I don't really see mainstream boards with 10GbE. I see server boards and workstation boards mostly from around $400. A little more than 6 months ago but only a gradual increase over th past 3 years.

I agree triclosan in toothpaste is much more disconcerting, but the widespread use all adds to our toxic burden. Triclosan, while not a dioxin, is derived from dioxins, is chemically similar and sometimes breaks down into dioxins under conditions that do occur with our products that contain triclosan. It provides cheap way for the petrochemical industy to rid themselves of a difficult-to-dispose-of hazardous waste. The manufacturers of products like soap and toothpaste can get a longer shelf life with it, but market it as being better for consumers.

I have had problems with hard drives weraring out. I have a few hundred Gb of data, about half are my photos. I have tried storing them on a local HD, a file server, and a nas device. When the photos were on a separate drive, that was the only drive that seem affected. I started using Windows Live Photo Gallery and that seemed to be the source of the problem. From when I first started using it, it seemed whatever drive had the photos on it was always working very hard and access performance was terrible. I unstalled Live Photo Gallery; activity went back down to normal. I tried using Google's Picasa and saw the same thing. It was making it impossible to manage my photo collection, and I was replacing hard drives every few months.

I recently uploaded all of my pics to a cloud storage service (that finally got folder syncing) and Live Photo Gallery and Picasa both work quite well now.

I don't have references but I saw a documentary film about this. The film makers may have distorted but it seemed plausible and a number of farmers affected went on camera stating clearly what their experience was. The film illustrated how Monsanto was careful not to bring to suit most cases where the evidence was not strong enough, but they harassed and intimidated farmers, coercing settlement money. They made the point that many more farmers were forced to pay money to Monsanto without a suit being filed, than cases filed in court.

Can these glasses give me tetrachromacy so I can tell what my wife is talking about when I have to discuss what color we paint the living room?

Where running cables behind walls is impractical, flush-mount raceway is an option. I used this in my old condo. After caulk and paint it was hardly noticable. In 2004 when my new house was built I put at least 1 run of 5e in each room. I whish I spent the $ on cat 6.

Kevlar is aramid. It is a subset - a para-aramid - with strength and elasticity properties that exceed standard aramid. Those various fibers can also be obtained as yarns.

This shady yellow pages outfit called Yahoo! and said "We just want to confirm that you want to continue your listing in the Yellow Pages. Now I'm going to get a third party verifier on the phone; don't say anything but yes when I ask the questions"

In northern VA where thousands of Fed workers, teachers and parents of public school students are home from work, we are seeing sustained rains, and wind gusts strong enough to blow many of the leaves off of deciduous trees.

The words to a single song comprise a single lyric.

...or an awesome one that knew he didn't mean prefect in that context.

"Kidnap"? "obtaining a warrant"? Are you trolling or do you really think law enforcement would ever be expected to wait to get a warrant before rescuing a kidnap victim?

Sometimes you may want to get out and wipe it off with your thumb. Or hit the car wash.

I drive a minivan. The backup camera cost $1500 and came with free nav. I can't imagine backing out of the garage or driveway where I live (with 3 kids) on to my street (lots of kids) or on my kid's daycare or school parking lot without one. But when I drive the sedan, the blind spot is much smaller; I'm not so concerned.

That was my thought. FBI: "Ok, you got us. We'll stop tracking you now." [closes screen with data from under-car gps tracker, open window with cell phone location data].