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From: craig@adikia.sccsi.com (Craig Groeschel)
Subject: Re: Caller-ID modem (was Re: repost from comp.dcom.telecom
Organization: Craig's Linux gonkulator
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:08:26 GMT
Distribution: tx

In article <1992Dec31.111713.16965@montagar.com> davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
>[lots deleted]
>	Is there *anyone* out there that has had to deal with some
>unknown guy prank/obscene/harrassing calls, went to the police, and
>they found the guy at home making the calls?

Yes.  Actually, we went to SwB, and they went to the DA; worked great,
but that's not what I want to write about.

>[more deleted]
>	Basically, CLID does not provide me with any real benefit
>for stopping prank calls, or preventing telemarketing people.
>It does allow my name, address, and phone number to be put
>onto more specific mailing/phone lists to be provided to
>other marketing agencies.

We need *67 like they have in Washington, to allow anonymous calls;

(well, anonymous meaning no telephone number--
>CLID only identifies the phone, not the person on the handset,
>and there are thousands of handsets out there.
--anumerous? :-)

Having the anonymous option is crucial--without it, marketing databases
will overflow, as David points out--and it shouldn't take a special
dispensation from the phone company to have it.

I agree that CLID won't stop people from making prank calls or
soliciting via telephone; however, it will make it easy for me
not to answer those calls.
For now, everyone has to talk to my answering machine.

P.S. The Washington ruling posted recently seems to make a lot of sense.
-- 
"Do not play this piece fast.  It is never right to play Ragtime fast." Joplin
Xref: sparky tx.general:900 austin.general:3839
From: captain@tigger.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin)
Newsgroups: tx.general,austin.general
Subject: Re: Caller-ID discussion
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:05:30 GMT
Followup-To: tx.general
Distribution: tx
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Unix Services
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

David G. North, CCP (d_north@ondec.lonestar.org) wrote:
: What I was aiming for was the ability to provide some method of immediate
: identification of the ANI *regardless* of privacy issues.  That way I can
: have the ability to automatically call-screen, and you don't have to cough
: out your real name, number, or address or whatever.  Seems like the best of
: both worlds since it would address all of the CLID issues I've been hearing
: people yell about... it fixes the pervert-scenario, it doesn't give away
: useful information to telemarketers, and it provides inbound call screening
: and/or dial-up security.

You should suggest this idea of SOME (even if scrambled) kind of ID info.
getting passed on.  Suggest to the PUC, congressman, SWBell, or whoever
ought to have thought of it in the first place, not just us peons on usenet.

--
|The opinions expressed above are merely the result of chaotic synapse firings|
|Electrics and electronics work on smoke. If you let the smoke       -   O    |
|out, they stop working.   --   Fight AIDS.  Play safe.                |      |
|captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu  (Brian Murfin)  DoD# 0690  nt650gt     \_^___/   |

Newsgroups: tx.general
From: bro@antigone.cs.rice.edu (Douglas Monk)
Subject: State Income Tax (was Re: Establishing Texas Residency?)
Summary: Look out! Here it comes!
Keywords: tax
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Distribution: tx
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:23:35 GMT

... and don't you just love the way that the politicos threatened us with
a state income tax unless we approved a state lottery, and some people
actually *believed* them - and now they are softening us up to sock us
with one anyway?

... the only way I'll wind up with a lottery ticket is if one is blown
into my hand by the wind. (Since I saw one of the recent tornadoes, I
am willing to accept that *could* happen :-).

Doug Monk (bro@rice.edu)

Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.



-- 
Doug Monk (bro@rice.edu)

Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.
From: kent@stanley.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: DoF Candidate
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:46:52 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Distribution: tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: stanley.nde.swri.edu

In article <3263@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham) writes:
>In article <1ifc6vINNgii@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@stanley.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>
>>we're great guys and all, but you're a pretty strange fellow...
>
>I work hard at it, too.

And you're good at it too. :^)

Good thing I'm normal so's to balance the act.

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (will disavow any knowledge of me)
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
(DoF #)  : A Wandering Mind leaves no trail.
From: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Karts (was Re: AAahhhh, wipe-out!)
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:12:54 GMT
Reply-To: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Distribution: tx
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc., ISD

In article <1icuscINN67b@swrinde.nde.swri.edu] kent@stanley.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
]In article <3239@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham) writes:
]>In article <1ic9a1INN241@swrinde.nde.swri.edu] kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
]>
]>Indianapolis?  You don't mean the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, do you?  I
]>have never heard of karts racing there.  Might you be referring to Indiana-
]
]Nope, Indianapolis Motor Speedway.  This was in the early '70's. Don't know
]how long it lasted. I'm pretty sure I remember a track record of about 202 or
]203 mph around '72 or so. I used to have a newspaper clipping of a guy who
]died at Indy in a cart - lost it doing right at 200 from what I remember.
]Jees Jerry, this was 20 years ago... I don't seem this old...

I still find this hard to believe.  I LIVED there from the mid-forties until
1971, and tried to keep track of happening even after that, but I never knew
of any kart racing at the Speedway.  Are you sure this was a real RACE, not
just a demo or trial of some sort?  Or are you confusing karts with CART cars?

]>one you describe, but using a Suzuki 125 cc twin.  Last I looked he still
]>had a picture of it in his office.
]
]A Reagan HS group (from the auto shop) built a 'drag cart' using one of the
]early Kaw triples.  What was it, a 350 or a 400? Too far back. First time
]they dropped the throttle, (in the Reagan HS parking lot) it shot flame about
]3' out the straight pipes and was GONE as the frame was much lighter than a
]MC frame.  I think the engine was heavier than the rest of the cart.  Only
]was meant to go in a straight line though.

The guy I was talking about who built his from the Suzuki 125 cc twin was at
Churchill H.S. at the time.  Was San Antonio a hotbed of such activity back
in the '70s?

]>What?!  And give up on the MiniCoopers?
]
]Well... I have a budget, and would be doing it just for fun, and would only
]be suspension work an tires - probably run a stock engine.  Subarus are cheap
]and there are some aspects of that vehicle that I would like to play with. I
]think I could come up with something that would surprise a few people... The
]engine/tranny is pretty low to the ground :^)

Hmmm....  I wonder if you could stuff a Subaru engine in a Mini....

Or how about a Subaru SVX engine in a 914?  I know where a 914 is available....

](DoF #)  : Eternal bliss can be obtained anywhere. I just forgot how.

And I forgot that it was even available....

-- 
Jerry Dunham                   DoF #1.5             dunham_jerry@tandem.com
Tandem Computers, Inc.                                dunham@mpd.tandem.com
Austin, TX                                                    (512)244-8598
                 This opinion intentionally left blank.
From: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: opinions on Adams Quadracycle?
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:07:47 GMT
Reply-To: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Distribution: tx
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc., ISD

In article <1inha7INN3ck@swrinde.nde.swri.edu] kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
]In article <C0LMqz.rAB@austin.ibm.com> bade@athena2.austin.ibm.com () writes:
]>
]>	Steve
]>     A good programmer as a function of what he does manages himself,
]>     a good programming manager takes care of the paperwork and stays
]>     out of the way.

Is THAT why my guys keep telling me to go away and shuffle some papers?

]Boy, do you have a screwed up view of reality. I can see why we call you
]'Brakes'. What, you want perfection? :^)
]
]Don't you know that the real purpose and function of any manager is to 'test
]the mettle' of his subordinates by placing as many obstacles in their way in
]an effort to determine who he can count on 'when the arrows start flying' -
]read "when I need someone to save my neck and be the scapegoat when this is
]all over"?

Naah.  The REAL purpose of a manager is to keep shuffling priorities so that
the ICs don't get bored.  And THAT's what I do best!


-- 
Jerry Dunham                   DoF #1.5               dunham@mpd.tandem.com
Tandem Computers, Inc., ISD                         dunham_jerry@tandem.com
Austin, TX              hoosier@rider.cactus.org              (512)244-8598
                 There's no such thing as a free lunch.
From: joe@rider.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Sticky Tires (was: AAahhhh, wipe-out!)
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:13:21 GMT
Reply-To: joe@rider.cactus.org
Distribution: tx
Organization: NOT

kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
]>p.s. kent! my new sticky tires are here!
]Great! When do I get to try them out???

you'll at least get to see what the rear tire looks like :-)

-- 
Joe Senner -- joe@Rider.Cactus.Org           aDoF#?                Austin, TX

    'When I asked Unix to make the witches burn I got:
         mcad.dunham-frodo[ 10 ]%make witches\ burn
         Make:  Don't know how to make witches burn.  Stop.
     Ergo, it must be the wizards.' -- Jerry Dunham
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: opinions on Adams Quadracycle?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:49:59 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Distribution: tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: swrinde.nde.swri.edu

In article <C0LMqz.rAB@austin.ibm.com> bade@athena2.austin.ibm.com () writes:
>
>	Steve
>     A good programmer as a function of what he does manages himself,
>     a good programming manager takes care of the paperwork and stays
>     out of the way.

Boy, do you have a screwed up view of reality. I can see why we call you
'Brakes'. What, you want perfection? :^)

Don't you know that the real purpose and function of any manager is to 'test
the mettle' of his subordinates by placing as many obstacles in their way in
an effort to determine who he can count on 'when the arrows start flying' -
read "when I need someone to save my neck and be the scapegoat when this is
all over"?

Lest you laugh, this is a true and accurate belief of managers I have met in
my career... (no smiley either)

Now let's trash all this sentimental idealism and hit the road! Dive! Dive!
into that mavellous descending right hand banked turn - without using that
brake light :^) You'll get it right! Just push that inside handgrip down
towards the pavement and feel the suspension settle in and then lift off on
exit! Ahhh! Real nice!

BTW, it just occured to me... how do you know anything about my lines? You
never stick around long enough to see them. :^) :^)

------------------------------------------------------------------------
P.S.  Am I posting too much lately?
Is cabin fever setting in?
Do I need to take another vacation?
YES! YES! YES! Somebody get me outta here and onto the road!
How about a ride to Florida???

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (will disavow any knowledge of me)
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
(DoF #)  : That's a Hint, Son. I Say, That's a Hint.
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
From: mpaton@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Michael J Paton)
Subject: Re: AAahhhh, wipe-out!
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:40:24 GMT
Distribution: tx
Reply-To: mpaton@tempest.UUCP (Michael J Paton)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas

In article <1i9l6dINN1r2@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>In article <952@rider.UUCP> joe@rider.cactus.org writes:
>>kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>]Late apexing is a fancy name for simply identifying the true apex of the
>>
>>this sounds like code's advertised method, turn late in the corner, get the 
>>turning over quickly (snap it over), and power out...
>
>Yes, but I cannot understate the need for identifying the true apex. You
>missplace the apex and there's a real good chance of missing the corner with
>this technique. Requires that you look FAR ahead and expend some mental
>energy in figuring out where the sucker is. Most modern roads are well laid
>out which makes this pretty trivial, but those country roads often have dips
>and decreasing radii, etc. which makes life interesting.
>

Reminds me of the times when I used to rally in Scotland on forest tracks.
90+ mph on unknown roads and slimy surfaces. We used to look down on the
racetrack drivers who could only go fast when the knew where the track went,
and had been round it many many times. And of course the apex never moved;
unless it moved in your mind of course.

Back more towards Kent's point, I've noticed a difference in road design
between the UK where I forst drove and rode, and the US. Over here it seems
to me that when a bend in the road is called for it will be laid out with a 
constant radius. In the UK the radius will decrease at a constant rate until
the apex, at which point it will increase at a constant rate until the exit.
I believe this latter method is called the "cubic spline". What it would mean
is that in a perfectly tracking car, the steering wheel would be turned at
a constant rate until the apex, at which point it would be turned at a constant
rate in the opposite direction. For the same vehicle to track a US constant
radius curve would require an instantaneous turn of the wheel to a given point
until then exit when the wheel would be turned instantaneously to the straight
ahead position.

The UK method (which of course wasn't used by the sheep who laid out much of
the roads there) seems to give a much smoother and more progressive loading
of the suspension. The US method caused me a few surprises on my first visit,
as the late 70's american boats had tremendous trouble with the turn-in
transient, but if you survived that, they could all cope amazingly well with
the steady state constant radius curve.

Aside from the fact that a motorcycle generally has more room on the road than
a car, does a bike prefer constant radius or cubic spline curves? Ideas 
anyone?

Michael Paton
mpaton@tempest.sps.mot.com
From: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: AAahhhh, wipe-out!
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:19:46 GMT
Reply-To: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Distribution: tx
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc., ISD

In article <1993Jan4.184024.5128@oakhill.sps.mot.com] mpaton@tempest.UUCP (Michael J Paton) writes:
]In article <1i9l6dINN1r2@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
]>In article <952@rider.UUCP> joe@rider.cactus.org writes:
]>>kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
]>>]Late apexing is a fancy name for simply identifying the true apex of the
]>>
]>>this sounds like code's advertised method, turn late in the corner, get the 
]>>turning over quickly (snap it over), and power out...
]>
]>Yes, but I cannot understate the need for identifying the true apex. You
]>missplace the apex and there's a real good chance of missing the corner with
]>this technique.
]>
]Back more towards Kent's point, I've noticed a difference in road design
]between the UK where I forst drove and rode, and the US. Over here it seems
]to me that when a bend in the road is called for it will be laid out with a 
]constant radius. In the UK the radius will decrease at a constant rate until
]the apex, at which point it will increase at a constant rate until the exit.
]I believe this latter method is called the "cubic spline". What it would mean
]is that in a perfectly tracking car, the steering wheel would be turned at
]a constant rate until the apex, at which point it would be turned at a constant
]rate in the opposite direction. For the same vehicle to track a US constant
]radius curve would require an instantaneous turn of the wheel to a given point
]until then exit when the wheel would be turned instantaneously to the straight
]ahead position.
]
]The UK method (which of course wasn't used by the sheep who laid out much of
]the roads there) seems to give a much smoother and more progressive loading
]of the suspension. The US method caused me a few surprises on my first visit,
]as the late 70's american boats had tremendous trouble with the turn-in
]transient, but if you survived that, they could all cope amazingly well with
]the steady state constant radius curve.

In spite of what you may have thought you learned from your HO railroad you
had as a kid, real railroads lay out their trackage much like what Michael
describes for the roads of the UK.  Some of them lumbering 4-6-6-4s would
not have been much use otherwise.  I have often wondered why roads for non-
tracked vehicles weren't constructed that way.

Aren't you glad you learned that?

-- 
Jerry Dunham                   DoF #1.5             dunham_jerry@tandem.com
Tandem Computers, Inc.                                dunham@mpd.tandem.com
Austin, TX                                                    (512)244-8598
                 This opinion intentionally left blank.
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
From: jfh@rpp386 (John F. Haugh II)
Subject: Re: AAahhhh, wipe-out!
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: Los Tejanos SCUBA Club and Beer Joint, Austin, Tejas
Distribution: tx
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:24:43 GMT

In article <1i7sgrINNqeu@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>Late apexing is a fancy name for simply identifying the true apex of the
>corner and having the vehicle set for accelleration at that very point.

Late apexing is a clever way of saying that Americans don't know how to
find the correct apex of a turn and consequently always early apex.

>                                                             Race carts don't
>have a suspension, or rather have a nearly perfect suspension and can head
>pretty much full throttle straight through a corner. Talk about a RUSH!!!
>(Always did want to Kart race :^( :^( )

Then you should go to Malibu Gran Prix here in Austin.
-- 
John F. Haugh II                  [ PGP 2.1 ] !'s: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151           [ DoF #17 ]        @'s: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org
From: joe@woody.mpd.tandem.com (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: AAahhhh, wipe-out!
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:45:51 GMT
Reply-To: joe@mpd.tandem.com
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Austin, TX.

]]Also go riding with Kent,  great way to improve your choice of line
]]through a curve.  Just remember that his ideal line is not necessarily the
]]best for you :-)....
]Just remember that I'm not always taking the best line. Sometimes I'm
]experimenting with the PC, sometimes I want to make it more challenging
](that's why I ride the PC), and then sometimes I just flat miss it.

don't worry about it kent, he'll never be able to recognize a good line
until he learns to stop braking in the corner, and start setting his 
entry speed...

btw kent, you were wanting a job that paid you to just ride around...
how about a MC cop? maybe you could be a highway patrol and get yourself
assigned to cruise the hill country all day long AND carry a gun! you
could pull over squidly bikers and cite them for 'improper late apexing'...

-- 
Joe Senner                                          joe@rider.cactus.org
Tandem Computers Inc.                               joe@mpd.tandem.com
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: tx.motorcycles
Subject: Re: AAahhhh, wipe-out!
Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:07:48 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Distribution: tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: swrinde.nde.swri.edu

In article <1993Jan4.184024.5128@oakhill.sps.mot.com> mpaton@tempest.UUCP (Michael J Paton) writes:
>
>Back more towards Kent's point, I've noticed a difference in road design
>between the UK where I forst drove and rode, and the US. Over here it seems
>to me that when a bend in the road is called for it will be laid out with a 
>constant radius. In the UK the radius will decrease at a constant rate until
>the apex, at which point it will increase at a constant rate until the exit.

Yes, this is how U.S. Railroad curves are laid out. Apparently takes too much
math for U.S. Highway Engineers. I figure it maybe might have had something
to do with the expense of purchasing land along section boundaries, which are
quite square in Texas and the Midwest in general. :^)

What it does is reduce sideload forces so negotiating the curve is much
smoother. Also keeps a train from pulling itself off the track so are
required for railroads.

However this type of corner would probably result in thousands of deaths in
the U.S. since most U.S. cage drivers pay absolutely no attention to their
driving.  They usually only look at the beginning of the curve and would
probably miss the radius change. When I lived in Virginia there were curves
like this out in the country and they did cause problems.

>Aside from the fact that a motorcycle generally has more room on the road than
>a car, does a bike prefer constant radius or cubic spline curves? Ideas 
>anyone?

If you think about it, this is almost the recommended entry and exit line
through a corner.  On a bike you have more freedom to dictate a line than
with a cage so a road laid out this way usually just makes it a tiny bit
easier to negotiate, but not necessarily much faster (in my experience).
However, when coupled with proper banking, it can give you one heck of a fast
corner :^)

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (will disavow any knowledge of me)
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
(DoF #)  : Prime Movers are Best when they Wear Two Wheels!