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* Israeli jailers listen to guard dogs with interpreter ware

Anonymous Coward

"dog who cried wolf" 

Coat

Surely that should be "dog who cried [escaping] man"?

Mines the Wolf skin one with the sheepskin lining.

SpitefulGOD

Ahhh 

Gates Halo

I think dogs are great, it's gonna be a shame to see them superseded by droids

TeeCee

"dog who cried wolf" 

Not the dog's fault. "Woof" / "Wolf". Easy mistake to make over a radio link.

Now, you'd have thought that the human handlers would realise they'd misheard, unless they've got a serious wolf problem in Israeli prisons that they're not telling us about.

TrishaD

Dog/Wolf 

Coat

Dont dogs usually cry 'Wuff'?

Mine's the concrete overcoat - in anticipation......

Anonymous Coward

dog who cried wolf? 

shouldn't that rather be "dog who barked wolf"?!

Christoph

What is El Reg coming to? 

No bites/bytes pun? Shame on you!

Ian Rogers

Canis Lupus 

Coat

Shirley "Dog who cried woof"?

Put the microphones and position locators on the dogs with voice recognition software to detect which crim is currently screaming "ow, geroff my leg/arm/nuts/whatever" to automatically open the appropriate doors back inside away from the pooches...

Take human guards out of the loop.

At high security prisons don't bother feeding the dogs...

Mine's the one with the sleeping pills and chunks of steak.

Evil Graham

Don't they use German Shepherd dogs? 

Happy

If so, the Israeli guards won't be able to understand them anyway.

cookieMonster

so what's a dog's bark like when 

Paris Hilton

the dog sees a pussy, "muff muff..." ??

Paris... well...

Dave

pseudocode 

Boffin

Are they using an eight bit bitmask to store the characteristics of barks under different circumstances? I hope so, then the code which handles it might say:

if (bark.worseThan(byte)

{

alert();

}

else

{

ignore();

}

[ hmmmm.... El Reg comments system doesn;t seem to like formatting code-like comments ]

Cameron Colley

Where's Amber? 

I hope she's been dispatched to Israel to investigate.

Anonymous Coward

Stupidly over-engineered non-solution to trivial problem 

Flame

Or, like, they could just put little wireless webcams on the dogs' collars, and then when one starts barking the controllers could just, y'know, LOOK and see if anything's going on.

Of course, that would have the disadvantages of being far simpler, cheaper, made out of bog-standard off-the-shelf robust and reliable technology, with a much-nearer-100% accuracy rate. But hey, why do things the easy and effective way when you can do them much worse, for only far far far more time, effort and money?

ImaGnuber

Slurp Slurp Slurp 

I hope those aren't radio-microphones mounted on the dogs. I wouldn't want to spend any part of my day listening to a dog licking itself - though I expect it would appeal to some Reg readers.

JohnH

"Smithers..." 

Happy

Release the hounds....

b

zionists are mad 

Pirate

listening to dogs now, are they?

israel is doomed.

Joe

I for one... 

...welcome our new canine overlords!

Jesse

RE: Slurp Slurp Slurp 

Heart

I'm quite partial to bitches licking themselves, thank you!

Anonymous Coward

Dear Sir, 

Thumb Up

I would like to complement you on your exemplary use of the word "turd" in the article. These days it is rare to see the effective placement of a good turd, dog or otherwise. I trust you will endeavour to continue handling your turds with such care and proficiency.

Regards

Roger (Cynthia) Smythe-Jones

multipharious

Lasers... 

Coat

Sorry, mine is the one with the Gary Larson book in it.

Glenn Charles

canine decoding and storage requirements 

Paris Hilton

I understand decoding the e-mails between the (canine) guards is quite a trick.

...slup, slurp, muff

--Glenn

[Paris: "OOoo"]

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