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Keep in mind that for a home network, if you have a firewall on your border router (whatever is plugged directly in to your modem, maybe a linksys, etc) a software firewall on your PC is almost overkill. The vast majority of routers nowadays come with firewalls activated by default, I know Linksys does it for sure. Unless you are worried about your kids, spouses, roommates, etc hacking in to your PC from another PC that is connected to this router, all a software firewall is doing is slowing your PC down and possibly making it more difficult to use the programs that you want to communicate with the web. If your PC is plugged directly in to the modem, definitely get a firewall on your PC. Some modems nowadays have built-in routing and firewall capability, but it is a good idea to have a PC firewall just to make sure. Here's a better example: http://i36.tinypic.com/fb9gnl.jpg Here's a typical home network. The modem plugs in to a router, lets say this one is wireless. Your PC is connected via a wire, your son Jimmy has a wireless connection. Your roommate Hobgoblin has a wired connection. Your neighbor is stealing your wireless behind your back. If Jimmy, Hobgoblin and Stupid Neighbor don't exist, a software firewall on your PC isn't totally necessary. Same can be said if you totally trust all of those people, which in the case of the neighbor and possibly Hobgoblin, you probably shouldn't. A software firewall will protect you from whoever is behind your border router on a different PC, while the border router protects you from the Big Bad Internet.

With oil right around $100/barrel, these prices really suck. That lower price is not being passed on to the consumer.

Oh wow...that's horrible. WaMu has scheduled maintenance periods where I can't check my accounts online, but these are typically late at night on weekends, and this has no bearing on the availability of my money. If my bank ever did that to me, told me there were times when I couldn't use the money that I deposited, they would no longer be my bank.

I actually have an ING direct account and have had it for years. I am looking for a brick and mortar branch type bank to use for everyday banking.

I'm in Las Vegas. Thanks for all the advice so far everyone.

You could always call Sprint and ask them. Maybe the phone needs a firmware update.

Recently I've read some scary things about my current bank, Washington Mutual. That combined with the fact that for whatever reason my accounts will not sync with Quicken at all since late May, has led me on the path to a new place to stash my cash. Two prevalent banks in my neck of the woods are Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Anyone use either of these? Pros/cons? I'm happy with my 3.75% APY savings account at WaMu, but there has to be something comparable elsewhere where I can keep a somewhat liquid savings account and get around the same APY. I'm looking just for a basic checking & savings account. Advice?

I didn't catch the beta tag on that website.

Milwaukee already has turned human waste into fertilizer http://www.milorganite.com/home/ As seen in the maintenance shed in Caddyshack.

I hope that dude donates his body to science when he kicks the bucket. Whatever dna mutation he has that allows him to eat all that crap and still be relatively healthy has got to be a useful gene.

Florida definitely has Wisconsin beat when it comes to offbeat news. Something in the swamp water down there.

I think it means we are going to the dark side. AKA Wrigley Field. Upon further review that is the release date for The Force Unleashed. link Connection to baseball? Your guess is as good as mine.

Done and done. Lets keep a good thing going.

El Chico gave me my introduction to horchata. They will forever be missed.

Pot meet kettle perhaps... Lots of undies in a bunch after the loss today. Who really knows if I was being condescending or really admiring his postwhore prowess? I guess only me.

4 posts in 6 minutes. Bravo.

Look. The guy has a contract to pitch. The contract doesn't say he has to have a 2.00 ERA. The Brewers are paying him by choice. I can't believe you are still arguing this, and I can't believe I am either frankly.

Do you have any stats to back that up? I can see maybe a tenth or two tenths of a second tolerance with hand timing. That said, even with that tolerance on the favorable side, Weeks and Braun were only just as fast as Hardy. Being as objective as possible. I see no numbers that back up your claim, but I'd gladly eat my words if you could produce them.

All it took was half a hundred unanswered points to change your tune just a bit. It usually works that way. If they come out and play like they did in the first quarter next week like they did today, they will still have three more quarters to play. That's a long time.

He's going out there and working, just not doing it well. It wouldn't even be stealing if he was hurt all year and didn't pitch. He has permission, thus this is not stealing.

Put your money where your keyboard is.

I'm getting the Badgers on BTN in Las Vegas.

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A few years ago I worked with Spherion, a temp agency that staffed me at UPS in Elm Grove, dispatching package cars (the brown trucks). After a while at that position, my Spherion supervisor told me about an opening at Harley-Davidson's Corporate HQ. I took that job in a heartbeat. I ended up doing well enough at Harley that I won Spherion's employee of the month (actually a big deal, out of ~500 people) and earned my way to a full time position with Harley, no longer a temp, no longer through Spherion. Temp agencies can definitely be a good springboard as long as you do your job well.

If it's only going to be for a short period of time, you could try a temp agency. They usually have a boatload of jobs available in many different fields. Just let them know about your situation and they should be able to set you up.