I find that the comment of the OP, "OCZ's notoriously unreliable drives", not even true for me. I have a number of new and older OCZ SSD's in my computers and none of them have failed or had any error whatsoever.

I am trying to recall any OEM (besides my company) putting an SSD on their desktop computers, seen 'em on netbooks and some notebooks of course. I would think an OEM would because if that computer only has a one year warranty, the SSD will last that long and since they want you to buy a new computer, often, it'd work for that cause.

By the way, seen the OCZ sticker that comes with their SSD drive? "My SSD is faster than your HDD" at least it makes me chuckle.

Well actually, Dodge, Kansas, where that phrase originated, has an elevation of 2,493 ft (760 m) so I'd stay in Dodge.

While 15 meters really is not that much for elevation, especially when talking about tsunamis, it also depends on what event triggered the tsunami and that location. I happen to reside in an area that has an elevation of 4,802 ft (1,463.6 m) so unless an asteroid hits the Pacific, am safe from all the high water issues.

Colorado itself is a nice state to live in because of the altitude, same as where I live in Oregon. Two thousand feet or higher is probably the safe option but too many people insist on living at sea level, sometimes even below. Maybe I ought to get in to the business of selling floating homes...

What I find rather interesting is that people continue to buy coastal low level land, especially considering that interactive maps (like http://flood.firetree.net/ ) clearly show what a sea level rise will do to that land. The site I use has been around since 2004. Are these people expecting that the government pay them when their land goes underwater?

But it gets even more interesting (when you use the link I provided) to raise the sea level as many meters as is now predicted. Places such as the Salton Sea might actually become connected to the Pacific Ocean because of the low level land to the south. Rivers that dump in to the ocean, as sea levels rise, the land on either side of the river upstream will flood.

As to the topic of this article, there is a solution besides relocation, such as using buildings that float. Otherwise, relocate to a location at a high enough altitude that future sea level rises will not affect them. And to start the process now instead of waiting until the last moment.

Not if the shock was the same or less as that produced by a static charge. It is enough to get your attention but not kill you, well at least I have never heard of someone's pace maker quitting due to a static charge.

Why can't this type of technology be adapted in to a car's steering wheel? After all, falling asleep while driving is still a problem.

I thought that the Borg were Swedish?

I recall stories from relatives of the various World's Fair they attended in the various cities of the US, very much like what Asimov wrote about. The organizers no longer call it the "World's Fair" though as the "Expo's" tend to focus in towards some type of theme. In 2015, Milan, Italy, will be the host with the theme of Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2015

And that is why camping to remote areas is still so much fun. You need to know where to go and what you might expect when you get there (from animals to weather) and be prepared for whatever. But you are off the grid, unless you have a satellite phone. ..

The government is assuming everyone will be a part of the "single log in," especially criminals.

And yet most all of Humanity is still on one planet...

I was wondering how long a drug patent lasts right now and if it is tied at all to how long it took to research whatever the drug patent is for? A solution could be simply to put a time limit on drug patents, after which it becomes a part of the public domain.

Way back when, 1986-ish, San Diego & LA was the hub of places to purchase computing things from. I was a local business back in those days so purchased from a number of distributors/retail stores in SoCal, including that place in Oceanside that became geeks.com, The online part, which of course did not show up until after 1993, was very useful to me due to their carrying things that were hard to find elsewhere, their pricing and replacement policy was great, and I no longer lived in the area so could not "pop-in" for stuff.

I really am not sure which 1k gorilla geeks is alluding to, because there has been a lot of them over the years. For example, tigerdirect used to be a source I'd purchase from until they totally screwed a large order. Ecost.com was yet another but their web site became a bear to navigate. And Newegg actually started out in retail stores in SoCal as Egghead, though I use neweggbusiness.com now. Another place I use for hard to find items is CyberGuys.com, which has a distributor side. When I need consumables, I go to go4supply.com. I used to buy cpu's and memory chips (remember those?) from thechipmerchant.com, another SoCal store that is online.

And that really is why so many of you may never have heard of some of the other companies I mentioned, because they started out selling only to VARs, VADs, OEMs, etc, though geeks is an exception because of their store you could walk in to.

Amazingly enough, a Moderator has indicated my original message as being off topic. I don't think so. My questions are valid and those who replied to them pointed out that the cell phone, especially the enhanced types, are being used in a manner the subscriber may not have wished for.

Are we Bees all of a sudden? I would hope that companies do not make any more drones who only follow a strict set of policies. Who would then think outside of the box to fix a problem or think up a new product or service?