Snipers in Afghanistan Use iPhone to Kill Taliban
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Well, I would imagine that it's a hell of a lot more expensive to produce top-of-the-line technology that incorporates wind velocity, rotational force and human anatomy for the amount of snipers the military has than to simply use the public device which is mass-produced on a scale that dwarfs the production rate of, I don't know, the standard issue police radio. Apple is a lot better at the US military at making money.CantFaketheFunk said:
This reminds me of what a general once said about high-tech equipment on the battlefield: If you shoot a hole in a map, it's still a map. If you shoot a hole in a GPS locator, it's a piece of crap.
I wish you journalists/writers weren't so easy everytime someone felt like pulling a fast one for some free publicity.
The last one I read was that the NSA was using a cluster of PS3s to crack codes or cipher through some bandwidth or whatever, which is just as obviously bullshit. Sony for one has been pulling that stunt for the longest time now, and it's sad that the military and defence establishments don't have more sense than to whore themselves out like that.
There's a reason why snipers prefer bolt-action rifles - And that is because they're precise and RELIABLE due to their simplicity. Snipers are trained to never take any chance on anything within their control. You give a 3 year old an iPhone and it's gonna be broken within 2 hours tops, which means you basically don't want to take it into a warzone in any way, shape or form, since it is very much fallible. It's a great phone, but you don't want your effectiveness/life depending on it.
Add to that the fact that you already have all sorts of purpose-built trajectory calculators widely available, as well as the fact that most experienced snipers just do the maths in their heads, and make sure their rifles are zeroed before ever firing a shot in anger (It's only in computer games that you ever go outside the zero) and you have yourself one bullshit story.
Fair enough, it's funny if you don't know any better, and I should shrug it off instead of grumping about it, but you just take the bait every damn time, and you're really just providing these companies with free advertising based on stories that are misleading at best. The least you could do is charge them for it. Aren't you supposed to fact check this stuff?
The last one I read was that the NSA was using a cluster of PS3s to crack codes or cipher through some bandwidth or whatever, which is just as obviously bullshit. Sony for one has been pulling that stunt for the longest time now, and it's sad that the military and defence establishments don't have more sense than to whore themselves out like that.
There's a reason why snipers prefer bolt-action rifles - And that is because they're precise and RELIABLE due to their simplicity. Snipers are trained to never take any chance on anything within their control. You give a 3 year old an iPhone and it's gonna be broken within 2 hours tops, which means you basically don't want to take it into a warzone in any way, shape or form, since it is very much fallible. It's a great phone, but you don't want your effectiveness/life depending on it.
Add to that the fact that you already have all sorts of purpose-built trajectory calculators widely available, as well as the fact that most experienced snipers just do the maths in their heads, and make sure their rifles are zeroed before ever firing a shot in anger (It's only in computer games that you ever go outside the zero) and you have yourself one bullshit story.
Fair enough, it's funny if you don't know any better, and I should shrug it off instead of grumping about it, but you just take the bait every damn time, and you're really just providing these companies with free advertising based on stories that are misleading at best. The least you could do is charge them for it. Aren't you supposed to fact check this stuff?
Apple should probably be careful. I wouldn't be surprised if the Taliban target them now lol. That's the problem with helping to win the war on terror. The terror notices you...
Simple - Apple are rich enough to own the US military! They already invented a time machine to make sure the bible talks about the 'apple' in the Garden of Eden, and Assassin's Creed 1/2 talk about...well you know if you've played through either - basically, Apple are advertising EVERYWHERE...CantFaketheFunk said:
Or I've been playing too much Assassins Creed 2 and now see conspiracies everywhere...
There's something very wrong with this. An iPhone itself can very easily "find its way" into the wrong hands. One with an app like this with the war still raging in the Middle East? If that happens, that plan is gonna backfire something terrible.
