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If you throw away your console, the terrorists have won

submitted by LarsaruS

1 decade 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

from Youtube:
"Youve pressed the X button countless times to detonate virtual bombs, but the Taliban is using thrown-out video game technology, like a PlayStation controller, to ignite real incendiaries 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan."

from Engadget:
"In one of those fun, yet uncomfortable, instances where real life and video games interact, Fox News has uncovered a dusty (and old, very old) PlayStation controller during a raid of an Afghanistani farmhouse, which doubled up as a munitions depository. Lying there, in among rockets, grenades, plastic explosives and tank shells, was this humble blue-hued PlayStation appendage, which we're told can be rewired to act as a remote detonator. Should you question just how seriously the US government is taking this growing tide of console-aided terrorism, below you'll find a press release (seriously, a state-issued press release) detailing the detainment of four men in connection with the illegal transportation of digital cameras and PlayStation 2s to a "terrorist entity" in Paraguay. If convicted of the most egregious charge, they face 20 years in prison... for contraband consoles. Face, meet palm."
(http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/01/if-you-throw-away-your-console-the-terrorists-have-won/)
Here is the info on the legal stuff:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/prnewswire/press_releases/national/Paraguay/2010/02/19/DC58044