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They detect the oscillator operating in the detector. Saw a story about their use in Canada. Now don't go putting oscillators in your cars... :-)

sci.electronics

Based on the same reasons? You mean you were opposed to US intervention in Somalia because since Somalia is a European country instead of the third world, the desire to help Somalia is racist? I don't think this "same reason" applies to Somalia at all. The whole point is that Somalia _is_ a third world country, and we were more willing to send troops there than to Bosnia--exactly the _opposite_ of what the "fixation on European countries" theory would predict. (Similarly, the desire to help Muslims being fought by Christians is also exactly the opposite of what that theory predicts.) I'm referring to people who want to help at all, of course. You don't see people sending out press releases "help Bosnian Serbs with ethnic cleansing! The Muslim presence in the Balkans should be eliminated now!" (Well, except for some Serbs, but I admit that the desire of Serbs in America to help the Serbian side probably _is_ because those are people more like them.) -- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey! On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole that she made from Leftover Turkey. [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ... -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)

talk.politics.mideast

Enemy? Sounds like that's the viewpoint of the stereotypical rednecked conservative -- 'always been commies, always will be.' I suggest you listen very carefully to the stuff Yeltsin and his people are saying and compare that with the very anti-West slogans coming from his opponents in the Russian congress. I sure know who I want to back. Oh, BTW, Germany has sure come back as a terrible enemy after WWII, hasn't it? Better to let them degenerate into civil war? Remember all those nuclear weapons in Russia. I cannot imagine that they would not be used in a civil war. If nationialists take over and, even if they prevent a civil war, most feel they must take back large parts of land that are in other countries (like Ukraine.) I also cannot imagine Ukraine giving up land without a fight, possibly nuclear. How does this affect us? Well, we are on the same planet and if vast tracks of Europe are blown away I think we'd feel something. A massive breakup of a country that spans 1/6th the planet is bound to have affects here. (Of course, there is also the humanitarian argument that democracies should help other democracies (or struggling democracies).) Seriously. Everyone has different opinions on what is stupid. My two "causes" are aid to Russia and a strong space program. Someone else will champion welfare or education or doing studies of drunken goldfish. That is why we have a republic and not a true democracy. Instead of gridlock on a massive scale, we only have gridlock on a congressional scale. BTW, who is to decide 'stupid?' This is just like those who want to impose their 'morals' on others -- just the sort of thing I thought Libertarians were against. Actually, my politics are pretty Libertarian except on this one issue and this is why it is impossible for me to join the party. It seems that Libertarians want to withdraw from the rest of the world and let it sink or swim. We could do that 100 years ago but not now. Like it or not we are in the beginnings of a global economy and global decision making.

talk.politics.misc

ddavis@cass.ma02.bull.com (Dave Davis) II. The deuterocanonicals are not in the canon because they are not quoted by the NT authors. That is not quite accurate. Otherwise we would have the book of Enoch in the canon (as Dave noted). One can say that the apocrypha are not quoted by Christ. III. The deuterocanonicals are not in the canon because they teach doctrines contrary to the (uncontroverted) parts of the canon. then I answer: These is a logically invalid *a priori*. Besides, we are talking about OT texts- which in many parts are superceded by the NT (in the Xtian view). Would not this same principle exclude _Ecclesiastes_? This principle cannot be consistently applied. I have to reject your argument here. The Spirit speaks with one voice, and he does not contradict himself. The ultimate test of canonicity is whether the words are inspired by the Spirit, i.e., God-breathed. It is a test which is more guided by faith than by reason or logic. The early church decided that the Apocrypha did not meet this test--even though some books such as The Wisdom of Ben Sirach have their uses. For example, the Lutheran hymn "Now Thank We All Our God" quotes a passage from this book. The deutero-canonical books were added much later in the church's history. They do not have the same spiritual quality as the rest of Scripture. I do not believe the church that added these books was guided by the Spirit in so doing. And that is where this sort of discussion ultimately ends.

soc.religion.christian

code deleted... From the XmTextField man page (during discussion of resources): XmNverifyBell Specifies whether a bell will sound when an action is reversed during a verification callback. You are setting doit to false in the callback, and Text[Field] is beeping as it should. To turn off this behavior, set this boolean resource to false.

comp.windows.x

According to the OSF/Motif Style Guide, one should use cursor shapes to give the user a visual clue of what is happening or what is expected of him. So a "hourglass" cursor should be shown when the application is busy, or a "caution" cursor should be shown over an area when input is expected in another. Defining cursors for widgets has to be done at rather low level. So defining a cursor for all widgets in an application but not for a certain subpart of it, is a rather complicated matter. When cursors have been defined for some windows, e.g. a "crosswire" cursor for a DrawingArea, things get even more complicated. My intuition says that things should be easier, but is this so? If anyone has a solid and complete solution to my problem, please let me know. The topics on "busy cursors" in the several FAQ's are not helpful, since they only work for applications where all windows have the cursor window attribute set to 'None'.

comp.windows.x

How exactly would Ferreira accomplished this? The three-headed GM-ship has taken a lot of heat, but nobody's explained how things would have been any different had Ferreira still been there. Would Ferreira have made more trades? Who would have he had traded? Would he have made fewer trades? Who should not have been traded?

rec.sport.hockey

Great speculation - I remember being proud on behalf of all the free world (you think that way when you are seven years old) that we had got there first. Now I'm almost sorry that it worked out that way. I guess the soviets would have taken the victory seriously too, and would almost certainly not have fallen victim to the complacency that overtook the US program. Perhaps stretching to match US efforts would have destabilized them sooner than it did in fact - and in the tradition of Marvel Comics 'What If', this destabilization in the Brezhnev era might have triggered the third world war. Hmm, maybe it was a giant leap after all.

sci.space

Actuallay I don't, but on the other hand I don't support the idea of having one newsgroup for every aspect of graphics programming as proposed by Brian, in his reply to my original posting. I would suggest a looser structure more like a comp.graphics.programmer, comp.graphics.hw_and_sw The reason for making as few groups as possible is for the same reason you say we shouldn't spilt up, not to get to few postings every day. I takes to much time to browse through all postings just to find two or three I'm interested in. I understand and agree when you say you want all aspects of graphics in one meeting. I agree to some extension. I see news as a forum to exchange ideas, help others or to be helped. I think this is difficult to achive if there are so many different things in one meeting. Good evening netters|-)

comp.graphics

I don't know where you live, but I couldn't get out of my driveway at night without reverse lights. As someone said, out in the country you notice neat little things like stars and the difference between day and night. At night around my house (which is amongst a forest of rather tall oaks) it is DARK, except for nights with full moons. Reverse lights illuminate my path very well when backing up; I greatly prefer cars with them to cars without operational reverse lights. James

rec.autos

Does anyone have a schedule of Kol Israel broadcasts in different languages that could be posted or e-mailed to me. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated

talk.politics.mideast

'Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery' by Roy Hall contains c source for several famous illumination models, including Bouknight, Phong, Blinn, Whitted, and Hall illumination models. If you want an introduction to shading you might look through the book 'Writing a Raytracer' edited by Glassner. Also, the book 'Procedural elements for Computer Graphics' by Rogers is a good reference. Source for code in these book are available on the net i believe, you might check out nic.funet.fi or some site closer to you carrying graphics related stuff. Hope this is what you were asking for. -- Torgeir Veimo Studying at the University of Bergen "...I'm gona wave my freak flag high!" (Jimi Hendrix)

comp.graphics

Could some one please send me (or tell me where to ftp from) the patches required for xrolo so that I can compile-in the SPARCStation phone-dialing feature? I am using SunOS 4.1.1, and therefore don't have "multimedia/libaudio.h" or "multimedia/audio_device.h" and associated functions. Just in case, our mail gateway only accepts msgs < 45Kb. Thanks in advance, Shash.

comp.windows.x

I am a PhD student. Can I get the sci.crypt group posted directly to me??? Also I would like some feed-back on the encryption schemes that my research in finite fields can be applied to. Any takers Reply to gamv25@udcf.gla.ac.uk Thanks yours Gavin.

sci.crypt

How about this: The TelCo has your Clipper key. The TelCo has your intended partner's key, if he is using one. Whenever you call, the message gets decrypted and reencrypted wihtout y key exchange. I know it's a stupid system, but for the feds, it'd be great. The point of this isn;t to take over the crypto market, BTW. Clinton doen not want people to have any sort of crypto at all (just like Busch). But he needs some support for the "technology initiative" garbage he's pushing (industrial policy stuff) and a computer hip designed by the gov't is just the thing. Who's going to thing about the (literal) Billions of Dollars it took for a government agency to design?

sci.crypt

I got a male Mallard duck in the chest once. It was like being kicked by my karate instructor. No accident, but my eyes were tearing so hard, and I was wheezing so loudly, that it's quite remarkable that I was able to come to a stop with the rubber side up. The duck, BTW, lived, and seemed quite healthy, though we both sat by the roadside and shook our heads for a few minutes. The bruise went from my right collar bone all the way down to my belly button. Regards, Charles DoD0.001 RZ350

rec.motorcycles

I've been trying to get my Fujitsu M2611T 45mb hard disk (circa 1990) to share my IDE card with a new Seagate ST3283A 245mb one. I've tried fiddling the jumpers to set the master and slave drives without any success [without the table of hard drive specs from this newsgroup I couldn't have got that far]. Has anyone else got this combination to work. The place I got the new one muttered something like "Hmmm Fujitsu, nice drives, not very compatible." He'll let me swap the Seagate for another brand but he thought it was more a problem with the Fujitsu. So has anyone got a similar Fujitsu drive to work with another cheapish disk ... or want to buy a cute and cuddly little Fujitsu drive ?

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

: : :::Didn't Christ tell his disciples to arm them selves, shortly :::before his crusifiction? (I believe the exact quote was along the :::lines of, "If you have [something] sell it and buy a sword.") : ::This from a guy who preached love, deference of power to God and ::renunciation of worldly life in exchange for a life of the spirit? If ::Jesus did in fact command his disciples to arm themselves, I would ::take that as yet another reason to reject Christian doctrine, for ::whatever it's worth. Like most religions, the doctrine has good and bad in it. I would certainly reject the current implementations of the doctrine. : :No. The above is a classic example of taking a scripture out of context. :It's taken from Luke 22:36. But note vs 37; "For I tell you that this :which is written must be accomplished in me, namely, 'and he will be reckoned :with lawless ones'...". He then stated that two swords were enough :for the group to carry to be counted as lawless. So having more than the politically correct number of weapons was cause to be arresed and killed even then, huh? :Jesus' overiding message was one of peace (turn other cheek; live by :sword die by sword; etc). Yes, of course, as in Matthew 10:34-35 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth; it is not peace I have come to bring but a sword..." : RJL

talk.religion.misc

Wasn't it Tricky Dick who issued stern warnings to Bush & Clinton not to 'Lose Russia'? (a la 'Who lost China?')

talk.politics.misc

Sorry for wasting your time with a probably simple question, but I'm not an computer graphic expert. I want to read TIFF-Files with a PASCAL-program. The problem is, that the files I want to read are in compressed form ( code 1, e.g. Huffman ). All books & articles I found describe only the plain (uncompressed) format. I don't know where to get the original TIFF specification, furthermore I haven't any access to a realy complete library. Can anybody direct me to a good book or (even better) to an specification available via ftp ? Thanks in advance - Thomas Wolf

comp.graphics

I don't claim to be an expert on the branch Davidians, but I might know more than most. The Branch Davidian group (led by Koresh) is actually one of two off-shoots of a group known as the Shephard's Rod. The Shephard's Rod (now defunct as far as I know)broke off from the SDA Church in the 30's. The Shephard's Rod broke away from the SDA Church because they felt that the SDA Church was becoming weak and falling into apostacy. They felt that they were the remnant spoken about in Revelation. About the Koresh group, Koresh gained control of it in 1987 or 1988. Once in control, he made himself the center of it. He proclaimed himself as Christ. Koresh himself came from an SDA background. He was excommunicated as a young adult by the local congregation for trying to exert too much control over the youth in the church. After this, he joined the Branch Davidians. They were/are a survivalist cult. This is why they had the stockpile of weapons, food, a bomb shelter, etc. They had no intent of raiding the US government or anything. They were preparing for Armaggedon and were putting themselves in a self defense position. In my opinion, if the ATF and the FBI had left well enough alone, we wouldn' t have the blood of 20+ children crying out from the ashes in Waco. If you want to know about The Shephard's Rod, you might want to visit the local SDA church and talk to some of the older people. They could give you some insight into where Koresh got his theology.

soc.religion.christian

Gifts of the Spirit should not be seen as an endorsement of ones behavior. A lot of people have suffered because of similar beliefs. Jesus said that people would come to Him saying "Lord, Lord," and proclaiming the miraculous works they had done in His name. Jesus would tell them that they were workers of iniquity that do not know Him, and to depart from Him. That is not to say that this will happen to everyone who commits a homosexual sin. If the Holy Spirit were only given to the morally perfect, He would not be given to me, or any of us. God can forgive any sin, if we repent. But people should be careful not to think, "God has given me a gift of the Spirit, it must be okay to be gay." That is dangerous (see also hebrews 6 about those who have partaken of the Holy Spirit and of the powers of the world to come.) Jesus doesn't ask us to change our own nature. We cannot lift ourselves out of our own sin- but we must submit to His hand as He changes our nature. Practicing homosexual acts and homosexual lusts violates the morality that God has set forth. If you don't believe that, and think those of us who do are just ignorant, then at least consider us weak in the faith and be celebate for our sake's. Is practicing homosexuality worth the cost of a soul, whether it be the homosexual's or the one considered "ignorant?"

soc.religion.christian

I find that it's always (almost anyway) busy when I dial, but if I try repeatedly, usually only 5 to 15 tries, I always get connected.

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

But now you are contradicting yourself in a pretty massive way, and I don't think you've even noticed. In another part of this thread, you've been telling us that the "goal" of a natural morality is what animals do to survive. But suppose that your omniscient being told you that the long term survival of humanity requires us to exterminate some other species, either terrestrial or alien. Does that make it moral to do so?

alt.atheism

:Just a bit off, Phil. We don't reprocess nuclear fuel because what :you get from the reprocessing plant is bomb-grade plutonium. It is :also cheaper, given current prices of things, to simply fabricate new :fuel rods rather than reprocess the old ones, creating potentially :dangerous materials (from a national security point of view) and then :fabricate that back into fuel rods. Fabricating with reprocessed plutonium may result in something that may go kind of boom, but its hardly decent bomb grade plutonium. If you want bomb grade plutonium use a research reactor, not a power reactor. But if you want a bomb, don't use plutonium, use uranium.

sci.space

Well, it's not an FTP site, but I got an 800 number for Signetics BBS. The Signetics BBS contain some pretty good items for the 8051. I am currently using the following files which I downloaded from them: ml-asm51.zip MetaLink's 8051 family macro assembler bootstrp.zip Hex file Load-and-Go using 8051 uart (allows you to download your program into a RAM and then execute from RAM. Works great. Tell me if you want more details). tutor51.zip TSR for 8051 feature help screens They have lots of coding examples, assemblers, and misc. tools. Signetics BBS numbers are: (800) 451-6644 (408) 991-2406 Have fun, -- Mont Pierce

sci.electronics

Nah. Nothing sucks like a VAX :)...

sci.crypt

"Widely reported", eh? Remember, this has had a news blackout since day 2. The FBI is the single, sole, source of these rumors. It may be the truth, but it may not be. We may never know. We MUST question it, though. Why no media coverare? What were they hiding? It would seem so. They would still be alive, today. Another day is another chance. action? I think it contributed to the outcome. Folks that are sleep deprived tend not to think clearly I feel strongly they were NOT proper. As expected. If it had come out well, he would not have hesitated to take full credit. Jim -- jmd@handheld.com

talk.politics.guns

Are you related to 'Arromdian' of ASALA/SDPA/ARF Terrorism and Revisionism Triangle? Ditto. HELSINKI WATCH: "PROBLEMS OF TURKS IN WESTERN THRACE CONTINUE" Ankara (A.A) In a 15-page report of the "Helsinki Watch" it is stated that the Turkish minority in Western Thrace is still faced with problems and stipulated that the discriminatory policy being implemented by the Greek Government be brought to an end. The report on Western Thrace emphasized that the Greek government should grant social and political rights to all the members of minorities that are equal to those enjoyed by Greek citizens and in addition they must recognize the existence of the "Turkish Minority" in Western Thrace and grant them the right to identify themselves as 'Turks'. NEWSPOT, May 1992 GREECE ISOLATES WEST THRACE TURKS The Xanthi independent MP Ahmet Faikoglu said that the Greek state is trying to cut all contacts and relations of the Turkish minority with Turkey. Pointing out that while the Greek minority living in Istanbul is called "Greek" by ethnic definition, only the religion of the minority in Western Thrace is considered. In an interview with Turkish origin. The individuals of the minority living in Western Trace are also Turkish." Emphasizing the education problem for the Turkish minority in Western Thrace Faikoglu said that according to an agreement signed in 1951 Greece must distribute textbooks printed in Turkey in Turkish minority schools in Western Thrace. Recalling his activities and those of Komotini independent MP Dr. SadIk Ahmet to defend the rights of the Turkish minority, Faikoglu said. "In fact we helped Greece. Because we prevented Greece, the cradle of democracy, from losing face before European countries by forcing the Greek government to recognize our legal rights." On Turco-Greek relations, he pointed out that both countries are predestined to live in peace for geographical and historical reasons and said that Turkey and Greece must resist the foreign powers who are trying to create a rift between them by cooperating, adding that in Turkey he observed that there was will to improve relations with Greece. NEWSPOT, January 1993 MACEDONIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO FACE TRIAL IN GREECE. Two ethnic Macedonian human rights activists will face trial in Athens for alleged crimes against the Greek state, according to a Court Summons (No. 5445) obtained by MILS. Hristos Sideropoulos and Tashko Bulev (or Anastasios Bulis) have been charged under Greek criminal law for making comments in an Athenian magazine. Sideropoulos and Bulev gave an interview to the Greek weekly magazine "ENA" on March 11, 1992, and said that they as Macedonians were denied basic human rights in Greece and would field an ethnic Macedonian candidate for the up-coming Greek general election. Bulev said in the interview: "I am not Greek, I am Macedonian." Sideropoulos said in the article that "Greece should recognise Macedonia. The allegations regarding territorial aspirations against Greece are tales... We are in a panic to secure the border, at a time when the borders and barriers within the EEC are falling." The main charge against the two, according to the court summons, was that "they have spread...intentionally false information which might create unrest and fear among the citizens, and might affect the public security or harm the international interests of the country (Greece)." The Greek state does not recognise the existence of a Macedonian ethnicity. There are believed to be between 350,000 to 1,000,000 ethnic Macedonians living within Greece, largely concentrated in the north. It is a crime against the Greek state if anyone declares themselves Macedonian. In 1913 Greece, Serbia-Yugoslavia and Bulgaria partioned Macedonia into three pieces. In 1919 Albania took 50 Macedonian villages. The part under Serbo-Yugoslav occupation broke away in 1991 as the independent Republic of Macedonia. There are 1.5 million Macedonians in the Republic; 500,000 in Bulgaria; 150,000 in Albania; and 300,000 in Serbia proper. Sideropoulos has been a long time campaigner for Macedonian human rights in Greece, and lost his job as a forestry worker a few years ago. He was even exiled to an obscure Greek island in the mediteranean. Only pressure from Amnesty International forced the Greek government to allow him to return to his home town of Florina (Lerin) in Northern Greece (Aegean Macedonia), where the majority of ethnic Macedonians live. Balkan watchers see the Sideropoulos affair as a show trial in which Greece is desperate to clamp down on internal dissent, especially when it comes to the issue of recognition for its northern neighbour, the Republic of Macedonia. Last year the State Department of the United States condemned Greece for its bad treatment of ethnic Macedonians and Turks (who largely live in Western Thrace). But it remains to be seen if the US government will do anything until the Presidential elections are over. Serdar Argic

talk.politics.mideast

I believe the beta version of the service is available via ftp on ftp.cica.indiana.edu in pub/pc/win3/nt called something like nwnt.zip There is an INDEX ascii file there, which lists the programs in that directory and what they do. unfortunately this beta will also disable netbeui and tcp/ip over your primary nic, so if you really want to run it, get yourself an extra nic and bind it to that. Otherwise wait for next release, like I am.

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

No, this is wrong. The purpose is to preserve the substances in the tubes longer by creating relativistic speeds and thus time dilatation. Of course, by slowing the subjective time of the test tubes they get less bored, which is probably what you were thinking of.

sci.med

^^^^^^ No argument at all with Murphy. He scared the hell out of me when he came in last year. On the other hand, the club though enough of Boever to put him into an awful lot of games (he may have led the league in appearances - he did at least at some point). He seemed to be a very viable setup guy - but I guess that's not considered that crucial by the club. I can just remember two years ago so well, though... ... I'm not that concerned. Those guys have been relatively consistent over the years and they have no good reasons to decline (no injuries, not old, ...). I expect them to come through just fine. It's those guys that have not been consistently good that are the worrisome part, even if they are coming through right now. This sounds like their old road unis. Pretty dull. Buttons or pullovers? I'll check through my uniform book to see if they've always had some orange. Well, we'll see. I've got a Astros pullover shirt with the "Astros stripes" across the shoulders and I have trouble making myself wear it in public. i can see why they might want that to change. Gee, if they eliminate the orange, will they reupholster the seats in the Astros stripes section (what used to be the gold and yellow levels - I don't know those numbers they use now). I saw a pinstripe version of an Astros cap and I actually thought it looked good!

rec.sport.baseball

If life were so simple! Savard has not played in three of the last four games and they are still playing like crap. Montreal's problems run deeper than Savard (and Mouton) unfortunately; I hope they can get their act together before the playoffs. The line-up in their game coming up against PittsburgH is said to be the one they're likely to use for the playoffs. Let's hope they can forget about the nice weather we're having and play hockey.

rec.sport.hockey

Tsk.tsk. Too much argument on non-issues ! I'm Roman Catholic and it seems to me that people celebrate Easter and Christmas for itself rather than how it relates to Jesus. I don't really care about some diety. If people have some other definition of Easter, then that's their business. Don't let it interfere with my Easter. "Resurrection Sunday" 8-) Where did that come from ? If people celebrate Easter for the Cadburry bunny, that's their business.

soc.religion.christian

[Hint for Sun OS users: use /usr/5bin/echo instead of /bin/echo or Csh's built-in echo. Otherwise you'll have to embed literal ESC and BEL characters in the string instead of using convenient octal sequences.] Bad idea. using /usr/5bin/echo is slower than the built-in echo. This is what I do. It does execute `hostname` once per shell window, and does read in one extra file. But manipluating the titles does not require executing extra programs. Oh yes, it does execute some programs once per each system. But it stores them in a file for the next time... if ( ! $?HOSTNAME ) then setenv HOSTNAME `hostname` endif # figure how how to generate escape, bell, # and echo commands without a a line terminator # I may have done this before. If so, the variable E is set # have I executed this script before on this system? if ( $?E ) then # echo "already set the echo variables">/dev/tty else if ( -f ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} ) then source ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} else if ( `echo -n |wc -l` == 0 ) then # echo "built in echo is bsd" >/dev/tty # then berkeley style echo echo 'set ech = "echo -n"' >~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} echo "set E = `echo a | tr a '\033'`" >> ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} echo "set B = `echo a | tr a '\007'`" >> ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} echo 'set N = ""' >> ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} source ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} else # echo "built in echo is sysV" >/dev/tty echo 'set ech = "echo"' >~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} echo 'set E = "\033"' >> ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} echo 'set B = "\007"' >> ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} echo 'set N = "\c"' >> ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} source ~/.echo.${HOSTNAME} endif # Are we using shelltool, cmdtool or xterm? # duplicate these aliases here to avoid problems if ( $term =~ sun* ) then # Sun Aliases alias Header '${ech} "${E}]l\!:1${E}\${N}"' alias IHeader '${ech} "${E}]L\!:1${E}\${N}"' else if ( $term =~ xterm ) then alias Header '${ech} "${E}]2;\!:1${B}${N}"' alias IHeader '${ech} "${E}]1;\!:1${B}${N}"' endif

comp.windows.x

This is a very good point. AT&T obviously knew and participated in the development of the Clipper chip. This amounts to unfair business practice and gives AT&T an early monopoly on the market [hopefully a non-existant market]. Other companies that compete with AT&T in the cellular market (Motorola, NEC, etc) have grounds to file a complaint over this. It would seem that the one fact that the government has overlooked in this whole fiasco is the economic standpoint. As others have mentioned, the most difficulty the Clipper chip faces is an economic one. Let's face it, the average consumer doesn't care or know that the Clipper is a bad idea. If there is a perceived need for cellular encryption, then the companies will provide one. Most likely, a standard will emerge. But if the Clipper is too expensive (and $25 a chip is way too much) then they will develope their own or buy a cheaper one. I give SCT my full support, and hope the Clipper chip goes the way of the Beta video tape format. Also hope they get sued over re-using the name Clipper. -- ---------------------------------------Cyberspace:--------------------------

sci.crypt

On a related topic, I have been searching (with no success) for a specification of the Enhanced Metafile format. I have the original WMF format (Graphics File Formats, Levine et al), but no info on the 32 bit version. Any pointers ?

comp.graphics

First, I am not a doctor. I know about this because I have been through it. It sounds like tonsilitis (lit. swollen tonsils). Feel under your jaw hinge for a swelling on each side. If you find them, its tonsilitis. I've had this a couple of times in the past. The doctor prescribed a weeks course of penicillin and that cleared it up. In my case it was associated with glandular fever, which is a viral infection which (from my point of view) resembled flu and tonsilitis that kept coming back for a year or so. There is a blood test for this. In conclusion, see a doctor (if you have not done so already). Paul.

sci.med

An effort was made to remove the sticker. It came to pieces, leaving most of it firmly attached to the window. It was dark, and around 10:00 pm. The sticker (before being mangled in an ineffective attempt to be torn off) warned the car would be towed if not removed. A "reasonable person" would arguably have driven the car. Had an accident occured, I don't think my friend's attorney would have much trouble fixing blame on the apartment mangement. As a practical matter, even without a conviction, the cost and inconvenience of defending against the suit would be considerable. As a moral matter, it was a pretty fucking stupid thing to do for so paltry a violation as parking without an authorization sticker (BTW, it wasn't "somebody's" spot, it was resident-only, but unassigned, parking).

rec.motorcycles

Like who, f'rinstance? When I bought my system (November), no first, second, or third tier vendor could touch the price for the hardware/software combination I got from GW2000. If you were selling as many systems as fast as GW2000, you'd end up with four or five pissed-off customers too. And four or five ecstatic ones. And lots of satisfied ones... Don't minimize this; if you buy mail order, it's a good thing to know that you'll get replacements parts, no questions asked, in a day or two, via FedEx. Which they do in the vast majority of cases. Remember that it's only the people on the tails of the curve who are motivated to write -- the ones who love it, and the ones who hate it. You don't hear from the folks in the middle very often...

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

You are making precisely one of the points I wanted to make. I fully agree with you that there is a big distinction between the *process* of science and the end result. As an end result of science, one wants to get results that are objectively verifiable. But there is nothing objective about the *process* of science. If good empirical research were done and showed that there is some merit to homeopathic remedies, this would certainly be valuable information. But it would still not mean that homeopathy qualifies as a science. This is where you and I disagree with Turpin. In order to have science, one must have a theoretical structure that makes sense, not a mere collection of empirically validated random hypotheses. Experiment and empirical studies are an important part of science, but they are merely the culmination of scientific research. The most important part of true scientific methodology is SCIENTIFIC THINKING. Without this, one does not have any hypotheses worth testing. (No, hypotheses do not just leap out at you after you look at enough data. Nor do they simply come to you in a flash one day while you're shaving or looking out the window. At least not unless you've done a lot of really good thinking beforehand.) The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology. It depends on the quality of their THINKING. It really bothers me that so many graduate students seem to believe that they are doing science merely because they are conducting empirical studies. And it bothers me even more that there are many fields, such as certain parts of psychology, where there seems to be no thinking at all, but mere studies testing ad hoc hypotheses. And I'm especially offended by Russell Turpin's repeated assertion that science amounts to nothing more than avoiding mistakes. Simply avoiding mistakes doesn't get you anywhere. -- In the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems less like a science than a collection of competing religious sects.

sci.med

I was my understanding that the purpose of those removeable-front-panels were to make the radio useless, and thus discourage theft (that is if the cover were removed by the owner and taken along whenever the car was left.) If those covers were sold for anything remarkably less than the radio originally costs, or even sold at all, then the above discouragement wouldn't be so great. I personally would be unhappy, if I bought a radio like that, thinking that removing the cover greatly depreciated the radio's value, and the covers were sold by the company (or other legitimate source) cheaply.

misc.forsale

Larry: The subject content IS serious; as is the question. On one hand you state that "things have changed dramatically" but, at the same time nothing you "can think of has changed". Your girlfriend seems to want to see a counselor, but you don't. I'd recommend that you examine your hesitation to see a counselor. It's a very good environment to examine issues. The fact of the matter is: your girlfriend has a different perception than you. The TWO of you need to address the issue in order to resolve it. Please consider going to a counselor with your girlfriend. What could it possibly hurt?

sci.med

Hello, I'm trying to get a drum program to work that I downloaded from ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the pub/pc/win3/sounds directory. It's called drum.zip. I have an ATI Stereo FX card with the latest Windows drivers installed. When I try to run the drum program, it reports that a MIDI device is not installed, however the drivers utility in the control panel reports that it is installed. Anyone have any idea how to set up the MIDI device so that the drum program will work with my setup? What I'm trying to do is use my computer as a metronome. Someone suggested that I try one of the drum machines that are circulating around out there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Terry

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

ETHER IMPLODES 2 EARTH CORE, IS GRAVITY!!! This paper BOTH describes how heavenly bodys can be stationary, ether sucking structures, AND why we observe "orbital" motion!! Ether, the theoretical propogation media of electro-magnetic waves, was concluded not to exist, based on the results of the Michelson-Moreley experiment conducted a century ago. I propose that those conclusions are flawed, based on the fact that the experiment was designed to look for a flow parallel to the earth's surface, not perpindicular. (Due to the prevailing assumption that the earth traveled through the ether as a ball through the wind) The reversal of the that conclusion, a pivotal keystone in the development of modern scientific thought, could have ramifications of BIBLICAL proportions through out the WORLD!! REMEMBER: Einstien said Imagination is greater than knowledge!! 1 I dream like this: ether based reality The ether is like a fluid out of phase with our reality. Creations start as a lattice placed into the ether. Given a spin, the lattices both drag the fluid, like a margarita blender, and ingest it, converting it, distilling localized mass, time and energy. (non-spinning lattice = "dark matter") The earth isn't exactly spinning, around the sun. Picture an image of a galaxy; we haven't any videos of them spinning. Picture us being stationary, and the sun's image being dragged across the sky by the spinning ether field. (Picture an onion, each layer of which is spinning a little faster than the next. A thread shot at the inner kernel would be stretched diagonally sideways, its head being in a faster shell than its tail, until it finally intersected the ground of the inner kernel, its direction vector being straight down, but its "foot print" being a line, not a point. [sunrise, sunset]) The moon isn't exactly orbiting us. It is a parasite, (non self spin sustaining ) being dragged in the earth's ether field, which is itself in the sun's much more powerful field. Our seasons are the wobble of earth's axis, like a top slowing down. The "orbit" of the earth around the sun is all of the stars' images being dragged around by the sun's ether feild. The earth, moon and sun are about the same size and "distance" apart. Its just that the time between them varies greatly, because the "path" is not the same. The moon's lattice in the ether is like sticking a fork in a plate of spaghetti and giving the plate a half turn. The sun's lattice has so much spin that its like the fork has got the whole plate of noodles wound up. The piece of light going to the moon can slide down the spaghetti and maybe make a "j" hook at the end. The piece of light going to the sun has to go around the whole plate, like a needle in a record, before it gets there. With a pencil, compass, and rule, draw a diagram of how the moon can be about as big as "earth's" shadow upon it, and at other times totally eclipse the sun. Look in the sky. except for your Knowledge, would you guess that they are about the same size, just because they look about the same size? O . - - E O O O S E / \ M | | OR M \ _ _ / S The full moon, quarter moon etc. is the difference between rate of ether spins. What we are looking at is a rotating "turntable view" of the moon, only half of which is facing the sun. ( I've seen a half moon within about 120 degrees (of sky) of the sun, during the day. Try and draw that "earth shadow.") Its only the moon's image which appears to orbit us. No matter where it is, the light part is the part facing the sun, and the dark part is the half facing away from the sun, even when it appears to be behind us. "Light-Years" between galaxies is a misnomer. The distance is closer to zero, as time and matter are characteristics of this phase of reality, which dissipates outward with each layer of the onion. (defining edge = 0 ether spin) What we are seeing could be essentially happening now. The "piece" of light may have experienced many years, but the trip could be very quick, our time. To time travel or warp space I might consider learning to de-spin myself. (phase out my mass) Good luck trying to design a propulsion system to drag around a space-time locality. (its like trying to move a balloon by shooting a squirt gun from within) To find out about all of this, I recommend studying history. I'd look in the book of life. (or holy grail etc.) Brain waves just might carry decipherable data. I'd start looking on some part of the spectra said to be unusable, due to all the background noise. (4+ billion humans?) I'd totally isolate myself, record me thinking DOG backwards, and learn to read what I got. (Microsoft Holy Grail card for Pentium!) Next, concluding that my thoughts were recorded on a non time-bound media, the ether, and that it is I who move forward (in time). I would try to temporarily locally reverse the flow, (of time, which I'd start looking for as flowing opposite magnetism, pole to pole. [Why not?]) perhaps by passing a LARGE, FLAT DC current through a two foot diameter. coil or choke or something, and seeing what I could get with my machine's receiver next to it. If you don't think you'll live to see it, consider this: QUIT PUTTING THE REPRODUCTIVE KEYS OF OTHER LIFE IN YOUR BODY! All of life's data could be written on the wind, (ether) not just our thoughts. DNA could be a little receiver or file access code. By eating SEEDS, we could be jamming our reception, or receiving plant instructions. Try eating seed bearing fruit. Maybe those Greek or biblical guys did live hundreds of years. I'm curios to see what they did and ate. Don't worry if your hair stops growing. (Maybe we don't need to eat at all, the cosmos are formed from nothing, and that is creating matter! I only need enough to bounce around. Where did the household concept 'immortal' come from? Wheat is a weed, it is programmed to pull from the soil, reproduce like hell, and then die) Warning about writing to the past: I had a little dream of being in a world, in the near parallel future, lying along a path of history which we have diverged from. There were; twelve telepathic, glowing beings, who looked like an Oscar award and who had always been, a dark one who looked like us, and then myself. The dark one was in the process of making the others into gods, (he had to teach them what that meant) by "advising" them in their past. Basically, he manipulated them into reproducing, and raising their children on his seed. He said that the little ones who looked different were a sub-species, meant to provide service. He carefully combed through history, rewriting it in his favor, pulling like a weed anything that compromised his control. He enticed recruits by sending them his visions, saying that there was immortality at the end of the road for only twelve souls: kill or be killed. The amount of control he could exert was finite, though, as at every change he made, a void would appear in our reality. The universe one day ended 100 meters from us: it seemed odd, but we couldn't remember how else it should be. Then some of the twelve were no more. Finally, when he could prune no more, and reality stopped just beyond his fingertips, he stepped through his portal to the past, to bask, over and over, in all that he had created. I made a few more changes, and lost my body, existing only on the wind. MORAL: Its very possible to eliminate from your reality the souls whose will's are not in harmony with yours (Golden Rule - treat others as you wish to be treated) I.E., you could end up along a lonely thread of time with murderers or flowery brown-nosers for playmates. (its not eternal, there's more than one way back) Accepting rides to the past: Once here, the one who looks like us sells rides, he can make you a Prince, or a Queen, or you can live as a god in ancient Greece. Go ahead, repeat the third grade as often as you like, Adam henry. I Hope you like inspecting your socks. Careful though, if he likes your work, but thinks you're getting wise, he can direct you to cross paths with your old self, and you'll vanish as you rewrite your own course of history, none the wiser. As we pass the point along the parallel line where he stepped back in time, his hierarchy will lose its direction. He can still make changes while he's here, its just that that is work, and with every 'adjustment', this becomes less the world he cultivated, which loosens his grip, and his organization is suddenly one branch less. But he can't see the change. The basic nature of man is good. He had to apply his hand to achieve his world. As he now tightens his hand to retain what he built, the more sand slips through his fingers. How about public computer access to the I.R.S. ? Its our country, our money, and they're spending it on us, RIGHT? Imagine this: Washington marks the next cost at 8, IRS collects 10, gives 5 to congress, and just absolutely buries 5. Congress borrows 2. The banks are making, what, a 30% margin (interest) on our government? Big corporations are ecstatic if they can do a 10% margin. What do the banks do with it? Hold some on a carrot to the world, sure, but mostly, bury it. WHY? Food production is 2% GNP?, construction 6% ? 14 hours to build your auto? The people are spending all of their time to buy back a tenth of what they produce. Have we been deceived? If we are more efficient, why is it getting harder to get by? What if the point is just to keep the people busy making widgets? In that other reality, I shouted to the twelve, "its chaos!" They said, "no, its order." He defined chaos as that which is he was not able to control. Rain forest: The problem could be that all the water in its canopy would hide the location of an indigenous people who have no language. (telepathic; and 'vanishing' the closest knowledge of death) (think of the spine as a transceiver, if it is on the ground and pointed up, you can locate it from above) These people are probably naive as children, but very, very tough to kill. Also, They should be able to tell you stories about the dark one that I talk about. They can hear him. I think that Ham and world band radio old timers might have a story to tell on this. These people would be on a different frequency than us as they aren't eating seeds. Famine relief: When I make my diet almost all whole wheat, I get a huge belly, lose muscle mass, sleep A LOT, and get sick. When I eat only fresh fruit, I get more energy, a Hollywood-flat belly, and need a lot less sleep. UN. Peace Keeping; There is fighting and killing all over. The troops go in when there is no bread on the shelf. (its OK to kill each other, just make sure there is enough to eat.) Somalia: What is disturbing is energetic, gun carrying, three foot tall sixteen year-olds, who eat nothing but some roots that they suck on. It is not so much that their growth is stunted, it is that they aren't dying at a rate of 50 of 60 years per life. Women with children, Babes in arms: Historical references to women and children as a single unit could mean that infants were not cut from the umbilical cord. (and hence, were not breast fed) I think that there may be some very interesting results to this, such as mother-child telepathy, and blue blooded infants. There are examples of this practice in the aquatic mammal kingdom to investigate. That guy is the master of illusion, and the ultimate liar. He tells it first, and then just follows the thread of time in which the people are willing to buy it. (in which he can make it so) He'll play a poker face up until he thinks he's cornered, and then he'll whine, beg and grovel. All it means to him is that you're willing to live on the ground work that he has laid, that is, that he was right, and he didn't over play his hand, and he won't need to go back and try another thread of time. You have ultimate control over your destiny, just don't live along a path that leads to a reality in which you don't want to be a part of.

sci.space

In four replies, I've seen no hard numbers, so here goes: For traces on the outside (not inner layers), expect, in 1 oz copper, at 15 amps, the following temperature rises versus width. This is from Sams' "Reference Data for Engineers," seventh edition, Pg 5-30, which claims in turn to be from MIL-STD-275C... width Temp rise inches degrees C ------ --------- .125 100 .15 75 .17 60 .20 45 .24 30 .33 20 At 10 amps, the rise for the .125 width is only about 30 degrees. Power goes as square of the current, plus the copper resistance goes up as temperature goes up... Certainly .20" (~5mm) traces should be ample for what you want to do. And 2 ounce copper almost cuts the required width in half. (I'd do 2 oz at about 0.08" width myself, I think...given that the _rated_ current is 10 amps and the 15 is a transient or fault condition.)

sci.electronics

10 month old stereo system for sale. Luxman R-351 receiver, Onkyo TA-RW404 tape deck, and Polk Monitor M4.6 book shelf speakers are for sale. Receiver has 5 year warranty, and all equipment is in excellent condition. Paid $950 for the system and willing to consider the best offer. Will sell seperate pieces also if desired. Please send best offer to suraj@cs.jhu.edu. Speakers: Polk Monitor M4.6 bookshelf speakers Paid $250 pair. Willing to consider best offer. Receiver: Luxman R-351 receiver with 5 year (yes 5 years) warranty. Paid $475. Willing to consider best offer. Full remote, 2 pairs of speaker connections, 60 watts per channel, but drives like a 150 watts per channel Has all the standard features, and more. Tape Deck: Onkyo TA-RW404 tape deck Paid $275. Willing to consider best offer. Dual cassette, Dolby B, C, and HX Pro. Input level control for recording, auto reverse both sides. Has all standard features. Send E-mail with best offer to suraj@cs.jhu.edu

misc.forsale

Bobby, there's a question here that I just HAVE to ask. If all of your posts aren't some sort of extended, elaborate hoax, why are you trying so hard to convince the entire civilised world that you're feeble minded? You have a talent for saying the most absurd things. Here's a little sign for you, print it, cut it out and put it on top of your computer/terminal. ENGAGE BRAIN PRIOR TO OPERATING KEYBOARD (Having said all that, I must admit we all get a laugh from your stuff.) --

alt.atheism

[reply to dufault@lftfld.enet.dec.com (MD)] Infantile spasms have been well understood for quite some time now. You are seeing a pediatric neurologist, aren't you? If not, I strongly recommend it. There is a new anticonvulsant about to be released called felbamate which may be particularly helpful for infantile spasms. As for learning more about seizures, ask your doctor or his nurse about a local support group.

sci.med

I can only comment on thermal recalibration in general. Some new drives perform it in order to increase overall integrity of data writes. Basically, the firmware instructs the actuator to perform a test to see if the data tracks are within a certain physical tolerance, since when the media heats up or cools down, *some* track drift is inevitable, and the drive has to monitor it. This becomes especially critical at very high recording densities, and so was used primarily on very large-capacity mechanisms, but it seems to be finding its way into more smaller drives as a way of boosting the drive's long-term reliability and MTBF ratings. I first became aware of thermal recalibration when it was pointed out that the technique conflicts with prolonged write times when digitizing, say, audio or video to hard disk. Some manufacturers explicitly state that drives with thermal recalibration are NOT to be used for applications that have prolonged disk writes. Hope this helps.

comp.sys.mac.hardware

Why are the Red Sox in first place? Eight games into the season, they already have two wins each from Clemens and Viola. Clemens starts again tonight, on three days rest. What's up? Are the Sox going with a four-man rotation? Is this why Hesketh was used in relief last night? Hm.

rec.sport.baseball

Hi fellow netters, does anybody have any info on Tseng Labs ET4000 VLB card: price, speed, compatibility with existing and up-comming softwares, performance compared to others cards ( is it an S3 based card ?)....

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

Welcome aboard! (I think you just answered your own question, there) Most responses were against his postings that spouted the fact that all atheists are fools/evil for not seeing how peachy Islam is. I would leave the pro/con arguments of Islam to Fred Rice, who is more level headed and seems to know more on the subject, anyway. How did you know I was going to welcome you abord?!?

alt.atheism

Rex Wang (wangr@vccsouth22.its.rpi.edu) spews forth stupidly: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me that you don't actually ATTEND Rensselaer, and that you just work for ITS. Or that this was tounge-in-cheek. Does this mean that I should be cutting off my alumni contributions, or increasing them?

rec.sport.hockey

The Phillies salvaged their weekend series against the Chicago Cubs by beating them 11-10 in a wild one at Wrigley Field Sunday afternoon. It was the Phils only win in the three game series, and was the first time the Phillies have lost a series in the young season. The Phils jumped to a 6-0 lead in the game thanks to 2 John Kruk 2-run homers and two Wes Chamberlain homers. However Danny Jackson, and the Phillies middle relief was unable to hold the lead. Mitch Williams entered the game with the Phillies leading 8-4, however Candy Maldonado hit a ninth inning homerun to tie it. In the 11th, Dave Hollins hit a three-run shot, his first of the year to push the Phils ahead to stay. However, in a shaky bottom of the 11th the Cubs scored 2 runs and had the tying runner on base when the Cubs pinch hit Randy Myers for Bob Scanlan (they were out of position players) and Myers bunted into a double play to end the game.

rec.sport.baseball

Last night I had a dream that my dad bought a Viper. I took it out for a test drive, without his knowledge, and had to push it all the way home just to avoid a ticket. Wierd dream, I wonder what it means....

rec.autos

}>Look, if you can figure out a reliable means of keeping guns away from }>bad people, while not interfering with good people, I think we'd all be }>for it. The problem is, the methods we're using now don't do the trick. } }Don't manufacture them. Don't sell them. Don't import them. Japan did this. It required near-total isolation from the rest of the world for 2 centuries. }Some guns will get through, but far fewer, and far less people will }die because of them. Hunting weapons could be allowed, of course, as }long as they are big, and bulky, and require reloading after a few }shots (how many times can you shoot at the same animal, anyways One }assumes they are moving!) Hunting weapons are great for extortionist sharpshooters. "Send me money or else I'll pick you off from 2 miles away." Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! Assistant Editor: Freedom Network News, the newsletter of ISIL, The International Society for Individual Liberty, 1800 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 864-0952; FAX: (415) 864-7506; 71034.2711@compuserve.com

talk.politics.guns

Several years back one of the radar detectors manufacturers, in defiance to Virginia's law against radar detectors, passed out thousands of fake cardboard radar detectors at truck stops near the Virginia State lines. At that time there were no radar detector Detectors! I am not sure of the impact but I would imagine that enforcement of the law by visually sighting a radar detector became difficult - if not impossible! As I said earlier, efforts to throw out or eliminate the VA law against radar detectors has been in vain. In fact, effective Jan. 1, 1993, the fine for possession of a radar detector accessable to the driver of a vehicle in VA is now $250.00. I have noted an interesting anomality with my Alinco DR-100 2 meter ham transceiver.... It will make a *cheap* radar detector scream! I am not sure of the range, but it is obvious by the brake lights that it can be at least 50 feet at 50 watts! :-)

sci.electronics

has any one heard of a sedative called "Rhoepnol"? Made by LaRouche, I believe. Any info as to side effects or equivalent tranquillizers? thanks.... --

sci.med

Ah, not in the USA. Thats a relief, thought 'reality' must be slipping for a second. :-) St Noam was on the radio tonight, he has just published a new book "501 years". Published by South End i guess. Could some bostonian confirm please? I would love to hear what he thinks of the Clipper scam. ~Paul

sci.crypt

Read Issue #2 of Wired Magazine. It has a long article on the "hype" of 3DO. I've noticed that every article talks with the designers and how "great" it is, but never show any pictures of the output (or at least pictures that one can understand)

comp.graphics

Christian: washed in the blood of the lamb. Mithraist: washed in the blood of the bull. If anyone in .netland is in the process of devising a new religion, do not use the lamb or the bull, because they have already been reserved. Please choose another animal, preferably one not on the Endangered Species List.

talk.religion.misc

I have a strange piece of equipment to unload. It is a Ether+ SCSI interface. Apparently, it can be plugged into a SCSI port and from there to an ethernet. That way you save a slot. Nifty. Well, I assume you people know more about it, so, judging by the $350 price tag new, I'll ask, say, $75? Anybody interested?

comp.sys.mac.hardware

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misc.forsale

Can anyone tell me if a bloodcount of 40 when diagnosed as hypoglycemic is dangerous, i.e. indicates a possible pancreatic problem? One Dr. says no, the other (not his specialty) says the first is negligent and that another blood test should be done. Also, what is a good diet (what has worked) for a hypo- glycemic? TIA. Anthony Anello Fermilab Batavia, Illinois

sci.med

I need a complete list of all the polygons that there are, in order. I'll summarize to the net. -------------------------------------------------------- "If only I had been compiled with the '-g' option."

comp.graphics

My wife has one of these. I have not had much chance to fiddle with it, but in comparison to our Laserwriters with Canon engines, she complains that the print is too light for her taste. The difference is quite apparent even when the print setting on the Select 310 is adjusted to the darkest possible level. I don't find it objectionable, and indeed rather like it, but be warned that some people don't care for it and it is considerably different.

comp.sys.mac.hardware

I'm not sure what you mean by 'saving face' unless you are confusing the FBI with the BATF who are the ones who were in charge of the original search warrant. Independant Negotiators? What was there to negotiate? Any sort of plea bargin has to be brought to the court, the negotiators can't negotiate charges or sentences. FBI negotitators did make a deal for the Dividians to come out. Koresh showed he was not negotiating in good faith and there is no reason to believe independent negotiators would have done any better.

talk.religion.misc

What resources and services are available on Internet/BITNET which would be of interest to hospitals and other medical care providers? I'm interested in anything relelvant, including institutions and businesses of interest to the medical profession on Internet, special services such as online access to libraries or diagnostic information, etc. etc.

sci.med

Another way would be to use GetGeometry to find out where you are relative to the frame, and TranslateCoordinates to find out where your window's upperleft corner really is. -- Ethan

comp.windows.x

I would like to know about the current fax software available for Windows. Does it take a 9600 baud fax/modem or 14.4K ? Please respond with info. Thank you very much

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

If by that you mean anything on the GD approach, there was an article on it in a recent Avation Week. I don't remember the exact date but it was recent. Allen

sci.space

Those areas became states. Puerto Rico has the population needed to become a state. But the ethnic mix there is such that Puerto Rico will probably never become a state. I say we cut them loose. If they don't want to become a state, we shouldn't continue to subsidize their existence.

talk.politics.misc

I have WD1007-WA2 ESDI controller with ROM BIOS v.1.1. It has been working fine until I recently upgraded motherboard to 386-40MHz. Now, my Maxter drive goes crazy making lots of seeking sound even when the drive is not accessed. Of course, with numourous hard disk controller errors. These symptoms disappear when I switch to non-turbo mode (8 MHz). I suspect some timing dependent Rom Bios routines. (There's a newer version 2.x) Could anybody help me on this? By the way, my new mother board has AMI Bios, 128k Cache, 8 MHz bus, and works fine with my old MFM drives (I had to dig them up). :-( Also, I will appreciate it very much if somebody send me the phone numbers (tech support/BBS) for Western Digital. Many thanks in advance. Jay

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

on choice Nonononnononono....its "From the Nile to the Nile.....the Long way!" ;-)

talk.politics.mideast

If a six year old child does a funny trick and you say well done he will do it again and it may be funny. Then they may repeat it over and over again bu you still have to pretend its funny even though it isn't any more. Once they are older than six you expect them to realise that doing the same thing over and over again isn't funny any more. Basicaly Ed fails to be amusing because he is merely crass. He does not make jokes that have any political content beyond attempting to ridicule their target. Calling someone Slick Willie is not funny even if you put on a red nose while you say it, it was a good debating point used on the spur of the moment 12 months ago but now its use merely demonstrates that the user couldn't think of anything original to say. In the UK there is a tradition of old retired Colnels who bore the dinner guests rigid with their descriptions of old campagns. Ed is clearly one of this type of people who fails to see when a joke is spent.

talk.politics.misc

Only my common sense. The fire was caused by either Koresh and his followers or by the FBI/ATF/CIA/KGB/and maybe the Harper Valley PTA. Since you are throwing around the evidence arguement, I'll throw it back. Can you prove any government agency did it? (Please don't resort to "they covered it up so that proves they did it" or any wild theories about how the government agencies intentionally started the fire. The key words are proof and evidence.) proves they did it" Please explain how Koresh was defending himself from those children who burned.

talk.religion.misc

Ermenistan kasiniyor... Let me translate for everyone else before the public traslation service gets into it : Armenia is getting itchy.

talk.politics.mideast

If there is anyone attending the ISSA conference in Arlington, VA next week, I would appreciate them getting in touch with me.

sci.crypt

I'll go 2 feet, but I draw the line at 3.

rec.motorcycles

Help!!! I have an ADB graphicsd tablet which I want to connect to my Quadra 950. Unfortunately, the 950 has only one ADB port and it seems I would have to give up my mouse. Please, can someone help me? I want to use the tablet as well as the mouse (and the keyboard of course!!!). Thanks in advance.

comp.sys.mac.hardware

I thought Bill James' latest book completely and totally sucked. I bought it, but will not purchase anything of his ever again without THOROUGHLY looking at it first. What tripe. The book is inconsistent, and filled with selective analysis. James claims to be looking forward, and then makes some absolutely bizarre statements of value. Not only that, but I got the impression he probably glanced at the book for about an hour before he put his name on it. To say I was disappointed is a grand understatement.

rec.sport.baseball

One of the candidates that has been suggested for a key registration body is the ACLU. I think this is poor choice. The ACLU is essentially a group of auditors: they audit how people's civil liberties are administered. Traditionally, auditors do not like to get involved in the design or operational aspects of things, and with good reason. When I was a systems programmer, it always infuriated me that the auditors would come in and tell us our implementation stunk from a security point of view, but wouldn't tell us how to fix it. I always figured they just liked to critcize, without doing the work to help fix the problem. Then I took a stint as an auditor, and I found out the real reason. Auditors don't like to recommend solutions, because it puts them in a bad position if they have to criticize the implementation later. The auditee can say, "Well, you told us this way would be OK." It compromises the independence that is a necessary part of the auditor's job. Taking the case at hand, suppose ACLU becomes a key half registrar. Suppose that, perhaps through some error on ACLU's part, a key half gets away that shouldn't, and is used to deprive someone of her civil liberties. The ACLU gets wind of this, and wants to take it to court. But they end up being at the same time on the side of the defendant and of the plaintiff, which is not an easy position to be in. There are exceptions to the complete independence of auditors: at one place where I worked, when payroll checks were printed, they were signed automatically by a signature drum on the bursting machine. This drum was kept by the auditors (who also kept the check stock), and was brought down to Data Processing when it was time to do the checks. I believe the difference between this situation and the key registration situation is that it is fairly obvious when it is time to do the payroll checks: if they were done yesterday, and someone wants to do them again today, he better be able to produce yesterday's checks so that they can be destroyed. Determining which of the many requests for key halves are legit is a trickier process, one much more prone to mistakes that could put the ACLU in a protecting-the-client versus protecting-the-ACLU conflict of interest. As always, my opinions are my own.

sci.crypt

Are there any vendors supporting pressure sensitive tablet/pen with X? I will appreciate any pointers. Thanks, Sanjay

comp.windows.x

Archive-name: ripem/attacks Last-update: 31 Mar 93 21:00:00 -0500 SOME POSSIBLE ATTACKS ON RIPEM ------------------------------ This is a living list of potential weaknesses to keep your eyes open for when using RIPEM for secure electronic mail. It does not go into great detail, and is almost certainly not exhaustive. Obviously, many of the weaknesses are weaknesses of cryptographically secured mail in general, and will pertain to secure mail programs other than RIPEM. It is maintained by Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>. It is posted monthly to a variety of news groups; followups pertaining specifically to RIPEM should go to alt.security.ripem. CRYPTANALYSIS ATTACKS --------------------- - Breaking RSA would allow an attacker to find out your private key, in which case he could read any mail encrypted to you and sign messages with your private key. RSA is generally believed to be resistant to all standard cryptanalytic techniques. Even a standard key (about 516 bits with RIPEM) is long enough to render this impractical, barring a huge investment in hardware or a breakthrough in factoring. - Breaking DES would allow an attacker to read any given message, since the message itself is encrypted with DES. It would not allow an attacker to claim to be you. DES has only 56 bits in its key, and thus could conceivably be compromised by brute force with sufficient hardware, but few agencies have such money to devote to simply read one message. Since each message has a different DES key, the work for each message would remain high. KEY MANAGEMENT ATTACKS ---------------------- - Stealing your private key would allow the same benefits as breaking RSA. To safeguard it, it is encrypted with a DES key which is derived from a passphrase you type in. However, if an attacker can get a copy of your private keyfile and your passphrase (by snooping network packets, tapping lines, or whatever) he could break the whole scheme. The main risk is that of transferring either the passphrase or the private key file across an untrusted link. So don't do that. Run RIPEM on a trusted machine, preferably one sitting right in front of you. Ideally, your own machine in your own home (or maybe office) which nobody else has physical access to. - Fooling you into accepting a bogus public key for someone else could allow an opponent to deceive you into sending secret messages to him rather than to the real recipient. If the enemy can fool your intended recipient as well, he could re-encrypt the messages with the other bogus public key and pass them along. It is important to get the proper public keys of other people. The most common mechanism for this is finger; assuming the opponent has not compromised routers or daemons or such, finger can be given a fair amount of trust. The strongest method of key authentication is to exchange keys in person; however, this is not always practical. Having other people "vouch for you" by signing a statement containing your key is possible, although RIPEM doesn't have features for doing this as automatically as PGP. RIPEM does generate and check MD5 fingerprints of public keys in the key files; they may be exchanged via a separate channel for authentication. PLAYBACK ATTACKS ---------------- - Even if an opponent cannot break the cryptography, an opponent could still cause difficulties. For example, suppose you send a message with MIC-ONLY (a PEM mode which does not provide disclosure protection) to Alice which says "OK, let's do that." Your opponent intercepts it, and now resends it to Bob, who now has a message which is authenticated as from you telling him to do that. Of course, he may interpret it in an entirely different context. Or your opponent could transmit the same message to the same recipient much later, figuring it would be seen differently at a later time. Or the opponent could change the Originator-Name: to himself, register your public key as his, and send a message hoping the recipient will send him return mail indicating (perhaps even quoting!) the unknown message. To defeat playback attacks, the plaintext of each message should include some indication of the sender and recipient, and a unique identifier (typically the date). A good front-end script for RIPEM should do this automatically (IMHO). As a recipient, you should be sure that the Originator-Name: header and the sender indicated within the plaintext are the same, that you really are a recipient, and that the message is not an old one. Some this also can and should be automated. The author of this FAQ has made a modest attempt at automating the process of generating and checking encapsulated headers; the programs are included in the standard distribution in the utils directory. LOCAL ATTACKS ------------- - Clearly, the security of RIPEM cannot be greater than the security of the machine where the encryption is performed. For example, under UNIX, a super-user could manage to get at your encrypted mail, although it would take some planning and effort to do something like replace the RIPEM executable with a Trojan horse or to get a copy of the plaintext, depending how it's stored. In addition, the link between you and the machine running RIPEM is an extension of that. If you decrypt with RIPEM on a remote machine which you are connected to via network (or, worse yet, modem), an eavesdropper could see the plaintext (and probably also your passphrase.) RIPEM should only be executed on systems you trust, obviously. In the extreme case, RIPEM should only be used on your own machine, which you have total control over and which nobody else has access to, which has only carefully examined software known to be free of viruses, and so on. However, there's a very real trade-off between convenience and security here. A more moderately cautious user might use RIPEM on a UNIX workstation where other people have access (even root access), but increase security by keeping private keys and the (statically linked, of course) executable on a floppy disk. Some people will keep RIPEM on a multi-user system, but when dialing in over an insecure line, they will download the message to their own system and perform the RIPEM decryption there. However, the security provided by such a mechanism is somewhat illusory; since you presumably type your cleartext password to log in, you've just given away the store, since the attacker can now log in as you and install traps in your account to steal your private key next time you use it from a less insecure line. This will likely remain the situation as long as most systems use the rather quaint mechanism of cleartext password authentication. I find it nice to put a brief statement of how carefully I manage my security arrangement in my .plan next to my public key, so that potential correspondents can be aware what level of precautions are in place. Some people use two keys, a short one which is not carefully managed for ordinary use and a longer one which is treated with greater care for critical correspondence. UNTRUSTED PARTNER ATTACKS ------------------------- - RIPEM's encryption will ensure that only a person with the private key corresponding to the public key used to encrypt the data may read the traffic. However, once someone with that key gets the message, she may always make whatever kind of transformations she wishes. There exist no cryptographic barriers to a recipient, say, taking an ENCRYPTED message and converting it to a MIC-ONLY message, signed by you and readable by anyone, although RIPEM does not provide this functionality. Indeed, the latest PEM draft I have seen specifically states that such transformations should be possible to allow forwarding functions to work.

sci.crypt

conner peripherals has a 1-800 number with a touch-tone /voice response data bank giving all the info. if you call 1-800 directory assisatnce (1-800-555-1212) and ask for the phone number of "conner peripherals," you should get what you need.

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

It is told in the Gospels that the Pharisees (sp.?) and scribes bribed the Roman soldiers to say that the Diciples stole his body in the night. Good enough excuse for the Jewish and Roman objectives (of that day).

soc.religion.christian

You'll probably get one when you realize that your $100 vesa super dooper local bus ultra high tech controller sucks... With any luck PC bus archeitecture will be doen any with by sbus. Have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to a vesa local bus. It actually slows down your system Maybe my workstation doesn't understand what your vesa local bus IDE is Vesa local bus will be killed off by pcmi? whatever intels spec is. VLBUS it not good for much more than vga cards. To each his own. I'll laugh when you start crying over how much you spent for your 2 little ide drives and then finding out you need more space. Here Here.... don't stick your foot in your mouth when you make a statement you know nothing about. I'd rather wait a second compared to the 5 minutes and ide would take. (obviously exaggerated). Have you ever tried to backup 2 gigs of disk? Oh I forgot you can't because you have an ide and no one makes ide disks that big. I guess you probably bought a 486sx too What? The SCSI-2 FAST,WIDE spec has much more bandwidth than any stupid vlbus ide crap.... Stop this thread now, Its just cluttering up bandwidth. If you want to read about scsi vs ide just pay a visit to you local usenet archive. the best SCSI-2 FAST,WIDE,etc is clearly faster than any the best ide drive. All the response given are based upon personal experience with 1 or 2 drives. You can't judge such completely different interfaces. IDE has the low cost adavantage + a descent performance. SCSI has the ability for super high capacity expandibility and speed. neither one is better in all cases. If you don't belive what I said about busmastering and vlbus then pick up a back issue of PC-week in whihc they tested vlbus, eisa and isa busmastering cards. send flames to /dev/null.....

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

The defenition of the Underdog is a team that has no talent and comes out of nowhere to contend. The '69 Mets and '89 Orioles are prime examples, not the Cubs. I root for the Cubs, because I feel sorry for them, but basically they are dogs. The Pirates today are a great example of an underdog. If the Rockies and Marlins compete, they will be underdogs. The North Stars trip to the Stanley Cup finals was a good example of an underdog's journey. The Cubs have a good team this year, and play in a weak division, they are much less than America's Team.

rec.sport.baseball

How is the CMOS backed-up? Dry cell batteries or ni-cad cell? Your batteries may be dead.

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

I wouldn't give baserunning that much value. The above effect is clear, but there are other effects as well. If Olerud hits a double, any runner on first will score; if Alomar legs an extra base onto a hit in the gap, the runner on first may need to hold at third. Thus Olerud's doubles have more advancement value than Alomar's. (Of course, Alomar is more likely to score after hitting a double.) Another reason not to give too much extra value to baserunning is that the runs created formulas work for very fast and very slow teams. No team in the 1950's ran much, but some teams certainly had faster players than others. Still, the current runs created formulas work just as well in the 1950's for all teams. Bill James gives the 1955-1958 Senators as an example. They used Harmon Killebrew regularly as a pinch runner, and in 1957, stole 13 bases with 38 times caught stealing. Yet they scored slightly more runs than predicted by Runs Created.

rec.sport.baseball

It just goes to show that not all evangelical fundamentalists are pharisitical! I wear a black leather jacket, like classic rock, but no longer have the long locks I once had. However, I too rely upon the Bible as a basis for Christian ethics.

soc.religion.christian

Try peeling the skin back at the base of your other fingernails (not too hard, now, don't want to hurt yourself). You'll find nice little lunulas there if you can peel it back enough. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."

sci.med

Right. We'll probably end up giving them weapons. During WWII, the British managed to supply arms to the Yugoslavs despite German occupation. If the Europeans had the will to do anything besides sponsoring peace conferences, they would have no problem putting any kind of weapon they wanted into Bosnia. I guess I would favor ending the embargo if the Congress would pass a law forbidding export of US military supplies to Yugoslavia, including via third parties. Until then the risks of the US being drawn into a more active role would be too great. I do not see the arms embargo as a major factor in the outcome of the war. Both sides are certainly not equal in the eyes of the press. And that's about all we have to go on, isn't it? And I wish you'd quit hurling words like racist around. There are many levels at which people react to what they see. At the most fundamental level, you do not have to consciously recognize the racial element - you simply tend to empathize more with people who are like yourself. As far preferring Christian over Moslem, I am an atheist myself, and I think you'll agree that in the US, the majority of people do not typically discriminate on the basis of religion, nor give it a particularly important place in their world view.

talk.politics.mideast

I tried to do so, but people told me that even if I used DISPKT, the packets would still be incompatible. Is this true ?

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Eric ("Damien"?) was presenting his views on Christianity; I'll respond to a few of his points: This is certainly a valid objection to religion-as-explanation-of- nature. Fortunately for the convenience of us believers, there is a class of questions that can never be reduced away by natural science. For example: why does the universe exist at all? After all, the time-space world didn't have to exist. Why does *anything* exist? And: is it possible for persons (e.g. man) to come into being out of a purely impersonal cosmos? These questions which look at the real mysteries of life -- the creation of the world and of persons -- provide a permanent indicator that the meaning of life in the material world can only be found *outside* that world, in its Source. When you say that man is *only* an animal, I have to think that you are presenting an unprovable statement -- a dogma, if you will. And one the requires a kind of "faith" too. By taking such a hard line in your atheism, you may have stumbled into a religion of your own. But before you write off all Christianity as phony and shallow, I hope you'll do a little research into its history and varieties, perhaps by reading Paul Johnson's "A History of Christianity". From your remarks, it seems that you have been exposed to certain types of Christian religion and not others. Even an atheist should have enough faith in Man to know that a movement of 2000 years has to have some depth, and be animated by some enduring values. With best wishes,

soc.religion.christian

..... ..... ..... ..... One case of Slovenian paranoia. Once upon a time a tried to walk over the (famous) Marathon field, not far away from Athens. I could not do that mostly becouse the field is now a huge antenna farm. Probably a Greek COMINT installation, would you agree? -- Borut B. Lavrencic, D.Sc. | X.400 :C=si;A=mail;P=ac;O=ijs;S=lavrencic J. Stefan Institute | Internet:Borut.B.Lavrencic@ijs.si University of Ljubljana, | Phone :+ 386 1 159 199 SI-61111 Ljubljana, Slovenia | PGP Public Key available on request

sci.crypt

No. The christians were leary of having an atheist spokesman (seems so clandestine, and all that), so they had him removed. Of course, Keith is busy explaining to his fellow captives how he isn't really being persecuted, since (after all) they *are* feeding him, and any resistance on his part would only be viewed as trouble making. I understand he did make a bit of a fuss when they tatooed "In God We Trust" on his forehead, though. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM They said that Queens could stay, they blew the Bronx away, and sank Manhattan out at sea.

alt.atheism

I know nothing about statistics, but what significance does the relatively small population growth rate have where the sampling period is so small (at the end of 1371)? Is it adequete to suggest a trend or is it just noise?

talk.politics.mideast

Not to your satisfaction. But the arguments have convinced me, and others.

talk.politics.misc