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US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-play dept.

dotarray writes "Ever wanted to fight Somali pirates without leaving the safety of your computer? Well, believe it or not, the United States Navy could use your help. MMOWGLI is a new video game project (that's Massive Multiplayer Online WarGame Leveraging the Internet, by the way) that is being used to crowdsource ideas on how to fight off maritime terrorists and hopefully secure the Horn of Africa."

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  1. using MMOWGLI to fight Africans? by mentil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rudyard Kipling would be pissed.

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    Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.