what about Seaman Stains?

"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.

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)

hit the pub a bit early this week lads?

Now there's an idea......

Roger the Cabin Boy

Has the El Reg team been on a mid-day Team Building Exercise at the BOFH's local?

Master Bates ?

that cabin boy Roger needs to move fast...

ahem:

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp

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.

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I swear, honest to god, that was a character from Captain Pugwash

Good article. Well done whoever posted the Snopes link though.

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Dude, if you're relying on el Reg for notification of 0-day vulns then you're ship is in pretty dangeous waters too.

...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)

I don't rely on it, but if you see 'unknown vuln penetration' you're going to look twice...

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?!

<< "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.

"Dude, if you're relying on el Reg for notification of 0-day vulns then you're ship is in pretty dangeous waters too."

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I think it struck a great white whale overlord and has been punished for transgressing. A £50 fine would have been better.

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 !

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