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I just hope the gas peddle doesn't stick...
The robot is not made by Toyota is it?
Posted by Narg
3rd May 2010
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or run with processors built by Intel -
remember the FDIV bug from 1994?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

"(Byte magazine estimated that 1 in 9 billion floating point divides with random parameters would produce inaccurate results)"

I hope I'm not the 1 in 9 billion...
Posted by oldbaritone
3rd May 2010
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"lead aprons that protect against radiation exposure from X-rays"
Oh great - so the surgeon gets to be protected from all the nasty, evil radiation, and the patient doesn't... Well, that's what we get for relying on technology to fix us rather than God and getting sin out of our lives.
Posted by naibeeru
10th May 2010
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