And always watch the skies!

6 thoughts on “And always watch the skies!”

1. When did remote controlled helicopters become "drones"? Why do they think they are protected from aerial photography when Streisand already fought, and lost with that position?

   http://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/pressrelease-decision.pdf

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2. +Douglas Boberg "Drone" has come to mean anything that is remote-controlled and flies. It's a very broad topic.

   As to your second question: they're the police, thus they are special. Otherwise the terrorists and drug dealers and pedophiles win.

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3. My concern is that I don't feel "drone" is becoming a generic term for a flying widget. I feel the word is being used to scare the populace. The drones are coming to get you!

   I have an automatic dislike of the word; the robot that the Air Force launched from a Navy carrier? That was a drone. The plastic A-Team copter I bought from the Sears catalog? Not a drone.

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4. +Douglas Boberg There's clearly a capability difference between a USAF guided jet that can drop missiles on a compound and a Radio Shack quadri-copter you're guiding from the sidewalk.

   That said, I don't think most folk (in the US) are concerned about "drones" dropping missiles on them as they are "drones" taking pictures of them and/or their property, at the behest of law enforcement or of some private owner.

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5. Aye. Agreed. I think we're on the same page, I'm just a bit twitchy with the terminology. The local news (in St Pete) likes to stress the word drone in their "tonight at eleven" teasers. Its the new evil hiding in the shadows. But you have to tune in to find out how to protect yourself [dramatic pause] and your family.

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6. +Douglas Boberg  "The threat that may be watching your children — and you're not even aware of it! What you and your family need to know — on Action News at 11."

   Sigh.

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