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From: Brian.Lane@p0.f162.n138.z1.fidonet.org (Brian Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:24:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: puddle.16507.2AFB1930
Organization: FidoNet node 1:138/162.0 - Callahan's Place, Ashford WA

In a message of 02 Nov 92  22:52:31, William Unruh wrote:

WU> From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
WU> Date: 2 Nov 1992 23:22:06 GMT
WU> Organization: The University of British Columbia
WU> Message-ID: <1d4d6uINNq7s@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
WU> Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
WU> 
WU> starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
WU> 
WU> >The main factor making our firearms violence rates to high in some places
WU> >are people turning to crack dealing out of desperation with ghetto
WU> poverty.
WU> 
WU> Your firearm death reate was high long before crack.

  No, it wasn't, and it isn't.  The current reported Death rate - according to Peter Jennings is 34,000 a year.  In a country of 250,000,00 this is less than 1% - actually 0.0136% of the population.  More people are killed in car accidents.

WU> >You're apparently ignorant of any distinction between command-and-control
WU> >regulation from the "public sector" and contractual terms in the "private
WU> >sector".  You don't have to deal with RSA if you don't consent to it.  If
WU> >you refuse to deal with the government, it deals with you.
WU> 
WU> Yes I do. If I try to use public key cryptography to protect my privacy,
WU> the whole force of the legal system will back RSA's patents. No matter
WU> how much I try to avoid them RSA will coerce me to deal with them.
WU> Of course you may argue that patent laws should not exist, they are
WU> simply another coercive regulation of the Govt. In that case however,
WU> the evidence seems to be that the economic arguements are on the side of
WU> the Govt regulations.

  In this case I believe that PKP's patent on the RSA algorithm is illegal.  It was funded by public tax dollars, and therefore should belong to everyone in the U.S.

    -Brian

PGP available for File Request(via Fidonet) as PGP20ST(Atari ST) and PGPIBM


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From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Privacy problem, "list all people with little data"
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 08:26:03 GMT

Another disturbing thought has come to me.

As databases grow, those who have them, in particular the government,
will be able to run searches to list all people on whom there is not a wad
of data in the various public databases.

Throw in a few parameters to remove the people who are naturally in the
low-data class, such as rural people, the homeless etc. and the result
is a list of those who are actively watching what data they give out.  Us.

In other words by refusing to give your address all the time, by hiding your
SSN, you will instead stick out like a sore thumb.

Some agencies might then make such people objects of particular investigation.
That could include both news agencies and government agencies.

Which means that we must do more than just not give away our data.  We
must convince everybody else not to give away their data so that it is the
norm.

I'm normally pretty solidly on the anti-legislative side of the privacy
protection spectrum, but this makes me wonder.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
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From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Query: Can Universities limit network access &/or 'spy` on users?
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:09:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov2.041052.28698@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:
>What infuriates me is HOW WOULD THEY KNOW HOW PEOPLE ARE USING THIS STUFF?  
>The only why I see that they would know is if they are spying on student 
>activties, ie reading their mail to see if its serious or not, etc.  Frankly
>this is totally unethical, but is it illegal?  I would think users would have
>some right to privacy in their accounts from the sysadms spying on them.

Nope, you have no rights whatsoever.  Public telnet gateways throughout
the world are logged and everyone who uses them should be aware of this.

The ostensible reason for this monitoring to to catch people hacking other
systems, but I see no way of stopping unprincipled sysnazis from using the
information for their own gain.

G
(If anyone knows of any *laws* that stop sysnazis monitoring
accounts and telnet sessions, especially in Britain, please post)
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From: bbaker@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Bill Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Call for papers: Hardware Accelerators for VLSI Design
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:39:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov6.203906.13535
Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland WA
Originator: bbaker@beta.tricity.wsu.edu


                          
                            Call for Papers

                            Special Issue on

                 Hardware Accelerators for VLSI Design

VLSI DESIGN: An International Journal of Custom-Chip Design, Simulation and
Testing

A special issue of the VLSI Design Journal will be devoted to Hardware 
Accelerators for VLSI Design.  Topics of interest include, but are not 
limited to, the following:

	* Accelerators for logic simulation
	* Accelerators for analog simulation
	* Mixed analog/digital simulation acceleration
	* Parallel architectures for simulation acceleration
	* Placement, routing, and design-rule-check engines
	* Parallel, distributed simulation algorithms
	* Accelerators for VLSI testing and fault simulation

Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages (about 6000 words)
in lenth including all figures and references.  Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper,
full name(s) and affliation(s) of the author(s), complete physical and
electronic address(es), telephone number(s), and an abstract.

DEADLINES

	* Four copies of the full manuscript are due by March 1, 1993
	* Notification of acceptance is July 1, 1993.


Send Submissions and Questions to:

Dr. Ausif Mahmood, Guest Editor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Washington State University at Tri-Cities
100 Sprout Road
Richland, WA 99352

Phone: (509) 375-9234
Email: mahmood@beta.tricity.wsu.edu


Dr. George W. Zobrist, Editor-in-Chief
Department of Computer Science
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO 65401

Phone: (314) 341-4492
Email: c2816@umrvmb.umr.edu
From: macg@trlabs.CA (Mike MacGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Sigcomm 1990 tutorial notes available ?
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:34:25 GMT
Organization: TRLabs, Edmonton

I'd like to buy a copy the 1990 Sigcomm tutorial notes,
if they're available anywhere. Any pointers are appreciated;
please mail me direct.

Thanks,
Mike MacGregor    macg@trlabs.CA

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From: mcia@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm,wny.events,ny.seminars
Subject: Rochester ACM: Professional Certification 11/12/92
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:15:18 GMT
Distribution: wny
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

~sRochester ACM: Professional Certification, 11/12/92
November Meeting
Thursday, November 12, 1992
Creme de la Creme, 295 Alexander Street

CERTIFICATION AND YOU
Jan B. Wilson, CDP

Jan has been an active member of the Institute for Certification of Computer
Professionals for over 5 years. She will present an overview of the
Institute, the examinations it offers, the certification designations
professionals can earn, and the history bringing us to where we are today.

Jan will explain the structure of the ICCP examinations and the examinations'
life cycle.  Included in the presentation is a discussion of some of the
issues relating to the definition of a profession and professionalism as well
as the requirements of the ICCP for maintaining a professional certification
designation.

What does certification mean, especially when contrasted to licensing?  Along
the way, Jan will tell you what certification means to her and what it may
mean to you.  And together, we can speculate on the future.

Jan Wilson has been actively involved with certification of computer
professionals for over a decade, starting with the 1981 formation of a joint
committee for certification representing the Syracuse area chapters of the
computing societies ACM, ASM and DPMA.

Jan has worked on the international level with ICCP, the organization which
offers the CDP, CCP and CSP professional designations. Jan served on the CDP
Council from 1987 to 1989, when she became one of ACM's two representatives
to the ICCP Board of Directors.

Jan is currently the Manager of Systems Programming for the IBM VM system in
the Client Services Department of Computing Services at Syracuse University. 
In the past she also has had responsibility for VMS, Unix, and MVS systems,
was an applications programmer for the University's library system, and even
worked as an applications programmer in the insurance industry before moving
to Syracuse.

Jan held her first ACM Chapter office in the 1970s, was elected to the
Chapters Committee in 1980, directed the Chapter Leadership Workshop Program
from 83 through 85, served two terms as Chapters Board Chairman from 85 to
89, was the Chapters Liaison to the SIG Board from 89 to 91, and has just
been re-elected to the ACM Council for a second four-year term as Member-at-
Large.

Schedule:      5:30 p.m. Social Hour
               6:30 p.m. Dinner
               7:30 p.m. Speaker

Dinner Choices:
               Santa Fe Chicken: $13.00
               Vegetable Lasagna: $12.00
               Tenderloin Tip Salad: $12.50

               Dinners include salad, beverage, gratuity, and Creme de la
               Creme's famous dessert sampler.

For reservations, call 328-2310 by 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 10.
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From: tonym@netwise.com (Tony Miller)
Subject: Boulder ACM Meeting
Organization: Netwise Inc.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:41:29 GMT

The Boulder Chapter of the ACM is holding a meeting on Wednesday,
November 18, in room 1103 of the National Institute of Standards,
325 Broadway, Boulder.  Garth Courtois will discuss Computer Chess.

An optional dinner with the speaker will be held prior to the meeting
at 5:30 PM at TJ's Restaurant, 2630 Baseline Road. The meeting begins
at 7:00 PM and is free of charge. Please RSVP for the dinner by
calling 938-9400;  no RSVP is necessary for the meeting.

=====================================================================
Tony Miller				Phone	(303)442-8280
Netwise Corporation			FAX	(303)442-3798
2477 E. 55th St.			Email	tonym@netwise.com
Boulder, CO 80301
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Subject: November 11th meeting of D.C. SIGAda
Message-Id: <"AJJC-1730-7706/15"*@nasax400.msfc.nasa.gov>


The November meeting of DCSIGAda will be held on Wednesday, November, 11th
             NOTE THIS IS 1 WEEK EARLIER THAN USUAL!

Details are as follows:

Refreshments:  7:00 pm
Meeting:       7:30 pm
Location:      McLean Hilton
               7920 Jones Branch Road

Topic:         Ensuring Ada's Success in the 1990's

Speaker:       Ralph Crafts, President
               Ada Software Alliance

Ralph Crafts is an internationally known and respected authority
on Ada-related competitive issues.  He brings a unique
perspective to the competitive Ada Marketplace.  He has been
active in the Ada community for more than 11 years, and "wears a
number of hats" in the Ada marketplace.

Ralph is the President of the Ada Software Alliance (ASA), a non-
profit organization formed in 1989 to promote the use of Ada in
both the government and commercial markets.  He works with
members of congress and their staffs to ensure continued support
and funding for government software initiatives.  In addition to
his ASA role, he also heads up his own company, Software
Strategies and Tactics, Inc. (SS&T), which he founded in 1986.
SS&T provides Ada-related consulting services to the
international software community.  He is the editor and publisher
of Ada Strategies, an international monthly newsletter that
focuses on Ada management issues, trends, case histories, and
usage in both government and commercial applications.

His talk at the November DC SIGAda meeting outlines the actions
needed to ensure the Ada language flourishes.  He will address
the following questions:

  Should the emphasis be on commercial or government markets?

  Would acquisitions or mergers benefit the Ada Industry?

  Should the Ada language be renamed?

This talk promises to be interesting and informative, and it is
sure to generate lively interaction with the audience.
From: rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: ACM Email Addresses
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:18:32 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus

There are a couple of office updates I can add right away to the list of
ACM people and their e-mail addresses, if anyone is watching.  The new
chair of ACM's pubs board is Peter Denning, with the same address as he
had as CACM EIC.  The new SIG Board chair is Randy Dippner (sp?) and I
don't know the net.address.  The new Area A SIG Board person is
Judith R. Brown, at jbrown@umaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu or jbrown@siggraph.org.

These aren't much, but I'm writing from home and memory at 1 am -- what
can you expect?

-- Steve Cunningham
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
From: cs3ea3cd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Abrams       J)
Subject: ACM student contests
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:29:01 GMT

Can someone give me some information on the ACM contests for students
that I have heard about. Thanks...


-- 
Jonathan H. Abrams - McMaster University, Canada 

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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 00:25:28 EST
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From:         "(Larry Weeks)" <dev@ECN.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject:      A Journal I got...
              "ACM-L@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU" at Nov 4, 92 6:20 am

Hi,

Last Saturday, I got a large journal in the mail from the ACM. It had
a red cover, and came in a plastic bag, and I think was from my SIGOS
membership. It had postage due of a couple bucks, so I just had them
return it. I'm told that that's what "forwarding and return postage
guaranteed" means: you return it, and they re-ship it. Now, does the
ACM do that? Or will I need to request that publication again? And if
so, does anybody know which publication I'm talking about? :-) It was
early on a Saturday morning, and I hadn't put my contacts in yet. :-)
Thanks for any info.

Larry
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:54:21 -0500
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From:         "James A. Schaefer" <FACSCHAEFER@RIC.EDU>
Subject: Re: UpdatedACM E-mail Listing

The last two messages listing old and new ACM contacts with e-mail addresses
have been excellent and needed.  This type of information should be
incorporated in the electronic services being developed for the membership.
In the meantime, thanks for the information.
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From: leebeau@world.std.com (Lee A Beaudette)
Subject: Want to read VAX Files-11 format floppies on PC
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:22:29 GMT


I am looking for a utility to read VAX "Files-11 On-Disk Structure Level 2"
formatted floppies from UNIX (or DOS) PCs.  The VAX are NOT running VMS 
(running VAXELN, an embedded realtime kernel) so I don't have the ability to 
create cpio or other format floppies.

Please Email any info.

Thanks in advance,
-Lee

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From: adri@sunatb.UUCP (Adri Rijnart)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.terminals,vmsnet.sources.d
Subject: CGM to Regis or Sixel, CGM specification
Summary: Searching CGM to Regis (or Sixel) conversion, or/and CGM specification
Keywords: CGM Refis Sixel Conversion Specification Question
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:42:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.org.decus
Organization: BSO/Automation Technology Breda B.V., The Netherlands


Dear fellownetters,

We are provided a series of pictures in "CGM" formatted files, and
have a lot of VT340 terminals for our users.

Question 1. Does any of you know a conversion program from CGM in
either "sixel" or "regis"(preferred).

Question 2. Does any of you know what how the CGM-format is spelled.

Thanks.

Adri Rijnart	adri@atb.bso.nl  {..sun4nl!}atb.bso.nl!adri
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
From: klr@umbc4.umbc.edu (Kurt Reisler)
Subject: Symposium Attendance - a quick survey
Organization: Hadron.com in exile
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:54:21 GMT


With the next US Chapter DECUS Symposium looming next month, I was
curious to ask a few questions of the DECUS membership that lurk in the
vast expanse of Usenet.  Why a world-wide posting?  Well, even if the
US Chapter does not allow non-US residents to be "members" of the US
Chapter, there are a lot of non-US resident attendees at a US Symposium
(to be fair, there are a lot of US resident attendees at non-US DECUS
Symposia as well, but enough of that).

If you could take a few moment and answer the following, I will try to
post a summary here, as well as presenting the results at the Open Board
meeting at the US Symposium in Las Vegas in December.  Please note that
you can substitute "you or someone from your company" for "you" in all
of the questions below (even if it may result in a grammatically
incorrect phrase :-).

- Are you planning on attending the Fall 1992 DECUS US Chapter Symposium?
- If so, have you already registered for the symposium?
- Have you attended a US Chapter Symposium in the past?
- If so, when was the last US Chapter Symposium you attended?
- If you are not planning on attending the FALL 1992 DECUS US Chapter
	Symposium, could you detail the reasons behind this decision?
- Are you a member of the US Chapter of DECUS?
- Are you a member of any other Chapter of DECUS?
- Are you a consumer of other "DECUS Products", such as the library, the
	Newsletter, DECUServe, Regional Conferences, Local User Groups, etc.?

I will try to post a summary of all responses after the symposium, and
will present that summary at the Open Board of Directors meeting at the
Fall 1992 US Chapter Symposium in Las Vegas.  But, since I leave the
country in a few days (heading down-under before Vegas), don't be
surprised by the auto-response from vacation.

I don't know if we can change anything, but we sure can try!

Thanks in advance for your input.

-- 
                Kurt Reisler (UNISIG Chair, DECUS US Chapter)
		  Captain, UNISIG International Luge Team
		     Only a guest at klr@umbc4.umbc.edu
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From: aus@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Hans Aus)
Subject: Decus seminars at LV
Originator: aus@winx03
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:15:17 GMT

Can anyone send me the instructor's email address for S370? Her name is
Karen Fay.
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From: wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar)
Subject: How can I print a banner with a PostScript Printer ? Need Help
Organization: IKE
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:22:48 GMT



    Hey,

    we have a problem with our Postscript Printer, because we need
    to print a banner. We use DECstations 5120 running Ultrix V4.2.
    The problem is that the banner is in ASCII, I think,
    and the printer understands only postsctipt, so the printer
    hangs, when we print a normal postscript file with banner
    (lpr -Ppostprn1 <file>). Our /etc/printcap looks like this:


    postprn1|lp1:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/post1err:\
        :of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/prtfilter:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/postprn1:


    Could somebody tell me, how I can print banners with a
    PostScript Printer ? Please mail me your informations.


    Thanks for your efforts,

        Oliver


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