The sames sorts of people as you claimed that Florida would turn into the wild west when they implemented their shall-issue concealed carry laws. "Accidents" like that just don't happen.
Besides, by the time the military shows up, the pirates either own the boat, or they're dead. Either way the captain still has his radio.
Two. One on each side of the giant superstructure pretty much all these ships (including the Titanic) have in order to see over the sides of the rails to the docks below. You could cover 210 degrees from each side of the boat.
Piracy went away because the British empire eventually took control of the high-seas (along with France and Spain). It's hard to build an empire if your merchants keep getting sunk and or stolen. And back then, you really had to board a boat and probably face swords and knives - so being a row-boat style pirate just wasn't an option.
Okay, most major shipping in this world is managed by a dozen companies. if they all basically said: "Let our sailors have access to guns in a locked cabinet managed by the captain, or we stop visiting your ports" every port in the world will capitulate. Period.
Don't think I'd worry about that. More guns in LA than you can fit Chinese marines in a cargo ship. I'd be more worried about that same cargo ship of Chinese Marines pulling into Portsmouth, NH or Boston. LA, though, man, you'd just get the gangs to stop shooting at each other for a few days.
Problem is you can't use JDAMs against Taliban hiding in a hut in the middle of a market square in a village in Afghanistan. You have to use other weapons, mostly boots on the ground. A pirate ship on the open ocean is nothing to a Harpoon missle - you just have to find the pirates. The answer is less CVN battle groups and more coast-guard style operations with 20mm mounted cannons.
Correct. A wallet is not worth your time or life to defend. You're life on the other hand, is worth every single ounce of strength and will you have available to you to protect.
Simple, as George Carlin would say: when I shit on them.
I routinely eat stuff I drop on the floor, touch doorknobs and car doors, eat from other people's forks, drink from their straws, shake their sweaty hands, eat moldy bread and squishy apples, and I'm NEVER sick.
Most decent servers today come with hot-swap power supplies. Simply put your battery into that, and off you go. And if you've already switched to 12V DC in the datacenter, it's even better! No costly AC/DC conversion at the 100's of points of use.
I told the APC CEO this at a dinner about 7 or 8 years ago. This could have been a significant part of their wildly successful NetShelter product line, but no... too smart for their own good, those APC engineers.
Bing is okay if you're doing the top-10 actions on the web. Shopping, buying plan tickets, booking hotels, and searching wikipedia. It's when you get into the esoteric searches that it's weaknesses show. I'd probably compare it more to yahoo in 2001 than altavista, but it's no substitute for Google.
Craigslist has already done in organizations like the Wantadvertiser which used to be HUGE in my area (New England). And Google could probably sue the whole lot of them for collusion if they do try to do this.
Google already gives publishers a way out of caching pages. It's in their own best interests to take advantage of the capabilities the googlebot gives them.
A perfect example of this is my Dad, a luddite of the highest caliber. He asked me the other day that he'd heard he can get the print version of the Boston Globe on the Kindle. I nearly had a heart attack.
He's older, but he knows that some things may be better. And the $10 price/month of the Globe via Kindle versus the $60/month home delivery price, is enough to pay for a Kindle in a year.
And you've never had a service stop working in such a fashion that the only way to fix it is to reboot the whole damn box? Congratulations - you just stopped every service in the building.
I'm not saying it's likely or common, but it's happened.
Virus propogation - I'm not putting my email server with my database, nor my ftp server.
There's added complexity - but knowing that the box I'm working on is my FTP server ONLY, frees me from having to worry about side effects if I do X, or Y, or Z and whether it impacts Apache or Postfix or MySQL.
That's why we do it with single-service VMs - there's complexity either way. I just prefer service-isolation to your way.
If virtualization is a buzzword, it's nearly a 12 year old one now (in the x86 space), and it's so mature EVERYONE is giving away their virtualization technology (Citrix/VMware/Microsoft).
The value it provides is *almost* incontrovertible.
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The sames sorts of people as you claimed that Florida would turn into the wild west when they implemented their shall-issue concealed carry laws. "Accidents" like that just don't happen.
Besides, by the time the military shows up, the pirates either own the boat, or they're dead. Either way the captain still has his radio.
Two. One on each side of the giant superstructure pretty much all these ships (including the Titanic) have in order to see over the sides of the rails to the docks below. You could cover 210 degrees from each side of the boat.
Better to just sit at the top of the rail shotgunning them as they come over, sipping my bubbly.
Piracy went away because the British empire eventually took control of the high-seas (along with France and Spain). It's hard to build an empire if your merchants keep getting sunk and or stolen. And back then, you really had to board a boat and probably face swords and knives - so being a row-boat style pirate just wasn't an option.
Holy shit, that was the worst edited article I've read since proofing my niece's 4th grade book report.
Okay, most major shipping in this world is managed by a dozen companies. if they all basically said: "Let our sailors have access to guns in a locked cabinet managed by the captain, or we stop visiting your ports" every port in the world will capitulate. Period.
The said the same thing when Florida switched to a shall-issue conceal and carry state. Every traffic incident was going to turn into a gun-fight.
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2006/07/florida_crime_r_1.php
So much for that red-herring.
Don't think I'd worry about that. More guns in LA than you can fit Chinese marines in a cargo ship. I'd be more worried about that same cargo ship of Chinese Marines pulling into Portsmouth, NH or Boston. LA, though, man, you'd just get the gangs to stop shooting at each other for a few days.
Problem is you can't use JDAMs against Taliban hiding in a hut in the middle of a market square in a village in Afghanistan. You have to use other weapons, mostly boots on the ground. A pirate ship on the open ocean is nothing to a Harpoon missle - you just have to find the pirates. The answer is less CVN battle groups and more coast-guard style operations with 20mm mounted cannons.
Correct. A wallet is not worth your time or life to defend. You're life on the other hand, is worth every single ounce of strength and will you have available to you to protect.
Take a country like the US. Take the number of people who are kidnapped and ransomed for money every year.
Now take the number of people who are kidnapped and raped and murdered every year. Compare the two.
Fighting back/escaping is almost always in your best interest. If they're going to murder you for escaping, they were going to murder you anyway.
Terrorists hijack. Pirates commandeer.
What crack have you been smoking? I've routinely exceeded 4-600mbit on my WindowsXP hosts.
Rachel Ray?
Simple, as George Carlin would say: when I shit on them.
I routinely eat stuff I drop on the floor, touch doorknobs and car doors, eat from other people's forks, drink from their straws, shake their sweaty hands, eat moldy bread and squishy apples, and I'm NEVER sick.
Most decent servers today come with hot-swap power supplies. Simply put your battery into that, and off you go. And if you've already switched to 12V DC in the datacenter, it's even better! No costly AC/DC conversion at the 100's of points of use.
And why is that good? Is not the actual wattage math still turn out the same? So it doesn't impact your kilowatt/hours... Help the ignorant.
I told the APC CEO this at a dinner about 7 or 8 years ago. This could have been a significant part of their wildly successful NetShelter product line, but no... too smart for their own good, those APC engineers.
Sign me up if it means Seabrook can get a new GenIII+ or GenIV reactor or two.
Or restart Plymouth! I'd live there in a heartbeat.
I use reader.google.com and have RSS subscriptions to all the AP wireservice feeds from AP.org.
Newspapers? I only read those when I'm visiting my parents eating breakfast at the kitchen table.
Bing is okay if you're doing the top-10 actions on the web. Shopping, buying plan tickets, booking hotels, and searching wikipedia. It's when you get into the esoteric searches that it's weaknesses show. I'd probably compare it more to yahoo in 2001 than altavista, but it's no substitute for Google.
Craigslist has already done in organizations like the Wantadvertiser which used to be HUGE in my area (New England). And Google could probably sue the whole lot of them for collusion if they do try to do this.
Google already gives publishers a way out of caching pages. It's in their own best interests to take advantage of the capabilities the googlebot gives them.
A perfect example of this is my Dad, a luddite of the highest caliber. He asked me the other day that he'd heard he can get the print version of the Boston Globe on the Kindle. I nearly had a heart attack.
He's older, but he knows that some things may be better. And the $10 price/month of the Globe via Kindle versus the $60/month home delivery price, is enough to pay for a Kindle in a year.
And you've never had a service stop working in such a fashion that the only way to fix it is to reboot the whole damn box? Congratulations - you just stopped every service in the building.
I'm not saying it's likely or common, but it's happened.
Virus propogation - I'm not putting my email server with my database, nor my ftp server.
There's added complexity - but knowing that the box I'm working on is my FTP server ONLY, frees me from having to worry about side effects if I do X, or Y, or Z and whether it impacts Apache or Postfix or MySQL.
That's why we do it with single-service VMs - there's complexity either way. I just prefer service-isolation to your way.
-Chris
If virtualization is a buzzword, it's nearly a 12 year old one now (in the x86 space), and it's so mature EVERYONE is giving away their virtualization technology (Citrix/VMware/Microsoft).
The value it provides is *almost* incontrovertible.