Nice writing, holy crap. I meant;

Then I use a script to read the access_log and generate a web page with my home IP every hour.

ah ok got it.

I have a small VPS that hosts a personal website. My home Linux box just does an http get with curl to a secret html file on the VPS webserver. Then I generate an html file every hour that reads the access_log and uses a script to genereate a web page that displays my home IP I can access. Has worked fine for me for quite some time. My IP rarely changes and I can just update my hostfile if I don't want to use my IP directly.

There are probably more elegant solutions but since I am the only one using it it's fine and I can't justify paying anything when I already have a perfectly good VPS I can leverage.

Sports? What physical education. My god man, you want kids to get even fatter? Take away their xbox would be a good first step.

oh, I just realized I do have an account with a fake name. The fb slingbox client is the only way to watch my sling on Linux. heh.

There is a difference. Facebook is socializing with people you know in the real world. I don't think anyone else has as good a platform for that. Forums are a different beast, where you mostly mingle with people you don't know with names like "future assassin" and "hodet".

Not defending it, I don't have a fb account, but I have plenty of family who enjoy using it. Whatever floats ones boat I say.

woops, probably misinterpreted what you said. Rereading, I think you said ethics are of little concern. Anyhoo..... back to work. :-)

I read that article and the comments (was it yesterday or the day before???) and I just don't see sending people to Mars as unethical. Astronauts are sentient beings with free will. They choose to do this just like ancient explorers chose the unknown horizon of the sea. Who knows they may colonize and adapt and will push humankind further. They choose to go, and for the type of personality that would even consider going to Mars, they live for this type of adventure. Now we should debate the economics perhaps, and if it makes sense spending billions of dollars to strap a rocket to someones ass and launch them towards some big hunk of red rock in the middle of nowhere, but ethics....please.

Whew. It's not just me then. I can appreciate how they stuck together though. They wanted drama, well they got it.

This is what I was thinking. If this is how I made all of my purchasing decisions, I'd be living in a hollowed out stump rubbing sticks together for fire.

We are talking about kids here. They aren't stupid or careless, they are care-free. There's a difference. I think the world would be better off without stupid comments on the internet.

I thought I was reading /r/bitcoin for a second there.

Many people are easily influenced by pop culture icons. You can say it is stupid, which it is, but it **is** what it is. There are many people who just aren't that smart and it will always be this way. The only way to fight fire is with fire. Enlist some A list star to say they believe in vaccination, appeal to the masses with some heart wrenching story of a disabled kid whose condition could have been prevented, soft music and plenty of tears. Every nerdy doctor pleading with people, holding up volumes of scientific evidence is just a waste of time. The masses need anecdotal evidence and a good heart wrenching presentation, something they can be emotionally attached to, something that is believable in their gut.

I just use my own VPS. Amazing what people will go through to save $10/month.

That's the next wave for bringing internet to people on remote ocean islands. Patience patience.