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Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web
Chandon Seldon writes "The issue of digital certificates for SSL and the policies surrounding them comes up repeatedly. I've written an article criticizing the behavior in Firefox 3, which includes a serious comparison of the current Mozilla policy — restricting encrypted HTTP to paying customers — to a violation of net neutrality."
Driving is a privilege not a right. Unless you have the money to cover any damages you may cause, it is absolutely necessary to have insurance. The cost of barebones liability coverage is not that high assuming you have a relatively clean record and if not, you probably shouldn't be driving. It seems that today the idea of personal responsibility is falling out of favor.
Actually you're both correct and incorrect. Most people are not driving, they're traveling. And that activity is codified in common law as a right, movement by people by any means. Those who make money from either hauling freight or passengers are driving, and that is the legal definition of transportation as noted in "Black's Law Dictionary".
If you desire further examples, check out your state's (I assume you are in the US since your first statement is a commonly stated incorrect mantra) transportation statues/codes/laws and use a legal dictionary for any term not explicitly defined in such.
I responding to your post because that outright lie needs to be squelched.
Problems with FF 3 and online banking and my websites plesk control panel made me switch back to safari as default browser.
Just like the regulations for 'safe-driving': They should just let people do whatever they wish. If you can talk on your cellphone while driving OK, if you create an accident you should suffer the consequences and that's all (the problem is with the people that escape punishment because of the fucked up judicial system).
Wow. Just wow. Do you really not see the huge gaping flaw in that argument?? There's a reason why operating a motor vehicle on a public thoroughfare has to be considered a privilege, not a right. So let's say I'm talking on my cellphone while driving. Let's also say that I'm not a rich guy. In this little story, I have about $20 in my pocket, none in my bank account, no assets to speak of, and I live from paycheck to paycheck. And since I'm in these circumstances, my car is also not exactly in top shape. So I'm driving along talking on my cellphone, don't see the red light, and slam into the passenger side of your car as you're driving through the intersection in front of me. Bam, your wife/husband/significant other just died, you just landed in the hospital for 3 months, and all that happens to me is I get sent to jail for at most a few years. Or more likely, I died in the accident as well and you don't even get that much. Worst part is, I also didn't have insurance. My policy lapsed because I couldn't afford it.
When you're operating equipment that has a huge potential to be fatal to other persons, it absolutely has to be a privilege instead of a right. Everyone has the right to use the public road, no one has the right to operate a death machine on it.
Or perhaps I should also exercise my right to bear arms and start firing high-powered rifle shots randomly around the city? I'm sure there's no chance at all I'll ever hit someone.
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