WHY WE NEED MORE, AND SMALLER, PREDATOR DRONES

Squirrels may be the data center's enemy number one.

(Thanks to Jeffrey Brown)

Comments

[Just Some Guy]

The predator drone idea is good, but consider: our ancestors routinely bred dogs for special jobs like hunting badgers (dachshund) and rats (Yorkies).

We must think outside the box. Breed a, um, Chihuahua with maybe a...a flying squirrel! That's it! And then it can fly in and pretend to be friends with the little buggers. It'll be a secret agent!

Hmm. It might go wrong. It could go native. We wouldn't want these missiles aimed at us. Scratch the idea; let's go with small drones.

[nursecindy]

JSG, you leave my chihuahua alone!
How do you tell a ground squirrel from a tree squirrel? It's easy, Hebert says: "Clap your hands. If it runs up a tree, it's a tree squirrel."
I'm constantly amazed at the things I learn on this blog.

[Meanie the Blue]

Heck - did I miss insulator season again this year??

[Clankie]

"Clap your hands. If it runs up a tree, it's a tree squirrel."

Someone try that with Snookie.

[Omniskeptic]

The (poor, poor, sad) people who study squirrels keep telling us that they evolve very rapidly, especially in response to toxins. Snake venom, for example.

If we came up with a cable insulation material that was a) toxic to rodents and b) really strong smelling, maybe they're rapidly evolve to stop chewing on the stuff.

[Omniskeptic]

"they'ed" not "they're" -- dog was barking to come in.

[max]

Dag-nag-it, one hunter one time takes out a server farm, and suddenly hunters are as bad as squirrels. People who hunt know you don't waste bear rounds on stupid bets, they're too expensive and you have to clean the barrel afterward if you fire your bear gun. Stupid bets are for plinking guns which don't cost $20.00 to load and see a lot of use anyway.

[Clankie]

" I have been flying drones for the past 4 months or so."

Do they charge extra for luggage and earphones too ?

[Steve]

"...frying squirrel"?
Was it cooking dinner? Or was that the end result?
Was it, perhaps, stereotyped as a Japanese squirrel?

[MikeyVA]

" I have been flying drones for the past 4 months or so."

Do they make you take your shoes off and check to see that you aren't carrying any liquids?

Do you get a bag of peanuts?

We need to know this stuff!

[nursecindy]

" I have been flying drones for the past 4 months or so."
I'd also like to know if they have beverage service.

[Ralph]

Besides tree squirrels and ground squirrels, there are flying squirrels. If you clap your hands at them, you can be arrested for interfering with an aircrew. Be nice to them and take them to launch.

[LeDud]

My favorite computer outage was when a certain remote network would go down at 8:00 am every morning and come back up around 9:00 ish. They sent a tech out to tinhe site around 8:00 to see what was happening. It turns out that a secretary was forbidden to make coffee at her desk by her boss. So she went in the computer room and unplugged a machine so she could make the coffee. She chose the machine in question because "there weren't any lights on so it must not be in use."