CounterStrike used to train terrorists

[shred_dog]

I apologize if it's been covered already, but I stumbled upon this Slashdot article

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/02/1631208

About Counterstrike being used to train terrorists in the middle east. I have to laugh, because in agreement with a lot of the comments, learning eye hand coordination with a mouse and keyboard is not necessarily going to make you a threat to the world. There's a link from that article to the whole story on Reuters. I'm thinking this could be another way to vilify something that is IMHO harmless, like the attacks on Megadeth and Judas Priest after crimes were commited by 'hardcore' fans of their music (ie: the school shooting 2 weeks ago in the US - the media made a point to mention the killer listened to Megadeth).

[Limi]

Im waiting for the school shooting that happened yesterday to be blamed on gaming

[catbeef]

BOOM ALLAH SHOT

[Rich]

Heavy metal ruins lives.

[Tsung]

Im waiting for the school shooting that happened yesterday to be blamed on gaming

They are just looking for the computer first... then they can blame away!

[Ryvita]

What, you mean they're bothering to look for evidence now? Gosh, standards must have risen recently...

Ryv

[Joey]

Good. Once terrorists come to rely on all the maphacks and dodgy interpretations of physics inherent to CS they'll be no problem for a well-trained tactical team in real-life™.

[Aardvark]

Soon they will be shooting us in the feet like true CS pros!

[shred_dog]

Reminds me of the hours and hours I spent playing Burgertime to prepare myself for putting gherkins on burgers at BK :D

[Cabe]

Joey, got that ruler handy?

[Switch`]

KISS Breeds Terrorists

[Elbonio]

* m0hamm3d_al_pwn_j00 Just dropped the bomb
* All4h_dud3 Says: Go WTC
* j1h4dz0r Says: Use botz
* Dubyah Says: GONNA KILL YOUR M8s AND TAKE THEIR OIL LOL

[Wolfus]

*Terrorists shoots and misses*

WTF REG!!!!!!!11

[Unplugged]

Will they be using Microsoft Flight Simulator to learn to fly planes?

Could be intresting as the lastest ones dont let you crash into high buildings.

[Rich]

I wonder how much extra resources they use to run this anti-high-building-crash code? :P

or do you just fly through them? in which case you can similate any attack just dont get to see the explosion until you do it in real life which means they could train on flight sim still if they really want to.

[LozB]

Will they be using Microsoft Flight Simulator to learn to fly planes?

Could be intresting as the lastest ones dont let you crash into high buildings.

i think i read some where that they ironically were using it to get the basics of how to fly....

[WhiteKnight]

The problem with using CS to train terrorists, is for every terrorist you train, you also train a counter-terrorist :D

[LozB]

now that made me LOL..

[catbeef]

iraqi insurgeants were trained playing desert storm on the megadrive in 1992 o:

and sonic the hedgehog 3 :(

[Afty]

Jesus those noobs are so behind the times.

The SAS trained in the 80s on Chaos - sometimes for days at a time.

[shred_dog]

With all my 'Contra' training, I'd be like "Dude - I TOTALLY wanna lead the waterfall mission... make sure I have a Spread Gun."

"what the hell are you talking about????"

"when Washington sends the Spread Gun icon, Make sure I get it!"

"shut up and peel the damn potatoes."