Skywalker jet packs in development - EngadgetIt will never die, not as long as the possibility of individual flight exists or as long as Jennifer Connelly stays beautiful.
In other news apparently it has become illegal (or at least detrimental to your freedom loving health) to
take pictures of cops doing their worst (literally). Beware you camera phone lovers, make sure you don't catch any cops in the background of your shots lest your camera be grabbed and smashed.
Here are a
couple of
stories on net neutrality. This honestly has to be one of the most muddled and faux confusing debates in the technological landscape today. Mostly debates on this type of tech are left up to the people that don't describe the internet as a series of tubes. Such dumbing down of the topic should tell you that those involved in the discussion shouldn't be. This is obviously the work of large teleco's trying to confuse the common masses with rhetoric from congressman and lobbyists that have either been fed talking points about nn or are just saying what the money is telling them to say. It actually is a little infuriating, especially since I believe the likes of Verizon and Time Warner are robber barons out to make extra money now that we are becoming more dependent on their services. Come to think of it, maybe they are just following the American way of business.
