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Killing Rats with GPS

Posted by michael on from the pied-piper dept.

techmaven writes "When Channel Islands National Park officials needed an estimated about 300 rats exterminated on the east side of environmentally sensitive Anacapa Island, Aspen Ag Helicopters got the call. The kill was necessary because the rodents, descendants of rats that reached the island by way of a shipwreck a century or more ago, were decimating the populations of two rare seabirds. And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job."

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  1. Re:Kill?! Can't they find a peaceful way?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Informative? What the hell? Where in that steaming pile of shit did this guy say anything that was even remotely informative?

    (+1, Funny), maybe...if the mod has a really terrible sense of humor. (-1, Offtopic) almost certainly.

    Mod parent DOWN!

  2. Rat Hat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Seen on http://lwn.net/:

    So, while Red Hat is hardly failing, its claims of sustained profitability only work with sustained funky accounting.

    Is this an Enron in the making?