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RE: Still Confused
By porkpie on 4/5/2010 11:35:37 PM , Rating: 5
"it's a 100% fact that those rays cannot compromise those systems."

Not your decade for factual accuracy, is it? Cosmic rays can and do cause SEUs (single event upsets) for computer equipment. They are a serious problem for airliners and satellites, which fly at altitudes where radiation is a greater hazard.

Even on the ground, SEUs are not uncommon, and result for the average computer with non-ECC memory to experience between 0.25 - 2 crashes per year, depending on elevation, memory size, and a few other factors.

The particular pattern of events makes it very unlikely that SEUs are causing Toyota's problems (if those problems are anything but a mass delusion, that is). But saying it is "100% impossible" is, of course, wildly incorrect.

RE: Still Confused
By Reclaimer77 on 4/6/10, Rating: -1
RE: Still Confused
By porkpie on 4/6/2010 1:47:29 AM , Rating: 3

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By DominionSeraph on 4/6/10, Rating: -1
RE: Still Confused
By The Raven on 4/6/2010 11:09:19 AM , Rating: 2
Umm... no love for any news outlet in particular here, but I am sick of hearing about the Fox bias. You really think that the others are better than Fox. I'm fine with you saying that O'Reilly is a biased righty if you will admit the opposite for Oberman. Or that Maddow is a biased lefty if you will admit the opposite for Hannity. Opinion shows aside, the news should be built on facts, and if you can't connect the dots yourself by collecting facts from various media outlets/the interwebs then...

But with regard to this story in particular, I have heard more about this from NBC than any one else. And they don't seem to like to use the word "alleged" in this case either, as if they have facts that prove everything they say.

And I'm talking about the actual nightly news here. I don't have cable/sat.

RE: Still Confused
By Reclaimer77 on 4/6/2010 12:25:42 PM , Rating: 2
I have never seen a media more in the tank for a President and Congress in my life. And people are whinning about Fox bias !??

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By Reclaimer77 on 4/6/10, Rating: 0
RE: Still Confused
By The Raven on 4/7/2010 5:24:37 PM , Rating: 1
What candidate are you talking about? And FYI Rush isn't a reporter for Fox news. Hell, he isn't even a reporter. He is a commentator/talk show host. And if you he doesn't have a free podcast at this point, I'm not listening to him.

You know what I would be scared of is a world with an unchecked liberal media?

Was it Fox that implied the Tea Party Patriots were racists? (Or that anyone that was against the health care bill for that matter) No it was NBC, CNN, and others. They took a tiny bit of bigotry and painted the whole crowd of people who want fiscal responsibility in DC with the same brush. Yeah there is no bias there. None at all. I guess if it makes you feel better.

And again, I don't like Fox more than the others. I just am saying that you can't blow off Fox and simultaniously believe you are getting the true story from the others because you assume they aren't biased. If you do that, you may as well just restrict yourself to watching another biased outlet: like Fox.

Yeah and all those people who think that you should get what you work for. Yeah they are sheeple. Not like those people who get their 'Obama money' and free health care. It must have been a tough decision for those people to decide to vote for Obama since things would be harder...I mean easier for them under his presidency.

I say the real sheeple are those that rely on the democrats or the republicans as we can all see now that both parties have been taking us all for a ride for quite sometime.

From your comment, I take it you are equating republicans to conservatives and democrats to liberals though neither are mutually exclusive.

The city where I work is largely democrat. They have always been democrats and they have been democrats since before the civil war when the democrats were the "Racist party" They never changed their ways. Was this before or after Copernicus? Was it dogma that these democrats followed believing that blacks were inferior? Yes it was. Or you can take a democratic dogma pill and tell yourself that the democrats were never like that. It is scary how much like religion that politics can be. It is not coincidence that people made fun of how Obama was treated like a god during the election.

I just realized that you are the same guy that thinks Ray LaHood is infallible and right on with his call to rape Toyota.

RE: Still Confused
By HotFoot on 4/6/2010 11:41:10 AM , Rating: 3
I've been under the impression that smaller transistors are more susceptible to these events, since less energy is required to jump states.

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