HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Timed life keys - or keys that expire after MM minutes
Distribution: na
Date: 22 Aug 92 17:31:53 GMT

dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu (David H. Chien) writes:
>After the time that was programmed into the key has expired, the key would
>'forget' the shape, leaving it useless for future access.  So even if you
>forget to pick them up after loaning them out, they're no good.

They'd probably be a little too expensive to lose so casually.
Also, they could be copied in the interim, on to normal keys.
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: dingbat@cix.compulink.co.uk (Codesmiths)
Subject: Re: Safes
Cc: dingbat@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: dingbat@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:35:35 +0000


> Another thing to look for is a used safe.  The best buys would probably
> be at auction sales of failed businesses.


Even better is a safe given away for free. My Dad has a haulage firm,
and quite a few times now we've collected old safes from businesses
that wanted rid of them (new safe, business closure or whatever).
Moving a big safe (especially a heavy fire safe) is an expensive
business, and it's not unusual to strike a "You get it out of here
and you can have it" deal.

I acquired a nice big mag-media rated fire safe this way.


          Andy Dingley    dingbat@cix.compulink.co.uk
From: struggle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (robotron)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: How can I make my own tools and be self-sufficient?
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:45:18 GMT
Reply-To: struggle@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (robotron)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: struggle@thumper.cc.utexas.edu

Hi Folks:

	I have really mentally learned a lot from reading this news group, but
I unfortunately do not have picks or tension wrenches to practice. 
I've called up MANY local locksmith stores and asked whether they sell picks; 
none of them would consider selling their tools of trade. One of them told me 
that I need to go to a locksmith school first before I can carry lock picks.

	After all these troubles, it seems to me that I have to be 
self-sufficient. I would like to ask whether anyone has made his or her own
picks and wrenches before, and how I can make my own tools so that I can
practice.

	Thanks in advance.

--
robotron
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: cbs+@cs.cmu.edu (Clauss Strauch)
Subject: cardkey system advice?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:57:16 GMT

	We have some folks here who are setting up a small lab and are 
worried about security.  They are thinking about installing some sort of 
cardkey system. At a minimum, this system would keep track of the times at 
which people enter the lab and allow for expiration of cards.

	Unfortunately, nobody here has any experience at setting up such a
thing. Does anybody out there have advice on such issues as how much a system
like this should cost, particular pitfalls to watch out for, warnings or
recommendations 'bout vendors, etc?

	Any advice would be appreciated.
					-- Clauss Strauch
                                           cbs+@edrc.cmu.edu


Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
Subject: Re: Paper clips
Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 19:58:09 GMT

In article <6847@stan.xx.swin.oz.au> ov@saturn.cs.swin.oz.au (Owen Veenstra) writes:
)In article <Bsw5CE.2xC@wrs.com>, gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven) writes:
)|> In article 121@wrs.com, I wrote:
)|> >A couple of weeks ago, someone posted some ASCII graphics describing
)|> >how to pick a lock using two paper clips.  I printed the article but
)|> 
)|> The article was written by Doug Jones on 20 Jul 92...I'll email a copy
)|> to all requestors, unless 1) Doug objects, or 2) he reposts the
)
)
)   I, too, would be interested in receiving such an article.
)   I thank you in advance if you email such an aritcle to me.
)
)                          Yours,
)                          The Mighty O.

I've had some success with a paperclip and a hairpin, or 2 hairpins, but just 2
paperclips doesn't work that well because they aren't stiff enough to provide
the needed tension.
-- 
    I'm not afraid of being dead- it's getting there that scares me.

technews@iitmax.iit.edu                           kadokev@harpo.iit.edu
                         My Employer Disagrees.
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Interesting note
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:12:51 GMT

A few months back a friend of mine locked his
keys in his car, with the engine running, when 
we had stopped at a CoCos for breakfast.  His car
had the slide type locks.  We ended up getting the
lug wrench out of my vehicle, and finding a pointed
rock that fit into the "socket" on the end of the 
wrench, and went in through the window, which he had
very nicely left down a little under an inch.  

After some strange gyrations, we managed to get the 
slide to do its thing.  Improvised tools are the most
fun sometimes.  He is lucky we didn't drop a hundred
rocks in there before getting it to work...

Doug
--
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: damage to locks by picking
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:54:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:
: >
: > Most house keys are also steel.
: 
: Most house keys are brass.  Those that aren't tend to be some other
: relatively soft metal.  Steel keys would tend to eat up the key machine's
: cutter.

It has been a few years since I did locksmithing for a living. Quite a few
years, for that matter. The key assortments I purchased at that time, from
one company, were all magnetic. This tells me they were iron or steel of
some sort - I doubt if they were nickel.

: While professional picks tend to be smooth, it's possible that home-made
: picks could have some rough edges that would result in hacksaw action
: during rapid raking.

It is a good idea to smooth all your picks - even the professional sets.
They are stamped out by a machine, and can also be rather rough. I also
round off the sharp edges and slightly dull any points. Neither hurts how
they work, and they do not usually mark the pins.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
From: chernikh@fraser.sfu.ca (Paul Michael Chernikhowsky)
Subject: Re: Telephones
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:17:10 GMT


In article <BtBKxp.JLD@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> cmarsigl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Klif Marsiglio) writes:
>Anyone ever pick a pay telephone??? I never was able to get one open no matter
>what we did and we finally had to shoot it open :) (It was a friends, he brought
>it from home -- I would never run down a telephone booth just to steal a 
>telephone :)
>
>Klif M.
>

Pay phones in British Columbia use Medeco cam locks...

'nuff said.

--

Paul Chernikhowsky              "If things always get worse before they get
 chernikh@sfu.ca                "better, how do things ever get better?" - me
From: stormoen@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael D. Stormoen)
Newsgroups: alt.locksmithing
Subject: Re: Paper clips
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:36:46 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <Bsw5CE.2xC@wrs.com> gak@wrs.com writes:
>In article 121@wrs.com, I wrote:
>>A couple of weeks ago, someone posted some ASCII graphics describing
>
>Found it...thanks to Hobbit's archives (anonymous ftp to 
>
>lost your addresses.)
>
Here's mine:  stormoen@plains.nodak.edu

Thanks!

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg)
Subject: Re: parsley precursor
Organization: The Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:46:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.190143.2880@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au> u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au writes:
>It [apiole] would be a fine precursor for one of the DMMDA's - not a bad
>amphetamine hallucinogen. But boiling down tonnes of parsley to
>get parsley oil, and then fractionating it to get apiole,
>redistilling a few times to purify it, isomerising it in KOH
>to get iso-apiole, oxidising to a phenyl acetone, and reductively

I don't think you'd want to isomerize it -- the Markownikoff addition
product is just the thing.  Unless I'm mis-remembering -- apiole is
the 1,2-ene, no?

>just that oil of sassafras is available from some chemists and
>most health food stores around here.

When you write "chemist" do you mean what Americans would call a
pharmacist?  I've never tried to find oil of sassafras.  I just
assumed that, given the recent flap over grow-lights and hydroponic
equipment, oil of sassafras would be hard to find in this country.

>Good luck. Do let me know if you have any success.

Actually, I am a [computational] chemist.  And just for fun I do have
sitting around somewhere isosafrole, phenylacetone, and heliotropin
(probably completely oxidized by now), plus, I used to grow great
numbers of Heavenly Blue Morning Glories (they provide great shade
for carrots, cabbage, &c).  But my drug-making is solely limited to
getting ready to brew my first batch of ale (I'm shooting for a
traditional English pale).  I just want to have some small part in
anything that gives grief to those who presume to decide how someone
else should live (read, government).
-- 
David J. Heisterberg (djh@osc.edu)       What men value is not rights
The Ohio Supercomputer Center            but privileges.
Columbus, Ohio                             -- H.L. Mencken
From: andre@vifp.monash.edu.au (Andre Ambrose)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: FREE 1-YEAR NRA MEMBERSHIPS (Not Here!
Date: 14 Aug 92 06:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: andre@vifp.monash.edu.au
Organization: Victorian Institute of Forensic Pathology, Australia
Originator: news@brain


If you believe guns dont kill youre a idiot.
From: mage@plague.caltech.edu (Myke Hoskins)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Post-trip free association problems -- is this normal?
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:58:09 GMT
Organization: Bughunters, Inc.


>lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis) writes:
>: In article <orange.713665326@cunews>, orange@alfred.carleton.ca (Paul Vallee) writes:
>: 
>: How long do the effects of LSD last?
>[more stuff deleted]
>:     "The tolerance lasts a week"

>Not entirely true.  If you do an awful lot, then there may be some
>tolerance level at work.  However, I've known plenty of people who've
>tripped more than once in a week, in fact more than once in a few
>days, and there was certainly no tolerance problem present.


>  VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
>             Mason Jones           Charnel House Productions
>             P.O. Box 170277, San Francisco 94117-0277 U.S.A.
>   ...{uunet,sun}!hoptoad!dante!mason   or   dante!mason@hop.toad.com
  
	It's been my experience that about three days is the minimum
time to wait before you can expect a trip like the first one on the same
dose.  I've had success tripping the night after, but only if it had been 
quite a while since I had tripped before and I increased the dosage by
about 1.5-2 times.  Three nights in a row had never worked before.
	I've even noticed marked tolerance affects after a week, though;
especially if it's been a period of doing it every weekend.
	But about the best I've been able to determine based on many 
different experiences and time periods is that the tolerance effect,
although fairly regular, can have very large variations.
	Anyone else had these kind of experiences?
mage
From: Xanadu@kublai.com
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: RE: Poppies & Opium
Date: 14 Aug 92 07:17:06 GMT

Hi again,

	In keeping with the present tone of a.d flaming and to preempt the inevitable,
allow me the pleasure of flaming my earlier post myself : 

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

>	using them for an illegal purpose. Since then, I have come
>	across a field of poppies, and was wondering if the original
>	poster, or anyone else, can tell me if all poppies are "useful"
>	to some degree, or if it's species dependant.
                                   ^^^^^^^

	Listen, asswipe, all poppies are the same species. Jeez, you
	scum spewing, motherfucking, asslicking toe rag, what the fuck
	do you think that you're doing posting to this group? Christ,
	every fucking kid and his grandmother knows about species. So
	haul your fucking ass of this board fast. Don't even bother
	getting a life, finish the one you've got. Holy shit, don't you
	guys know anything ?

		Species my ass,
			Halo Pedant.



Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Subject: Re: Marijuana: Don't barbecue your brain
Keywords: Thanks, Dave!
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:04:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.185730.28159@eos.arc.nasa.gov> shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum) writes:
>In article <Bt6v7o.4H@wrs.com> gak@wrs.com writes:
>>This is some really incredible stuff.  I don't know when/where it was
>>originally published, and I don't know whether/when it was ever posted
>>here, but here goes.  For all I know, it might even be a put-on, but
>>it's good for a laugh anyway...
>>
>>		      Marijuana:                         _underscore_ == italics
>>	       Don't barbecue your brain
>>	
>>	Pot, weed, dope, grass - millions of people,
>>	
[Majority of article deleted]

>>	       The Partnership for a 
>>		 Drug-Free America
>>
>>---
>>gak			Der Herr Buergermeister gibt bekannt, dass ab
>
>
>
>Considering the informed nature of this post, I would cite it
                                         ^^^^
>in either the mid 1930's, or 1992.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>                            R ****
>                             I
>                              C
>                          **** K	
>

Upon reading this, I realize I should have used "article", "blurb",
or some similar term. By using "post", it may seem to imply that I
assumed the PDFA article was the opinion of the poster. I am sure
it is not, and appologize for any misunderstanding.

Rick
From: tcederqu@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Trevor Cederquist)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Yohimbe (MAOI, alpha2 andrenergic antagonist or ??)
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:12:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


 
Additionally, Dyer answers:
 
>>Question: Yohimbine (from the yohimbe bark) is supposedly a potent MAO
>>inhibitor.
>
>No, it's not.  It's a alpha-2 adrenergic antagonist.
 

	I just checked medline quickly.  I got it as an
	alpha 2-NORandrenergic antagonist (3 references.)
	I crossed refernced with MAOI and got no records.
	
Trevor C. Cederquist
From: liron@CCSG.TAU.AC.IL (Liron Kapara)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: mace / nutmeg
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:57:12 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 3:55:27 IDT

I have heard mace and nutmeg (spice) are hallusinative
is it true ?
is there any danger in them ?
how much and how should one consume for it to be activ?
-liron


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From: u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Yohimbe
Date: 20 Aug 92 06:00:29 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <1992Aug18.220441.24614@ctr.columbia.edu>, locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN) writes:
> Question: Yohimbine (from the yohimbe bark) is supposedly a potent MAO
> inhibitor. It is commonly available through health food stores as a natural
> stimulant/diet pill. Would this make a good mix with oral DMT or is it the
> beta-carbolines (i.e. Harmaline & related stuff) that are necessary to 
> activate DMT orally?
>  Thanx in Adv.

Damn good question. I would really like to know the answer. I would
really like to know if any MAOI will orally activate DMT or if
it is via some synergy with the beta-carbolines (which are
supposed to have some hallucinogenic activity of themselves
in high doses). I have no idea if this area of pharmacology
has been properly researched at all: the stuff about the
monoamine oxidase inhibition has been *suggested* by Nichols
et. al., but I haven't yet read any conclusive papers on
the subject. Perhaps there are good papers on this, but I
haven't found them yet.    
...Petrus?...

Jeremy
jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au
From: u8951608@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: parsley precursor
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:01:42 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

In article <1992Aug11.174851.29509@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>, djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes:
> Eric Snyder is right.  The group is about drugs -- let's enjoy our
> 1st Amendment while we have it!
> 
> But to the subject.  I haven't come across a copy of Shulgin's PIKHAL
> (I know, I should have kept the address when it was posted a while ago)
> but I've always thought that apiole, a component of parsely oil, would
> be a good precursor for a potential hallucinogen.  Is it mentioned in
> PIKHAL?  I imagine that parsley oil would be is easier to come by than,
> say, isosafrole.

It would be a fine precursor for one of the DMMDA's - not a bad
amphetamine hallucinogen. But boiling down tonnes of parsley to
get parsley oil, and then fractionating it to get apiole,
redistilling a few times to purify it, isomerising it in KOH
to get iso-apiole, oxidising to a phenyl acetone, and reductively
aminating it to an amphetamine sounds like a lot of hard work to
me. Mind you, the chemistry is the same as for safrole, it's
just that oil of sassafras is available from some chemists and
most health food stores around here.

Good luck. Do let me know if you have any success.

Actually, perhaps a better candidate, now I come to think about it
is nutmeg oil. Fractionate that (still a bit tricky), to
get out the 6% safrole, 4% myrsiticin, and 1% elemicin,
and proceed as above to a mix of MDA, MMDA, and TMA. That
could be quite a lot of fun.

Jeremy
jeremy@rsc3.anu.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: chem91@Rosie.UH.EDU ("Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789")
Subject: Re: info on open container laws needed ...
Reply-To: chem91@Rosie.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:41:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.035930.26601@genie.slhs.udel.edu>, starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
>Isla Vista, CA, has ineffective open container laws.  IV is a geographically
>isolated area about 1 square mile directly adjacent to the University of
>California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).
>
>As you may have guessed, the student population of IV is about half.  On many
>nights (weekends given, and some weeknights), crowds of drunken students walk
>about the streets.  They used to do this drinking beer from cups.  Since a
>open container law was passed, they merely drink the beer off the streets.
>Then they walk about.
>
>If the purpose of he law was to reduce public drunkenness, it failed.  If
>it was to reduce occurence of the offense known as "drunk and disorderly," it
>failed.  Even if its purpose was merely to reduce the number of beer cups
>littered on the streets, it failed.  Empty cups are carried and strewn about.
>
>I can't think of a purpose this law accomplished, unless it was to increase
>revenue for the Foot Patrol, which figures aren't known to me.  I know this
>is only anecdotal, but its's a start.
>
>
>Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
>
>"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten
>oneself and others." - Voltaire

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

And many _street people_ in IV totally disregard the ope container law in
any event, and appear to be tolerated by the local Isla Vista Foot Patrol
(community police, roughly). 

I think the law was enacted for at least two reasons:

* officially, to help "control" (give an excuse to arrest) rowdy behavior 
at the "notorious" Hallowe'en event...

* because the Santa Barbara political establishment (with some very notable
exceptions) doesn't like IV, dont care about students (they vote in 
pathetically-small numbers), and wish the place didn't even exist. As a 
matter of fact, their short-sighted "planning" in the 60s created the whole
overcrowed mess...

Bill
(an ex-Goletan)

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| University of Houston, TX  >-----------<         reality itself"     |
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN)
Subject: Re: Question about LSD (Microdot)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:49:53 GMT
X-Posted-From: titan.ucc.umass.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug8.205732.25291@reed.edu> bowman@reed.edu (Eric Bowman (bobo)) writes:
>In article <1992Aug8.164729.26073@linus.mitre.org> lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug7.231836.28389@nmsu.edu>, rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good) writes:
>>>Question:  Would it have been possible for the pills to evaporate some how?
>
>>No.  They might melt, though.  Check the bags for residue -- it might still
>>be good.  But I don't think that that's what happened.
>
>Keith!  That's pretty bad advice.  If they melted, what's left is definitely
>not worth taking. This particular molecule doesn't particularly like this world
>very much, and heat, light, finger oil, etc. etc.  tend to turn it into
>strychnine! ;

The above statement is false. LSD will NEVER turn into strychnine, the two 
molecules are not related at all! It is true that heat etc. may diminish its
potency, but the decay products are in such small quantity, that any danger
from these is minimal (even if all the LSD turned into strychnine it wouldn't
even give ya the shivers-not enough of it!) if there was any danger to start 

with.

-Scott



Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: cavasin@convex.com (Vince Cavasin)
Subject: Re: MDMA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:38:38 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

pgoldman@terapin.com (Pete Goldman) writes:

>Hey - Just wondering about the accumulative effects of repeated mdma use....
>anyone know any facts?.....other than the sort of spaced out surreal feeling...
>( which should (gulp) go away in time...) are there any long term effects?....
>oh... & is it a mere rumor that it drains your spinal fluid?.... any info would
>be killer... 
>   
> pEacE...

yes.  clinical studies have shown that long term MDMA use makes people
randomly capatilize letters when they type, and make up words.

-vince