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Comment Re:No (Score 1) 487

I have physical security where I live in that I am too far away from the road for 99% of devices to see my network and my neighbours are further away than the road. So in my usage case an open network is easy and I'm extremely unlikely to have a random leach on my network.

I haven't played with Windows 10 yet but all the things you have listed are all things I would want to remove as well. If only Linux Mint was able to run all my games and photoshop.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 487

What do you mean by incubator? I have images of 100s of baby chickens running around....

I have NFS shares which share media between a freenas box and multiple kodi front ends. Also stored on that is all the digital photos and camcorders that we have taken over the past 10 years. I am less concerned about people being able to access them then having someone delete something. Yes I could change permissions and everything like that but given my wife uses a windows box that gets painful fast. So Samba has read & write privileges which means someone with a phone could be an arse. (And yes it's backed up but I still don't want the hassle)

I realise that it is probably overly paranoid but I just prefer to not give anyone access that I don't need to.

Comment Re:Empower the pilot (Score 1) 843

Couple of points. 10 rookies operating at a good level will likely kill one expert. The F35 is not an air superiority fighter like the f22. It is meant to be ok at everything and to have a cubic fuckload of them in the air so you want to bring your average pilot level up the most, even if it means you bring your experts down. Overall that would be a net gain.

For a rear facing gun there are a couple of reasons. The first is that it would mean 1 less gun facing forward or reduced ammo / capability of both. Second is that it would be almost impossible to aim and you would be likely to make yourself an easier target if you did. Third is fighters don't operate alone, they are focussed on putting an attacker into a compromised position through manoeuvrability AND their wingman.

On what a pilot prefers I can't comment. But I would expect that the more information the pilot has the more they can do with it.

Comment Re:Government by the Courts (Score 1) 242

Except it doesn't work. Have a look at the fightback campaign run by John Hewson in the 1993 Australian federal election. The 1993 election was considered un-losable for the LNP and yet they lost and Paul Keating won another term.

The reason they lost is he came to the election with the most comprehensive and thought out policies ever brought to an Australian election. He had all the policies laid out and costed. The problem was though that any balanced plans have give and take so the other side focussed all their noise making on the takes, said they wouldn't do any of those and that they would do all the positives.

Unfortunately that negative approach worked and they were re-elected. Since then Australian elections have been incredibly lacking in policy during the campaign. In order for a rational, thought out and calm campaign to work you need voters to be rational, calm and thinking.... I think you can probably see the problem with that.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-...

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