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Sounds like you do some really cool cyber-stuff

Where did you read that? There is barely any information about the content of the course at the university 's website, under a very tacky "Do you have what it takes" intro, a McGyver reference, a promise for a 90% chance of landing a men-in-black job, and how this awesome initiative has been picked up from the news. No real information about what you actually DO.

Lol you reek of jealousy.

Sounds like you do some really cool cyber-stuff

Where did you read that? There is barely any information about the content of the course at the university 's website, under a very tacky "Do you have what it takes" intro, a McGyver reference, a promise for a 90% chance of landing a men-in-black job, and how this awesome initiative has been picked up from the news. No real information about what you actually DO.

http://www.cis.utulsa.edu/About/
http://www.cis.utulsa.edu/CyberCorps/

Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa. Probably the top InfoSec university in the country (no, I'm NOT kidding, they've had an InfoSec program since waaaay before it was popular, top researchers, lots of grad placement to NSA and other DoD for threat analysis/crypto, FBI/IRS forensics labs, etc).

I participated in the "Cyber-Corp" program when I went there (MS in CS - Infosec): both my tuition and room and board were 100% paid for, with the stipulation that I work for the Federal gov for a year or two afterwards. I'm already done with my gov commitment and back in private industry.

http://www.cis.utulsa.edu/About/
http://www.cis.utulsa.edu/CyberCorps/

Center for Information Security at the University of Tulsa. Probably the top InfoSec university in the country (no, I'm NOT kidding, they've had an InfoSec program since waaaay before it was popular, top researchers, lots of grad placement to NSA and other DoD for threat analysis/crypto, FBI/IRS forensics labs, etc).

I participated in the "Cyber-Corp" program when I went there (MS in CS - Infosec): both my tuition and room and board were 100% paid for, with the stipulation that I work for the Federal gov for a year or two afterwards. I'm already done with my gov commitment and back in private industry.

/sarcasm

If you get involved in the right educational program you get all that and more, and Uncle Sam pays the bill.

In May I graduated from "Cyber-Corp", a Computer Science - Information Assurance master's degree (or undergrad if that's your thing) program that is funded by NSF. I took many full, real college credit classes (3 or 4 semester hours) on Penetration Testing, Systems Certification and Accreditation, Digital Forensics Secure Network Design and Implementation, Secure E-Commerce, the list goes on. And this isn't some wussy program, we also had compiler design (try building a recursive-descent Pascal compiler without lex or yacc, and you don't even get an LL1 grammar to start with) and a heavy concentration on formal proofs and methods (non-interfenence, DITSCAP). I also got all 5 DoD Information Assurance certificates (ISSO, Designated Approving Authority, etc) blessed by the NSA's INFOSEC training program.

Anyway, I got my MS for free so long as I work for the gov after graduation for a year and a half (which I do now), and about 80% of grads go to DoD and various intelligence agencies (NSA, CIA, FBI Forensics Lab, NIST, Commerce, etc). It's a fantastic program taught by some of brightest security minds in the country (at least at University of Tulsa, where I went, best school out of the 20 or so that do the program). Great stuff, check out the University of Tulsa Cyber-Corp page , I'm not sure what the national program's page is. Oh yeah, and they pay you a stipend to live on while you go to school, so no work. =)

But could it be defended in a court of law if it ever got there? No. My university has the same same policy on wireless access points in residences. I don't live in the residences, so I can't provide any personal experience on the matter, but I haven't heard anything about actual enforcement of this policy. The reason they do it (as stated in this article) is that it can interfere with the operation of the university's wireless network. I think they have the "policy" more to scare students out of installing APs than to actually prohibit it.

The University of Tulsa Hurricane Motor Works converted a Geo Metro as well as built several one-off concept cars from ground-up.

A look at the converted Geo is here. It was retitled the "Paradyne."

A much cooler looking HEV, though, is the Proxima, which was built ground-up. I was on the team that built and designed the car. The design and material cost for this car, being built from ground up (I kid you not. I remember nights out there with a heat gun, hot glue, and pipe making the frame and shaping the body) is way out there.

I don't remember the costs of the conversion for the Metro, since I wasn't involved, but someone interested in the numbers could certainly write and ask. Contact information is on our webpage, or you could IM me, and I could ask next time I am around the HMW.

The University of Tulsa Hurricane Motor Works converted a Geo Metro as well as built several one-off concept cars from ground-up.

A look at the converted Geo is here. It was retitled the "Paradyne."

A much cooler looking HEV, though, is the Proxima, which was built ground-up. I was on the team that built and designed the car. The design and material cost for this car, being built from ground up (I kid you not. I remember nights out there with a heat gun, hot glue, and pipe making the frame and shaping the body) is way out there.

I don't remember the costs of the conversion for the Metro, since I wasn't involved, but someone interested in the numbers could certainly write and ask. Contact information is on our webpage, or you could IM me, and I could ask next time I am around the HMW.

The University of Tulsa Hurricane Motor Works converted a Geo Metro as well as built several one-off concept cars from ground-up.

A look at the converted Geo is here. It was retitled the "Paradyne."

A much cooler looking HEV, though, is the Proxima, which was built ground-up. I was on the team that built and designed the car. The design and material cost for this car, being built from ground up (I kid you not. I remember nights out there with a heat gun, hot glue, and pipe making the frame and shaping the body) is way out there.

I don't remember the costs of the conversion for the Metro, since I wasn't involved, but someone interested in the numbers could certainly write and ask. Contact information is on our webpage, or you could IM me, and I could ask next time I am around the HMW.

Actually, Fedora has been keeping their rpm collection up to date. There are a ton of mirrors, one such being: http://ftp.ens.utulsa.edu/pub/linux/fedora/core/de velopment/ppc/ Though there is no install program, you can take just about any RPM-based system (debian, yellowdog, etc.), point yum twords one of those mirrors, and you'll have quite the up-to-date Fedora box...as opposed to yellowdog. (Gnome 2.2, glibc 2.2, anyone?).

In my undergraduate days, I was on a team that built a hybrid electric "sports car" (picture rendered, not photo) which gets up to 55 mpg.

We were also given a Prius and I can attest to its getting 50 mpg. It gets even more, depending on who is driving it. I can vary my gas mileage by up to 10 mpg just depending on how hard I drive the cars.

It is interesting to note that while gas mileage is optimized on the highway for "normal" cars, its exactly the opposite for hybrids. AFAIRemember, our cars always got better gas mileage in the city than on the highway, which is opposite of what most people expect.

If anyone wants to know more about the car I helped design, you can do so by visiting Hurricane Motor Works.

In my undergraduate days, I was on a team that built a hybrid electric "sports car" (picture rendered, not photo) which gets up to 55 mpg.

We were also given a Prius and I can attest to its getting 50 mpg. It gets even more, depending on who is driving it. I can vary my gas mileage by up to 10 mpg just depending on how hard I drive the cars.

It is interesting to note that while gas mileage is optimized on the highway for "normal" cars, its exactly the opposite for hybrids. AFAIRemember, our cars always got better gas mileage in the city than on the highway, which is opposite of what most people expect.

If anyone wants to know more about the car I helped design, you can do so by visiting Hurricane Motor Works.

Here is a picture of the dick doing this. Looks like he's pretty bitter about not getting laid. That'd explain everything.

The biggest determining factor to me in buying a good digital camera is the optical zoom. With so much focus put on the number of megapixels and digital zoom (which, in my opinion, is better done in Photoshop anyways), the optical zoom is too often forgotten and hard to find in most "affordable" digital cameras. Without the optical zoom, one is limited to the same twelve-foot-away pictures that is great for people who only want to take pictures of friends and family standing in front of things, but is really useless if you want to get a good close up.

For example, this picture I took with my decent megapixel digital camera, my first time using it was a terrible disappointment because it was a great shot ruined just based on my not having the proper optical zoom capabilities.
(And my mistake in buying a camera that I thought would be top of the line, and stupidly didn't notice the difference between digital and optical zoom, this being my first move off of traditional cameras.)

I got most of it, I think. So, in case the angelfire page goes down, here is a semi-mirror. Some of the images didn't save, but I got most everything.

It looks like the angelfire page is still there, but this might help her page load a little.

HERE IS THE PAGE:
http://www.ee.utulsa.edu/~tellis/mirror/kiddofspee d.html

When my dad grew up (b 1944), every hardware store and mass merchant sold guns and ammunition freely. Kids grew up with guns all around, got their own rifles at a young age, hunted after school, shot rats at the dump, you get the idea - they were everywhere. How many mass shootings occurred then??

Well maybe not so mcuh in 1944, but if you go back a few more years the answer would be quite a few. The fact is that mass slayings are extremely rare today, but were not uncommon in the pre WW-2 period.

Case in point: 1921, Tulsa OK. Armed mob storms the black section of town, killing 35 people, injuring over 800, and burning 35 city blocks to the ground. Photos can be found here. While the Tulsa riots are probably the worst, they were far from unique. There were dozens, if not hundreds of riots like this. This is not to mention thousands and thousands of garden variety lynching, which continued to be a problem well after WW2. Guns played a huge role in these situations -- it wasn't sweet reason that forced the Chinese out of Seattle in 1886. These occurances of mass violence just didn't enter our national consciousness because they were socially approved of. It wasn't that the people were so good back then that apalling gun violence didn't happen. It's just that mob murders didn't bother people too much back then if the victims were people who didn't matter.

I'll say a two things in defense of the factual basis of your arguments.

(1) If you take racially, ethnically, or religiously oriented violence out of the picture, then folks back in the good old days could reasonably be trusted with guns.

(2) People did sometimes manage to murder each other on apalling scales without guns playing a major role. In many cases where guns were used they just raised the death toll.

I pretty much support private firearm ownership. If a bunch of nervous safety freaks banned the shooting club from your local high school, I think that's too bad. But I get to these conclusions from the exact opposite direction you do. The fact is that people in the early twenty-first century are much more worthy of be entrusted with firearms than people in the early twentieth, because we've finally come to a near universal consensus that a private individual killing another person is wrong except in self-defense.

If I bought your argument that people are more violent today than they used to be, then I'd be more inclined to crack down on gun ownership.

Note: The most up-to-date info is in my /. journal, so I suggest that you start there.

Our team's website
I am afraid that it is rather lacking on updates and was done very poorly. I need to get it up-to-date and looking better. It was put online very quickly by request of a sponsor. I promise that I will update it and put new pictures up, since the pictures our framegrabber can now take really puts the one on the front page to shame. I also plan to upload the source code to our vision and navigation systems as well as a technical overview of the robot itself. Perhaps a trouble shooting guide would help as well to let aspiring engineers learn from our mistakes. Very funny stories, those are.
Having trouble finding significant support within our university, our robotics team is slowly weaning itself away from the university and competitive mode, and are developing into a more independent group, especially since I graduated and our two other members will shortly as well. We do not receive large funding from the university, and faced with having to pay for our "toys" out-of-pocket while working within university policy, we will likely eventually take this project in new directions.

The IGVC website
This is one of the competitions that we compete in. It is more driven by the Department of Defense and the automotive industry, and is more lenient in its acceptance of participants than the DARPA one is. Our university, however, competes in various robotics competitions. Some are for autonomous robots (such as firefighting robots and military-grade mobile ones) and others for general robots that can perform different tasks. Heck, we even have (or had, rather) a battlebots team.

I have put a small article in my slashdot journal and will be posting news from time to time there. I will also be more than happy to answer any questions that you might have. (I enabled comments) I have added pictures to the journal so I really suggest that you start there. :)


Hope that helps. :) Have a nice day.

This invention was created at the University of Tulsa, a private institution. There is a University of Oklahoma at Tulsa, but that's a different entity, part of the state university system.

The situation is much the same in my current hometown, where we have a University of Denver (private) and a University of Colorado-Denver (public).

Proper link for above... http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~benjamin-chapman/c le/dmca_summary.htm

But there aren't. There are, however, lots of opportunities for little sell-outs who would help the govt. spy on it's own citizens.

Could OpenSource have evolved without this strange commodity we call "free time?" Most of human history was involved with very few activities: eating, sleeping, reproducing, fighting, and running away from things try to kill you. Only in the last few centuries have societies evolved with "free time" built into them.

You could tell your boss that the University up the road turns out CS majors who are taught Unix from their freshman year.

sad but true

Don't discount the athletic ability of the CyberCorps!

At the University of Tulsa, we made it to the finals for Intramural Flag Football. However, I don't believe TU's real football team could handle writing an Intrusion Detection System for a Signalling System Seven telecom network. Check us out!

I'm downloading it from ftp.ucs.indiana.edu at the moment at a rate of over 1 MB/s (no that is not a typo). Of course, I am using Internet2. I'll have a mirror of the iso files up at ftp://ftp.ens.utulsa.edu/pub/linux/redhat/7.1/en/i so soon enough.