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Yucks Digest V1 #79
Yucks Digest Sat, 31 Aug 91 Volume 1 : Issue 79
Today's Topics:
"Woodstock" returns ...
Aeon
Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover photo
Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units
For your entertainment...
FW: WhiteBoard News
Little Johnny will go to bed clueless tonight...
O, Oh, what a difficult name
Radar Trap
Rules
Today's chicken message
Unix password encryptions
What was that pronoun again?
while I'm here
Words fail me
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 12:26:03 PDT
From: one of our correspondants
Subject: "Woodstock" returns ...
To: yucks-request
PTA Recreates Woodstock Era
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP)
More than 2,000 aging hippies, former hippies, hippie wannabees
and some lively nonagenarians broke out their love beads and guitars
to recreate Woodstock in a far-out fund-raiser for the PTA.
Long hair never went out of style in this laid-back western
Massachusetts college town of 30,000 people where one can still spot
folks in striped bell bottoms in the supermarket.
So it was perhaps inevitable that thoughts turned to the '60s when
the local Council for the Arts decided to help the Northampton School
District's Parent-Teacher Association raise money for art and music
programs.
"When we asked the group to think about something really big,
their first reaction was Woodstock," said Bob Cilman, director of the
arts council. "And here we are."
Cilman said Thursday that "Woodstock: the Performance Peace"
raised about $8,500 for the schools. "It was everything I dreamed it
would be."
As a bright afternoon sun dipped into twilight Wednesday, lawyers
and business executives switched from three-piece suits to tie-dyed
clothes and dug out their old "McGovern for President" campaign
buttons.
Folks well over 30 put flowers in their hair and danced to 1960s
rock music anthems of sex, drugs, social defiance and just plain fun
as they gathered in a local park.
They traded tales of where they were when the music played in 1969
at Max Yasgur's farm in rural Sullivan County, N.Y.
"Woodstock was when you thought drugs and music could change the
world," said printer Doug Ferris, 41, decked out in denim shorts,
fringed vest, headband and fancy running shoes. "We brought our kids
tonight, but they don't want to be seen with us. Now, they think
we're embarrassing."
Performers recreated songs done at the real Woodstock, with groups
such as the Big Bad Bullocks and Farmhouse giving new life to tunes
by Joe Cocker and The Who.
The Young at Heart Chorus, made up of local senior citizens, stole
the show.
"Give me an F," whooped 96-year-old Anna Main as she opened the
group's set with a toned-down version of the profane "Fish Cheer"
that Country Joe and the Fish led at Woodstock.
"Radical," said Mark Wodecki, 23, of Holyoke, as the oldsters
trotted out a repertoire that ranged from the Beatles to vaudeville,
then left the crowd swaying and raising peace symbols to the strains
of "Till We Meet Again."
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Date: 30 Aug 91 04:11:42 GMT
From: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden)
Subject: Aeon
Newsgroups: talk.origins,sci.astro,sci.misc
[Ted has been posting articles about how there have been previous
advanced civiliizations before our recorded history, and how dinosaur
remains prove Earth had a different shape caused by a nearby
gravitational source, and other amazing claims. I'm sure the books
from this publishing house are equally amusing. --spaf]
Again, for those wishing to gain an understanding of the
antique world , there exists the Aeon journal,
in which serious articles concerning the antedeluvian
world and the ramifications of recent catastrophes appear. Their
phone number is: 503 643-5863
Aside from their journal, they are beginning to serve as an outlet
for catastrophist literature. The following three recent books
I can vouch for as being worth the money. In particular, Ginenthal's
book addresses every point ever raised by Sagan and co either at the
1974 AAAS meeting or in "Scientists Confront Velikovsky".
Orders should include 10% over for shipping, and should be sent to:
Aeon
9805 S. W. Whitford Lane
Beaverton, Oregon 97005
THE SATURN MYTH $29.95
By David Talbott
For the many readers of AEON who have asked for a copy of this
book, we offer a spiral bound duplication of David Talbott's
revolutionary thesis concerning the mythical Golden Age, when
Saturn ruled the world as sun god and creator-king. The author's
model of a "polar configuration will continue to be the subject of
debate in the pages of AEON.
MEMORIES AND VISIONS $18.95
OF PARADISE
By Richard Heinberg
The myth of Eden or Paradise is the story of a primeval world at
peace. when man lived in harmony with nature and the cosmos, and
possessed mysterious, often miraculous powers. Even today, this
wondrous tale awakens memories within the collective unconscious,
speaking to us from the myths of nearly all cultures. In this
ground-breaking work, Richard Heinberg, former research assistant to
Immanuel Velikovsky, presents a world-spanning cross-cultural survey
of the universal legend. Memories and Visions of Paradise examines the
related myths of creation, the fall, and subsequent floods and
catastrophes, providing a comprehensive look at the main elements of
world myth and their possible meanings. The vision of Paradise,
according to Heinberg, has infused human endeavor through literature,
poetry, political thought, and grand utopian experiments. But the
author does not let the issue rest with a psychological approach to
the myths. Examining new anthropological and archaeological evidence,
he suggests that the story of paradise may reflect actual experiences
that science has yet to comprehend.
SAGAN AND VELIKOVSKY $19.95
By Charles Ginenthal
Since publication of Velikovsky's best-selling Worlds in Collision in
1950, no card-carrying member of the scientific establishment has
devoted more effort to debunking Velikovsky than the famous Cornell
astronomer, Carl Sagan. In his popular TV series Cosmos, and in
virtually all of his recent books, Sagan has repeatedly stated that
Velikovsky's thesis deserves no further scientific consideration. In
the conventional scientific press, Sagan's efforts have been hailed as
the definitive response to Velikovsky. For this reason alone, Sagan
and Velikovsky is a desperately needed book. The bad news is that the
book is in need of a thorough editing. For those who can look past
this deficiency, however, Charles Ginenthal's substantial analysis
offers a wealth of information available nowhere else-and a compelling
conclusion: in all of his arguments against Velikovsky, Sagan is
either embarrassingly inaccurate or scientifically incorrect. The
book goes back to the beginning, the well-publicized encounter between
Sagan and Velikovsky at the 1974 AAAS symposium, and traces all of the
primary arguments from then to now. The result is a crushing blow to
the credibility of America's favorite astronomer.
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Date: 28 Aug 91 23:30:05 GMT
From: IRVINMJ@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu (Michael J. Irvin, WSU, 509/335-0437)
Subject: Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover photo
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Experpt from an article by Mike Nichols of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
concerning the photo of a very pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of
Vanity Fair:
The photo ... tweaks our cultural ambivalence about nudity. ... Take
off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and
firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report:
"There's a naked person outside!"
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 14:09:19 -0400
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
Subject: Democracy Triumphs in Disk Units
To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
[Background: The POSIX committee decreed that disk sizes would be
reported in units of 512 bytes, even though this is confusing and
an anachronism. A poll was taken to see if people wanted this as
the default behavior of the GNU project tools. This article
gave the results of that poll. --spaf]
Last week users poured out into the streets of the network to rally to
the cause of 1024-byte blocks for measuring disk space. When people
finally chose sides, it was amazing how few actually stood with the
POSIX Central Committee and its apparatchiks. Only 20 out of 750
supported the 512ist coup.
In the aftermath, the GNU system has declared its independence,
throwing off the power of the POSIX party. We are rapidly moving to
eliminate all vestage of 512ist domination. We have already taken
direct control of df, du, and several other programs, converting them
to use 1024-byte units for measuring output, and to provide ways to
specify input quantities in units of K.
We promise to respect the rights of minorities--even tiny ones. So
there will be options to request output in units of 512. Even those
who cannot bear to deviate from the POSIX party line will be provided
for--they can define the environment variable POSIX_ME_HARDER.
But what we really hope is that the POSIX party will itself modernize
its hardline position, and add its support to 1024ist reform. If the
KGB could do it, there must at least be a chance for POSIX.
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Date: 28 Aug 91 10:30:04 GMT
From: hallman@ingres.com (Dave Hallman)
Subject: For your entertainment...
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
I was debugging a problem and had to find out where a
certain message was coming from (it wasn't in any of the
libraries). The message I was looking for contained the
string 'sorry'. One thing lead to another and thus the
following list:
Courteous kernals:
Sequent:
% strings unix | grep sorry
sorry, pid %d was killed due to unsupported system call
sorry, pid %d was killed due to %s
%
DecStation:
% strings vmunix | grep sorry
sorry, pid %d was killed: %s
sorry, pid %d was killed on swap error
%
Sun/Soulbourne:
% strings vmunix | grep sorry
sorry, pid %d was killed due to swap problems in %s
%
Discourteous kernals:
Bull:
$ strings unix | grep sorry
$
Mips:
$ strings unix | grep sorry
$
ICL:
$ strings unix | grep sorry
$
SGI:
% strings unix | grep sorry
%
Open Desktop:
# strings unix | grep sorry
#
Really discourteous kernals:
Intergraph:
% strings unix | grep sorry
strings: Command not found.
%
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Date: Fri Aug 30 10:49:24 PDT 1991
From: t-robtp@microsoft.COM
Subject: FW: WhiteBoard News
To: 0003539738@mcimail.com, QUA@cornella.cit.cornell.edu,
This next quote comes from MicroSoftie, RonN:
"Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful
woman who is always sick."
==========
Seattle, WA
A Sahalee, WA, man, whose car collided with another vehicle on the
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and then caused another accident,
committed what one state trooper called a "Hit-and-swim".
John Cvitkovic, 29, took a dive in the drink and swam for Madison Park
after his Corvette was involved in an accident on one of the world's
few concrete floating bridges.
Troopers said a car driven by Richard Brown, 27, of North Seattle, was
traveling east in the left-hand lane when he looked into his rear-view
mirror and saw Cvitkovic's Corvette racing up behind him.
Brown decided to change lanes, just as Cvitkovic moved out to pass
Brown's car on the right. Cvitkovic rammed Brown.
Cvitkovic then started to flee the scene of the accident, which caused
another three car accident, but Brown gave chase, put Cvitkovic into a
head lock and marched him back to the wrecked cars.
When the two men returned, Brown released Cvitkovic who took several
swings at Brown missing him each time. Cvitkovic then dove off the
bridge into the waters of Lake Washington and swam for the Madison
Park area.
A property owner near the park saw Cvitkovic swimming and swam out to
assist him onto shore. Once ashore, the man loaned Cvitkovic a towel
to dry off. Cvitkovic grabbed the towel and fled again.
Initial police communications erroneously indicated that Cvitkovic was
an escaped felon and a manhunt was instituted. Cvitkovic was arrested
an hour later while walking down a residential street still wrapped in
the towel.
Cvitkovic was charged with reckless endangerment, fleeing the scene of
an accident, and assault. Others involved in the accidents were all
treated at nearby hospitals and released.
==========
Houston, TX
The thing about the "Gentleman Bandit" was his courtliness, his Cary
Grant manners as he stole and stole and stole some more.
Why, he would apologize as he tied people up, make them as comfortable
as possible, return pictures of the grandchildren that he found in
wallets, call the front desk of hotels to tell them the guest in Room
319 could use some help getting untied.
Once a man started having a heart attack in the midst of a robbery, so
the Gentleman Bandit called the hospital and ordered an ambulance.
Sometimes he would call victims at home later to inquire if they had
recovered from their ordeal.
Posh hotels in Louisiana and Texas were his venue. He struck 100
times over two years, surprising guests with his efficiency, his
unfailing graciousness, and, of course, his pistol. Police searched
long and hard but to no avail.
Then there was a breakthrough. A Texas salesman was arrested June 27
and charged with the crimes. But it was the wrong man.
For a time, the Gentleman Bandit watched as the salesman took the rap.
But yesterday, he turned himself in to the Houston police, saying he
couldn't let someone else suffer for what he had done.
The man who says he's the Gentleman Bandit is Houston resident Lon
Perry, 49, a church-going father of two who says he turned to crime in
1989 when he lost his job and the money ran out.
Not even his wife of 26 years had a clue that her husband, who had
been a computer programmer with Texas Eastern Corp., had such
notoriety. She thought he had a job working at night. Police were
hard-pressed to even find a traffic ticket in Perry's past.
But after a Dallas salesman, Micheal David Harvey, was arrested and
charged, Perry started calling police and telling them, anonymously,
they had the wrong man. But police refused to believe him in hopes
that he would eventually provide information either clearing Harvey or
implicating Perry.
After consulting with his minister and other members of his church,
Perry called his lawyer Allen Isbell and asked him for help in
surrendering to police. Negotiations with the police ended with Perry
turning himself in and pleading guilty to two counts of armed robbery,
he used an antique .22LR revolver that had been frozen with rust for
decades for several of the robberies, which could net him a maximum of
35 years in prison.
When Perry turned himself in, his gray hair was neatly combed, and he
wore a blue and red plaid shirt, gray slacks and black tasseled shoes.
The Gentleman Bandit looked sharp to the end.
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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 12:31:08 -0700
From: bostic@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Little Johnny will go to bed clueless tonight...
To: /dev/null@okeeffe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
... unless you help. Only 5 cents a day can help buy these sad people
the clues they so desperately need....
>From the Wednesday, August 28 San Jose Mercury News:
Defeat of coup protested
Devout leftists see socialist future
By David Bank
Mercury News Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO -- One era's vanguard has become another period's
die-hards.
Still, the 20 devout leftists who demonstrated in front of the Sovite
consulate in San Francisco on Tuesday to protest last week's defeat of
the hard-line coup in Moscow believe their time will yet come.
"What we're doing is maintaining revolutionary optimism about the
socialist future," said Brian Becker, a full-time organizer for the
Marxist-Leninish Worker's World Party, which organized the tiny picket
line. "We're maintaining an efficient organization to prepare for a
phase which we anticipate but has not arrived."
They predict fascism
The past week's extraordinary images from the Soviet Union have done
nothing to shake the faithful. The victory of forces led by Russian
Federation President Boris Yeltsin, backed by American imperialism, will
lead to fascism, they said.
Patrick McGuire, 40, an Oakland artist, held a framed, woven portrait
of Vladimir Lenin above his head, chanting "Lenin, yes! Yeltsin, no!"
Across the street, the red flag with the hammer and sickle flew from the
roof of the six-story brick consulate building.
"They changed the revolution, so they ought to take down the flag,"
said McGuire, who wore a black beret and showed off the Soviet-made
bullet hanging from a string of beads around his neck. "It doesn't mean
anything now."
The pro-Sovite Workers World Party, which is headquartered in New
York, is an old-style Communist Party, down to its democratic centralist
organizational structure and careful adherence to doctrinal purity. The
party's goal remains an international Communist revolution.
Founded in 1959, the party supported the invasion of Afghanistan in
1979 and since 1987 has opposed Gorbachev's *perestroika* on the grounds
it undermined socialism. Last week, the party supported the hard-line
elements of the Soviet system that sought to roll back the reforms.
'Progressive intention'
"We were sympathetic to them," Becker said. "Those who created the
committee were trying to prevent the full-scale counterrevolution from
triumphing. We thought that was a progressive intention."
Crossing the street, a 33-year-old unemployed computer programmer,
who identified himself only as Saul K., presented a letter from the
party to an accountant leaving the consulate after a day of work.
In the interest of "proletarian internationalism," the letter
demanded full freedoms for Communists in the Soviet Union. The
accountant, Michael Suvorov, said the demonstrators' opinions found an
echo, however faint, inside the consulate.
"Our people have different opinions," Suvorov said. "Some people
have to give up something they believed in their whole lives. For them,
it is very difficult."
=====
And from the Wednesday, August 28 San Francisco Chronicle:
Bay Leftists Protest Events In Soviet Union
'Long live the U.S.S.R,' they chant at S.F. rally
By Dan Levy
Chronicle Staff Writer
Two dozen members of the Workers World Party rallied last night at
the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, convinced that the disintegration
of the Soviet Union is a plot concocted by American corporations and
"international capitalist allies" around the world.
To cries of "Long live the U.S.S.R." and "Socialism, yes --
capitalism, no" the demonstrators denounced the recent anti-Communist
events in the Soviet Union as "counterrevolutionary" and "smelling of
fascism."
"Tools!" they shouted at the names of President Mikhail Gorbachev and
Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Federation. "Bourgeois!" they
sneered at the mention of 200,000 Leningrad residents gathered at the
Winter Palace to protest the failed coup.
The protesters contend that corporations in the United States, Europe
and Japan are set to loot the Soviet Union of its natural resources and
exploit its workers.
"The Russian parliament is dominated by reactionary forces," said
Brian Becker, an organizer of the rally and full-time Workers World
Party worker. "Just because these people are in the streets doesn't
mean that sentiment against capitalism has changed."
Becker's brother Dick added, "This is an anti-worker revolution. We
are with the collective farmers and the workers. Boris Yeltsin
resembles Benito Mussolini."
Asked who might emerge in the Soviet leadership to reignite the
worker's revolution, Gerald Smith said, "There's no one left. The
leftists were all liquidated under Stalin."
When asked what might have been the high point in the Communist
movement since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, Smith paused. "That
(the revolution) was it," he said.
A splinter group of four followers of Leon Trotsky was banished from
the main group of Leninists to a position a few feet away and were
threatened with expulsion from the demonstration.
"These people would be very happy if Brezhnev came back from the
dead," said construction worker Mark Owens, holding a sign with the
"T"-word. "We prefer to be called Trotskyists. 'Trotskyite' is what
they call you before they take you to the wall."
The noisy protest attracted a number of curious onlookers in Pacific
Heights, including Michael Suvorov, an accountant from Moscow who
emerged from the consulate.
"I am wondering at this," he said.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 11:10:06 EST
From: Gene Spafford <spaf@uther.cs.purdue.edu>
Subject: O, Oh, what a difficult name
To: risks@csl.sri.com
>From: The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Oh, woe is O.
For months, Stephen O has been hassled by credit card companies.
It's not because he's a bad credit risk. It's simply that his last name
is too short.
Twice the 23-year-old South Korean native has applied for new credit
cards, and twice he's been turned down. The banks say their computers
cannot recognize a single-letter last name.
His automobile finance company says he's "S.O. Stephen." The computer
at the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles says he's OO, which stymied
his efforts to get car insurance for a year.
To make matters worse, the computer at the Credit Bureau Inc., which
furnishes merchants with individual credit references, insisted that O
was nobody, even though he has carried American Express and Visa cards
since he was a college student.
Instead, the credit bureau listed him as "Ostephen," which confused
everybody.
"I'm not a computer expert, but I can't believe these computer systems
aren't sophisticated enough to pick up one letter," he said.
But O has learned that when you fight computers, the computers almost
always win.
Last week, he surrendered. He paid a $20 court fee and reluctantly
changed his legal name from O to Oh.
Why not something fancy, like O'Shaughnessy?
"I want my name to be distinct and memorable," he replied. "I want
people to know I'm Korean."
A casualty underwriter for a Washington insurance company, he came to
the United States in 1974, when he was 7, and grew up in suburban
Vienna, Va. He is proud of his family name, which is common in South
Korea, and says he will continue to use "Stephen O" on his business
cards and personal correspondence.
Since he was a kid, being an O has been both embarrassing and amusing.
"I always hated the first day of school," he said. "The teacher would
call the roll through the M's and N's and then stumble over the O.
'Is this a typographical error?' he'd ask, and I'd say, 'That's me'."
When O telephones for a dinner reservation, he says he's
"O'Shaughnessy." It's easier that way. And when he shows up, the
maitre d' says, "Gee, you don't look Irish."
"I tell everyone my father is Irish and my mother is Korean, but I
happened to get the dominant genes from my mother," he said. "Some
people are so gullible they really believe me."
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Date: 30 Aug 91 23:30:05 GMT
From: mikes@hpsrmjs.sr.hp.com (Mike Seibel)
Subject: Radar Trap
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From Herb Caen's column in the San Francisco Chronicle:
A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that
measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received
in the mail a ticket for $40, and a photo of his car. Instead of payment,
he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he
received a letter from the police department that contained another
picture -- of handcuffs.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 07:40:52 CDT
From: Joe Wiggins <JWIGG@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
Subject: Rules
To: yucks
My secretary and my wife (both female) swear that the following is
absolutely true. For some reason, I believe them.
THE RULES
1. THE FEMALE ALWAYS MAKES THE RULES.
2. The rules are subject to change at any time without
prior notification.
3. No male can possibly know all the rules. Nearly all
females are born with this knowledge.
4. If the female suspects the male knows all the rules,
she may immediately change some or all of the rules.
5. THE FEMALE IS NEVER WRONG.
6. If the female is wrong, it is because of a
misunderstanding, which was a direct result of
something the male did or said that was wrong.
7. If rule #6 applies, the male must apologize
immediately for causing the misunderstanding.
8. THE FEMALE CAN CHANGE HER MIND AT ANY GIVEN POINT IN
TIME.
9. The male must never change his mind without the
express written consent from the female.
10. THE FEMALE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE ANGRY OR UPSET AT
ANY TIME.
11. The male must remain calm at all times, unless the
female wants him to be upset or angry.
12. The female must under no circumstances let the male
know whether or not she wants him to be upset or
angry.
13. Any attempt to change these rules could result in
severe bodily harm.
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1991 09:14:12 GMT
From: vnend@Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Subject: Today's chicken message
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Russia Applies for U.S. Statehood (chicken notice)
NEW SOUTH-WEST RUSSIA-BY-THE-DON (UPI)---In a surprise move, Russian
Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin yesterday asked U.S. officials
to admit Russia to the United States as a state or states.
Early U.S. response was favorable. President Bush, for instance, was
quoted as saying ``While I haven't had time to consider the plan in
much detail yet, I have to say that it would sure give those liberals
who are always whining about how the U.S. has imperialistic ambitions
around the globe something to think about.''
However, negotiations quickly stalled over details of the plan for
Russian statehood. Yeltsin had originally asked to have the entire
territory of the present-day Russian Soviet Federated Socialist
Republic admitted to the U.S. as a single state. Such a state would
have had more territory than the rest of the United States put
together, and more than half the population of the rest of the United
States. American officials preferred a scheme whereby Russia would be
split up into ten or twenty states, each admitted individually. When
the system of representation in the U.S. Senate was explained to him,
however, Yeltsin changed his demands, asking instead that Russia be
admitted to the U.S. as about 150 small states.
Negotiations are also stalled on Yeltsin's insistence that he be
guaranteed a term as the President of the United States. U.S.
officials say that would require changes to the U.S. Constitution
which are unlikely to be approved quickly. Yeltsin's response was
that constitutional changes were a matter to be dealt with after the
admission of the 100-200 formerly Russian states.
Princeton University staff computer consultant Jay Sekora has been
appointed special negotiator to the Russian Federation. In an attempt
to assess the American mood on this issue, he is conducting an
informal referendum. To register a YES vote, please bring $3.25 to
him in Room 105, 87 Prospect, by 11:15 today, and order General Tso's
Chicken. To register a NO vote, please bring $3.25 to him in Room
105, 87 Prospect, by 11:15 today, and order General Tso's Chicken.
------------------------------
Date: 30 Aug 91 02:41:02 GMT
From: jok@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jeff Kesner)
Subject: Unix password encryptions
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Quite some time ago, someone inquired as to whether you could put nasty
phrases in the /etc/passwd encryption of the password. And specifically
mentioned a few "nasty" phrases. /usr/lib/makekey uses the same encryption
scheme as that used for /etc/passwd, except that you append the "salt" value
to the end of the "password".
In any event here they are:
The piece-de-la-resistance: password 32137200 Salt Fu (simply type in
32137200Fu
as input into /usr/lib/makekey). The resulting encryption COULD be placed
/etc/passwd and you COULD sign on with the password "32137200", but I
discourage you from doing so, for obvious reasons.
Others of the "you" variety (all use "Fu" as the salt):
87027096 33717027 32137200 64373347 60102352
"off" variety:
42607098 50249621 68184982
"all" variety:
41362362 31124508
An odd one, "meech", as in "Meech Lake Accord":
7850970
"her" variety:
39990747
"him" variety:
35044559 35495167
Miscelaneous in the "er", "me", "up" variety (in alphabetical order):
67606379 50328348 11130311 42870057 68203888 15584249 63566925 56215727
38599731 89730462 41460768 59791348 3915483 31924606 6505980 66208575
74486583 13229319 64321998 71261680 33502533 52183624 32207406 54402347
51626599 28786809 30628278 6550051 34959553 35865190 56591699 89730310
54177075 62353574 31499126 62368039 81180818 78565463 17212851 3767728
1015210 57436839 87187145 779997 72794405 18652488 37231723 26098467
63137810 44664877 21014193 12841871 77702325 24663995 57714304 88376130
24264634 51074913 69499663 63129258 46075320 61507697 27946430 71882533
7191233 13317487 57002512 52275057 82914643 32962853 60580515 61509952
4855052 19043500 60762871 12220121 86731236 26400206 6199819 58365785
79917736 84909186 37134373 8768289 8323635 37675373 39539275 18029199
31653374 86067724 44469202 23536486 58826538 84693041 13243977 60194630
87693505 25314622 85210647 58499476 44413557 50856010 59651400 81555901
4913400 732396 41265164 51117106 82460848 1259552 31106123 26411326
61381960 61425874 60615026 89081546 38725658 19589583 32269714 1731821
32474107 77570254 82742929 77132319 23062336 68759160 56310871 53288897
67096914 7355077 78619965 29609617 35670779 27553400 32250430 22519965
13675100 2677827 12210113 28471203 15619093 67627648 41388435 3653863
86959767 18414431 89040490 45340020 88862459 15243045 17936965 21951962
1814788 756087 27250893 44726107 29337439 54208813 10788353 54081065
9599984 84379828 44327061 33628933 58481451 68610145 80087201 8978902
78199359 69893410 52689738 75482644 10876888 7148336 2284767 38879634
32213297 19914697 77398397 80385319 75023133 3274466 74417445 79460312
82446475 41116780 65747232 14644504 45741095 20838577 87825443 63801360
14486306 3601426 65623973 6451927 9327403 22657482 34139105 23228984
11969935 79804119 61280541 20708266 25549261 63602597 14501412 55653507
67607184 26870723 64532762 32152763 34835364 5785530 67791933 3817291
80023247 35766964 30772900 11374607 51654772 71574118 12419947 10638558
18356344 85356004 17169775 67922953 57497747 43326925 7165063 65307573
17403832 67427391 64414952 27103507 86836063 54563378 22606594 46513554
29334582 35840803 53716129 65621824 63837099 37748481 11674650 66501173
25000270 24254959 55963158 15898658 8039469 72637194 85276624 64464586
34360573 22206634 89447359 77701221 327796 66492597 74420757 89263586
30508775 64791378 1983735 56880685 88585874 90317393 50926656 56336548
9339648 41477950 56029840 26705040 37799525 54669005 16307072 56892929
2968662 72451092 3535584 52439784 77482376 11153430 44842105 32076514
50658733 72173509 42664548 67599769 84505623 35216887 60508362 14657907
74617945 83528019 23630697 44500048 90266874 51929190 5668241 31164129
78203254 23350250 88248101 38319455 45897809 1535285 15093136 79444125
303249 40845374 51158402 11050054 63094870 25024558 77793830 73944033
3571167 677873 34667965 35069189 66992513 64688453 6418847 18353084
70934104 70934104 58769554 19661113 22640999 53625820 6844410 3225618
5573937 83381861 7022892 19200787 24988089 8030590 69312988 36001817
22704384 16064599 78412298 69492651
Hmm.. ran out of numbers. Oh well, I'll think of some slightly more pleasant
phrases and move on to the alphabet, I suppose.
Should you wish to generate your own phrases, I suggest that you have a few
hundred of them and not be case sensitive, they'll turn up quicker than you
think (a 1000/s cryptor would be an asset, though) you'll also want to step
through 8 "digits" from the set [a-z][A-Z] by some large prime number of
your choosing, if you intend to use it as an actual signon password and
maintain security, but that's another can of worms.
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 22:53:41 CDT
From: chk@rice.edu (Charles Koelbel)
Subject: What was that pronoun again?
To: spaf
>From misc.writing:
|> I thought this sentence, from an article reprinted from the _San Francisco
|> Examiner_ in the _Colorado Daily_, would amuse you:
|>
|> "And there was the Los Angeles transsexual who was fired from his job
|> because, after a sex change operation, she began wearing a dress to work."
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 4:37:19 EDT
From: "Jonathan D. Trudel" <jdt@bugs.rmd.com>
Subject: while I'm here
To: eniac@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
I'm in the UK right now (at our UK counterpart), and I was surprised to
see this editorial cartoon:
An interrogation is taking place. The Kremlin can be seen in the
background. The interrogator asks:
Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
Delightful.
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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 15:21:48 EST
From: Gene Spafford <spaf@uther.cs.purdue.edu>
Subject: Words fail me
To: funny@looking.on.ca
I thought you'd find the following really funny:
(Transcribed from an old Marcel Marceau routine without permission.)
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