When you go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning how do you know that you are still you? Sounds like a silly question but if somebody copied you perfectly and took the original away you would still wake up in your bed. The fact there there is now another you doesn't change that. The fact that you are the copy doesn't change that either. As both of you experience more then you become more and more separated in the same way that you today are separated from the you of a few years ago. So if I can get me consciousness copied to a machine which is functionally equivalent (or superior) then I get to survive in the machine even if I also get to die in this meatbag, better than the just dying option.

Any reason why this couldn't be used to repair damage from other forms of radiation or carcinogens?

One problem. MeeGo isn't ready for release. How long do you think Apple worked on iOS (or whatever it was called back then) behind closed doors not telling anyone they were even working on a phone?
The worst thing they could do would be to release phones with a broken, half-finished OS and set up the impression that MeeGo is broken, they would never recover from that.
MeeGo being open-source means that they have to tell everyone about it long before there will be devices for sale. My guess is that with Intel they will push MeeGo out on lots of other devices (tablets, netboks, in-car systems) and then people will have heard of and used/seen MeeGo when they come to buy their next phone. Will it work? I don't know. But I will be supporting them because I want a real Linux computer in my pocket not a closed-off gadget full of fart apps.

I know I'm being a pedant but MeeGo isn't Fedora under the hood. It uses rpm packages but it has no upstream distribution. They've made that choice to concentrate on optimising it for portable devices without all the desktop/server baggage of the main distributions.

Doctors are often not as fit as "Law Enforcement or Military Personnel" if you've got a bad back standing around in a lead gown for hours at a time can take quite a toll.

Having said that this seems like the sort of thing that one interventional radiologist will insist on having installed at huge cost to the hospital and it'll get used twice then pushed off into the corner. We've seen this kind of thing before. The last one was nick-named the pope-mobile, it was basically a lead phone box on wheels with arm holes and lead acrylic windows.

The main problem is that people won't look at the situation rationally. Even if the cars are statistically safer drivers than people the general public will not accept deaths from equipment malfunction. The resulting law-suits will probably kill off the idea never allowing the cars to get really good. The result - continued carnage on the roads.

Maemo isn't Symbian. They are both mostly-open phone OSs but Symbian has been around for years and is probably on its way out. Maemo has come from the UMPC direction and has just made it to a phone (N900). Nokia claim that they are going to support both but I think it's obvious that as hardware gets cheaper whilst able to meet the higher requirements of Maemo, Symbian will fade away from thier product line-up. I think Nokia are lookin to the FOSS community to reduce thier costs in maintaining an aging platform while they concentrate on developing a new one. I don't have a problem with that. Better than simply letting it stagnate.

The frets tell it which note/chord to play while the touchscreen controls the effect(s) added and the timing. (from watching the video)

Wow, nobody pointed out your m^3 mistake. Think about how big a cube a meter per side is and how heavy water is. 1kg?

Doesn't cancel out your main point though which is completely true.

Small problem with that idea in the physical sciences, a simulated lab isn't much use for hands on experience.

Evolution doesn't have a purpose. There is no destiny. If they get made, survive and out reproduce us it will be because they are better at surviving and reproducing than we are not because the universe wants it.

It's this attitude that really pisses off technical users. Not everyone in a company can work with a locked down PC with nothing but bloody Office(TM) on it. Some of us do more that write letters and powerpoint presentations. And no, I don't know what software I'm going to need for the lifetime of my PC when it's supplied, and I can't afford to wait 3 weeks to get each piece of software I want to install approved because it's not on your list. If I install something and it doesn't work you have every right to say "Not an approved app I can't do anything" but don't stop me from spending 5 mins of company time downloading and installing a free app to save a crapload of paperwork (and work for the IT department). If I install unlicensed software sack me, if I bring the network to it's knees name and shame me but don't cut me off at the knees so that your job is easier.

I know that it's not a real law but it does give strength to any country who wants to make it in to a law in their country. Wouldn't this make talking about why you are an atheist illegal?
I guess this would be seen as a bonus to the countries which proposed it anyway.
What I really don't understand are the abstainers, who couldn't have an opinion on this?

"Your God is dead, and no-one cares..." NIN

"I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours but I think that God has got a sick sense of humour..." Depeche Mode

I'm sure that there are thousands more