@arc: No to the first question, you're closer to the mark with the second.

@tovette: Ditto.

@robert101455: My guess would be that the investigators don't expect the program to be perfect. Instead, it will filter the entire internet for possible producers and distributors of child porn, giving leads that will be followed up by actual human investigators.

@DittoBox: Yeah, some guys on my team even have that one as a bumper sticker. Funny 'cause it's true.

@se7a7n7: Replacement teeth have been grown and used as permanent grafts in mice already. It's being translated for humans now.

@SolidGoldChimp: I'm the same way. My original account is in the UK. It was Gold, now it's Silver because I moved to the US and set up a new Gold account here.

@BADMNKY: Frozen shrimp works too - it takes a while for them to thaw and start to smell, by which time you're across state lines.

@manimatr0n: Very true. The truth is that anyone who takes any FDA approved medication is doing so at the expense of lab animals. If PETA really wanted to live up to the ideals that they pontificate they would stop taking all such medications. At least that would thin them out.

@HardwareWars: Assuming the clones would be capable of getting up and wandering around and acting exactly like normal people - like Dolly's clones act like normal sheep - then they would be ordinary people with the same rights as anyone else.

@Andrew Marsh: Wow. So shouldn't she be praising GMO technology as a means to avoid hurting animals? Instead, PETA takes an ideological stance that recombinant DNA tech is bad, just plain bad. Regardless of the circumstances or the potential benefits.

@Andrew Marsh: I hate PETA as much as anyone, but you're wrong about the insulin thing.

Great article, but I think you mean "prime tenets" rather than "prime tenants", Sam. :)

@DradusContact: That would only happen in certain states in the US. Here in California, guns are much more restricted, and you can't carry concealed without a permit (and you need a good reason to get one of those, like you're a victim of domestic abuse and you fear for your life, or for work).

@bakana: Yeah, I know. I was only really exposed to this cliche when I left home for college though - growing up, fruitcakes were summarily demolished by myself, my uncle and my cousins. Thus, I've always found the widespread regifting of fruitcakes to be a bit weird.

You know what else is reusable? A bucket.

@Jackablade: I never understood this either. One is winging its way from my mother's kitchen (in the UK) to my apartment (in California) as we speak.

Well, the hell with it then: I have dibs on gravity. There's no law that states that I can't claim ownership of it, so I can. And I just did. So there.

@Amazing_Spiderham: Dude... The Locust already come with a Rosie O'Donnell skin by default. Do we really need Oprah as well?

@8thR: Yup.

@Mr.Wake: Soooo... what you're saying is that organising a global human Skittles/Skynet resistance over the internet is a bad idea?