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IP Replaces Avian Carriers
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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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.
Love,
Jay and Silent Bob
If you haven't already read them (where HAVE you been?):
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
What were the skies like when you were young?
The amazing thing is this *isn't* an April's fool joke!
Here's an older story about the same thing.
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").
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
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...
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
April fools people. Go back to sleep. I'm amazed at the lameness of some of the jokes that happen on April 1st. A local radio station tried to convince people that there was an easter parade going on...at 7 o'clock in the morning...in a torrential downpour. I absolutely could not believe that some people would fall for it.
Maybe I'm just jaded and cynical, but give me something not only original, but believable.
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
That's a whole different type of dropped packet.
It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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.
I'm thinking this one was put up today as a sort of "Meta-Fool". It's an April Fools joke precisely because there will be lots of "It's just a stupid joke" posts on this thread, when the story is actually true. Very clever, good social engineering (knowing the geek penchant for scepticism and knowitallitis).
Maybe I'm giving the eds too much credit, tho'.
"Slashdot is about legos and staplers." -Cmdr. Taco
Living in the U.S., Spain, England, or Australia, it is easy for us to forget:
20% of the people in the world go hungry every day.
Only a small percentage of people in the world have access to a telephone.
A large percentage do not have access to safe water.
Bush's education improvements were