On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Douglas R. Floyd wrote:
I'm sure this has come up before, but what would prevent a server being located on a buoy or something at sea outside territorial limits (or when satellites become cheaper, on a satellite itself) offering such services?
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Arun Mehta wrote: living periods, electrcity and communications are in place, They are generally built outside of the territorial waters of most countries to avoid any damage to the shorelines if oil spilled (possibility for becoming its own country?) and with the hoops that Shell Oil went through to please Greenpeace with its last oil platform. You have to wonder how cheap these could sell for just to get them off the oil companies hands? (The machine crashed when I was writing this letter, so if cpunks got two, I apologize.) How would this rig be defended?
.50 Machine guns on the decks, everyone on board capable of shooting straight carrying at least a pistol and gas masks. The gas masks are for the tear gas dispencers. Hire Vinnie? There are ways to make it inadvisable to attack the system. Blackmail material is always a good thing.
Pirates still exist. Even if you can give them something to think about with a 30/06 bullet at their waterline, there are always small countries who have navies that can be hired. They may be small and defenseless compared to the US navy, but against a basically unarmed oil rig, do have the ability to sink the rig at their whim.
A couple of surplus wire guided missles might go a long way to disuading them. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com