May 19 Written by:aajoanne
Monday, May 19, 2008
Researchers in Israeli jails are using high-tech equipment to determine whethere their gaurd dogs are barking for fun or if they are trying to send an alert of trouble.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli jails are using a custom-built computer program to interpret the barks of guard dogs and distinguish warnings of a breakout from everyday woofs, a prisons official said Monday.
Noam Tavor, head of the Israel Prisons Service canine unit, said the program is designed to overcome mistakes in which guards have either not heard dogs sounding an alarm or failed to speedily identify its significance.
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Re: Interpreting the Bark
Fast, frantic bark = break out
Infrequent bark = boredom and communication between other dogs.
NASA spent 12 billion dollars trying to create a writing device that would write in space
They finally came up with a pen that could write upside down, right side up.
Russia used a pencil. See? Technology never beats common sense.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
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