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- saikhan, on 10/12/2007, -11/+149"Hi I'm a mac"
"And I'm a PC. And organizations such as the United States Military use me in hazardous environments."
"Well, people use me to do stuff too. You know, freelance journalism, freelance design, freelance... You know, freelance stuff."
"I was built to withstand even the harshest weather and conditions. Once, I took a bullet for my user."
"I was built to look pretty. And once I made my user cry after my screen got scratched."
"Sounds like you're quite the asset."
"Yeah thanks, I know. Want me make you a soldier at war blog or design a sticker for your peripherals ?"
"No." - gsherwood, on 10/12/2007, -6/+108So PC can take a bullet. Can Mac? I'd like to see that ad.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+90He should've used a vaio so that he could throw it with the battery at the insurgent. The iraqi dies in the explosion and the warranty gets you a new laptop. Win win.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69It appears the laptop was also running the site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+77Iraqis hate our freedom. They are targetting our laptops.
- Nydas, on 10/12/2007, -6/+60Lucky for him it was an Army laptop. Had it been me and my personnel laptop, well i would have made sure my laptop came out in perfect condition. Even if it meant taking the bullet myself. Because I seriously doubt my warrenty covers bullet holes.
- otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -5/+48Alright, time to put an end to this:
PC: "Hi, I'm a PC"
Mac: "And I'm a -" *loud cracking noise*
PC: "..." - Miniman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Why does wordpress suck so much?
- krakkinem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33if it ends with Justin Long taking a bullet, it's a great ad.
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33"Dude, you're gettin' a BULLET."
"Hi, I'm a Mac Ten."
"And I'm a 9mm."
"Shoot Different."
Man, the list goes on and on. - oyourmom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22What the *****.
- coditza, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19@dtd00d: that bulletproof expression referees to something completely different. In your opinion, BulletproofFTP is a ftp server that can stop bullets?
- WombatBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16While I was in the marines and bored in Iraq we got bored and shot up a broken Panasonic Toughbook. It stopped the M-16 rounds (5.56mm) no problem. The two AK rounds (7.62mm) we shot at it got lodged in it but didn't penetrate it all the way. So we tried breaking it more by running over it with a HUMVEE but it didn't even flex. They really are "Toughbooks".
- DurkaMcDurk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16welcome to digg?
you must be new... - drakia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Holy crap, you guys killed it before ANY mirror got it.
- SIRBERUS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10In other news... terrorists now using their Dell laptops for suicide bombings.
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17"You're hard drive is so fast!"
"RAM me baby, RAM me!"
"I swear, I never knew! She lied about her number of pixels! She said she was hi-def!"
"Your keyboard is so ERGONOMIC!"
So much innuendo could be derived from this... - Jaq524, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12... so that would make him a laptop?
- WildTang3nt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It's wordpress... what'd you expect?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9What were the specs on that laptop?
- JustinPM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, they didn't screw with the database, every time someone visits the page it gets all the info from the database. When Digg hits a poorly constructed Wordpress site, it overwhelms the database long before the web server itself. People setting up Wordpress to be able to withstand a Digg usually make the site or article static so they don't have the database as a point of failure.
- RoshanK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I always did wonder what happened to the old "dude you're gettin a dell" commercials
- Blandyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5SARCASM ALERT, SARCASM ALERT, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK STATEMENT, INBOUND!
Someone needs to get their sarcasometer checked! - raada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5When someone creates Digg-proof laptop I'll buy it...
- Burritoking924, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Why would I be jealous of a computer that is slower then my little sisters. Seriously. And im not talking about power PC either.
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14Sure. That's where the Titanium case comes in handy.
Just don't let the Lithium battery take the hit, or the laptop will take your life more surely than the bullet. - Metaridley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You're a dick.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"i just laugh that theres still a bunch iFanboys here trying to come up with excuses as to why a mac would lose in this situation."
Wait! What?! Mac fanboys saying the the mac wound NOT have blocked the bullet (thus allowing the soildier to die). I think you need to look up "fanboy". - guerrilla_suit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Which model?
- gregm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There is a plugin for Wordpress that takes 3 seconds to install and will automatically load pages from a cache rather than generating them every time. Even if you set it to refresh the cache every 30 seconds, you're saving 100's if not 1000's of calls to the database when you hit Diggs front page.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9i just laugh that theres still a bunch iFanboys here trying to come up with excuses as to why a mac would lose in this situation.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those comments are funny, but when did the OS have to do with the case? That hardware was able to physically run Mac OS X. :-/ just a thought.
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The "Dude, You're Getting a Dell" guy was arrested for possession of marijuana.. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
- CodeMasseur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The site's down, and duggmirror didn't catch it...
- LordLucless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sure a military mac could take a bullet too. If one existed. Which it doesn't. See, the PC is an open hardware spec. That means that when the military wants one, they can produce the specs, hand them out to tender, and get anyone who offers to build it for them. If they wanted a mac, on the other hand, they'd just have to wait for Apple decides to offer one.
- tonage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude, it is an internet site. Who freaking cares? You must be one huge loser if you really care if you get dugg down. Get out of the house and get a life.
- zjbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't look that bullet proof...
- warlock4890, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Only maybe 0.2% of the military even use Macs in a work setting. Even then its just VI and PA using old eMacs or iMacs. They don't even connect to our network. Its easier to try and secure one OS then multiple ones. Oh and before you go and say that Macs are more secure then Windows, think of this... If Mac OS whatever was running on the largest percentage of computers in the world, like Windows, more hackers would be putting in their efforts to attack it. Just look at the recent "Month of Bugs" for OS X.
BTW, I own an iMac and a PC. - guerrilla_suit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lots of macs are in use by the Govt. Linux machines are in use everyday also. They use Windows for general computing needs, like secretarial work and administrative stuff. Everyone has a clone machine of the person next to them. Nothing special about that. In special needs situations some parts of the government use different Operating Systems. The percentage of Windows alternatives used in the government is probably higher than the general computing population.
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You could say the same thing about people who make comments whining about people digging other's up/down..
- Ben - sephiroth4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm a mac fan, but these new macs would not be able to run during the day in Iraq because of the heat. An old white PPC ibook would be perfect though!
- EnderTheThird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This just in...
Toughbook was running Windows Vista, further proving that Windows Vista is bulletproof against all foreign attacks including, but not limited to: sniper whores, hax, Trojans, and bombs! Switch today!
*NOTE: Windows Vista may still be susceptible to ***** batteries in Dell laptops. For added protection, upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate!
/sarcasm :-) - guerrilla_suit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I broke one of those toughbooks, a little too easily if you ask me. It didn't say where the laptop was on the soldiers body when it was penetrated by the bullet. In a backpack, or was he wearing it as a chest plate?
Was this a personal item, or an issue item?
This story doesn't say anything. - IHatePants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We use the civilian grade of Toughbooks for one of our applications. Not nearly as tough as the "real Toughbooks." All the same, we have one that was "speared" by a forklift, and continues to work, and have had a few dropped on pavement, and even one left on top of a vehicle, and the vehicle drove off. It fell off around 40-50mph. Other than road-rash, it still works.
On the other hand, we have one user that has magically killed 2 of them so far. I'm scared to ask what she's done to them... - ismith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This story was featured 4 years ago in Popular Mechanics. Really, REALLY old for digg.
- BenderFlexo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad toughbooks aren't good for anything else. I hate that the Army buys so many of those peices of *****. I have had to install software and use them, it is a waste. I am a Mac guy, but I would buy 5 Dells before wasting money on a toughbook, and save money too.
- tonage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bush? Some of you are so obsessed. I bet you start talking politics if someone sneezes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8So this degrades into a Mac vs PC thread.
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It is unbelievable that mere mortals would get something this bullet proof. This is huge. Cool, huh?
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@pathy
"Boom."
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