This is on the cellular level, so I don't think that applies. 'Capturing tens of billions of events simultaneously with perfect accuracy' is a strawman - we don't need observe all the signals simultaneously, we just need to measure the resistance (for lack of a better word) along each connection. 'Perfect accuracy' isn't found anywhere in science - we just need it to be good enough.
A century ago, people would never have believed it possible to communicate across the planet in under a second, or to communicate with other planets. Human technology grows exponentially and can't be underestimated.

You would need the speed to be at least within an order of magnitude of realtime for it to have any practical use. Within the brain/neural network whatever protocols are in use is irrelevant, since it's communicating with itself. As for connecting it to reality, connecting the I/O neurons to another dead/cloned body should suffice.
Really, the only issue I can think of is that if the values of the connections couldn't be changed by the 'mind', then the person would be unable to learn anything new and would thus be almost useless.

If they can get this working, you might not remain dead. As I understand it, all the information in a neural network is stored in the connections between neurons - that is, how much of the signal gets transmitted to the next neuron. This is usually represented as a decimal between 0 and 1 in programming.
If we could measure those values and record the arrangement of neurons, it would be possible to literally copy someone's mind. Actually running it would require a ridiculously powerful computer, but Moore's law should take care of that and at any rate the problem is extremely parallel.
Imagine the progress we could make if the greatest minds of our time could be stored and continue to make discoveries even after death.

I don't know about Belgium in particular, but I do know that some countries have it set up so that you can specify which organs you want to donate, rather than an all or nothing approach.

A better solution would be to change the organ donor system from opt-in to opt-out. There are a large number of people who won't act either way, and it would solve the shortages.

And then we end up with a planet ruled by violent criminals. Keep in mind that the colony approach used on Australia also required wardens to keep them in check.

Forget $10K, you can build your own CNC for only a few hundred dollars of parts. Admittedly, this requires a much higher skill level, but realistically geeks are going to be the early adopters for this sort of technology anyway.

The AI SmartBook is similar, except it's ARM (so 3x the battery life) and instead of being easily disassembled, the design goal was to be completely open. It ships with Android, Ubuntu and a custom built OS.

Depending on your jurisdiction, downloading* may not even be illegal. Under Australian copyright law only uploading infringes the copyright. I'd expect US law to be similar, since they were the ones who pushed the current laws on to us via the USAFTA.

* Excluding BitTorrent and the like, which both upload and download at the same time.

CSIRO stands for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - they're not a company, they're a government organization that does research. In a sense they're similar to the American NASA, except they have a much more diverse range of research.

This one was available over a year ago, and a new model has just been released: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm

Copyright terms also used to be only 12 years long. The law changes over time.

We should call it the Department of the Exterior.

We could call them the Department of the Exterior!

It is about them: