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WAHT - you think I'm a NOOB? Sheesh *mutters*

I have him He's at the foot of my bed

I have never had a problem with mine. We have Vonnage, and there hasn't been a single glitch. I don't use any tweaks either, but I also very rarely use the phone.

ty FallowEarth . I appreciate your time and effort. I don't follow wrestling, and won't pretend to. I'm a lover of music, not wrestling. I will say this, Your passion proves that you have suffered a loss, And I am sorry for that. All great losses in one's life though lead to greater realizations of one's self. I have had many losses and many lessons, and I am me because of them. I like the person I am although I detest some of the things I have learned. I will say though, I would not put any of them away. I hope that everyone that feels a loss from Eddie's death can reconcile it within themselves. I cannot relate however. So I will step back from this. I do appreciate your reply.

damn, you must feel so violated :/ I'm sorry - bastards have no lives....

I have a question, someone posted that on my site as well, can someone tell me in their own words what was so special about this man? I don't want to read a report, I would rather know how it his death affected you.

Today's Episode: Sony BMG Music Entertainment finds itself singing the blues this week, after copy protection on many of its CDs struck a sour note on fans' PCs. http://news.com.com/Week+in+review+Sonys+sour+note/2100-1083_3-5959672.html?tag=nefd.lede Week in review: Sony's sour note By Steven Musil Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: November 18, 2005, 10:18 AM PST TalkBack E-mail Print TrackBack Sony BMG Music Entertainment finds itself singing the blues this week, after copy protection on many of its CDs struck a sour note on fans' PCs. The record label will recall millions of CDs that, if played in a consumer's PC disc drive, will expose the computer to serious security risks. Anyone who has purchased one of the CDs, which include southern rockers Van Zant, Neil Diamond's latest album and more than 18 others, can exchange the purchase. The company added that it would release details of its CD exchange program "shortly." Sony's software, installed when playing one of the record label's recent copy-protected CDs in a computer, hides itself on hard drives using a powerful programming tool called a "rootkit." But the tool leaves the door open behind it, allowing other software--including viruses--to be deeply hidden behind the rootkit cloak. Sony reported that over the past eight months, it shipped more than 4.7 million CDs with the so-called XCP copy protection. More than 2.1 million of those discs have been sold. News of Sony's copy protection problems incensed some CNET News.com readers. "These companies will do anything to stop people from copying their CDs...including making people so afraid to even use a CD, for fear of it destroying their PCs, that no one will buy a copy-protected disc again," wrote Philip Brooks in News.com's TalkBack forum. "Who do they think they are benefiting? It would seem to me that this fiasco will only encourage music pirates. Bravo, Sony!" Sony BMG took another blow when a security company said it has found malicious attacks based on software designed to defuse the record label's "rootkit" problems. Websense's security labs reported that it has discovered several Web sites designed to exploit security flaws in a rootkit uninstaller program issued by Sony BMG. Websense has uncovered only a couple of Web sites set up to attack flaws in the initial uninstall program, and the damage they cause appears to be minimal so far. One of them, hosted in the United States, simply restarts infected computers. Microsoft plans to update its security tools to detect and remove part of those copy protection tools after determining that the "rootkit" can pose a security risk to Windows PCs. To protect Windows users, Microsoft plans to update Windows AntiSpyware and the Malicious Software Removal Tool, as well as the online scanner on Windows Live Safety Center, to detect and remove the Sony BMG software. Fight over the Net The battle for control of the Net ended peacefully before the fight even began, but some are still unhappy with the outcome. The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunis, Tunisia, inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that endorses the creation of an "Internet Governance Forum." The forum is meant to be a central point for global discussions of everything from computer security and online crime to spam and other "misuses of the Internet." It will meet for the first time in 2006 under the auspices of the United Nations. What the agreement does not do is require the United States to relinquish its unique influence over the Internet's operations. The statement takes "no action regarding existing institutions," said David Gross, the ambassador leading the U.S. delegation. "It created no new international organizations." But because it's not clear which organization will be in charge of organizing the forum, a new round of back-room negotiating and political jockeying is already under way. The top two contenders: the International Telecommunication Union, a U.N. body, and the Internet Society, which counts online pioneers from the United States and Europe on its board of directors and is located in Reston, Va. The ITU doesn't have any day-to-day responsibility over the Internet, and Western businesses and the U.S. government would like to keep it that way. In addition, a power struggle over the creation of the Internet Governance Forum is developing with the Internet Society, meaning that the ITU's management of the forum is not guaranteed. Whichever group is in charge of organizing can set the tone for the forum, craft the rules and influence the final result. CNET News.com spoke about these topics with Robert Shaw, the ITU's Internet strategy and policy adviser. The summit itself got off to a rocky start in the eyes of some human rights activists. Just days before the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society began, watchdog groups reported clashes with authorities and violence toward at least one journalist in the North African city of about 10 million people. The groups called the country unfit to host the international summit because of its track record on censorship. The Tunisian government has earned notoriety for jailing journalists and bloggers accused of reporting false information. Microsoft and the money Even a company as large and powerful as Microsoft has money on its mind. So why would it consider giving away some of its most popular titles? As Microsoft readies a host of new ad-supported online services to battle rivals, the software maker has been mulling a plan to offer free, ad-supported versions of some of its desktop products. Although no specific plans have been announced, executives within Microsoft are examining whether it makes sense to release ad-supported versions of products such as Works, Money or even the Windows operating system itself, according to internal documents seen by CNET News.com. "As Web advertising grows and consumer revenues shrink, we need to consider creating ad-supported versions of our software," two Microsoft researchers and an MSN employee wrote in a paper presented to company executives earlier this year. The document was prepared for one of Microsoft's twice-yearly Thinkweek exercises, in which Chairman Bill Gates and other top executives gather to consider potential new avenues for the company to follow. The document also sheds light on Microsoft's concerns over the erosion of revenue from shrink-wrapped software, particularly in the consumer market. Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profit for Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business. According to the document, Microsoft gets only about $2 for each copy of Works that is bundled on new computers. The standard version of Money isn't even a break-even proposition, and the company has had to heavily discount its OneNote application in order to get computer makers to include it. Microsoft predicts that things won't improve from here, either. In the paper, Microsoft said worldwide sales of full packaged software--which includes Works, the Encarta encyclopedia, digital-imaging software and Money--dropped by 7 percent in fiscal year 2004. In addition, the company said it is seeing similar trends for fiscal 2005. Microsoft hopes that big iron will be more profitable. The company announced its foray into the world of supercomputing, though its first operating system for computer clusters remains in beta testing. Speaking at a supercomputing conference in Seattle, Gates announced that the company has reached the Beta 2 stage for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The product consists of a cluster-optimized version of Windows Server 2003 as well as software for job scheduling and other tasks. It is scheduled for release in final form in the first half of next year. Separately, Microsoft also announced that the Compute Cluster Server and several other upcoming server software releases will work only with 64-bit processors. Such chips, which include Intel's 64-bit Xeons and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, are becoming the norm on servers, and 64-bit processors are making their way onto desktop machines. Xbox marks the spot Microsoft will be the first of the three major companies to launch a new console when the Xbox 360 hits store shelves in North America on Tuesday. Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Revolution are expected sometime later in 2006. Microsoft this week formally unveiled the lineup of titles that will be ready for the launch. Calling the lineup the "strongest launch in the history of video game consoles," Microsoft said there would be 18 games ready for the release. Among them are many of the latest iterations in proven franchises, including Electronic Arts' "Madden NFL '06," "NBA Live '06" and "Need for Speed Most Wanted," as well as Activision's "Call of Duty 2" and "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland." BLAH BLAH BLAH - more on the link.......

why? "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke. " You want to STOP injustice, sometime's you have to have a +9 flaming sword of power!

LOL You want to know something AWFUL about Wal-Mart? My husband (now my husband) - it used to be at one time Aggr3 was my husband, but now he is my dearest friend instead... anyway *coughs and get's back on topic* It used to be that my husband worked there. About a year ago, as it was the only other place of employment besides the place that I worked in this little town of Dayton Tennessee.... Anyway. He came home one night - it was around the 15th of December, and he WOKE ME UP at 2am in order to tell me that Wal-Mart had and was continuing to have church groups singing in their store.... The speakers were right next to his cash register, and he could barely hear. They weren't singing X-Mas songs, oh no.... they were singing choir hymns and about the "wrath of god"... He was offended, and went to his manager and cited freedom of religion in the workplace. (He was actually more upset about the level of the noise, and that it was hurting his ears.... but those aren't sufficient grounds to complain...) Nonetheless he was given a verbal warning that Wal-Mart was a Christian operation and that he had better curb his tongue quickly. ...oddly enough - two days later one of my employees was shopping there and she got accused of shoplifting (was VERY clear on the tape - I saw it) because she didn't catch her 3 YEAR old CHILD dropping a little toy in a bag.

Another thing to be wary of. If you get an IM on AIM with a URL do not click it. That's a newer rampant bunch of Traojans running around and it's nasty. Ask Aggr3, I clicked one and it sent it off to all the members on my buddy list. The only time you should be comfortable clicking those is if you are also talking to said person and it comes up in conversation. Otherwise, if it comes out of the blue, get that person removed from your list until they completely cleansweep their PC.

*jumps out of the cake wearing her crotchless chicken suit and batman utility belt* HAPPY BIRTHDAY! /happy_bday.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':bday:' />:' /> *bawks happy birthday ala Marilyn Monroe*

Damnit man! how much longer do i have to stay in here? sheesh - Im hungry! and I need a beer! *mutters*

I never realized in fact how canned the music that get's played on the air really is, some of this artilcle explains why that is so.

*mutters* i should have looked at the calendar and seen I would have to wait in here till Thursday... *calls out* Can someone throw me in a pizza? And a beer?

Try looking at the dates and times instead of just the posts, and the fact that I'm live streaming internet radio sometimes, and not other times. Come to understanding you will, young Jedi.... *runs off giggling*

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4547 Kbps about 4.5 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 555 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Mon Nov 14 19:54:19 EST 2005 Bottom Line:: 81X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.85 sec Diagnosis: Looks Great : 9.88 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-U0LZMEJTB

No stream playing - either up or down, not bad :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 397 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 48 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Mon Nov 14 19:50:51 EST 2005 Bottom Line:: 7X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 21.33 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 35.03 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-AYJLQ73R0

JUMP? On my knees? *confused* *keeps flipping*

*filters through all her music for the perfect CA3LE birthday dance song*

*whistles innocently* I tried my damndest to keep it PG13.... but nooooooo, you guys gotta dirty it all up! *tosses her clothes out of the cake and stays inside*

You can watch anytime babe *snickers and stays in the cake*

*runs in and hangs streamers and signs everywhere* *hooks up a "dump-bucket" of confetti* *gets the firecrackers ready* *fills the ceiling with helium balloons* *bakes a giant cake* *climbs inside* *waits*

So Bill hired a smart one there eh? Thanks for the update. This is like a soap opera. Tune in tomorrow to find out what happens on "Software In Our Lives"

OK I am lost, sorry that has no reference for me :/