Drunken Employee Shoots Server 309
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from the pc-load-letter dept.
from the pc-load-letter dept.
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."
"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it means (Score:5, Informative)
"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'.
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:3, Informative)
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:2, Informative)
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
Re:I call shenanigans (Score:2, Informative)
The server running our production ERP software is a Sun M8000 that's in the $500k range. Not shenanigans at all...
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Ahhh alcohol ... (Score:5, Informative)
"Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns."
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:3, Informative)
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 [wikipedia.org]
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 [wikipedia.org]
Example: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=45+automatic [lmgtfy.com]
A large majority of the hits show that most 1911s are referred to *still* as the 45 automatic (or 45 ACP)