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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 02:34 PM) Israeli nuclear program and NK program are completely different. Israel has the US to protect them, NK does not. There is more to what Kim is doing and I am starting to lean towards Russia encouraging him. There are reports that Russia is helping him avoid sanctions. This is entirely speculation, but there is something more driving Kim here, and whatever it is, it making him more aggressive in his posturing. NK has both China and Russia to protect them. They always have protected them all of the way back to the Korean war. Even through the aggressiveness of NK, they are still being protected by them.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 01:54 PM) I think that Kim believes that he has all the deterrence he needs to avoid a US invasion. But that it's only through provocative talk that he keeps the US and, to a lesser extent, China, believing that he'll actually kills lots and lots of people if a line gets crossed. Maybe I'm wrong and Kim isn't a rational actor. I just don't see what his end game is if this goes beyond words and symbolic shows of force. He is way past symbolic. If the left is right, he has had his nuclear program that he wants, and the world knows about it and has for a while. All of the accelerating tests, firing missiles towards other countries, on top of the rhetoric is putting himself in a situation where he could draw an attack from the US. If all he wanted was a nuclear program, he could well have gone the Israeli route where they refuse to talk about it, yet the entire world knows it is there.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 01:26 PM) Greg - I think China is exerting what influence it has behind the scenes to try to keep NK in check. China does not want war on the Korean peninsula for a lot of reasons. But China also benefits from North Korea's existence generally. They don't want to deal with a flood of refugees (war or complete destabilization of NK), they don't want American allies (a unified Korean peninsula) on their borders. I know this has been said before in this thread, but Kim Jong Un knows that the second he launches a nuke or conventional weaponry, he starts a war he cannot possibly survive. Yet he keeps provoking a man the world knows isn't right in the head into a war he can't win. This isn't Obama or Bush he is dealing with who never had any intention of actually doing anything.

While greg is off in gregland, I am curious what the rest of Soxtalk thinks of this off-season as it relates to Avi. Extend Trade Play it out If trade is your first choice, how little of a return would you be OK with in a trade of Garcia?

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 12:45 PM) Volstad showed us some good stuff last night. I am sure he gets another relief outing or two to show if he can be consistent and get a spot with the team in 2018 I don't say this often, but no. Chris Volstad has pretty much won the lottery to be on a major league roster right now. He is awful and will not be on the White Sox roster in 2018.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 10:17 AM) You can much more easily socially engineer your way into their various accounts. You can steal tax returns. You can still take out store and other lines of credit even if you've got a bad credit score. And plenty of those 150M people have decent or good credit anyway so it seems weird to be dismissive of them. For me, if my credit were to get wrecked, it could directly impact my employment because I need to obtain and maintain clearances. That affects individual people directly. I don't even know what "Google's MNPI" means, so it seems pretty obvious why more people care about their personal information being stolen and putting them personally at great risk rather than a corporation being at risk. Its bigger than just "a corporation". Way bigger. If you don't understand it isn't prudent to dismiss this.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 10:08 AM) I thought the Equifax leak included full name, DOB, address and SSN. Everything wrapped up in a nice package to steal someone's identity and wreck their s*** by taking out loans and credit in their name. That can be a monumental pain in the ass and financially damaging to get cleared up. And with that information you are going to be able to go as far as their credit score will take you. If they have a 550, all of that information is pretty worthless. If they have a 800, sure you can go a lot further. But if you own Google's MNPI how much further can you go?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 10:00 AM) It affects corporate profits and that's more important than the financial stability of 150 million people Yes, big deal, just noting your instinctive judgement about priorities. On a person's personal information you can get as far as their credit score. On a companies information or even marketplace's information you control the entire market place. Which is more important?

Another solid primer https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/heres-what-...e-sec-hack.html

Here is a better read from a industry publication. https://www.ft.com/content/f5292994-9f09-11...d4-932067fbf946

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 09:46 AM) I'm confused by this: "The system that was breached, known as EDGAR, is a popular way for investors to access the detailed financial reports companies that sell stock to the public must periodically release. It had a "software vulnerability" that was "exploited and resulted in access to nonpublic information," Clayton said in the statement." That last sentence. 1) Did they access info that was TO BE RELEASED but not yet released 2) Why would they use the same system for public and non public info? 1- Could be. Some of that information is released, some never is. Company's pretty much disclose anything and everything and then figure out later level of importance and disclosure. 2- Fun fact: Despite cybersecurity being a pretty regular "point of emphasis" from the SEC and FINRA, most exchanges and regulatory agencies use outdated security, infrastructure and follow few of their own directives aimed at market participants. My professional guess is that the SEC does none of the Chinese Wall and segregation procedures that they require of member firms. A great example is last I knew the consolidated stock feed in the US was run on a version of Windows that hasn't been supported by Microsoft in a decade or more. Fun reading in general. http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/pr...arming-reliance

Dan Hayes‏Verified account @CSNHayes 10h10 hours ago It had been 1,836 days since Chris Volstad's last MLB win, also at the Houston Astros against tonight's starter Dallas Keuchel.

CSN Chicago‏Verified account @CSNChicago 10h10 hours ago Five takeaways from #Blackhawks' 6-1 win over Red Wings in preseason home opener: http://bit.ly/2xlZPWa

ProFootballTalk‏Verified account @ProFootballTalk 1h1 hour ago Bears expect to have Kyle Long back in lineup this weekend

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 09:17 AM) What sort of information would be considered "nonpublic" that they'd have been able to get a hold of? The story is kinda vague on that. Material Non-Public Information is a HUGE requirement of the SEC's and could be disastrous to pretty much any industry or company in the wrong hands at the wrong time.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 09:14 AM) Curious, why do you think it's bigger? Just undermining confidence in the integrity of the market? Equifax was felt so broadly, and we know that information could end up hurting a whole bunch of people through identity theft. The tangible acts of profiting off illegal info seems like it would affect a much more narrow group. Every single confidential filing required by the SEC is literally vulnerable with this attack. This is essentially getting the private information of every corporation out there.

The link to the article is dead tho. Dan Hayes‏Verified account @CSNHayes 2h2 hours ago #WhiteSox named scouts from Astros, Indians to amateur cross checking positions.

This is so much bigger than the Equifax hack, but is getting so much less publicity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/busines...m=.e0dc5d9c955b

http://meadowparty.com/blog/2017/09/21/klawchat-92117/ Brent: Do you think Seth Beer’s bat will play well enough to make him a high 1st round pick? Keith Law: Probably. Has to put up another big statistical year, but he’s done that before.

http://meadowparty.com/blog/2017/09/21/klawchat-92117/ Keith: How do you think the White Sox will handle Luis Robert next season? Has your POV on him changed based on anything you heard from the DSL? Keith Law: He was way too old for the DSL – most players there are 18 or younger. I assume he’ll start in Kannapolis.

670 The Score‏Verified account @670TheScore 1h1 hour ago #Cubs' Kris Bryant isn't a sabermetrics guy http://cbsloc.al/2xxDxmo

Chicago White Sox‏Verified account @whitesox 1h1 hour ago LINEUP CHANGE: Davidson scratched. SS Anderson 2B Moncada 1B Abreu RF A. García C Smith 3B Saladino DH W. García LF Liriano CF Engel

Daryl Van Schouwen‏Verified account @CST_soxvan 34m34 minutes ago Royals at White Sox Fri: Hammel (5.05) v Lopez (4.84) 7:10 Sat: Duffy (3.71) v Covey (8.18) 6:10 Sun: Gaviglio (4.35) v Giolito (2.58) 1:10

Over that six weeks he is slashing .317/.328/.532/.860 Dan Hayes‏Verified account @CSNHayes 35m35 minutes ago #WhiteSox SS Tim Anderson has hits in 36 of 44 games from Aug. 1 on.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Sep 21, 2017 -> 02:01 PM) A good trivia question from back in the day. I'm not sure if it's still true as I haven't researched it. Who is the only player to drive himself in as many times as he drove others in while hitting 30 or more HRs? For example 30 HR and 60 RBI I want to say Brooks Jacoby either did it, or was really close to doing it.