Right on! https://www.cnet.com/news/stud...

"In reality, the different types of SSL/TLS certificates all serve a single purpose and that is to encrypt the communication between a browser and web site. Anything extra is seen by many as just a marketing gimmick to charge customers for a more expensive "trustworthy" certificate." NO!!! If if the "single purpose" was encryption, browsers wouldn't throw a hissifit when a site uses a self-signed cert. CA-signed certificates are just as much about Identity The CA is vouching that the key in the cert does indeed belong to the entity that controls the domain EV certs go beyond that to verify that the the key in the Cert belongs to the legal entity claimed in it. Just because normal users don't understand it, doesn't mean that it has no usefulness. Do you think users would give a crap if browsers didn't go into Red Alert whenever you tried to type a password on a non-SSL site or browsing into an self-signed HTTPS site?

This same approach of incentivized peer participation is being used in this mesh network https://althea.org/

...2018 is the Year of Linux on Desktop!

He might be this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wF9TRKCV40&t=0m45s

Easy Money!

Am I the only one that though of the space diving scene from Star Trek 11?

ICMB's are not the only way to deliver Nuclear Weapons

80+ percent participation, not votes. Not that I know any of this for a fact, that's just what the sentence says.

...in China. Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co doesn't really care about the lowering demand for SUV's in the United States. They have an emerging middle class that just loves American cars. Remember, a national market does not get any bigger than the Chinese market.

Kinda like the The Merch

Two stories back to back with "paper" in their titles. Where are the jokes?

Oh, you can always turn it off. :)

I don't want to get into the morality/legality of this but I do agree. What GP said does sound fucked up.

That does seem to be the picture you get by reading people's opinions online. I find comfort in believing that the sample of opinions posted online isn't representative of the total population since it suffer from a sort of volunteer bias, where the people with the most outrageous opinions have the greater will to express those opinions to a bunch of strangers.
Either that, or we ARE surrounded by ignorant, illogical, paranoid, quasi-literate, parochial, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual believers in UFOs and are all screwed.