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"Telecom researchers have successfully tested a solar-powered, remotely operated aircraft capable of relaying high-quality television, cell phone, and Internet signals and transmissions to the ground." Cool. That's the sort of technology I'm thinking of for the fibre optically tethered high altitutde balloon rising from the WTC site.
Another argument for this plan: NYC doesn't need millions more square feet of office space. But I do understand the feeling that whatever we build should be good for the economy (as well as providing space for a memorial.) This gives you both. An economic boost by clearly making NYC the most wired place in the world. Plus we can keep a lot of open space at the site. Just a glowing (plusing with traffic load) thread rising into the stratosphere.
Professional comics threaten to strike over unfair competition from the U.S. government. An unidentified SPC (Society of Professional Comedians) spokesman summed up the outrage at a press conference on Tuesday:
When you have Ashcroft redirecting the TIPS hotline to America's Most Wanted there just isn't much room left for the more traditional "made up" type of comedy. How the hell are we supposed to compete?
I've been coveting the Danger Hiptop (cellphone/two-way/pda/email/websurfing gizmo) for months. Looks like it is finally creeping toward availability. Danger isn't manufacturing the units, they are just selling the design to other companies who can make it and rebrand it as they wish. Danger makes money selling back end ASP services (for instance, your address book isn't stored on the device, it's stored on the servers at Danger.) The newly rebranded T-mobile (was Voicestream) now has it listed as coming soon. Yum.