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NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free
Zothecula writes About the only thing growing quicker than the number of privately owned drones is the level of concern surrounding them. Questions of privacy and how these things can be regulated are pretty well-founded, but are so far yet to be met with any convincing answers. NoFlyZone.org may go some way to providing a solution, allowing users to enter their address to create drone-free zones in the airspace over their homes.
Back in my day, we called them RC helicopters.
The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.
So, what is being suggested is that every drone carry with it every person's address that doesn't want a drone above it?
Doesn't that sound a whole lot like a list of addresses the police would love to have? And if you sign up for this list, then somebody who uses a drone for nefarious purposes will respect this address, as opposed to (say) disabling the GPS receiver?
This is a great idea, because we know that you never get unsolicited cell phone calls from Credit Card Services or "Hi, Seniors..."
This is without a doubt the most ridiculous solution to a problem that doesn't exist that I have ever come across.
So, let me state the obvious, just in case someone has missed it: That genie is out of the bottle, and there's no putting her back in.
Don't take life too seriously; it isn't permanent.
I read the TFA. They still don't have the authority to do jack-diddly-squat. They got a list of people who don't want drones, and they're prepared to write sternly worded letters to manufacturers, woo hooooo. The FAA has actual, legitimate regulatory authority. One of these people is worth writing to, and the other is not.
Why even bother with this? My shotgun provides for a much more effective no-fly zone over my house than this website ever could.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
The whole idea is riddled with problems just waiting to happen. How will they know I live where I say I live? Are they going to verify that?
What's stopping me registering the property of a drone operator so they can't fly in their own property?
What's stopping me entering my address, and all of my neighbours?
If a drone still flies over my property, who do I sue?
If the last owner of my house made it a no-fly zone, but I want to fly drones in my back yard, how do I remove my house from the list?
What's stopping me asking to remove other peoples' house from the list?
Does having a drone flying one foot outside of my property boundary really differ from a drone flying one foot inside my property boundary? It can still see over my property.