42Penguins - Slashdot User

Comment Don't see why this is a problem (Score 2, Interesting) 1364

by 42Penguins on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @10:53AM (#29808143) Attached to: Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law

The state has a sunshine law. They used the sunshine law. They shared the results.

I don't see what is potentially damaging about people knowing you signed it anyway. It doesn't make you a gay-bashing red-necked evil conservative. In fact, it could simply mean that you prefer a direct vote to a vote of representatives.

Comment Re:Legalize Cannabis, not Cocaine! (Score 1) 441

by 42Penguins on Monday August 17, 2009 @12:58PM (#29094153) Attached to: Up To 90 Percent of US Money Has Traces of Cocaine

Just going by number of people, a legal drug will probably always be a greater ruin of lives nationally simply because of much wider availability - alcohol and tobacco in the USA.
However, as grandparent suggested, cocaine is probably a lot higher than alcohol on the rate of "users who ruined their lives with it vs total users".

Submission + - Google paper on disk reliability

Submitted by oski4410 on Saturday February 17, 2007 @09:56PM

oski4410 writes: The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract:

"Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported."

Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz 271

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 22, 2007 @06:15PM from the smokin dept.

Andreas writes "There are always those who are willing to take things one step further than others. A group of guys known as OC Team Italy is one of them. They recently pushed an Intel Pentium 4 631 to over 8000MHz using an ASUS P5B with modified voltage regulation and liquid nitrogen. Overclocking is cool and all, but this extends beyond what some would perhaps call useful. Still a milestone though."

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