SSL certificates have two goals, identity/trust and encryption. Self-signed certs establish encryption by default. If you save the self-signed certificate in your browser, then trust/identity is established manually, which is the only selling point of of a cert signed by a CA. Once you have the cert saved an error message is no longer displayed unless the certificate changes.

Firefox has this option selected by default upon bypassing the initial error message. In IE, view the certificate and "Install certificate..." Done.

This most certainly deserves a good old NCIS Gibbs back-of-the-head slap.

What a balanced article title. It makes "positive reinforcement" sound downright evil. I suppose dogs should just train themselves because the trainers just say so and its the "right thing to do."

This thread has peaked my interest.

Wow, Clippy sounds even more evil now.

To quote the animated President Truman:

"If you come in peace, surrender or be destroyed. If you're here to make war, we surrender."

And then Nick Mason will cut you up into little pieces.

Actually, most small businesses should not be paying taxes on profits, at least on a federal level in the US. Most small businesses if they are setup as S Corps or LLCs do not pay taxes except on maintaining employees (payroll and unemployment taxes). All taxes (for profits/retained earnings) are passed on to investers, ie shareholders.

In the end, higher taxes directly impacts investors more than it does small businesses. Higher taxes do mean less retained earnings, ie less for the company to reinvest in its own future. Also, the less money investors have, the less they can invest back into the market and therefore small business.

Ra and Apophis' other brother Obama? Glowing eyes, god-like voice, throwing words around like "insolence" all the time. Hey, I would watch it...

Sounds like you have yourself a pilot.

Check behind the ears.

oh wait....

... is going to have a large turd to flush?

He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic, such that no one had the chance to interrupt him, it was really quite hypnotic.