Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 12:13 GMT
what about Seaman Stains?
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 13:15 GMT
"what about Seaman Stains?"
Indeed - and what about Master Bates? Presumably he's doing the five-knuckle shuffle on the main deck in time to the Horn Pipe.
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 13:15 GMT
Besides Seaman Stains, don't forget Master Bates and Roger the Cabin Boy!
(NB: No ladies on board, so Paris Hilton will do as an figurehead)
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 13:15 GMT
hit the pub a bit early this week lads?
Now there's an idea......
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 13:15 GMT
Has the El Reg team been on a mid-day Team Building Exercise at the BOFH's local?
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 13:24 GMT
ahem:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 13:27 GMT
Seriously guys, you might of been down the pub already but some of us have to work for a living. We have to keep an eye out for that zero day strike, specially as the bad guys know that us hard working techies like to slack off on a friday and so are starting to attack more on friday evenings.
Regardless of that, the article read worse than Holy Moly at their vaguest.
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 14:05 GMT
Ben Doverandgiveitmeupthearse
I swear, honest to god, that was a character from Captain Pugwash
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 14:25 GMT
Good article. Well done whoever posted the Snopes link though.
Irony, thy name is Keif Gwinn.
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 15:42 GMT
Dude, if you're relying on el Reg for notification of 0-day vulns then you're ship is in pretty dangeous waters too.
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 15:58 GMT
I don't rely on it, but if you see 'unknown vuln penetration' you're going to look twice...
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 16:05 GMT
...a few people might remember the tragic story of how a liner hit a very large iceberg and sank. From that designers learned about full double hulls and keel to deck watertight bulkheads. After that came radar allowing ships to steer around bergs. Since then, almost no iceberg collisions in the North Atlantic.
So how come a ship built in 1969 is sinking because it hit a chunk of ice small enough not to appear on radar?
It sounds like the M/V EXPLORER (sorry to kill off the puns but its a motor vessel) was slightly less well constructed than the TITANIC.
Icon: Paris. Going down. Get it? (She does)
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 16:07 GMT
Who'd have thunk it?!
Where there many BSOD's or RROD's?!
Or could it be that I just wasn't really aresd to actually read the above Article?!
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 20:46 GMT
<< "So how come a ship built in 1969 is sinking because it hit a chunk of ice small enough not to appear on radar?" >>
Umm, because not all obstacles in the ocean are visible on radar? Sheet ice might well not show, but besides that point, it's not at all clear that it *was* ice - The article made clear, if you'll read for comprehension, that object was "unknown." That could mean any manner of obstruction, from a floating cargo container washed off a ship (rather more common than you'd think), to a large log (My submarine nailed a floater like that 150 miles off of Hawaii - made a god-awful noise when we hit it!), to an uncharted rock, to yes, maybe a hunk of ice.
Anyway, M/V Explorer, in at least one, possible two, of the Daily Mail images, was clearly under power - her *own* power, despite the exagerated list. I'm not at all convinced that she's actually due to sink, though she's in dire straits, and a spot of bad weather (very common down thataway) could do for her in a jiffy.
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 20:46 GMT
"Dude, if you're relying on el Reg for notification of 0-day vulns then you're ship is in pretty dangeous waters too."
Or is IT AI Safe Haven..... Seventh Heaven, Global Communications HQ? Deny at Our Pleasure.
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Be Careful out there, it's a Warren.
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 21:24 GMT
Here's your coat.
I think it struck a great white whale overlord and has been punished for transgressing. A £50 fine would have been better.
Posted Monday 26th November 2007 01:58 GMT
MS Explorer was a relatively small vessel of 2398 tonnes displacement built in Finland in 1969 originally called the MS Linblad Explorer and was the first custom designed vessel to take well heeled tourists to the frozen wastelands both north and south !
In it's illustrious career it has had several name changes by successive owners(ask any ordinary mariner that to change the name of any sailing vessel bodes ill omens at a future date)
Oh well looks like the maritime gods did not take too kindly to it's shortened name !
Posted Monday 26th November 2007 06:23 GMT
Hopefully since posting your comment you've seen the real pictures (the Daily Mail was using old pics) of the sinking ship.
Here's one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M.S_Explorer.jpg
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Explorer
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