Yep. I know the Bible isn't necessarily the most popular source of wisdom around here, but Proverbs 22:7 nails it:

The rich rule over the poor,
        and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Besides no connectivity, and you need more adapters and dongles than with a "normal" Pi, the Pi 2 is a good bit faster than the Pi Zero. It (the Pi 2) is absolutely fast enough for some moderate desktop needs. It could very likely even replace most office computers, assuming any custom apps could be ported to Linux.

I've also heard it suggested that ostrich would be a pretty sustainable replacement.

I just booked SAT ATL leaving Thursday before Christmas and coming back Sunday (Christmas is the Saturday) for $315. I had been concerned that it would be $500 or more, maybe I just got lucky.

Of course there's stupid checked bag fees which I may be able to avoid. Fares are often pretty low but the bag fees can help bring them back up to more historic levels.

(Based on its static pages. Haven't been able to search yet.)

A while ago I saw another Christian general search engine (I forget the URL). I tried a few searches on it, and it was absolutely pathetic. The results could not have been less relevant if they tried! That is deeply disturbing to me, as I believe that we as Christians should should aim for excellence in all that we do.

It looks like this Seekfind will be different in that it doesn't aim to be a general search engine. I could see some value in that, if you're looking for thoughts on specific Bible passages or whatnot from a Christian perspective. I suspect that users who use Seekfind for that would have no trouble using Google for everything else, so there is no need to claim that they are "sheltered".

However, what disturbs me about Seekfind is its apparent narrowness in what they deem as "Christian-enough." Apparently they will not index sites that describe end-times from an amillennial perspective -- which is the most widely held view in all of Christendom (not American fundamentalism), and they won't consider infant baptism (as we in the Presbyterian Church do) or even believers' baptism by sprinkling. What the? It would be much more valuable if I could find commentaries from various Christian perspectives.

I'm looking forward to searching them for creation apologist material. From a comment above it looks like they only cover the young earth think tanks. I bet there won't be any results from reasons.org, which IMHO has a much saner interpretation of Creation (they argue that the Big Bang is fully compatible with a literal reading of the Bible).

Yeah, good point. To our atheist colleagues here, who pride themselves in their thinking prowess, preaching Christ is indeed foolishness. It goes against everything they assume and believe to be true, and against common sense. How *could* it possibly be true?

Yet if it *is* true, then evidence, logic, and reason will ultimately reveal that if you dig deep enough. And I think that is precisely the case with Christ. There is plenty of historical evidence for His existence and crucifixion (virtually every serious scholar will admit that). And there are a number of facts, also nearly universally agreed upon, that strongly argue for the historicity of Christ's resurrection. (These are well documented in Gary Habermas' "The Historical Jesus".)

So that is the mystery of salvation. It is so clear that it is true to me, so how could virtually everyone else here miss it? I think the Bible has answers for that, but I won't go into it here.

> Buying into any religion does away with trust in your own mind and does away with uncorrupted critical thinking.

I would challenge that. It may be true if you buy into the religion blindly which, of course, many do. But a number of intellectuals, by applying critical thinking, have come to the conclusion that the God of the Bible really does exist. CS Lewis is an obvious example.

I believe that is the case for me. I like to think, and my thinking has led me to the conclusion that there must be something behind the universe, and that of all the religions vying the explain that Something, historic Christianity wins by a mile.

When you're convinced that Christianity is true, there is still a lot of room for critical thought. I like to think about theology and debate various theological positions.

Also, I can trust in my mind because I believe I am made in the image of God. It is God's nature to be rational and He has created us with rational minds. On the other hand, if matter is all there is and we are here only because of chance, how can we trust our minds?

Well it beats roaming with AT&T, who charges about $16 per MB. I was in Canada recently and had to make dang sure data roaming was turned off every second.

I'm on Verizon too, I feel your pain.

I've been wanting to take my Geocities page down for almost a decade, but haven't been able to access it since they merged with Yahoo. (Yes I know there was some scheme to do so; tried it, didn't work.)

Just reviewed it again, and it is a blast from the past. What the heck, I'll link to the links page: My "best places of the web" in the late 90's

Appreciate that Slashdot gave me the reminder. I just wget -r 'd my site for memory sake. :) wget even managed to not get the ads. Even better!

That's the way my county does it in Florida, they had the foresight to replace their punch cards with optical scan machines a few years before the 2000 election fiasco. Sometimes I think I live in the only county in the state that's not entirely corrupt and incompetent.

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Works great in Firefox on Linux. I have been utterly addicted to it for about 2 years now. I am yodermk on there, if anyone cares.

PCI compliance is an absolute crock of crap. The scans produce an endless list of nitpicks, most of which don't matter a bit in terms of actual security. (If they did, Red Hat would ship it like that by default.) And they usually miss gaping-wide holes like old Joomla installations that cry out to be cracked. Oh and Apache should NEVER have write access to the filesystem, except maybe /tmp, something not picked up in scans.

Actually I would probably argue that any server that runs PHP should not be used to process credit cards. That thing has *so* many vulnerabilities. Not trying to troll, it's just true. Of all the web site exploits I've seen, I can't remember a single one that didn't somehow involve PHP or a misbehaving PHP application.

Website security is possible, it just takes some brains. For example, PCI argues that credit card information should never be stored on a server. I think it can be done securely. For example, have a database user for the web application. That user is allowed ONLY to insert CC information, not read it. Have a separate admin user that can read back the information, and that user should only be able to connect from a known-secure network, such as the office. NOT even the server itself (unless maybe you are already root, but certainly not the web server). This for example could be implemented with security definer functions in PostgreSQL. Obviously you want to lock down SSH, and turn off FTP and most other crap.

And while you're in Oregon, be sure to hit the Hatfield Marine Science Center just outside of Newport.

Youtube is already blocked