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California Bans Front-Seat Computer Use
An anonymous reader submits "As of January 1, 2004 the State of California has banned the use of notebook computers used anywhere in the front seat (PDF) of a moving vehicle. Previously, the ban applied just to TV sets. Even if your car-pooling front seat passenger is just doing some programming, you can be charged with a crime (AB 301). Thanks go to CA Assemblymember Sarah Reyes for this well meaning but overly broad piece of legislation." The text is mercifully short, but still contains some tricky language; probably the meaning of "installed" at the very least needs to be clarified. Would a laptop affixed to a installed bracket count? Considering the complexity of modern automotive navigation/control systems (now sneaking into budget vehicles, too), it seems like a very fine distinction. The law would seem to ban handheld computers being used as navigation aids, too, or GPS devices with games, and very soon, nearly all cell phones.
FP!
you knew that would happen? yOUR future cannot be determined/endead buy greed/fear/ego based murdering thieving execrable?
.asp (Score:0)
.asp again on that won. fortunately we have robbIE's 'stuff that matters' slowgun, & his gnu dating service to keep US abreast of reality/prevent softwar gangster hypenosys mindphuking?
.controll ?pr? ?firm? crap? (mynuts won, need a date buddIE?)
.asp on that won?
.asp? by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Friday January 02, @08:32AM
mynuts won: infactdead PostBlock devise fails.. (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 02, @08:20AM (#7859294)
again? here's hoping robbIE's gnu dating service isn't as infactdead?
was going to be:
J. Public scared to debt/disruption?
maybe it just looks that way?
fuddles, malcom, bullowing smoke up yOUR
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 01, @08:34AM (#7852260)
no harm there, until they start forcing the payper liesense softwar gangster stock markup FraUD execrable 'mirrors' on US? tell 'em robbIE?
they exist in some kind of ?pr? ?firm? vacuum constructed before the 'net, during the daze when there was only tv, & print, with NO instant 'feedback'/other opinions. they're won trick ponIEs, so that's all they can do, besides the immoral illegal stock markup FraUD/gangster stuff, which isn't working very well due to decreasing momeNTdumb.
planet/population rescue, gnu millennium edition? (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31, @12:08PM (#7846083)
no need to wrap it, just put it on the kharm(a).
making the case that the won-eyed girl is a phonIE (mynuts won, beating a lame won to debt?)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31, @06:48AM (#7844071)
will corepirate nazi felon ?pr? ?firm? scriptdead execrable (mynuts won, it's ok if you do it for monIE?)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 31, @06:44AM (#7844061)
skew/FUDge survey results/EVERYTHING?
you can bet your
&, failing that, we have the:
pateNTdead eyecon0meter used to
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 30, @02:38PM (#7837849)
that's right. this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions.
morons build vessel that floats on any suBStance? (mynuts won, no need to be suspicious?)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29, @02:53PM (#7829639)
you can bet your
creators/humankind converge to repel unprecedented evile? (mynuts won, who run our 'banks'?)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29, @02:51PM (#7829610)
& why not? what other options are there for us?
eyecon0meter: survival most sought after feature? (mynuts won, get yOUR freedumb here?)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29, @02:48PM (#7829586)
creators' badtoll over corepirate nazi execrable (mynuts won, many think hangin's way too good for the skalywags?)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29, @02:46PM (#7829567)
disposal?
newclear power dissed/cussed? (mynuts won, no animals killed buy MiStake in newclear power generation)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29, @02:41PM (#7829536)
&, it's free as in free.
newclear powered blips explore corepirate nazi (mynuts won, no lowrating robbIE's sponsors?)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 29, @07:53AM (#7826913)
cesspool?
pheWWW.
lookout bullow. the daze of the phonIE payper liesense ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys stock markup FraUD softwar gangster execrable, is WANing into coolapps/the abyss, at the increasing speed of right.
mynuts won: solar(is) power included?
stuff that really matters is...? by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Wednesday December 31, @12:14PM
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... the kode has been showed.
* MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Friday January 02, @08:23AM
o putting metal in your
* ALL of US bushwhacked buy felonious execrable by Anonymous Coward (Score:-1) Friday January 02, @08:27AM
This is a troll.
Why read the article when you can do it for him?
Pre-emptive multitasking, baby. Pre-emptive multitasking.
Yeah, and the code probably belongs to SCO, too!
[Must not look at SCO's code...Must NOT look at SCO's code...]
/peek/
DAMN!!
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
You talk about grammar, and yet you put in a sentence that states that I drive my computer. Yet he thinks he can drive a car and a computer
Anonymous Cowards - Oh God, How I hate you
Sacrementa, California (AP) -- In a surprising move, the state legislature of California recently passed legislation to outlaw members of the opposite sex in the front seat of vehicles.
Legislature members point to recent studies that cite that cars driven by heterosexuals are 13.232 percent more likely to be involved in accidents when a member of the opposite sex is in the passenger seat. These numbers rise to a shocking 35.243% when that member is a significant other and to an unseemly 75% rate when the passenger is naked and has fake breasts. When the driver and passenger are married, the researchers found that the accident rate hovered around 50.324%, a phenomona known as the "nag factor".
"The numbers don't lie. Having the opposite sex as a passenger in the car is a definite distraction to the driver" said Dr. Frank O. Overman, a head researcher in the project. "Won't somebody please please PLEASE think of the safety of the children!" he continued.
Dr. Overman had no comments on the studies in Massuchusets involving homosexual drivers and same sex passengers.
-- The Genesis project? What's that?
I live in portugal, and in here the highways have two limits:
low - 40km/h
high - 120km/h
Also, in a 3 lane highway, there are also low speed limits:
right lane: 40, middle:60, left: 90
So, no! If I want to drive at 40 it's ok if I do it in the right lane. Driving at 200...there's no lane for that.
But it's not the speed the reason for my post... its the careless driving.
I would like to get some *BSD on my box to try it. But I can not install it on a logicial partion at all.