So now they'll be able to blame the sheep when the cycling timing data gets stuck in network congestion?
For flock's sake: Scared sheep send SMSes to Swiss shepherds
Swiss boffins have been testing SMS-equipped sheep to see if they can send a warning text message when the big, bad wolf approaches, and it looks like they can. The sheep don't voluntarily send the message, but a heart-rate monitor fitted to a sheep's collar can detect when the animal is stressed, and automatically sends an …
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Monday 6th August 2012 11:32 GMT Blofeld's Cat
False positives...
Some more reasons why sheep get excited: cars, sandwiches, other sheep, shepherds, shadows, trees, grass ...
After a couple of weeks of that your average shepherd will be leaving his phone off the hook.
Besides which any half competent predator will take its victim without alarming the flock until it's too late.
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Monday 6th August 2012 14:22 GMT Return To Sender
Frikkin' lasers...
Obvious development - a squad of laser-equipped (homing missile, tactical nuke, take your pick) sheep in each flock. Rearward facing of course, since presumably the sheep are just bright enough to run *away* from not toward the wolf... No need for the shepherd to get out of bed, even.
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Tuesday 7th August 2012 12:00 GMT Wensleydale Cheese
Re: Being pedantic
"Actually it's Kanton, not Canton, being German speaking. If you want to be über-pedantic :)"
überpedantisch surely?
And canton is the English word for der Kanton
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Monday 6th August 2012 19:40 GMT Colin Brett
Levels of difficulty
"British sheep don't have to worry about wolves, and rarely worry about rustlers either, in fact they don't even flock properly, and need walls and fences keep them together*. ...
* Your correspondent once worked on a game based around sheep, including several months spent developing sheep-flocking algorithms, so was very disappointed to discover this fact."
So if British sheep don't flock, they are more difficult to gather together into pens. Does this mean that for the computer version of "One Man and his Dog" our correspondent was working on, would use cowardly foreign sheep at the lower levels and more independent-minded, rebellious British sheep at higher levels?
Imagine a Boss Sheep at the end of each level! Could the Border Collie be upgraded with a "tactical mint sauce" option?
Nuke Icon because it would barbeque a sheep quite nicely :-)
Colin