iPods at War

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has put together an outstanding piece of journalism about the use of personal technology in America's military and how these devices along with blatant piracy is causing new problems in the face of war: "While soldiers once deployed with little more than a backpack and a rifle, today's crop of infantry troops pack along MP3 players, digital cameras, DVD players, video games, movie collections, and computers of their own. The personal electronics have made modern American warfare the most comfortable it has ever been, but they've also brought a new set of problems onto the battlefield.""

Comments

Re:lousy politicians

[woodsrunner]

Yes, I agree, lousy politicians. If it weren't for them those brave soldiers would have put down their budweisers and transistor radios and won that thing given another eight years.

Re:That's a Little Extreme

[Anonymous Coward]

The soldiers in Iraq aren't fighting for MY life you daft cunt. They may be fighting for their own, but that's only because they chose to become a soldier because they wanted to shoot up some people without any repercussions. I don't want to hear any crap about what soldiers DESERVE. Soldiers are just ordinary people doing a job, just like everybody else. I don't expect any special fucking treatment for doing MY job, why should soldiers get any special treatment for doing THEIR job? It sounds like a pretty fucking good deal to me - you get to travel the world, you get to shoot people with no punishment, and to top it all off, you get PAID for it. They don't need anything beyond what they get.