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IP Replaces Avian Carriers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-flew-over-the-pigeon's-nest dept.

m0rningstar writes: "In the spirit of the IP over Avian Carriers RFC, India is considering replacing a carrier pigeon network with e-mail according to this story at the BBC."

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  1. All of the out of work pigeons..... by JayAndSilentBob · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of the out of work pigeons can go to work at Google now, making Google even better and faster. So much for that new-fangled Tahoma search engine.

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    1. Re:All of the out of work pigeons..... by counsell · · Score: 3, Funny

      Please God, don't let this turn into another one of those inane Slashdot debates about low paid Indian IT workers "flooding" the US jobs market.

      You know the sort of thing: "I'm not racist, but how are we supposed to compete? Some of them are prepared to work for chickenfeed."

    2. Re:All of the out of work pigeons..... by kubrick · · Score: 1, Funny

      Which is more expensive -- chickenfeed or pigeonfeed? As far as I can tell, they'll both eat almost anything, anyway :)

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  2. H1-Bs by counsell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please God, don't let this turn into another one of those inane Slashdot debates about low paid Indian IT workers "flooding" the US jobs market.

    You know the sort of thing: "I'm not racist, but how are we supposed to compete? Some of them are prepared to work for chickenfeed."

    1. Re:H1-Bs by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've been looking over the relevant legislation, and I cannot find a single paragraph which disqualifies unemployed carrier pigeons from receiving H1-Bs.

      So we geeks could be facing some stiff competition from the Indian-avian community. Time to bone up on those coding skills, folks. And remind your boss that they type by the hunt-and-peck method.

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  3. Excellent! by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can go "dumpster diving" once they throw out all the birds and pick up some spare parts. I've been looking for a new pigeon-hole router for months (My last one was destroyed when I mistook "CAT5" for "5 cats").

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  4. In other news... by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

    American pigeons all across the United States are staging "sit ins" to protest the new influx of cheap Indian labor. Most protests are centered around notable statues and monuments and also high atop government buildings, but there are also reports of millions of birds sitting atop vital telephone wires and strategiecally placed electrical towers, threatening silently the power they hold over our nation's digital infrastructure...

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  5. e-mail cons by fabiolrs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hope they dont implement the system using Windows! Just imagine in the middle of an emergency:

    "OUTLOOK.EXE has caused and ilegal operation on 0e:03aabf"

    They may use pigeons as backups when this occur... :))

    Another pro of a pigeon: B_Gates will not have a clue of what your sending! :))

    Sorry, couldnt resist it!! :))

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  6. Back in '99 by SuperCal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Back in 99 as a contingincy for the y2k bug my company had me work out a system for keeping the company comunications running should anything happen to the internet. We set up generators to keep the computers running (We had them y2k certified) with generators and I hired several temps to hang around on new years eve, If the internet would have black, they would have imediatly began reading IP packets from terminal screen and transcribing (in hex) to little pieces of paper that were attached to pigions which would then fly to our other locations, the same process would have been in full swing. The IP information was then reentered into the system. Ping times where hella long in tests, but comunications were still active...

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  7. Those Pigeons... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Those pigeons must be exhausted after carrying volumes of such important missives as:

    Hot New Stock!!

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    Free Porn Resource(ADV:ADLT)

    Attention Home Owners Rates Below 3% Fixed

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    Direct E-Mail Advertising 1229acfl2-025ACwk3769DWXE0-5l26

    ×öööÉÏãÃÀÈË!

    2904 Register to win your Dream Vacation 2536343

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  8. Dropped packets by dnorman · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a whole different type of dropped packet.

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  9. Re:Most places are not well developed. by pubjames · · Score: 5, Funny

    For people living in the U.S., it is easy to forget that most places in the world to not have a developed infrastructure.

    Funnily enough, I talking to someone about exactly the same thing earlier today when I was queueing to use the electric telephone at the Post and Telegraph Office, here in Spain. I was talking to an Australian who had spent the last four months on a sailship, poor man, on his way back to England to see his dying mother, who has the pox. I consoled him by telling him the rumours I'd heard about the United States of America - about rocket ships, robots, and flying cars, a place where children play happily in the streets without fear of nefarious wrongdoers, a place of happy and content people governed by the just and true. We both looked forward to a day when we could afford the passage to that great nation, a true paradise on earth.