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U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the dead-batteries-take-on-a-whole-new-meaning dept.

mattnyc99 writes "Land Warrior, the Army's wireless equipment package featuring helmet cams, GPS, laser range-finders and a host of other state-of-the-art electronics, is finally ready for deployment on a global battlefield network in Iraq after 15 years of R&D at the Pentagon. But in a report for Popular Mechanics, Noah Shachtman not only tries on the new digital armor—he talks to troops who don't like it at all. As if that wasn't disheartening enough for the future of tech at war, the real Land Warrior system doesn't even match up to its copycat gear in Ghost Recon 2."

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  1. Yeah... by Clever7Devil · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But does it run Linux?

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    "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
    1. Re:Yeah... by Zantetsuken · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Sorry but I don't remember anything in the GPL or BSD licenses stating anything about denying specific parties from running software under said licenses due to being government military powers...