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Post by ExcitableBoy on Feb 1, 2008 9:33:14 GMT -5
Shouldn't Alabama and Auburn HAVE to return those games. Well as we all know, the game in Birmingham against Alabama was neutral. Ken pom gets it at least partially right when he calls it "semi-away"
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 31, 2008 14:31:07 GMT -5
Pirates: 57 Not nicknamed after a stupid halloween costume that went out of fashion when I turned nine: 69
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 31, 2008 14:22:25 GMT -5
Giuliani's campaign will live in infamy as the worst run sham ever to appear in American politics. It was plain stupid simply to ignore the first several states. Even losing those states seems an acceptable price to pay to avoid completely falling out of the national media conversation. For the last month all the airwaves have been talking about on the R side is McCain, Romney, and Huckabee. Rudy had no chance to get his word out when people actually started paying attention, and he paid the price of a huge flame-out. Unfortunately, Mr. Rubb is dead on. I don't really have a horse in the Republican race, but MAN would it have been nice if Giuliani's strategy had worked well and politicians could stop spending so much time pandering to the small pockets of Iowonians/New Hampshirese/South Carolinites that effectively decide the race. I can honestly say I am already not looking forward to 2012: Iowa Decides.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 31, 2008 13:58:28 GMT -5
I couldn't feel less bad for either school or--with the exception of the players and family members themselves--any of the people invovled
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 31, 2008 9:07:07 GMT -5
See the end of Barker Davis' article in the WashTimes: Coach John Thompson III admitted Summers could have played but said the staff decided to take a conservative approach in the hope Summers would be 100 percent for Saturday's home game against Seton Hall. That is fantastic news
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 30, 2008 11:11:24 GMT -5
i think the song is fun. and it requires no additional reading or learning. students don't even know the fight song. besides we have five chants. five chants that we use the whole game. 1. let's go hoyas 2. defense 3. defense hoyas defense 4. hoya ... saxa 5. we are ... georgetown anything that mixes it up a bit is fine by me. Since we're scrapping anything that was not originated by us, we should probably get rid of chants 1-3. I hear those at practically every other schools games.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 30, 2008 10:44:28 GMT -5
That was a network security breach. This was a physical security breach -- someone stole a hard drive from a locked room. If anyone "learned" something from the first theft, it was that you shouldn't store personal information on networks, you should put it on hard drives in controlled environments. Exactly, it should be placed in a controlled environment. The 5th floor of Leavey might be somewhat controlled, but obviously not well enough. But what is utterly reprehensible is that the data itself was not in a controlled environment (i.e. encrypted). They can't even recall whether the hard drive was password protected!!!!!! The thing that really frustrates me about this is that Georgetown seems not to have done anything as a result of the earlier breach. That initial incident should have prompted a serious evaluation of procedures that should have also prompted policies to prevent unencrypted and questionably password protected hard drives/laptops/servers from being compromised. It's not like it takes a rocket scientist--or even a freaking Georgetown undergrad for that matter--to enact no brainer policies like this. In this case, there might not have been any way to prevent someone from breaking into the office, but what if they maybe had an alarm? or security cameras? Think that might have helped? It's mindboggling that a serious breach fails to prompt a comprehensive review of security protocol that--at least in this case--would have hopefully ensured that the data was at least encrypted and password protected, if not kept in a small safe (heaven forbid!!)
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 29, 2008 23:07:05 GMT -5
Personally, I'd rather have a university that gives a deliberate, measured, and thought-out response to potential issues than one that just issues a knee-jerk statement without any answers as to what it means or how that knee-jerk statement might jeopardize I'm not overly peeved about the lag time in being notified... but I think you are giving Georgetown waaaaaayy too much credit here. Remember, this incident is the result of 38,000 SSNs--that's almost two full Verizon centers, mind you--being on an unencrypted hard drive that they "can't remember" if they password protected or not. Are you kidding me!?!? If this was the first theft of its kind, that would be one thing. But it's not. It has happened everywhere and every company, organization, government agency, and university that handles this type of data needs to recognize that it can happen to them. Didn't GU learn anything about the risk of this type of data leak when 20,000+ names/SSNs were stolen less than two years ago??
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 29, 2008 22:52:27 GMT -5
Sorry my man, but this is completely wrong. They try lots of different stuff to get people pumped up and very little of it works. Please, enlighten me, what other songs have been played as "pump up" music to fire up the crowd immediately before tip off that have been deemed unsuccessful? I'd love to know what all of these unsuccessful tunes were, because by most measures, Zombie Nation as we are calling it (or more specifically the track Kernkraft 400) is not a very successful song. The Zombie Nation track Kernkraft 400 which we are discussing has only sold around 160,506 downloads, and currently sells around 4000 downloads per week, which leaves it around 4000 units short of even cracking the top 200 hot digital singles chart. Sadly, despite being available for quite some time, this number actually represents a peak for the song, which was selling only half that number a year ago this time. But of course, I'm an oldster, and I should be paying attention to the p2p that all the kids are using these days. Clearly there I will find evidence that the work of DJs Splank and Mooner is one of the brightest gems in current recorded music. The most generous p2p measurements from Big Champagne place the song on roughly 135,000 desktops, which is not many more than the legitimate copies. By both of these measures, this is not a popular song, but just to be safe, lets take a look at physical sales. Yes I know you kids don't actually buy CDs anymore, but perhaps that will show how great this track is since the digital measures have failed. The best selling CD by Zombie Nation has scanned a whopping 1781 copies in the US according to Soundscan. So, this unpopular song is the only one with the credentials to be played at 99% of sporting events in the United States right now? There is other music out there, we don't have to follow the herd. Excellent. You proved your point that it isn't a popularly downloaded song. Think it might have something to do with the fact that folks don't necessarily want to chant and jump around to music in their homes? I guess I would fall in the camp somewhere between the haters and the apologists. It's a fine song, though it's certainly nothing to hang our hats on. I don't understand, however, why we have to be 100% unique in absolutely everything we do. Who f-ing cares if other schools do it?? I don't happen to go to other schools' games so to me, when I hear the song, I think of Georgetown. Yeah, I guess technically I should reprogram my emotions to think Penn State. People need to stop trying to dictate how other people experience and enjoy Georgetown basketball games. If going to watch a top ten team in person or watching a top ten team actually shown on espn more than once a year gives you such little satisfaction that the only thing you can do is complain about people not standing at the right times, not chanting SAXA at the right time, or not cheering to the proper song, you've got some serious issues.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 29, 2008 22:33:45 GMT -5
Also, does the fact that Nikita served a suspension factor in? It would seem strange if he could serve his suspension while he was redshirting
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 29, 2008 22:32:45 GMT -5
The play in game is BS money grubbing by the big conferences. I forget which conference gained eligibility to have an automatic bid, but instead of doing the sensible thing and just dropping one automatic bid, the powers that be in the NCAA decided it couldn't take away that cash from the power conferences and added a play in game to screw some poor conference champion out of a real spot in the tourney. God forbid that the 5th best team in the ACC or 6th best Big 10 team has to play in the NIT! The game started in 2001, I think, after the Mountain West split from the WAC. Strangely enough, the women's tourney didn't have any trouble cutting the # of at large berths by one so that is why they still have the 64 team field. I too have a really hard time figuring out why two legitimate conference champions should be relegated to the University of Dayton for their "tournament" game while "really deserving" teams that couldn't manage to put together a convincing resume to lock down a spot get a free pass to a game against a 6 or 7 seed.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 29, 2008 16:35:07 GMT -5
A little further down the page, Davis also weighs in on former Hoya superstar Matt Causey:
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 29, 2008 13:37:46 GMT -5
Question: I was allegedly an undergrad sometime between 1998 and 2006 but didn't receive an email. Does this mean that a) my web of lies is beginning to unravel and my life will soon be exposed as a sham, b) The Hoya's claim that EVERY undergrad's data was on the disk isn't accurate, or c) they missed some folks on the email list?
I agree Bubbrubb. It is simply unconscionable to put SSNs on an unencrypted hard drive. Georgetown should know better... it was less than two years ago that 41,000 SSNs of "elderly area residents kept for research purposes" were stolen from a server. Get your f-ing act together Georgetown.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 28, 2008 10:09:35 GMT -5
Applications up everywhere, including GU, which is almost 19,000 after breaking 16,000 for the first time last year. tinyurl.com/2r7hs2Well, not exactly everywhere
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 28, 2008 10:05:12 GMT -5
EFFFFFFFFF I think we have to address the possibility that we will be without DS for the rest of the regular season. C: Hibb PF: Ewing SF: Freeman SG: Sapp PG: Wallace that is a small-ass lineup considering Pat runs more like 6'7 Ewing may be smaller than Dajuan, but he definitely plays a lot bigger, on the boards, posting up, and on D. Depth becomes a pretty major concern here, though, because we no longer have the luxury of bringing another 6'8" guy off the bench.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 28, 2008 9:09:49 GMT -5
Frpm the Washington Post: "DaJuan Summers . . . suffered a high ankle sprain in the final minutes of a 58-57 victory over West Virginia . . . . The ankle is not broken, according to Coach John Thompson." Not much, but it is what it is. Ouch. High ankle sprains are pretty rough. For comparison, Syndy Crosby's recent high ankle sprain has him out 6-8 weeks.
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 27, 2008 9:28:52 GMT -5
The frontpage has changed, but the poll question is now "Who do you think will win the Big East regular season title?"
Georgetown leads with 55%, UConn is in second with 11%
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 25, 2008 7:17:49 GMT -5
The potential redshirt on Nikita might also explain why he hasn't seen the court yet. I've been thinking the same thing, but don't know the rules about serving a suspension while red shirting. Can this even be done?
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 24, 2008 12:37:13 GMT -5
Has anyone paid Apple's $20 ransom to upgrade the iPod touch? Is it worth it?
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Post by ExcitableBoy on Jan 23, 2008 11:29:51 GMT -5
What would be extremely interesting to see is some sort of statistical comparison that takes the opponent into consideration when looking at records of individual referees.
Could it be that Kersey's and Clark's games were all (suspiciously) against teams we should beat handily? Could it also be that--in spite of his uncanny ability to almost blow the UNC game--Shaw's games came against quality opponents?
Just a heretical thought or two
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