In order to achieve an accurate simulation, we'd have to know all of the different species of, well, everything on this planet. Like one of the posts above, not only do we not have the computational power to handle all of the random things that happen on earth, but I doubt we have enough scientists on the project who have the time to add the data required. Keep in mind that if they want to have a chance at a realistic simulation, they would undoubtedly need to add genetic code to the system. It would have to account for genetic variation for every new generation of EVERY species on the planet. We could literally predict the potential evolution of the planet by fast forwarding everything at that point. A great idea in theory, but so is peace on earth, or colonizing mars, or hell, even recycling. Suppose it's worth a shot. I guess these scientists were pretty upset with how badly SPORE ended up being.

Just keep it away from my drywall!

I agree with you here. I recall seeing something like this about a year ago, I told my wife the wonderful news. To this very day, I'm still jumping to mute the T.V. as soon as the next infomercial pops on. These proposed bills are just as bad as vaporware.

I would agree with you that this is a possibility, however, I thought the point of an identification chip was to identify where the dog should really be. If the new owners intended to return the dog, I have a hard time believing that the company would have decided against disclosing the information.

I'm sure the case would probably end the same, but I think the chip only held client data. It wasn't a locator chip, and the only reason they called him 3 years later about his lost dog was because the new owners were trying to update the address on the chip. To me, it's a real dick move to try to change that info and then tell the company not to give out your info to the owner who's trying to find his dog.

It's not like the only thing we're looking for are radio transmissions. We use a wide variety of filtering techniques as well as object tracking. My question would be - If you were looking for an advanced race of AI beings, what signs would they give that were any different than ours? Aside from looking for radio and organic atmospheres, I think that our search for life is a more limited by our technology than by how we're looking. On another note, I know that if I had the chance to put my brain in an artificial body, I would. If I did, I would live on this planet probably the same as I do now.

Anyone else notice that the 'Phantom Eye' looks the same as one of those NERF whistling footballs with a wing taped to the top of it? Who needs munitions, we could just add giant whistlers to these babies and have 4 day long howler missions for psychological warfare purposes. Or fun. Or whatever.

Are just another way of saying they're too cheap/scared to move forward. Especially if the license fees aren't an issue. More likely than not, this same company is still running on P3, P4 CPU's, too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for most people and their day to day activities on their workstation, the changes made from XP to Win7 would take less than 5 minutes to get familiar with and a few days of monotonous 8 to 5 grinding.

Don't forget 15 counts of murder. Wasting government resources. Even with all this talk of BP footing the bill, how many tax dollars has this really gobbled up already? At a minimum an FBI investigation should be launched to find everyone who knowingly cut corners and put them away for life.

While I agree with everything you said - the one thing that this magical "paper book" cannot do is contain 10,000 volumes of itself and retain the same meager size of 7 1/2” x 5” by .7” If it could do this, then it would be perfection indeed.

I remember several years back, a new hire training at Dell told the class that you should offer free printers to folks who were upset because printers didn't cost them crap. They would have a new repeat paying customer who was happy they got a free printer and the ink made them so much money. The trainer even rubbed his two fingers together and grinned.

How much will it cost us now to blow up the satellite and avoid collisions? How much will it cost us later when we have to clean up all of this damn space debris and avoid collisions? How is it that we managed to create such a large market for putting things into space, and yet have such a lack of the means to take things back down?

"'Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation,' the court said." What exactly do they mean by adequately secured? Can they fine us for using WEP or WPA instead of the latest and greatest?

I really disagree with the flamebait mod, and unfortunately I don't have any mod points to correct this. Space to some of us doesn't mean "really high in the sky." While I may not agree that space tourism is only considered when venturing as far as the moon, I feel that an orbit around the earth or a stay on the/a space station would be something a bit more worthy of a space tourism title.

Pay no attention to the amount of data they let loose upon their facebook pages. Nor do they care, as long as they can access their online farms. They're already giving out their credit card numbers to buy fuel for their tractors.