From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:48:11 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Drivers licenses (fwd)
Message-ID: <199802110351.VAA08010@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:27:57 -0500
> From: David Miller <dm0@avana.net>
> Subject: Re: Drivers licenses

> > > It's a signal that is mixed and laid down by the machine. It covers the
> > entire track. The cassette head only has two or four head depending on if
> > it has auto-revers and moves the head.
> 
> So you are saying that the is a continuous track of varying amplitiude
> that
> defines the audio signal?  And that your bias is a part of this?

Actualy a standard cassette tape has 4 tracks grouped in pairs. Each pair is
given one of the channel. The audio that comes in is mixed with a bias
signal (using a summing amp) and then laid down on the tape.

> >From what I know, the bias is a parameter to the recording process and
> not
> the recording as it can be recovered from the magnets.  It is something
> intended to forward-correct error, which is not intended to be
> interpreted
> in the future.

Huh? I have been involved in audio recording for over 20 years, acted as
rodies for a host of bands (some of which actualy made records - but alas no
money) and I must admit that the above sentences don't make any sense to me
at all. Can you possible reword them?

What magnets? 'paramter of the recording process'? 'forward-correct error'?
'interpreted in the future'?

If your heads are magnetised you really should de-gauss them. They'll erase
your tapes eventualy...

> Looking for satellites?

No, to do that I use a C-band hooked to a alt-az mount and a digital modem.
I'll probably just make a normal Newtonian and hood a CCD camera to it and
feed my Video Toaster to digitize and enhance the images. I am particular
inchanged by the Moon. I can look at it for extended periods. I was
enchanted by it when Men stepped onto it for the first time. I very much
hope that we (as a race) go back to stay...

> Did you snag a job?  I had a headhunter call tonight.  It's been a year
> or
> so since they've bothered me.

I talked to BMC Software today. Looks like I'll probably go to work for them
supporting their suite of database products. I should know tomorrow if they
want to do the final interview which means I'll go to work for them on
Monday.

> >    |                   The obvious is sometimes false;                  |
> >    |                   The unexpected sometimes true.                   |
> 
> You've gotta get this Pringles thing in order.  Faith breaks the back of
> these
> types of philosophies.  If you give in to faith, you should normally
> incorporate
> it.  That doesn't mean that you have to explain it through the
> philosophy, but
> if that faith is the only thing that you know is indespensable, you need
> to
> reconsider how indespensable a philosophy that does not make room for it
> is.

Uh, ok.

Ta ta.


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