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From: mis@sug.org (Mark Seiden)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: HELP WITH MY LOCKER PLEASE!
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:25:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die

ec49726@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Manny DeSoto) writes:

>(MJ) writes:

>>In article <19JAN199319241274@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>>bwood@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Wood) wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please help me if you can.  I have been using a Master lock on my 
>>> gym locker.  Recently, my key was lost and I need to know the best
>>> way to extract my old lock from my locker.  Specifics please!  I
>>> know nothing about saws (telling one type from another).  Thanks
>>> in advance.  BWWOD@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bill

>>When I was in high school we all used Master Combo locks.  For some reason
>> [other irrelevancies deleted...]

it has a key.  why respond about combination locks?

master locks have been worthless, in my not-so-recent experience
for anything *other* than gym lockers or the like.

the shackle is easily cut with a hacksaw or bolt cutters.

the warded ones can be opened with a cut down key. 

the pin-tumbler ones can be relatively easily picked, once you get over
the looseness of the core within the cylinder.  they're only 4-5 pins.

if the code is still visible on the lock (usually, unless you've bother 
to remove it)  almost any locksmith can make you a key by code which will
reopen the lock.

-- 
mark seiden, mis@seiden.com, 1-(415) 665 8117 (voice)
Organization: Sophomore, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:02:21 -0500 
From: James Arthur Burtoft <jbbe+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Making a pick gun

   I once saw somewhere (I have no idea where), that one could make a
cheap pick gun with a single piece of metal.  (excuse my ASCII artistry)

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    What you basically do is bend the metal down in the back, and bend
it around the bottom, and then up the front.  When you have made a
complete loop, you bend it back around, leaving a good bit of slack when
you bend it.
    The part sticking out the front needs to be in the shape of a
straight pick to stick in the keyway.  Then squeeze the "handle"
together, and leave go.  The metal will hit itself, and if you hold it
right, it should vibrate.  The idea is to bend the metal in such a way
that it will vibrate after you leave go of it.  You will need to use
some kind of springy metal so that you can flex it repeatedly.
    I have never used a pick gun, or tried to make one like this. 
However, my father works in a lumber store, and has had to pick locks
for a few contractors.  He swears by the pick-gun (the one his store has
is not anywhere near what is described above), and he says that it is
great.  He has never picked a lock, but he has been rekeying them for
years.  Judging from this, I would say that pick-guns work well for
anyone with a knowledge of locks, but not the well-honed skills to pick
them.  (which may be why they are so popular with police departments and
the like).

                Cheerio
                              Jim
  
Love is not blind, just stupid--Me
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days,
nor twenty days;  But even a whole month, until it come out at your
nostrils...
                                                                        
                   Numbers 11:19-20

Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad Helfenberger)
Subject: Mas-Hamilton electronic locks
Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:39:47 GMT

In today's Lexington newspaper, an article was titled 'Government
approves Lexington firm's locks for classified-data files'.  They
said that an earlier version of the electronic lock could be
picked (????).  

Are these locks safe?

-- 
Chad Helfenberger
(lunatix!chelf@ms.uky.edu)
From: bram@fangorn.hacktic.nl (Bram Smits)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: Man opens parking meters
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 05:05:47 GMT
Organization: Fangorn System 
NewsSoftware: Rnf 0.73b

gerald.belton@ozonehole.com (Gerald Belton)  writes:

>>Here in Sydney Australia a man was recently arrested for opening parking met
>>using homemade copper keys.  He managed to open about 200 meters and is
>>reported to have stolen $4000 in $1 Coins.
>
>Here in New Orleans an amateur locksmith did something similar.  There
>was a unique twist to the story, though.  This guy had a girlfriend.
>She would dress in a long skirt, and they had rigged up a leather pouch
>on a sling between her legs under the skirt.  They would stand beside
>the road, kissing and feeling each other up, with a parking meter
>pressed between their bodies.  But he wasn't really feeling her up, he
>was opening the meter, and dumping the quarters into the bag under her
>skirt.
>
>They supposedly got away with this for a couple of YEARS, stealing about
>$500 worth of quarters PER WEEK.

They should get credit for originality !! 

Cya,

    v__   
  <"___\____     Bram 'mouser' Smits.

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Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: aharris@athena.cs.uga.edu (Austin Harris)
Subject: Where to order these days?
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:34:31 GMT

where's the best place to order a 10 piece pick set these days?  I tried
to re-order the one I bought about a year ago from Gall's and got turned
down due to a "new policy" of only selling to police/fire departments.
Phoenix sells a 10 piece pick set but its 40 bux - if this question is
answered in the FAQ please ignore (could someone email the lastest FAQ)

thanks

Austin Harris
aharris@athena.cs.uga.edu



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From: fred_s@netcom.com (Frederick Scott)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing,ba.news
Subject: Re: Man opens parking meters
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:17:59 GMT
Organization: Nerds On Parade

jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (JOHN) writes: 

>>	I was visiting up in the city and got a ticket for not curbing my
>>wheels on a sloping surface (about a 3% grade).  Since the ticket 
>>didn't say why I was ticketed, I asked the officer (who was going up the
>>street ticketing about 1 in 4 cars for the same thing) who told me that
>>since the city is losing so much revenue in parking meter fees, they are
>>enforcing obscure and little known sections of the vehicle code.
>>
>Again, I forget the figures, but it is costing THE CITY and related
>businesses, i.e., tow trucks, storage places(?), hundreds of
>thousands of dollars per week because of loss revenues.

Hmmm.  They announced last night on the news (KCBS AM740) that the city had
lost appoximately $2000 stolen from the machines in the recent rash.  Your
"hundreds of thousands of dollars" seems somewhat excessive in light of that.
Although clearly there's more money involved than just what's lost from
the machines.  And I don't count upgrading the meters as part of what's been
lost.  Whatever - I don't think it justifies enforcing meaningless and little-
known statutes just to make up the revenues.  If not curbing your wheels in
a given situation is truly dangerous, they should be enforcing all the time,
otherwise, not at all.

Fred
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: mis@sug.org (Mark Seiden)
Subject: Re: Gumball machine - new thread - help
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:56:36 GMT

cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron) writes:


>gouldh@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
> 
>> I recently aquired an old  gumball machine, but it does not
>> have a key to open it. THe machine has a square container with
>> a flat lid. The lock is in the center of the lid.  THe lock
>> fits around a shaft that extends to the  bottom of the machine. 
>> Does anybody have any suggestions on how to go about picking
>> the lock? I have never picked a lock before ....
> 
> ...
>It sounds like this is the sort of lock that has to be picked
>over and over (and over) in order to unscrew the lock on the lid. 
>Every turn or half-turn, it may relock itself.  It could get
>frustrating.
...
>Good luck with that machine.  As for the actual picking, I'd be
>may help to describe the keyway (the keyhole) so that we'll be
>better able to guess what type of lock is in it.

most of these are chicago double sided wafer locks.  not difficult
to pick, but on a threaded shaft that requires repeated picking once
per turn.  i have heard that (but not seen) a coil spring used 
once the lock is picked to rapidly spin the core through several
revolutions. 
-- 
mark seiden, mis@seiden.com, 1-(415) 665 8117 (voice)
From: bx461@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leo J. Mauler)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Valerian root...a legit. sedative?
Date: 23 Jan 93 10:24:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos), writes:
>At some pharmacies and many health food stores one can buy 
>Valerian root extract.  This product is sold as a anxiolytic,
>sedative and hypnotic.  I have done a small lit. search 
>(although the journals I have yet to actually read, hard to
>get hold of).
>
>The lit. serach tells me that some controlled research is 
>being done on this "herbal" remedy.  Is anyone familiar with
>it?  What info. can you provide?
>
>Steven Zikopoulos
 
One thing I do know is that it is used a lot in the former 
U.S.S.R.  A brief mention of a trial of a Russian "Jeffrey 
Dahlmer", included the fact that when some of the evidence 
about who got killed was read aloud at the trial, "the air 
became thick with the smell of valerian drops."
 
A check with former U.S.S.R sources should probably turn up 
something, as would talking with residents (surely some
people over there have Net access?).
 
-- 
Never do this at home.  Look how easily it killed this sig.
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DISCLAIMER: Everything I say is false, including this sentence.
From: ck@iconix.oz.au (Chris Karadaglis)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: 2 ayahuasca experiencesnew
Date: 19 Jan 93 00:32:15 GMT
Organization: Iconix Pty Ltd (World Headquarters)

I'd like to get in touch with Christian and Jeremy, but Christian's
mail address bounced. If you guys read this, can you email me?

Shckwish! (ck@iconix.oz.au)

PS pretty sure I've spoken to Jeremy before, just lost his email address.
Thanks.
From: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Kid on 48 Hours
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:30:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: loki.trickster@digund.uucp (Loki Trickster) 

  >It may be disingenuous to say that "I'm not sure about the drug
   war anymore" buy do they deserve any better?

The War on Drugs is OVER - Drugs won.

Like VietNam, it's time to go home.

Loki the Irksome Trickster
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: amywoman@camelot.bradley.edu (Amy Harris)
Subject: Re: Marijuana/asthma
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:27:01 GMT

In <1993Jan22.183151.3377@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:

>to avoid the nasties of smoke, you can always also eat it (brownies or 
>something).  of course, eating takes quite a bit longer for the THC to get
>into your bloodstream.  

But isn't it the fact that you smoke it and inhale it into your lungs the 
reason why *smoking* marijuana helps asthma?
Doesn't seem like it would have the same effect if you just ate it, even
though the THC would enter your bloodstream.
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: an6948@anon.penet.fi
Subject: No Subject
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: alt.drugs
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:32:47 GMT

David Potosky writes:

>Maybe some wiser person on the net can enlighten us as to the true penalties  
>for lsd.
>As I understand it it is 10 years for a gram or more of LSD (paper weight  
>included) but you can get around this by having it broken up for  
>distribution....this sounds absurd.
>Will someone comment on this and give us the the facts? 

Fed. Drug Laws for LSD? don't know exactly what they are... 

penalties will vary by state; also by whether you are simply in possession, or
poss. with the intent to distribute, distribution (sales), or manmufacture 
(each cariies a bit stiffer penalty). some states may have enacted the weight-based
term, 'MY STATE' has not to my knowledge (but, i'm not an attorney! ;-)
[ editor's note: when i was busted for LSD in the late 60's there was only one
  sentence, maximum of 10 years with or without a fine; i got five years 
  probabtion!!! i had a good lawyer (~$5000) - lawyers are one of the largest 
  beneficiaries of the WoD...]

obviously, if one is caught with more than a few hits, the conclusion would be that
person 'intends to distribute' the lsd (and if you have 'lots' of it, then you are
close to the source of manufacture! once you're busted with a sheet, and since that
will carry a much stiffer penalty, the cops will use the spectre of the harsher
sentence to 'turn you over', ie, get you to (cooperate) 'rat' on a bigger fish!
beware of ANYBODY who has jsut been busted who gets right back into the drug scene!
they're a snitch <most likely> or the adverbial f*cking bonehead...)

now, back to the feds and their intertest in LSD. association with LARGE amounts of
lsd will probably attract the feds anyway because of the political implications.
and they would use the same tactics as the lower police to 'turn people over' to 
their ends. imho: the feds should only be involved when the lsd traffic is 
interstate or international...

sorry this has to be anon... but 'paranoia stikes deep'...

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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Subject: What happened to Bob Cain?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:34:31 GMT


plg3723@zeus.tamu.edu (Hello there) writes:
: Several months ago, I read this newsgroup every day and regularly saw 80-
: 100 new posts a day.  Now, I  only see 20-30 new posts a day and see none
: from Bob Cain, who used to have comments on almost everything discussed here.
: What happened to this man?
: 
: Does anyone remember him?
: 
: plg3723@zeus.tamu.edu
: 

I think Lamont put it best when he said over in the mailing list
that now occupies my non-crypto (watch for an announcement near you)
time:

:: > 
:: > Hehe, *we* know what happened to him, don't we? :)
:: 
:: well, it all started on a dark and stormy night as these kind of things
:: are wont to do.  the cainmiester torqued his brain with a little too
:: much candyflip on this one, however.  as the lightning and thunder
:: crashed around his little los gatos villa, bob burst out of the door.
:: running wildly through the streets ripping his clothes off, bob's mind
:: became one with the chaos ripping through the atmosphere.  everything
:: had come together.
:: 
:: it was synergy...  the week of stale ding dongs and bad tequila...  the
:: strange message written in the stains of one of pat's old smelly pairs of
:: underwear...  the bad acid that bob took one night, remembering only the bit
:: when he was crawling on his hands and knees in the cow pasture, mumbling
:: something about how the doctrine of the schroedinger equation couldn't
:: explain the smell...  it had all come together...
:: 
:: bob's wet, slick, scrawny naked body was last seen heading east.  rumor
:: has it that he made his way to lichtenstein, where he established a small
:: community of Believers In The Holy Pan Am Luggage Check Slip -- a bit of a
:: dodge he had to pull on some of the more gullable natives, after taking
:: a detour through the shadier areas of paris and running out of dough.
:: 
:: the first one of us to reach the higher plane...

Watch for a slick, scrawny naked body in your neighborhood.

Actually, I've been walkin' the talk too much to talk about it.  I will
be back.  There is just too much to tell not to.

Back to Cowboy Junkies while I make the world a safe place to talk.

Peace and Love Y'all,

Bob

-- 
Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

    'The meek shall inherit the earth--the rest of us will move on..'
                                                    Sameer Parekh


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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:16:16 EST
From: <SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.tasteless,alt.conspiracy,rec.pyrotechnics
Subject: Re: The Anarchist Cookbook
 <1993Jan26.181644.1694@netcom.com>

    Don't know if Paladin Press put this out, (even tho I should, since I
used to have a copy) but in either case I wouldn't worry about it, since the
book is outdated trash. The only reason one might want a copy is for humor's
sake but certainly not for practical reasons. I highly DISrecommend it. Just
my $.02.


        Sean LeBlanc
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,soc.rights.human,soc.culture.usa
From: niepornt@beam.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent)
Subject: Re: Medical Marijuana?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 17:33:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan16.014921.1784@cc.gatech.edu> brianm@cc.gatech.edu (Brian N. Miller) writes:
>labiche@crchh561 (Maurice LaBiche):

>> Hopefully this will not be an issue in the near future.  Mr. Clinton's ...
>> One can only hope the tide turns quickly on this.

>Don't count on it.  Though the media never much says this, Clinton turned his
>own brother into the police for coke possession.  Who do ya trust now?

First of all, the media does say it, and secondly, I don't believe this
is accurate.  What I heard happened was that he knew his brother was
using drugs, and he knew the police suspected him, and he let them
arrest him.  Which is different than "turning him in."  He really didn't
have much choice -- if he had interfered and it came out in the papers,
there would have gone his career.

I think Clinton is less likely to be part of the *utterly* ridiculous
anti-drug stuff, like prohibitions against medical marijuana.

But I don't think he's going to be legalizing anytime soon.  First of
all, it certainly isn't a high priority for him, and secondly, he
doesn't want to be "soft on crime."

On the other hand, he *is* good friends with Kurt Schmoke.  Hopefully,
that'll count for something.

At most I could possibly see him shifting money from law enforcement to
drug rehab programs, a minor positive sign.  (Any less money for law
enforcement is a good sign.  Of course, with the Civil Theft, er,
Forfeiture, it might not matter.

Now that the Court has agreed to take a look at civil forfeiture, maybe
something good will happen.  Nahh.  This is the Rehnquist court.  
-- 
David M. Nieporent   | "We don't need anymore [sic] wretched refuse.  It's 
niepornt@phoenix.    |  time to send the Statue of Liberty somewhere else"
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder)
Subject: Re: Crystal Meth____?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:29:03 GMT

jdiorio@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:

>I'm hoping someone can clear up some terminology problems for me.

>My Question:
>	Is "crystal meth" the same as "crystal methadrone" and if 
>so... is it at all related to Methamphetamines?

You must mean skateboarding! You must mean skateboarding!

Yes, that would be methedrine and yes, crystal is generally accepted
to be synonymous with methedrine (aka methamphetamine).  

Note: methamphetamine is one compound and thus should be referred 
to in the singular.  The word "amphetamines" is sometimes used to 
refer to phenylisopropylamines as a class (eg psychedelic amphetamine)
although I recall Shulgin frowns on this practice.

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From: lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Seed Starting Problems
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:21:50 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)


> In article <1993Jan25.063528.16779@fuug.fi>, an2509@anon.penet.fi writes:
> >I've tried to start cannabis seeds several times, using the suggestions
> >offered in alt.drugs (germinate between wet paper towels, keep them warm, etc.).
> >I've gotten about 5 or 6 seeds to the point where the shell of the seed opens
> >and a small white shoot pushes out of the crack.  But the seeds seem to dies
> >upon transplanting to soil.  Is it probably just a bad batch of seeds (all of

Seed germination, be it with cannabis seeds or any kind of seeds, is a
delicate art.

The warm paper towels system works well, but I'd keep them in paper towels
until you have a bit more sprout than just a small white shoot.  I would
wait until the shoot is a little more than 1/4" long.

When you transplant them into potting soil, use commercial potting soil
that has been well dampened before hand.  Mixing a bit of peat moss into
the damp soil might be helpful.

Pot your seeds close to the surface -- I usually lay the seeds on top
of an almost full pot, press the shoots _lightly_ into the soil, and
then just sprinkle some more potting soil on top.  Then water; all the
soil should be kept damp, but not wet, at all times.

Something I've found helps seeds in the trnasition from paper towels
to soil is to cover the pot with plastic wrap and put it in a sunny window.
Poke a few pinholes in the wrap so that air can get in, and check it
daily.  Keep the soil damp -- this is crucial.  Cannabis in particular
*loves* water.  Don't drown it, and if it starts molding leave the
plastic off the pot for a bit, but keep it damp and warm and moist.

Once your shoots start up to where they're pressing against the wrap, you
can leave the wrap off.  But again, keep the soil wet -- even one day dried
out can kill all the shoots.

Hope all this helps; I've only grown pot once, but I'm a chronic
gardener, and much of the same rules apply.


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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla)
Subject: Re: Things to do when tripping
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:48:42 GMT

In article <1ji2iqINN78c@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
>10. Eat anything squishy.

This remains me of a friend of mine, who is a true cheese addict and
loves especially moulded cheeses, the strong blue-greenish ones
(Roquefort ad nauseum). Supposedly taste like a living corpse while
tripping.

A whole fried octopus would probably be a fun bet...

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