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From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: Does the following... 

On 10 Sep 2004, at 17:18, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:20:14 PDT, Andrew Farmer said:
>> Didn't get the OP's message, but yes. If there's no microphone
>> attached, then the sound card (and, by extension, speech recognition)
>> can start picking up radio announcers. Spooky, eh?
>
> Man, are they *still* selling sound cards that are *that* crappy and
> unshielded? (And I thought the built-in microphone on my Dell laptop
> blew chunks just because it has a tendency to pick up the hum of the
> disk drive motor when the gain is cranked up.... ;)

Apparently, yes. This is a known occurrence.

Support:
- Text includes some text that one might expect in radio
   - "San Bernardino 90" (traffic report)
- Speech-to-text errors
   - "nineteen 89" (1989 - nobody would ever type this)
   - "A BA, maybe" ("maybe -- maybe")
   - "9?" ("nonsense")

To other posters:
- RF keyboards don't exist. Nobody's *that* unconcerned about security.
- Bluetooth keyboards require a pairing process to work, so that's not
   too likely.
- Bayesian-defeating text? Explain to me why that'd be showing up in
   Word.
- Random prose script? Falls to Occam's razor: why would it be 
implemented
   in Word (other than as a prank)?
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