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Drunken Employee Shoots Server
Target Practice writes "A drunken mortgage worker at RANLife Home Loans decided for unknown reasons to take out the company's $100,000 server with a .45-caliber automatic, blaming the damage on an imagined assailant who: mugged him, assaulted him with his own weapon, drugged him, and then broke into his office to shoot said server. According to acquaintances, he had threatened earlier that day to shoot the server and maybe himself."
Police did find a knife on the floor, corroborating his account that the server came at him first.
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Alcohol. Is there anything it can't do?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Is there a sysadmin among us that hasn't, at one time or another, wanted to shoot a server?
"Automatic" probably does not mean what you think it means.
"Automatic" weapons are typically ones that fire continuously as long as the trigger is pressed.
It can also mean "automatic" as in it resets for you. This second usage is a little archaic and is now commonly called 'semi-automatic'.
They always try to blame it on the hardware.
Has anyone considered that maybe the server deserved it?
I shot the server
(but I did not shoot the disk array)
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
A $100,000 server? At a loan company? Damn, $100,000 is a LOT of box for a Physics department at a large university.
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Rumor has it that the server was seen holding what the mortgage officer thought was a weapon. The officer drew and repeatedly fired his weapon, pausing to reload 15 times because he believed his life was in danger. The server was fatally hit by 87 rounds, most of them entering through the rear of the chassis. No other weapon was found at the scene. The mortgage officer has been put on temporary desk assignment while an investigation is held.
To the layperson, automatic can mean either semi- or full-. Austin Powers said, "I've got my 9 milli automatic!" If you're referring to a belt-fed weapon though, most people don't say it's an automatic. They said it's fully-automatic or full-auto.
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People not familiar with firearms tend to get confused on the difference between "automatic" and "auto-loader".
Automatic=1 trigger pull (and hold) and it fires until the clip is empty Auto-loader=1 trigger pull (and release) means one shot fired and the next round loaded in the chamber
I think it's a holdover from the "Roaring Twenties" - I don't think any reasonable person familiar with firearms has used that term in North America, in the last twenty years. The problem is that the media professionals (either intentionally or unintentionally) use the term to describe a particular firearm, neglecting to understand the ramifications of using an archaic term. I do believe that it's more a case of laziness more than overt anti-gun alarmism; but who knows. Think Edward G. Robbinson.
The article didn't even mention if the server was ok or not.
As there was either a Panther, Tiger or some type of Leopard inside.
Should of had a HP sever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyXlb26ihs
If he has a CCW permit and the business he was at does not have a posted sign or policy and he was following local laws and ordinances, it's fully within his right to carry if he feels the need to. Why does it matter if he was at his desk job or anywhere else? He may live in a very bad part of town, or the business he's works at could be in a high crime area. You don't fully know the details and asking "why does he need X" is no different than asking "why does this person need privacy if he's not doing anything wrong" or any asking why anyone would be doing any activity that you yourself might not agree with or may find questionable, even if it is fully within his rights under the law.
You tread a slippery slope...
What about a handgun that, when no more rounds are chambered, the slide stays back with the breech open so that when a new mag is popped in you can simply release the slide to chamber another round? As opposed to a pistol that needs to be cocked for every new mag inserted? Is there a name for that?
The Colt 1911 Govt model is usually referred to as a "single-action automatic". It is chambered for .45ACP, the ACP being "Automatic Colt Pistol". It's the traditional term associated with this weapon.
That's what slashdot wants to know.
Booyakasha! That's the Law Of Karma for you, in form of a Crazed, Drunken Gunman/Sysadmin. Didn't they learn from the case of State Of California trying to get passwords from a Lonely Sysadmin, Terry Childs ? Sysadmins Are Crazy! They have to be, to make sense out of all that Chaos! Don't mess with them or be prepared to take the occasional bullet in your servers! ;) Anyway, a Loan Company probably deserved this after what they have done to drive people into economical crisises.
Relating to Terry Childs, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/042710-admin-who-kept-sf-network.html:
"One of the reasons it was so expensive for the City to recover control of its network is because Childs had set routers to store configuration information in memory instead of on their hard drives, so any disruption of power would have wiped out this information. This made it very difficult for the city to reset the routers and recover administrative control of the network without reconfiguring the entire system." San Francisco spent about US$900,000 cleaning up the mess caused by Childs' actions, according to Assistant District Attorney Conrad Del Rosario."
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It's not "laziness". It's intentional and overt manipulation. They want to sex up the article.
"Man fires pistol into computer" just isn't sexy enough.
It sounds more like Alexander Hamilton losing his temper than Rambo. It's not exciting enough.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The 1911 pattern .45 ACP is still produced today and is still one of the most popular and commonly-used pistols on the market.. Not archaic, just a classic.
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The police who responded immediately called for backup.
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Really? Because the A1 was a select-fire rifle with safe-semi-full modes. The A2 has safe-semi-burst modes, where one trigger pull fires 3 rounds.
Generally, the media will call a semi-auto an automatic. It's much more sensational.
And it happens to be that the caliber in this case was .45 ACP, which stands for Automatic Colt Pistol.
Funny... I was just hearing from George Lucas that the server shot first.
"I shot the server, but I didn't shoot no DVD"
The slide staying back is referred to as "lock back".
As far as the reload I think you are referring to a "slide-lock" reload. Meaning you are manually disengaging the slide lock to allow the slide forward to chamber another round as opposed to the slide being in the forward position, putting in a clip and "racking" (pulling back and releasing) the slide to reload.
The forefathers didn't have access to semi-automatic handguns which could fit in their pockets.
The forefathers had access to fucking artillery pieces. Cannons were available to private ownership and use throughout the first century of US history, and were especially common on the frontier where they were an important force multiplier for small settlements vs. natives. For that matter, you could own and operate your own private warship during the same period if you could afford it, with as many cannons as you could fit on it.
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umm...since when? I spent 6 years in the Marines and at no time was an M16 ever referred to as a semi-automatic. It was and is a select-fire assault rifle and believe me they drilled that shit into our skulls. The A2 was capable of burst mode, but was also a select-fire weapon. I don't know where you got the idea the USMC thinks an assault rifle is a semi-automatic, but whoever it was is dead wrong.
They are including the cost of running and maintaining Windows on it.
No, your second example is actually in very common usage. Nobody I know calls their 1911 types (Kimber, Colt, etc) a "semi-automatic" unless they're being pedantic.
"The .45 ACP (11.43x23mm) (Automatic Colt Pistol), also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_ACP
A *lot* of people call them a 45 auto. It's because there was also a 45 single action in popular use at the time, often called a Colt 45.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Single_Action_Army
Example: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=45+automatic
A large majority of the hits show that most 1911s are referred to *still* as the 45 automatic (or 45 ACP)
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
I don't why it matters if he had a PC or an Apple server? Or why the Media Access Control address of the device is important.
Times change
But ignorance does not, which is exactly what such statements prove. You seriously need to learn some extremely basic history before you respond further.
The first amendment has maintained its power exactly because the second amendment exists. The only reason the second amendment isn't first is because they wanted it understood the new country they created was built first on the pen and second on the sword; only after the pen has failed. Furthermore, they specifically granted the power to ensure a corrupt government can be overthrown.
Any gun laws which effectively prevent the potential overthrown of the government (I'm not advocating) is completely unconstitutional. Period. Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of history or pushing an agenda. Both are extremely common. If you don't like the rights provided under the Constitution, advocate the change of the Constitution and along with it, restriction and removal of your rights. Because that's exactly what you'd be doing; or if not your rights, the rights of our children and children's children.
You need to understand, police are in now way legally obligated to save you from anything at all; assuming they are even there. Its extremely likely, whenever you actually need police, they will only be there after the need is gone. The "Protect And Serve" expression makes for great marketing but is nowhere near accurate. An accurate creed is, "Observe And Report", because that's exactly what they do. Which means, if you want protection, you must have the rights granted under the second amendment. To argue otherwise is to argue people deserve no protection from harm or injury from others.
The legitimate reasons and the specific reasons why the second amendment exists are almost endless. Every time I see someone make your statement, in my head, its always translated into, "duuh?", because you are ignorantly advocating almost everything bad humanity has to offer - and don't even realize it. Your ignorance is specifically advocating the death and injury of innocent people and even more government corruption.
Seriously. Our forefathers are extremely well documented. I encourage you to go learn about them, why specific choices were made, and why the US Constitution was written the way it was. Once you do that, you'll realize how many insanely stupid and ignorant people we have in power, including the power over your rights, privileges, freedom, and life. If you're not frustrated and at least a little bit concerned, you've not learned enough. Seriously.
If he had to use an Apple server, he could easily claim temporary insanity.
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