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Tux Can Even Milk Cows!

Posted by Zonk on from the i-don't-have-it-that-good dept.

GuitarNeophyte writes "If you're a cow, you want to get milked when you want to get milked. And if you were a dairy farmer, you want to make your cow happy. So what do you do? Set up a machine that gives the cow control of its milking schedule. Oh yeah, of course, it runs on Linux. It identifies the cow, then finds the udders, milks the cow, cleans it's undercarriage, and lets it go."

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  1. YaBut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Can it squirt milk from the cow's teat into the open mouth of a barn cat up on it's hind quarters 6 feet away? I saw my great uncle do this on his farm when I was a kid. The small multipurpose farms are all but gone but they were great for holding extended families together.

    My mother's people came up the Oregon trail onto the then northwest territories, broke open the prarie sod, passed the first wintered in a hut made of mud and roots, then cultivated the prairies and built a town. Part of every summer I worked on one farm or another. I use to ride out to bring the cows in for milking from communal pasture.

    Technology is great but I'm sad family farms are gone. The latest generation we have farming in the same area barely feel a breeze on their skin moving from the house to giant, air conditioned equipment and near sterile barns.

    Ever been stupid enough to pick up a "cute" little barn kitten that's never known human touch?

  2. I'm confused. by thomble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wise adherents in the open source community have been using this piece of software for social networking. To my knowledge, it predates Friendster.

  3. now if only... by KillShill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    tux could prevent the dairy farmers from injecting the cows with massive amounts of BGH (bovine growth hormone) then we'd be sittin' in butter.

    better yet, if fox news could stop sueing its reporters from bringing this story to the public's attention, that'd be even better. http://www.foxbghsuit.com/

    it's rather funny, the judge said in effect that fox doesn't have to tell the truth. and we wonder why people like Bernard Goldberg keep harping on about "bias".

    http://www.google.com/search?q=there+is+no+rule+ag ainst+distorting+or+falsifying+the+news+in+the+Uni ted+States

    follow the google link above for more info.

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