HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mbkxb@s-crim1.dl.ac.uk (K.C. Baker)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: VDU - Very Deadly Units?
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:15:21 GMT
Organization: Daresbury Lab., Warrington, U.K.
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In article <930126.151442.8O4.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
>bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk writes:
>> Okay so we're well into Jan 93 already but does anybody know whether there
>> was a new law passed/come into effect on 1/1/93 regarding VDUs; I was 
>> under the impression that all VDUs now had to be fitted with anti-radiating
>> devices.
>
>Wouldn't that make it rather hard to see the screen?
>
>If you're worried about radiation from VDUs, I suggest that you simply buy
>some lucky heather from a Gypsy on Oxford Street and fix it to the front.  Or
>consult your astrologer for advice.
>
>
>Sceptically, mathew
A far simpler anti-radiation modification is the one involving a can of
Dulux and a brush :-)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: sek@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Myshella )
Subject: Re: Young Persons Railcard 
Organization: CPSFS
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:44:25 GMT

As far as I'm aware, you can only buy a railcard at the Travel Centre of a 
railway station...

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From: dingram@dims.demon.co.uk ("Darren P. Ingram")
Subject: Re: Credit cards - Visa vs. MasterCard (aka Access) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Darren Ingram Media Services
Reply-To: dingram@dims.demon.co.uk
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:45:38 +0000

In article <1993Jan25.092946.26450@cs.hw.ac.uk> pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk writes:

!I have experienced having my VISA refused in Germany (West), but Access
!accepted at the same hotel.  I carrry one of each sort of card (both fee
!free) to guard against this possibility.

I use First Direct for Visa, and the operator believes that they will not be
introducing a Mastercard. Can you recommend a fee-free Mastercard for the odd
time my FD-V may be refused?

d
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From: nigel@stonewall.demon.co.uk (Nigel Whitfield)
Subject: Re: UK teletext server
Organization: Jenny Agutter Fan Club
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:34:36 +0000

I reviewed a teletext card in Computer Buyer last year and looked into
the licence requirements - as far as I was able to discover, you don't
need a licence to use such a card.

Nigel.

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From: lsg001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Graham Wilson)
Subject: Re: Credit cards - Visa vs. MasterCard (aka Access)
Organization: Department of Law - Coventry University
Distribution: uk
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:11:52 GMT

In article <C15IEr.Jox@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>In article <6527@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzatsjl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Janusz Lukasiak) writes:
>:One (and possibly only) reason for having both is to be able to use 
>:the 'right' card in a place which accepts only one sort.
>:
>:Has anybody encountered  a retailer who refused, say, a Visa and
>:accepted Access  or vice versa ? I'm talking about some kind of 
>:realistic situations 
>
>I've frequently had Amex refused. They charge retailers too high a
>commission.


** I know of two petrol stations that will not accept access or 
   visa.

   In the last 3 years I have found 3 shops that would only accept
   one card but not the other.


   
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Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: ljp@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Guido)
Subject: Re: US/UK paper size difference, xeroxing
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:43:42 GMT

In article <C19pHp.7Dp@exnet.co.uk> dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.095009.24941@spectrum.xerox.com> hdavies@rx.xerox.com writes:
>>I spend a fair proportion of my working life sorting out problems caused
>>by paper size incompatibilities, and all because the USA won't adopt the
>>ISO paper sizes.
>
>\begin{rant}
>
>Nor metric measures such as the Joule, Watt and kg.  When I was still
>doing a bit of molecular biology it was infuriating that the US text
>books were all in arcane units that needed conversion (and assumed room
>temperature was 25C; try paying reasonable prices for your energy,
>chums B^>).  But we lost out to them on spelling, eg neuron and
>adrenalin instead of neurone and adrenaline.  ...  Except they
>blasted-well spell metre as meter.  It's like pronouncing `Wagner'
>`wag-ner' instead of `varg-ner'.  It's a borrowing---be true to the
>original!
>
>\end{rant}

Used to work as a production control technician and had a request
to determine the amount of lime in a sample of water. Looking up
the Standard Operating Procedure produced a sheet that gave the
result in ft/lb. Very nice. And this was in 1981!

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From: ucacgcj@ucl.ac.uk (Gordon C Joly)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:55:05 GMT
Followup-To: alt.s.i.s
Distribution: uk
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium



>One of the amazing things revealed in Peter Wright's book about MI5
>was how technically ignorant MI5 was/is. They like to leave the
>technical stuff to "back-room boffins", often external consultants.
>They have very little expertise of their own. Witness the nonsense
>that so-called security experts have been feeding the papers
>concerning the possibilities of picking up mobile phone conversations.

You can believe every in peter Wright's book. The first silly error
wqhen he describes where his office is. In fact, he did not work in
the canteen (which is really what is on the sixth floor of 140 Gower
Street)

>I blame the public school system :-)

Now we have the "old girl" network?

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Stella R wears "thick stockings" (Pass Notes, The Guardian).

Gordo

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From: sek@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Elizabeth)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup uk.pubs ??
Keywords: pubs in Britain
Organization: CPSFS
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:22:00 GMT

Sounds a good idea?  A student guide to the best pubs in Britain...



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Xref: sparky uk.misc:3158 alt.conspiracy:14616
From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:39:02 GMT
	<1993Jan22.161524.20250@visionware.co.uk>
	<1993Jan25.103657.6071@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Distribution: uk
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
In-reply-to: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 25 Jan 93 10:36:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.103657.6071@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:

   Jim misses one important point of the NS article (which I only got
   round to over breakfast today) - the encryption appears to be
   bidrectional on any given link.

But I don't read New Scientist and I didn't claim to have read it!!!
You must have confused me with someone else.
				
				  Thus, if both ends of a two-mobile
   conversation have encryption, the conversation never appears on the
   air-waves in clear.

Even so, this in itself is probably not enough to secure the
conversation from interception by GCHQ or NSA. It would be reasonable
to assume that the resources of these organisations are capable of
breaking ANY encryption system available for public use. [If not, what
is the taxpayer's money being spent on?] Hopefully, they expend their
energies on communications which are more important than Charles and
Camilla's pillow talk, but how are we to know?

		Jim
Xref: sparky uk.misc:3241 alt.conspiracy:14736
From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
Date: 28 Jan 93 10:28:02 GMT
Organization: Dept. Of Computing, Imperial College of STM, UoL, UK
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In-reply-to: James Petts's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:57:21 GMT

In article <C1IpJM.97K@demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:

   In article <JIM.93Jan27123206@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk> Jim Reid,
   jim@cs.strath.ac.uk writes:

   >And where can any of us buy encryption devices which use RSA (let
   >alone ones for real-time encoding/decoding of telephone
   >conversations)?

   Don't need to buy it: you can get PGP which is an excellent RSA 
   implementation for free from a whole host of sites. You can even ftp it 
   from the US if you like :-)

Oh dear. PGP _includes_ RSA, as is pointed out in the documents. Also
*in the documents* is the fact that anyone using it in the states
would be infringing the RSA patent. Further, it states that it should
not be distributed inside the states, and that the encryption code was
written in Europe.

Also pointed out, is that not all of the message is encrypted with
RSA, if I remember correctly, because that would take too long.

Now about this real-time business...

James.
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From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:06:19 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <C17yEy.7BJ@exnet.co.uk> dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:

>I call it `hash', but then I call `!' `pling' or `bang' so I may be
>atypical!  B^>

We have a guy here who calls "!" "shriek"

and why not?

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Newsgroups: uk.misc,alt.conspiracy
From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Subject: Re: Camilla-gate
Organization: Fulcrum Communications
Distribution: uk
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:04:54 GMT

In article <JIM.93Jan25163902@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes:
> conversation from interception by GCHQ or NSA. It would be reasonable
> to assume that the resources of these organisations are capable of
> breaking ANY encryption system available for public use. [If not, what

One Time Pads.  All you need is a good source of random bits --- I'm
told that digitising the inter-station noise from an FM tuner and using
the bottom bit of each sample is a good bet.  Since replacing the bottom
bit of each sample in an SPDIF bit-stream is not merely easy, but may
actually IMPROVE the sound (*) you can simply send DAT tapes of
home-recorded music to transmit the keys, and then later the data.

(*) It would be like dithering, if the bits were random.

ian
From: rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Telly Addicts
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:34:21 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Fulcrum Communications

In article <C1F498.IJG@brunel.ac.uk> cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns) writes:
>David Wilkinson (davidw@fulcrum.co.uk) wrote:
>: According to a survey in this week's Radio Times, 15% of those
>: questioned wouldn't give up watching TV in exchange for a million
>: pounds.
>
>If you mean never look at a TV screen that is on (ie no videos, games, etc
>etc), then it becomes a quality of life issue.  I would find it hard to
>live without DTDD, although a million pounds and the soundtrack would be a
              ^^^^

Not knowing what this is, I could rather easily live without it. In
fact I could happily live without acronyms and mnemonics altogether.
Now, if you asked me to give up the net, I think I could be bribed for
about a grand. I'm waiting...
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Newsgroups: uk.misc,rec.arts.tv.uk
From: T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk
Subject: Re: French cars are a rip-off
Reply-To: T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk (TI Morley)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:12:25 GMT

In article <C1GJEt.Jn4@demon.co.uk> pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk (James Petts) writes:
>In article <1k2vb0INNmq@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> Richard Porter, rap@bnr.co.uk
>writes:
>>Well buy a car that uses standard round or rectangular headlamps. I had
>to
>>get a new one for my Mini Marcos and it cost about GBP 24. The unit was
>>made by Valeo.
>
>Buy a car that user replaceable bulbs. A new bulb for my MX-5 cost UKL4.75

My Metro uses replaceable bulbs, but I still had to buy a new headlamp
when the glass at the front broke! :-)

Tim Morley (T.I.Morley@lut.ac.uk)
From: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Telly Addicts
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:24:44 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

David Wilkinson (davidw@fulcrum.co.uk) wrote:
: According to a survey in this week's Radio Times, 15% of those
: questioned wouldn't give up watching TV in exchange for a million
: pounds.

If you mean never look at a TV screen that is on (ie no videos, games, etc
etc), then it becomes a quality of life issue.  I would find it hard to
live without DTDD, although a million pounds and the soundtrack would be a
reasonable compromise.

Roger
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Newsgroups: uk.misc
From: gdg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Tastes in comedy (was Re: Hyphening)
Organization: Fifth Column, Coventry, UK
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:25:04 GMT

In article <zlsiida.802@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.192434.563@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
>
>>No thank you -- both are highly over-rated as far as I'm concerned
>>(especially Monty Python, most of which doesn't rise above schoolboy
>>level).
>
>The thing about Monty Python is, you had to be there.  ie, it was very very 
>funny when it was new, but it ages badly.  like the rise&fall of reg perrin

I don't really agree there. Reg Perrin has aged badly I think because of
the gratuitous use of those thought-association gags with the wife as a
hippo or whatever. Maybe it's just me, but I wasn't even born when Monty
was first shown and I love it. However, there is a great deal of formula
to be found in Monty gags. For example, what I call the Thesaurus formula,
where they reel out about twenty different ways of saying the same thing,
yet it's still funny. eg. the Parrot Sketch and the Cheese Shop Sketch
(hundreds of ways of saying "dead" hundreds of different kinds of cheese).
There was another that I spotted during one episode, but I can't think
of it now. 

It's a shame that the only programme to carry on the same strange traditions
as Monty is A Bit Of Fry & Laurie, which I feel has a similar surreal
feel to it.

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From: rap@bnr.co.uk (Richard Porter)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,rec.arts.tv.uk
Subject: Re: French cars are a rip-off
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:13:04 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Limited
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In article <1k1b0lINN8pd@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> ianking@lon40.nt.com writes:
>Mark Neale (mark@edscom.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>:    it cost SEVENTY QUID for a new headlamp for my Pug 205
>: ... about 45 pounds for a headlight for my Nova.
> ... it has just cost me 90 pounds + vat for a new headlight for my Rover.
>The headlight is made by Lucas.

Well buy a car that uses standard round or rectangular headlamps. I had to
get a new one for my Mini Marcos and it cost about GBP 24. The unit was
made by Valeo.

Richard
From: snail@lsl.co.uk
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup uk.pubs ??
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:49:46 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge

In article <1jmes2INN2va@ceres.kingston.ac.uk>, cs_a271@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Christopher Adams) writes:
> In article <loads of them> write:
>>
>>about uk.pubs / uk.beer
> 
> Why not call it 'uk.alcohol', that way it'd encompass beer, cider, whisky,
> pubs, breweries, shops and cans. Perhaps it could even be made to stretch
> to include lager if people are desperate enough :-)

I'm for it:- uk.alcohol that is.

I make cider - in large volumes, for private use, by myself and certain
friends. I also make wine. I'm about to embark on rice, potato and orange juice
derived alcohol soon. My cider is about 6%+ (by pissedness judgement, best
part is you don't realise like with commercial ciders, until you try to
stand up, just like whisky, but you need to drink a lot more....)
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From: ucacgcj@ucl.ac.uk (Gordon C Joly)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: xxxx
Date: 26 Jan 93 10:51:51 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: HYPNOSIS, Hypnotic Regression.
Summary: THINK!! It ain't illegal yet!!
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> I don't think intelligence could ever be described as a handicap.

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From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: US/UK paper size difference, xeroxing
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:19:26 GMT
Organization: Dept. Of Computing, Imperial College of STM, UoL, UK
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In-reply-to: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 11:26:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.112630.11919@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
   In article <1993Jan18.130049.17946@spectrum.xerox.com> hdavies@rx.xerox.com writes:
      Write your Congressperson, asking them to lobby for the USA to
      adopt International Standard paper sizes. Otherwise, you're SOL.
   This is indeed uk.misc.  How many citizens of the UK _have_ a
   congressman?  I certainly don't...

I thought he was replying to the american post that originally asked
the question. We already use standard paper sizes in the UK (well,
most of the time).

James.
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From: cah@jemima.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup uk.pubs ??
Date: 19 Jan 93 15:42:01 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

>>>>> On 18 Jan 93 14:09:04 GMT, fbowles@gssec.bt.co.uk (Frank K Bowles) said:

Frank> In article <1j6n5hINNa0t@violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, esrne@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr P I Neaves) writes:
Phil> Is anyone interested in creating a pub newsgroup - uk.pubs ?
Phil>  
Phil> Or does it already exist ?

Frank> Yes and/or uk.beer.   alt.beer is too full of Americans searching for
Frank> Guinness

What do you propose is discussed in such a forum? Regurgitating tracts
from The Good Beer Guide 1993 (TGBG93) seems pointless unless
accompanied with additional information, e.g. "get there before 8.30
if you want a seat", "music too loud", "food a bit pricey" etc..

I'm all for the group (uk.beer would be my choice of title) if it
provides useful information not available elsewhere. As happens with
other groups, it does invite questions such as "I'm going to be in
X-town this weekend, can you recommend any good pubs?". Admittedly, it
is not always clear where exactly a pub is without an A-Z which I do
not always buy when visiting a "smallish" town/city.

Anyone like to hammer out a fuller description of its purpose?

Ceri
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From: tjo@its.bt.co.uk (Tim Oldham)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup uk.pubs ??
Organization: BT Group Computing Services, Birmingham, UK
Distribution: uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:32:37 GMT

In article <C175vn.KE7@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> monaghan@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (N.O. Monaghan) writes:
>Would not uk.beer be somewhat narrower in subject matter
>than uk.pubs or even uk.drink? 

uk.drinking: Discussion of aspects of the production, distribution
		and consumption of alcoholic and non-alcoholic fluids.

	Tim.  ``A pint of homebrew wine, please.''
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