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- sinisterD, on 04/20/2009, -1/+53step one: place ipod on battlefield
step two: wait for enemy to pick up ipod
step three: use gps to track enemy to base
step four: ??????????????? (classified)
step five: Profit. - billraydrums, on 04/20/2009, -1/+50The iPod touch is every bit a computer as is a laptop or desktop. Its only limitation is input.
On another note, I lost my iPod 32gb Touch in a cab in San Francisco two months ago. It was a birthday gift, and my website was engraved into it. Last Friday I got an email from Ali, the cabdriver who found it. By Monday I had it back in my hands.
Ali from Lebanon who is a cabdriver in San Francisco picking up from SFO is the coolest. Tip that guy extra if you should get him. Your *****'s secure in his charge.
And to those who travel, make sure your gadgets have some ID on them. Slip a business card in a recess of the case, fold one in two and stash it in the battery compartment. - slym2k, on 04/20/2009, -1/+48Unfortunately they have to pay $1.99 per video.
- iXam, on 04/19/2009, -2/+40Secret?
- sockpuppets, on 04/20/2009, -1/+30The sound of their abacuses were giving away their position.
- SmackAttack42, on 04/20/2009, -4/+31snipers using an iPod to calculate ballistics? is this a ***** joke?
- e2superman, on 04/20/2009, -3/+22up front... I am a DOD contractor.
that said, the issue in my mind is obsolescence. In other words the DOD will want to have a long supply of any hardware to support replacements and to support legacy software. The problem is that Apple does not work that way and it drops support like a knife on old hardware within a year or two of its release. The DOD wants support on hardware for 10-15 years on the same item. This goes for all the parts that build the item to. Obsolescence is one of the largest issues for building hardware for the military.
While this is a cute idea and may work for a rapid deployable technology. Any full-rate production would likely not be on an "i" anything. - penguinofspades, on 04/20/2009, -2/+17why drop millions into r&d when a functional unit is already in the hands of many soldiers?
- blorc, on 04/19/2009, -0/+15Doesn't sound like much of a secret to me.
- superkendall, on 04/20/2009, -0/+13Step five: Hellfire
- immatellyouwhat, on 04/20/2009, -0/+13Wow that is really cool he actually found you and gave it back instead of pawning it or something like that.
- sockpuppets, on 04/20/2009, -1/+14Stay wherever you are, *****.
- DelMonte, on 04/20/2009, -0/+12And of course, you're wrong.
Apple has an "Enterprise Distribution" program to encourage/help businesses to create and use their own custom software for the iPhone/iPod touch. Companies can set their own internal app-stores and distribute custom software to authorized devices (companies choose themselves which iPhone/iPod touch to authorize).
Apple doesn't monitor what kind of apps are developed for internal use, these do not need to be approved and are perfectly legit in Apple's eyes. - sockpuppets, on 04/20/2009, -0/+12Then they might load the Jonas Brothers onto it.
- glasnt, on 04/20/2009, -2/+14Glad DOS?
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 04/20/2009, -1/+13Spend billions of dollars developing proprietary hardware and software or spend $300 per end-user on an already developed system.
Which sounds better to you? - gordigor, on 04/20/2009, -0/+11Do they have to pay for the upgrade?
- breakneckridge, on 04/20/2009, -0/+11I'm sure Apple would happily supply the military with a supply of 10 year old generation Apple hardware, as long as the price was right. And knowing the military, I'm sure they would buy them at a price that made it worth Apple's while to keep the by-then ancient ipod touch in production.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -1/+11If you even bothered reading the article (or even the description), you'd realize Apple's not "working with" anybody.
- MelvinSchlubman, on 04/20/2009, -1/+10Need to land a head shot on a Taliban insurgent at 800 yards? There's an app for that.
- immatellyouwhat, on 04/20/2009, -0/+8Pew pew pew!
/tap tap tap - grobinson, on 04/20/2009, -3/+11I'm Glad DOD is actually embracing this; not just allowing it but equipping and developing for the iPod touch. In the past they're normal practice would be to ban these types of things.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -0/+8It's track #5. Roger that.
- sinembarg0, on 04/20/2009, -0/+7their
- Tanze, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6behold: the tricorder!
- Lonandubh, on 04/20/2009, -0/+6for simple stuff, sure, but for more complex things? Maybe not.
- MrBogard, on 04/20/2009, -3/+8Oh shut up, hippy.
- dlk289, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5MrBogard, try thinking with some logic. hippy > moron. try that one.
- sweeneyowns, on 04/19/2009, -1/+6i hope this is true in which case we will be issued sweet ass super strong cases... i for one am excited. hooray for getting free ***** issued!
- Ragzouken, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5Yeah I can just imagine thousand of recruits scouring eBay for individual iPods to fill an entire order.
- waydee, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5Surely the US Army have ruggedised PDA like every other modern force has used for years? I'm not sure iPods would take much of a beating in the kind of ***** conditions troops can find themselves in.
- harpoonhank420, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5Need to win the hearts and minds of a hostile populous? There's an app for that
- Archer007, on 04/20/2009, -0/+5That finally explains why step four is always question marks! Sheeple! The black helicopters are coming, the NWO begins today!
/s - TheKitchenSinkX, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4Exactly what I came in to say. Quite pleased it's the first comment.
- Billions, on 04/20/2009, -0/+4JaycobC: You're like the Jar Jar Binks in this story...
- mzkply, on 04/20/2009, -3/+7http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipod+sniper
- GreenBag, on 04/20/2009, -1/+5Sniping while listening to "Eye of the Tiger." I think this could give a real competitive edge.
- squeevey, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the snipers have tables like this memorized? or at least calculable without having to have a calculator?
- thebeginning, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3"In other news, military enlistments from high school and college students reaches an all-time high"
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Nice to know my comments are so memorable.
I'm not anti-apple. I'm anti-everyone. I try to be fair when I criticize things.
The iPod Touch is great. Except when it comes to video. I seem to need to have the videos in the itunes library, a copy has to be on the hard drive or it has a tendency to delete the videos when syncing, and Divx videos have to go through a god awful conversion process. Waiting for the vlc player... Everything else is fantastic. - inactive, on 04/20/2009, -3/+6So just because they moved the controls of the new shuffle to the earphones (wrong move in my opinion), they are all of a sudden a company that doesn't "follow standards"? You're joking right? Somehow I doubt you make as much noise about Sony when they try to force some new proprietary gadget on us, or Microsoft and their famous vendor lock in. God forbid Apple break the all-holy "earphone standard".
- richmessenger, on 04/20/2009, -1/+4Actually we have tens of thousands of dollars of equipment in our trucks that aren't encrypted that show where other member of our unit send text messages etc...I was talking to guys in my squad a few months ago about how the freaking iphone can do everything our computers do for $300.
- maz2331, on 04/20/2009, -0/+330 yards isn't very far for a rifle shot, but pulling it off from a rolling boat is still very good shooting.
- inactive, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3"Apple devices make it easy to shoot, store and play video."
The DOD has early dibs on the upcoming 3.0 software update? Those bastards... - TedTschopp, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3I want a tin can and a piece of yarn
(replying via smoke signals and drums) - houndeyex, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Can you be a hippie and sell to the military at the same time?
- wrs123, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3You guys think you're so cool
(replying with a tin can tied to a piece of yarn) - MacParrot, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3Waterboarding and Britney Spears have been declared forms of torture by the UN
- Spire3660, on 04/20/2009, -0/+3so THATS why we never see the step before profit, its classified!!!!
- tsotha, on 04/20/2009, -0/+2Sure, but where is their aerial drone imagery gonna come from?
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