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Date:  Sun, 15 Nov 1992  23:26:23 EST
From:  Paul Robinson <FZC@cu.nih.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject:  Fictional Photos (was Mag Stripes on Driv Lic)
Reply-To: TDARCOS@mcimail.com
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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In Computer Privacy Digest 1-100 of Sat, 14 Nov 92 in a message
By Tom Wicklund <wicklund@opus.intellistor.com> written
On Fri, 13 Nov 92 09:34:13 MST spoke
Re: magnetic strips on driver's licenses

>Of course this type of problem also exists even when people are
>supposed to look at pictures.  I knew somebody at IBM who spent a
>full day wearing a badge with a picture of a teddy bear on it.

In Arthur Hailey's "The Evening News" an FBI agent shows how
lax the security staff at most offices are by the agent
showing his ID around.  So he asks one of the newsroom staff
to examine the ID closely and tell him who is on the picture:

"Err, it's Colonel Quadaffi."

The point being that most people don't examine the stuff that
is shown; the work is usually routine and people are sloppy.
While this can work for criminals this can help people who
prefer to (legally) keep their own affairs private.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 00:13:44 GMT
From: "Kip J. Guinn" <kguinn@diana.cair.du.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Private Investigators and Your Privacy
Organization: University of Denver, Telephone Services
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I saw somewhere that women are being encouraged to run financial checks
on prospective mates (the line I read in the article was "She is currently
having Dun & Bradstreet run a check on his finances"), and this got me
to wondering:  just how easy is it for someone, or some agency, to collect
personal information on you?

Yes, I know the basics.  But I'm curious as to how they would go about it,
i.e. what databases they would query, etc.  I've had this idea for awhile:
go to a PI or investigation firm and have them investigate you.  Yep,
run a check on yourself.  

I think it would prove very enlightening.  For example, what if you wanted
to work for the government in a position that requires a security 
clearance?  You could have them investigate you with the goal in mind
being finding information relevant to clearance.  I'm concerned, also,
with the apparent ease that "financial" checks can be run.  What does
Dun & Bradstreet know about my earnings and investments?  Don't they
need permission to find out those things?  I thought even credit agencies
were limited to only giving information relevant to a loan or other
extension of credit.  Can D & B just call up and say "Download what
you have on K. Guinn"?

Wouldn't the woman in question need to know things like SSN, account numbers,
etc. in order for them to even start?

I would like to hear views on just how an investigation like this would
take place.  I'm curious as to how PI's do it, and to how open my
financial records are to others.

Thanks,

Kip

P.S.  And no, I'm not going out with anyone right now, so I'm safe (?) :-)
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:47:57 GMT
From: "Wm. L. Ranck" <ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: Risks of Cellular Speech
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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: wrote:
: 
: >2.  Why, instead of fixing the technical deficiencies in
: >their product do they go sniveling to Congress to make it
: >illegal to listen...
: 
: >3.  Why in the world did our government accept the
: >sniveling and pass the Electronic Communications
: >Privacy act...most agencies of the government understand
: >the problem...many of them have implemented digital
: >scrambling.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Well, a US Senator's aide somehow came into posession of a tape of the 
Governor of Senator's state talking to someone and basically bad mouthing
the Senator.  This tape, or a least parts of it got into the papers and
caused quite a political stir.  That tape was of a cellular phone conversation
that the Gov. was having in his car.  Legislation was introduced to make 
listening to cellular frequencies illegal a short time later. . .

Anybody think there might be a connection?
--

*******************************************************************************
* Bill Ranck                                          ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
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Date: 18 Nov 1992 00:22:25 GMT
From: Stewart Rowe <bg055@cleveland.freenet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Passport Records
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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This morning, the New York Times said (approximately)
"In the '50s and '60s the State Department Passport Office 
investigated the political views of many people."
 
My question is, does anyone know what they are doing NOW, and 
what kinds of records they keep?
Date:  Sun, 15 Nov 1992  23:30:46 EST
From:  Paul Robinson <FZC@cu.nih.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject:  Mag Stripe Drivers License
Reply-To: TDARCOS@mcimail.com
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 101, Message 8 of 11

In a message from Doctor Math <root@sanger.chem.nd.edu>
on Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:34:19 GMT who said:

[Use of Mag Striped Drivers Licenses]

>as check validation) in the newspaper.. I imagine it will find its
>way into liquor stores to be used for age verification, since the
>magstripe would be "harder" to forge..

Like fun.

To forge magnetic mag stripes requires a magstripe encoder, which
costs about $1000 or so (it is programmed from a personal computer,
so you tell it what you want to do; I used to work for one company
that made them) and requires a supply of blank mag stripe cards,
which can be purchased commercially for about 20c each, and
you can have them embossed any way you want from a printer, or
if you want something a printer won't do, buy silk screening
equipment yourself (about $20).  Silk Screening equipment is
often used for short runs of personalized T-Shirts, and is
really low level technology.

Why do you think credit cards embed holograms on them?
---
Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
These opinions are mine alone
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:46:56 GMT
From: Steve Johnson <johnson@trwacs.fp.trw.com>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: Technophiliacs - cont.
Organization: TRW Systems Division, Fairfax VA
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DRWIER@SCSMTA.SWITCH.CH (DRWIER) writes:

[stuff deleted]
>IMHO we have to SLOW down A LOT, and get away from the details,
>and get away from the technology we create to get a more global
>and balanced and more humane perspective.

>Or are there other ways?  

Perhaps longer vacations (i.e., more than two crummy weeks a year),
long service leave (i.e., a PAID sabatical).  Oops, almost forgot;
we have to stay competitive so make sure you get in those 50 plus
hours a week.  But I digress....


-- 
 ------- Any views expressed are those of myself and not my employer. --------
Steven C. Johnson, WB3IRU / VK2GDS      |
TRW                                     | johnson@trwacs.fp.trw.com
FP1 / 3133                              |         [129.193.172.90]
Date:  Sun, 15 Nov 1992  23:34:11 EST
From:  Paul Robinson <FZC@cu.nih.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject:  Alleged Rights
Reply-To: TDARCOS@mcimail.com
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 101, Message 9 of 11

In a message by Flint Pellett <flint@gistdev.gist.com>
Re: Clinton Endorses Right to Information Privacy
On: 13 Nov 92 17:51:51 GMT

>ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
>>
>>:          1.  The Right to Safety - To be protected against the
>>:              marketing of goods which are hazardous to health or
>>:              life.
>>
>>While the other stuff on the list doesn't bother me this one sure
>>does.  Basically it says that the government knows what is good
>>for me and will not let me decide.  How long till this results in
>>making alcohol and tobacco illegal?  How long till it makes
>>"dangerous" recreational activity illegal?  "Sorry, skis and ski
>>poles are dangerous, you can't buy them anymore."

>
>The thought that the government might outlaw skis is pretty
>ridiculous.  You might try re-reading that sentence and try to
>figure out how you possibly could have inferred that it was
>implying anything of the sort.

When the income tax was first proposed, opponents wanted a
limit on it because the government might try to collect too
much.  The proponents argued that it was unnecessary to set a
limit since the people in general would have ('Los Angeles'
class) riots before it could go anywhere near 4%.

One of the original Civil Rights laws was not supposed to
support quotas on hiring.  Senator Humphrey stated that if
anyone could find one word mandating quotas in his bill he
would withdraw it and eat every page of the bill.  Today that
same law is being used to require quotas.

The original requirements of the Medicare/Medicaid laws stated
explicitly that the government was not to set the pricing and
quality of care.  Today, DRGs set the maximum pricing and care
that providers will be able to issue under these laws.

Do not claim that the government won't do something; if there
is aggrandizement for someone or a means to satisfy some
interest group, the government will try anything.

Would someone have believed 50 years ago that the government
would confiscate property from people who had not committed
a crime or been arrested or accused of any crime, yet when the
property was siezed, the person whose property was confiscated
would have to prove - and have to pay the costs of the trial
out of their own pocket - that the government both was incorrect
about the siezure of the property as well as intentionally
negligent in siezing it or the government kept whatever
property was siezed?

---
Paul Robinson --- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM
These opinions are mine alone


Newsgroups: comp.society.cu-digest
From: kuusisto@vat-vai.valmet.com (Risto Kuusisto)
Subject: Re: Are Adlib sound board and Visual Composer software any good?
Organization: Valmet Automation Inc., Tampere, Finland
	<1992Nov17.183920.27285@coe.montana.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:19:25 GMT


I have used this combination (v 1.5) some time now, and here are some of
my opinions of these things:

Piano-roll technique is easy to understand and to use, but
I would prefer real notes to be used.

There are enough "basic" properties, like you can define volume and
pitch of a voice, tempo etc.

Many of the instrument tones are good enough, but some of them
are pure shit, you have to test them by yourself.

The worst thing in the composer program is, that you have to do quite
a lot of work, when you are going to make some "global" changes to some
voice, or you would like to use some structure in the "composition",
e.g:

 1. I have a repeating 4 bars structure, where I have a couple of volume
 changes inside the structure. I have copied the structure and maybe
 transposed it and the total length of it is something like 24 bars.
 If I now would like to change the relative volume of the voice compared
 to the other voices I have to go trough all of the damn 24 bars, when the
 right way of doing this would be to change one overall volume value and
 the internal relative changes to this would follow accordingly.

 2. The same example, but now I would like to shorten one note inside the
 structure and add a pause there. It's the same situation now, I have to
 go trough all of the bars and make the changes individually to every bar.
 And if you have to change all of the max. 11 voices, again there's a big
 job to be done

But if you think about the price, I think this package is worth of it.

      Risto Kuusisto

PS. Does anybody know a composer program, where the "composition"
can be handled and seen somehow structurally and there would be
good "global" editing possibilities ?
From: hardie@admin.und.ac.za (Roy Hardie)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Digital to Analogue converter for MOD play and other programs.
Summary: d/a converters for sale
Keywords: d/a, modplay
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:13:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: admin.hardie.3.722524416
Distribution: inet
Organization: University Of Natal (Durban)
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Hi again. If there is anyone who would like to but a D to A for modplay 
which is COVOX compatible, then e-mail me.

Terry Hardie.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: wbuttra1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Will Buttram)
Subject: Req: Info on Roland D-50
Organization: Swarthmore College
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:08:13 GMT

Does anyone have a strong opinion or any basic information
I should know before I plunge my savings into a D-50?
(It is in good condition.) Please e-mail me at:
wbuttra1@cc.swarthmore.edu

					Any response would be greatly appreciated!

																							Thanks,

																																-Will
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: battlec@cs.rpi.edu (Clark Battle)
Subject: scc-1 question
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:38:48 GMT

If the sound canvas is not expandable with new waveforms how abou the scc-1?
Do vendors sell software waveforms for it or is it a closed system as well?
From: klaw@ecst.csuchico.edu (Almighty Nodens the Master of the Elder Sign)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: I want to start making music
Date: 16 Nov 92 11:43:58 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: California State University, Chico
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I just bought a Pro Audio Spectrum-16 for my 386PC and I'm really jazzed
about the potential in making industrial type music that it presents.
I'm looking for various literature and shareware to help me explore
the PAS16's full potential...
All of my experiance in music consists of three years of T-Sax in H.S.
I need a good book on MIDI
A good sound editor with lots of FX etc.
A good Sequencer in windows preferably.
I want to be able to sample in my own sounds to create instruments as well
as laying out entire tracks of sampled sound.
A good drum maschine/composer and music composer.
Software for Real-Time Voice FX? Does it exist, is it possible???
Again that book on MIDI...
I would like for the sound editor and sequencer to be in an integrated package
as well as a drum maschine/composer and composer integrated as well...
Am I dreaming???

Thank you in advance,
 	Jason
From: spw@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Steven P Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Miracle Piano Teaching system
Date: 19 Nov 1992 11:48:24 +0800
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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From: mike@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: What is mulaw format?
Keywords: audio format files
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:48:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineer Topographic Labs, Ft. Belvoir, VA

pwilson@gandalf.ca (Paul Wilson(Toronto-Sales)) writes:

>In <1221@zogwarg.etl.army.mil> mike@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell) writes:

>>What is the mulaw format?  In fact, what are the other formats for
>>audio data?  The FAQ for this group talks about file formats in terms
>>of headers, etc.  but doesn't talk about formats for the audio data
>>itself.  Maybe some info about this could be added to the FAQ if this
>>query gets a good answer.

>When converting analog sound into a digital form the waveform is sampled
>at a constant frequency (8kHz for telephone and 44.1kHz for CXD standards).
>This results in a quantity of varying voltages which must be measured.  The 
>measurement system used (or ruler) needs to accommodate several needs: + and
>- values, very loud sounds, and very quiet sounds.  Also, the desired resolution
>should be taken into account; 16 vs 8 bit resolution. 
...

>To correct for this problem we decide to adopt a logarythmic scale.
...

>The mu-law (used in North America and Japan(?)) defines the voltages, or 
>signal levels of the markings on the y-axis.  It defines the resolution
>of the sampling method.  Other parts of the world use a slightly different
>A-law.

Okay, I knew mu-law and a-law were logarithmic, but I still don't know
what they >>ARE<<.  I would like precise engineering definitions, not
generalities.  In particular, enough information to be able to write
my own encoders and decoders.  A reference would do.
From: jayward@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: PAS-16 / Sound Canvas Questions
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:28:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6322

I have heard that Mediavision has recently released their PAS-16 
developer's kit into the public domain.  Can someone either send this
to me or give me a site name where I can find it?

Also, is there supposed to be an IBM-PC soundcard newsgroup or mailing list
somewhere?  Hints would be appreciated.

Lastly, a friend of mine who just got a Sound Canvas tells me that there is
a program called 'Song Canvas' or something like that which allows you to
play with the cards parameters.  Does anyone know where I can find this
program as well as a simple little program that will kick the card in and
out of MT-32 emulation mode (not the SCCCHK.EXE program that came with the
card)?
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: dean@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Dean Van Dyke)
Subject: Anyone seen the Roland DJ-70 ??? 
Keywords: DJ-70 help
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:51:38 GMT

I am thinking about purchasing the DJ-70 as a compliment to my Djing 
career (when I am not studying full time). This machine apparently
has the potential to remix songs live. I have a broucher on the 
keyboard and know all the specs, but has anyone actually bought one
or played with one ? I would really like to know how it is.

Also I have a Syquest 44meg Removable HD (which is currently connected
to my Macintosh). Could then device be used with such instruments from
Roland that have a SCSI connection on the back ?

Thanks !!!

____________________________________________________________________________
 
DEAN VAN DYKE                        email  : dean@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
FRESH PRODUCTIONS                    phone  : (Australia) 02 747 1128
PO BOX 808 STRATHFIELD 2135          uni    : Sydney University
NSW AUSTRALIA                        degree : BA
                                     course : Computer Science, Pure Maths
 
Albert Einstein:   I M A G I N A T I O N   I S   M O R E   I M P O R T A N T
                   T H A N   K N O W L E D G E
 
____________________________________________________________________________

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From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.audio.pro,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: Questions about CD mastering
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:24:17 GMT
Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Distribution: inet
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1e9i9uINN4g7@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
>I would like to talk to anyone who has had some experience mastering and
>pressing a CD. I assume that one sends the company that does the pressing 
>a DAT, but what are the other details? I assume each track is marked by
>a DAT id that corresponds to the track number, but what about the time
>between tracks? First, how much time is usually put between tracks? Second,
>I have seen that CDs have a countdown time between the end of a track and
>the start of another - how is this represented on the DAT? Finally, does
>anyone have the names of and experiences with CD manufacturers? What are
>some typical costs and how easy are they to deal with? Thanks for any
>info.

CD pressing is done from Sony PCM-1630 format, or form another format
that emulates it, such as Sonic Solutions PMCD.  As such, the format
contains all the necessary PQ subcodes to indicate space between tracks,
countdown, lead-in, lead-out, etc.

You cannot readily press directly to DAT.  Most pressing plants will require
that you pay a fee to convert your tape to PCM-1630.


--
Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ.     "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings 
gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu       to be seriously considered as a means of 
N2GPZ in ham radio circles        communication. The device is inherently of
72355,1226 on CI$                 no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
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From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.audio.pro,rec.music.synth
Subject: Questions about CD mastering
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:35:58 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

I would like to talk to anyone who has had some experience mastering and
pressing a CD. I assume that one sends the company that does the pressing 
a DAT, but what are the other details? I assume each track is marked by
a DAT id that corresponds to the track number, but what about the time
between tracks? First, how much time is usually put between tracks? Second,
I have seen that CDs have a countdown time between the end of a track and
the start of another - how is this represented on the DAT? Finally, does
anyone have the names of and experiences with CD manufacturers? What are
some typical costs and how easy are they to deal with? Thanks for any
info.

Bill
From: pan@pannet.UUCP (The PAN Network)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: RE: Opcode Maxplay 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 01:43:05 EDT
Organization: The PAN Network
Reply-To: altoreed@pan.com




MaxPlay is a run time version of MAX. You basically are not allowed to edit or
create new MAX patches.

Its retail price is $99.00

Scott C. Peer


Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth
From: cmarsigl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Klif Marsiglio)
Subject: Re: General Midi questions
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:44:14 GMT

jmw@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (John Mark Williams) writes :

2)	when a module is using all its available notes, should new
	notes have priority over currently sounding ones?

I don't have my specs sheet on my GM synth around but on mine the oldest notes
seem to have priority, which if like me and you use alot of sustained notes
cause problems.  I'm not sure if this is true of all, then again I got me
a sucky JV30 :)


klif
From: wrm@friskie.WPI.EDU (William Michalson)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Visual Sample Editors
Date: 18 Nov 1992 15:38:05 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: friskie.wpi.edu

Does anyone know of or have experience with visual sample editing
software.  What are some of the more popular/useful packages available
for the IBM-PC?  Is there any PD software available?  Do any
manufacturers have PD demos of their sample editing software?

I'm specifically interested in packages that can edit samples
from the Ensoniq EPS/ASR equipment.

Bill
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