Dear Santa

I'll have an Armalite AR-50 for christmas please

Compensating for anything?

Well, is he?

Some challenge

How many cards to stop the projectile from Carl Gustav? Not THAT many. Carl Gustav is essentially a bazooka and the projectile is slow and without much static force per square inch of cross-section.

How many cards to stop the BLAST from the hollow-cone charge in the warhead of Carl Gustav, well....

Ah, frag it, I´m trolling again...

Seriously, what is wrong with these people? What is next? Do we actually need to choose the best ammunition against the outdated servers, before they rise against us? Or even RAID our homes?

nitpicking

As 'The round arms after 20 to 70 m of flight', I expect 100 rounds will be needed before a first hit on a millimetric SD card core.

George Nacht:

"the projectile is slow and without much static force"

With '3.2 kg and muzzle velocity is 255 m/s', I expect more than 100kg of cards are needed to stop the projectile.

Meh

It would have gone through more of them if they had been fixed securely, or placed against a wall.

Momentum was lost due to knocking the drives off the box.

i want...

god damnnit! im tired and just want to blow stuff up.. If i fill a 4u server with cheap gunpowder i wonder what will launch the furthest - the hotswap bays or LTO drive

wheres the firework shoppe................

Data security - redneck style

Nice sandals!

looks like fun, but...

...is it WEEE compliant??

AR50?

A weapon for skewl kids

You need a nice semi-auto 50 cal sniper rifle

Can take out that server from 2000 yrds away

Available from several well known gun manufacturers

Ekkkkk CTC polic

Kyle Bennett

We can also see that Kyle has less friends than keepgoing.biz, maybe he banned them all?

Carl Gustaf

Carl Gustaf is hardly the ultimate, though the foreign-sounding name should keep Lewis happy...

@Matt 13

I have a nice old Dell 6650, wanna try?

I'm hoping for some "fan blade flying out into the bad guy's face" action...

.50 bmg ? Pfft. A spudgun in comparison

Try using something like this :

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn55-e.htm

or that milk-bottle of a shell fired from the A10.

NOW we're talking ;)

Flames..... from the incendiary, evidently.

Momentum.... Pfft

"Momentum was lost due to knocking the drives off the box."

Momentum was lost ??? I´m sure you meant energy and that momentum was just a slight typing error....

awww...

I wanted them to rig up a power supply so the drives were *spinning*

possibly a railgun? although you'd probably get better data security with a coilgun... especially point-blank.

Next Small Arm

Yes, we do this and we do love it. You Brits, et al, just need to stick with arresting schizo model rocket guys for your entertainment.

Clarification please.

C’mon El Reg, what sort of crappy reporting is this???

"what thickness of 32MB SD cards is required to impede a Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle high explosive anti-tank projectile?"

How on earth are we supposed to answer that when you haven’t specified if it is the HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) or the HEDP (High Explosive Dual Purpose) round.

And it’s Gustav, not Gustaf.

Oh, I've just realised that you only need 1 SD card to impede an 84mm anti-tank projectile, mind you it won't be much of an impediment

flame from the back of my recoilless rifle

Obviously Call of Duty 5...

..should have had a map/challenge whereby shooting various bits of computer storage was the aim, yet alone cilvilians...

Server Decommissioning

I have a 2U server that I fully intend to take out in the woods and shoot like old yeller, then hang it on the side of a rack to server as a warning to the other windows servers.

Though I do like the fill it full of black powder first idea.

@Matt 13

Find a story involving a rack of servers and explosives, and suggest to the Mythbusters team that they check it out.

why just guns?

I'm surprised Vulture Centrals weapons reseach dpt did ask the tough questions with the real hardware, like how many racks can a LHC collision send into hyperspace?

@ George Nacht

As a industry veteran, I recently went through my home shop and cleaned out piles of old computers. Knowing about data security, I pulled all the hard drives out before taking the old junk to the local recycler. I could have sanitized each drive and then given them away. But the drives are so old the average USB key trumps them. They have no value in the used computer market and will be trashed anyway.

Yes, I have one of the hard drives sitting at my desk with a pair of .308 sized holes in it. A post-it note which says "Certified Data Destruction".

Point being... What the heck else should I do with this old crap? Using it for target practice is as good as anything. It's my gun, my property, my old hardware. Who cares if there are pieces of busted PCB stuck in the lawn?

A more useful

test or as someone else suggested a new stndard measurement for thickness, would be to see how many iphone fanbois the Armalite AR-50 could penerate (don't forget to use the iphone as the target)

Rules...

Business Continuity

1. When disaster strikes, be somewhere else. (don't build your data centre on a firing range)

Secure Deletion

1. Physically damaging one part of the media is insufficient to destroy all the data. (wire wool over the whole surface is better than a bullet hole in one place).

Operations

1. The equipment needs to be plugged in to work.

I'm off somewhere else.

ROHS FAIL

ever heard of it?

Misunderstanding

Computergame: shoot virtual objects with virtual weapons. Try again.

(feel free to borrow the grenade)

Personally i'd rather.....

How many SD cards will stop sharks armed with frikkin' lasers?