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Re: Be afraid.... be VERY afraid (US Drones in US Airspace)

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Fly like an angel
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Drone to phone to your bank account! Who needs the highway patrol any longer! Smart phones, smart homes, smart drones! We're almost there people. The next generation. The Borg!

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I love the "little people"!

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If you're going to have instant ticket, why not have instant fine automatically transferred

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This reminds of of a route I used to do that took me through the Camp Drum Army reservation. Just on the outside of it there was a little parking area by a creek that was a great spot to eat lunch every day. There was usually a good deal of air traffic on and off the base so it was nothing to see all kinds of helicopters and fixed wings flying around. Most days I had a couple of A-10's that would fly right over my van and I finally realized as I was eating lunch they were using my van as a target. They would come at me way up and start descending straight at me then veer off back over the base. They'd do this three, four times then I'd have to leave. My bet is because of the way the land was in that particular area it made a perfect place to practice and there were always a couple of vehicles around. Of course there are signs all over the place warning of low flying air traffic but still I always wondered how many people that parked there freaked out when they saw a couple of Warthogs bearing down on them.
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Here's what "America's Finest News Source" has to say:

»www.theonion.com/articles/congre···s,27336/

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Back when I would drive the highway adjacent to Holloman AFB, I would get laser hits on my radar detector as F-117 were doing training. Not sure if they were actually designating my truck as a target, but I doubt it was a coincidence my radar detector would go ape shit as an F-117 was flying directly overhead. Driving that road as much as I have, I rarely ever came across cops and they certainly weren't using laser, mostly K and Ka band radar.
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Don't worry, scro. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives.

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Looks like the other uses are already here:

Drones, Privacy, and Air Rights

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By now many will have seen the news stories reporting how an animal rights group sent up a small drone with cameras attached to take video of a group of hunters out on a pigeon shoot. The hunters responded to the drone by shooting it down. Like many in the blogosphere, I was mostly amused, and tweeted that no one seemed to have told the animal rights group that the first rule of drone warfare is … establish air superiority. Okay. We also have many other stories of private organizations – NGOs of one kind or another, as well as commercial enterprises (leave aside the fact that FAA regulations currently permit only hobbyist use of UAVs) – using, or attempting to use, drones in order to monitor various activities that they find objectionable. Some of this takes place in the United States, some of it over public land and some of it over private land, and some of it takes place outside the US, including attempts to monitor whaling at sea.

These private activities, whether by advocacy groups or commercial enterprises or just ordinary individuals, conducted over private property raise important questions that will have to answered one way or another. One is whether it is lawful for a private party to conduct surveillance from the air over private property. If it is, then a further question is whether countermeasures – and what kinds – might also be lawful. One can always move indoors, and then we will have further, technology-driven debates over what kinds of sensors would be lawful that might permit private parties to “see” inside buildings. We might envision “passive” countermeasures, such as jamming devices – about which the FCC and other regulatory agencies might have something to say. We might have active countermeasures – shoot it down – about which, presumably, law enforcement and other agencies might also have something to say.

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