From: Charles McGrew, The Moderator (Human-Nets-Request@RED.RUTGERS.EDU)
Subject: HUMAN-NETS Digest V9 #1
Newsgroups: mod.human-nets
Date: 1986-01-06 21:06:00 PST
HUMAN-NETS Digest Tuesday, 7 Jan 1986 Volume 9 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Queries - Failure probabilities &
Braille Printer (2 msgs),
Computers and People - "Mind rape" by Computer Mail &
The "Hacker" Game &
Aliens Among Us
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 85 14:58:42 EST
From: Will Martin
To: Soft-Eng@mit-xx.ARPA, Risks@sri-csl.ARPA
Cc: walsh@almsa-1.ARPA
Subject: Failure probabilities in decision chains
One of our Directors has asked me to inquire about a reputed Bell labs
study from 7 or so years ago, which he heard about at a conference.
This study was on "failure probabilities"; one of the statements or
conclusions he recalls was that if you have a string of five
sequential decisions, one after the other, each based upon the
preceeding, the reliability of the result is at the 59% level. I don't
really have much other than this to go on, so, if this comment rings a
bell with you, and you know the study (or studies) that this sort of
conclusion came out of, I would greatly appreciate it if you could
mail me a reference. If you know of work being done in this area by
other organizations or particular researchers, any comments or rumors
or hearsay or pointers to published work or theses would be welcomed.
If any documents related to this area of research exist on-line and
are not proprietary, please feel free to mail me copies of anything
you think might be relevant. The context of this is to provide some
sorts of standards of comparison or generally-acceptable figures to
use when evaluating the quality of a very complex and involved large
software system.
Please e-mail responses to one of the addresses below. Thank you.
Will Martin
US Army Materiel Command Automated Logistics Mgmt Systems Activity
UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin
or
ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
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Date: 22 Dec 85 02:13 PST
From: William Daul / McDonnell-Douglas / APD-ASD
From:
Subject: Braille Printer? BRAILE
To: irdis%vpi.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
Does anyone know of a printer that can take a file and print it in
Braille?
Thanks, --Bi//
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From: William R. Soley
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 86 15:10:57 PST
Subject: need braile printer
A friend and I operate a ham radio repeater system (N6IGF/R) and were
recently approached by a blind person who would like to join the club.
We need somebody who can print a copy of the documentation in braile
from a text file. The manual is about 30 pages on a standard printer.
Please send replies directly to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks for
any suggestions or volunteers...Bill
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Date: 27 Dec 85 18:31:40 PST (Friday)
From: Hoffman.es@Xerox.ARPA
Subject: "Mind rape" by computer mail
In the October 1985 issue of 'Ms.' magazine, there's a lengthy article
entitled "The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover" by Lindsy Van
Gelder. It's tells how a prominent New York psychiatrist in his early
fifties maintained an on-line identity over CompuServe for more than
two years as a disabled, late-twenties, female neuropsychologist,
developing intimate friendships with scores of electronic
correspondents.
"She" had a detailed contrived life history, announced her marriage
during the course of the fraud, sent gifts to people, and was heavily
into (bisexual) compusex.
As you might imagine, many of "her" victims felt enormously betrayed,
likening the experience to "mind rape". The article has quite a bit
to say about the nature of electronic correspondence in general.
--Rodney Hoffman
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 85 14:45:37 pst
From: decwrl!glacier!oliveb!felix!birtch!ken@ucbvax (Ken B)
Subject: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest V8 #38 (the game hacker)
Moderator: This is in regards to the game 'HACKER'
----------------------------------------
The game HACKER does not come even close to simulating how to
'break-in' to a system. The first screen asks you to login, then says
the password has been changed. THERE IS _NO_WAY_ THIS GAME WILL _EVER_
TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO BREAK INTO A COMPUTER SYSTEM! Any thing you type
will 'get you in.'
I helped write the IBM/PC version of the game, and the initial
game screen is the only relation to a system that exsists. The game
is more of a maze/exploration game more than anything else.
The packaging and blubs (in regards to 'hacking') are to get
you to buy the game. Nothing else!
Disclaimer: The above is _only_my_opinion_ of the game hacker,
and does not (probably) represent the views of my employer, fellow
employees, or Activision. [Activision is not my employer]
regards,
Ken Brown
uucp: ...{!glacier!oliveb,!trwrb!scgvaxd} !felix!birtch!ken
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From: crash!victoro%sdcsvax@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 86 14:22:21 PST
To: sdcsvax!risks@sri-csl.arpa
Subject: A Bit of 'News'
Cc: sdcsvax!info-nets%mit-oz@mit-mc.arpa,
Cc: Cc: sdcsvax!MsgGroup@brl.arpa, sdcsvax!security@red.rutgers.edu
[Munch, Munch - Now it comes suger free!]
The following text is printed in its entirity and covers many
areas of interest to the readers of these digest. Please excuse
the possible multiple copies of this text as I give total
permission to resend this to any group that may have an interest
in the subjects herein. (Including net.jokes)
====================
Exchange Students Spying?
Trade Expert Warns They Could Crack DoD Computers
-California Computer News
-January 1986, Volume IV, No 1
By Lona White - CCN Contributing Writer
LOS ANGELES - Approximately 11,000 Communist Chinese
foregin exchange students enrolled in the most technically-
orientated U.S. universities may possibly have cracked the top-
secret Defense Department computers.
According to Dr. Miles Costick, Washington, D.C.-based
private trade expert, many of these alleged "students" hold
high-level degrees and have acquired considerable practical
experence in advanced science.
"Obviously the majority are students and experts and to a
lesser degree graduate and post-graduate students," he said.
They are studying at such heavyweight institutions as Los
Alamos, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cal
Tech, Stanford, Lawrence Livermore and the University of
California, Berkley.
At the California Institute of Technology, they are studying
composite materials, which are compounds for making heat
resistant nuclear missile nose cones.
At MIT they are involved in physics, propulsion and
navigation studies, but computer technology, especially hybrid
technology, appears to be the primary goal. These hybrids are
the product of digital and analog computers and are most suitable
for military intelligence operations.
They are also interested in microelectronics, production
technology for advanced microchips, nuclear weapons technology,
advanced fiber optics, astronomics, areonautics, and advanced
telecommunications systems, including satellites and satellite
ground stations.
"The Chinese students have free access to everything," said
Costick, "even at our nuclear weapons defense facilities where
lasers and particle beam weapons research is conducted for the
President's Strategic Defense Initative (SDI). Our own people
are required to have top security clearance in these areas," he
said.
At Los Alamos or California's Lawrence Livermore they have
access to terminals where much of the U.S. military intelligence
research work is done. "For a good mathematician it takes less
then 15 minutes to break into the codes," Costick said.
"Our entire data bank is extremely vulnerable," he
continued. "A very skillful person with access to the terminals
which lead into the data bank could conceivably penetrate CIA's
data bank."
In addition, they are working in the areas where the Defense
Departments' electronic mail network terminals are located, the
ARPA network (Advanced Research Projects Agency). Costick
suspects they have broken into that network and have been "spying
for two or three years."
The ARPA system, connects to the entire military complex,
including the daily electronic mail sent to the secretary of
defense. It describes the latest developments in military
research and the extent of our research in the newest weapons and
intelligence systems.
This open-arms policy exists for the sake of good Chinese-
Americans relations. By contrast, however, the under-400
American students studying in the People's Republic of China are
denied any activities that remotely approach the freedom allowed
visiting Chinese here.
They are restricted to one particular area or to the
university and can be arrested or expelled if they are found
driving in forbidden areas. The secret police even prevent them
from mingling with Chinese students at the schools.
The Chinese, however, are not the only communists interested
in gaining access to our universities' computers. A Defense
Department report revealed scores of American universities,
including six in California, which are prime targets for the
Russian KGB and Eastern bloc nations.
USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal Tech, and the Universities of
California at San Diego and Berkley are listed as among the top
American educational institutions possessing technology desires
by the Soviets to enhance their industrial and military power.
In addition, four supercomputer centers at Princeton,
Cornell, and the the Universities of Illinois and California at
San Diego are available to members of the academic community
involved in highly technical research.
=====
I do hope I haven't triggered anyones strange editing program...
And I hope that this send is of interest to those interested in
the media coverage of your little world.....
Victor O'Rear-- {ihnp4, cbosgd, sdcsvax, noscvax}!crash!victoro
San Diego, California or bix!victoro
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From: Charles McGrew, The Moderator (Human-Nets-Request@RED.RUTGERS.EDU)
Subject: HUMAN-NETS Digest V9 #2
Newsgroups: mod.human-nets
Date: 1986-01-13 09:32:00 PST
HUMAN-NETS Digest Monday, 13 Jan 1986 Volume 9 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
Query - Satellite Hardware and Software,
Responces to Queries - Braille Printing (2 msgs),
Computers and People - Book Promotion via BBS &
Aliens among us (3 msgs) &
System interface design,
Information - MIT-MC may vanish abruptly
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Date: 13 Jan 1986 10:10:57-EST
From: lam@NADC
Subject: Satellite Hardware and Software
Dear Netlander:
I am very interested in finding out the type of standard
protocol that is normally used in satellite communication. Also, does
anyone know if HDLC works for satcom, please let me know who is
presenting using what? Also, what type of communication hardware
circuit board is used for supporting this satcom? Please send all
comments and answers to . Thanx in advance!
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 86 20:02:47 PST
From: ihnp4!aicchi!mdb@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
To: ihnp4!ucbvax!human-nets
Subject: Re: HUMAN-NETS Digest V9 #1
Newsgroups: mod.human-nets
In article <8601081254.AA10999@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> you write:
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>
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>Date: 22 Dec 85 02:13 PST
>From: William Daul / McDonnell-Douglas / APD-ASD
>From:
>Subject: Braille Printer? BRAILE
>To: irdis%vpi.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
>
>Does anyone know of a printer that can take a file and print it in
>Braille?
>
>Thanks, --Bi//
>
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>
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>From: William R. Soley
>Date: Wed, 1 Jan 86 15:10:57 PST
>Subject: need braile printer
>
>A friend and I operate a ham radio repeater system (N6IGF/R) and were
>recently approached by a blind person who would like to join the
>club. We need somebody who can print a copy of the documentation in
>braile from a text file. The manual is about 30 pages on a standard
>printer. Please send replies directly to me, I'm not on the list.
>Thanks for any suggestions or volunteers...Bill
>
>------------------------------
There are several programs available (I think some are public domain)
which take ascii text files at print them out in braile using a
daisy-wheel printer. The usual technique is to use the period ('.')
to produce the raised dots, at print right-to-left. Then you take the
paper out, flip it over, and read it. Unfortunatly, I don't know
exactly where to find them. It should take much to write one, though.
On a similar note: If one has access to a speech synth, like a votrax,
there are a few really excellent editors which have the human
interface optomized for this type of thing.
Mike Blackwell
..ihnp4!aicchi!mdb
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Date: Thursday, 9 Jan 1986 14:32:25-PST
From: graff%donjon.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM
Subject: BRAILLE PRINTING
Braille is more than just a printer, it's also a system of
contractions to help speed the reading process. Contact National
Braille Press, 88 St. Stephen Street, Boston MA 02115. They do a lot
of braille output and can assist. Ask the person you are preparing it
for if he/she wants "grade 1 braille" (no contractions) or "grade 2"
(normal contracted format), since NBP will ask you that question.
--Joyce
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Date: 8 Jan 86 12:46:19 PST (Wednesday)
From: Hoffman.es@Xerox.ARPA
Subject: Book Promotion via BBS
From the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 8, 1986, Part V, page 1:
COMPUTER MAY PUT NOVELIST IN THE CHIPS
Author Uses His Modem to Promote High-Tech
Detective Story
By Beverly Beyette
...Two weeks after its publication ['Safety Catch' by Jaron Summers]..
inspiration struck... What if he offered the first chapter, free, via
electronic bulletin board to the millions of home computer owners
coast to coast? And what if he offered $5 to any computer freak
willing to post that chapter on another of the thousands of free
boards ... And what if, in addition, he offered the chapter to the
combined 300,000 subscribers of ... CompuServe and The Source?
..."Every morning I've been getting from 2 or 3 to 15 messages,"
Summers said.... To date, Summers estimates that Chapter 1 is on more
than 400 bulletin boards and, within two weeks, "will have reached a
saturation point" of several thousand boards... [He has paid] $750 to
50 computer-users for posting Chapter 1.
Meanwhile, the jury is still out... The question is... "Will these
people stop playing with their computers long enough to buy a book and
read it? We [the publishers] are hoping computer people are amenable
to picking up something with pages."
--Rodney Hoffman
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Date: Mon 6 Jan 86 23:34:58-MST
From: Mark Crispin
Subject: Re: A Bit of 'News'
To: crash!victoro@SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU
Cc: risks@SRI-CSL, info-nets%mit-oz@MIT-MC, MsgGroup@BRL,
Cc: cc: security@RED.RUTGERS.EDU
I haven't heard of the California Computer News before, but it sounds
quite similar to some goofy right-wing publications that have been
floating around in this area recently. While this sort of trash makes
great propaganda, it doesn't bear much resemblance to reality.
Does anybody know who this Miles Costick character is? Does he have
any real credentials or is he just a crank? He obviously doesn't know
what the hell he's talking about. I particularly enjoyed the stuff
about breaking into the CIA in 15 minutes and Cap Weinberger's reading
his secret reports on ARPANET...
It isn't at all surprising that the Chinese students are trying to
learn as much as they can about America and American technology. They
are, after all, being sent here by their government at great expense
(even though some of them end up staying in the US permanently). They
have quite a bit to absorb, but this silliness about they having free
access to top-secret technology is hogwash! [We give our top-secret
stuff to the Taiwanese, or at least did up until a few years ago...]
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Date: 7 Jan 1986 01:25-PST
Subject: Re: A Bit of 'News'
From: msggroup-request@brl.arpa (Msggroup Moderator)
Reply-to: msggroup-request@BRL.ARPA
To: MRC@SIMTEL20.ARPA, crash!victoro@SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU
Cc: info-nets%mit-oz@MIT-MC.ARPA
Cc: security@RED.RUTGERS.EDU, risks@SRI-CSL.ARPA
Hello all -- I think that inclusion of this discussion in human-nets,
security, info-nets, and risks, in addition to msggroup, is more than
enough replicated coverage.
Therefore, please omit msggroup@brl from future contibutions.
Thanks -- Stef (MsgGroup Moderator)
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 86 09:48:37 EST
From: Martin Lee Schoffstall
To: MRC%simtel20.arpa@csnet-relay.arpa,
To: To: crash!victoro%sdcsvax.ucsd.edu@csnet-relay.arpa
Subject: Re: A Bit of 'News'
the 'News' is a bit much but there is some truth in it:
both the Soviet Union and the Chinese have a national technical policy
to send their "students" to American technical institutions where they
work with the latest and greatest. Very few Soviet/Chinese "students"
are in the USA studing Romance Literature or Afro-American affairs or
American Indian history (though Soviet polemics would lead one to
believe that they are experts in the latter two areas).
On the other hand almost NO American is studying anything but soviet
history or literature in the USSR or chinese
lanuage/literature/history in the PRC. There institutions are closed
by policy. Admittedly, few people would want to go to the USSR to
study VLSI design but areas like Physics and the space sciences
(related to biological systems) would definitely be of interest to
American students.
Lastly, on a side note i find it interesting that few visiting
professors from the USSR bring their families to the USA (I am not
talking about emigres but people who hopefully will return to the
USSR) while teaching/ researching in American institutions. this is
definitely not the case for the rest of the non-COMBLOC world. this
can only be viewed as "insurance".
marty schoffstall
schoff%rpics.csnet@csnet-relay ARPA
schoff@rpics CSNET
seismo!rpics!schoff UUCP
martin_schoffstall@TROY.NY.USA.NA.EARTH.SOL UNIVERSENET
RPI
Computer Science Department
Troy, NY 12180
(518) 271-2654
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From: David England
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 86 15:28:24 gmt
Subject: System interface design and User involvement
I think many of the problems that computer users face are due to
inappropriate design methods. People are writing interactive software
using the same techniques as they would for a batch accounts program.
Sure the user gets a say in the functionality of the program but not
the all important human aspects. We need to shift to a user-centered
design method. The designer and end-user need to be involved in a
dialogue during the design phase to establish the users' interface
needs. The term "user" implies not just a specific customer but human
interface aspects in general.
Most interface design is iterative and our method needs to take this
into account. One approach is "incremental design" where the
fundamentals of the product are initially specified and implemented.
The product is then incrementally evolved with user feedback until a
satisfactory product is reached (or the money and time run out !).
We also need some objective evidence that we have produced a better
design. Although we have user involvement users are not human factors
experts any more than software engineers. An interface can be measured
in terms of it's learnability, flexibility, usability and user
satisfaction. Some of these aspects of the user interface may overlap
or seem arbitrary but they can each tell us something about the
effectiveness of our design. Learnability can tell us how long it
takes to learn to use a system, how long users can remember about
system use after a break; usability can tell us if our product is an
improvement, do users achieve better results with less errors than
previously ? ; flexibility can tell us if users of differing abilities
and backgrounds have certain problems with our product, can the system
adapt interactively to these problems?
User centered design can help to produce better interactive systems
and provide designers with useful data and experience in the design of
future systems.
Dave England
UUCP : ..!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!de ARPA : de%lancs.comp@ucl-cs
JANET : de@uk.ac.lancs.comp PHONE : +44 524 65201 Ext. 4134
POST : Univ. of Lancaster, Dept of Computing, Lancaster LA1 2YR, UK.
PROJECT: Alvey ECLIPSE User Interface
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 86 10:02:20 CST
From: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI
Subject: Host MIT-MC may vanish abruptly
Some of you might have heard rumors or indications that the longtime
ARPANET mail-relay and list-archive storage computer, MIT-MC, is due
to be retired. These rumors are true; I append below a message from
one of the system managers confirming this.
Therefore, if you have been relying on having MIT-MC around as a
source for archived mailing-list files, or as a mail-forwarder, be
warned that it is likely to disappear abruptly in the near future. It
would be good if all the list archives could be moved to other hosts
which would also support the traditional ARPA "anonymous FTP", and
also that mailing-list addresses should be changed to no longer rely
on forwarding or list expansion by MIT-MC. I hope that this
information is disseminated as widely as possible, so as to reach all
list-maintainers and the whole community of users and list readers and
contributors.
Those of us who have been involved with the ARPANET for some years all
owe a debt of gratitude to MIT-MC and the support staff that ran it
over the past decade or so; that host was the seminal point for the
entire mailing list and Digest phenomenon. It's sad to see it go, but
we all know that hardware progress makes such changes inevitable.
Regards, Will Martin
----- Forwarded message # 1:
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 86 19:17:46 EST
From: "Christopher C. Stacy"
Subject: Future of MIT-MC?
To: wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA
cc: POSTMASTER@mit-mc.ARPA
Message-ID: <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].777682.860108.CSTACY>
Will,
I am afraid that the rumors about MIT-MC's future are true.
The maintenance contract for MIT-MC expires in a few months (at the
end of February, I think). After that, the next time the machine
breaks badly, it will be retired from service.
There are few KS-10 (DEC2020) machines in the building now, and one of
them is actually running ITS and calling itself MIT-AI. This tiny
machine not on the Internet yet, although it probably will be before
too long. However, MIT-AI will not have anywhere near the capacity of
MC, and won't be able to service the world in general. There really
isn't any machine available at MIT to take over the services MC has
provided; the structure of the community and its associated resources
has changed.
People should be moving off of MIT-MC rapidly; the machine really will
be decommissioned with little warning in the near future. Also,
people should move their data, as files may not be retrievable once
it's gone.
Cheers,
Chris
----- End of forwarded messages
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From: Charles McGrew, The Moderator (Human-Nets-Request@RED.RUTGERS.EDU)
Subject: HUMAN-NETS Digest V9 #3
Newsgroups: mod.human-nets
Date: 1986-01-23 14:17:00 PST
HUMAN-NETS Digest Thursday, 23 Jan 1986 Volume 9 : Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Computers and Poeple - "Enemy" Students,
Computer Security - Password Generator Protocol,
Information - OIS-86 paper submission deadline &
MC.LCS.MIT.EDU and MIT-MC
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 86 10:52:35 PST
From: ihnp4!druhi!ctl@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
1/13/86
To William Daul and William R. Soley,
Braille printers and programs:
1. There is a program called 'BRAILLE-EDIT', copyrighted 1984, David
Holladay, produced by Raised Dot Computing Inc that will translate
an ASCII text file into Braille.
Address of said company:
Raised Dot Computing Inc
408 South Baldwin St.
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: General Business: (608) 257-9595
Technical Helpline: (608) 257-8833
2. This program runs on Apple 2e, Apple 2c, Apple 2 Plus.
3. The braille version of the translated text file can be printed on a
Thiel printer. This printer is from Industrie-Electronic, GmBH &
Co., KG (if that means anything to you!). It costs roughly
$7000.00. (or did a couple of years ago).
4. The Red Cross in your area should have info on this sort of
question. Or try your local public library. The above info is from
the Boulder Public Library which has one of the few publically
accessible Thiel printers in the region.
Catherine Lo
AT&T Information Systems
Denver North Room 9Z225
12110 North Pecos
Denver, CO 80234
druhi!ctl
PS: I'm not sure how to reach William R. Soley so this is being posted
hoping it will reach the net or someone who can pass on the
information.
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 86 05:31:55 PST
From: hoptoad!gnu@lll-crg.ARPA (John Gilmore)
Subject: Re: "enemy" students raping our high tech universities
> both the Soviet Union and the Chinese have a national technical
> policy to send their "students" to American technical institutions
> where they work with the latest and greatest....
> On the other hand almost NO American is studying anything but soviet
> history or literature in the USSR or chinese
> language/literature/history in the PRC. There institutions are
> closed by policy.
That last sentence says it all. The difference is that we are an open
society. We do it this way because we think it works better. If we
choose to close our society to keep the [real or imagined] nasties at
bay, then our "grand experiment" in open society will have failed.
And I for one would probably end up looking for another open society
to take my time and energy to.
Happily I don't think this will happen soon. There's lots of
encroachment by our very own nasties like Reagan, requiring attention
to keep us open. (Did you know the "Electronic Communications Privacy
Act" introduced by Sen. Leahy [Vermont] happens to legalize the use of
electronic tracking devices, e.g. bugs planted on your person, car,
books, etc, at the same time it makes it illegal to wiretap computer
data? Fun stuff.) But there are 200 million of us watching, and
*some* of us still care.
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Date: Mon 20 Jan 86 14:03:15-PST
From: Ken Laws
Subject: Password Generator Protocol
Since there was an extended discussion of password approaches on
Human-Nets, readers may be interested in this official notice.
-- Ken Laws
---------------
Date: 14 Jan 1986 10:32:36 PST
Subject: RFC972 Now Available
A new Request for Comments is now available from the Network
Information Center in the online library at SRI-NIC.ARPA.
RFC 972:
Title: Password Generator Protocol
Author: F. Wancho
Mailbox: Wancho@SIMTEL20.ARPA
Pages: 2
Characters: 3890
pathname: RFC:RFC972.TXT
This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. The
Password Generator Service (PWDGEN) provides a set of six randomly
generated eight-character "words" with a reasonable level of
pronounceability, using a multi-level algorithm. Hosts on the ARPA
Internet that choose to implement a password generator service are
expected to adopt and implement this standard. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Public access files may be copied from the directory at
SRI-NIC.ARPA via FTP with username ANONYMOUS and password GUEST.
...
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 86 19:11 EST
From: Hewitt@MIT-MC.ARPA
Subject: Postponement in OIS-86 paper submission deadline
Because of the delay in the distribution of the call for papers for
OIS-86 in the Newsletter, we have decided to postpone the deadline for
paper submission from February 1 to March 1, 1986 in order to satisfy
the requirements for broad distribution of the call.
Enclosed please find the updated call for papers which reflects this
change:
******************* C A L L F O R P A P E R S
* * ----------------------------------------------
* * Third ACM Conference On
* * OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
* OIS-86 *
* * October 6-8, 1986
* * Biltmore Plaza Hotel
* * Providence, RI
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General Chair: Carl Hewitt, Topics appropriate for this
MIT conference include (but are not
restricted to) the following as
Program Chair: Stanley Zdonik, they relate to OIS:
Brown University
Technologies including Display,
Treasurer: Gerald Barber, Voice, Telecommunications, Print,
Gold Hill Computers etc.
Human Interfaces
Local Arrangements: Andrea Skarra,
Brown University Deployment and Evaluation
An interdisciplinary conference on System Design and
issues relating to office Construction
information systems (OIS) sponsored Goals and Values
by ACM/SIGOIS in cooperation with
Brown University and the MIT Distributed Services and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Applications
Submissions from the following Knowledge Bases and Reasoning
fields are solicited:
Distributed Services and
Applications
Anthropology
Artificial Intelligence Indicators and Models
Cognitive Science
Computer Science Needs and Organizational
Economics Factors
Management Science Impact of Computer Integrated
Psychology Manufacturing
Sociology
The program committee includes:
Bob Allen Ray Panko
Bellcore University of Hawaii
Guiseppe Attardi Robert Rosin
University of Pisa Syntrex
James Bair Erik Sandewall
Hewlett Packard Linkoping University
Gerald Barber Walt Scacci
Gold Hill Computers USC
Peter de Jong Andrea Skarra
MIT Brown University
Irene Greif Susan Leigh Star
MIT Tremont Research Institute
Sidney Harris Luc Steels
Georgia State University University of Brussels
Carl Hewitt Sigfried Treu
MIT University of Pittsburgh
Heinz Klein Dionysis Tsichritzis
SUNY University of Geneva
Fred Lochovsky Eleanor Wynn
University of Toronto Brandon Interscience
Fanya Montalvo Aki Yonezawa
MIT Tokyo Institute of Technology
Naja Naffah Stanley Zdonik
Bull Transac Brown University
Margrethe Olson
NYU
Professor J.C.R. Licklider of MIT will be the keynote speaker.
Unpublished papers of up to 5000 words (20 double-spaced pages) are
sought. The first page of each paper must include the following
information: title, the author's name, affiliations, complete mailing
address, telephone number and electronic mail address where
applicable, a maximum 150-word abstract of the paper, and up to five
keywords (important for the correct classification of the paper). If
there are multiple authors, please indicate who will present the paper
at OIS-86 if the paper is accepted. Proceeedings will be distributed
at the conference and will later be available from ACM. Selected
papers will be published in the ACM Transactions on Office Information
Systems.
Please send eight (8) copies of the paper (which must arrive by March
1, 1986) to:
Prof. Stan Zdonik
OIS-86 Program Chair
Computer Science Department
Brown University
P.O. Box 1910
Providence, RI 02912
DIRECT INQUIRIES TO: Margaret H. Franchi (401) 863-1839.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Paper Submission (postponed 1 mo.) March 1, 1986
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1986
Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copy: July 1, 1986
Conference Dates: October 6-8,1986
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From: "Karen R. Sollins"
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT MC.LCS.MIT.EDU
Many rumors have been spreading about MC.LCS.MIT.EDU. The following
are the facts:
* The maintenance contract on the machine will be discontinued at the
end of March.
* MIT will continue to support the mail and mailing list activities
that have run historically on MC. After the end of March this
service will reside on other hardware that will be named
MC.LCS.MIT.EDU.
* The KL-10 will not evaporate immediately, although its name and
possibly internet address will change.
Karen R. Sollins
Director of Computing Resources
MIT/Laboratory for Computer Scinece
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