@wolfstone: Even assuming that they let it pass the x-ray, I'm thinking: Glass bottles, checked luggage, what could go wrong?

@KeyserSöze: There is something unsettling about this.

@John Boehr: This would be true of that damn cat hadn't already eated the chicken.

Isn't there a restriction on how much liquid you can carry onto a plane in the US? I seem to remember reading that somewhere...

@ohnoesaz: I dont care whether or not he killed others. He did kill one person and 20 years ago or not, should be prosecuted.

@OmegaVader: Sorry if I wasn't clear: it would be no tragedy if libraries stored their liberal arts titles in digital form.

@OmegaVader: That's right we engineers and scientists are so smart we don't need to take notes. Wait, no that's not true. We had to use a note book. Or wait, do the librarians actually let you take notes in the margins of library books if you're studying social (snigger) science? I dont think so.

@ohnoesaz: WTF? In the scale of things burning up deficit dollars, there are worthier examples of government waste to get upset over than this.

@Rob: Insanely expensive? NASA were developing the technology anyway and I'm sure were overjoyed to have a real world test that served justice.

@silver-bolt: Is that anything to do with the daemon servicing my packets? Because I dont think I want some bastard spawn of Cthulhu in my internets.

@Arken: You may not have your jet-powered shopping cart, until I get my Jet Pack. Where is it damnnit! The future lied. It lied.

@cheeze-n-razzle: Drunken fan-powered Jackass hijinks ensue.

This makes perfect sense! Feed the mice arsenic trioxide and you'll block their Hedgehog paths. Wait, What?

@RizzRustbolt: wait, Cthulu isnt based on a Jewish Demon?

This is a cultural issue reinforced by thousands of years of associating exposure to the sun with poverty and class. That doesn't make it right, but that doesn't make it a race issue at all.

So in the space of the few weeks since all of the complaints were shouted across the intertubes: Apple made some fundamental design changes; got together with foxconn; foxconn put the new design into production (somehow sourcing new components along the way) and shipped completed units to Apple in the US; and Apple…

@brentbent)dense as a neutron star and bright as a super nova(: I dont think I like the types of drugs that scientists invented.

@linworthnewt: Thanks for the words of encouragement.

@theimmc: So in addition to having steve control what you can do with a device you legally own, you'd be happy with him telling you where you can drive?

And so as the banner of innovation passed from the generation that built Japan from the ashes of failed imperial conquest to their repressed children and then to their rebellious grand children, the first cracks started to appear. As it turned out the first evidence of the fall was not the insane sadistic TV game…