After 5 rejections, Apple accepts app that tracks US drone strikes

[Killergam]

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[DOG-GY]

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;43856488]"data artist and developer"

What kind of shitty buzzword is that. The last thing you want people making creative changes to is data.

"this is all wrong"
"it just felt better that way man"[/QUOTE]
not what data artist means

[JumpinJackFlash]

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;43859824]not what data artist means[/QUOTE]Oh yeah?! Then what would you call the person(s) responsible for that piss in a mason jar of a game we know as Call of Duty: Ghosts?

[Electrocuter]

[QUOTE=Capnscarlet;43850164]Thing is, that sounds fancy, but if you look at the twitter feed [URL="https://twitter.com/dronestream"]@dronestream[/URL] (same website, same guy) it appears to based entirely on articles from news sites, which report drone strikes.

I mean it's still quite cool, and a nice idea, but clearly it's not reporting all of the actual drone strikes that happen, that being information no doubt closely guarded by the US military.[/QUOTE]

Well yeah, if this app got it's sources illegally it would get pulled and the dev would get fucked.

[QUOTE=Kyle902;43856274]The major problem I see with drone strikes is that it makes is entirely too easy to dehumanize targets to the operator.

At least in planes you are somewhat near the target and see the munitions going off by visuals. Here the only sense of what you're doing comes from a small laptop screen.[/QUOTE]

It's the same shit for heli or plane gunners, their target is further away than what they can see with naked eye, otherwise the targets would see them and would just start running for cover or firing back, all they see is the target on a black and white screen just like drone operators.

Only difference is one guy is sitting on a plane/heli and the other is in a base.

[Matrix374]

[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;43849861]Why does the app look like the messaging application? "hey girlfriend messaged, something about a us drone strike?"
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Nr8QgTc.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

What's the point of this app if it just tells you how many people are killed rather than how many enemy and civilian casualties are done in each drone strike?