Excerpts from netnews.talk.politics.guns: 18-Apr-93 2ND AMENDMENT DEAD -
GOOD ! by jrm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

excerpted from a letter I wrote a while ago:

     Although less apparent to those who have not researched
the facts, personal protection is as legitimate a reason  as
sport for the private citizen to own a gun.  The most recent
research  is  that  of Dr. Gary Kleck of the  Florida  State
University  School of Criminology.1  He found that  handguns
are  more  often  used by victims to defeat  crime  than  by
criminals to commit it (645,000 vs. 580,000 respectively  in
this  study).  These figures are even more encouraging  when
you  consider the number of crimes that never occur  because
of  the  presence  of a gun in the hands  of  a  law-abiding
private  citizen.  In a National Institute of Justice  study
of  ten state prisons across the country they found that 39%
of  the  felons  surveyed had aborted  at  least  one  crime
because  they believed that the intended victim was  armed.,
and  57% agreed that "most criminals are more worried  about
meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the
police."2
     One  of the most heinous of crimes is that against  the
women  of  this country.  It has been my recent  observation
that  more  women  are purchasing handguns  for  defense  in
response  to  the  present danger of these  assaults.   This
should be taken as encouraging news if the events of Orlando
Florida  are any indicator.  In the late 1960's  the  female
populace was plagued with a series of brutal assaults;  just
the  publicity of the record number of women buying guns and
obtaining training resulted in an 88% decrease in  rape  for
that  area,  the  only city of its size in  the  country  to
experience a decrease of crime for that year.  Additionally,
a 1979 US Justice Department study of 32,000 attempted rapes
showed  that overall, when rape is attempted, the completion
rate  is 36%. But when a woman defends herself with  a  gun,
the completion rate drops to 3%.

1 G Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America Aldine
de Gruyter, NY, 1991
2 JD Wright & PH Rossi Armed and Considered Dangerous:  A
Survey of Felons and Their Firearms, Aldine de Gruyter, NY,
1986
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[unlike cats] dogs NEVER scratch you when you wash them. They just
become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong. -Dave Barry


Well it still looks like you've got an attitude problem
Mr. Muttonhead.  You should take the comments with more
sensitivity.  I still despise most people who belittle
drinking and driving since my first girlfriend was killed
by such an asshole back in '85.  Learn to take the verbal
abuse.

If you can't take the flames,
and you can't use your brains,
stay out of the newsgroup.


Actually Alomar is a two-time gold-glover (91-92).


It's hard to beat a car-bomb with a suicidal driver in getting
right up to the target before blowing up.  Even booby-traps and
radio-controlled bombs under cars are pretty efficient killers.
You have a point.

Is this part of your Islamic value-system?

Had Israeli methods been anything like this, then Iraq wouldn've been
nuked long ago, entire Arab towns deported and executions performed by
the tens of thousands.  The fact is, though, that Israeli methods
aren't even 1/10,000th as evil as those which are common and everyday
in Arab states.

"Israeli soil"????  Brad/Ali!  Just wait until the Ayatollah's
thought-police get wind of this.  It's all "Holy Muslim Soil (tm)".
Have you forgotten?  May Allah have mercy on you now.


Hi,

I'm hoping someone out there will be able to help our computer science
project group. We are doing computer science honours, and our project
is to do a 'graphical simulator for a finite state automata'.

Basically, the program must draw a diagram of a FSA from a textual grammar,
showing circles for states, and labeled arc's in-between.

The problem is working out the best way to layout the states, and draw the
arc's in-between so that as few arc's as possible cross each other.

If anyone has any suggestions/algorithms/bug-free ready to compile C code :)
that might help us, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,


Am I glad you write that. I got flamed all along because I begged NOT to
crosspost some nonsense articles.

The problem with crossposting is on the first poster. I am aware that this
posting is a crossposting too, but what else should one do. You never know
where the interested people stay in.

To split up newsgroups brings even more crossposting.

--

Jan Holler, Bern, Switzerland         Good is not good enough, make it better!
holli!holler@augs1.adsp.sub.org      ((Second chance: holler@iamexwi.unibe.ch))


So, will it be possible to have a NuBus or PDS PowerPC upgrade, or will it
require a logic board swap? It would be interesting for Apple to come out with
a NuBus PowerPC that allowed use of the CPU's 680x0, like RocketShare. But I
guess that's getting a bit fantastic!

I was wondering, since MacWeek reported that developers were 'seeded' with
PowerPCs on a NuBus card.

Also, any word on machine arrivals or estimated speed? Last I heard, the
estimates were around 3-4 times the speed of a Quadra in native RISC mode. I
heard an Apple employee mumble something about the arrival of PowerPC machines
at a much earlier date that Q1 94, but I doubt it's true.

Finally, is the PowerPC developer's CD 'mini-course' available? I saw it
advertised in the developer's university calendar, and I'd like to know if it's
at all *interesting*.

Sean


                              ^^^^^^
                        perSOB, I kinda like that

Most people wave or return my wave when I'm on my Harley.
Other Harley riders seldom wave back to me when I'm on my
duck. Squids don't wave, or return waves ever, even to each
other, from what I can tell.

--
Michael Manning
mmanning@icomsim.com (NeXTMail accepted.)


presented

Since her symptoms are only pain she would do weel to seek the
advice of a good, multi-disciplinary pain clinic. It is distressing
to think that people are stll being told they have to "live with the
pain" when many options for pain management (rather than treating
MRI findings) are available. A good pain clinic will accept that
this lady's problem is her pain and set about finding ways of
relieveing that.


Excuse me to every one.
I am an Amiga owner and tired to have the same graphic modes.
So I saw on nn there was a little bridgeboard that made the
Amiga's PC slots communicate with the stanndard Amiga's slot.
The building mother house of this little gadget assure me
that using this thing I can use all the pc boards included
the SVGA cards.
I am interested in computer graphics and I do not know many
things about pc in general.
So, what is the best (ISA slot) card on the market ?
I'd like to reach resolutions like 1280x1024 with 256
colors or 800x600 with 24 bitplanes.

Any suggestion ??

thankyou in advance

Paolo Silvera -- Certified Commodore Amiga developer


Is it possible to buy a serial I/O card with the 16550 UART's built in
(rather than having to buy them separately, and socketing them in)?

My current I/O card uses 8250's (correct number? The braindead ones anyway).
It also controls two floppy drives, and two IDE hard drives.

Ideally, I'd like to get a new multi I/O card, that had 2 serial ports with
16550's and could also control another 2 IDE HD's. It would have to have
configurable addresses for both the serial ports, and the IDE controller, so
it could co-exist with my existing card.

Does such a beast exist? Now the hard part - where can I get one in Australia,
preferably Brisbane?


The FAN is an okay Sports Radio station, but doesn't come close to
the ULTIMATE in Sports Radio, 610 WIP in Philadelphia.  The signal
might not be as powerful, but then again only stations in New York
feel "obligated" to pollute everyone else's airwaves with a bunch of
hoodlum Mets fans complaining 24 hours a day.  WIP took two of your
best sports jockeys too, Jody MacDonald and Steve Fredericks.  610
WIP is rockin with sports talk from 5:30 AM till midnight, check it
out anytime your within a few hours of Philadelphia.  If I'm not
mistaken, WIP has the highest sports talk ratings in the nation?

-Rob


Since the wiretap chip is being distributed internationally,
allowing the U.S. government to spy on foreign governments,
companies and people as as well as to wiretap domestic citizens,
this is a world-wide issue.  Please put DISTRIBUTION: WORLD on the
Distrubution: line.  Thank you.

You don't care that people are being lied to, fooled into believing
the chip gives "privacy" when it fact it allows wiretaps?  You
don't give a shit about anybody's privacy except your own?  (And
not even your own; are you so smart that you know when you're talking to
somebody who has a wiretap chip on their phone instead of a privacy
chip with private keys?)

"Simply?" "Everyone" should have this attitude?   The only people
who can have this attitude are the most hard-core
computer hackers, who never make phone calls away from their
computer, who apparently never call anybody except another computer
hacker, or perhaps another spook (U.S. classified agents refuse to use
their own system, only oblivious civilian dupes get that dubious privilege).
Only spooks and hard-core hackers need privacy, huh?

We *do* need an alternative to NSA-bugged telephones, but
we're talking inexpensive *telephones* here, including hand-sized
cellulars, that need strong crypto, real privacy.  Make-shift
computer hacker rigs that require living by your computer to
talk privately over the phone are just a dumb stunt that doesn't
do anything for anybody's privacy in the real world.

What we need is a true *privacy chip*.  For example, a real-time
voice-encryption RSA, put it into a silicon compiler and spit out ASIC.
Put this chip on the market as a de facto standard for international
business, diplomats, and private communications.  If the U.S. bans
it, we make it somewhere else and import it.  The Japanese, German,
Dutch, Taiwanese, Korean, etc. electronics companies don't want the
NSA spying on them.  U.S. workers lose more jobs to government fascist
stupidity.


Well, I looked at the scoring plan I had, and have decided to modify it.
Here is the new, finalized scoring:

Pick 1st round winner, way off on games:	2
"     "    "     "     pick within one game:	3
"     "    "     "     pick exact games:	4

Pick 2nd round winner, way off on games:	4
"     "    "     "     pick within one game:	5
"     "    "     "     pick exact games:	7

Pick conference champ, way off on games:	7
"	"	"      pick within one game:	10
"	"	"      pick exact games:	13

Pick Stanley Cup winner, way off on games:	13
"	"    "	   "	pick within one game:	17
"	"    "	   "	pick exact games:	20
Pick loser in 7, series goes 7:			2
Pick loser in 7, game 7 decided in OT:		4

These are now final.  Anyone needing a copy of the entry sheet, email me
at the address below.

--
    Keith Keller				LET'S GO RANGERS!!!!!
						LET'S GO QUAKERS!!!!!
	kkeller@mail.sas.upenn.edu		IVY LEAGUE CHAMPS!!!!


Experimental Lyme Disease in Dogs Produces Arthritis and Persistant Infection,
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, March 1993, 167:651-664


Fine... THE ILLIAD IS THE WORD OF GOD(tm)  (disputed or not, it is)

Dispute that.  It won't matter.  Prove me wrong.

Brian West


THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary

_____________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                   April 5, 1993

                            PRESS BRIEFING
                       BY GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS

                          The Briefing Room

 10:10 A.M. EDT

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  As you know, the President is soon
to be on his way, on Amtrack to Camden Yards.  He'll be throwing out
the first pitch.

	     Q	  It's MARC, the Maryland Area Transit, it's not
Amtrack.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Oh, it's not Amtrack?  Well, he's
going from Union Station, you're right.  Excuse me.

	     Q	  George, what exactly are you prepared to do to
break the logjam with  ??? Senate?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, as you know, there are
discussions between Senator Mitchell and Senator Dole this morning,
and I think that the President is going to continue to make the point
that he believes that our investment package, our jobs package needs
to be passed as quickly as possible.  We need this investment for
summer jobs, for immunization, for highway construction, for the
important programs that will put people back to work right away this
summer.  And the President continues to believe his program should be
passed.

	     Q	  Will he compromise, that's the question?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, as you know, the discussions
are going on this morning in the Senate betwen Senator Mitchell and
Senator Dole, let's see what they come up with.  But the President
believes his jobs program should go forward.

	     Q	  George, would the President be willing to accept $8
billion for one year, which apparently appears to be the compromise
being offered by --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, I don't know what is being
offered by either side.  The Senate discussions are going on right
now, let's see what happens today.

	     Q	  Would he go that far -- no matter what the
Republicans have offered so far, would he go that far, $8 billion per
year?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  The President believes that his
program should be passed at this time.  Clearly, we're going to be
willing to listen to what the Senators might or might not be able to
come up with, but I'm not going to get into figures right now.  Let's
see what happens.

	     Q	  It's reasonable to assume, isn't it, from what has
happened so far that a compromise is going to be necessary in order
to get a vote?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, the Republicans seem more
intrested in stopping progress on the President's jobs bill, than in
doing something to create --  MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, the
Republicans seem more interested in stopping progress on the
President's jobs bill than in doing something to create real action,
real jobs this summer for the American people.  I think there's no
question about that.  There's been some frustration of legislative
activity over the last few days.

	     Q	  So, you'll need to compromise to get your package
through?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  We'll see what happens with the
conversations between Senator Mitchell and Senator Dole this morning.

	     Q	     prepared to compromise --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  The President's prepared to listen
to what Senator Mitchell has to say this morning after his meeting
with Senator Dole.

	     Q	  Does he feel that he has been defeated in his --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Not in the least.  In fact, he's
been very successful so far in the beginning of his term.

	     Q	  How?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  He passed his budget in record
time, in six weeks, and it's a budget which reduces the deficit by
$500 billion over five years.  And it's a budget which provides for
important investments in our future.  Right now we've also had strong
passage of his jobs program through the House.  Simply because a
minority of Republicans in the Senate choose to perpetuate gridlock
and hold up action on the President's jobs program is not a sign that
he is not succeeding overall.

	     Q	  He can't beat this, can he?

	     Q	  The fact is they can do that?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, the Republicans can stop
action.  There's no question about that.

	     Q	  What are you going to do about it?

	     Q	  George, what do you know about these alleged notes
taken by Boris Yeltsin during one of the meetings in which it appears
that the President told Boris Yeltsin not to trust the Japanese; that
when they say yes they mean no?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think that's a complete
misreading of what happened at the meeting.  The context of the
conversation was that President Clinton was actually reassuring
President Yeltsin at the time about his conversations with Prime
Minister Miyazawa over the Kuril Islands and the Prime Minister's
belief that Japan would play a constructive role in the G-7 process.
I mean this was a casual comment about Japanese courtesy and
etiquette but overall it was in the context of a conversation where
he was reassuring President Yeltsin that he believed the Japanese
were serious about their commitment to the G-7 process.

	     Q	   Are you saying that the President said that when
the Japanese say yes they mean no?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  That's not -- I don't know the
exact words and there was a much longer discussion about he did say
something along the lines that he believes that on this issue Prime
Minister Miyazawa intends to really go forward with the G-7 process.

	     Q	  Have there been any attempts to explain this to the
Japanese because apparently the Japanese press has picked this up and
there appears to be --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I've seen the reports in the
Japanese press and it actually does put the situation in context.  It
does talk about the Japanese -- understanding the Japanese points of
view.  I don't think it's going to be a problem.  I believe that
there may have been some diplomatic context just to clear things up
but I'm not positive.

	     Q	  George, was the specific comment that was made
specific to the Kuril Island situation or was it a general
observation on Japanese etiquette?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  The discussion was about --

	     Q	  The specific comment is what I'm asking about that
has alleged to have been translated from the Russian notes, "when the
Japanese say yes they mean no."

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, it was a combination.  I mean
I don't think that's the whole sentence.  I think that the specific
comment was a broad, general observation followed up by a specific
finish to the sentence where he said in this case he believes that
Prime Minister Miyazawa means to keep the commitment.

	     Q	  Was he saying it facetiously first?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think it was just a casual
observation.

	     Q	  And then you say diplomatic contacts were made to
clear it up.  Has the President sent a message?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  No, I don't think the President
spoke; I believe that Secretary Christopher has made some calls but
I'm not sure exactly how many.

	     Q	  Well, this obviously is a bigger deal than you're
making it out to be if Christopher has had to make some calls.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  No, no.  It was just that we got
the reports in Vancouver and the Secretary wanted to make sure that
it was understood and make sure there was absolutely no
	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  -- reports in Vancouver, and the
Secretary wanted to make sure that it was understood, and make sure
there is absolutely no misunderstanding, and I don't believe there is
on.

	     Q	  What is our position about the Japanese?  That they
may have to say one thing, but actualy mean another?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  No.  The position on the Japanese
is as the President stated to President Yeltsin throughout the two
days.  He said that he had had a good conversation with Prime
Minister Miazawa prior to the Summit.  He reiterated the U.S.
position, the long-standing support for the Japanese position on the
Kuril Islands, but also reiterated Prime Minister Miazawa's
commitment to move forward on the G-7 process and to play a
constructive role.  And I think President Yeltsin was very glad to
hear that.

	     Q	  After listening to Secretary Christopher on Iraq
for the last few days, I'm a little confused.  What is the U.S.
policy?  Do you want to see Saddam Hussein overturned?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  It's the same policy that Secretary
Christopher has reiterated, and all of the U.S officials have
reiterated.  We expect full and complete and unequivocal compliance
with all U.N. resolutions.  Right now we do not have that compliance.

	     Q	     throwing it out further that if Iraq complies,
Saddam can't stay in office?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Right.  I think that that's -- our
judgment is that it is not possible for Saddam Hussein to comply with
the resolutions and stay in power.  But the important point is that
we expect compliance by Iraq with all U.N. resolutions, and we will
continue to demand it.

	     Q	  And are you concerned the Iran will become the
dominant power in the area --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Secretary Christopher has also
spoken to Iran over the last several days, and he says we also expect
full Iranian compliance with all international norms, and stopping
support of terrorism.

	     Q	  That's a very glib statement that he won't stay in
power if he complies with U.N. resolutions.  On what logic do you
base that?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Right now Saddam Hussein is not
complying with the U.N. resolutions at all.  He is not respecting the
rights of his people, as is required by the U.N. resolution.  He is
not fully complying with all the resolutions regarding inspections.
He is not fully complying with all the resolutions regarding
armaments.

	     Q	  Well, when do you think that if he did comply he
would be out of power?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, right now his power rests on
the repression of his people.  If he stopped doing that it would make
it more difficult for him to stay in power.

	     Q	  George, back on the stimulus package, why is it
that you and the President accuse the Republicans of playing pure
politics and perpetuating gridlock?  Why is it that -- what evidence
do you have that they just don't have a genuine idealogical
difference with you that's in good faith?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, the fact that several times
in the past the Republicans, many of the ones who are now leading the
fight for the filibuster, have supported the very funding they now
seek to stop, most especially, the highway funding.

	     Q	  George, in regards to that, some of the moderate
Republicans said that the White House erred by not being more open to
them during the -- while the plan was put together, that they had
one, sort of, proforma meeting between the White House and the Senate
Republicans, and that was it.  Does the Administration look back and
thinks perhaps it could have done a better job of working with some -
-

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, I'm not sure that it's true
that there was only one meeting.  I mean, the President met with the
Republican leadership on at least two occasions before the
introduction of his package.  He met with the entire Senate
Republican Caucus also for lunch, and went up there.  We are
continually in contact with as many Republicans as we can find who
have an interest in the President's package.  We are interested in
what they have to say, as well.  But we believe that this program is
important, and we're going to continue to fight for it.

	     Q	     your all or nothing, do it with the Democrats
alone strategy, did you maybe miscalculate the ability to get it
through?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, I mean, I think that there is
no question that under the Senate rules a determined minority can
frustrate activity.  I mean, there is just no question about that.
You only need 40 plus one to keep going.  40 plus one to keep going
and to stop any action, and that's what the Republicans are doing.

	     Q	     going to rethink the way you attempt to get
other things passed as you go through this process for the rest of
the summer?

	     Q	     work with Republicans and try to woo some
Republicans into your camp?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think we're going to continue to
look for the support of Republicans whenever we can get it on the
President's intiatives?

	     Q	  But on this one -- how are you going to do it
differently than you did it on this one because on this one you
really did stiff the Republicans from the beginning and made it clear
that it was a Democratic majority that would get this through and
could get it through and you really didn't need Republican votes?
Are you going to take a different tack when you have to go for
particular votes?  When you have to go through --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I can't see into the future and
understand every possible turn in the legislative road.  Clearly the
President's going to continue to reach out when he can.

	     Q	  You don't have any regrets then about the way you
have handled it up to now and you don't plan any changes in your
approach in dealing with the Republicans in Congress based on this
experience?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Obviously the President would like
his package passed as quickly as possible and he's going to continue
to press for that.  We will continue to reach out to Republicans,
there's not question about that.  And we'll continue to reason with
them and try and find appropriate avenues for cooperation.  In this
case the Republicans have chosen to unify around a filibuster, around
a plan to frustrate action not a plan to move forward.

	     Q	  They're being denied any other legislative means of
putting their proposals forward.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think they're being --

	     Q	     any ideas.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think their amendments are being
defeated; I don't know that they're being denied.

	     Q	     to present them.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  That's not exactly true.  I mean
they get the votes --

	     Q	     that theirs can be passed though by the
parliamentary rules under which they're playing.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Unless they get a majority in
support all the way around, no, that's not exactly true.

	     Q	  George, one more on Iraq.  Is the administration
backing any of the Iraqi opposition?  Grooming any new leadership?

	     Q	     backing any of the Iraqi -- leadership?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Oh, I -- again, we're pressing for
Iraqi compliance.  I don't know if we can get into the business of
grooming leadership.  I believe there have been some contacts, at
some levels, with Iraqi opposition groups.  I don't know  about
anything recently.

	     Q	     Jesse Jackson, who, of course, is not the
President's best friend, has, however, been told that there is to be
some kind of town meeting, or some kind of involvement by the
President, pre-empted the ball game -- Los Angeles.  Will he consider
something like that, or any other kind of intervention there?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, as you know, the President
appointed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, about 10 days ago, to be a
special envoy to California, and coordiante cabinet activities around
the California economic situation, including the situation in Los
Angeles.

	     I believe there will also be visits out to Los Angeles
by the Education -- or have been visits by the Education Secretary,
Mr. Riley.  I believe that Transportation Secretary Pena and HUD
Secretary Cisneros are also going out.  And there may be other visits
by Cabinet officials over the next several days and weeks.  I
wouldn't rule out the possibility of a visit by President Clinton to
California.  Obviously, he is following the situation closely, and is
concerned about making sure that we make the right long term policy
decisions that will help create the kind of economic opportunities
which help prevent disturbances.  But we're going to continue to
watch it.

	     Q	  George, as a follow-up, Reverend Jackson is also
supposed to be outside the ball park today, in Baltimore, with a
group of supporters protesting the lack of minorities in baseball
management.  Does the President have a position on that?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  The President has received
correspondence from Reverend Jackson.  I know that Reverend Jackson
has also spoken with the White House Chief of Staff, Mack McLarty.
He clearly raises serious questions.  There has been some progress in
baseball over the last several years, but still not enough.  But the
President intends to continue to go to the ball game.

	     Q	  Is he going to say anything about it today, or see
Reverend Jackson while he's out there?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I don't know if he is going to see
them, but as I said, the President believes that Reverend Jackson has
raised some serious questions, and it's something that, as I said,
even though there has been progress, it's clearly not enough.

	     Q	  Did Reverend Jackson ask him not to go to the ball
game?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I'm not sure about that.  I believe
the characterization the Reverend Jackson is talking about is an
informational pickett.  I don't know that he asked him not to go to
the ball game, but he sent a long, detailed, formal letter outlining
his concerns with the situation in major league baseball and the
President read it.

	     Q	  George, the Orioles are playing the Rangers, the
managing partner of the Rangers is George W. Bush.  Is he going to be
there, and is he going to meet with the President?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I don't know.

	     Q	  What is the Mubarak schedule?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I know that President Mubarak is
coming tomorrow morning for a working meeting, they will have a
lunch, and I believe that he is having dinner tonight with Vice
President Gore.

	     Q	  And joint statements tomorrow --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I believe so, yes.  At the end,
yes.

	     Q	  Is there evidence, George, that the Egyptians did
warn the U.S. about a potential terrorist bombing -- terrorist
activities?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  As reported in The New York Times,
I mean, I think that President Mubarak did say that there has been
general conversations with the Egyptians, as there have been for a
long period of time.  We do have general intelligence sharing, I
mean.  But President Mubarak was very careful to point out that there
was no specific information on this visit that was passed forward.
The President will continue to investigate the situation, but he also
reiterates his belief that we cannot tolerate terrorism of any kind.

	     Q	  George, he did make specific -- or the Egyptians,
apparently, did issue specific warnings about this individual who,
forgive me --this individual who, forgive me the name escapes me at
the moment, and said the Egyptians were more or less rebuffed in
their attempts to get some kind of action.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Again, I don't know if I would
agree with your characterization of the Mubarak interview.  He did
say that they gave general warnings about the possibility of a
network in the United States and upon which we took appropriate
action.  But there was no specific information on this specific
operation at all.

	     Q	  So, the White House doesn't feel that any of the
law enforcement agencies whether it be the CIA or FBI who would have
received this kind of information was lax or derelict in its duty in
not pursuing some kind of --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  No, not at all.

	     Q	  What's next with Serbia?  It got only a passing
mention in the news conference yesterday --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  You didn't get to ask your
question.

	     Q	  Yes, exactly.  Was there any agreement on concerted
action between the two countries?  And even if there wasn't, what
does the U.S. do next?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think the U.S. is clearly going
to move forward in the U.N. today continuing discussions with our
allies on a sanctions resolution and we'll continue to look for ways
to press the Serbians to come to the negotiating table and sign an
agreement.

	     Q	  George, why do you think sanctions is still an
option?  I mean the Serbians make it clear that at least the
leadership is surviving just fine and they feel like they can wait
you out and even the administration officials we had in the other day
said there's no evidence that they're going to have an effect any
time soon.  The Bosnian Serbs have said no to the peace plan.  When
does no mean no and you have to do something different?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Well, I mean we are doing something
different.  We're moving forward on further sanctions through the
U.N. and those discussions will continue.  We're going to continue to
try and tighten the noose on Serbia, and I think that every
opportunity we have to do that will have an effect over time.

	     Q	  Are we looking again at lifting the arms embargo?
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  The President has said that this is something
that is under consideration.

	     Q	  George, do you have any more on Hugh Rodham's
condition, how he's doing?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  As far as I know nothing's changed.

	     Q	  George, -- week after Mr. Mubarak?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  It's a little unclear.  I think
we'll be able to get you more either tonight or tomorrow morning
after the Mubarak visit.

	     Q	  Is he going somewhere for Easter?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Not that I know of.

	     Q	  What more can you tell us about the additional aid
to Russia that the President plans to ask Congress about?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  He's going to be consulting with
the Congress and with our G-7 partners over the next couple of weeks.
I know that he spoke last evening with Congressman Gephardt and their
delegation before the -- the congressional delegation meets with the
Russians this week and those consultations will continue over the
next several weeks.

	     Q	  Do you expect that package to be of the magnitude
of the one announced Sunday?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I'm not going to discuss the
magnitude.

	     Q	  How about the list of Cold War restrictions, where
do you stand on that --

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  As the President said yesterday,
he's going to be looking for that list from the Congress this week
and reviewing it.  He believes -- he's going to try and get it this
week and he's going to review the list, and we're going to take a
hard look at it.

	     Q	  But they're making it up?  I mean it's no White
House involvement, Congress is compiling this list?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  I think he's going to talk to the
congressional leaders about compiling the list but I'm certain we'll
be able to get our own researchers working as well.

	     Q	  George, isn't lifting the arms embargo more of a
probability than a possibility?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  It's something that's under
discussion.

	     Q	  Secretary Christopher has said that it's a matter
of time and -- for months before that happens.

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  Again, all I can say is that it's
something that the President is reviewing.  Right now we're working
with our allies in the U.N on a sanctions resolution, and we'll
continue to review other matters.

	     Q	  George, can you tell us anything about the schedule
this week?  Any travel?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  They just asked about that.  I
don't have anything more beyond tomorrow's visit with Mubarak right
now.

	     Q	  Are there consultations, George, with any Jewish
American organizations concerning Jackson-Vanick?

	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  As you know the National Conference
of Soviet Jewry has a list of, I believe,
	     MR. STEPHANOPOULOS:  -- as you know, the National
Conference of Soviet Jewry has a list of, I believe, 200 Refuseniks.
We'll certainly take a look at that and continue appropriate
discussions.

	     Thanks.


Hi:

I am digitizing a NTSC signal and displaying on a PC video monitor.
It is known that the display response of tubes is non-linear and is
sometimes said to follow Gamma-Law. I am not certain if these
non-linearities are "Gamma-corrected" before encoding NTSC signals
or if the TV display is supposed to correct this.

Also, if  256 grey levels, for example, are coded in a C program do
these intensity levels appear with linear brightness on a PC
monitor? In other words does PC monitor display circuitry
correct for "gamma errrors"?

Your response is much appreciated.

Amjad.


Note:     The following was released by the White House today in
          conjunction with the announcement of the Clipper Chip
          encryption technology.

                           FACT SHEET

                  PUBLIC ENCRYPTION MANAGEMENT

The President has approved a directive on "Public Encryption
Management."  The directive provides for the following:

Advanced telecommunications and commercially available encryption
are part of a wave of new computer and communications technology.
Encryption products scramble information to protect the privacy of
communications and data by preventing unauthorized access.
Advanced telecommunications systems use digital technology to
rapidly and precisely handle a high volume of communications.
These advanced telecommunications systems are integral to the
infrastructure needed to ensure economic competitiveness in the
information age.

Despite its benefits, new communications technology can also
frustrate lawful government electronic surveillance.  Sophisticated
encryption can have this effect in the United States.  When
exported abroad, it can be used to thwart foreign intelligence
activities critical to our national interests.  In the past, it has
been possible to preserve a government capability to conduct
electronic surveillance in furtherance of legitimate law
enforcement and national security interests, while at the same time
protecting the privacy and civil liberties of all citizens.  As
encryption technology improves, doing so will require new,
innovative approaches.

In the area of communications encryption, the U. S. Government has
developed a microcircuit that not only provides privacy through
encryption that is substantially more robust than the current
government standard, but also permits escrowing of the keys needed
to unlock the encryption.  The system for the escrowing of keys
will allow the government to gain access to encrypted information
only with appropriate legal authorization.

To assist law enforcement and other government agencies to collect
and decrypt, under legal authority, electronically transmitted
information, I hereby direct the following action to be taken:

INSTALLATION OF GOVERNMENT-DEVELOPED MICROCIRCUITS

The Attorney General of the United States, or her representative,
shall request manufacturers of communications hardware which
incorporates encryption to install the U.S. government-developed
key-escrow microcircuits in their products.  The fact of law
enforcement access to the escrowed keys will not be concealed from
the American public.  All appropriate steps shall be taken to
ensure that any existing or future versions of the key-escrow
microcircuit are made widely available to U.S. communications
hardware manufacturers, consistent with the need to ensure the
security of the key-escrow system.  In making this decision, I do
not intend to prevent the private sector from developing, or the
government from approving, other microcircuits or algorithms that
are equally effective in assuring both privacy and a secure key-
escrow system.

KEY-ESCROW

The Attorney General shall make all arrangements with appropriate
entities to hold the keys for the key-escrow microcircuits
installed in communications equipment.  In each case, the key
holder must agree to strict security procedures to prevent
unauthorized release of the keys.  The keys shall be released only
to government agencies that have established their authority to
acquire the content of those communications that have been
encrypted by devices containing the microcircuits.  The Attorney
General shall review for legal sufficiency the procedures by which
an agency establishes its authority to acquire the content of such
communications.

PROCUREMENT AND USE OF ENCRYPTION DEVICES

The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with other appropriate
U.S. agencies, shall initiate a process to write standards to
facilitate the procurement and use of encryption devices fitted
with key-escrow microcircuits in federal communications systems
that process sensitive but unclassified information.  I expect this
process to proceed on a schedule that will permit promulgation of
a final standard within six months of this directive.


Hi,

My name is rahul and I am doing MS at USU, Logan
My query is:
	I have a HP workstation: HP Series 400 with X running on it.
I have a true color - 24bit color monitor connected to this machine.
Normally I have the capability to display 256 colors from a max of
16.7 million. Since the monitor is True Color I can see 16.7
million at a time.
Que: do we have a facility in X(c-function call) that will enable me
to specify any RGB combination and see it on screen? I am using
XStoreColor to set the pallette of a max of 256 colors.
Que: If not. Is there any way I can display a true color image
on a true color monitor using XLib function calls?

We are generating ray traced images and 256 colors are indeed a
painful limit. besides I need the facility to display the true color images
i will be generating on a true color system WITHOUT color
quantification.
Please, if anyone can help i'd be obliged


Greetings. I've been seeing the word "storage" mentioned
	around oscilliscopes but I'm curious, what does it mean?

	If my life depended on it, I'd say that it's a scope that
	uses long-persistance phosphor to keep the successive
	taces on the screen for some unit of time - "store" them.
	Do I get to live?

	Also, I've been shopping for a decent, used, [old] scope
	since my Tek 514A (portable...NOT!) and my Heathkit O-1000
	are all single trace and I need more... like 2 or 3 and at
	least 50MHz (maybe 100...)

	During my shopping at hamfests etc. I've run into the
	problem of "old scope" terminology. I can imagine what
	a "mainframe" and "plug-in" are but some things like
	the above "storage", "coax input" (Hey, where do I get a
	probe that fits this? I had to fiddle with mine for a week
	before I got anything resembling "a good trace" - they all
	come with BNC connectors!), "unblanking" (huh?), and, oh,
	just like my 514 manuals, MANY changes were made along the
	way to the schematic - scopes, even with IDENTICAL model
	numbers, have different (better?) response/performance than
	others - how can I pick the better one? Does the rule of the
	higher SN the better apply?

	Take care.


Not to mention last year's Weaver affair.

Anyway, here's how I see the Waco affair; I'd be interested in other peoples'
interpretations...

1. Koresh and his people were basically minding their own business.
2. Some weapons violations may have been committed and I wouldn't have
   disapproved of prosecuting him for those violations.  However, I think
   the BATF was criminal for starting negotiations with a military style
   assault and for firing into a house where there were children and other
   noncombatants.
3. I don't see they couldn't just leave a token guard on the place and wait
   the BDs out; I don't approve of the tear gas approach and, if it caused
   the fire to be started, I think the FBI agent responsible should spend
   10-20 years in jail.
4. However, if Koresh's response to the tear gas was to kill everyone there,
   I hold him largely responsible for their deaths.


1) a fitting that allows you to generate household current with
the engine running, and plug ins in the trunk, engine compartment
and cabin.

Feel free to add on...

Regards, Charles
x
--
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person


I like option C of the new space station design..
It needs some work, but it is simple and elegant..

Its about time someone got into simple construction versus overly complex...

Basically just strap some rockets and a nose cone on the habitat and go for
it..

Might be an idea for a Moon/Mars base to..


Why not?  This is rather disappointing...


My girlfriend switched to gas-permeable hard lenses and no longer
needs a one year old soft contact lens cleaning unit.  It's one of
those where you pop in the lens case filled with solution and the
lenses, press the lighted timer button and let it cook.  No stains
(of course -- if you've owned one of these, you understand), maybe
a little dust on the cover.

Best cash offer, or equivalent worth in used CD's or Betamax tapes
(some blanks or a couple of pre-recorded movies/concerts).

gld


Wasn't there a "plain" flavor too?  They looked more like some
kind of extruded industrial product than food -- perfectly
smooth cylinders with perfectly smooth ends.  Kinda scary.

An other post described it as like a "microwaved Tootsie Roll" --
which captures the texture pretty well.  As for taste, they were
like candy, only not very sweet -- does that make sense? I recall
liking them for their texture, not taste. I guess I have well
developed texture buds.

It was obligatory to eat a few while watching "Captain Scarlet".
Does anybody else remember _that_, as long as we're off the
topic of space?

Shag

--


 -----------------------------------------------------------

Animation is most frequently done by copying the the client resident XImages into
server resident Pixmap(s) using XPutImage.  Once this is done, the original XImages
can be deleted and the animation loop can be performed using XCopyArea from the Pixmaps to the windows drawable.

Hope this is helpfull.


You can include postscript epsi files in xfig (encapsulated postscript
info files). You can't actually edit the postscript file, but you're able
to draw over the postscript file.

There a eps to epsi converter: eps2epsi (perl program),

Succes,


mjs>Secondly, it is the adhesion of the
mjs>tyre on the road, the suspension geometry  and the ground clearance of the
mjs> motorcycle which dictate how quickly you can swerve to avoid obstacles, and
mjs>not the knowledge of physics between the rider's ears. Are you seriously
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
mjs>suggesting that countersteering knowledge enables you to corner faster
mjs>or more competentlY than you could manage otherwise??

ed>If he's not, I will.

Hey Ed, you didn't give me the chance!  Sheesh!

The answer is, absolutely!, as Ed so eloquently describes:

ed>Put two riders on identical machines.  It's the
ed>one who knows what he's doing, and why, that will be faster.  It *may*
ed>be possible to improve your technique if you have no idea what it is,
ed>through trial and error, but it is not very effective methodology.
ed>Only by understanding the technique of steering a motorcycle can one
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ed>improve on that technique (I hold that this applies to any human
ed>endeavor).

Herein lies the key to this thread:

Kindly note the difference in the responses.  Ed (and I) are talking
about knowing riding technique, while Mike is arguing knowing the physics
behind it.  It *is* possible to be taught the technique of countersteering
(ie: push the bar on the inside of the turn to go that way) *without*
having to learn all the fizziks about gyroscopes and ice cream cones
and such as seen in the parallel thread.  That stuff is mainly of interest
to techno-motorcycle geeks like the readers of rec.motorcycles  ;^),
but doesn't need to be taught to the average student learning c-steering.
Mike doesn't seem to be able to make the distinction.  I know people
who can carve circles around me who couldn't tell you who Newton was.
On the other hand, I know very intelligent, well-educated people who
think that you steer a motorcycle by either: 1) leaning, 2) steering
a la bicycles, or 3) a combination of 1 and 2.  Knowledge of physics
doesn't get you squat - knowledge of technique does!


I have a nice quote that I like (or as close as I can remember it).

If I say something that you think is crazy, ask me what I mean before you think
its crazy..

So some of my ideas are a bit odd, off the wall and such, but so was Wilbur and
Orville Wright, and quite a few others.. Sorry if I do not have the big degrees
and such, but I think (I might be wrong, to error is human) I have something
that is in many ways just as important, I have imagination, dreams. And without
dreams all the knowledge is worthless..

Sorry my two cents worth. Or is it two rubles worth?

The basic quote idea is from H. Beam Pipers book "Space Vikings". Its a good
book on how civilization can fall, and how it can be raised to new heights.


Archive-name: cryptography-faq/part10
Last-modified: 1993/4/15

FAQ for sci.crypt, part 10: References

This is the tenth of ten parts of the sci.crypt FAQ. The parts are
mostly independent, but you should read the first part before the rest.
We don't have the time to send out missing parts by mail, so don't ask.
Notes such as ``[KAH67]'' refer to the reference list in this part.

The sections of this FAQ are available via anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu
as /pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-faq/part[xx].  The Cryptography
FAQ is posted to the newsgroups sci.crypt, sci.answers, and news.answers
every 21 days.

Contents

* Books on history and classical methods
* Books on modern methods
* Survey articles
* Reference articles
* Journals, conference proceedings
* Other
* Electronic sources
* RFCs (available from [FTPRF])
* Related newsgroups

* Books on history and classical methods

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          & 4, so far).  XXX Years and authors, fix XXX
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          Ltd., 1983
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          Park Press, 1976.
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          Press, ?.

* Books on modern methods

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          Spinger-Verlag, 1988.
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* Survey articles

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  [BET90] T. Beth, Algorithm engineering for public key algorithms.
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          IEEE IEEE proceedings, 63(11), 1545--1554, 1975.
  [HEL79] M. Hellman, The mathematics of public key cryptography.
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  [LEM79] A. Lempel, Cryptology in transition, Computing Surveys,
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  [SIM91] G. Simmons (ed.), Contemporary Cryptology: the Science of
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          Vol. 63 #8, part 2, 1673--1684, October, 1984.
  [SHA49] C. Shannon, Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems. Bell
          System Technical Journal 28(4), 656--715, 1949.
  [SHE88] B. Kaliski, R. Rivest, A. Sherman, Is the Data Encryption
          Standard a Group. Journal of Cryptology, vol. 1, #1,
          1--36, 1988.
  [SHI88] A. Shimizu, S. Miyaguchi, Fast data encipherment algorithm
          FEAL. EUROCRYPT '87, 267--278, 1988.
  [SOR84] A. Sorkin, LUCIFER: a cryptographic algorithm.
          Cryptologia, 8(1), 22--35, 1984.

* Journals, conference proceedings

  CRYPTO
  Eurocrypt
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  Cryptologia: a cryptology journal, quarterly since Jan 1977.
          Cryptologia; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Terre Haute
          Indiana 47803 [general: systems, analysis, history, ...]
  Journal of Cryptology; International Association for Cryptologic
          Research; published by Springer Verlag (quarterly since
          1988).
  The Cryptogram (Journal of the American Cryptogram Association);
          18789 West Hickory Street; Mundelein, IL 60060; [primarily
          puzzle cryptograms of various sorts]
  Cryptosystems Journal, Published by Tony Patti, P.O. Box 188,
          Newtown PA, USA 18940-0188 or tony_s_patti@cup.portal.com.
	  Publisher's comment: Includes complete cryptosystems with
	  source and executable programs on diskettes. Tutorial. The
	  typical cryptosystems supports multi-megabit keys and Galois
	  Field arithmetic. Inexpensive hardware random number
	  generator details.

  Computer and Communication Security Reviews, published by Ross Anderson.
	  Sample issue available from various ftp sites, including
	  black.ox.ac.uk.  Editorial c/o rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk.  Publisher's
	  comment: We review all the conference proceedings in this field,
	  including not just Crypto and Eurocrypt, but regional gatherings
	  like Auscrypt and Chinacrypt. We also abstract over 50 journals,
	  and cover computer security as well as cryptology, so readers can
	  see the research trends in applications as well as theory.

* Other

  Address of note: Aegean Park Press, P.O. Box 2837, Laguna Hills, CA
  92654-0837. Answering machine at 714-586-8811.

  The ``Orange Book'' is DOD 5200.28-STD, published December 1985 as
  part of the ``rainbow book'' series. Write to Department of Defense,
  National Security Agency, ATTN: S332, 9800 Savage Road, Fort Meade, MD
  20755-6000, and ask for the Trusted Computer System Evaluation
  Criteria. Or call 301-766-8729.

  [BAMFD] Bamford, The Puzzle Palace. Penguin Books, ?.
  [GOO83] I. J. Good, Good Thinking: the foundations of probability and
          its applications. University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
  [KNU81] D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, volume 2:
          Seminumerical Algorithms. Addison-Wesley, 1981.
  [KUL68] Soloman Kullbach, Information Theory and Statistics.
          Dover, 1968.
  [YAO88] A. Yao, Computational Information Theory. In Complexity in
          Information Theory, ed. by Abu-Mostafa, 1988.

* How may one obtain copies of FIPS and ANSI standards cited herein?

  Many textbooks on cryptography contain complete reprints of the FIPS
  standards, which are not copyrighted.

  The following standards may be ordered from the
      U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service,
      Springfield, VA 22161.

      FIPS PUB 46-1 "Data Encryption Standard"  (this is DES)
      FIPS PUB 74   "Guidelines for Implementing as Using the NBS DES"
      FIPS PUB 81   "DES Modes of Operation"
      FIPS PUB 113  "Computer Data Authentication" (using DES)

  The following standards may be ordered from the
      American National Standards Institute Sales Office,
      1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018.
      Phone 212.642.4900

      ANSI X3.92-1981  "Data Encryption Algorithm" (identical to FIPS 46-1)
      ANSI X3.106-1983 "DEA Modes of Operation"    (identical to FIPS 113)

  Notes:  Figure 3 in FIPS PUB 46-1 is in error, but figure 3 in X3.92-1981
      is correct.  The text is correct in both publications.

* Electronic sources

  Anonymous ftp:

  [FTPBK] ftp.uu.net:bsd-sources/usr.bin/des/
  [FTPCB] ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume10/cbw/
  [FTPDF] ftp.funet.fi:pub/unix/security/destoo.tar.Z
  [FTPEY] ftp.psy.uq.oz.au:pub/DES/
  [FTPMD] rsa.com:?
  [FTPMR] cl-next3.cl.msu.edu:pub/crypt/newdes.tar.Z
  [FTPOB] ftp.3com.com:Orange-book
  [FTPPF] prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/lpf/
  [FTPPK] ucsd.edu:hamradio/packet/tcpip/crypto/des.tar.Z
  [FTPRF] nic.merit.edu:documents/rfc/
  [FTPSF] beta.xerox.com:pub/hash/
  [FTPSO] chalmers.se:pub/des/des.1.0.tar.Z
  [FTPUF] ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume28/ufc-crypt/
  [FTPWP] garbo.uwasa.fi:pc/util/wppass2.zip

* RFCs (available from [FTPRF])

1424  Kaliski, B.  Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part IV:
      Key Certification and Related Services.  1993 February; 9 p. (Format:
      TXT=17538 bytes)

1423  Balenson, D.  Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
      III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers.  1993 February; 14 p. (Format:
      TXT=33278 bytes)  (Obsoletes RFC 1115)

1422  Kent, S.  Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II:
      Certificate-Based Key Management.  1993 February; 32 p. (Format:
      TXT=86086 bytes)  (Obsoletes RFC 1114)

1421  Linn, J.  Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I:
      Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures.  1993 February; 42 p.
      (Format: TXT=103895 bytes)  (Obsoletes RFC 1113)

* Related newsgroups

  There are other newsgroups which a sci.crypt reader might want also to
  read.  Some have their own FAQ as well.


I posted this a couple of weeks ago, and it doesn't seem to have appeared
on the newsgroup, and I haven't had a reply from the moderator. We were
having intermittent problems with our mail at the time. Please excuse me
if you have seen this before...

Should Christians fight?

Last week Alastair posted some questions about fighting, and whether there
are such things as "justifiable wars". I have started looking into these
things and have jotted down my findings as I go. I haven't answered all
his questions yet, and I know what I have here is on a slightly different
tack, but possibly I'll be able to get into it more deeply later, and post
some more info soon.

Our duty to our neighbour:

Do good to all men (Gal 6:10)
Love our neighbour as ourselves (Matt 22:39)

Act the part of the good Samaritan (Luke 10) toward any who may be in
trouble. We will therefore render every possible assistance to an injured
man, and therefore should not be part of any organisation which causes
people harm (even medical corps of the army etc).

Christians are by faith "citizens of the commonwealth of Israel"
(Ephesians 2:11-12), and also recognise that "God rules in the kingdoms of
men", and therefore we should not be taking part in any of the struggles
of those nations which we are not part of due to our faith.

We are to be "strangers and pilgrims" amongst the nations, so we are just
passing through, and not part of any nation or any national aspirations
(this can also be applied to politics etc, but that's another story). We
are not supposed to "strive" or "resist evil" (even "suffer yourselves to
be defrauded") it is therefore incosistent for us to strive to assist in
preserving a state which Christ will destroy when he returns to set up
God's kingdom.

Our duty to the state.

"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's and unto God
the things which be God's" (Luke 20:25).
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power
but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever resisteth
the power, resisteth the ordinance of God" (Rom 13:1-2).
"Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake; whether
it be to king as supreme... for so is the will of God that with well doing
ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men" (1 Pet 2:13-15)

These scriptures make it clear that submission to the powers that be is a
divine command, but it is equally clear from Acts 5:19-29 that when any
ordinance of man runs counter to God's law, we must refuse submission to
it. The reason for this is that we are God's "bond servants" and His
service is our life's task. An example of the type of thing is in Col
3:22-23 where bondservants were to "work heartily as unto the Lord" - so
also we should work as if our boss was God - i.e. "Pressed down, shaken
together, and running over"... oops - a bit of a side track there...

In the contests between the nations, we are on God's side - a side that is
not fighting in the battle, but is "testifying" to the truth.

When we believe in God and embrace His promises, we become "fellow
citizens with the Saints and of the Household of God", and are no longer
interested in associations of the world. Think of this in relation to
unions etc as well. Paul tells us to "lay aside every weight" that we may
run "the race that is set before us", and if we are wise, we will discard
any association which would retard our progress - "Thou therefore endure
hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth
himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath
chosen him to be a soldier" (2 Tim 2:3-4).

One of these entanglements he warns about is "be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers". One of the obvious applications of this is
marriage with unbelievers, but it also covers things like business
partnerships and any other position where we may form a close association
with any person or persons not believing the truth about God (in this case
the army). The principle comes from Deut 22:10 - remember that as well as
them being different animals of different strengths, one was clean and one
unclean under the law. These ideas are strongly stressed in 2 Cor 6:13-18
- I suggest you read this. The yoking also has another aspect - that of
servitude, and Jesus says "take my yoke upon you", so we are then yoked
with Christ and cannot be yoked with unbelievers. We have already seen
that we are bondservants of Christ, and Paul says "become not ye the
bondservants of men (1 Cor 7:23 RV).

An example from the Old Testament: the question is asked in 2 Chr 19:2
"Shouldest thou help the ungodly...?". The situation here is a good
example of what happens when you are yoked together with unbelievers.
Jehoshaphat was lucky to escape with his life. Here are the facts:
1. He had made an affinity with Ahab, who had "sold himself to work
wickedness before the Lord" (1 Kings 21:25).
2. When asked by Ahab to form a military alliance, he had agreed and said
"I am as thou art, my people as thy people" (1 Kings 22:4) - an unequal
yoking.
3. He sttod firm in refusing the advice of the false prophets and insisted
on hearing the prophet of the Lord (trying to do the right thing), he
found that he was yoked and therefore couldn't break away from the evil
association he had made.

God says to us "Come out from among them and be ye separate, and touch not
the unclean thing, and I will receive you and ye shall be my sons and
daughters" (2 Cor 6:17).

This is more or less what I have found out so far - I'm still looking into
it, as I don't think I've answered all the questions raised by Alastair
yet. Heres a summary and a few things to think about:

The Christian in under command. Obedience to this command is an essential
factor in his relationship with Christ (John 15:10,14).

Total dedication to this course of action is required (Romans 12:1-2).

Disobedience compromises the close relationship between Christ and his
followers (1 Pet 2:7-8).

We are to be separated to God (Rom 6:4). This involves a master-servant
relationship (Rom 6:12,16).

No man can serve two masters (Matt 6:24,13,14).

All that is in the 'Kosmos' is lust and pride - quite opposed to Gos (1
John 2:16). Christs kingdom is not of this world (i.e. not worldly in
nature) - if it was, his servants would fight to deliver him. If Christ is
our master and he was not delivered by his servants because his kingdom
was not of this world, then his servants cannot possibly fight for another
master.

Strangers and pilgrims have no rights, and we cannot swear allegiance to
anyone but God.

The servant of the Lord must not war but be gentle to all (2 Tim 2:24) -
this does not just apply to war, but also to avoiding strife throughout
our lives. There is a war to be waged, not with man's weapons (2 Cor
10:3-4), but with God's armour (Eph6:13-20).

I'll probably post some more when I've had time to look into things a bit
further.


I hope I didn't award custody, Rich.  I purposely used "handle" in order to
avoid doing so - i.e., that happens to be what religions do (of course there are
aberrations like "scientific" creationism).  I used "best" in part to indicate
that science currently has a time of it with why and who, so these domains are
mostly ignored.  I also attempted to be brief, which no doubt confused the
matter.  As an aside, for science I should have written "how and when".  Nobody
seems to argue over what.

Seems to me that the answer would vary from individual to individual.  I'm not
trying to be evasive on this, but from a societal perspective, religion works.
On the other hand, sometimes it is abused and misused, and many suffer, which
you know.  But the net result seems positive, this from the anthropological
perspective on human affairs.  You might call me a neo-Fruedian insofar as I
think the masses can't get along without religion.  Not that generally they are
incapable; they just don't, and for myriad reasons, but the main one seems to
be the promise of immortality.  Very seductive, that immortality.  Therefore
it seems that theologians are better equipped than the others you mention for
dispensing answers to "who and why".  I suggest that this holds regardless of
the "truth" in their answers to who and why simply because people believe.
In the end, spiritual beliefs are just as "real" as scientific facts and
explanation (CAUTION TO SOME: DO NOT TAKE THIS OUT OF CONTEXT).

No.  In fact, I don't think it is closed now, at least for some individuals.
Isn't there a group of theoretical physicists who argue that matter was
created from nothing in a Big Bang singularity?  This approach might
presuppose an absence of who and why, except that it seems it could be argued
that something had to be responsible for nothing?  Maybe that something doesn't
have to be supernatural, maybe just mechanistic.  But that's a tough one for
people today to grasp.  In any case, theory without empirical data is not
explanation, but then your question does not require data.  In other words,
I agree that theorizing (within scientific parameters) is just as scientific
as explaining.  So the answer is, who and why are not closed to scientists, but
I sense that science in these realms is currently very inadequate.  Data will
be necessary for improvement, and that seems a long way off, if ever.  Pretty
convoluted here; I hope I've made sense.

I agree generally.  But I prefer to put it this way - the *questions* of how,
when, who and why were not open to inquiry.  During the Enlightenment,
reason was reponsible for questioning the theological answers to how and when,
and not, for the most part, who and why.  Science was thus born out of the
naturalists' curiosity, eventually carting away the how and when while largely
leaving behind the who and why.  The ignorant, the selfish, the intolerant, and
the arrogant, of course, still claim authority in all four domains.

Much obliged.  Funny how facts tend to muddle things, isn't it?  Well, I am
sure there are plenty of "scientific" creationist "rebuttals" out there
somewhere, even if they have to be created from nothing.

[just for the record, again, AMH = anatomically modern humans]

Best regards :-),


	And this means that the FBI will want to track the customer lists of
	better encryption phones, because "the only reason a person would want
	one is to evade the police."

They don't have to track customer lists - they merely have to digitally
listen to any phone line and eliminate any that don't have the clipper
header/signature.  (No-one has said how it will be modulated - want a bet
it's a non-standard and hence easily recognisable baudrate?)

Devices to scan exchanges and detect modems etc already exist.  I've seen
them advertised in the trade press.

Once you eliminate crippled crypto devices and ordinary data modems, what's
left is crypto worth looking more closely at.  I guess any substitute scheme
will have to be v32bis or v.fast to disguise it, though then they just start
looking at the data too...

Whatever happens though, the effect of this new chip will be to make private
crypto stand out like a sore thumb.


1. There is a similar idea here in ex-USSR about how many militioners it needs
   to place a new electric lamp. The answer is nine: one stays on a table and
   holds the lamp, four hold the table and turn it and yet four run around the
   table in opposite direction not to make the first feel bad (when being
   turned). Pitily, it lacks this kind of dark humour as Nick's msg does.
2. To my mind the signature should be smth like:

                  /       _                     __        /  .
                /_______/_/_______________    /________ /____/
         /___ /      _                  /

                                          Albert


Well, looking at the videos it seems that this fire started in various
places at the same time, which would indicate that this was a planned
action. I'm sure FBI and BATF didn't *deliberately* start a possible
fire, having a sniper kill Korresh would have been a far easier
method. Looking at the careful operation, and use of tear gas
that as I know don't start fires, it is less likely that this
was the case.

Sorry, but my bets are on fanatical people keen to start
Armageddon -- theirs.

Cheers,
Kent


Freedom of speech does not mean that others are compelled to give one
the means to speak publicly.  Some systems have regulations
prohibiting the dissemination of racist and bigoted messages from
accounts they issue.

Apparently, that's not the case with virginia.edu, since you are still
posting.


I was suggesting that the minority of professional and amateur astronomers
have the right to a dark, uncluttered night sky.

Let me give you an example.  When you watch TV, they have commercials to pay
for the programming.  You accept that as part of watching.  If you don't like
it, you can turn it off.  If you want to view the night sky, and there is a
floating billboard out there, you can't turn it off.  It's the same
reasoning that limits billboards in scenic areas.

George.

	It's called a democracy.  The majority rules.  sorry.
If ytou don't like it, I suggest you modify the constitution to include
a constitutional right to Dark Skies.   The theory of government
here is that the majority rules,  except in the nature of fundamental
civil rights.

I say:
	Any reasonably in-depth perusal of American history will show
	you that many WASPs have continued the practices of prejudice,
	discrimination, and violence against others of different
	races, religions, and beliefs, despite the law.

If you really are annoyed,   get some legislation
to create a dark sky zone,  where in all light emissions are protected
in the zone.  Kind of like the national radio quiet zone.  Did you
know about that?  near teh Radio telescope  observatory in West virginia,
they have a 90?????? mile EMCON zone.  Theoretically they can prevent
you from running light AC motors, like air conditioners and Vacuums.
In practice, they use it mostly to  control  large radio users.

I say:
What I'm objecting to here is a floating billboard that, presumably,
would move around in the sky.  I, for one, am against legislating
at all.  I just wish that people had a bit of common courtesy, and
would consider how their greed for money impacts the more ethereal and
aesthetic values that make us human.  This includes the need for wild
and unspoiled things, including the night sky.

George


What did you have to go and bring THAT up for?  Now they're going to
say that Israel is stealing the RAIN, too....


: Experiment: From a Sun openwindows 4.1.3 xterm window log into a
: Solaris 2.x machine using rlogin; now do an "ls" and get the first
: character of each line display in the last column of the display
: with the rest of the line wrapped to the next line of the display.

: Log out and the condition persists.  Check stty all, try reset
: with no effect.

The condition happens  when the TAB is not  set  to 8 spaces,  set and
then check out.


Hi out there!

I'm looking for (mechanic-construction)CAD-software either PD-sources
or Sun 3-binaries (respective the licence.. :-).
Who knows _ANY_ package (and a source/site to get it..) ?

Thx, Fabian


: I'm looking to buy a 17" monitor soon, and it seems that I can't decide what
: monitor I should buy. I have a MAG 17S (this is a .25 dpi version and it using
: a TRINITON tube) and a NANAO 560i in mind.

Good luck finding an MX17S.  When I was looking around back in
December/January, Mag wasn't producing any because they couldn't get
tubes from Sony.  I asked when they expected to restart production as
I was willing to wait a few months to get an MX17S but they said not
any time soon.  I wound up getting a T560i and am extremely happy with
it.

David


 excellent question timothy. i hpoe the answers you get will be satisfactory
as we can not understand the mind of god. but to attempt to answer you
clearly. GOD of the Bible has given us humans relativly little about how he
intends to judge mankind. the first test is those who have beleived that Jesus
Christ is the Son of GOD and that his death and resurrection was sufficent to
serve justice for all the acts we commit that are wrong in the eyes of god,
the bible calls this sin. for those who die before the end of the world/have
already died it is more complicated to explain without lapsing in to cliche.
  God must judge people on the baasis of their works in this world. however
there is no plus and minus system for GOD. he has declared that he can not
tolerate spiritual imperfection, thus he can only based your worthiness to
live with him on the wrong in your life.
  Good people, yes even Christians are going to constantly sin before GOD, The
Christian hoever thanks GOD that Christ has given his life for his sin's
penalty. the proscribed punishment for sin is death, just as the proscribed
punishment for robbery is time in jail. God then cannot ask for anything but
punishement for those sins. He does not want to condem. the Bible says in John
3:17, that God did not send his son in to the word to condem it but that
through him it might be saved." when i realize that i have sinned, and i do
with painful regularity, i must approach GOD and ask him to not hold thew sin
against me, i have that right and privlige only because of Christ. as for Jews
they are promised that they must believe on the Messiah who would come, and
dis come in Jesus of Nazereth. Muslims, i fear have been given a lie from the
fater of lies, Satan. They need Christ as do us all.
  for those who don't have that right, in the view of the bible they stand
olone in their defense. are you going to hell? i can not answer that for you.
i can only say that perhaps it is eaiser to ask and answer how can i not go to
Hell? that step is much more rewarding.

stan toney stoney@oyster.smcm.edu
my opinions are my own, you may borrow them


The Apollo fire was harsh, A Saturn V explosion would have been
hurtful but The Soviets winning would have been crushing. That could have
been *the* technological turning point for the US turning us
from Today's "We can do anything, we're *the* Super Power" to a much more
reserved attitude like the Soviet Program today.

Kennedy was gone by 68\69, the war was still on is the east, I think
the program would have stalled badly and the goal of the moon
by 70 would have been dead with Nasa trying to figure were they went wrong.

I speulate that:
+The Saturn program would have been pushed into
the 70s with cost over runs that would just be too evil.
Nixon still wins.
+The Shuttle was never proposed and Skylab never built.
+By 73 the program stalled yet again under the fuel crisis.
+A string of small launches mark the mid seventies.
+By 76 the goal of a US man on the moon is dead and the US space program
drifts till the present day.


From article <a4Fm3B1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>, by Steve Frampton <frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>:

Yes!  In the usual ftp sites.


From Kay Honda's "Helpful HInts ABout Your Honda" infromation sheet
(given to new owners of Honda vehicles).

"A burning smell may be evident from your new car shortly after taking
delivery."
--I now own a fire extinguisher;>--

"On Prelude S mels at temperatures above 32 degrees push the
accelerator pedal to the floor one time, release slowly, and with your
foot off the accelerator, crank the engine until it starts.  Moe than
5 seconds [!!!!!!! my note] of cranking may be required.  In
temperatures below 32 degrees the accelerator will have to be
depressed 2-3 times."

"Door panels and interior trim can be damaged if they are not buckled
by getting caught when closing doors."

"When shifting accord automatic transmissions from Park Neutral, or
Reverse into Drive the transmission shifts into 3rd gear."

"In case of towing:
	1- Start the engine
	2- Shift into drive from Park, then from Drive to neutral
	3- Turn off engine"
--what if you are getting towed b/c engine won't run?--

"IF ENGINE DOES NOT RUN DO NOT USE THIS PROCEDURE!"
--Phew, I was worried!--

		Insert smilies where appropriate, though this is REAL.

Jonathan


Way back in the early years (~50's) it took 8 wins to garner the Stanley Cup.
Soooooo, a couple of local fish mongers (local to the Joe Louis Arena, that is)
started the tradition of throwing an octopi onto the ice with every win.  After
each victory, one leg would be severed before the octopus found its way to the
ice.  (They are dead by the way.)  It was a brilliant marketing strategy to
shore up the demand for one of their least popular products.

Hope this helps.


# #Slavery makes economic sense (it NEVER makes MORAL sense) when human
# #muscle power is an economically valuable asset. Agricultural slavery might
# #have lasted right up to the first mechanical cotton reaper, but no
# #further; reapers are cheaper than slaves, and don't have to be fed during
# #the winter.
#
# This argument makes a several fundamental errors.  First "agricultural"
# slavery was not limited to production of cotton.  In the American south
# slave labor was used extensively to grow tobacco, sugar, and rice, all
# of which remained labor intensive enterprises well into the 20th century.

And of course, in states like Kentucky and Virginia, not well-suited to
large-scale plantations, slave labor was used to make one of the most
valuable agricultural products of all: more slaves.  In some ways, this
treatment of humans beings as breeding livestock is the most horrifying
aspect of American slavery.

# Second, although mechanization of cotton production could be expected to
# reduce the demands for labor eventually, it was only in the 1940's
# the mechanization of cotton production in the South largely eliminated
# the labor intensive character of the operation, long after the "first
# mechanical cotton reaper" was invented.

This is an interesting question.  Steinbeck's _Grapes of Wrath_
(published in the 1930s), uses agricultural mechanization of cotton
production in Arkansas as the cause of the Joad family being evicted
from the land.  How many years were involved in the mechanization of
cotton farming?  When did this first appear?

# #Ken Mitchell       | The powers not delegated to the United States by the
# Steve Hendricks                        |  DOMAIN:  steveh@thor.ISC-BR.COM


Alsys has produced a paper outlining how to use C++ with TeleUSE.  You can
get a copy from your local sales rep or call us at (619)457-2700.

As mentioned, it is very straight forward using the Dialog language
(similar to Visual Basic).

--


I've been troubleshooting the existence of way too many General Protection
Faults on a 486-33, Eisa-VLB, system.  At this point I think I've narrowed
the problem down to the video drivers for the Volante Warp-10 adapter by
National Design, INc.

Yet somehow I find this hard to believe.  Does anyone else have any
experiences with this board.


Hi, netters!

I've just built X11R5 pl 21 under Solaris 2.1. I've used the multi-screen
patch, as well as the R5.SunOS... patch and everything builds great, except
"Cannot set default font path '[stuff deleted]'" and "Cannot set default font
'fixed'". If I supply the -fp option, it doesn't complain about the font path
but still complains about the font. I have symlinks from /usr/lib/ to the
place where my distribution lives.

Could somebody help me?

	-joel

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Did he ever really convert?  He married a Jewish woman, but I've never
heard him say he converted.  Elliot Maddox, on the other hand...

Yep, Holtzman.  Saul Rogovin won an ERA title in 1949 or so before blowing out
the arm.

I'd be surprised.  btw, they may just be shopping Gallego around to
make room for AS.


You must be _incredibly_ bored.  Have you considered reading the phone book?
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I have a friend who has a MAC (LC or LC II I think), and her family has an
"extra" LaserJet IIIp sitting around. Is there any way to connect these
two and make them work without a postscript cartridge?  She told me that a
random friend of hers had mentioned something about some software package
that could do the translation...
-Rick


Is there aything available for X similar to QuicKeys for the Macintosh --
something that will allow me to store and playback sequences of keystrokes,
menu selections, and mouse actions - directing them towards another
application?

If so, could someone send me information on its availability -- and if not,
how hard do we think it might be to send input to other X applications and,
hopefully, deal with their responses appropriately?  (If an application is
going to take a few seconds to process I probably have to wait  for it to
complete before sending another command.)

thanks,


NHL RESULTS FOR GAMES PLAYED 4/05/93.

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                                  STANDINGS
      PATRICK              ADAMS              NORRIS              SMYTHE
 TM    W  L  T  PT   TM    W  L  T  PT   TM    W  L  T  PT   TM    W  L  T  PT

xPIT  53 21  6 112  yMON  47 27  6 100  yDET  44 28  9  97  yVAN  42 28  9  93
 WAS  40 31  7  87  yBOS  46 26  7  99  yCHI  43 25 11  97  yCAL  40 29 10  90
 NJ   38 35  6  82  yQUE  44 25 10  98  yTOR  42 26 11  95  yLA   37 33  9  83
 NYI  37 34  6  80  yBUF  38 31 10  86   STL  35 34 10  80  yWIN  37 35  7  81
 NYR  34 33 11  79   HAR  24 49  5  53   MIN  34 35 10  78   EDM  26 45  8  60
 PHL  30 37 11  71   OTT   9 66  4  22   TB   22 51  5  49   SJ   10 68  2  22

x - Clinched Division Title
y - Clinched Playoff Berth

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Hartford Whalers   (24-49-5)   1   1   3   -   5
New York Rangers  (34-33-11)   1   2   1   -   4

1st period: HAR, Cunneyworth 5 - (Janssens, Greig) 12:21
	    NYR, Graves 34 - (Turcotte, Zubov) 18:39

2nd period: NYR, Kovalev 19 - (Turcotte, Graves) 2:12
	    HAR, Sanderson 44 - (Cassels) (pp) 4:54
	    NYR, Amonte 30 - (Andersson, Vanbiesbrouck) (pp) 19:13

3rd period: NYR, M.Messier 25 - (Amonte, Andersson) 2:26
	    HAR, Sanderson 45 - (Cassels) (sh) 5:23
	    HAR, Nylanders 6 - (Ladouceur) 8:35
	    HAR, Verbeek 36 - (Zalapski) 17:43

Powerplay Opportunities-Whalers 1 of 4
			Rangers 1 of 4

Shots on Goal-	Whalers   7   8   8  -  23
		Rangers   9  10  12  -  31

Hartford Whalers--Gosselin (4-7-1) (31 shots - 27 saves)
New York Rangers--Vanbiesbrouck (20-18-7) (23 shots - 18 saves)

ATT-17,806

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Hi,

I just got XFree86 running on my pc with Consensys and encountered a few
minor (I hope) probems.

The pc is hooked up to a LAN where I want remote X applications to
connect to my X-server.  I believe the command to permit this is
xhost.  When I'm logged on my pc and type 'xhost + '  ,  I get the error message saying
"You must be on local machine to enable access".
what does this mean ?  ain't I already on the local machine?

Another problem I have is with the mouse movement.  I find that the
mouse cursor moves extremely slow and choppy.
How can I make the mouse cursor move more accurately?

thank in advance.
Any help is much appreciated.

please send replies to christy@alex.qc.ca.


This was the Pathe you are thinking of, although there were other imitators.
It didn't wear the disks any more than conventional acoustic designs, but
it did have a high noise level due to the continual hiss of escaping air.
There are a lot of them still operating, and they are pretty ingenious.


Whatta ass!!!!!


I am trying to get my system to work with a Tandberg 3600 + Future
Domain TMC-1660 + Seagate ST-21M MFM controller.

The system boots up if the Tandberg is disconnected from the system,
and of course no SCSI devices found (I have no other SCSI devices).

The system boots up if the Seagate MFM controller is removed from the
system. The Future Domain card reports finding the Tandberg 3660 on
the SCSI bus. The system then of course stops booting because my MFM
hard disks can't be found.

The system hangs if all three (Tandberg, Future Domain TMC-1660 &
Seagate MFM controller) are in the system.

Looks like there is some conflict between the Seagate and Future
Domain card. But the funny thing is that it only hangs if the Tandberg
is connected.

I have checked that there are no conflict in BIOS addresses, IRQ & I/O
port. Have I missed anything?

I am lost here. Any suggestions are most welcomed. Thanks in advance.

Delman.

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Something about how Koresh had threatened to cause local
problems with all these wepaons he had and was alleged to
have.

Someone else will post more details soon, I'm sure.

Other News:
Sniper injures 9 outside MCA buildling in L.A.  Man arrested--suspect
was disgruntled employee of Universal Studios, which
is a division of M.C.A.

QUESTION:
What will Californians do with all those guns after the Reginald
denny trial?


Hi,

I am looking for a PC card which does european videotext/teletext
descrambling (PAL). Does anyone in the US sell such a card? I once
saw an article about a card with the same functionallity in a
european Elektor magazine, but I wasn't able to track it down.


There are many neutral human rights organizations which always report
on the situation in the O.T.  But, as most people used to see on TV, the
Israelis do not allow them to go deep there in the O.T.  The Israelis
used to arrest and sometimes to kill some of these neutral reporters.
So, this is another kind of terrorism committed by the Jews in Palestine.
They do not allow fair and neutral coverage of the situation in Palestine.


As the Sharks' season came to a close tonight, I will start a series of posts,
trying to revisit the players, the trades, the moves, etc., that went through
for the Sharks for the past season.  If you are uninterested, since I will
have the words SHARKS REVIEW in the subject heading in these postings, you can
kill them.

I will first try to evaluate how the players did.  These ratings, of course,
are subject to my own biases, but I hope that I can try to be as objective as
possible.  I will evalute players who finished the season with the Sharks
and/or did not play for another NHL team this season.

Thus, then, let's go to the goaltenders...

#1	BRIAN HAYWARD		Season:	11th
Acquired:	'91-92 from Minnesota in dispersal draft
Grade:		P (D)

It is sad that his career has to come to this dim an end, a career that
featured sharing three Jennings Trophies (with Patrick Roy, in '87, '88, and
'89).  It would indeed be unfair for me to do anything but give him a passing
grade (and skip the letter grading), but he had simply been awful on ice this
year, save for a bright spot or two, and even if he had been healthy, he would
not be any more than the 3rd-string goalie.

But Hayward was a classy individual, who also figured in on the Sharks' first
ever victory, the 3rd game of the season last year against the Calgary Flames.
As he retires, the fans will remember what a good guy he was.

#30	JEFF HACKETT		Season: 3rd
Acquired:	'91-92, from N. Y. Islanders in expansion draft
Grade:		C

Hackett, after (deservedly) winning the team MVP honors last season, simply
wasted the year.  Other than a few good spots (57 saves against Los Angeles,
almost-shutout against Tampa Bay, etc.), Hackett, finishing with 85.6% save
percentage and a 5.28 GAA, watched his status go from the team's #1 goalie to
bench decoration at the end of the season.  He was expected, early, to carry
the team along; instead, he apparently became frustrated, but the an early
injury that forced him to miss 12 games may have been a contributing factor,
but upon return, he simply wasn't up to the task.  He may not return next
year.

#31	WADE FLAHERTY		Season: 1st (still eligible as rookie)
Acquired:	'91-92, signed as undrafted free agent
Grade:		I (A-)

It is pretty hard to evaluate a goaltender on just one game alone, thus the
incomplete grade, but yet in the one start that he did get (against the Calgary
Flames), Flaherty was nothing but sharp for at least two periods.  He started
the season poorly in Kansas City, but finished strong, prompting the Blades'
owner Ron Parker to comment that he should be a candidate for the IHL MVP
honors.  The upcoming IHL playoffs would be a major challenge for him as he
tries to make it into the NHL; last year, he was a capable backup for Arturs
Irbe in the throughout the season and in the Turner Cup playoffs, picking up
all-star honors along with Irbe; now it's time for him to show that he can
share the job with Irbe next year, because with prospects Dan Ryder, Trevor
Robins, and Scott Cashman coming along, if he doesn't make it next year, he
may not ever.

#32	ARTURS IRBE		Season:	1st
Acquired:	'91-92, from Minnesota in dispersal draft
Grade:		B+

I may yet be overly critical of Irbe in a year that he clearly established that
he's a bona fide NHL goaltender, perhaps a bona fide #1 goaltender.  He has
provided most of the little highlight footage that the Sharks team had, getting
the team's first ever shut-out against the Los Angeles Kings on December 26.
He has been fearless in and out of the net, aggressively playing the puck and
making passes, reminding people of a young Ron Hextall (except, of course, the
goonism).  Yet he still needs to develop more consistency, which is hard to do
with such a bad defense in front of him, but if the Sharks are to challenge for
a playoff spot next season, Irbe's the key, as he demonstrated in being named
as a star of the game 13 times in 32 starts.


And to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that
the "natural" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not
cause the reported aftereffects; it's only that nasty "artificial" MSG -
extracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant
Syndrome.  I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?