>> the proxies can not be independently verified

The proxies are VERIFIED against each other, and over the time span that we DO have accurate instrumental records. Guess what, they match up, minus normal statistical uncertainty which is continuously further and further reduced by incorporating as many independent observations as possible. There are literally many dozens of methods of recovering climate data from human records and paleoclimate records.
There is this whole field of science called statistics and data analysis, try looking into it some time.

>> with a proposed burden of proof that claims to immunize it against questioning or any part

wtf are you on about ? Every historical data record is carefully examined and questioned, and compared to other data sources. Every discrepancy is investigated.
Go ahead, and go question the things like CLIWOC, RECLAIM and ICOADS database, ships and farmers logs, alpine peatland records, ice cores, tree rings, pollen calibration, coral growth, sediments etc etc. Its being done by climate scientists and climate historians every single day.
Maybe you ought to publish a paper or two about how its all wrong and not questioned ?

Thats not how it works, the reconstructed records are not simply and aggregate of all the proxy methods averaged or summed up, this is not 3rd grade math or Spreadsheets 101.

Its called data reconstruction, and the existing large scale records factor use multiple proxy methods of records of reconstructing the temperature records.
There are multiple indirect ( or proxy ) ways of obtaining temperature history, and all of these would have to be invalidated to prove the existing reconstructions wrong.
The reconstruction models match with accurate instrument measurements that we have for a past hundred years or so.

Educate yourself
https://www.skepticalscience.c...

There are dozens and dozens, multi-proxy reconstructions of temperature records.

https://www.skepticalscience.c...
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Its called science.

You realize COM is about the only solid thing about Windows ? It pretty much holds everything together, and there is no other code componentization approach out in there that is even slightly as capable or robust, that would be widely deployed.
They thought .NET and managed stuff will replace COM - well it didn't, backtracking is happening rather quickly.

Yes, COM is long in the tooth and would benefit from a major revision that is not backwards compatible over the binary interfaces, but the fundamental ideas of COM are solid. One binary component talking to other binary component through stable binary interfaces, regardless of the languages used, threading models on either sides etc.

GM is coming up with the same excuses. Nobody is accountable because the corporation went through bankruptcy. 13 people dead and many injured, and they are telling people to make their keychains lighter.

Long time ago, different leadership, company cannot be held accountable, blah blah.

Right, but how about someone who is driving with Augmented Reality , which this camera gizmo, proposed removal of side view mirrors that Tesla is championing etc effectively are ? Even rear backup cameras are effectively AR.
I mean going full VR is just the next logical step ..

Can we just go full VR with this, ala Oculus ? Just put a headset on before you get in the car.
The opportunities would be endless ! First of all, it could repaint the entire interior to look like whatever sports coupe, vintage classic or whatever your dream car is.
You could be launching virtual. very satisfactory rockets at the jackass who just blocked your turn, create imaginary, optionally naked supermodels on passenger seats and so on ?

PolarSSL, CyaSSL, SharkSSL are my go to choices. CyaSSL even offers limited API compatibility with OpenSSL.

Botan is also a good alternative if you are writing in decently modern C++.

Because Java security implementations are WIDELY KNOWN to be super secure...

If you have TV or any other internet connected consumer electronics elsewhere in your house, in 98% of the cases you run Linux there too.

The Onion guys figured this out a long time ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or, we could come back to our senses and do basic animal tests for long term deep space exposure. Like, start from a small rotating artificial gravity satellite with lab rats, and if you really have balls, send a couple of chimps to loop around the mars and come back.
We did that in early days no problem, and it retired a lot of early risks for humans.

Hey, we even had a grassroots program : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... - got no real support or funding by NASA.

In fact its super lame that we only have data points for humans spending time in microgravity and 1g, but nothing in between. So we have no curve to fit to partial or reduced gravity effects on health. After decades of multibillion dollar manned spaceflight investments, thats pathetic. The fact that we dont have a biological lab sitting outside of van Allen belts right now testing different radiation shielding approaches on rats is also pathetic.

To actually rest at ease in regards to my stored data, i want a solution that does redundant distribution of my data across 2 or more storage solutions - with something super cheap and slow like Amazon Glacier in the mix , with more than one paid service, and a physical backup of my own hard disks hooked to a local NAS box as well.
And i want an option for self-hosting the front-end too.

So if something like Ubuntu pulls the plug, gets too expensive, fucks up their client, i dont have to worry about migrating my data or changing my workflows.