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So I guess now we can call all those dopey muscle bound guys 'apes' with a clear conscience

I realize this comment is in jest--and that my response is way offtopic-- but the world is changing, damnit... I played Division IA college football, and yes--I'm posting on Slashdot... The Geek/Tech/Nerd stigma/prejudice/expectation is deeply ingrained as someone single/pimply/bug-eyed... but someone is dopey just because they workout? wtf?
Mod this Offtopic, but shouldn't the intelligent crowd be the first ones to try and change this persona... try and accept the fact that technology now appeals to more than just typical Geeks and not everyone who posts on this site is male/single/pimply?

On that note, were you aware that Harvard is the nations largest Div I athletics program... Looks like some of those geeky kids up in Boston do a little bit more than study.

And here's this just for the heck of it.

Bored at the Big H? Hows this for a few things to try?

As a Pitt fan, trust me, there still is a Rivalry (at least on our side of the fence). My son is now six months old. If, when he turns 18, he decides to attend that evil school in State College, I'll write him out of my will. If he decides to attend West Virginia University, same thing.

Otherwise, he can pretty much go wherever he wants. Except for any ACC school. Those bastards.

Oh, and Pitt is ALSO a much better men's basketball team. Women's hoops? I give Penn State *some* credit. They are better in that sport.

And here I thought Arkansas was supposed to be The Natural State...

Maybe Utah is the Big Natural State.

I demand an investigation!

And since I'm from the Volunteer State, I volunteer!

You give an overly facile answer to a very complicated problem.

I work at the network operations for a state system of higher education. For the record, we aren't affiliated with Penn State, although that's as far as I'm willing to go in this forum.

The situation of recreational bandwidth utilization is a very difficult one, and one which we struggle with on a daily basis. Around half the traffic coming from a given dormatory can be accounted for by file-sharing programs like Kazaa, Limewire, etc. At that level, this traffic can put a signifigant dent in the responsivenes of the network. Joe in one room may be annoyed that his download of a bootleg copy of The Matrix: Reloaded is progressing at a snails pace, but so is Jane in the next room, who is annoyed that even Google is crawling at that speed.

And, unfortunately, the answers aren't all that easy. You can restrict traffic coming from the dorms to a certain rate, but that doesn't really adequately stop illicit use of the computers on the rest of the campus, and inappropriately affects people just doing their research / checking e-mail / whatever. You can try doing rate-shaping of just file-sharking connections - something we've experimented with - but future versions of the software may be encrypted, and largely indistinguishable from any other encrypted traffic. And you don't know what "outrage" is until you try raising the student's fees to pay for the extra bandwidth they're taking up. (Network traffic isn't a liquid, it's a gas: it will expand to fill whatever container you put it in.)

Lastly: at many large universities, sports teams are essentially profit centers - just ask season ticket holders. And why should I be more enraged about paying for kids to play sports than I should about paying for them to download stolen porn videos at high speed?

Full disclosure, Haas MBA '97 -- I had never realized until tonight that it was the school's idealism (career center listings) to blame for the dot-com bubble. Damn us farkers and our idealism!

Okay Quattrone, you're free to go home now. Okay Andersen, sorry about all that commotion.

Yeah, it was our idealism of the Berkeley Business School to blame. In the face of a history of defeats to the well heeled landlording bourgeois, we remained loyal to the underdog. Go Bears! Give 'em the AXE, Right in the Neck!

Ignore the guys from Harvard and Wall Street. Presumably Berkeley is to blame because of its location. Oh yeah, except that Berkeley isn't even in the heart of the Silicon Valley and presumably that other business school, at the Jr. University holds less than idealistic views. Or maybe they are idealistic but in ways that conform to poster Shoten's viewpoints making them non-idealistic.

Huh? WTF? I want my last five minutes back. The parent's post is one non-sequitur after another.

Insightful? Or just a full bong?

But anyway, just bring a flask. I haven't gotten searched for one yet, hopefully you won't. Either that, or just get so hammered before the game that you're good for a few hours. That's been working for me too.

On a sidenote, if anybody's watching College Gameday on ESPN at 10:30am EST, look out for the drunken bastard in a #32 jersey wearing facepaint that looks like The Ultimate Warrior's (in Scarlet and Gray, of course) -- That's me! The game starts at 3:37pm, that's a LONG time to tailgate. I'm so pumped!