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It doesn't really matter. If you so much as provide a link of any sort to illegal material, even if it's just by hosting torrent files that contain references to trackers, you have likely violated the DMCA. The DMCA is very vaguely-worded. According to Gary Shapiro, in the June 5, 1998 Congressional hearing regarding the DMCA, "Section 1201(b) [of the DMCA] ... neither defines nor limits the term "technological protection measure." If you work your way around something that can be even loosely considered a TPM, you've violated the DMCA.

In 2003, Joe Nievelt, a student at Michigan Tech University, was sued for $97.8 BILLION for hosting a search engine on his web site that indexed the Windows shares on students' computers. He was liable for every single MP3 file listed out of over 65,000. See the story here.

He didn't actually have any copies of the files; in fact, the RIAA did nothing to find out who was actually sharing the songs. They targeted Joe to make an example out of him. He eventually settled out of court for $15,000 over 3 years.

All students run as local administrator on XP machines at the high school I work at during the summer. Why? I don't know, I'm trying to change it.

the config

For those who didn't read the past article on quantum wires, here it is.

And for those who don't know what an armchair nanotube is, here are some images (The armchair nanotube is the one in the middle).

One of the Michigan Tech. team members was none other than Joe Nievelt one of the RIAA's "best friends"

I do respect the massive use of post-its.
When your super cheap, and spent all your money on a ski pass you can also make mario with sludge/snow.

Mario World 3
http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/2005/statuepix/results /res_halls/first_year_experience.jpg
This picture was taken at winter canival in houghton.

Number Munchers. Nuff said.

What were the name of the monsters? I can't remember.

Troggles!!

These techniques are used regularly in optical microscopy. There are two chief methods:

Confocal microscopy uses a carefully aligned and placed pinhole to exclude almost all light from outside of the focal plane. By collecting a series of images while moving the microscope's stage vertically, one can build a stack of in-focus images all the way through a 'thick' sample.

Deconvolution microscopy collects a stack of images in a similar manner, but lacks a pinhole to exclude out-of-focus light. Instead, each focal plane is reconstructed in software by analyzing features from the entire stack. This would most closely match the method described by the parent, although it does slightly better: information from slightly out-of-focus images is also used in assembling each feature, improving the signal.

Of course, if you're just interested in a sharp image--if you don't need depth imformation--you might as well just stop down your aperture as far as possible, focus at the hyperfocal distance, and take a single long exposure. (It's much easier than trying to collect all the images for later analysis.)

Who says the turbine has to be powered by fossil fuel? It could be a hydro turbine with penstock attached to your dick. Or perhaps methane powered with a hose stuffed in your ass. Vegans are known for producing copious quantities of methane.

.Other methane sources include your composting latrine, port to cows stomach, and even composting of dead cats

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Or you can harness the power of the Sun for a nice prism effect...

..note that the pattern should look something like this.

The salt in the Dolores River comes from natural underground salt formations. Ground water passes through a collapsed salt anticline and becomes brine. You can read the technical report at http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri02-4275/ and see photos at http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~jeh/Photos/Captions/capday 4.html.

Natural salt water is not uncommon in this region. The Great Salt Lake formed long before the Industrial Age.

Speaking of the earths magnetic field, tonite the Aurora Borealis
was spotted in Southern Ontario from about 6pm Eastern to 3:00AM Eastern.

What a treat.

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• Do you have a picture that would make a good APOD? If so, we would enjoy hearing from you. Images are most often submitted by email or by posting to a web site. Please write to Robert Nemiroff at nemiroff@mtu.edu or Jerry Bonnell at bonnell@grossc.gsfc.nasa.gov regarding image submissions.

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This research article just seems to be flamebait and highly uncontrolled. Hell, I could give you papers from the Mac users at our school and compare them to the PC users and the Mac users would win by far. A computer does not influence a person's style of writing. If you were to get a good, large group of students, you would see that the results are flawed, and that Mac users would tend to outperform PC users.

For someone fresh out of college with no work experience, there's absolutely no reason to have a resume that's more than one page. No offense, but you probably haven't done anything worth taking that much of the reviewer's time.

List your coursework and your strengths. Describe some of the relevant projects you've done for class. You can list summer-job type work experience, but if all of it was just flipping burgers don't dwell on it. On the other hand, if you've interned or done anything related to your field, play it up!

If you've done anything applicable outside of schoolwork, be sure to list that! That's what's going to catch someone's eye. When I'm looking at resumes I give top priority to people who have technical hobbies. It shows that they really like this stuff, and aren't merely going to be punching a clock.

Also, make sure you send out resumes. Lots of resumes. To anyone and everyone. I graduated in 1988 with a BSEE degree from a respected university. Jobs were easier to find then, but I still ended up sending out over 400 resumes. That netted me only a handful of interviews, and a huge pile of FOAD letters. You know how I got my first real job? Through a friend-of-a-friend, who happened to have also graduated from my school ten years before. That's right, in the end good ol' social networking gets you the most action.

All I can say is keep at it. Definitely get involved in some sort of activity related to the work you want to do, if only to keep your knowledge fresh. Send out lots of resumes. And especially, chat up your friends and see who's hiring.

I worked on a senior design project for IBM at Michigan Tech where we did exactly what you want. A final report of the project is avaliable if you want to read it. Not long ago a company called Aristos Logic Corp. (spinoff from Western Digital) asked me and another member of the team who worked on the IBM project to troubleshoot their design. I guess they took our project and made a network storage product that boots from a CF card :).

How about the Yoopers, the Henry Ford museum and Greenfield Village, and Michigan Tech?

What ever happned to outnumbered, and number munchers, and other cool learning games i played as a kid? Make more games like those, i remember fighting to play them!

it's theoretically impossible to write a general test to find all race conditions in code. This is a variant of the Halting Problem.

I doubt PGN was refering to software to test for race conditions; I expect he was alluding to methods for writing code that does not contain them. People have, after all, been thinking about Dining Philosophers for quite a while now, yet coders still do amazingly stupid things with threads.

At my school, the CS department has a pretty low graduation rate, partially due to drop-outs and partially due to students switching out of CS and into something else. I've heard numbers before, and while I don't remember them, they were surprisingly low.

IMHO, CS isn't an extremely difficult field, but it's no inner-tube water polo.

At my school, the CS department has a pretty low graduation rate, partially due to drop-outs and partially due to students switching out of CS and into something else. I've heard numbers before, and while I don't remember them, they were surprisingly low.

IMHO, CS isn't an extremely difficult field, but it's no inner-tube water polo.

Cambridge:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/intro/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/site-maps/gates.html

+ Washington:
http://www.law.washington.edu/GatesHall/

+ Stanford:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/keller/gates-map.ht ml

+ Pennsilvania:
http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map .php3?id=401

+ MIT:
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N20/20lcs.20n.html

+ RIBA:
http://www.riba.org/go/RIBA/About/About_162.html

+ Southern Indiana:
http://www.usi.edu/visit/map/housing.asp

+ Michigan:
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/admin/prov/facbook/ch9/9c hap-37.htm


= University Building Monopoly !!!!

• "Imagine a picture of an object 10cm from you where both that object and the background is sharp."

And just in case RoadRunner kills him...

http://www.me.mtu.edu/~aeshirey/duracell_cpumon/

a little OT but in spring,01 I took that class.
My paper's there too :)
In my view, probably one of the best classes I took while I was there..

Do you mean the GT40 perhaps?

This story is yet another example of what makes the USA great.

The inventor, Jiann-Yang (Jim) Hwang, came from Taiwan to the U.S. to pursue his graduate studies. (Here's his resume.) He graduates from Purdue with a Ph.D., and 20 years later, he's a professor of materials science at Michigan Technological University, and is adding to the collective innovating efforts of our nation.

Personally, I'm all for smart, hard-working people immigrating to the U.S. and staying here. All those temp workers in the technical industry who have come over here from India? All those people from Ecuador who are willing to work like dogs in the restaurant industry? All those people from Eastern Europe who are filled with the entrepreneurial sprit? Don't give them visas, make them citizens!

Perhaps they are not the most efficient for Mars travel, but much beyond that, give me a break (having not done the math for Mars, I don't know). Chemical rockets spit far too much of their inital mass out the back to be even *somewhat* considered for longer term missions (remember the rocket equation?). There are several differnt kinds of "ion" engines all of which exceed 50% efficiency. At this point it becomes a bit more important to define "efficiency" - (power in)/(power out) may not necessarly be relevent if (mass start)/(mass end is near zero [what is the point of accelerating all of your "80%" fuel if you fling the crap out the back in a somewhat effiecent matter?) I may be (ok I am) a bit baises since I'm a grad student working in Ion Propulsion but the field obviously has merit or I would not have funding.

Anybody that's anybody knows that tesla coils are the BEST form of wireless electricity! Of course a giant one supposedly destroyed part of Siberia (or something), it should work fine.

Klowner

I suggest you see your optician. The sky is infact blue, mainly because of light diffraction (that light coming from the sun). Sometimes the sky may have many interesting colours called the northern lights, or there may be a change in the deffraction when the sun sets but the sky should not be red at midday.

This article is right on target. I feel very strongly about this issue.
I read only the first para of that sf chronicle article before I decided to comment.
The governments are fucking stupid.
Roughly 4 years back when I was at michigan tech, I found out that a masters student(mech) was from some university of wisconsin college(hard to remember but I think it was Eau Claire). That college, had more computers per student than mtu. Increased productivity at his college. But only because the students using them knew how to harness them properly.
He told me computers in college do make a lot of difference. But in high school, its just eye candy for most. A conduit of porn and games. Nothing more. There might be exceptions but not at the cost of public money.

And in the past 2 years, MTU has had its budget cut by 10 % each year. Many people lobbied to keep the budget as it is, but no. The govt needs to cut down on aid to its most productive seector-college education.
A college education brings atleast 15-20 times more benefit than what the govt invests in it. Dumb fucking govt doesn't understand that.
MTU is losing good students because of this. Enrollment is dropping because tuition for an engineering college costs far more than an arts college. In 2001, the figure at my college PER credit hour- 371 $ engineering, 167 $, arts/humanities.
From 2002, engg majors have to pay 800 $ extra per semester.
The us is killing the goose that lays the eggs.
As lesser engineers graduate, the us loses more of its technical edge. Colleges can't get grants because they can't attract enough bright students.
And what else does the govt do? It sets aside a few million for laptops for school kids.
This, while the budget of productive colleges are being cut. MTU even has a link on the its mainpage. Laptops for college students brings about far more productivity. Guaranteed.
A few months ago, there was a story on slashdot about laptops for 6th graders in a Maine school.
A slashdotter then commented- in grade 6, forget about laptops, if I had my head attached to body at the end of the day, it would be fortunate.
Do you know how sorry the situation of higher education is in Maine?

At grades 6-12, the most important need is to DEVELOP THE BASIC SCIENCES.
When you go to college, how the heck do you expect to develop software if you don't know how the decent working knowledge of maths and physics?
Laptops, desktops are all fucking secondary and shouldn't even figure in.
What's the use of learning power point presentations in 8th grade? The fucking use is when you become a manager in a company, you'll use it to show how much your fucking company saved from outsourcing that work. You'll use it to show how to cut corners, how to cut quality, how fucking intellectually bankrupt you are.
Computers won't save you. Only a rigorous curriculum of maths and sciences will.

No wonder, the US needs to import engineers(not software people). Because there is a genuine shortage. There are more damn lawyers in los angeles county than in entire japan. Yup, you'll be busy making presentations on power point laughing with glee as to how much you'll earn through litigation while bankrupting a us company.

If you rather spend the millions on teachers and books, it brings more value 5-10 years down the line.

Mod it whichever way you want. I made my point.

Do you think that they'll have Number Munchers for the Apple II emulator. Loved that game as a kid. It the only thing that got me past 3rd grade math.

I've put up another mirror at this site. Just in case everyone else is Slashdotted.

Actually, Ion engines have been used in space since early 90's but primarly as station keeping thrusters for satilites. You are correct that competition is good for NASA, but at this very moment, the Air Force is funding the Ion Space Propulsion Lab where I am currently doing my PhD research.

Surprise, surprise, we do spend loads of money on countries that need schools and agricultural help and so on

In actual fact the U.S. foreign aid budget is a mere 0.117 percent of its GNP, the lowest percentage in the world.

The sad history of development aid ...

Perhaps if the U.S. didn't go round killing democratically elected leaders those countries wouldn't be in the state they are today.

You know, I'm not sure that the whole slashdot crowd understands how hard it is to test these sort of things. I mean my university has been doing subcontracting for NASA and I have to say, these people there are really smart. I'm not talking business major to business major, I mean EE to Ph.D EE - these guys are dumb so please don't refer to them as such. Imagine though, any huge project, no matter how well constructed, basically comes down to a single person decieding or desidgning something (the so called single point failure). Do you think you could be that person?

Look at the pretty screenshot on top! Or is it actually top ?

More Apple innovation, ready for knock-off by MS!

Since my server isn't exactly what I'd consider "Slashdot Effect Ready," here are two more mirrors that should be better suited for it. Be nice or I'll have to take them down.

mirror 2
mirror 3

Since my server isn't exactly what I'd consider "Slashdot Effect Ready," here are two more mirrors that should be better suited for it. Be nice or I'll have to take them down.

mirror 2
mirror 3

You bet. Right in my backyard, even.

Fortunately, there's a bit of a resistance starting. Some students have started a website dedicated to the case here, and there's supposed to be a rally Sunday afternoon.

You'd better believe I'm going to show up.

...or not.

Michigan Technological University Athletic Director Rick Yeo has announced the reinstatement of the university's football program.
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations /93/

...or speak at a football game...

That might not be the best choice of venue in this case...

"Michigan Tech will eliminate its varsity football program effective immediately it was announced today by MTU athletics director Rick Yeo."

You need to take my Grammar Quiz.

The president of Michigan Tech sent a letter to the RIAA offering his dissapointment about the whole fiasco -- in a politically correct way of course. Nice to know that although the University does try to uphold the DMCA, they officially disapprove of this newest stunt.

The president of Michigan Tech sent a letter to the RIAA offering his dissapointment about the whole fiasco -- in a politically correct way of course. Nice to know that although the University does try to uphold the DMCA, they officially disapprove of this newest stunt.

Challenging the legality of this case applies to Joesph Nievelt too. He had 1100 mp3 on his system, unlike the 650,000 that the RIAA stated. While Napster could *only* be used to search for mp3's this search and index tool is used for a lot of files other than mp3's.

He was ranked 4th in the nation in the Top Coder competition
Top Coder MTU News

As a fellow CS student at MTU, Joe Nievelt is not only one of our best undergrads, and not just one of the best in the region but one of the nation's best as well.

As for what was actually going on, I don't live in the dorms, and hadn't heard of this until after the news stories came out, so I didn't know about it. However, Tech is small, about 6,000 students total, maybe a quarter of that live on our small campus. I did live in our dorms my freshman year and the dorm lans were limited by the building you were in, so they're fairly small networks, I couldn't believe the RIAA would target this guy.

As a fellow CS student at MTU, Joe Nievelt is not only one of our best undergrads, and not just one of the best in the region but one of the nation's best as well.

As for what was actually going on, I don't live in the dorms, and hadn't heard of this until after the news stories came out, so I didn't know about it. However, Tech is small, about 6,000 students total, maybe a quarter of that live on our small campus. I did live in our dorms my freshman year and the dorm lans were limited by the building you were in, so they're fairly small networks, I couldn't believe the RIAA would target this guy.

Please be nice.

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Michigan Tech is a small 6,000 person engineering school stuck up in the middle of NOWHERE. Check out this map to get some idea of what I mean. It's an absolutely beautiful area- it's on the shore of Lake Superior, and the hiking/biking/camping/skiing is fantastic. Tech turns out a lot of good engineers in part because there's not much to do throughout most of the school year except play in the snow and drink. Oh, and the poor (for the men) male:female ratio means not much of a distraction for the guys in that regard, either.

Aside from the great college radio station (all 100 watts of it), at least in 1996 there was basically nowhere to hear new music. Bands wouldn't ever stop in the area and the three local radio stations were top 40, country, and NPR.

So, while I can't really defend this guy, I have to imagine his network was *extremely* popular. It was probably the only place to get music locally unless Musicland was still open at the Copper Country Mall ("Over Forty Stores!")

Anybody from Tech care to comment on whether or not things are any different today than they were when I was there?