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  1. Re:Good god, please stop on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wrong. Your post: '...in that the Google spreadsheet provided was tracking incidents, not fatalities...'

    Article: 'The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota "sudden acceleration" fatalities...' And yes, the spreadsheet data is from the LAT story.

    And no, to poke holes in the author's idiot argument, I don't have to figure anything out about the "percentage of Prius drivers, blah blah blah." I would have to do that if I wanted to find the real numbers. Instead, I just demolished the author's prima facie case. Once that goes down there is no reason to invest more time on it. He can make the case again with better data if he feels like it. I'm not about to throw any more mental effort after an idiot's idea.

  2. Re:Good god, please stop on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh...did your feelings get hurt? That makes me feel so rotten about myself! I was inconsiderate. Maybe I brought up unpleasant memories of your childhood? You can talk about it. Nobody here will make fun.

  3. Re:Good god, please stop on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, you sure got me. Really stuck it to me..oh shit, no you didn't, you just can't read. From the article: 'The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota "sudden acceleration" fatalities, and, though the Times did not mention it, the ages of the drivers involved were striking.'

  4. Good god, please stop on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you read the above article and thought, "gee, what convincing evidence," then you're a moron.

    It's not a surprise that traffic fatalities were skewed towards the elderly. In any given accident, an elderly person is much more likely to die than a young person. They're not as sturdy.

    Now that you're a little bit less of a moron, please go on with your day.

  5. Re:Religion on Pope Urges Priests To Go Forth and Blog · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know. I'm not Catholic, but I read Fr. Z's blog at wdtprs.com fairly frequently. It's not spam by any stretch. It's interesting to peep into another world.

  6. Right Decision? on German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According the original article, DEP (enabled by default in IE8) and sandbox mode (Windows 7, Vista) all stop this zero day.

    If that is the case, doesn't that in IE's favor, nor against? All browsers have vulnerabilities. All of them have zero-days. However, it seems that IE has some pretty good built-in protections that Firefox lacks.

  7. Re:Ummm... on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, at least the first one was succinct.

  8. Re:Most Sci-fi/Fantasy is teen-lit fare on The Gathering Storm Discussion · · Score: 1

    Murakami is aces at making you feel good about your literary hoity-toityness. But I, for one, have better things to think about than the opium dreams of some oversexed wit-lit writer. There are no real ideas or insights there. It's fluff.

    Now, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy...

  9. Re:What's wrong with this data? on Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results · · Score: 1, Informative

    Really, why not try proving that a particular digit should be uniformly distributed? I'll give you a minute.

    Not done yet? I'll give you a hint: Benford's Law shows why it doesn't have to have a uniform distribution. The original critique is likely fallacious.

  10. Re:Why isn't he turning over the passwords? on 3 of 4 Charges Against Terry Childs Dropped · · Score: 1

    I looked up the story. It's sort of bizarre. Unless he had no supervisor and reported directly to the mayor, he didn't have much justification for not turning over the passwords at the get-go.

  11. Why isn't he turning over the passwords? on 3 of 4 Charges Against Terry Childs Dropped · · Score: 1

    That's the one thing that confuses me. He still hasn't turned over any passwords, right? Why not?

  12. Re:Free speech and democracy? on Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Moron. A correct statement, maybe, would be that "corporate censorship is not prohibited by the first amendment of the American constitution under current SCOTUS interpretation."

    Saying that corporate censorship has no relation to free speech is wrong and stupid. It's a very important consideration when looking at speech issues.

  13. Re:Stand drill on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 1

    It's magnetic. Self-clean mode on your oven would probably do the job.

  14. Re:Security through Obscurity? on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    I believe that "Critical" updates usually need to be remote.

  15. Re:Security through Obscurity? on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    From your link, it looks like it was patched as an "Important" security vulnerability.

  16. Re:Free as in speech on Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All true statements, but pointless because you left out at least one freedom: people are also free to complain until Ubuntu does something about it to save their brand.

  17. No story here on Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" · · Score: 1

    I think that the submitter wrongly believes that these sensors are going to report back to Apple over the internet or somesuch. Hence the faux concern.

  18. Re:I'm honestly surprised... on Twitter Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean that they're only a part-time patent troll.

  19. Re:Size on Hubble Photographs Jupiter's New "Scar" · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's already a wonderful way to deflect asteroids. It's called Jupiter.

  20. Re:But will they be useful without concepts? on Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stroustrup alludes to it in his article, but I think that the point needs to be emphasized. Concepts need to primarily be about making the experience of using and creating templates easier. It needs to be about fixing the sort of error you mentioned.

    The problem with the current proposal is that it tried to be too many things to too many people. Concept supporters need to regroup and come up with a streamlined concepts proposal that concentrates on making the language easier and simpler.

  21. Re:Technet on August 6th on Windows 7 Hits RTM At Build 7600.16385 · · Score: 2, Informative

    $249 a year to renew.

  22. Re:Less radioactive waste, too on First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track · · Score: 1

    There's no long-term viable solution to the problem of chemical waste either -- and that doesn't even have a half-life. One trusts that future generations will be smart enough not to try to drink from the barrels of glowing green goop. And if not, then they've got bigger problems.

  23. Re:So Impeach Him on Computerized Election Results With No Election · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They did impeach him. Their Congress and Supreme Court both voted to oust him. Further their constitution says that if a President tries to extend his term (which is what he did) he immediately stops being President.

    You're right about the pajamas thing. They should have shot him and saved themselves the trouble.

  24. Second Shit on Med Students Get Training In Second Life Hospitals · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good god. I hope I never get sick in London.

  25. Re:Ironic dichotomy of Apple's Family Values on Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, the Palm users are full Apple customers if they're using iTunes. Especially if they're running it on a Mac. This "1/2 Apple customers" idea is just strange -- it must be like being 1/2 pregnant or having 2.5 children.