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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:36:30 GMT
From: Morgan Toal <hannibal@iastate.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Experience: SSN as student ID, DL #
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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I'd like to relay an unfortunate experience I've had involving the use of
my SSN as a student identification number at Iowa State University.

When I enrolled, I requested to the admissions secretary that I did not
wish my SSN to be used as my student identification number. Easy enough;
I was assigned a bogus sequential number of the type which is typically
issued to international students attending ISU.

Unfortunately, when I applied for financial aid, I was told by an official
of that department that I could not receive any Federal financial aid
unless my SSN was used as my ID number. So, under pressure from ISU, my
parents, and from academic stress (finals week at Grinnell College), I gave
in and authorized the use of my SSN as my student ID number.

I did the most expedient thing; I need my Stafford loans. At the time
I had neither the energy nor resources to make a stand against this irritating
(and perhaps bogus) federal regulation.

Then the real headache was trying to get all the various departments at ISU
to change my ID number, half had updated to my SSN, half were still using
my other number. I registered in February, and after many dollars spent on 
long distance telco charges, it was at least August before the administration
had everything straightened out.

Truly, it's enough to make a person pull their hair out.

								Hannibal

Postscript:

Also, in Iowa, it appears that they REALLY want your DL number to be your SSN
as well. I was lucky enough to be assigned a non-SSN DL number when I first
got a learner's permit in 1984, apparently before this policy was initiated.

The last time I went to renew my license, in 1988, I was forced to go back
home to get my SSN card, since your own driver's license was, in itself,
apparently insufficent identification for renewing my DL if your DL number is
not your SSN. So I return, and they prepare my license, making my SSN my DL
number.

She hands it to me, and I noticed the change and protested. Surprisingly, I
was allowed to retain my old non-SSN DL number, even though she did have to
make me a new license.

Small victories do make life bearable. But I have to renew my license again
this December... we'll see what happens.

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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 18:57 PDT
From: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: Teletrac
Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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From: "K. Kadow" <technews@iitmax.iit.edu> writes:

>    I was talking to a local police officer (chicago metro. area) and he
> said that they are now endorsing Teletrac instead of the Lo-Jack
> system.
> 
>    The console for the Teletrac system includes functions to
> activate the automobile transmitter remotely,

So how long is it going to be before such devices will be a mandatory
part of each automobile sold in the US? And when can we expect laws
that make it a felony to disable even your own unit?

It is a law enforcement dream: if you want to know the whereabouts of
anyone, you can at least keep track of his car from a convenient
central location. Computers could even be used to record the movement
of each automobile and save that information indefinitely. The suspect
claims he went to the grocery store the evening of the 12th? Just pull
up the records and see.

-- 
        John Higdon         |   P. O. Box 7648   |   +1 408 264 4115
    john@zygot.ati.com      | San Jose, CA 95150 |       M o o !
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 20:44:19 -0500
From: James Woodgate <woody@cs.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: USA Weekend - "They're Watching You"
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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In article <comp-privacy1.75.5@pica.army.mil> KEN219@delphi.com writes:
>Has anyone read the article in the USA Weekend supplement entitled: 
>"They're Watching You"?  I knew that information is being compiled 
> in this manner at an alarming rate, but I had no idea it could be
>accessed _legally_ by outside sources.


I've read a lot of articles about information gathering,
but my favorite was something I saw on TV like 8 years ago.

Some kid when he was 10 years old gave a phony name to the
local ice cream store in order to get a free ice cream.

Imagine his surprise 8 years later when the phony name 
received a letter that since he was 18 now he needed to
register for the draft.

Did anyone else see this program???

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Date: 03 SEP 92 05:43   
From: MPA15AB!RANDY@trenga.tredydev.unisys.com
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: SSN on Post Card
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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Regarding the recent discussion of businesses which require disclosure of
social security numbers, there is an outfit running a "Let's Make a Deal"
900 number.  They run thirty-minute infomercials on local (LA area)
stations.  You can also write for game cards to play without calling.  The
900 number has various levels.  At each level you pick a number from 1 to 3,
and if you guess right you win.  Level one wins $10.  If you win you can keep
the money or try at the next level.  The odds are against you because the
game plays stupid music and asks stupid questions ("Who is buried in Grant's
Tomb?") that make it take long enough to win the $10 that the phone bill
exceeds that.

Anyway, the instructions for claiming a prize are to send them your name, age,
address, phone number, prize code, and social security number on a post card.
Talk about giving up your privacy!

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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 18:43:53 PDT
From: "Glenn S. Tenney" <tenney@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: SSN as College ID
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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My son went to a local junior college last summer.  Of course,
they wanted his SSN for his ID#.  Equally obviously we refused.
They kindly assigned him a number and questioned why giving
it out would bother us -- it is confidential 'you know'.

They posted class lists on each classroom door and...  You 
guessed it...  These printed lists included names and SSNs!
Some confidentiality!!

btw.  My son is 15, so I was there and able to firmly request
his SSN not be used.  I would think that most people would
just give in.

-- 
Glenn Tenney AA6ER
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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 07:18:20 GMT
From: Steven Hodas <hhll@milton.u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Decoding Social Security numbers
Organization: University of Washington
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I found this on CI$:

Decoding the Social Security Number
(from "Social-Security-Numbers And Other Telling Information:" 
by Simson Garfinkel, published in the Whole Earth Review, Fall 1989)
 
The first three digits of a person's Social Security Number indicate
the state that the person was living in at the time the number was
assigned (see table).  The exceptions to this rule are numbers in the 
700-729 range, which were issued by the Railroad Retirement agency, the 
only such retirement plan to have its own block of SSNs.
 
The fourth and fifth digits indicate the group number.  The sequence is
reported to be odd numbers from 01-09, then even numbers from 10-98, then
even numbers 02-08, and finally odd numbers 11-99.  All numbers issued
before 1965 are either odd numbers between 01 and 09, or even numbers 
between 10 and 98.  The last four digits are the "serial number," and run
from 0001 to 9999...
 
001-003 New Hampshire	318-361 Illinois	520     Wyoming
004-007 Maine		362-386 Michigan	521-524 Colorado
008-009	Vermont		387-399 Wisonsin	525     New Mexico
010-034 Massachusetts	400-407 Kentucky	585	New Mexico
035-039 Rhode Island	408-415 Tennessee	526-527	Arizona
040-049 Connecticut	416-424 Alabama		528-529 Utah
050-134 New York	425-428 Mississippi	530	Nevada
135-158 New Jersey	587-588 Mississippi	531-539 Washington
159-211 Pennsylvania	429-432 Arkansas	540-544	Oregon
212-220 Maryland	433-439 Louisiana	545-573	California
221-222 Delaware	440-448	Oklahoma	574	Alaska
223-231	Virginia	449-467	Texas		575-576	Hawaii
232-236	West Virginia	468-477	Minnesota	577-579	Washington, DC
232	N. Carolina (1)	478-485	Iowa		580	Virgin Islands
237-246	N. Carolina	486-500	Missouri	580-584	Puerto Rico
247-251	S. Carolina	501-502	N. Dakota	586	Guam
252-260	Georgia		503-504	S. Dakota	586	American Samoa
261-267 Florida		505-508	Nebraska	586	Phillipine Islands
589-595	Florida		509-515	Kansas		700-729	Railroad Retirement
268-302	Ohio		516-517	Montana	
303-317	Indiana		518-519	Idaho
 
(1) Number 232, with middle digits 30, has been allocated to North Carolina
from West Virginia.
From: rja@batcomfs.Eng.Sun.COM (rja@sun.com)
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: use of SocSec# as student ID
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:44:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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In article <comp-privacy1.75.3@pica.army.mil> "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu> writes:
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>
>I intend to write a letter to person I talked to at the registrar's
>office.  Here's my question: can anyone suggest some concrete examples
>of why it is a bad idea to have my SSN on my ID card?  Knowing a

    Here's an example of how you might potentially be scrwed if
    an unpleasant person got your SSN:

	Newsgroups: XXX.junk
	Subject: Stopping Social Security Payments
	Date: 29 May 91 16:14:28 GMT
	Lines: 26
	 
	I had a recent need to notify Social Security of
	the death of a relative so that SS would stop sending
	the monthly income check. I expected that they would
	demand some proof of death prior to actually stopping
	the cash flow. But no. Nada.
	 
	All it takes is one short phone call. All they need is 
	the name of the person, their SS#, the date of
	death, your name, relationship, and your home ph#. No
	followup in writing, just this. They did not even call
	me at home to verify anything.
	 
	What a scam! You could easily screw up someone real 
	well if you know their name and SS# (not hard to get)
	and then make up the rest.
	 
	I'll bet it takes mounds of paperwork to get SS payments
	restarted if there was a mistake.
	 
	As an aside, SS also told me that you must live the entire
	month to get the benefit for that month. No proration. They
	will reach into the bank electronically and pull out any
	excess payments they made. 

    Of course, a truly nasty person would make their point by
    doing this to the obnoxious bureaucrat in order to show how
    easy it is, but I wouldn't advise that :-(
--
Robert Allen, rja@sun.com		DISCLAIMER: I said it, not my company.

		    Samuel Addams: Brewer, Patriot.
From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Re: sequencers for e-drums
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:44:54 GMT

There was a sequencer for the Mac that was designed primarily for
drum programming and it was mentioned in a few Keyboard interviews
as being ideal for drum programming. I think you could do selective
randomizing on parts to get variations etc.. Unfortunately the name
escapes at the moment. I do know it was ported to the Atari ST and
its name changed to Realtime. The company who developed it decided to
get out of the s/w buisness and sold their s/w to Dr. T's music who
carries it. 

There was also an excellent drum programmer a few years ago in START
magazine (cover said 'MIDI Pros go Atari') called Master Drummer, 
written in GFA Basic. It gives you a large grid for programming
(sort of like the Roland TR707 display but with room for more sounds),
and has some really excellent randomizing functions (you can set 
percentages for each sound etc.). You can also link patterns together
to form phrases and string phrases to form songs. Quite a versatile
program. The program came on the START disk (the subscription to START
included a disc of programs with each issue - games, demos, utilities,
and sometimes some very useful programs like Master Drummer).
From: scot@asstdc.oz.au (Scot Art)
Sender: fredmail@asstdc.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Atari Falcons $799!!!!!
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 23:50:26 +1000

 GVH> From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)

 GVH> But let's not pretend that 640x480 is a desirable resolution in 1992.

But that depends on what you want to *do* with it. IF it allows me to run MIDI
and audio programs, fine, I couldn't care LESS about the graphics resolution,
as long as I can see what I'm using. VGA works just fine for me.

scot@asstdc.oz.au
From: tor@agon.sublink.org (Paolo Tortiglione)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: NEEDED: CakeWalk <--> MidiFile conv
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:09:37 GMT
Organization: Paolo Tortiglione - Acoustics & Computer Music Productions

mico@milano.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Michele Costabile) writes:

> Hi netters,
> 
> I do not think I want to upgrade old faithful Cakewalk to Cake pro
> or Cake for Windows but I want to import/export songs to Finale or
> other programs.
> Any pointers to source/executables?

HAve you the MIDI to ASCII Utility ?



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From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: Where can I find MOD songs?
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:17:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.042734.2937@athena.cs.uga.edu> kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) writes:
>
>You can get them at a lot of FTP sites, actually.  However, most would be
>found at sites which carry Atari ST and Amiga files.  One place I *KNOW* 
>that has several megabytes worth of MOD's is atari.archive.umich.edu in
>atari/sounds/mods/.  There are several large archives of MOD files in
>there.
>

For Atari mods, they are two tracks or four tracks?
From: mrk@gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: resistance -> CC box
Date: 7 Sep 92 23:56:21 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley  CA

In article <6SEP92.17390401@earvax.waisman.wisc.edu>
                                  macpherson@earvax.waisman.wisc.edu writes:
>Electronic Musician had an article, last year I think, on building a "MIDI
>Fader" box. This had 8 channels, and a couple of different controller
>assignments. I could find the exact issue number, but they have an annual
>index in each December issue.

It's the Feb '91 issue.  There was a similar project in the March '90 issue,
but it had some problems.  The latter is 8031 based, using a '373 latch and
a 2764 EPROM, and an ADC0809 analog to digital converter.  One can obtain a
PC board and programmed 2764 for $36 and $12 respectively, as well as a
program listing for $3.50 from the article's author (Kent Clark, P.O.Box 322,
Madison, AL 35758).  Source and object code can be downloaded from PAN, the
Performing Arts Network.

I have asked the rec.music.synth readership twice for anyone who has access
to PAN to email me the code, with no success.  Let me take this opportunity
to ask again:  If anyone has obtained this code, I would very much appreciate
a copy via email.

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From: josh@osf.org (Joshua Goldman)
Subject: Looking for tuning/tone recogition program
Keywords: tone recognition
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:23:21 GMT

Are there any programs that can take sound input and analyze the tone?
I'm wide open to any hardware/software for background information purposes
but have a 386 DOS machine (and an old apple IIe clone).

What I'm actually looking for is something to help me learn to sing on
key.  I've looked at one electronic tuner and it seemed to require too
pure a tone for me to get a reading consistently.  I'm hoping that there
is some program that has some parameters that lets you adjust the window
of acceptable tone shapes (or something like this, I'm not familiar with
the buzzwords in this field).  I suspect that this kind of tonal 
analysis is on the more challenging end of the spectrum (fuzzy logic,
AI, whatever), but it would be great if there was some commercial software
(relatively affordable) or shareware (sources would be ideal) that exists.

This request is different from the range of most of the articles on this
newsgroup (after an extensive 4 days of reading it) and is not handled in
the FAQ but this seems like the logical news group to ask it.

One more small attempt at flame suppression: I know that using any kind
of tone analyzer would not be a good primary method to learn to sing.
Obviously a human teacher is the correct way to do it (unless we've made
some amazing advances in AI that I've missed).  But I'm looking for a 
supplemental way to help learn to hear and reproduce tone ranges.  [I did
see the bit in the FAQ about the software that generates randomn tone 
intervals.]  By the way, if anyone knows a good voice teacher in the Boston
area who has experience working with the singing impaired :), let me
know.

thanks
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Joshua Goldman josh@osf.org 617-621-8857
Open Software Foundation
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From: johnj@echo.philips.nl (John Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: sequencers for e-drums
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:48:23 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, E.C.H.O. development department

scot@asstdc.oz.au (Scot Art) writes:
> JPS> From: jps@hatch.socal.com (J. P. Scott)
> JPS> among the collective net wisdom, is there a sequencing program
> JPS> that is atop the "short list" for programming drum computers?

>Sure, I have Cubase (on an ST but also available for Windows and Macs), and I
>have never seen another sequencer with as powerful a drum pattern editor as it
>has. Beware this is an expensive program, however.

Well, what shall I say...

My first MIDI program for the atari (sold commercially) was just that.
A drumcomposer program. As I owned Pro-24 of Steinberg those days, I
missed a good drumeditor in it, so I made it myself. Steinberg just
copied my idea and put it in their pro-24 version 3 program and later
in Cubase. Honestly, I have to admit: they improved it.

The name of my program was "OME DRUMCOMPOSER" (or shortly OMEDRUM.PRG) and 
distributed on the LOWLAND lable of MOPRO (Utrecht, Netherlands).
It was just a low cost program: DFL.99 (50 US$). It could save the created drum
sequence in several formats, like Steinberg' pattern format or in its own BLK format.
Later version also could save it as MIDIFILE and as C-lab's *.SEQ format.

Sorry, I had to react...

Needless to say that the program is no longer available and Cubase's 
drum editor is the best available now. 

John.
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From: sbate@atl.ge.com (Stephen Bate)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: For sale: Mac, MIDI SW, DW8000, etc.
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:35:03 GMT
Reply-To: sbate@atl.ge.com
Organization: GE Advanced Technology Laboratories

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From: wang@hp4at.eunet.co.at (Wang)
Subject: Softwareinterface to M.ROS wanted!!
Organization: EUnet EDV-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft m.b.H
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:59:26 GMT

In order to control internal soundcards from Cubase for Windows I need a
description of Steinbergs M.ROS operatingsystem to write appropriate drivers.
I know nothing about the internal structure, so any hint, pointer,
help is appreciated!!!

Thanks in advance!
/m

-- 
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From: stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold)
Subject: Re: Music Time
Organization: Sinus Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:14:45 GMT

icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking) writes:

>In <1992Sep1.124243.4441@bb1t.monsanto.com> cksnod@bb1t.monsanto.com writes:

>I do not understand that there are notation software demos which cannot print.
>I have a Finale-Demo which cannot print, too. At least these demos should
>be able to print a demo-file! I want to look at a printed output and in
>addition want to know how long it takes to print a page.

Where can I order such a Finale demo ?



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