HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fisel@eskimo.com (Aron Roberts)
Subject: Re: HELP ME! (you need it)
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 15:49:00 GMT

Obviously the original poster is someone new to the net in general an
has had the predictable reaction of "talking tough" when he doesn't have
to speak to someone face to face. A post like that is just asking to be
flamed. Anyway a loser like that doesn't really deserve this much
attention.

                     Fisel@eskimo.com
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
Subject: Privacy and Video
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:38:43 GMT

Need for privacy and such.. There are things that are no body elses business..
Such as visiting my girlfriend late at night and not wanting nayone else to
know.. True if my lady was married to someone else her husband my want it
(video recording of area around the house)..

Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,sci.electronics
From: lmollett@lunatix.uucp (Laura Mollett)
Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:38:54 GMT

In article <TVVwVB8w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>
>Don't be a Neo-Ludd.  Technology is giving me more control over how I
>communicate, and I like that.  Instead of bemoaning the paradigm shift,
>why not rise to the challenge and decide how you will react to the new
>features and processes?

You know, if you think about it for a second you coulda had more control all
along.  I've always thought the phone co. had it a**backwards.  They charge
me for a phone service, then give my phone number away for free.  If I want
my phone number kept quiet, I PAY EXTRA for the "privilege" of keeping it
out of their phone book.  So any idiot who can read can look up my number in
the book and all those solicitors who want to call don't have to do any
extra research to find my number.  Now I can PAY EVEN MORE to have access
to the same information on the other side, while giving away the service I
PAID to have (my private number) to every business I might consider ordering
something from.  Sounds like a good deal to me <insert wry grin>.  I can say
I'll never order anything by telephone again.  I'm on too many "lists"
already.  All those calls I made for friends looking for the cheapest Mac
equipment mail order?  Forget it.  Then each business (not just the one
I ordered from) has my number.  Argh.  I think the only people getting a 
real deals are the ones making money off this wonderful new tech.  The phone
co. should have charged me to have my number IN the book (or mebbe paid me)
and kept my privacy for free.
			Laura Mollett
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Information America (Re: Caller ID block?)
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:44:30 GMT

Kent A. Watsen writes
| 	Don't be so sure.  I read an article recently about the hacker
| who was hired to snoop around on several prominent figures given just
| their names.  In particular, among the individuals he snooped on were
| Dan Quayle and Dan Rathers, supposedly one of the most secretive
| people in the nation.  The information extracted included home
| address, phone number, other residents at home address, credit card
| statements, phone bills, last date and result of HIV tests, drug
| related incidents, etc.  The article stated that the majority of the
| information was obtained from an online American database were all the
| various utility companies, hospitals, etc who are connected send their
| info to be processed.  The database use to be accessible only to the
| government but has recently opened its doors to commercial businesses
| for a extravagent overhead (on the order of $150/hr).  If that doesn't
| scare you, while this hacker was searching for some information he
| couldn't access he was approached by another user who KNEW what he was
| looking for and sold it to him for $100 (I don't know how). 
| 
| 	For anybody who has read the Illuminati, Big Brothers is
| watching you.

I read an article in Mondo 2000 describing this service.  Sounded a bit like  
near-fiction (Mondo would never print anything but the exact truth, right? :-)

But the real question is whether anyone knows how to access this service.  I'd  
be willing to pay $95 (Mondo's price was cheaper...) to know everything there  
is to know about myself that anyone else can find out there.

Let's get some real cyberpunk action: tell me how to access this database...
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: screid@mta.ca
Subject: Cthulu Literature
Reply-To: screid@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:27:33 GMT

	Has anyone ever read Chris Kringle's criticism of Lovecraft's theory of
male-bashing in the Baltic cults? Please answer me, or this guy' gonna kill me!
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: Michael.Kohne@launchpad.unc.edu (Michael Kohne)
Subject: Re: Electronic media losing it's value for artist
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:06:13 GMT

In article <1go5spINNid7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> pustule@cats.ucsc.edu (Thaddeus H. Wood) writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec15.033030.24392@samba.oit.unc.edu> Michael.Kohne@launchpad.unc.edu (Michael Kohne) writes:
>>In article <LmwRVB1w165w@angus.mi.org> thx1138@angus.mi.org writes:
>>>Robert Hall, 
>>>
>>>  You are wrong about an electronic medium that is can be copied losing
>>>  it's value for the artist.  Cassette tapes for musicians can be copied.
>>>  Albumns can be copied onto them, and CD can be copied to DAT.  All of
>>>  these are easy to copy and distribute ("Hey, can I have a copy
>>>  of your new Front 242 tape?") yet, somehow, musicians make money
>>>  off ot them. 
>>
>>Yes, they can all be copied, but none perfectly. (even CD to DAT can't be
>>perfect-they have diffent sample rates, and there is usually an analog stage
>>in between, reducing quality with each generation of copy). 
>>
>>I think if perfect copies of music could be made, then you'd have a lot less
>>profit. Of mabey not, many people want to own the original album for the neat 
>>stuff in the little CD booklet, as well as the music. 
>>
>
>Hmm, that's odd.  Then I guess the fiber optic cable connecting
>my CD player to my DAT must have some sort of D/A converter in
>it.  And yes, they do have different sampling rates.  DAT's sampling
>rate is _higher_ than that of CD.  Which must be the reason for
>the horrible sound degradation.  
>
>Also, when I copy data from a CDROM onto my harddisk, I notice
>that I just can't seem to get a perfect copy.  I think it has
>something to do with the ANALOG cable connecting the respective
>devices to the SCSI bus.  Damn!  
>
>You know, I just love it when people talk about stuff they know
>nothing about.
>
>-SARCASM OFF-
>
>
Yep, it's great. 

1) yes, I'll bet that fiber optic cable does have a D/A converter in there
   somewhere. mabey not. I didn't say always, just usually. I hate it when
   people put words in my mouth. 

2) having a higher sample rate doesn't buy you squat. You can't go from one
   directly to the other without either going through an analog stage, or 
   mathematically re-sampling the data. That CAN be done, make no mistake. 
   It's a bit expensive, processor wise, though.

3) please note that CDROMS are not formatted the same as CD's. I was speaking
   strictly of music, not data CD's. You get your CDROM drive to read the
   music CD as a series of integers. I'll be impressed.

Michael Kohne
"Why can't people read the words I write, instead of re-interpreting them?"
House of the Techno-Discordians, Automotive Amusements Division


--
   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
     North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
        Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
           internet:  laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: jmilhoan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (JT)
Subject: Re: new idea
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:43:51 GMT

>In article <1992Dec9.181523.2113@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> ,
>z_huntercj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>>
>> [ Note: Lots o' poor writing deleted at will without warning ;) ]


>>                                 FAR RIGHT
>>
>>                         Articles of Confederation
>>
>> ending of all liberal and in general stupid ideas. We have been formed
>to

"We have been formed"??? Take a writing class, for chrissakes...


>> counteract the influence of the Bill Clinton and the rest of has gang,

Don't forget to proof read!  Spelling checkers aren't grammar checkers, y'know!


>>     The number of leftist radical groups grows each day, from femmists

"femmists"???  Is this a new group of males who tend to exhibit feminine qualities?


>> femmists, they tell women that they are must have equal or more rights

Ditto...


>> groups were born in the 1960's, like the idea of you don't point out
>> what I am doing wrong and I will ignore what you are doing. That was a

Translation, anyone???


>> stupid way of thinking, and it is the only reason that sixty's ideas are
>> still here today.

Your command of the language is incredible!


>>       All of our ideas are written in stone and will not change for any
>>  reason. It is useless to try to sway us in any way.

Are we all doomed to drive Ford Tempos and Geo Prizms for the rest of our lives?

Xref: sparky alt.cyberpunk:6685 sci.electronics:20873
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:49:40 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf) writes:

>roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>>Personally, I want to be able to block anonymous calls at the CO, so
>>someone calling me with blocked ID would only reach a recording... "I'm
>>sorry, the number you have dialed does not accept anonymous callers.
>>Please hang up and re-place your call with ID enabled."
>
>What will you people do if someone calls from a payphone?
>
>And why do you seem to believe you are "owed" the number of the person 
>calling? You haven't had it for years.

Why do you seem to think he isn't "owed" this information?

Roy can do whatever the hell he wants with his telephone.  If he 
refuses to answer a blocked call, that should be fine with you.  
I assume his thinking is the same as mine - when someone calls me 
they know my phone number, it's only fair that I have that same 
information about them.

Neither Roy nor I have any obligation to answer the phone if we 
don't want to.  We can put any arbitrary limits to answering that 
we want to.  If I wanted to answer the phone only between the hours 
of 6:00 pm and 6:30 pm, then so what?

The phone ringing is an intrusion into *our* privacy, 
and if we don't want to answer a blocked call, WE DON'T HAVE ANY 
OBLIGATION TO!!!
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
                              DoD # 0698
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (your unconscious mind)
Subject: Re: AGRIPPA
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 17:23:55 GMT


Dr. Mr. PlEaSanT |)00|) ::::::

	In your haste to be the first one to post Agrippa to the net,
you posted a copy that was completely fucked.  I don't know if you're
on the futureculture list or not, but that copy was posted there.
	After seeing that messed copy on the futureculture list, I
posted the true version in hopes that the distorted, mangled, copy
would not get around the net. 
	I guess information, whether it's wrong or right, really does
want to be free.  Thank you for freeing incorrect information to the
entire free world.

PLease note, everyone, that the copy of AGRIPPA that Mr. Pleasent
(let's call him BiFF) posted is not the full correct version of
William Gibson's AGRIPPA.  Anyone who even quickly glances at that
post can see that.  

That "Are you absolutely sure you want to to this?" message when
posting is there for a reason.  Read what you're going to post before
posting.  

--

    ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu	        FutureCulture:  In/f0rmation
    ahawks@mindvox.phantom.com		future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu

Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: gilmour@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Jeffrey R. Gilmour)
Subject: BMP structure?
Reply-To: gilmour@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:04:09 GMT

Could someone direct me to a FTP site that has information on Window's BMP
file structure?  Any info greatly appreciated.

___________________________________ 
|__/~~~~~\__/~~~~\__/~~~~\__/~~~~\_|/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
|____/~\____/~\_____/~\_____/~\____|\                                          /
|____/~\____/~~~\___/~~~\___/~~~\__|/   T h i s   S p a c e   f o r   R e n t  \
|____/~\____/~\_____/~\_____/~\____|\                                          /
|__/~~~\____/~~~~\__/~\_____/~\____|/       GILMOUR@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU      \
|__________________________________|\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
From: risner@ms.uky.edu (James Risner)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: NeXT tiff with jpeg not compatiable with PBMPLUS & LIBTIFF?
Summary: blah
Keywords: tiff pbmplus next jpeg bummer
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:25:45 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

I compiled dec 91 pbmplus with the libtiff that came with it.
When I run tifftopnm I get messages saying that it can not understand the
tiff file.  These files are from a NeXT using NeXT's jpeg tiff compression.
Is there a way I can unpack these files on a sparc?

Risner
From: khm@powell.cs.jt.dk (Kurt Hangaard Marcussen)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: amiga ".img" files
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:09:41 GMT
Organization: Jydsk TELEFON

lauren@cv.vortex.com (Lauren Weinstein) writes:

>Greetings.  On various net archives can be found collections
>of clip art under various "amiga" graphics directories.  The extracted
>files usually have a ".img" extension.  However, I have so far
>been unable to find a utility to convert these to ".pcx" format 
>(or any standard pbm format).  The pbm utilities include two
>different programs involving different sorts of "img" files--but
>neither of them appears to be the amiga type (one utility simply
>refuses to proceed, the other core dumps).  Xv does not recognize
>".img" as a valid image type at all.

>Can anyone shed some light on this format, and the means to convert
>it to more "universal" formats?  Thanks.

>--Lauren--

Hi Lauren

If you're getting the clip-art from an Amiga base you should
expect the format to be IFF/ILBM. This format is supported by
the Public Domain package FBM from the Amiga Fish library. You'll
get the source code as well, so you can compile it for whatever
machine you're on - provided you have a K&R C-compiler. There
are commercial utilities available to do the conversion job as
well. On the Mac the PhotoShop program will import this format
directly. If you know somebody who uses the program DeluxePaint
for the IBM PC (WOW! I said it ..), there is a conversion program
bundled with it called convert.exe. This program will convert
between PCX and IFF/ILBM - both ways.

Good luck!

Kurt Marcussen
From: briana@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Brian W. Antoine)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Way to get rid of HSI header in JPEGs
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:55:54 GMT
Organization: ISC - Bunker Ramo, Spokane, WA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

hh7r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Hsiang-Hsin  Hsiung) writes:
: >>In article <0g!r51d@lynx.unm.edu>, cvance@polaris.unm.edu (Chad Vance) writes:
: >>| Plese let me know if there is a way to get rid of the Handmade Software
: >>| header bullshit!
: 
: 	As far as I know, Handmade Software's special "JPG" format was designed
: to "better compress palleted-image". It is a different graphics format. Simply
: remove the header will not help you anything except a few bytes free disk space.

  I had pretty good luck just deleting the first 332 chars of the file.  That
removed the HSI header and the remainder was a normal Jpeg file.  Of course
the image in question was a repost from a few months ago, so I did it more to
see if it could be done than anything else.
-- 
Brian Antoine    |                                 | "Where are we going?"
ISC-Bunker Ramo  | ...uunet!isc-br!tau-ceti!briana |               "PLANET 10!"
Spokane, WA      |  or briana@tau-ceti.isc-br.com  | "When?"
                 |  or briana@miniop.spk.wa.us     |               "REAL SOON!"
From: phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Dos and Sun viewers for PICT files
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:05:33 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: yukongold.cs.ubc.ca

In article <Bz2qBK.3r2@cmcl2.nyu.edu> memco@cns.nyu.edu writes:
>
>	Are there any Dos, Windows and Sun viewers/converters
>/editors for Mac PICT files? I am looking for ones that can
>handle 24 bit color PICT images.

PBM+ includes a PICT converter (picttoppm).  I've just recently upgraded
it.  You can get the latest version of picttoppm from ftp.cs.ubc.ca
in /ftp/local/src/picttoppm.  You're best off to get PBM+ and the latest
picttoppm, but picttoppm can now be compiled without PBM+ 'though it
is a bit crippled.
From: lauren@cv.vortex.com (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: amiga ".img" files
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:39:37 GMT
Organization: Vortex Technology, Topanga, CA, U.S.A.

Greetings.  On various net archives can be found collections
of clip art under various "amiga" graphics directories.  The extracted
files usually have a ".img" extension.  However, I have so far
been unable to find a utility to convert these to ".pcx" format 
(or any standard pbm format).  The pbm utilities include two
different programs involving different sorts of "img" files--but
neither of them appears to be the amiga type (one utility simply
refuses to proceed, the other core dumps).  Xv does not recognize
".img" as a valid image type at all.

Can anyone shed some light on this format, and the means to convert
it to more "universal" formats?  Thanks.

--Lauren--
From: hh7r@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Hsiang-Hsin  Hsiung)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Way to get rid of HSI header in JPEGs
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:02:41 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

>>In article <0g!r51d@lynx.unm.edu>, cvance@polaris.unm.edu (Chad Vance) writes:
>>| Plese let me know if there is a way to get rid of the Handmade Software
>>| header bullshit!

	As far as I know, Handmade Software's special "JPG" format was designed
to "better compress palleted-image". It is a different graphics format. Simply
remove the header will not help you anything except a few bytes free disk space.
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: crow@waterloo.austin.ibm.com (David L. Crow)
Subject: Re: GIF questions
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:55:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Reply-To: crow@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM AWS Graphics Systems

mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:

>A friend scanned in some photos on a Mac into TIFF format, then used
>Photoshop to convert the TIFFs to GIFs.  When he FTP'd (gee aren't
>these acronyms fun?) the GIFs to an archive site, they ended up as
>filename.GIF.bin files, meaning (I think) MacBinary II format.  I
>tried downloading one of these to a PC and using a GIF viewer, and
>it said the GIF format was invalid.

    If it's a data file (ie the Mac file did not have a resource fork --
  and a GIF file shouldn't), then just strip off the first 128 bytes.
  This is the MacBinary header and can be safely removed as long as the
  Mac file only had a data fork.
-- 
 ----------- Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's ----------
 |  David L. Crow               |  Internet: crow@austin.ibm.com     |
 |  IBM AWS Graphics Systems    |  IBM VNET: CROW at AUSTIN          |
 |  Austin, Republic of Texas   |  (512) 838-1134  T/L 678-1134      |
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.binaries.pictures.d,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: Way to get rid of HSI header in JPEGs
Followup-To: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.binaries.pictures.d,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:13:24 GMT

I looked here on my Sun SPARC and didn't find a gif2jpg or jpg2gif which
knew about this special heading.  The one here only knows about jfif files.
-- 
Larry W. Virden                 UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas  INET: lvirden@cas.org
Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: blixt@aqua.met.kth.se (Johan Blixt)
Subject: .DDIF to (almost) anything converter wanted
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:01:23 GMT

I have access to this nice MD400 scanner connected to a VAXstation
3100, the only problem is that the DECimage Scan Software (Version 2.0)
only writes files in the .DDIF format which I have been unable to
convert to any usable (to me) format. There is a VMS program
(conver/document) that can convert the files to some other strange,
unusable formats (it can convert the files to postscript but I
have been unable to convert that to GIF PICT or anything like that
which is what I need).

So, does anybody have any tips for me? either how to convert the .DDIF
to something usable or to do something with the postscript files.
(I have been looking at xv but it is far to big for my account)

I have access to DOS, Windowc, Mac, VMS and Unix machines.
--
Johan Blixt
blixt@link.sunet.se
School of Indiscriminate Grappling
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: root@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (System PRIVILEGED Account)
Subject: color-quantisation
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:09:16 GMT

hello,

I am implementing the colorquantization-algorithm from Paul Heckbert
(Computer Graphics, Volume 16, Number3, July 1982). I don't realy understand
how the Median Cut Algorithms functions. Especially:

I want to reduce a 24 bit image to an image with 32 colors. How do I know
which box must be divided ?

Anybody who can help me with this problem ?

Soon help would be verz nice


greetings
		Andreas!
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: In search of xv 2.21 fixes
Followup-To: alt.sources.d
Summary: Is there an archive location which tracks user fix postings for xv?
Keywords: xv, 2.21, source code, bug, fixes
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:40:11 GMT


Hello.  I just got the updated xv fixes for JPEG v4 .  Anyone know of
other fixes which should be applied to 2.21 ?
-- 
Larry W. Virden                 UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lvirden
Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas  INET: lvirden@cas.org
Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils