Pirates

It is sad that in a modern society that Captain Jack can still sail the seas in a little speed boat and a few automatic rifles.  Modern technology and lack of ingenuity are shameful.  We have satellites, we have Navies, but we let a little country torment the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.  What has happened to world's Navy's that this is a continual problem?  The unfortunate aspect of this is that many other impoverished and poorly governed countries decide that this is a fair means of making money?  

I believe the world's governments should take a position on this individually, in a colaition, or through the UN (if they ever would do something).  But to let shipping companies or merchants pay the ransom is just a pavlovian method of rewarding the pirates.  

This is just insane.