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Sniping Could Be the Next Killer iPod App
An anonymous Coward writes "Knights Armament Corp. who supply sniper rifles to the US military have developed a iPod Touch mounting system and software for the US Army M110 sniper rifle system. The use of off the shelf hardware no doubt cut costs and allowed rapid development of this system." If it automatically played a theme song after every head shot, this would be the coolest rifle accessory ever.
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The Knights Armaments page on both the software and the mounting system.
Really allows you to reach out and touch someone with your iphone.
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The military was the last bastion of "pen and paper" score tracking. Thanks to Apple's great products and a little ingenuity, the DoD finally has a tool to automatically keep track of scores. All we need now is a database for it to upload to automatically via wireless, and we can have a global real-time kill count and score!
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Yeah, I also found it tasteless. Center-of-mass hits are much more reliable than head shots.
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Now in the middle of a "situation", snipers will get a "you have already authorized this iPod on 5 sniper rifles" error...
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H.L. Mencken
So much for "Don't ask, don't tell."
My eastern-european friends didn't like being sent cryptically named .wav files containing the Starcraft audio "WE REQUIRE MORE VESPENE GAS", either.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
And now you can shoot from the "hip"
1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
Somebody needs to do something about Samzenpus and the garbage he puts out.
Definitely. Someone should shoot him with an iPod-enabled sniper rifle.
.... To point out this YouTube Video:
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This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Do you calibrate its accuracy like a touchscreen and a stylus? Except with live human heads?
You never expect irony, do you?
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Good job, you appear to have identified the pun in the article.
If it automatically played a theme song after every head shot, this would be the coolest rifle accessory ever.
Am I the only one who found this attempt at humor disturbing and objectionable?
Not only objectionable, but completely impractical. What kind of sniper would want to draw attention to his location by playing a theme song?
It's the only type of orgy Slashdotters get invited to, so we have to take advantage of them when we can.
I'm firmly convinced that 90% of all offenses taken spring from a deep-seated human desire for martyrdom and it's accompanying ego-expansion.
Well, that's because you're an asshole.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.