HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: geneherz@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: .fli files on a pc
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:02:22 GMT

How do I view .fli files on a pc?

Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: marcel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
Subject: Re: EPS files
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: fb20
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 07:33:26 GMT

talley@mcc.com (Jim Talley) writes:


>> In article <5694@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley) writes:
>> 
>>    [ most of article omitted.]
>> 
>>    Another thing, EPS files can only have one page in them. Are you sure
>>    it is EPS? Look at the top of the file for 
>> 
>>    %!PS-Adobe-n.n EPSF-n.n
>> 
>>    where n are numbers.
>
>
>Is it really true that EPS files should only have one page in them?
>(I'm not challenging you... I really don't know.)  MS Windows 3.1
>allows you to output anything as an EPS file (complete with above
>header) -- i.e., it oftentimes creates a multi-page "EPS" file.

From the new red book, Appendix H, p. 712  :

	"To be considered a conforming EPSF version 3.0 file, a
	 file must follow the rules set forth im this appendix,
	 be a _single_ page document that fully conforms to
	 the DSC version 3.0 or later [...]"

I'm not surprised that Microschrott software doesn't handle it
correctly.

What's the Carnot Project?


Marcel
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: bmeedsen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Biff Meedsen)
Subject: Re: xdl - a .DL viewer for X-windows. [source]
Organization: LSI Logic, San Jose, California
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 19:06:07 GMT

> Help. I have taken off the header and tail of this file and 
> when I try to compile it I get the following:

I had the same problem.  By the way, does anyone know of any good DL sites with, like,
Disney characters and stuff?
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:03:53 -0400 
From: David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Private data nont so private

>If you are so outraged, please publish the NAME of the network so
>that we can lobby and write the appropriate people to get  some
>restrictions on them, just like we can do with the credit
>reporting agencies!

A good idea, except for the fact that I promised my source that I would
not name the network.  Any PI worth their salt has access to this, or any
of several other, networks such as this.

I'm going to have my work history done.  If there is material there which
I think shouldn't be there, I'm going to a lawyer and see if this really
is legally open information.

Are there any lawyers reading this BBoard?  What do you (and, of course,
everyone else) think of handing the company you're being hired by a form
stating that no information about you (other than tax info, or when
needed by law enforcement in case of wrong-doing) can be disclosed without
your written consent?  And before you sign on their dotted line, they have
to sign yours...

Any comments?  Thoughts?  Suggestions?  And are there any people in
personnel offices who could provide some feedback on this idea?

David

Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson)
Subject: Does anyone know a way around this?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Mission Operations and Data Systems
Date: 29 Aug 1992 10:31 EST  

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking into the possibilities of federal employment (yea, suprise based on
my last post, but maybe I can make a difference).  On the SF171, question 44,
it asks:

	"Are you _delinquint_ (emphasis theirs) on any Federal debt?"

It goes on to say that owing back taxes is included.  Section 45 states:

	"Explain the type, length and amount of the delinquincy or default, and
	steps you are taking to correct the errors or repay the debt.  Give
	any identification number associated with the debt and the address of
	the Federal agency involved."

Yes, I do owe the feds bucks, but I don't see how that is any business of the
Office of Personnel Management, or ANYONE in the NASA personnel office, or ANY
boss to whom I may submit the 171.  Short of stating that outright on the form,
does anyone know a way around filling in the details?

I know some of you out there are probably thinking, "Well, hey, if you want to
be a fed, you have to put up with the bullshit", but I don't buy that either. 
What the hell has happened to our personal privacy?  In this instance, I can
just smell the computer cross-checks burning through the transistors.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|      __| Paul J. Olson - VAX Systems Manager & Resident Amiga Addict |
| C=  ///| Voice -     301/286-4246, 301725-5501                       |
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| \XX/   | Disclaimer: Statements in my messages are wholely my own.   |
| AMIGA  | "[the universe originated] as a quantum fluctuation         |
| RULES! |  of absolutely nothing." - Guth & Steinhardt                |    
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Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
Subject: Re: SIMPLE QUESTION
Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:09:30 GMT

In article <Aug.28.09.52.50.1992.2561@romulus.rutgers.edu> vanembur@romulus.rutgers.edu (Bill Van Emburg) writes:
>In article <!8=n72l.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>
>> The IRS in 1990 came up with a regulation that permits IRS agents to
>> listen to cellular telephone conversations without a warrant.
>> -- 
>From what I understand, monitoring of radio signals (including
>cellular telephone conversations) is considered legal.  A friend of
>mine told me that a local detective friend of his uses this method to
>track many criminals that aren't bright enough to avoid using a
>cellular phone for illegal activities.

A few years ago Congress made it a crime for citizens (but probably
not enforcement agencies) to eavesdrop on certain portions of the
radio spectrum.  This covered the frequencies used by cellular phones
and satellite TV channels.  Gee, I wonder why?

Citizens can still use these frequencies; they just have to pay access
charges to the companies that 'own' the frequencies.  (My word, not
Congress's).

Somehow Congress did not bother making it a crime to eavesdrop on
the frequencies used by poor people.  Sorry, cordless phones and FM
baby monitors.  (This law passed around '88, when cellular phones were
still quite expensive).

Your detective friend almost certainly is eavesdroping on users of
cordless phones.  Not only is this possible (listening to a moving
cellular phone is extremely difficult because it changes frequencies
when moving between 'cells'), it's also been admitted in court.

BTW, scanner manufactors had to change their PROMs to skip cellular
phone frequencies, although there is apparently a healthy black market
in unrestricted PROMs.


Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov
From: olga@csiatl.Gwinnett.COM (olga from the volga)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: SCAN and your credit
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:31:04 GMT

vanembur@romulus.rutgers.edu (Bill Van Emburg) writes:

> In article <1992Aug23.210953.15852@colorado.edu> atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L
> 
> > >and license number when your old one expires.  He then informed me
> > >I'd have to contact Marshall's in MA about this problem.  SCAN is
> > not resonsible for the information they receive or the information they
> > give out to stores.
> 
> I would echo and apply a comment that someone else made on this --
> don't believe everything that SCAN tells you!  I can't see how SCAN
> could NOT be responsible for the information they provide to others.
> Granted, you may not be able to sue them, but that doesn't mean that
> they don't have an obligation to correct the error.  After all, even a
> credit reporting bureau is obligated to correct errors (sometime in
> the next century, at least...  ;-).
> 
Excuse my ignorance please, but what exactly is SCAN???

olga@csiatl.gwinnett
YOW!
From: grady@btr.BTR.COM (Grady Ward  grady@btr.com)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Help Needed to Find PGPv2
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:51:23 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

I recently posted fairly long article to sci.crypt
that implements a simple, but functional RSA
public key application in any version of Stephen
Wolfram's Mathematica application.

The article shows how to easily create             
your own public key of arbitrary length and
to use it to encrypt/decrypt the contents of
a disk file.
                      
Unlike "cryptography" applications, Mathematica    
is not export controlled and, given that it is programmed
in a high-level language that is arithmetician-friendly, 
it can understood and be rather more easily screened for
Trojan code than a dedicated, compiled "cryptography" application.

Mathematica is also available on a variety of processor platforms.

Implementing a complete RSA in a few lines of MMA instructions
dramatically shows how close the RSA idea is to its underlying
basic arithmetic convolutions.

If interested in this documented code, please e-mail grady@btr.com.


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

(* Grady Ward Public Key, Mathematica format [338 decimal digit modulus]*)
e=13278340892377147290021581995910566265630745404772050295976\
531169652074968462728692947088224740474086880014187741018\
827679282936360488374332586621372969992125015540674307926\
963403599898215432920593460759568145460543791116449305640\
269575860706334126070662560984930042322363643567821283666\
166102594784564767603179111052467026453547876550953;

n=20601487053579422679033128126836668550296101243048136963408\
859700715907596530150758174233318688216293109628630361192\
968088290065732167528721908401881409490304922316321979613\
722426616580603195157882720031084346896241421285868732184\
267763239722864343244932750154734013576761572454860859591\
356619745333866669144310472787794900107034134707229;
to send me a private message, e-mail me PowerMod[message,e,n]
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr)
Subject: Re: How to bug big corporations
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:04:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.175238.7907@news.iastate.edu> twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>Although it is not very effective, I find it is fun to sign up for
>phone cards, etc. at those campus stands using completely bogus data.
>It really doesn't make a difference, but is makes ATT, Sprint, etc. waste
>their resources when my fictional name, address, and SSN find their way 
>into their database and they try to send their crap to me. Just be sure 
>that one of your SSN fields is all zeros (123-00-4567) and your address
>does not exist in real life (ex: an address in your hometown where a street
>crosses the interstate). 
>

Sorry to rain on this but by filling these cards out with bogus data and
causing them to attempt to send you stuff ends up being paid for by the
subscribers to these long distance companies through the rate increases
that are given to them.

Dave


-- 

Dave Niebuhr      Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973  (516)-282-3093

Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: kilpatds@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Hawke)
Subject: FBI Wiretap bill ...
Summary: How do I get a copy of the actual bill?
Keywords: FBI Privacy Bill Wiretap
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:13:54 GMT

 came into this conversation a bit late, so how do I get a copy of
the actual FBI bill?
please mail me....above address.

thanks in advance

ShadowHawke
?
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.usa
From: murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy)
Subject: Changing a SSN
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Distribution: all
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:07:39 GMT



A friend recently asked me if it's possible to change her social
security number.  Is this possible?  If so, how does one go about it?
If one changes a SSN, how can you make sure your credit history (she's
not running away from hers) follows you?
-- 
-------------------
Daniel A. Murphy        Net:         murphy@well.sf.ca.us
San Francisco, CA       GEnie:       D.MURPHY11
U.S.A.                  MCI Mail:    377-7947
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: SCAN and your credit
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:53:32 GMT

atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L. Atkeson) writes:

[...]
>>I explained to the employee that this was impossible because I 
>>had received this driver's license number in July of 1992 when I
>>went for my renewal.  In Colorado you receive an entire new license
>>and license number when your old one expires.  He then informed me
>>I'd have to contact Marshall's in MA about this problem.  SCAN is
>not resonsible for the information they receive or the information they
>give out to stores.
[...]

I don't know what you can do, but you ought to able to sue SCAN for
libel. Why don't we hear about credit bureaus being sued for libel?

- Carl
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From: sean@sdg.dra.com
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: SCAN and your credit
Date: 23 Aug 92 22:35:30 CDT
Organization: Data Research Associates, St. Louis MO

In article <1992Aug23.215332.27329@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
> atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L. Atkeson) writes:
> 
> [...]
>>>I explained to the employee that this was impossible because I 
>>>had received this driver's license number in July of 1992 when I
>>>went for my renewal.  In Colorado you receive an entire new license
>>>and license number when your old one expires.  He then informed me
>>>I'd have to contact Marshall's in MA about this problem.  SCAN is
>>not resonsible for the information they receive or the information they
>>give out to stores.
> [...]
> 
> I don't know what you can do, but you ought to able to sue SCAN for
> libel. Why don't we hear about credit bureaus being sued for libel?

See the Fair Credit Reporting act.

  Title 15, sec. 1681h (e) Limitation of liability

  Except as provided in sections 1681n and 1681o of this title, no consumer may
  bring any action or proceeding in the nature of defamation, invasion of
  privacy, or negligence with respect to the reporting of information against
  any consumer reporting agency, any user of information, or any person who
  furnishes information to a consumer reporting agency, based on information 
  disclosed pursuant to section 1681g, 1681h, or 1681m of this title, except
  as to false information furnished with malice or willfull intent to injure
  such consumer.

Of course, as always, you should consult with competent legal advisors, or
your state's attorney general office.  Don't believe everything read on the
net, or everything the credit reporting company tells you.
-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Privacy: R.I.P., 1992
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 21:17:43 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

Read "Privacy for Sale" by Jeffrey Rothfeder and kiss your illusion
that you actually have any privacy Goodby.

("Privacy for Sale", $22, S&S, 1992)
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
Given Civil Seizure, from the DEA's point of view, winning the War on
Drugs would be killing the Goose that lays golden eggs.

The Drug War is a government-sponsored, taxpayer-financed,
full-employment program for psycho/socio-paths, wannabees and
gonnabees.

It's not surprising that the Republican Administration has done
nothing to stop the "ethnic cleansing" going on in Yugoslavia. Ethnic,
political and religious cleansing is an implicit plank of the
Republican platform.
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu (Mike McNarney)
Subject: How to bug big corporations
Reply-To: twap8@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:52:38 GMT

Although it is not very effective, I find it is fun to sign up for
phone cards, etc. at those campus stands using completely bogus data.
It really doesn't make a difference, but is makes ATT, Sprint, etc. waste
their resources when my fictional name, address, and SSN find their way 
into their database and they try to send their crap to me. Just be sure 
that one of your SSN fields is all zeros (123-00-4567) and your address
does not exist in real life (ex: an address in your hometown where a street
crosses the interstate). 

And you get free t-shirts too. 

-Mike. 
twap8@isuvax.bitnet
From: vanembur@romulus.rutgers.edu (Bill Van Emburg)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Loan App: How Much Should I Say?
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:29:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Aug24.213200.14317@spectrum.CMC.COM> lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) writes:

> In article <179ae9INNadm@agate.berkeley.edu> rogue@anableps.berkeley.edu (Brett Glass) writes:
> >know about these forms? What personal information must I provide? What
> >can be legally withheld?
> 
> You don't have to tell them anything you don't want to. And they don't
> have to lend you any money. :-) :-) :-)
> 
> >                         How can I prevent it from wending its way to
> >large databases at the major credit bureaus and elsewhere?
> 
> You can't.

..But seriously, folks...

I suppose that, even if you could get away with *not* giving your SSN,
the loan co. would find it out from the credit bureau.  Does anybody
have a good idea of what you might be able to do??

					-BVE
					(er..that's Bill Van Emburg)
					(vanembur@remus.rutgers.edu)
	"You do what you want, and if you didn't, you don't"
Xref: sparky alt.privacy:1761 alt.censorship:7132
From: dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (David O Hunt)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.censorship
Subject: Re: Private data not so private
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:30:29 GMT
Organization: Masters student, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The reason I XXXX'd out the name of the network was that I'd promised
my source I would.

Any competent PI can get access to this, among other, networks.


David
From: vanembur@romulus.rutgers.edu (Bill Van Emburg)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Changing a SSN
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:38:26 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I believe that "with a good reason", as the SSN administration defines
it, you can change SSNs.  I'd suggest talking to them and finding
out....

(..and let me know what you discover, as I am curious about the
possibility of changing mine....

					-BVE
					(er..that's Bill Van Emburg)
					(vanembur@remus.rutgers.edu)
	"You do what you want, and if you didn't, you don't"
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
Subject: Re: databanks...
Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
Distribution: alt
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:23:20 GMT

In article <OBLIVION.92Aug23231520@spica.bu.edu> oblivion@spica.bu.edu (Brian Oblivion) writes:

>Public, Corporate, and property records
>Corporate Information
>Criminal Activity
>[some] Government Records
>Judgements, Lawsuits, and Litigation
>NameTrace on Businesses
Political party affiliation
Participation in elections
Corporate ownership (> 1% of stock)
Corporate directorships
Ownership of U.S. Post Office boxes

>Motor vehicle/driver records.

All but the last (DMV) are freely available public records.  The last
is freely available to several industries.  You will never be able to
eliminate access to this information by whoever wants to see it.

You can, however, restrict compilations of this information to large
corporations and rich people by making it difficult to collect/resell
it.

Because of that, I would level the playing field the other way:  make
this information available to everyone at minimal or no cost.  I would
eliminate _only_ information identifying owner-occupied residences and
owner-operated vehicles.  (... and not provide occupant information
on leased residences/vehicles).

Sure, Citibank can look at this information before deciding whether to
accept my application, _but they could anyway_.  But now, I can look
at who owns _Newsweek_ and _Time_, and who owns the companies that
purchase ads in those magazines, to see if I agree with Noam Chomsky....


Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: phantom@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (James Choi)
Subject: How does one become a licensed P.I.?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:46:41 GMT

Is there a school?  If not, how is it done?

James Choi
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L. Atkeson)
Subject: Re: SCAN and your credit
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:09:53 GMT

atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L. Atkeson) writes:

>	SCAN (Shared  Check Authorization Network)
>is an information (disinformation?) data service 
>which is used by dept stores to determine whether or not a
>customer is trustworthy enough to write a check.  Well, recently 
>this little machine turned me down.  This was quite a surpise to
>me as I've never written a bad check anywhere.  The dept store
>gave me a card with SCAN's telephone number and address.  I 
>immediately called them and found out that my driver's license 
number is attached to a returned a check
>written at a Marshall's store in Colorado Springs in March of 1991.
>I explained to the employee that this was impossible because I 
>had received this driver's license number in July of 1992 when I
>went for my renewal.  In Colorado you receive an entire new license
>and license number when your old one expires.  He then informed me
>I'd have to contact Marshall's in MA about this problem.  SCAN is
not resonsible for the information they receive or the information they
give out to stores.

  Has this ever happened to anyone else wrongly?
>What are my legal rights?  Is this action considered slander or 
>libel by state or federal law?  What can I expect from Marshalls?
>Somehow I think this is going to waste a lot of my personal time 
>and energy and money (phone bills, photocopying, etc) and I never
>should have had to deal with this.  I'm considering billing Marshalls
>for my time what do you think their reaction will be?  I think it's
rediculous that no one is responsible for passing out incorrect info
on a person.  

I'm sorry about the first post, but VI is not my preferred editor and
I'm just not at my best with it.  I had forgotten to reset my env
for my home.  So sorry that the first post didn't make much sense.


>Thanks in advance,

>Lonna