Subject:
|
Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:49:32 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
odenthal@anysim.tecnomatix.com+IHateSpam+
|
Viewed:
|
667 times
|
| |
|
|
JR Conlin wrote:
>
> I think the State Department ban is on any recording devices.
>
> Since the furby can record sounds, it's considered a recording device.
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 repeat anything ! It has a pre-
programmed set of words in two languages - "furbish" and (for me in
germany) german. At beginning it talks about 80% in furbish and 20% in
my language. The longer you play with it the more it reverses this
percentage - so that you have the *impression* that it can learn from
you - but it's all "hard-wired" ! Either the Furby in the USA is
different from mine or the FBI/NSA must be very silly to consider Furby
as a threat...
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms
|
| 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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
7 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
