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    SSL, is shorthand for a technology called "Secure Sockets Layer".  Secure Sockets Layer is a traditionally extremely expensive technology that encrypts the communication on the network between your website and people visiting your website.  This allows communication between the two parties that is private.  Without SSL, devices in between your website and your visitor have the potential to "see" what is being sent.  Today, if your web site visitor is reading your artist biography, in theory, your ISP (someone like Comcast, or Time Warner) could also read your biography as the information flowed over their networks.  And, although it almost never happens, in [...]

  I've been enjoying polishing my mirror for 20 years today.   Fine mirrors are one of the most accurate surfaces made by man. I once read that if a small mirror was expanded to the size of a football field, then the mirror’s surface would vary less than 1/30 millimeter!  The surface of a glass mirror must be (pardon the pun), mirror smooth, because, for a mirror to be accurate, the light must pass through the layer of glass and reflect off of the "silver" applied to the back side of the glass.   The more a mirror is properly polished, the more accurate it's reflection. [...]

  In this article, (Chief Technology Officer at CrowdFavorite) Chris Lema starts by recapping the old PC vs. Mac glory days:   Apple was solving the computing problem in a certain way – it brought hardware and software together to deliver an experience. Microsoft was approaching it differently, allowing several hardware vendors to get involved while it delivered software.   Then he drops this bombshell:   At this point you might be wondering why I wasted two hundred words on that old [computing] war that was over years ago. Well because I see it happening all over again... [Other platforms] are all offering hardware (hosting) and software (editing [...]