Author Topic: Poker keyboard - OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER / PRE-PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS (Read 214520 times)

Akachei · « **Reply #650 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 16:04:43 »

Quote from: keyboardlover;388295

There's another branch that's trying to stop the bleeding.
http://www.cnsnews.com/node/72404

Most of the immediate deficit problems are the bad economy (a bipartisan effort, to the extent it was politically driven), and Bush-era Policies. The longterm issue is pretty much exclusively a healthcare issue.

This is pretty offtopic, though, isn't it? Man, customs ...

mattdurham · « **Reply #651 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 16:06:46 »

Less politics more talk about our keyboards long journey!

daerid · « **Reply #652 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 16:19:54 »

This is such BS.

I've got two pokers at home sitting on my desk. THEY'RE ALREADY IN THE US

ashort · « **Reply #653 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 16:35:00 »

Quote from: ripster;388310

I have a friend that visits Cuba every year. If I smoked I'd have her smuggle in cigars.

I do have a painting though...
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That's nice. Just needs a good amount of rum.

Your friend either doesn't live in the U.S., or carries other than a U.S. Passport, or both!

ashort · « **Reply #654 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 16:36:15 »

I think iMav should lock this thread so we don't get overly excited to see a new post in here, only to be disappointed that jerk ashort was trying to derail the topic with mentions of Cuba and rum.

iMav · « **Reply #655 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:09:46 »

I have done all I can. Headed home now.

DaemonRaccoon · « **Reply #656 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:11:16 »

Thanks for your hard work! (Hope this gets sorted out.)

ashort · « **Reply #657 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:13:15 »

So the gigantic brains at US Customs are now going to attempt to figure out whether or not a few boxes of Poker keyboards are bad for the US and they'll let you know?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #658 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:13:37 »

So did they give any explanation what their issue is?

DaemonRaccoon · « **Reply #659 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:16:51 »

Quote from: lysol;388362

So did they give any explanation what their issue is?

It boils down to the FCC certification issue.

stupefaction · « **Reply #660 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:21:48 »

Question: While the crack agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, have been taking measures against the potential threat posed to the United States by my keyboard and those of my fellow group buyers, what life changes have I gone through?

(a) Gotten a haircut.
(b) Lost five pounds.
(c) Moved to another country.
(d) All of the above.

Answer: The answer is (d)! All of the above! Yes, really!

ashort · « **Reply #661 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:34:03 »

Quote from: stupefaction;388367

Answer: The answer is (d)! All of the above! Yes, really!

Love it!

The solution to this problem should have been, "The dogs don't smell cocaine, pot, gunpowder or C4, this shipment is released!"

Why Customs feels the need to be SO cozy with the FCC is far beyond me. I can fabricate way too many things from parts I get at radio shack that would give the FCC fits.

keyboardlover · « **Reply #662 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:35:45 »

Good thing I didn't buy a Poker. Probably built with parts that cause the plague.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #663 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 17:45:15 »

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that is all.

digitalleftovers · « **Reply #664 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 18:01:23 »

Quote from: keyboardlover;388377

Good thing I didn't buy a Poker. Probably built with parts that cause the plague.

You mean, SARS?

"Did he really just make that Joke?"

Yeah... I did.

eherzog · « **Reply #665 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 19:53:14 »

Was such a fun time hanging out in the barren customs office with iMav. There were two nice wooden, pew-like benches to sit on. It's comforting that all the custom's officers carry weapons and are housed behind bullet-proof glass, except when they can't understand what you're saying or you can't understand them and they poke through the door and speak to you face to face, thereby negating any safety measures the locked doors and glass are supposed to provide. I don't have a clue as to why they all need weapons. They're paper-pushers with weapons training.

Here's hoping we'll be getting a bunch of keyboards on our doorstep soon!

curzen · « **Reply #666 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 21:49:23 »

Quote from: daerid;388320

This is such BS.

I've got two pokers at home sitting on my desk. THEY'RE ALREADY IN THE US

and if an airplane crashes down near your house due to radio interference it's all your damn fault. think of the children please and burn your pokers.

sordna · « **Reply #667 on:** Wed, 27 July 2011, 21:57:51 »

Dang, that reminds me ... I got the Poker partly due to its portability, with the thought to use it on trips. Imagine the scene:

This is your captain speaking, someone is operating a rogue electronic device, possibly a KBC Poker, causing interference with the aircraft controls. Crew, please check with passengers. Over.

jpm804 · « **Reply #668 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 00:27:39 »

Quote from: DaemonRaccoon;388365

It boils down to the FCC certification issue.

Funny just looked under my poker keyboard and they have a stamped FCC logo... as far as the acutally FCC ID.. cant make it out. Might be on the PCB.

digitalleftovers · « **Reply #669 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 01:14:00 »

Quote from: jpm804;388563

Funny just looked under my poker keyboard and they have a stamped FCC logo... as far as the acutally FCC ID.. cant make it out. Might be on the PCB.

Ha! you're right. Mine does too. That is hilarious. According to the spec though, not all items approved by the FCC require an FCC ID. God knows who decides that though...

ashort · « **Reply #670 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 05:04:54 »

Quote from: curzen;388507

burn your pokers.

I'm not burning my poker.

scotchguy · « **Reply #671 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 11:11:18 »

Since when does a hard-wired device with no transmitter disrupt communication and disturb airplane traffic? Have our keyboards been replaced by well placed Chinese communications jammers that will be spread to key locations in parent's basements across the nation? Maybe if all our KBC's are plugged in simultaneously it will create a network of portals that connects us to China which would result in a billion or so chinamen flooding our streets and eating all our McDonalds! Customs is only thinking of the people... that or they are still holding out for a bribe.

ashort · « **Reply #672 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 11:21:46 »

One of my customers is a DoD Supplier that wouldn't allow Lenovo laptops in the building. I suspect it's because Lenovo is a Chinese company. We had engineers use that as a very convenient excuse to get new Macbooks on the company dime (aren't those made in China too?). I don't blame them, I would have done the same thing!

It does make me wonder about purchasing things from China that connect via USB, and might also possibly install keyloggers via a USB drive that no one bargained for.

iMav's been on that front, ask him how relentless the Chinese are (in general - official gov't sponsored or not) in attacking our electronic frontier. At least on the network side, firewalls and IDS/IPS are NOT optional. Get a few hundred keyboards into the country with key loggers on them that can send results over the internet via spyware and imagine the possibilities.

alaricljs · « **Reply #673 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 11:24:29 »

Any device with long enough traces on the PCB using radio-frequency signalling is a transmitter whether or not that is the designed function of the device. The matrix scanning portion of a KB is a possible culprit for unintentional radio leakage... but damned unlikely. Still have to test tho because the FCC wants the licensing fees.

iMav · « **Reply #674 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 12:22:30 »

BOOM!

kidchunks · « **Reply #675 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 12:24:23 »

Quote from: iMav;388791

BOOM!

Nice! One step closer!

ashort · « **Reply #676 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 12:25:22 »

Quote from: iMav;388791

BOOM!

I believe that's a GOOD "BOOM", right? =-D Rock on!

alaricljs · « **Reply #677 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 12:30:23 »

Did they take your first-born?

iMav · « **Reply #678 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 12:33:26 »

Quote from: alaricljs;388798

Did they take your first-born?

I've added two documents to the first post of this thread . . .

spdx · « **Reply #679 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 14:38:11 »

iMav makes it happen. Thanks

alaricljs · « **Reply #680 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 14:43:03 »

Now the question is... Did iMav have access to the net and was that the deciding factor in getting it done in a reasonable amount of time? It's stupid that they required his physical presence in order for him to supply documentation such as that FCC approval. Did they need to open the pallet/case/box to check them out? Is that why they needed you to watch over their shoulder?

The US gov. is amazing at choosing the absolute least efficient way to do business.

ashort · « **Reply #681 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 14:45:22 »

Quote from: iMav;388802

I've added two documents to the first post of this thread . . .

The FCC and EU docs? Those are dated in April. Were they mysteriously in the box or faxed to US Customs or you or what?

qtan5370 · « **Reply #682 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 14:57:52 »

Well, those keyboard are passed the test, just use the UPC so you can find it on the database.

iMav · « **Reply #683 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 14:59:31 »

Those docs were emailed to me from the vendor this morning.

ashort · « **Reply #684 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 15:03:29 »

Quote from: iMav;388900

Those docs were emailed to me from the vendor this morning.

I guess putting a copy in an envelope in each box would have been way too much trouble. easier to take a day of your time and frustration and only send them if the HAVE to. YEESH!

sordna · « **Reply #685 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 15:12:01 »

Well, good to know for future group buys.
qtan, take note when you import any Rapoo V7's, maybe you want to ask Rapoo to provide FCC cert :-)

ricercar · « **Reply #686 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 18:53:01 »

thanks yet again, iMav and sheMav!

didjamatic · « **Reply #687 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 19:24:21 »

Glad they landed, can't wait!

Brodie337 · « **Reply #688 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 19:30:32 »

BLOW ME YOU CUSTOMS MOTHER****ERS!!!

And by that I mean "Splendid job, iMav!"

keyboardlover · « **Reply #689 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 22:11:44 »

I knew this would all work out.

I bet the customs people were crapping their pants when they saw iMav.

kaiserreich · « **Reply #690 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 22:38:10 »

Is this how iMav looks like in real life?

ashort · « **Reply #691 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 22:42:12 »

Quote from: kaiserreich;389149

Is this how iMav looks like in real life?

If you take his HHKB2, yes.

reaper · « **Reply #692 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 22:44:34 »

^ lol =D

TexasFlood · « **Reply #693 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 22:48:04 »

Quote from: kaiserreich;389149

Is this how iMav looks like in real life?

Unless he's doing his Elvis tribute show, :wink:

Apologies to iMav, a goofy image from the GHSS photoshop contest I couldn't help pulling out.

ashort · « **Reply #694 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 22:51:38 »

He's been working out.

TexasFlood · « **Reply #695 on:** Thu, 28 July 2011, 23:04:19 »

Quote from: ashort;389156

He's been working out.

Yup, all that punching gets one into shape, hard on the knuckles though.

daerid · « **Reply #696 on:** Fri, 29 July 2011, 00:11:15 »

Quote from: kalrykh;388762

Many electronics produce radio interference man.

yah, but a keyboard?

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express

kaiserreich · « **Reply #697 on:** Fri, 29 July 2011, 00:22:34 »

iMav is a black belt, better not try to take his HHKB away

qtan5370 · « **Reply #698 on:** Fri, 29 July 2011, 02:21:54 »

U.S custom guy sometimes are crazy and this two week FAA also would sent people to UPS warehouse to check the package.

ashort · « **Reply #699 on:** Fri, 29 July 2011, 11:18:44 »

Oh really oh really oh REALLY? :happy:
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Author Topic: Poker keyboard - OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER / PRE-PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS (Read 214520 times)