Yes, the Lightning II is a clusterfuck of Swiss Army Knife JSF-Syndrome and it is a failure and the remaining models used to their best ability (ps bring back the A-10 out of premature retirement, fuckos...what the hell was up with that shit? While I'm at it go back about a decade or so and un-mothball the RAH-66 Comanche anti-armor stealth reconnaissance helicopter and throw some current tech at it, I'll bet that would be versatile as hell with a lot less of pricetag...but I digress.). The Lightning II is a MULTIROLE ATTACKER not a fucking AIR DOMINANCE FIGHTER: The F-35 can be outgunned and caught flatfooted (which configs of the F-35s that were bested would reveal more, as they can be very different: that's one of their meager advantages) by an F-16 Fighting Falcon (possibly the most battle-tested and victorious fighter jet in history, even today), an SU-35 Flanker-E (In any airspace that these jets hunt, unless you're piloting a F-22 Raptor, you got the short stick that sortie...even then I'd give it 4:1 odds.), an SU-27 (I believe it's NATO call is Terminator not Flanker) is just a slightly less BVR-capable SU-35 with supermaneuverability and a bit less ECW ability, no slouch. The F-18 vs F-35 is the most "apples to apples" in this article, but again...how the Lightning II is fitted for the task at hand is crucial to knowing if it got schooled. After all that crap nobody probably cares about I just stream-of-consciousnessed that everyone probably thinks is BS I'll just end it and say: This plane is designed to fit in probably the most devastating and feared attack wing in history flanked by two F-22s. If those 3 planes have been mobilized to be sent against you as an enemy, there should be some serious recalculating of the risk-reward ratio concerning your goals in the scenario you're now in.

We still are waiting on the "evidence" that it was China behind the OPM hack. I doubt we'll get anything clearer here.

Moon Patrol was deceptively difficult, also...or at least the difficulty exponentially went bananas after 2-3 levels of easy boredom right smack dab into being almost impossible in addition to being boring.

If only Marx's groupies didn't think planting seeds in slush-soaked frozen tundra grew magic grain before tens of millions starved... he could have had the last laugh.

Preferably track 9 from Freeze Frame.

US military stepping up use of X because, like, why wouldn't we.

Your intrastate borders and 1 mile distant offshore ocean property is now solid 50ft contaminant walls and militarized by the US Army, USCG and NRO, sorry.

...but not safe to use. Since this is open source its doubtful there is any malicious code, though the jury is still out on that fact...doubtful anyone who knows anything about IT and the NSA would be jazzed about the release of something like this. I'd be more suspicious of this purposefully overlooking the stealthier ways they have of accessing networks that may not be widely known. 'Cause if this was found to have backdoors or whatever else the ~10% of tech-knowledgeable people who don't already mistrust them might grow to about ~11%. Really, anyone who didn't already not trust them...even if this tool turned the machine it ran on into a direct line to Fort Meade they wouldn't think much of it- they probably are pretty set in their patriotic mindset.

I forgot about the ERP limit, that would make it hard to legally do all of what I went on about above w/o a call sign.

I think 900mhz is better for longer distances and diffusing around obstacles, with the gain usually 14dbi+ 900 can easily tune resonant reflections of 2.4 in the clear...maybe even 4.9-5.0 (I think that's allocated to something or other, too), but yeah, to tx you'd need a call sign...but as this claimed to anonymize traffic txing wouldn't tip your identity, only your location, and you'd have to be bleeding over the spectral masks of nearby bands and making a huge dick of yourself before there would be any reason that someone might call the radio cops on your ass.

As a longtime ARRL license holder I was following this project closely and I have to say...what whoever did and whatever they did to do it pretty much accomplished the equivalent of the Streisand Effect on steroids traveling at the speed of light (radio). 'Disappearing' this project virtually guarantees that almost a quarter-million DIY techies that build things like this from what they find in their garage plus a pound of solder just because they are bored and want to 'chew the carpet' about it on the next local repeater Net will do so, and because you can't shut us the hell up even people who don't want to know or care about this will hear about it 16 times. And there will be huge amounts of coax and silicone tape sacrificed to this end.

Is Professor Zoom the Facebook CSO now? I can't keep up with all the retcons.

I once was a big Star Wars fan, then I took a these just suck now to the knee.

I didn't see that Mint 17.2 XFCE was released yet.

Again why are they needing to apologize for approving portal locations for historic areas?