HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ccrazy@athena.mit.edu (Ellen Kranzer)
Subject: Project Officer for Electronic Communications
Summary: Position Open in Boston, MA
Organization: LASPAU
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:31:54 GMT

Position Open:  Project Officer for Electronic Communications
Organization:  Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities 
(LASPAU).

Responsibilities:  Cooperates with LASPAU staff to ensure that Fulbright 
scholars are connected to BITNET and the Internet at their host 
universities.  Develops an electronic network of Fulbright scholars in the 
United States and Fulbright alumni in Latin America.  On behalf of and in 
cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean universities -- with the 
assistance of consultants to LASPAU -- develops and oversees plans to 
provide "value added services" to increase  electronic-mail message volume 
and the number of users in Latin American and Caribbean academic and 
research institutions.  Maintains electronic mail lists for other projects. 
Reports to Program Director.   


Qualifications:  Bachelor's degree in a related discipline.  Two to three 
years of experience with electronic-communications technology and 
communications Fluency in Spanish is required.  Knowledge of Latin American 
higher education systems a plus.


Hiring Salary:$26,400 - 33,800/year


Send Resumes to:

Joyce Lamensdorf
Personnel Officer
LASPAU
25 Mt. Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA  02138


The Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities (LASPAU), 
affiliated with Harvard University, is a nonprofit organization which 
assists in the development of universities and other public and private 
institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean.  LASPAU administers 
approximately 1,000 scholarships per year for Latin American and Caribbean 
professionals to pursue graduate studies in the United States.  The 
organization also offers specialized educational consulting services to 
institutions both inside and outside of the Americas.





Newsgroups: comp.society.development
From: hope@huracan.cr (Theodore Hope)
Subject: Re: Project Officer for Electronic Communications
Organization: Proyecto Huracan - Fundacion Nahual / San Jose, Costa Rica
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 17:28:16 CAM


In <1992Aug27.023154.7463@athena.mit.edu> ccrazy@athena.mit.edu (Ellen Kranzer) writes:

> Position Open:  Project Officer for Electronic Communications
> Organization:  Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities 
> (LASPAU).

> Responsibilities:  Cooperates with LASPAU staff to ensure that Fulbright 
> scholars are connected to BITNET and the Internet at their host 
> universities.  Develops an electronic network of Fulbright scholars in the 
> United States and Fulbright alumni in Latin America.  On behalf of and in 
> cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean universities -- with the 
> assistance of consultants to LASPAU -- develops and oversees plans to 
> provide "value added services" to increase  electronic-mail message volume 
> and the number of users in Latin American and Caribbean academic and 
> research institutions.  Maintains electronic mail lists for other projects. 
> Reports to Program Director.   

> Hiring Salary:$26,400 - 33,800/year

Boy, seems like LASPAU is willing to dump $30k a year on an unnecessary task.

All you really have to do, LASPAU, is identify (using this very medium) the
existing email systems throughout Latin America, and get your scholars off
their collective asses and hooked up.  Virtually all Latin American countries
have academic or non-profit email systems (reachable or connected to the
Internet and/or Bitnet) of one sort or another.  The few that don't have 
X.25 public data networks which allow users to connect to email systems in
other countries (neighboring or otherwise).

Cesar Galindo (the Mexican PhD candiate in computer science, who was doing
work with LASPAU) -- I think that's his name -- should know all of this!

 -Theodore Hope
  Proyecto Huracan - Fundacion Nahual
  San Jose, COSTA RICA
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: RE: FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
From: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

Paul,
There is also another factor which is important, i.e. how different a
disabled person looks. If there were no way of telling the difference
there would be little threat. Quite a future for plastic surgeons in
the cyborg era <grin>
h
?
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: ECONOMIC FUTURE
From: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:23:00 GMT
Reply-To: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

Apropos of your comments on people being able to afford cosmetic
surgery, there is a couple of very interesting article in the latest
(Sep/Oct) issue of The Futurist one predicting an economic depression in
the 90s and one predicting an economic boom. Can you get "The Futurist"
on tape. If not, let me know and I will record the articles for you.

Morris
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: RE: FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
From: paul.graziani@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Paul Graziani) 
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:34:00 GMT
Reply-To: paul.graziani@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Paul Graziani) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

-> Paul,
-> There is also another factor which is important, i.e. how different a
-> disabled person looks. If there were no way of telling the difference
-> there would be little threat. Quite a future for plastic surgeons in
-> the cyborg era <grin>

You have a much greater faith in human nature than I.  As soon as a more
than insignificant number of people learned that a person was "largely
artificial" I reason that the human response would be the same as many
people who are disabled face today.  As for the plastic surgeons.  Only
those who could afford major medical in the future (An extremely limited
number I surmise.)  would be able to afford the cosmetics that go with
the "naturalizing" of a cyborg body.  The rest of us peons I surmise
would be left with functional but less than desirable as far as
cosmetics are  concerned devices.
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: RE: FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
From: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Date: 1 Sep 92 06:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: morris.middleton@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Morris Middleton) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

Hmmm. I'm not sure that anyone who could afford to have the functional
changes would be unable to have the cosmetic ones as well. The sad thing
is that the functional "mods" may be out of reach of most people.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:01:22 GMT
From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: Feds seek customer records on "Grow-lamps"
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
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X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 075, Message 2 of 5

In <comp-privacy1.74.1@pica.army.mil> David writes:

>  Clearly you don't see the good that these cash-registers are doing.  They
>  are making records which can be examined to prove that you committed a
>  crime, just as soon as we get around to that particular crime...
>  
>  We all know that there are crimes so heinous that the people who perpetrate
>  these crimes must be caught and punished.

Operating grow lights is not a crime that has to be punished, or did I
get something wrong? ;-)

I know of people who routinely light their rooms with them, as they
prefer the daylight-like light temperature over the comon yellow. To
be punished, to be suspectible to marijuana growing, to what?

And now for the real concerns...

>  >	From: Dan Veditz <daniel@borland.com>
>  >
>  >	An AP story in today's paper (21 Aug 1992) date-lined 
>  >	San Francisco states that Federal prosecutors sought court
>  >	orders yesterday to force three local businesses to turn over 
>  >	their customer lists, sales receipts and shipping records 
>  >	for indoor "Growing lights" since the start of 1990.  They
>  >	also want copies of any correspondence mentioning marijuana.
>  
>  This particular ploy has been being used in the "war on drugs" for so
>  long that reporting on it used to be a regular feature of "High Times",
>  and even that venerable olde ragg "Rolling Stone".  

And you don't need cutomer registers (still very uncommon here in
Germany). Remember the journalist who has been arrested and held
custody for months just for buying a 20DM electronic alarm clock on
the charge of supporting terrorists, being observed by police in the
store. (That particular type of clock had been used 2 or 3 times in
terrorist bombs before.) She refused to tell the police the name of
the friend to whom she had given the clock, being sure that he would
be arrested too. And this is a country which is very aware of
protecting civil rights.



MfG,
        Olaf
-- 
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uknf@dkauni2.bitnet - praetorius@irc - +49-721-60439 - did i forget something?
Coding is "90% finished" for half of the total coding time. Debugging
 is "99 % complete" most of the time. - Fred Brooks
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:46:54 GMT
From: "Derek B. Noonburg" <derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: use of SocSec# as student ID
Organization: ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University
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X-Administrivia-To: comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil
X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 075, Message 3 of 5

Student IDs here at Carnegie Mellon are SSNs (I unfortunately didn't
know better when I enrolled).  I discovered that the registrar has a
form which one uses to request a new ID# (presumably of the same
series given to foreign students, etc.), so I submitted the form and
waited.  I found out, after talking to somebody in the registrar's
office, that if you are on university payroll, you can't have your ID
changed.  Their story is that "the payroll computer is linked to the
registration computer, so they both have to use the same number".
(Payroll needs the number to report to the IRS, of course.)

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
person's SSN makes it easier to get hold of personal info (other
reasons?), but I'd like some more specific examples that might
convince a bureaucrat.  References to newspaper articles ("this could
happen to you"), etc., would be great.

- Derek
--
Derek Noonburg                                derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:02:04 GMT
From: "Carl M. Kadie" <kadie@dante.cs.uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: Court Ruling on SocSec# at Rutgers, info needed
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 074, Message 3 of 4


(This excerpt is available on-line. Access information follows.)

=================
law/ferpa
=================
Excerpts from _College and University Student Records: A Legal
Compendium_, Edited by Joan E. Van Tol, 1989. Details the Family
Education Rights and Privacy Act's (Buckley Amendment's) provisions on
directory information. Van Tol's book is very good.

=================
=================

These document(s) are available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):

  pub/academic/law/ferpa

To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
name):

send acad-freedom/law ferpa
--
Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[Moderator's Note:  Thanks for the info.  If possible can you provide an
index of privacy related files available there for our readers. ._dennis ]
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:19:09 -0400
From: Ed Frankenberry <ezf@osf.org>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: Re: use of SocSec# as student ID [Computer Privacy Digest V1#073]
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Administrivia-To: comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil
X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 074, Message 4 of 4

Dave Grabowski <dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu> writes:

> One could say that the school could come up with some kind of new
> ID scheme, but wouldn't that basically come back to the same problem?

Many colleges/universities use 9-digit student ID numbers.  Mostly for
the sake of convenience, schools routinely request incoming students
to disclose their social security number to use the SSN as their student
ID number.  However not all students have an SSN (e.g. foreign nationals)
and some of us who do don't want to have it abused in this manner.

When I enrolled in grad. school the registrar was able to provide a
student ID number, just like they do for incoming foreign students.
In my case it looks like a fake SSN (it begins with a 9), and the
registrar assigns them sequentially.  Because it involves no extra
effort, the school may prefer to use your SSN, but they should
assign you a student ID number if you request it.

	Ed Frankenberry
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:30:28 GMT
From: keith.willis@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: you heard it here!
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 075, Message 1 of 5



        It's interesting to note that not more than three weeks after
        I was chatting in here with one or two others about the
        absolute lack of privacy in Cellphone communication, Her
        Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is allegedly taped, by a
        guy in his living room using a 900 scanner, having a
        Cellphone conversation with a 'male friend', said friend not
        being her husband.  Cue headlines in every rag tabloid in the
        UK, and probably several elsewhere.

        Maybe we should invite Diana to join the newsgroup here?  I
        would make a sizeable wager that had she known that such
        conversations can be intercepted at will, by anyone, she
        would indeed have been more discreet.  If, of course it _was_
        her voice on the tape.


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From: KEN219@delphi.com
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: USA Weekend - "They're Watching You"
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:41:17 GMT
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 075, Message 5 of 5

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.

--Ken Weber
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                           ken219@delphi.com
[Moderator's Note:  I saw that article too.  There was nothing really new
in it but it a good consolidation of how computers can be misused in
regards to privacy.  BTW, I do believe that the writer of the story broke
a few laws in claiming he was somebody else in getting the information he
did.  ._dennis]
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:12:41 EDT
From: Gordon Meyer <72307.1502@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
Subject: NBC's Secret Service
Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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X-Administrivia-To: comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil
X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 074, Message 5 of 4

The August 23, 1992 episode of NBC's "Secret Service" had a couple of
scenes that should make _any_ American cringe, but may likely
escape notice by many as they become a part of routine law
enforcement tactics.

The story was about counterfeiting, and featured a glorified scene
where an undercover agent was "arrested" with the suspects, and then
strategically placed in their holding cell so he could tell them that
they (the suspects) had squealed on each other during questioning.
Resulting in them virtually confessing their crimes (a murder in
connection with the fake bills) in front of the undercover agent.
It's unclear that the two were so stupid to refuse legal counsel, or
if they had even been given the opportunity.

Earlier in the same show, after a 'high technology' examination of a
counterfeit bill, an SS scientist pronounces that the paper used to
print the bill was "similar" to one sold by a Paper Mill in Oregon.
But he also noted that the ink and all other elements of the bill
seemed to point to South American origin.   Ignoring the latter, the
agent in charge immediately pronounced that they would 'obtain the
customer list from the Paper Mill.'

Obviously, in a show like this the line between fiction and reality
is easily blurred.  But in this case it's a safe assumption that
these tactics, while glossed over by the drama, are not fictional.
And I wonder how many people viewing that night even blinked at what
at this invasion of privacy?   

Gordon R. Meyer
Internet: 72307.1502@compuserve.com

From: tak@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Tom Keaveny)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:58:59 GMT
Subject: Re: WANTED: SCSI Guru
Organization: KTOM-fm --> playing all the bits
Newsgroups: comp.music

another possibility is to look into a manual SCSI switch:


			---------	-----------
	Ensoniq --------|	|	| syquest |
			|switch |----------+   +---[terminator
	MAC     --------|       |
			---------

this would allow either the keyboard or the MAC to "own" your drive.

You need to make sure that SCSI is inactive when you flip the switch, so
if the MAC uses the SCSI bus internally (I don't know much about the MAC)
this solution wouldn't be very feasible.

There is a company called "Black Box" which maxes these sort of switching
gizmoes.  You should be able to find a blurb on them in one of the PC 
magazines or Computer Shopper...


-----------
tom keaveny  (aka tak the hack @ Hewlett Packard:Systems Technology Division)
tak@hprnd
From: lidz@quads.uchicago.edu (adam lidz)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Technical Problem
Date: 29 Aug 92 19:59:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Aug29.195928.20404
Reply-To: lidz@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I'm having a technical problem.
First, here is my Hardware Configuration:
VGA Moniter
386sx/16
Roland Scc-1 Sound Card

I'm running MT-Pro, and have two problems:
1.  Whenever I choose instrument 128, it says "Invalid number, choose an
instrument between 0-127"
2.  All my drum sets are an octave high.  C5 gets changed to C6.

The Midi Port is setup to MIDI Mapper.
Under Windows, things are set up as follows:
I have both MPU-401 and Midi Mapper drivers installed.
Under Midi Mapper, I have the SetUp set to General MIDI, and I editted it so
the Port Names are "MPU-401" instead of Midi on SB Port.  Under Patch, I have
it set to "MT32" and under "Key" to +1 octave.
I tried changing the +1 octave to MT32, but it always insists that I use the Top(First) thing in the list (For both Key and Patch).

If it matters, I also have a regular Sound Blaster hooked up.

Please either post any responses, or mail them to me at:
lidz@nes.nersc.gov

Also, Problem #1 only started recently.
Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: rtaylor@hns.com (Randy Taylor)
Subject: Roland MT-32
Originator: rtaylor@rtaylor
Organization: Hughes Network Systems Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:28:22 GMT


I'm looking for information about Pan (Controller 10)
information transmitted to an MT-32.  The MT-32 docs
seem to indicate that dynamic panning is possible,
but I can't seem to get it to work, not to mention
static panning for the individual parts.  I'm looking for 
some assisitance/advice from more experienced MT-32 users
than I.

Many thanks,

Randy Taylor
rtaylor@hns.com (Internet)
73750.3557@compuserve.com (CompuSurf)
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From: sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: A CD (educational) by Wendy Carlos you should really listen to!
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:17:17 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: chowning.cnmat.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug28.145554.1808@atux01.att.com> jlc@atux01.att.com (Jim  
Collymore) writes:
> 
> by Wendy Carlos and it is called:  "SECRETS OF SYNTHESIS."
> 
> The great thing is is that she uses excerpts from many of her albums to  
let you
> HEAR the point.  Even down to hearing the individual parts/tracks in  
some cases,

I have to agree that this is an exceptional album in that it is a  
remarkable exegesis of one composer/arranger's working methods.  I found  
it hard to listen to in other aspects, though.  There are a number of  
times I felt like I was listening to a used car salesperson and that I  
wasn't the fool customer she took me for.  When she tries to make the  
point that natural orchestral instrument sounds are highly complex sonic  
events that cannot be easily modelled with simple synth patches, she uses  
artificial syntheses to demonstrate these instruments!  I was appalled  
when I heard her say, "for instance, listen to a trumpet" and then play a  
mediocre DX-7 quality synthesized trumpet!
--
Greg Sandell
Research Fellow, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
sandell@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.music
From: dbruyne@reks.uia.ac.be (Karel De Bruyne)
Subject: ensoniq sofware
Organization: U.I.A.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:27:29 GMT

Hi there,

I'm thinking about buying an ensoniq-sampler and am looking
for some information about downloading some samples (where
what files, ...) and what software I need to transfer these
samples to the sampler.

Is there a way to read/write ensoniq-diskettes on PC/MAC/Amiga ?
Is there software to modify the samples on one of these 
machines ?

Any other information is also welcome...

Thanks,

Karel De Bruyne
Computer Center
University of Antwerp (UIA)
Belgium
Newsgroups: comp.music
Newsgroups: comp.music

Hi everyone...

I am looking out to buy a rack mount sound unit to give me more polyphony and
also to get the sounds my U20 doesn't have.

This time round, I am looking at Yamaha units (the FM ones).  I would like
some advice as to which unit to get for maximum polyphony, sound, and savings.

Well, I definitely would not  need a sampler as I will probably not have the
time to learn sampling and all that jazz.  What I would want is something
with great sounds, or sounds that I can make great...yes...and something
with multitimbral sounds (like the U20).  Drums are not needed here as
the U20 already has pretty good drums.  Something capable of good e.piano
sounds would be GREAT...also good guitar sounds would be perfect.  

So please fire away with your advice and recommendations to:

nunis@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com


thanks folks!

simon ;)