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From: jburke@bodacious.csc.wsu.edu (John L. Burke)
Subject: PBMplus front end for the NeXT
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:35:04 GMT

Does anyone know about a front end on the NeXT for using PBMPlus?  A  
coworker here had it at one time, but has recently left.  Any help would  
be appreciated!  Thanks!


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* John Burke                                                              
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From: bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov (Bradley K. Sherman)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: 4x3 conversion tiff <-> tiff
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:19:09 GMT
Organization: Dendrome: Forest Tree Genome Mapping Database
NNTP-Posting-Host: s27w007.pswfs.gov


I'm sure this is a novice question, when you're a novice
what else can you ask?


I am capturing images with a Cohu camera hooked up to a PC-clone
with a framegrabber and Epix software.  When I transport a tiff
file to a Sun of Mac the image is scruntched vertically (or stretched
horizontally, if you prefer).  There is a 4x3 button on the xv viewer
that seems to restore the correct aspect.

My question is: Can someone point me at a piece of software that
can do this conversion as a batch operation?

   Thanks,
   --bks
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    --bks
Bradley K. Sherman
Dendrome Project
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: efichtne@dante.nmsu.edu (FICHTNER)
Subject: Obscure Request....
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:16:14 GMT

I'm looking for a rather off-the-wall utility that may exist, 
but probably doesn't.  I'm just asking before I go off and write one
myself.   anyway.. onward..

I've got an Envision 220 (vt100-esque, with Tek 4014-esque, and 16 from
4096 color extentions). anyway. I want a tool (preferably useable with
pbmplus utils or some such) that will convert an image bitmap into
dots i can plot on my tek-esque screen.  the things graphics screen can
display 640x400x16, (from 4096 colors), so I figure it's slightly better
than an old EGA display. It'd make a neat hack to get an old 16 color GIF
up on one..........

(Yes, you read that right, I want a Tek GIF viewer.  I warned you it was 
obscure..)

anyway.. The envision display i've got is quite perfectly capable of 
doing it (albiet REALLY slowly at 9600bps), I just dont want to 
reinvent the wheel or anything...

Any pointers for the terminally insane?  

Anyone want a copy if I end up having to write my own and actually 
finish the project?

Anyone stopped laughing yet?  

;)
Erik
replies to emf@freedom.nmsu.edu
From: cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
Date: 23 Jan 1993 08:42:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


sean@cobra.dra.com (Sean Donelan) informatively enlightens us:
 
> Just a little while ago there was a newspaper story about
> the state of New York sending tax collectors to New Jersey
> to write down the license plate numbers of cars parked in
> shopping malls with New York State plates.
 
Any chance of someone in that area finding that article and
posting a synopsis?
 
> They then sent the owners of those cars letters demanding
> that they pay New York Sales (or Use) Tax on anything they
> purchased in New Jersey and brought back to New York State.
 
Sounds like the govt. is spending dollars to find dimes, as if
it has never happened before now.  It sounds like a waste of
time and effort, really.
 
All they can accomplish is to remind those honest folks who
might have forgotten that they have to pay taxes on their
purchases.  A better way to take care of this would be to have
the stores be able to charge that tax right there whenever a
customer (an honest and obedient one) informs the cashier that
he's from New York and wishes to comply with the tax laws.
 
It seems like it'd be easier to just post some signs somewhere
to remind those folks of the law.
 
By the way, Sean, what is your position?  That is to say, are
you making a statement for or against having license plates,
or simply doing an FYI?
 
In any event, thanks.... 8-)
 
John
From: sean@cobra.dra.com
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
Date: 25 Jan 93 03:29:36 CST
Organization: Data Research Associates, Inc.

In article <1jr0d0INNcil@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron) writes:
> All they can accomplish is to remind those honest folks who
> might have forgotten that they have to pay taxes on their
> purchases.  A better way to take care of this would be to have
> the stores be able to charge that tax right there whenever a
> customer (an honest and obedient one) informs the cashier that
> he's from New York and wishes to comply with the tax laws.

Why would you have any expectation of a cashier in New Jersey knowing
what the tax laws are in New York, or any of the other 4,000 different
taxing authorities that collect sales taxes in the U.S.

Since New York State already sends all its tax payers forms each year
reminding them to pay all the tax they owe, their intent in targeting
specific individuals with letters based on their trip to New Jersey
seemed more intimidating.

> By the way, Sean, what is your position?  That is to say, are
> you making a statement for or against having license plates,
> or simply doing an FYI?

What's you position John?  Should we have to give our SSN every time
we purchase anything so the tax authorities may properly credit it
against our tax account?

The issue isn't as black&white as saying are you for or against license
plates.  Perhaps it would be more accurate to say I am against the
misuse of vehicle registration information.  Objects such as license
plates aren't intrinsically good or bad, it is how they are used.

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
From: cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: No Privacy/Equality at Doctor's Office
Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:32:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Here's an issue that you may not have considered yet.  Why should
your doctor get to know your home address and phone number if
he/she/it won't divulge his/her/its personal information?
 
If we do supply the home information, what right does a doctor
have to expect us to divulge our work info. also?  Yes, it may
be needed to track down deadbeats that won't pay their bills.
But what if we have insurance coverage or pay cash at each visit?
Has anyone tried to give only a P.O. box when seeing a doctor for
the first time?
 
Now, I admit that so long as my info. doesn't leave the doctor's
office, there really isn't a problem here.  But that's only part
of my concern here.  I'm looking for equality, too.  If the
doctor thinks he needs my home address and phone number, don't I
have a right to have his?  OK, so he may need it case he has an
urgent need to contact me.  But what if I have an urgent need to
call him?  Fine.  So maybe he has an answering service (which I
hate almost as much as I hate telemarketers) or a beeper number.  
What if I get myself an answering service or a beeper.  Now what?
 
Has anyone out there tried to supply a P.O. box in lieu of an
actual home address when filling out all those forms when first
seeing a given doctor?  Your input, please.
 
I've heard of a dual-pricing scam being run by the medical
profession.  Ever notice that when you go into the office of some
specialist for something that it's hard to get any sort of fee
information without being asked about whether the bill is going
to be paid by you by an insurance company?  Hmmm....
 
While I'm in a doctor-bashing sort of mood, what do you think of
the typical "Dr. Surname / patient first name" inequality most
doctors try to pull on us?  The way I see it, the only difference
between them and us is an extra decade of school.  And come to
think of it, isn't a patient really a doctor's *customer*?  Isn't
it the *patient* that signs the the *doctor's* paycheck, not the
other way around?  
 
It's kind of fun when a doctor says, "hi, John, I'm DOCTOR
Betterthanyou," to respond with, "hi, ELROY!" or whatever the
name is.  Rather than confront the issue, they tend to not call
me anything (except behind my back, I suppose :-).
 
As always, your non-flaming feedback is most welcome.
 
See ya...
 
John
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: dwn@bnl.gov (Dave Niebuhr)
Subject: Re: Op-ed piece on telephone Caller ID
Reply-To: dwn@bnl.gov
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 12:15:10 GMT

In article 1jo0u5INN35a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu, cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron) writes:
>
>mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill) writes:
> 
>> Get *two* phone lines.
> 
>> Put an answering machine on the first line. This number will get
>> published in the telco book. Use it to call business's, etc that can
>> get your number anyway just by looking in the book or using ANI.
>                                                              ^^^
>What is ANI?
>
Automatic Number Identification

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


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From: don@muff.webo.dg.com (Don Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.drugs,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:50:40 GMT
Reply-To: don@muff.webo.dg.com
Organization: NSDD, Data General Corp.

In article <93020.095246MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>, David B. Horvath, CDP <MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
|> I saw the included ad in Computerworld January 18, 1993, page
|> 85 - the Computer Careers section.  They want your SSN before
|> they even talk to you.  What for?
|> 

They will use the SSN to run a credit check on the applicants.

They will use the result of the credit check as a basis for determining
the 'character' of the applicant.

--
Don P.
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
Subject: Re: License plates make you safer
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:03:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.231644.68@cobra.dra.com> sean@cobra.dra.com writes:
>In article <1jr6ilINNej1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron) writes:
>> Summary:  license plates protect us by allowing us to identify
>>           those who might do us harm with their vehicles.  Unlike
>>           people on foot, cars tend to look a lot more alike, and
>>           with the possible exception of my car, they can run
>>           away a lot faster. :-(
>
>Then why don't we require people to wear football jerseys with their
>name and number on their back whenever they are in public :-)
>
>How far will you go to feel secure?  And will it actually make you safer?
>

or maybe to keep us safe we should all be tatooed with a number...oh yea...
some evil guy did that and killed millions...instead of protecting them...
well now...that could never happen again...could it.....?
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 05:47:37 GMT

frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

>Now, this may seem like a silly question to some of you, but....
>
>   ...why are so many people in the US opposed to the use of a single
>   personal identification number, which would be used by everybody - all
>   companies and government organizations ?

I think the folks over in alt.privacy or alt.politics.libertarian could
probably give a better answer, but I'm going to take a shot at it anyway.

For one thing, the potential for abuse is incredibly high.  The U.S. has
laws which restrict the use of the Social Security Number by the
government, but those laws do not apply to private citizens or
corporations.  This has led to an entire cottage industry of information
gathering, and many many people see that as an invasion of privacy, because
normal citizens like you and me don't normally get access to these
databases, and as quite a few consumers' advocacy groups have shown, a lot
of this information is wrong, and it can be a real pain in the ass to have
this information corrected.  Wrong information can wreak havoc on one's
life, especially from a financial perspective.

And, of course, since many Americans have immigrated from countries with a
history of government control and repression, they're not all that keen on
giving the government a quick and easy way to track their habits and
movements.  And while the government is prohibited by law from using the
SSN to collect and cross-reference information, there probably isn't
anything to stop the government from simply bypassing the law by accessing
the same private databases mentioned above and getting what they want.

Becoming a number in the government's eyes gives people the impression that
the government is less likely to treat them like people.  I'm sure this
sounds like raving paranoia to a non-American, but to some of us, control
over what other entities know about us is a big part of personal freedom.

-- 
==========davE....making the world safe for intelligent dance music.==========
### David Vessell -- SituSongs Ltd. -- Orange City, FL -- dave@bradley.edu ###
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.drugs,misc.jobs.misc
From: monwel@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (douglas.w.monroe)
Subject: Med.Info.Bureau (was Medical data banks? was...)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:16:35 GMT

In article <malcolm.727990480@wrs.com> malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes) writes:
>bwood@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Wood) writes:
>><*>  This is also interesting...  Does anyone have the address on the
>>Medical Information Bureau??
>
>>    I saw a quick report on them on my local news.  From what I was
>>able to catch, anyone can write to them to get copies of whatever
>>is written on you (medically).  

Yes, address and phone below.
>
>>If you ever went to the Doctor to fix a toe nail - the whole story is in 
>>their files.  
>
Not quite, entries are not this elaborate. Many times no records are found. 
At least that's what they tell you :-)

>>    It seems like this is much like that little form you can fill out
>>to find out how many quarters you've paid into Social Security.  I
>>just don't recall the address.  I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in 
>>Virginia..    Who  knows????
>
>Anyone got any more info? I've heard of this too but thought it was based
>in Boston or the northeast somewhere. 
>
>This is really ugly stuff - to me it implies that they could be running
>check on medical history as a pre-employment screening, perhaps to weed
>out folks with any history of psychological treatment, drug rehabs, or
>any history of serious illness. Somehow I doubt that this is regulated and 
>scrutized to the extent that Credit reporting is. Most likely it's totally
>run as a service to the insurance business with their interests met. I'm
>very curious what rights we have to see the information and to contest it's
>accuracy if necessary. I also wonder if this information is marketed and
>sold like credit reports - aren't doctors bound by some rights of the 
>privacy of a patient? I'd be surprised if the info is freely available to
>folks like potential employers, but I'd love to get some conformation 
>one way or the other. 
>
>  - Malcolm  

MIB can be reached at 617 426-3660, follow the instructions for leaving name
and address and they will mail you a form to fill out. Then, in a few weeks, youwill get your reply. Whether corrections can be made to your file is an
unknown. The address is:

MIB
PO Box 105 Essex Station
Boston, MA 02112
Lucille C. Orlando,  Manager, MIB Information Office

For those of you interested in other info try the FBI. Under the Freedom
on Inf./ Privacy Act, individuals can get a copy of any records held by FBI in
their NCIC and UCR databanks:

Write to:
FBI
FOIPA Section
J.Edgar Hoover Bldg.
9th and E Streets NW
Washington, DC  20535
202 324-5520
Procedure: Provide Full name, DOB, Place of Birth, Address. 
*********Request must be notarized or it will be returned!**********
I have had a request in for almost 3 months now, with only a reply saying
"we're looking" back in November.

Have fun!

-- 
                                                          Doug Monroe
                   				       dwm@pruxl.pr.att.com
  						 or   monwel@cbnewsk.cb.att.com
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.drugs,misc.jobs.misc
From: tobias@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Tobias)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,misc.taxes
Subject: Re: NJ Inspectors invade PA and NY
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:52:22 GMT
Reply-To: tobias@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Tobias)
Followup-To: alt.privacy
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In misc.taxes, MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com (David B. Horvath, CDP) writes:
>  NJ Inspectors went into Philadelphia and the high-income PA Mainline and
>NYC to find NJ license plates on cars parked in other states.  If they find
>one, they take the number down and cross reference it with tax and voting
>records.  The theory is that if you're in the other state at 6am on a
>Saturday and you didn't pay taxes in NJ, you're using a NJ address to
>illegally reduce your auto insurance.
>  The justification is that insurance rates are lower in NJ than in
>Philadelphia and NYC, and therefore, the people who live in PHL/NYC but
>register their cars in NJ are actually costing each NJ driver $80/year
>in higher insurance premiums and therefore are committing fraud.
>      - David Horvath

    I thought New Jersey had the highest auto insurance rates in the
entire country. Also, how would PA and NY drivers registering in NJ
cost NJ drivers money? If anything, I would think NJ would benefit
from increased registration fee income. Also what do the out of state
people do for an NJ address? If they have a PA or NY address on their
NJ registration papers and/or NJ driver's license (or drive with NJ
tags and another state's driver's license) their homestate cops would
cite them for extra infractions if they were stopped for speeding, etc.
Of course, for NJ to allow registration using an out of state address
makes no sense either.
						   Steve
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.drugs,misc.jobs.misc
From: johne@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Eaton)
Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:02:41 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

David B. Horvath, CDP (MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com) wrote:
: I saw the included ad in Computerworld January 18, 1993, page
: 85 - the Computer Careers section.  They want your SSN before
: they even talk to you.  What for?
:------------
BTW: One scam that is showing up frequently in areas with high white
collar unemployment is the fake job ad. You place an ad designed to
appeal to a recently laid off middle manager. You will receive a deluge
of resumes containing work and salary historys and SSN's for a lot of
folks with excellent credit ratings. You can then apply for credit cards
in these folks names and charge up the wazoo. It has been done.


John Eaton
!hp-vcd!johne




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From: volpe@bart.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,ca.driving,misc.consumers,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Am I being sleazed by this insurance company?
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:29:48 GMT
Reply-To: volpe@ausable.crd.ge.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development

In article <lmc7ffINNq8b@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan26.220455.15604@cs.ucla.edu> coleman@twinsun.com writes:
|> >I applied for auto insurance yesterday and I'm trying to decide whether I've
|> >been sleazed.  I share an apartment with two women not otherwise related to me
|> >(i.e., they're basically strangers).  The insurance company informed me that
|> >if I didn't put them on my policy,
|> ---
|> 	How did the insurance company even find out about them?  It would
|> seem improper for an insurance company to ask who I lived with.
|> 
|> 
|> 	I've never heard of such weirdness.  I'd try some other companies.

My insurance company wanted this information. As for how the insurance company
found out about them, they simply ask you for the names of the other people
in the household who WON'T be listed as drivers. I wouldn't advise leaving
that blank, because if you're in an accident, and they find out you lied in
any way, shape, or form on your application, they can and will dump you.
But just tell them that your roommates refuse to give out their DL numbers.
What's the insurance company going to do? Refuse your money?

|> 
|> just my 2 cents,
|> -wat-
|> -- 
|> 
|> :: If pro-choice means choice after conception, does this apply to men too? ::

-- 
==================
Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr@crd.ge.com
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From: kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J. Kruse)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,alt.drugs,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
Date: 21 Jan 1993 04:27:27 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

David B. Horvath, CDP <MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:

>I saw the included ad in Computerworld January 18, 1993, page
>85 - the Computer Careers section.  They want your SSN before
>they even talk to you.  What for?

Actually many companies now require SSN #'s before they make a hiring
decision.   It is another means they can use to examine your life and
possibly check up on the validity of your resume.   The SSN is used
for credit checks.   They can see if you have bad credit and can use
that information to see if your resume is plausible.   If you claim
you had a high paying job and were sucessful at your previous employer
then they might wonder why you never paid your $300 a month rent on
time or were constantly delinquent to utility companies, etc....
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.privacy
From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: Anti-privacy is Anti-Caller ID)
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:14:56 GMT


Misc. Comments:

1) The value of just a phone number to a telemarketer is almost nil.
The value of a phone number combined with information about you is
high. The great thing about Caller-ID from (say) Radio Shack's point
of view is that it would allow them to target their flyers to more
likely customers. (Just as they do now with their in-store mailing
list).

2) I don't have to give my phone number to enter a store, why should I
have to give my phone number to call one?

3) Does anyone (except the phone company and "Radio Shack") oppose
call blocking?

- Carl


-- 
Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
 = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
From: cs737@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John B. Baron)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: Anti-privacy is Anti-Caller ID)
Date: 27 Jan 1993 07:46:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) quotes and writes:
 
>>do you let your daughter peep through the hole first?
 
>Hard to do if the anti-privacy types keep painting it over.
 
>>maybe its a flasher.
 
>Then all the more reason for their identity to be exposed before
                                                   ^^^^^^^
 
Yes!  I think we SHOULD expose flashers!
                        ^^^^^^
 
Bah-bah...bump!
Newsgroups: alt.privacy