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Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:02:19 GMT
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JR Conlin <jrconlin@email*NoSpam*.com>
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I think the State Department ban is on any recording devices.
Since the furby can record sounds, it's considered a recording device. It
can go in, but it can't come out. Since the RCX can record and broadcast
limited IR transmissions, it may also be considered a recording device and
therefore have the same restrictions.
Mind you a pad of paper can also be considered a recording device, but
that's allowed.
Since the FBI is more focused on criminal investigations, they would only
be interested in the RCX if you could use it to commit crimes. I suppose
you could club someone to death with the thing, or attach it to a
powerline and have it crawl into someone's bathtub or something, but I
don't see it as high on the list as plastic guns or chemical arms.
At 01:24 PM 7/20/99 +0200, Harri 'Junkarn' Manni wrote:
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> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Eric Brok wrote:
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> What I have heard and read somewhere was that the FBI or similliar banned
> furby because of it supposed learning capabilities..
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> Made a quick search on the internet..
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> http://www.newstrolls.com/news/dev/troll011399.htm
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> Seems to be a "news troll".
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> More:
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> "Plain Dealer ( Cleveland Ohios News Paper) :
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> ----FBI and CIA are band from bringing to work, in the matter of that
> Furby could repeat secret
> codes and more.So Furby is not aloud at work.------ "
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> From: http://people.goplay.com/furbylova/page7.html
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> > I heard a rumour about the FBI not wanting to have Mindstorms around the
> > office. Sounds weird, especially because I would expect such rumours to • hear
> > inhere first.
> >
> > Does anyone hear about this?
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> > (My only source is someone who thougth she heard it mention somewhere; so
> > this may be very well be based on a mistake or a joke).
> >
> > Eric
> > --
> > Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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>
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> //Harri Manni - 070-5850517
> -"Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out alive."
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> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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Aloha,
JR
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they all suck in unique ways."
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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| Next thing you know, RCS bricks will be banned on airplanes, too. Singapore Airlines for example already mentiones Furby's in their pre-recorded onboard safety announcements. You are supposed to remove the batteries from your Furby while on board. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms
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| (...) i don't know if the Furby in the USA is different from those in europe, but mine can't record anything, it's nearly deaf - you have to clap very loud so that it can "hear" you - and then it follows a pre- programmed behaviour and doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I heard a rumour about the FBI not wanting to have Mindstorms around the office. Sounds weird, especially because I would expect such rumours to hear inhere first. Does anyone hear about this? (My only source is someone who thougth she heard it (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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