minute Iran can get the weapons over to Israel. Drive them into the sea, scatter their electrons to the 4 corners of the world...what does it matter. I believe that the minute Iran tests a nuclear weapon, Israel is at war with Iran and will use whatever means necessary to stop the threat.