AequitasVeritas - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Rigged Tests (Score 1) 364

by AequitasVeritas on Monday September 28, 2009 @12:35PM (#29567421) Attached to: For New Zealanders, No More Phones as Sat-Nav Devices

I have watched people drift out of their lane and run lights and so on while holding that phone against their head. I have had to honk at them while slamming on the brakes because they decided to pull into my lane without looking to see if I was already there. I have wished that someone would take that damn phone away from them so they could drive without crashing into me!

I have had to do this to people who weren't holding phones to their head... more times than I care to count... it happens whether people talk on a phone or not.

It's even worse when on my motorcycle.

If a driver isn't paying attention anyway, it doesn't matter if they are talking on the phone or not.

Comment So let me get this straight... (Score 0, Redundant) 194

by AequitasVeritas on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @04:08PM (#28284401) Attached to: Security Firms Fined Over Never-Ending Subscriptions

The did what they told the customers they would do (IANAL, but whether or not the customer read the EULA is not up to Symantec, but when the customer agreed to that EULA, they were giving consent for Symantec to charge their card on a recurring basis), and now they are getting fined for it? That seems slightly out of whack to me...

Comment Simple solution... (Score 1) 713

by AequitasVeritas on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @05:10PM (#26271873) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

For all those people living in the greater Portland area, who don't have a GPS in their car and dont want to pay the higher gas tax, what would keep those people from just driving to Vancouver, WA (or any surrounding state for that matter) and purchasing their gas from there?

I drive down to Portland all the time to save sales tax on expensive items. Wouldn't it stand to reason that the people driving new cars would do the same, but drive to WA/ID/CA/NV to avoid the per mile gas tax?

Comment Whats the point? (Score 1) 8

by AequitasVeritas on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @05:48PM (#24665045) Attached to: Dallas Schools Extend Homework Due Dates Indefinitely

Why don't we just do away with grades totally. If grades that bring down their average get dropped anyway, whats the point of having them at all? We might as well just rename all the schools to "regonal daycares", because essentially, thats what they will turn into.

Man Faces Prosecution for Pirate Flag 5

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 08, 2008 @01:28PM from the happy-birthday-to-yarr dept.

David Waterman, a 41-year-old Ashtead fireman, is facing legal action for refusing to take down a pirate flag he raised to celebrate his daughter's pirate-themed eighth birthday party after a neighbor complained. Under current laws, any flag flying outside a residential property has to have planning permission unless it is a national flag. When asked to comment on the flag, the neighbor said "The history of the ninja, in fact, is marked by a strong code of moral and just behavior that applies not only to the fighting or military aspects, but also to the everyday life and birthday parties. Learning to attain sei shin (or right mind) is essential to becoming a ninja and virtually impossible with the flag of your enemy flying next door."

Submission + - Cassini's Best Images (ciclops.org)

Submitted by CheshireCatCO on Monday December 31, 2007 @05:29PM

CheshireCatCO writes: The winners of the best images from the Cassini spacecraft (taken since Cassini images of Saturn were first acquired in February 2004) have been announced. The winner of best color image is In Saturn's Shadow, the stunning, high-phase portrait of Saturn from opposite the Sun. Winners of best black-and-white and best movie (both categories resulted in ties) are also available.

Submission + - Samsung's 64GB SSD drive review (computerworld.com) 4

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @10:33AM

Lucas123 writes: "Computerworld's Rich Ericson reviewed Samsung's first large capacity solid state disk drive and says it's heartier and faster than the drive in Sony's new flash-based notebook. It's also got an impressive mean time between failure of more than 2 million hours, versus under 500,000 hours for the Samsung's other traditional hard drives and the company says the drive can withstand an operating shock of 1,500Gs at .5 miliseconds (versus 300Gs at 2 miliseconds for a traditional hard drive. "Power consumption is just 1 watt when the system is active, 0.1 watt when idle, and .06 watt in standby mode. (Equivalent power consumption figures with hard drives are 2.1, 1.5, and .2 watts, respectively.) That could explain why we got 5 hours, 22 minutes of power in Max Battery mode when surfing the Web, creating documents with OpenOffice, or uploading and downloading files to an FTP server.""

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