NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones (nbcnews.com)

Gizmodo and Engadget are both reporting (and both pointing to a report at NBC News) that the Department of Transportation is expected to announce Monday a plan to regulate drone use in the U.S., based on fears of danger to aviation. From the relied-on report at NBC News: The federal government will announce a new plan requiring anyone buying a drone to register the device with the U.S. Department of Transportation, NBC news has learned. ... Under the plan, the government would work with the drone industry to set up a structure for registering the drones, and the regulations could be in place by Christmas. That sounds like an impossible task, if it's to take in all remote-controlled flying devices that might be described as drones. About this time last year, Chris Anderson (ex-Wired editor, and now head of 3D Robotics) estimated that about half a million drones had already been sold in the U.S., and that sounds like an undercount even for then, given the many cheap-and-cheerful options. From suppliers like Banggood, tiny quadcopters can now be had for less than $20, though it's hard to think of them as a danger to aviation.

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Ah, the myth, or more correctly the propaganda, claiming that the medial is "librul".

NBC isn't liberal, It's just not raving conservative. It's a neat trick to label anything to left of Fox News as left wing, but it's also grossly manipulative.

NBC is just like the rest of the main stream media: they are rating whores. They don't give a flying fuck about truth or objectivity, they will say or do anything to get ratings. I don't assume that they tell the truth, just like I avoid the NY Times and Huffington Post. They all have an ax to grind.

By my standards, when it comes to lying and hypocrisy they can't hold a candle to Fox News. I have personally seen so called "news" people on Fox lie about the weather; a blizzard does not disprove global warming. If the local Fox station says it's daytime I would have to go outside and take a look myself because they would lie if it would suit their political agenda.

So go ahead and blame the "librul media". I don't care, I can't defend them. But on the other side the conservative media has all the moral standing of a open pit filled with rotting livestock in the middle of summer. You just dive right in, you'll be at home.