Of course, for all of us this is great news- I'll put my order in as soon as it comes in, even though I've just bought the ordinary Phantom, which I already use extensively with my GoPro.
Trouble is, Al-Qaeda is also excited. I guarantee with the mass availability of precision-flying drones- now equipped with real time video, so you can fly exactly to any target you want- it won't be long before terrorists realize they can nicely deliver a couple of hundred grams of SEMTEX or worse, some sort of biological agents, precisely to where they would do the most damage.
The FAA has released various discussion papers on this matter; here is one
http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/ua ... ce_uas.pdf
I believe the intent is to have appropriate regulations in-place by 2015- my guess is that they'll have to act faster.