Posted on 04/14/2013 3:15:35 PM PDT by Errant
Edited on 04/14/2013 3:16:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Drones like the one pictured are being used to detect poachers in the Indian state of Assam - one of the many non-military uses for such aircraft.
The influential head of Google, Eric Schmidt, has called for civilian drone technology to be regulated, warning about privacy and security concerns.
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Somebody must have got a good look at Schmidt’s backyard.
it would be cool to chase each others drone with camera’s on them.
if you have the bigger-badder drone you could solve this
Mighty rich coming from them. B@stards.
The are already subject to regulation. Plus they are basically rc aircraft and sometimes carry cameras.
This is hilarious. The asshole who desperately tries to track your every move on the Internet is concerned about your privacy?
Now, truth be told, I’m very concerned about this also. IMHO, there needs to be very strict controls on how this technology is used. With severe penalities, including mandatory jail time, for violators.
This is a man who wants us all to wear his internet connected glasses so he can see what we are all seeing.
Riiiigggghhhhttt.
Yet Google is sending it’s Google vehicle everywhere collecting pictures and Wireless Intelligence it finds virtually everywhere. I guess Google now plans to buy a whole fleet of drones to spy on us in our own homes.
Google concerned about peoples privacy? Where did that come from, not their corporate philosophy!
I can say with some honesty there has been some controversial threads on a few RC forums about how best to build an anti-drone RC aircraft.
Some want massive 1/4 scale flying fortresses with multiple lightweight shotguns on them, other are opting for electric aircraft that can air launch a salvo of model rockets and quite a few who are thinking of just building something extremely fast, has an on board camera and is basically a flying one way missile.
One of my ideas is one that has a hundred green lasers mounted to form a beam at least a foot across of multiple green lasers, at the least it would buzz the drone and blind it, also in the roof mounted version with a zoom camera tied to an acoustical tracker.
This guy needs a lesson on the constitution.
The real irony is that it's coming from the head of a huge company that sends drones out on American highways to take pictures and post them on the public internet.
Private drones will be swatted out of the sky in minutes if the government wanted them gone. You don’t believe you can make an airborne missile launcher capable of taking aircraft down, and not expect uniformed people knocking at your door, do you?
That's what I think. The "rich and famous" must be getting very concerned about drone technology that would allow private individuals (including paparazzi) to video what they are doing 24/7 in their homes and back yards. There will therefore be a movement to heavily regulate privately-owned drones.
This will come to a fever pitch the first time a drone is used to dump something noxious or lethal on top of a party for the rich and famous, or when drones become good enough to use as assassination weapons.
Interesting comment.
TRANSLATION: "The peasants might abuse this technology by using it to spy on the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex."
Yes. That’s why the full spirit of the 2nd Amendment ought to allow private citizens to possess whatever is necessary to overthrow even a government army. This means missile launchers, tanks, armed jet aircraft, under private control.
This, from the asshat that recorded the internal ID of my wifi as he took pictures of my house and published them to the planet?
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