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The US Considers A Remote Identification System For Drones (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:
The FAA is still trying to figure out the best way to regulate drones to ensure safety. Last week, a committee tasked with tackling the issue met for the first time, including representatives from Amazon, Ford and NYPD. One of the items discussed was a better way to identify registered drones from the ground since any ID numbers are pretty much invisible while the UAV is airborne...
As Recode notes, Congress is working to restore mandatory registration which would be key to tying a drone to its owner for the purposes of any remote identification... Back in March, [drone manufacturer] DJI proposed what it calls an "electronic identification framework" for all drones that would give authorities in the U.S. information about the owner when necessary. That proposal includes using the radio tech DJI says is already on most drones to transmit details like location and registration number. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) made a similar recommendation back in January 2016... [T]he FAA committee is scheduled to meet again on July 18th. Any formal recommendations are currently due to the agency by September 30th.
As Recode notes, Congress is working to restore mandatory registration which would be key to tying a drone to its owner for the purposes of any remote identification... Back in March, [drone manufacturer] DJI proposed what it calls an "electronic identification framework" for all drones that would give authorities in the U.S. information about the owner when necessary. That proposal includes using the radio tech DJI says is already on most drones to transmit details like location and registration number. EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) made a similar recommendation back in January 2016... [T]he FAA committee is scheduled to meet again on July 18th. Any formal recommendations are currently due to the agency by September 30th.
Agenda 21 mumble mumble.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well as long as I'm so fat I can't even see or get at my penis, at least I can't be accused of rape by SJWs... or wait, maybe not. hmm..
People who seek to do harm or make trouble will just mod their drone so it doesn't squawk anything. This is another feel-good regulation that mostly serves to inconvenience the type of people who are going to follow the rules anyway.
Yeah, that'll solve it once and for all. Done! NEXT!
Full-size manned and unmanned aircraft are required to have ADS-B transmitters. These drones already have the required GPS receivers so it seems to me like this would be an ideal time to push for miniturization of the technology to use on drones.
Bonus: ADS-B will make drones visible to all other aircraft in the vicinity.
You can still be accused of "unwanted advances", which these days is just as bad. I'm so fat and disgusting, pretty much any advance I make is gonna be considered unwanted. I'll be accused, then fired, then fat and unemployed. Not a good place to be.
Translation: "we want more taxes, and we want citizens to learn to obey, submit, and live in fear of authority."
As a safety or security measure, this is useless.
Yes, drive up the cost of entry into the market, create costly requirements, and keep competition away.
Progressive authoritarians masquerading as champions of privacy again it seems.
You heard it here first.
Maybe you can find a nice fat girl to be with. I'm sure there's lots of lonely fat chicks out there that might enjoy being with you. Take a chance! You'll never get anywhere unless you try.
so Bad Guys can set the Evil Bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
Much more convenient for all concerned.
Even fat chicks want guys with jobs.
... only outlaws will have drones.
I'm FAT. Morbidly obese. I have a HUGE gut, and below that there's another slightly smaller gut that completely covers my genitalia. Going to the bathroom presents many difficulties. To piss, I have to completely drop my pants and lift my belly out of the way with one hand, and feel around for my tiny dick with the other.
But taking a shit is where things really become problematic. I have to lower myself down on the can while grabbing and spreading my fat ass cheeks as wide as I can. You see, If I can get my sphynxster stretched open while seated, there's less of a chance that the shit will slide along the sides of my giant buttocks on it's way out. If that happens, it's a real problem because basically I'm unable to wipe myself. It's just too far to reach - what with my limited mobility and all. There've been times where the shit didn't come out clean, and I've smelled like a sewer until I can get back to my Toto Washlet S350e.
The Toto Washlet S350e is a miracle of modern technology. When I sit down on it (still spreading my ass cheeks of course), it automagically pre-mists the toilet bowl so any splatters of poo don't stick. After leaving a giant load, the remote-controlled wand is deployed - spraying a temperature and pressure adjustable stream of cleansing goodness in and around my anus. It is AWESOME!
I'm sure there's a lot of readers here on Slashdot that are FAT. Computer nerds are notoriously overweight with poor hygeine, and if you're fat in your 30's, you're going to be REALLY fat in your 40's. Don't kid yourself...by the time you're 50, you WON'T be able to wipe your own ass because of your fatness.
Do yourself a favor and check out the Toto Washlet S350e...and make toilet paper a thing of the past! You'll be glad you did, and so will the people who have to be around you.
Some a-hole modded this down, so I will re-post here - effectively modding it to +1 Informative
Naturally, the government wants a way to find and squash video evidence taken by hobbyist drones of government incompetence and/or criminal actions, and be able to locate, silence, and/or imprison drone operators who would dare try to reveal what they want to remain hidden from the general public. Drones being used rather ubiquitously & anonymously by the general public aids in empowering them against government abuse, corruption/criminality, & overreach. Government already uses drones domestically and doesn't want the public having the same capabilities.
Now that the US military has started issuing infantry soldiers backpack recon drones, a 2nd Amendment case could be made that drones are a civil right.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Is the government going to require "remote identification" transmitters on r/c model airplanes at the local flying field? I think not. They why do they think 4-rotor models ("drones") are different?
It seems to me that this is nearly pointless in achieving the goal of identifying someone using a drone improperly unless the user is dumb. There's always going to be a drone out there that you can flash the software of to prevent it from sending the broadcast ID signal (or rip the broadcasting part out, or assembled from parts and never has this in the first place) And unless you have some way of spotting the drone and capturing it (when it's not broadcasting where it is), you won't grab it to see any other ID (which you can just file off anyways). I think eventually we're just going to have to accept that some regulation, even if well intentioned, isn't going to do anything.
The reason we catch people breaking traffic laws is we have a massive network of enforcement officials /and/ the operator is inside the vehicle. You'd have the same issue now prosecuting someone who had a remotely operated car who filed off the serial numbers of the parts that have them (very intentionally hard in cars, but there's not that same issue in a 50 lb device)
When it is our own government that wants enslave and cuckold its own citizenry.
When lego's have transponder my flying toys will get them too
About half of the traffic on roads is a delivery of documents and small parcels, which could be easily automated by drones. Certainly, reducing traffic is not what some lobbies want.
I think this is the underwater reason of these prohibitive measures.
https://www.google.com/patents...
The tag is an almost-passive device with tiny power consumption. It can be read by a device with a directional antenna mounted on a pair of binoculars, for example.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
and you'd have half the country freaking the heck out. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader whether that's a good thing or not.
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Just stop.
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Drones-Teach-Arduino-Fly/dp/1680451715
How about from their extremely loud noise? They can be identified for miles using their unique noise.
It's so bad that I'm afraid to approach a girl because she'd scream rape. I'm even afraid to be raped by a girl, because she might change her mind and scream rape. I'm afraid to run away when I see one coming because she'd scream I was fleeing rape.
It's all the fault of the Patriarchy! I'd kill myself but the SJWs would just claim it was because I was guilty of wanting to rape.
They have market dominance but they also kowtow to government paranoia. They force firmware updates that bork your copter even if you are legally allowed to do stuff they don't want you to.