Comments for Whatzis - idiot people with unsecured wireless connection edition.

Whatzis - idiot people with unsecured wireless connection edition.

2007-02-15T15:25:30Z

SWWBO and I are at Donovan-Central, the massive Keep of the Empire of which Castle Argghhh! is but an outlier.

However, the Emperor is a true conservative, and has only dial-up, which caused me concern from previous experience that posting, especially with pics, would be dfficult.

Hah! There are no less than 4 wireless hotspots overlapping this location. 2 are secured. 1 uses at least MAC address filtering. And one is wide open, waiting to be taken advantage of.

So, I am. Note: You may not care to encrypt your network, but you should at *least* restrict who can just willy-nilly login on your network....

But, you Whatzis junkies benefit. This one is in honor of Dusty and his recent spate of posting.

Oh, sure, this is an easy one... but I want details, not the easy generalities.

Strut yer stuff, Oldloadr prolly has the inside track on this one.

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-02-16

2007-02-16T17:39:03Z

John - So are you ever going to provide the details?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T21:32:57Z

[smiles happily] You guys are fun to watch.

Comment from Dan Patterson on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T21:21:33Z

Proximity fuse, WWII (Navy 5-inch??) Dan

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T20:44:45Z

LOL A. You know we get focused when we're problem solving. B. You know we always blame the weapons officer, anyway.

Comment from Instapilot on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T20:37:18Z

Oldloadr...when was the last time the Weapons guy ordered CUT-AWAY FUSES in the frag (I always thought you guys used intact, operational ones). In other words, I was being facetious (took me a couple of tries to spell that right). Sheesh. :)

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T20:25:18Z

One more thing I just noticed: The impeller appears to be there to run a generator, so this would be, technically, an electric fuse. This could give it proximity capability and fit the chemical/CBU employment scenario.

Comment from Oldloadr on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T20:03:21Z

And the loader says, "This is what your weapons officer ordered in the frag." Anyway, it looks like an Eastern block nose fuse for a CBU or chemical round or both. I say that because it has a large internal charge so it could be to crack something open as much as initiate a blast.

Comment from Instapilot on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T19:30:28Z

FWIW, I've never seen an impeller (the prop on the front) that's had a ring around it like that, at least not on any 500-pounder I've ever preflighted. Normally the fuzes that size (assuming the threading at the bottom matches the nose of a munition) are radar-driven and no impeller is needed. In fact, the whole fuze is covered like anything with a radar antenna in it. Mebbe that's what all the gizmos are (pilot technical term, sorry) behind the lil' spinner. Part of a multifunction fuse for a cluster munition? Dunno. Also, a tail fuze normally has an impeller that looks like a mini-annomometer (a wind measuring thingie you see spinning around on weather station roofs) that is situated 90 degrees off the explosive train to get it into the slip stream--the only way you can get the thing to spin up after release when it's plugged into the back of a bomb. At any rate, all I do is preflight the bloody things. If they look like THAT one, I call the loader over and say in my best authoritative voice, "Thingie broke...please fix...checkin time in 15 minutes.":)

Comment from Gwedd on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T19:16:28Z

Comrades, Hmmm... well, mt initial thought was that it is a deployable emergency generator, for, say, a helo. Used when you lose electrical power so that you can generate enough to get home with. Or not.....

Comment from MajMike on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T18:14:56Z

milk frother for wide mouth coffee mugs

Comment from Neffi on 2007-02-15

2007-02-15T17:38:02Z

MilSpec martini stirrer... or fuze and detonator for 500 pounder. Perhaps the former, field-modified from the latter...