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and very few people would check EV

That's why some browsers like Firefox checks it for you and display it right in the URL bar.
You can't miss it.

What you really need is the domain registrars to check that if sites are being registered that are similar to a company name or trademark that they have a legitimate right to use that name.

Hey, then you need to ban slashdot.org, because it's name is similar to Slash. Or to DJ Slash. Or to Fatboy Slim's song.

The problem with "check that if sites are being registered that are similar to a company name or trademark" is that it's a complex task require some thinking that it's not trivial to automate for absolutely free (and in a way that won't be trivially circumvented by attackers).
It goes beyond the point of Let's Encrypt (whose point is, as the name indicate, just to make encryption available).

Or build a chain-of-trust system where people can blacklist a bad domain by voting it down

Which isn't an easy task to do (how many - outside of /. - to use PGP on a regular basis ?) Chain-of-trust system aren't easy.

Blacklist aren't silver bullet neither : an attacker could still bank on a quick attack trying to scam as many users as possible before getting flagged.
(See all the "software to make a millionaire out of you on binary option sites !" scam that are popping every where. Site costs under a couple of hundred in stock-photos / fiverr actors / ads promotion to set up, and can manage to make a few thousands selling snake oil before getting reported and shut down).

Neither of them have anything to do with HTTPS.

Which brings us back to the point : Let's Encrypt's purpose, as it names implies, is to bring the S in HTTPS and nothing more.
It's not their job solving the certification of owner in an easy way.

In other words, the business model of Let's Encrypt is to sell digital certificates that aren't worth the electrons they are printed on.

Let's encrypt is a free (price as-in-beer, code as-in-speech) service. They don't have a business model.

They have a purpose (the same as CACert, by the way), to issue simple certificates that can verify that "blah.com" is indeed "blah.com".
(As opposed to some man-in-the-middle attacker mascarading as "blah.com" using a different 3rd server).

They do not certify any thing else, and indeed the certificates' fields. This certificate doesn't certify any organisation name.

This is even reflected in some browser's URL bar.
e.g.: in Mozilla's Firefox.

- Go to a "let's encrypt" website (like here on /. ) or one certified by CACert :
you only get the green padlock (sign that the communication is encrypted) and no other indication.
let's encrypt only checked that slashdot.org is indeed slashdot.org, but didn't check anything regarding ownership.
(it might as well be someone trying to impersonate Slash, DJ Slash or Fat Boy Slim)

- Go to paypal :
in addition to the padlock, you get an indication that certificate is certifying that the server is owned by PayPal Inc.
(Symantec actually checked that PayPal Inc is indeed own

Issuing a certificate to BobsCarRepair.com is one thing. Obviously you have no way of knowing whether or not Bob is a reputable business.

Even further : it doesn't even certify that owner of the website is someone called bob. It only certifies you that it is indeed bobscarrepair.com
It might as well be owned by Alice, for what you know.
It only certifies that Eve isn't wiretapping you when you give your credit card number to buy parts.

However, Issuing 14,000+ certificates that contain the word PayPal, to domains not owned by the real PayPal, is incompetence on a massive scale and calls into question Let's Encrypt's honesty and trustworthiness.

Nope.
There's a difference between guaranteeing a secure channel (against 3rd party eaves dropping).
And guaranteeing identity.
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These are 2 different concepts.
Let's encrypt only takes care of the first one and has never ever hoped to tackle the second problem. They DO NOT certify owners, this field is intently left blank on their certificates.

The point of Let's Encrypt (as its name says) is that encryption becomes the norm on the web. In order to avoid massively stupid blunders, like the dead easy identity theft demonstrated by FireSheep.

That's something that CAN BE achieved for free, on a massive scale, like Let's Encrypt and CACert are doing.

There's no realistic way that let's encrypt could in any way confirm owner identity for free on this massive scale.

That's something which is very easy to understand for people who have some basic knowledge of security.

Saddly, sheeple are stupid. So you need to educate them and try to find ways to make them understand.
(e.g.: the above mentionned "show certified owner in the URL bar if provided" that Firefox is doing).

But sapping efforts like "Let's Encrypt" which are providing very valuable service (bringing the availability of HTTPS, TLS/SSL, etc. on a massice scale), simply because some idiot can't make the difference between "protection against 3rd party eavesdrop" and "identity of the owner" is counter-productive

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I need my iPhone to have a headphone jack. I love making DJ mixes on my phone. I use an app called dJay, which allows me to mix using my itunes library. I've gotten quite good, to the point where I will occasionally sit on the bus or at a bar making a mix, and I don't need a monitor, as I can tell where to start the mix using the waveforms of the song.

Anyway, this only works if the sound and screen animation of the song beats are perfectly in sync; if theres ANY delay, I can't mix. I have tried doing this by using a bluetooth speaker instead of headphones, and it never works. It's always off by some delayed amount.

If Apple actually does this, this is the one thing that will make me never want to upgrade. I know they would make dongles, but that adds other issues, such as what if I need to mix while having the phone plugged in because I'm running out of battery power? Anyway, don't do it, apple.

And if anyone wants to hear my mixes made on an iPhone with no monitor and just a pair of headphones, here ya go: https://www.mixcloud.com/xevio...

There is also the Clam.
https://www.mixcloud.com/thisw... This is an excelent podcast on virology.
Or for those more into the heavier stuff: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Soundcloud makes you pay if you want to upload more than 2 hours of content (unless its changed now)

Also they are heavy on copyright takedowns and give you no choice to appeal or even respond in any way. I uploaded a parody and it got slammed so fuck you SoundCloud!

Mixcloud is a lot better http://www.mixcloud.com/

I used to code to happy hardcore...but I can't stand it now, as the music is all the same and very cheesy...liquid drum and bass, on the other hand, especially with consistent rolling beats, is perfect.

https://www.mixcloud.com/unit_...

Here - countless dark ambinet mixes, free to listen:

https://www.mixcloud.com/tag/d...

This is called ambient music. It's an entire sub-genre of electronic, and has existed in more or less similar form for 20 years or more.

You can find thousands of entire mixes of ambient music that are perfect for coding to (I listen myself ) on mixcloud under the tag Ambient:

https://www.mixcloud.com/tag/a...

Turns out it's also perfect music for exploring the galaxy as background music in a number of video games.

You might be interested in future-past.org, D2Techno and the Mastertraxx Underground Techno podcast then. Seen Speedy J a couple of times now, good DJ :)