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[X-Kalibur]

It also depends on the condition of the weapon in question. That's why cyclic rate is listed as a range.

The Sons of Guns episode, BTW, watercooled the M-16 with the Beta C-Mags, as it was intended for use on a Brown Water Navy Boat. They did it in an interesting way as well. I highly recommend the show. Why said Brownwater Navy didn't just get a Belt-Fed, I don't know, but there you go.

I've seen a couple of episodes, always good for laughs... and firearms fun.

[CanRay]

I've seen a couple of episodes, always good for laughs... and firearms fun.

"Let's go remind the neighbors that we're here." *Uses M203 Grenade Launcher*

[Mäx]

The Sons of Guns episode, BTW, watercooled the M-16 with the Beta C-Mags, as it was intended for use on a Brown Water Navy Boat. They did it in an interesting way as well. I highly recommend the show. Why said Brownwater Navy didn't just get a Belt-Fed, I don't know, but there you go.

Because it wasn't really for a navy of anykind, the whole show is total BS and i would recomend for anyone with anu gun knowledge to stay far away from it. For crying out loud the first episode has a "local SWAT-team" order something to make breaching easier then having a one man carrying a shotgun. At witch point the owner introduces him the concept of masterkey, an underbarrel breaching shotgun. After this he goes to his team of "professional" gunsmiths and explains to them what their gonna build, as naturally none of them know what a masterkey is (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) . Then they start designing and the owner starts raving on how cool it is and how noone has ever made anything like it, because it's not like KAG masterkey has been standard armament for SWAT for the last 20 years or anything (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

edit:Fixed the nices "fixes" my Android phone did to the post:silly:

[CanRay]

Yeah, well, it's not like I can run down to my local shooting range to talk shop, can I?

There's only one in the whole city, and it's well past the perimeter. And I'm surprised it's still there, honestly.

[X-Kalibur]

"Let's go remind the neighbors that we're here." *Uses M203 Grenade Launcher*

I actually saw that one; he was making the master keys for a SWAT team, right? He had to sell a certain amount or his daughter was gonna make him sell the M203 he just purchased...

[Smokeskin]

Because it wasn't really for a navy of anykind, the whole show is total BS and i would recomend for anyone with anu gun knowledge to stay far away from it.

That's like saying you can't look at hot girls unless they're smarter than you are. The show is about the guns, not the rednecks who run the shop.

Besides, I think the narrative actually works. The uninformed can be fascinated at all the exciting new stuff and creativity the shopowner displays, while the informed can feel good about himself for spotting errors and getting confirmation in how much smarter he is (either than the gunsmiths, or the mainstream audience, depending on much he thinks the show has been dumbed down).

[hobgoblin]

just gonna leave this here: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/overb...ed-finnish.html

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

just gonna leave this here: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/30/overb...ed-finnish.html

That is Entertaining... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[hobgoblin]

Hell, it lead me to discover that the Finnish army use a homegrown variant of the AK-47.

[CanRay]

Hell, it lead me to discover that the Finnish army use a homegrown variant of the AK-47.

Why not? It's a good design in a lot of ways.

EDIT: And in Soviet Russia, Copyright owns YOU!

[hobgoblin]

I just found it a interesting mix, as i think their airforce flies FA-18. quite the patchwork of east and west. Still, it appears their AK variant is only in limited use (making its appearance on that photo even more intriguing).

[CanRay]

Then again, Israel has the Galil Assault Rifle.

[Mäx]

Then again, Israel has the Galil Assault Rifle.

That are based on our RK-62 and hobgoblin it's not in limited use, it's our troops main weapon.
Edit: Oh sorry he's holding the RK-95, yes that one is only in limited use.

[hobgoblin]

Then again, Israel has the Galil Assault Rifle.

Never bothered looking into the history for what the Israeli use, thanks for pointing that out.

It was mostly a case of looking at the photo, going "hey, that looks like a AK" and firing up wikipedia for a quick check.

[Mayhem_2006]

Then again, Israel has the Galil Assault Rifle.

Designed by Galil Uzi if I recall correctly, who's other namesake gun is, shall we say, slightly more recognisable...

[EKBT81]

Designed by Galil Uzi if I recall correctly, who's other namesake gun is, shall we say, slightly more recognisable...

Those were two different people:

Uziel Gal
Yisrael Galil

[CanRay]

Let's just say that Israelis make some damn fine weapons. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[DamienKnight]

You can hard encrypt files, and file systems. Which is a bitch, and I don't understand why everyone wouldn't be doing it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Really, all secured commlinks and nexii should have hard-encrypted file systems. But that stuff.. shouldn't work that way.

Hard Encryption should only slow you down if you're trying to access the files 'offline'

If you're IN the Commlink, and have a seemingly legit account, then the system should auto-decrypt it for you. Because noone is going to require you to enter a passphrase everytime your OS tries to edit a system log. That's just not viable.

I would argue that Strong Encryption is really for specific files, that have been individually encrypted to be even more obnoxious. (like Password protected files)

When two systems communicate in a secure network, they send encrypted data. The sender never UNENCRYPTS the data for the target, authorized or not. A predefined decryption key is passed to the target when the encrypted network is setup, and never passed across the network in future communications.

This means IRL, if you get a valid account and pull encrypted data, you are still going to have to decrypt that data once you download it, unless you have ALSO hacked one of the Encrypting systems valid partners, who has a decryption key to use.

Kudos to Catalyst for getting this right!

[Fatum]

When two systems communicate in a secure network, they send encrypted data. The sender never UNENCRYPTS the data for the target, authorized or not. A predefined decryption key is passed to the target when the encrypted network is setup, and never passed across the network in future communications.

This means IRL, if you get a valid account and pull encrypted data, you are still going to have to decrypt that data once you download it, unless you have ALSO hacked one of the Encrypting systems valid partners, who has a decryption key to use.

Kudos to Catalyst for getting this right!

Ugh, ever heard of public-key cryptography?

[DamienKnight]

Ugh, ever heard of public-key cryptography?

Both are fairly lame examples, as they are methods of encrypting communication, while a second look at sabs post I realize he is speaking of File level encryption within a system.

No one uses Public-key or private key encryption for storing files on their local system.

[Fatum]

Public-key encryption is often used to work securely with remote clients (actually, almost uniformly so).
However, if a client is working with an encrypted file system, he's bound to have a way to decrypt what he receives on the fly, do you think providing each client with the secret key (which is the same for everyone) is a better idea than decrypting the stream for every legitimate client on the server side then transmitting it over an encrypted channel?

[Nath]

Public/private keys encryption only serve to protect against communication eavesdropping and superficial intrusion. Currently decent encryption requires key that are hundreds or even thousands bits/characters long. Unless picking your favorite Shakespeare monologue as a pass-phrase, such length is way beyond what the average people can memorize. So these keys are themselves stored on a filesystem, which can be hacked. Common sense teach you that if an intruder can get into one of your secured system, it can get into a second one. At least, not labeling the key file as "key.pgp" may slow down your cracker a bit (while he searches the logs for any files that are systematically accessed before an encrypted file is).

While still not perfect, using biometric data as a key may provide a solution (better with some unusual biometric data you mustn't provide at every border control).

[CanRay]

Hey, Shakespeare is used far too often. I suggest Terry Pratchett. "Buggerit, Millennium Hand and Shrimp I told 'em!" is probably used too often, however. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

And, um, what does that have to do with firearms?

[Fatum]

I'd also like to note that using too much RL logic in SR Matrix only brings pain. Treat it like a puzzle, or like you treat astral - it is its own world that works by the laws written in the books because it does so. Otherwise, an incredible number of uneasy questions arises.

[Ascalaphus]

You can't really apply RL logic to SR encryption anyways, because they flat-out told us in Unwired that all previous encryption schemes can now be broken easily. Just because.