I am pretty sure this can't be prevented. If you can get a Certificate Authority to issue a certificate for a domain then 99.99% of people won't be able to tell if the certification is legit or not. Most people couldn't tell the difference between certs issues by Verisign, Thawte, Startcom, or Comodo if they were shown the information and even those who could would still be hard pressed to guess which CA a website is using. I know Google uses Thawte and PayPal uses Verisign but that is it. CAs just need to keep up with their security I suppose.
From the NY Times Article: Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently proposed a billion-dollar drug development center at the agency.
“We seem to have a systemic problem here,” Dr. Collins said, adding that government research efforts were intended to feed the private sector, not compete with it.
I closed my personal account and my business account over their freezing of the CtR account. Cost me 15 dollars for them to cut me a check with 2700 dollars in it from the business account but I think it was worth it.
Not at all. Lots of countries don't like what other countries post on the internet. The question is whether or not they can do anything about it. If a U.S.-based/hosted/managed site isn't liked in some other country, what are they going to do about it? They may block their own people from accessing the site, but they surely can't seize anything if there's nothing in their country to seize.
So then it would be perfectly all right for Germany to seize any .com that violate German law since Verisign has offices and servers in Germany?
Since ICE has been going straight to the TLD administration registrars I think the best bet for Spain would be to go Verisign, who operates the .com TLD and who probably has servers or at least offices in Spain, and seize GOP.com and Democrats.com. Things would work themselves out pretty quick after that.
I think this dumb only part of the time.I really can't think of anything that Will.i.am would do for Intel aside from being a spokesperson. Same with Polaroid but at least she was involved to some degree in the stylistic aspect. On the other hand I can think of at least two instances where entertainers did more than that.
The first is 50 Cent and his headphones by Sleek. Apparently 50 joined the company with a desire to make nice headphones and invested some of his own money and a bunch of his time. At CES when they were announced Sleek reps said 50 spent a good deal of time with the design team and QA team testing the sound. Say what you will about his music but 50 most certainly has an ear for sound. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/sleek-by-50-cent-platinum-headphones-announced-invites-be ats-to/
The second would be the Marley families decisions to put out a line of sound products in the vein of what their Dad would like. While Bob wasn't involved (obviously), his children representing his ideas were, and they made a splash at CES by showing off the line of products made from recycled materials with biodegradable packaging. http://www.cultofmac.com/hemp-used-in-bob-marley-headphones-earbuds-ces-2011/75566
No w neither of these situations were simply hiring stars to be Creative Directors they both involve entertainers getting involved in developing some nice products. I could totally see Panasonic or Canon hiring a famous director or filmmaker known for doing this unconventional with cameras to help them design a quality camcorder or a car company hiring a NASCAR driver to help with a performance car. So while I think randomly hiring a celebrity is dumb I think hiring obviously creative people to do things in a field they have some knowledge of is actually a pretty good idea.
If Microsoft products were the secure option then the intelligence agencies would be using them but they do not because Microsoft products are not the most secure option.
On a personal note I use Google Apps for my business and my school switched over to Google Apps while I was working in the IT department there without issue. Last I heard they were quite happy with the service.
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Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, recently proposed a billion-dollar drug development center at the agency.
“We seem to have a systemic problem here,” Dr. Collins said, adding that government research efforts were intended to feed the private sector, not compete with it.
Excuse me?
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Re: Re: Vending machines love coins
I always forget to bring mine and end up putting a twenty into the machine for a $3 ticket. Who need seventeen bucks in dollar coins!
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No, really! He has Ph.D. in physics and did research at Princeton.
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This is hardly surprising...
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Re: 1000s of accounts closed in one day...
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Modern Marvels
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Not Always Dumb
The first is 50 Cent and his headphones by Sleek. Apparently 50 joined the company with a desire to make nice headphones and invested some of his own money and a bunch of his time. At CES when they were announced Sleek reps said 50 spent a good deal of time with the design team and QA team testing the sound. Say what you will about his music but 50 most certainly has an ear for sound.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/sleek-by-50-cent-platinum-headphones-announced-invites-be ats-to/
The second would be the Marley families decisions to put out a line of sound products in the vein of what their Dad would like. While Bob wasn't involved (obviously), his children representing his ideas were, and they made a splash at CES by showing off the line of products made from recycled materials with biodegradable packaging.
http://www.cultofmac.com/hemp-used-in-bob-marley-headphones-earbuds-ces-2011/75566
No w neither of these situations were simply hiring stars to be Creative Directors they both involve entertainers getting involved in developing some nice products. I could totally see Panasonic or Canon hiring a famous director or filmmaker known for doing this unconventional with cameras to help them design a quality camcorder or a car company hiring a NASCAR driver to help with a performance car. So while I think randomly hiring a celebrity is dumb I think hiring obviously creative people to do things in a field they have some knowledge of is actually a pretty good idea.
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On a personal note I use Google Apps for my business and my school switched over to Google Apps while I was working in the IT department there without issue. Last I heard they were quite happy with the service.
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