How about this: You get sedated during the "conciousness" transfer (no experiences). When the transfer is complete, the meatspace body is killed, still unconcious, and the robot body/brain is brought online. How is this different from undergoing any sort of surgery that calls for general anesthesia?

Nintendo uses this same screw for a lot of their products (portable systems in particular). You may be able to get ahold of the driver at places that cater to console modders.

I agree, but for a different reason -- I literally can't play the ground game when there are more than about 5 people around (It takes me about 45 minutes just to switch ships at spacedock)!. I mean seriously, Cryptic, is it that much harder to render 5 or 6 people walking around than it is to render massive spacefights flawlessly? Even twenty-man fleet actions seem to work fairly good.

Even better solution -- a guy on one of the forums I frequent had a collection agency that kept on harassing him because of someone else who previously had that number. He also had a home asterisk setup. He routed the collection agency's number back to their own front desk, and recorded the calls -- apparently there was about a week of the secretary and the collections agent swearing at each other several times a day, and then they mysteriously stopped calling...

Try setting up a reverse VNC connection. We use a custom VNC server at work (made from examples in the source code), so that all a client has to do is run one file and type in a computer name. Since the connection is originated from within the firewall, in most situations it doesn't cause any problems. This is the way to go -- secure, quicker than LogMeIn, and since about 2/3 of our clients aren't QUITE sure that this new-fangled intertube thingy isn't a plot by the "man", it works out quite well.

DEFINITELY include Little Brother -- Even though it's aimed at young adults (16-17 years old), it can keep the attention of any reading level. Every time I read that book, I end up staying awake half the night, and every time I read the book I come away with some other project I want to try ;)

Madworld, for one.

Yes, we have one or two weeks of -50C weather a year... Other than that it's usually in the -20c range, which isn't that bad. You didn't mention the upside to cold weather, however: It doesn't get blindingly hot here, and it's a lot easier to keep warm than it is to stay cool.

Up here in Canada Regina, SK isn't a bad place to work -- Saskatchewan is pretty much the only place in North America that still has a growing economy, and Regina has more square feet of park/person than anywhere else in the country.

hmmm... I read this as "got the identity by centrifuge", which could be an interesting process... Modded -1, posterneedsmoresleep

As soon as you create a cone like that, you are merely going to suck Chicken (or Goose, or Duck, or whatever else) Mcnuggets into the engines.

Wouldn't that be if they don't float? (I'd assume most robots are more dense than water)

After the headaches Active Directory has caused the company I work at over the last couple weeks (things like Windows telling the backup software that it wasn't allowed to backup anything to do with AD except the transaction logs), I can't wait!

There, fixed that for you.