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  1. Re:Correlation != causation on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    My Toyota Auris has this push-button start/stop, and the manual said that holding the button in for 3 or 4 seconds (can't remember which) would kill the engine in case of emergency. My Toyota is a 2007 model as well, though I'm in Europe.

  2. Hi-diddly-ho on LegalTorrents Launches Copyright-Compliant Tracker · · Score: 1

    For some reason I thought of this clip. In light of this, I think we shall call it TheFlandersBay.

  3. Re:TRIM on Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes · · Score: 1

    Well, Newegg is actually very overpriced on this drive. You can find it (SSDSA2MH160G2R5) for $467 on Amazon.com.

  4. Same here... on Light Helps Injured Mice Walk Again · · Score: 1

    Only I was expecting somebody to say something like:

    If light helps healing, it's a good thing we're shielded from harm in our mothers' dank, dark basements...

  5. Your fears have come to an end on Italian Scientists Put Robot Spiders In Your Colon · · Score: 1

    I submit that the fear of these probes shall be called be arectumphobia.

  6. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Absurd on Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think this document refers to that petition:

    http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/climatechange08.cfm

    The GP should know better than thinking a petition is the same as an official position or consensus...

  8. Re:Now? on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    None, actually. The USPS, iirc, is financed entirely by the postage paid for letters and packages. For instance, look here:

    0: Tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service

  9. Re:Opera on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    I'm using the Unite Beta of Opera 10 with 133 tabs open, spread over 6 windows, and it's using 403MB of memory. I can't really say that's horribly bad... I usually run Opera for a few weeks before cleaning up and removing tabs. I'm not sure how Firefox would handle such a use.

  10. Re:Significant advantages to students: on Amazon Kindle DX Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Carry one thin device, not 20lbs of books

    Great... Remove one of the last sources of exercise we engineering students had. Now all we have is lifting coke cans and moving the mouse around the desk. That, and typing on this damn Model M.

  11. Re:what happens on Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just adopted this little gem:

    }

    I hope they won't port it to Python any day soon, though...

  12. You must drink a lot of coffee... on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 2, Funny

    As another EE (who does all their work at about 3GHz)

    You must drink a lot of coffee to be that jittery. I can't even begin to understand how you'll get any work done at 3GHz...

  13. Re:I'm holding out for Ubuntu 10.10 on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 1

    I'll hedge my bets on Lascivious Lizard or Lewd Langoustine. Not sure I look forward to Randy Rhino, though...

  14. Re:Agreed, TANSTAAFL on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1

    This absolutely makes sense. Just take the example of a match. Strike it, watch it suck the Dark out of the room, and when it's done you can clearly see all the Dark that has been absorbed into the match.

  15. Re:I wonder how it copes with twins? on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Twins? Easy! The evil twin always has a goatee.

  16. Re:What kittens are illegal now? on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you must be new to the Internet. Welcome! With a nick and sig like yours, though, I can see why you jumped to conclusions about it being a sexual reference...

  17. Suing the telcos next? on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1, Insightful

    With Craigslist being a free service for anyone to post ads, isn't this somewhat like suing the telcos for allowing anybody to staple posters to their poles? (You in the back there, stop giggling!) I've seen those being used to peddle all kinds of stuff, from bicycles to kittens. Clearly they should be forced to moderate their telephone poles, right?

  18. Re:Whew, that's a relief. on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Interesting that you should say this, since the doctor who published the original study was actually paid to do the study by the parents who wanted to sue over the alleged MMR-autism link. From the BBC article:

    Mr Wakefield received funding to see if there was any evidence to support possible legal action by a group of parents who claimed their children were damaged by the vaccine. Some children were involved in both studies.

    If that wasn't bad enough, alongside with other charges (see here), there are signs of him fixing the data in the study. Not exactly what I'd call a pillar of ethical and unbiased behavior...

  19. Re:Don't they already have one? on Russia To Develop a National Operating System · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, it's called Lenix.

  20. Re:Split infinitives are perfectly legal on Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes · · Score: 1

    Otherwise... shut the fuck up.

    Or, you could just ask them to fuckingly shut up.

  21. Re:Isn't there extra radiation in space? on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    Well, you just said it, didn't you? Spider two can hide from sight. It didn't kill spider one; it's just using its new invisibility powers! The only one they're able to see in the box is the lame-o elastic spider. This doesn't bode well for humanity...

  22. Re:Suggesting nightlies to regular users?! on Minefield Shows the (Really) Fast Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    it does crash once and a while

    Crashing once doesn't sound that bad, but I guess it depends on how long that while is.

  23. Correction on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    Whales are not fish.

  24. First it was outsourcing... on Motorola To Hire 300 Android Developers · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and now they hire android developers? When will this end?!

  25. Re:alternately.... kind of begs the question... on Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis · · Score: 1

    Yeah, having slow iterations is quite lame.

    Regarding the precision, the default is standard IEEE double precision floating point. (You can of course set the variables to int or single precision as well.) It may be well worth the time coding parts of the programs in C/C++/Fortran (using a Mex gateway), which is actually quite easy, or even just autogenerate the C code from MATLAB and compile that. I've had some luck with that in the past, at least.

    I hope I didn't misunderstand you, but if you're depending on arbitrary precision, or VPA, you're in for a world of sloooow pain. In that case, I really don't think MATLAB would be the best tool for the job.