Worse, Consensus != Correct Response.

And even worse than that, Fact != Correct Response.

I have not heard one single suggestion from those that associate themselves favorably with the idea of "climate change" that wasn't foolish, irrelevant, or even outright destructive. So what if they are right, it just means we are all fucking doomed. They are wasting all of their vast media exposure, grassroots support, and political clout on things that won't make a damn bit of difference if the Earth's future is anything like its past. We will just be another species in the 98% column.

I am not a "believer", nor am I a "denier". I am a realist. As a realist all of the causes, predictions, models, and wild empassioned gesticulations around the subject of "climate change" are inconsequential. I will say this again, the causes, at our current level of preparation, are irrelevant. What is relevant is the Earth has been both hotter and colder than it currently is, intolerably so, and innumerable times in repeating cycles. We are living in a generouosly temperate era, a fortunate anomoly that has given us the ability to cover this planet with people. Regardless of what we do, this Elysian comfort we are so dependent on will eventually end. A realist knows that the only logical result of these facts is to prepare for the worst our planet has to offer, or suffer extinction.

Of course a realist also knows that a species that uses the spectre of global climate change to manipulate markets, expand taxation, circumvent rights and priviledges previously guaranteed, and as a political power grab deserves whatever it gets. Stupid humans.

But... but... your UID makes you seem so young. It's like a facelift!

I think the fact that no human at Facebook read the actual message, it's automated, is what will get this dismissed. Much like gmail.

Facebook should call them "Post Cards". The sending and receiving parties get to read them as well as the delivery service.

You are responsible for your own privacy. When Facebook or Google mine your data ('you are the product' as people say), you have nothing to fall back on. It's in their ToS which most people agree with because they just HAVE to see their 3rd cousin's dancing cat videos.

Bitching is easy, doing something about it is harder.

I would hope Linda and others would have the fortitude to say "Yes across the board" and hang up. It's better to face the odd goatse than to have the government spoon feed you.

That's the problem with Chinese ice breakers. You get stuck again in an hour.

Sure but the storage is pretty slow, it would defeat the purpose of running squid unless conserving bandwidth was your only goal.

I picked up a pair of cheap Asus EEE boxes. Not quite beefy enough to run a modern version of Windows (indeed that is how I got them), but for OpenBSD paired in failover and purposed as my original post said? Remarkable! Only 32 bit Atoms inside but more than enough ooomph for their purposes. They are also dirt cheap to operate as far as electricity goes (though that isn't much of an issue here our electricity is only 7.183 kw/h)

As a self-admitted deist, I have come to the conclusion that both atheism and deism are intellectually inferior to agnosticism. There is insufficient provable evidence for both the existence and non-existence of any supernatural, universe creating entity. And, while that may lead some on the path of least resistance to atheism, I dont think it is intellectually superior to agnosticism.

Oddly, I came to this conclusion by reading "The hero with a thousand faces" by Joseph Campbell. His attempt to distill and illuminate the coincidences and commonalities in religious mythos got me thinking of this as well. I noticed that a common thread throughot most religions is the concept of "free will" coupled with decisions or actions. Whether that is exemplified by the call to believe or to excercise some ritual, the core is that deities respect free will and demand people use it to confirm thier acquiescence to their diety.

It is then no strech to say that a deity that respects free will cannot "stack the deck" in their favor by creating a universe where their existence is undeniable without invalidating that free will. To take this thought even further experimentally, consider that if we existed in a universe where god was provable, choosing to believe or have faith in a deity would be meaningless, which would invalidate all this effort on the part of the deity to make human decisions so eternally important. Your choice would be to either acknowledge a fact or to wilfully ignore the evidence.

Not much of a choice, which brings us back to the idea of free will. I posit that if a universe creating deity exists, and specifically creates beings designed to make free decisions for or against that deity, it must create a universe for those beings to live in that is identical to one where god does not exist. So, in order to preserve the freedom of choice that a diety will ostensibly use to determine our eternal future, that deity has to remove any irrefutable proof of their existence from the universe.

Again, this is just a deists perspective on why I think agnostics hold an intellectually superior position to both deists and atheists. YMMV.

If you do set up an OpenBSD box as a small router remember that is is still a full computer. You can install squid as a proxy, install a mail gateway, your own DNS, etc. There's no need to leave it there simply shuffling packets if you don't want to.

As a bonus you can work in another unix and get some skill there.

I have used DD-WRT on several WRT54G devices. It's OK but flakey, at least for myself. At least once every couple of weeks or so I would have to power cycle.

As a gateway/router/wifi point, OpenBSD is excellent. My comment is very relevant to the story.
For example, my own setup has OpenBSD acting as a router/NAT/etc. box. For guests there is a wifi network it broadcasts and routes only to the world. Also has a VLAN for DMZ, outside accessible services, etc.
It's not name dropping if it's true.

Who has that anymore?

Poor people, the type who can afford only Android devices.