I'd rather be permanently relegated to officiating 3rd grade B league games:(:(

I use firefox, chrome, and safari too...even firefox on linux. They really aren't any better. The biggest reason people claim the others are better is just an anti-Microsoft predisposition. They're not bad, but really not better.

My perspective derives from being a computer security consultant. I don't mind when customers want to put themselves at undue risk, it pads my pocket. Just try to avoid using any version of IE myself. Too big a target for the bad guys who would like to purloin your goodies.

FTR, MTD and Nevada have convinced me that, on this particular play, "guarding" is the preferred call here, and thus a TC foul.

There is still a debate to be had regarding whether it's a blind screen when the player is running forward but looking backwards.

My casebook cite wasn't enough? ;)

Billy:

Keeping in mind that I am a structural engineer (Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering, William Rayen School of Engineering, Youngstown (Ohio) State University, Class of 1980), what type of truss?

Allan
Bailey
Baltimore
Bollmann
Brown
Burr Arch
Callender-Hamilton
Cantilever
Dare
DeBurg
Fink
Haupt
Howe
Kingpost
Lattice
Lenticular with penticular web
Long
Paddleford
Parker
Pegram
Pennsylvania through
Pettit
Pony
Post
Pratt
Smith
Thacher
Town lattice
Truesdell
Vierendeel
Waddell "A"
Warren
Whipple


Of course my favorite is the Bailey Bridge, which played a major role in the bridging of many streams and rivers by the Allies during World War II. A major reference is in the movie A Bridge Too Far which is based on Cornelius Ryan's book describing Operation Market-Garden, when the Allies attempted to capture five bridges in the Netherlands across the Meuse, Wall, and Lower Rhine Rivers, in September 1944.

MTD, Sr.

"And Welpe." :)

Just as long as we're clear about WHY it is a target....

The unsensationalized facts are that it is NOT fundamentally more/less secure at all. There are just that far more people using it and therefore a better target for someone wanting to attack as broad of an audience as possible with hopes of getting lucky.

Same thing with Mac vs. Windows. If you were writing a virus and wanted to have the most impact, why would you bother targeting an OS with such small market share. You would target the system most widely used. Thus, the Mac APPEARS at first glance to be less prone to viruses. When in fact, it is less only targeted becasue there are far fewer or them.

It's also possible that some people target the product because they don't like the business practices of the company producing it.

I'll admit that your explanation is far more logical and thus likely, but one can't totally discount the impact of the bad press.