Maybe AT&T is better; I just came off a two year contract at Verizon, supporting provisioning tools for your very product. For years the big push at Verizon has been to off-shore. I'm not sure they really understand Data they way they run "worldcom/MCI".

If it was my money, I would try AT&T, they are way bigger (I hear) than Verizon in the Data arena.

National Sex Foundation

omg, I never saw those before. They make the new video look like Academy Award material.

After painting evil elephant faces on them, and adding mini-gun trunks.

Oh, to be an (telecommuting) operator. Sitting at a bar in Georgetown, gunning down bad guys with your own killer-flying-elephant, half a world away.

Scientists have found that some teens in a vegetative and minimally conscious state, despite lacking the means of reporting awareness themselves, can learn and thereby demonstrate at least a partial consciousness. By using classical Pavlovian conditioning, the researchers played a tone immediately prior to shotgunning cannabis into a patient's open mouth. After some time training, the patients would start to inhale when the tone played but before the shotgun.

This is the prequel to The Matrix. Hunker down fellow humans.

Just duct tape the monitoring equipment in place. No need for fancy straps.

With regular TV it looks like she has a cute mole..

With HDTV I can see a hair growing from the mole..

With 3DTV...AHH....AHH....THE HAIR...IT'S TOUCHING ME

The author is an idiot. This has been going on forever. Using his camera example, anyone over 50 or so will remember the Kodak Instamatic cameras of the 1960's, when expensive cameras were on the rise, the cheap and easy Instamatic turned the market around.

Cheap and easy has been #1 forever.

My thoughts exactly.

Isn't this really just a folder labeled "Cathy's Time Capsule 25-8-2025"; you can zip it up when it's complete and give everyone a copy. If you have deep pockets, you can add video iPods for everyone.

Video is especially good, lots of "I was so skinny then..and had hair!"

So how will this affect the criminal justice system?

My question is, how will this affect promotions into position of management? Sure as hell corporate management has more than it's fair share of psychopaths/sociopaths.

I am curious as to what evidence these alien probes would leave if they don't land and stay on a planet. If they just fly around, collect data and phone it home we would never see them.

Even landing, unless they landed on Earth, our Moon or Mars, how would we see it? I'm not even certain our own probes can spot our own rovers on Mars. Lets say they did put a probe down on earth (like our mars rover) say recently, like 100,000,000 years ago; it could easily be hidden under a kilometer of dirt and rocks and never be found. Time, like space, is vast.

No one said natural selection was kind.

You could come home to find your unsecured router placed in the back seat of your locked car, which you lost the keys to :(

I am fairly certain I read someplace that the big-science-brains determined that earth's radio & TV signals get lost in background "space static" pretty close to our solar system (1-2 light years?)

To answer the original question, "Should we reply, and if so, what should we say?" First off, let's assume the aliens are really close, say 50 light years away. It would probably take 100-200 years to dialog with anything more than math. By then we would have learned so much more (about the aliens, and things in general) as to make our dialog obvious.

Having said that, we should mention the tax breaks we can offer them for relocating a space hub to Mars.

The French revolt!