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FBI Confiscates Six Drones Near Super Bowl Stadium (reuters.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the zone-defense dept.

The FBI confiscated six drones in Atlanta for flying too close to the football stadium where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday, Reuters reports: Drone flight was prohibited on Saturday and from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday for one nautical mile (2 km) around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium and up to an altitude of 1,000 feet (305 meters), the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA will establish temporary flight restriction that prohibits drones within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the stadium and up to 17,999 feet in altitude from 5:30 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, the agency said. ..

Drones "are a big concern," said Nick Annan, Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge. "There are a few other things that are in place to mitigate drones," he added without elaborating. Operators who send drones into restricted areas around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium could face more than $20,000 in civil penalties and criminal prosecution, according to the FAA.
Drone pilots are advised to check the FAA's B4UFly app to check when and where they can fly -- and the aviation agency has also produced a slick 20-second video "encouraging Super Bowl fans to bring their lucky jerseys, face paint and team spirit to the game -- but leave their drones at home -- because the stadium and the area around it is a No Drone Zone."

146 comments

  1. Super Bowl? by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is this Super Bowl thing you are talking about? You mean the handegg game? You shouldn't call it football!

    -- Insufferable Eurosnob

    1. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm as strawlike as you imagine everyone you argue with about nothing besides you being a prick, I'm sure. Now I'm a European soccer enthusiast, why not. You being a prick changed what I was, I just didn't know it yet.

    2. Re:Super Bowl? by silverkniveshotmail. · · Score: 1

      Nobody cares. If you want to point out something silly why not focus on nautical miles?

    3. Re:Super Bowl? by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      I never argue - I just point out facts that people don't like to hear. Oh and also: It isn't soccer, it is FOOTBALL. And quit using Fahrenheit, and miles. Join the 21st century.

    4. Re:Super Bowl? by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      You are saying that nautical miles and knots are silly? What about feet and yards?

    5. Re:Super Bowl? by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Plus why do they call it the "World Series"? Only the US plays in it. Oh, and stop calling it America - America is a continent.

    6. Re:Super Bowl? by silverkniveshotmail. · · Score: 1

      Those are stupid American units unless you live in England where it's okay.

    7. Re:Super Bowl? by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      They probably call it "soccer" too.

    8. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "facts that people don't like to hear" = now inventing straw men to say things nobody is now saying, to be a prick for that purpose, to elevate that message. "Facts" - right.

      I'm sure I'm wrong and you're a great guy, just really thoughtless and kind of a prick in this way. But you come off as a full prick, doubling down on being a prick for no reason as if you're doing a service to anyone. It's unnecessary.

      Just FYI maybe you don't realize this, I can't imagine you do this intentionally. Sometimes what you say is funny. It's a very mixed message. Now, you were about to assume multiple things about everyone else to justify this behavior...

    9. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Not to be a prick about it and play word games all over again" -110010001000 being himself I guess. Must... continue... being... prick. /shatner

    10. Re:Super Bowl? by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      You are right. No European ever said stop calling American football "football" and called it handegg. What was I thinking? I must be imagining things again.

    11. Re:Super Bowl? by silverkniveshotmail. · · Score: 1

      They call it kickball, as everyone should.

    12. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So are YOU the European prick you're deriding by re-mentioning it, just to be a prick, for no other reason? I think everyone assumed you were an American prick. Why become known for this weak shit, aren't you almost grown up yet? Do you need to pretend there's some European soccer contingent that's as much of a prick about this as you are, right now? Well you sure showed them, and the rest of us, by emulating them all in advance for no reason....

    13. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Plus why do they call it the "World Series"? Only the US plays in it. Oh, and stop calling it America - America is a continent.

      There is no continent named "America"

    14. Re:Super Bowl? by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      -- Insufferable Eurosnob

      Shouldn't you be speaking French or something? True, in Spanish they call it futbol but they also say "pie" instead of foot, so I don't know what you're complaining about. Wait until you realize they call it "bano" instead of bathroom.

      --
      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    15. Re:Super Bowl? by Brett+Buck · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yes, it's all the rage among the neckbeard crowd to be enamored of all things European. The best one-size-too-small Fedoras come from there, you know. Of course, they will never go there - United charges them for two seats due to their, uh, "glandular condition". Thus saving some trapped normal from a 7-hour discussion of how Star Wars technology would curbstomp the Federation.

      Of course, they prefer "futbol" AKA "kicking the ball and pretending to be hurt" over real football - despite never having played either.

    16. Re:Super Bowl? by phantomfive · · Score: 1

      Unless you believe there are only four continents "continent" being nonstandard. The Wikipedia page doesn't mention it, but some people consider Central America to be a separate continent, as well.

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      "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
    17. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The New York World (a newspaper) is often credited with sponsoring the first American baseball championship between separate major leagues. Hence the name "World Series".

      The claim has been disputed, though.

    18. Re:Super Bowl? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      There is in many languages.

      --
      Ezekiel 23:20
    19. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      OK call it what you want - the FAA does not regulate your language

    20. Re:Super Bowl? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      Uh...because nautical miles aren't silly?

      --
      Ezekiel 23:20
    21. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope, not until Vespucci made it up from scratch.

    22. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The Toronto Blue Jays are not an American team.

    23. Re:Super Bowl? by silverkniveshotmail. · · Score: 1

      When you're using them to convey distance to the general public they sure are.

    24. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nothing super about a game where incompetent or corrupt officials changed the outcome of the NFC Championship.

    25. Re:Super Bowl? by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You are saying that nautical miles and knots are silly? What about feet and yards?

      As an American, I admit that I'm regularly embarrassed by the fact that on the entire planet, only America, Liberia, and Myanmar still use Imperial measurements. Some people I know refer to Imperial as "Barbarian Units".

      Feet, yards, inches, pints, quarts- it's impossible to deny that the whole damn thing is blitheringly idiotic.

      Now, I remember literally about 50 fuckin years ago hearing this excited buzz about how the US was going to switch to the metric system "in phases". Woo hoo!

      And of course, a bunch of good ol' American goobers and numbnuts instantly came out of the woodwork against it and screamed bloody murder as if it would lead to nuclear war.

      And this is weird, but some of the strongest, most strident opposition came from churches and clergy, the holy god-fearin' folk. WTF? Why?

      I never did figure that one out. I mean, what was it about the metric system was it that scared the bejeesus out of them? Of all things, the metric system? I repeat: WTF?

      Anyway, the furthest we've gotten is that we're now printing both measurement systems on the labels of most consumer goods (and that awe-inspiring milestone was reached like goddamn 30 years ago).

      So yeah at this pace my great grandchildren might grow up under the much more rational metric system but I myself wouldn't bet 5 bucks on it.

      --
      Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
    26. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The last time Toronto played in the Super bowl, Labrador was still a beagle.

    27. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chicago, not New York

    28. Re:Super Bowl? by pgmrdlm · · Score: 1

      Maybe individuals from Japan, South America, and other nations are part of the teams.

      --
      Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
    29. Re:Super Bowl? by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      What can people buy for use at the allowed 18000 feet?

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      Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    30. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah it isn't football or soccer, it's bitches. Nothing but limp-twisted eurotrash bitches falling over, clutching a leg and crying whenever someone comes near them.

      Bend it like your girlfriend bends you over, eh.

    31. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Above 18,000' is controlled airspace, only planes with transponders and talking to ATC are allowed up there.

      The restriction is from the ground to the base of the airway, there will be nothing flying over the stadium while the game is on except for TV and police helicopters.

    32. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funnily enough, the whole of Europe uses nautical miles and feet when discussing aviation. In fact, pretty much the whole world does except for Russia and China. They do it all in English too!

    33. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Awww..the children's rugby fans are acting tough again. It's adorables!

    34. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes they are. Toronto is on the American continent

    35. Re:Super Bowl? by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      He's always been an insufferable obtuse prick. We call him "binary bro".

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      Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    36. Re:Super Bowl? by ls671 · · Score: 1

      Interesting, I think that in elementary school, they taught us there were 5 continents, but it seems to vary from 4 to 7 depending on who you ask.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

       

      --
      Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
    37. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And Nokia n9s are way better than iPhones.

    38. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, American "football" predates European "football", and we (Americans) have better players in our sport.
      European "football" is what we have our fine American girls play in elementary school (it's actually kinda hard
      for them since European football is such a boring game, it's tough to keep them interested - but I digress). This
      sport is used because the participants chance of injury while playing is greater if they were getting a manicure,
      and their playing hardly causes them to break a sweat, thus saving hot water in the shower room.

      Besides, you don't see no European Super Bowl Sundays, now do you...

      So, if you want to talk about a "real Man's" game, Rugby it is ...

      CAP === 'province'

    39. Re:Super Bowl? by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      Nobody cares. If you want to point out something silly why not focus on nautical miles?

      Nautical miles make sense. Statute miles do not.

      1 nautical mile = 1 minute of latitude. Granted, degrees and minutes of latitude aren't nice units, but when you're in an airplane or boat, they're extremely useful. And when plotting the distance between two points, capturing the length and bringing it to the latitude scale on the chart is far easier than using a scale.

    40. Re:Super Bowl? by goose-incarnated · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Of course, they prefer "futbol" AKA "kicking the ball and pretending to be hurt" over real football - despite never having played either.

      American football is a girls game. I played Rugby once upon a time. No protective gear, no 20m breaks every 10m of play.

      This may come as a shock to you, but over the pond American football and baseball (rounders) are girls games.

      --
      I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
    41. Re:Super Bowl? by dk20 · · Score: 2

      As a Canadian who spent several years in the US i found the imperial system messed up, and the fact many americans are "proud" of it weird. It is almost like metric suffers from "not invented here" syndrome.

      Several Americans i worked with would ask me stupid questions about the metric system (how many metres in a kilometre?)
      What i found far more humourous was when i asked a simple question like "What is zero fahrenheit?" They were unable to answer. This is a system they were tought in school and seemed odd they dont know.

      Canada went metric, the US was scheduled to go as well but did not. This has left Canada in a weird state as well.. Many things here are still imperial, for example you buy 2x4's and 4x8's. On top of this, my generation still measures their weight in pounds?

    42. Re:Super Bowl? by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      You have to admit it is still better than the "i'm smarter and better than you because I work at a major corporation as a tech geek" that we get around here so often.

    43. Re:Super Bowl? by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      "What is zero fahrenheit?"

      They were obviously too stupid to say "Fucking Cold"
      Which brings me to question, who were you hanging out with.

    44. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      #SoObvlivious Planned my kids b-day party for 1pm today. Needless to say, he's going to be pretty lonely.

    45. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Football is a type of game. Rugby is football, so is soccer, so is US football, so is FIFA rules football.
      The name came from how the field was marked off, not the thing being thrown, kicked, carried, etc.
      So if people want to be dicks about the name then they really should be calling it "meter field" or something equally retarded.

    46. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As an American, I admit that I'm regularly embarrassed by the fact that on the entire planet, only America, Liberia, and Myanmar still use Imperial measurements. Some people I know refer to Imperial as "Barbarian Units".

      Feet, yards, inches, pints, quarts- it's impossible to deny that the whole damn thing is blitheringly idiotic.

      It gets worse: American Barbarian Units (thanks for that <grin>) -- at least the liquid ones -- aren't even consistent with the old imperial units. Buy a pint at the pub? You get 473mL where a Brit wold receive 568mL (16 US fl oz vs 20 proper fl oz -- distinguished because even the fl oz differs in size). If you math it up, you'll find that Americans get short-changed at the gas pump, too: their gallon is 3.784L as compared to an imperial gallon at 4.544L.

    47. Re:Super Bowl? by Brett+Buck · · Score: 0

      I actually don't care even a little bit what happens "over the pond". And calling it a "girls game" as an insult is particularly ridiculous coming from a soccer fan. Here, soccer is a game for 8-year-olds and their moms, until they get old enough to play a real sport.

      Your premise about rugby would make more sense if playing football didn't result in severe long-term head trauma and CTE - even with the protective gear. If you played rugby with the typical fast, mobile, 300-lb NFL linemen, people would *die*.

      The only soccer people involved in the NFL are the kickers, who kick the ball and usually run to the sidelines as fast as their little legs can carry them, to keep from getting killed.

      It's at least imaginable that women could play at a high level in baseball - fast-pitch softball, which is played almost exclusively by girls/women - is ridiculously difficult, and fast pitch pitchers VS big-league hitters usually results in embarrassment from the hitters .

        If any girls want to try to play either, I am sure the NFL and MLB will be falling all over them to make it possible.

    48. Re:Super Bowl? by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      Temperature is perhaps one scale where the selection of metric vs imperial is fairly arbitrary. In one scale, 0 and 100 represent - roughly - the freezing and boiling point of pure water. That is indeed something most people can relate to, even if they rarely encounter pure water. In the other, 0 and 100 roughly represent the freezing point of salt water and the human body temperature. Obviously only people from the coast will relate to the freezing point of salt water - but still, it's a fairly relatable scale and most people live on the coasts. Day-to-day use is exactly the same: you more or less memorize what temperatures represent "hot", "comfortable", and "cold". Even engineers need to deal in K or R rather than C or F - so there's not much benefit in the sciences to choosing one or the other either, though all things being equal I prefer to work in C because the conversion step is simple addition.

      --
      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
    49. Re:Super Bowl? by MightyYar · · Score: 1

      "Soccer" isn't an American word, it came from England.

      --
      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
    50. Re:Super Bowl? by goose-incarnated · · Score: 1

      I actually don't care even a little bit what happens "over the pond". And calling it a "girls game" as an insult is particularly ridiculous coming from a soccer fan.

      What makes you think I'm a soccer fan? I'm no fan of games in general, not just handegg and football. Just because I used to play rugyby doesn't mean I follow it at all.

      Here, soccer is a game for 8-year-olds and their moms, until they get old enough to play a real sport.

      Get over yourself - they're all just games. Unless by "real sport" you mean "games were we pwotect our widdle pwayers" as opposed to full contact rugby. There's no practical difference between wasting time watching handegg games and wasting time watching starcraft games.

      --
      I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
    51. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      "What is zero fahrenheit?"

      They were obviously too stupid to say "Fucking Cold" Which brings me to question, who were you hanging out with.

      They were too fucking stupid to say "zero".

      --
      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    52. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      What i found far more humourous was when i asked a simple question like "What is zero fahrenheit?" They were unable to answer.

      The answer is "zero" [0].

      Now, did *you* actually mean the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit, which is 32 -- and 0 in Celsius?

      --
      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    53. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Imperial is wildly better for anything humans interact with, because that is how it was designed.

      Metric is easier when magnitude adjustments are done often or whenever water is involved.

      Both are equally arbitrary outside of those two situations.

    54. Re:Super Bowl? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      Feet, yards, inches, pints, quarts- it's impossible to deny that the whole damn thing is blitheringly idiotic.

      If by "blitheringly idiotic" you mean "has worked just fine", then sure, lol

      Of course now more than ever it's so important for us to go through a huge transition. I mean it's not like we all carry instant pocket converters with us, for those times when we need to convert units, which is approximately never ...

    55. Re:Super Bowl? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      Plus why do they call it the "World Series"? Only the US plays in it. Oh, and stop calling it America - America is a continent.

      Thanks, we never thought of that! We'll get right on that now.

    56. Re:Super Bowl? by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      That was my first thought, but I didn't think it was funny enough to post.

    57. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The actual answer is that even the worst MLB team will absolutely win a 7-game series against any other nation's all-stars, let alone their league champion. Yes, the New Zealanders aren't automatically crowned rugby World Cup champs, but then again, they actually do ever so occasionally lose. Wouldn't happen for an MLB team in a 7-game series.

    58. Re:Super Bowl? by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

      If by "blitheringly idiotic" you mean "has worked just fine", then sure, lol

      Sure and leeches "worked just fine" until something better came a long.

      The fact that you mention carrying an "instant pocket converter" is proof right there that something better is needed (I'm sure the irony escapes you). With the metric system there's no need to have a converter, you can do it all in your head on-the-fly without thinking about it.

      Quick, how many inches in 2.65 miles? I'll wait while you get your instant pocket converter out and punch in the numbers.

      How many cm in 2.65 kilometers? Easy- 2650 meters times 100, or 265,000. Oh yeah, that was hard.

      --
      Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
    59. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      I also replied to the GP ...

      What i found far more humorous was when i asked a simple question like "What is zero Fahrenheit?" They were unable to answer.

      The answer is "zero" [0].
      Now, did *you* actually mean the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit, which is 32 -- and 0 in Celsius?

      Confusion can go both ways.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    60. Re:Super Bowl? by dk20 · · Score: 1

      i mean what does "zero" indicate?

      In C, it is the temperature water freezes...

    61. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      i mean what does "zero" indicate?
      In C, it is the temperature water freezes...

      Zero is a number [ look it up :-) ] what it indicates depends on the context. Your question, "What is zero Fahrenheit?" is ambiguous. The simple answer is obviously, "zero" (0F), unless what you actually meant to ask was, "What is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit, which is 0 in Celsius?", then the answer is 32F. The person/people you asked should have pointed this out. You (and they) need to think more clearly about these things -- this is why the Mars Climate Orbiter crashed or burned up -- though, I'm not saying *that* your fault -- unless it was. :-)

      In Kelvin, "zero" (0K) is the point at which all molecular/atomic movement stops -- or would, if it could actually be achieved.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    62. Re:Super Bowl? by dk20 · · Score: 1

      If you dont get what i am asking, there is little point in being rude about it.

    63. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      i mean what does "zero" indicate?

      In C, it is the temperature water freezes...

      If what you mean is, what is the significance of zero/0 in Fahrenheit. The answer is (currently) nothing. The Wikipedia page describes how the guy came up with his scale:

      In his initial scale (which is not the final Fahrenheit scale), the zero point was determined by placing the thermometer in a mixture "of ice, of water, and of ammonium chloride (salis Armoniaci)[6] or even of sea salt".

      According to a story in Germany, Fahrenheit actually chose the lowest air temperature measured in his hometown Danzig in winter 1708/09 as 0 F, and only later had the need to be able to make this value reproducible using brine.

      I basically looks like he created the scale first, then observed at which temperatures "water" froze and boiled.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    64. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      If you dont get what i am asking, there is little point in being rude about it.

      I posted another reply answering what I think you were asking: "What is the significance of zero/0 in Fahrenheit?" -- which you could have simply Googled.

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    65. Re:Super Bowl? by dk20 · · Score: 1

      And this pretty much sums up why the scale is weird and hard to use. Many people can relate to the temperature water freezes (0c) and the temp it boils at (100c).
      you can use this to infer that 20C is probably cool, 40 is getting hot, etc.

      It is hard to reference the winter in Danzig in 1708. I guess if you grew up with it, the references would be easier, and it would make sense that 68F would be cool.
      But again, the entire imperial system is based on oddities (fractions of an inch, arbitrary units like feet in a mile)...

    66. Re:Super Bowl? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

      And this pretty much sums up why the scale is weird and hard to use. Many people can relate to the temperature water freezes (0c) and the temp it boils at (100c).

      Of course... Those temperatures are at sea-level (or, more precisely, 1 atmosphere). Water can be made to "boil" at room-temperature in a vacuum (or reduced pressure) and (theoretically) be made to "freeze" at room pressure with enough added pressure (more than 632.4 MPa) -- even staying frozen at 100 C @2.216 GPa ... see Phase Diagram of Water

      In this respect, most scale correlations are arbitrary, or only accurate under specific conditions.

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      It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    67. Re: Super Bowl? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      The name came from how the field was marked off, not the thing being thrown, kicked, carried, etc.

      Bullshit. Football was played in medieval times and there were no markings and no defined field - it was a cross-country affair played between villages.

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    68. Re:Super Bowl? by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

      If you played rugby with the typical fast, mobile, 300-lb NFL linemen, people would *die*.

      Perhaps. But it's a one platoon game and runs continuously unless there's a score or an infringement. So you might be surprised about who gets carted off to the glue factory, Mr Internet Tough-Guy.

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    69. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You ever hear "if it ain't broke don't fix it"? Arguing that all the other countries use the metric system so the US should convert is a losing proposition. Pease remember that the overwhelming majority of US citizens don't give two shits about what other countries do or think.

    70. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Quick, how many inches in 2.65 miles? I'll wait while you get your instant pocket converter out and punch in the numbers.

      An American way to do it is by creating some arbitrary units of course. For example: 'kilo inches' would make sense... I think..

    71. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Individuals from Japan, South America, and other nations also compete in European Football (proper) leagues. And yet, it's not called World League, World Series, or something like that.

    72. Re:Super Bowl? by Khashishi · · Score: 1

      Well, we could, in fact, measure temperature in joules, if we set Boltzmann's constant to 1. Of course, we would have to work with rather small prefixes, like yoctojoules. A better solution might be come up with a new temperature unit equal to exactly 10^-23 joules. This would "metrify" temperature units relative to the other units.

    73. Re: Super Bowl? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      Like I said, approximately never. When would you ever need to know the answers to such questions in everyday life?

    74. Re:Super Bowl? by Highdude702 · · Score: 1

      Yes, I think this goes to show that people(Human beings to avoid confusion) get set in their ways, no matter where they are from on this planet. Were not all so much different after all.. But try telling that to some people and watch their heads explode.

    75. Re: Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      oh dear... did somebody hurt you again?

    76. Re:Super Bowl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All of you have accounts on /., so what makes you think you are any authority on any sportsball?

      Could you break it down in a car analogy for me?

    77. Re: Super Bowl? by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

      Like I said, approximately never. When would you ever need to know the answers to such questions in everyday life?

      In my field I have to make calculations all the time. Some are large values and some are in the nanometer range. We mostly use the metric system because we're technical people in a technical field, but the odd Imperial measurement shows up from time to time (like gallons per minute, for example) and then we all just shake our heads.

      Seriously, the whole Imperial system is a bad joke. How about you convert 2 fluid ounces to gallons? I'll wait while you get your calculator and conversion chart... *time passes* Oh, okay, it's 0.015625 gallons. But how many are in 2.3 gallons? Oooh, back to the calculator....

      How many milliliters in a liter? 1000. How many in 2.3 liters? 2300. No calculator or conversion chart needed.

      Believe it or not, some of us make these kinds of caculations every day.

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    78. Re:Super Bowl? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Imagine a car with a 36 cylinder 2500 cubic inch engine.

      And a half pint gas tank.

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    79. Re:Super Bowl? by samwichse · · Score: 1

      In F, it's when brine freezes...

      Not that it makes sense, but it's oddly similar.

      And 212 is because he wanted each degree to be a 1/180th step between the melting and boiling temps.

    80. Re: Super Bowl? by jwdb · · Score: 1

      Cooking.

      Recipe says I need 1.5 cups, but the can says it's 14.7 oz. Quick, is one can enough or do I need to buy two? What if the recipe called for 3 tbsp and the jar is 4 oz? Generate examples for other commonly-used units as necessary.

  2. Thank God by Patent+Lover · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank God the U.S. military and FBI are protecting the most important institution this country has.

    1. Re:Thank God by Noishkel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yeah, no kidding. And look at the level of control the propose to exert. They want to lock down 30 nautical miles around a single commercial event. And they're going to just seize property without charge within that area for an extended period. And what are they looking to find? Are they expect a fleet of Slaughterbots to show up?

    2. Re:Thank God by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Good thing we have the Second Amendment to protect us from the abuses of the government. This kind of stuff would never happen in America.

    3. Re: Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah you are too much of a pussy to handle a firearm.

    4. Re: Thank God by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Very true, but there are brave men in trailer parks everywhere which are forming a well regulated militia as we speak. They will deal with this, pronto!

    5. Re:Thank God by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

      Are they expect a fleet of Slaughterbots to show up?

      I mean, honestly, that would be kinda cool.

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    6. Re: Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't give the Fascist Bureau of Intimidation any ideas. They're still lying to the American people about ae911truth (dot org) so they probably think they can get away with anything at this point. Mueller even aranged a Uranium 1 deal for Russia back in his Clintonista days. They're THAT full of sh1t!

    7. Re:Thank God by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

      Thank God the U.S. military and FBI are protecting the most important institution this country has.

      FTFS:

      encouraging Super Bowl fans to bring their lucky jerseys, face paint and team spirit to the game

      I think important American institutions have had enough face paint for this weekend already.

      Back on topic, the sheer size of the audience of the Super Bowl makes it an excellent target for terrorism or other publicity stunts. A terrorist attack on a US army base is Afghanistan will pass by relatively unnoticed. If Janet Jackson flashes a nipple, everyone will be talking about it.

      If anything happens, the FBI will take a lot of criticism flak for it. That's why they're being extreme here.

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    8. Re: Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      People in trailers can't afford groceries let alone guns. It's the upper middle class and higher who have the vast majority of guns.

      Almost as if they know to protect themselves from uneducated fools like you.

    9. Re:Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The NFL has been fucking over the tax payer for eons. Tax payer funding buys stadiums for rich owners and the 1%er players while small businesses often get screwed by claims of "eminent domain."

      Yet moronic beer bellies still line up to get fucked a second, third and fourth time by buying tickets, over priced shirts/hats and insanely costly nachos chips with beer. Yet at the end of nearly every season about 80% of them agree it's rigged and isn't worth watching. By next September they forgot how badly they got fucked and bend over again.

      It's kind of like the US elections.

      The NFL's popularity is proof of the kind of savage society the US really is.

    10. Re:Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly what I was thinking. This can't be a safety issue otherwise they would ban drone flights around any other football game or other large gathering. Money is talking here.

    11. Re: Thank God by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Those sausage-fingered fucks couldn't hit the broadside of a barn if their cholesterol level depended on it.

      99% of chumps with guns can be disarmed at close range with a pair of hands. I know, I've done so many many times.

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  4. Drones will fly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We will discover what the FBI is using to stop drones and circumvent it. They have no right or authority to deny our right to flying drones

  5. WTF FAA by AndyKron · · Score: 4, Informative

    A 30 mile radius? A little overkill I think.

    1. Re:WTF FAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No kidding, and I was thinking 30 mile diameter would be overkill.

    2. Re:WTF FAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      How does someone flying a drone in a park way out in the suburbs effect a football game 30 miles away?

    3. Re:WTF FAA by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

      A 30 mile radius? A little overkill I think.

      Pretty soon it'll be 300. You know, for security.

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    4. Re:WTF FAA by SvnLyrBrto · · Score: 1

      Well... god forbid anyone take an unauthorized picture of Atlanta((TM)allrightsreserved)) that might include a glimpse of Mercedes-Benz Stadium((TM)allrightsreserved)), or anything else football((TM)allrightsreserved)) or Superbowl((TM)allrightsreserved)) related. The NFL((TM)allrightsreserved)) might not realize some tiny shred of revenue from its exclusive rights to all structures, skylines, logos, colors, images, players, teams, personas, activities, foods, and apparel. And we can't have that, now can we?

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    5. Re:WTF FAA by djinn6 · · Score: 2

      Maybe they'll increase it to 3000 nm and start telling people "why are you flying drones instead of watching football?"

    6. Re: WTF FAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you would be silly to not want to give all your money to NFL owners - never enough money to help the homeless but always 10's of millions of public donations available to the NFL owners to build new stadiums every 20 years

    7. Re:WTF FAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why stop there? Increase it to 3,000,000,000,000 miles. Also, to prevent unauthorized viewing suggest that attendees leave their phones, cameras, and eyeballs at home. Don't bring your eyes to the game unless you have an AllAccessPass(TM).

      Parties caught bringing unauthorized eyes to the game face fines, and immediate death by firing squad. Please pay your fine before dying - failure to do so may incur further fines.

      Eventually the hassle will outstrip the perceived value of attending the game and people will just stay at home. Of course, then they'll start demanding that city coffers start funding sports runs for the starving football players.

    8. Re:WTF FAA by 91degrees · · Score: 2

      Yes. I think the restriction for airports is 5 miles. But that's only protecting lives, not copyright.

    9. Re:WTF FAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      3 miles is sufficient.

    10. Re:WTF FAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have no sympathy for anyone that wants to take pictures of the Super Bowl. Not that I care about marketing rights, but anyone that interested in the event clearly has something wrong with them.

  6. So kite flying isn't allowed either? by mark-t · · Score: 2

    What's the difference, really? And if the tether makes a difference, then if one is flying only on their own property, is that still prohibited?

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    1. Re:So kite flying isn't allowed either? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If a tether makes a difference, launch a weather balloon with good camera equipment and gyro stabilization. Stream just for spite.

  7. This isn't the airspace you're looking for... by zamboni1138 · · Score: 1

    People will be operating drones in that airspace at that time, not because they want
    to break the law, but because they have no idea what a NOTAM or TFR is.
    Commercial and/or licensed operators will hopefully be cluefull of their situation.

    1. Re:This isn't the airspace you're looking for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you're flying a drone of the type that is normally used outside, you really should know what those things are.

    2. Re:This isn't the airspace you're looking for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank god you posted that in monospace, otherwise we would have no way of knowing just how l33t you are.

  8. Patriots are going to want their drones back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is probably going to put a pretty big damper on the Patriots's game plan. They're going to have to find some other way to spy on the other team now.

    1. Re: Patriots are going to want their drones back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tom Brady will dress up on drag.

      The other players will still recognize him.

  9. SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    anti-aircraft artillery, ada, or heck, good old nazi 88s. blow! them! drones! out! of! the! sky! End of problem. If a pat gets his ass ground into burger that is the price to pay for being a cheat. Hollywood!

  10. Security my donkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This has nothing to do with security. They deem the masses stupid and deliver a scare tactic, as that is the easy way to get approval. Do we have lots of injuries from drones falling on someone? Haven't heared of. What the real motivation is - purely economic concerns, that someone might film, stream from a 4K drone. That is the sole purpose of huge fines, criminal consequences and large no fly distances. Only crimes there with huge money to pay are where an existing business model is at risk. If it was ordinary theft or rape, the penalty would be uncomparable.

    1. Re:Security my donkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WTF are you on about? What does drones falling have to do with any of this? This isn't about accidents, it is about intentional attacks.

  11. What is this protecting? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is this protecting anything except the broadcast rights?

    Nobody would attack a stadium using a drone. Making a mortar and shooting stuff in is cheaper and can't be blocked or jammed anything like so easily.

  12. FAA: I am altering the deal... by Powercntrl · · Score: 1

    According to the FAA's own UAS guidelines:

    Flying drones in and around stadiums is prohibited starting one hour before and ending one hour after the scheduled time of any of the following events:

            Major League Baseball
            National Football League
            NCAA Division One Football
            NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series races

    Specifically, UAS operations are prohibited within a radius of three nautical miles of the stadium or venue.

    source

    The part the FAA left out is that this is all subject to change, depending on how much security theater they deem is necessary for a specific sportsball event. Granted, drone pilots are supposed to check NOTAMs before flying, but it's a little unreasonable to expect any restrictions to be active days before an event.

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    1. Re:FAA: I am altering the deal... by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 1

      Aren't most stadiums within 3 nautical miles of major cities? Doesn't this turn into "no drones in cities on game days?"

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    2. Re:FAA: I am altering the deal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, and as a commercial drone pilot, I have to do lots of paperwork to get a TFR waiver to operate my business doing infrastructure inspections while sporting events are happenings. In the end I just jack up the price for any job I do for the city to cover my costs.

  13. #freedumbs #concealedcarry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah those drones are a huge threat, not all those drunk rednecks with automatics and concealed carry permits.

    DO A BACKFLIP KEVIN!!

    1. Re: #freedumbs #concealedcarry by edris90 · · Score: 1

      American football is like Saturday mmnirninngg cartoons. It's. Just there to sell overpriced junk too naive subjects. Drain all the safety equipment and all the pussy rules it's more like watching WWF than watching a sport

    2. Re: #freedumbs #concealedcarry by dunkelfalke · · Score: 2

      The world wildlife fund?

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    3. Re: #freedumbs #concealedcarry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think we could arrange for you to go play in an unsanctioned game and see how you feel about that after you've had enough experience to actually have an informed opinion.

    4. Re: #freedumbs #concealedcarry by edris90 · · Score: 1

      World Wrestling Federation, then they change to WCW, then they became but it's all the same thing. It's a soap opera with a sports premise. It looks brutal but its not. It's a sports theme soap opera performance in the guise of a world championship.

    5. Re: #freedumbs #concealedcarry by edris90 · · Score: 1

      Football wasn't always this way towards the beginning there they didn't have near as many rules that made the game so fucking predictable. Backyard football tends to be more brutal then professional football. Because professional football has a Thousand Rules against working smarter instead of just slamming your body into the other person. It's all sprints, and bulk muscle. Which is crap muscle. It takes more volume for the same amount of strength as if you get with lean muscle, lean muscle maintains itself, bulk muscle all turns to fat if you don't keep it up. Leading to less flexibility and a less efficient body system in general. It's just Frat Boys who didn't want to get a real job. That found a way to drain Society for ridiculous amounts of money, without ever learning to do anything useful.

    6. Re: #freedumbs #concealedcarry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So it was drunken red necks that closed Gatwick for nearly two weeks... Brilliant, isnâ(TM)t that what you soccer floppers say...

  14. Motivations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I suspect part of the motivating concern is safety (prevention of delivery of bomb), but what they probably won't admit is that they're also *very* concerned about controlling the ability to televise the event exclusively.

  15. Drone Pilots Read Your NOTAM's by LifesABeach · · Score: 1

    A pilot should always read their respective NOTAMS, because after the Jack Stone event there is nothing better to do for FBI folks.

  16. death by a thousand cuts by burningcpu · · Score: 1

    As demonstrated by simulated attacks on U.S. carrier fleets, swarm warfare is extremely effective against centralized, non swarm warfare. This is similar to the introduction of Blitzkrieg versus trench warfare.

    The next war will include now-impossible sounding numbers of algorithm driven small vehicles.

    Events such as the Super Bowl are particularly vulnerable, and despite the privacy and liberty intrusion, I lean to the FBI stance, in this instance.
    I mean, anybody got a better idea? I don't at this time...

    1. Re:death by a thousand cuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As demonstrated by simulated attacks on U.S. carrier fleets, swarm warfare is extremely effective against centralized, non swarm warfare. This is similar to the introduction of Blitzkrieg versus trench warfare.

      The next war will include now-impossible sounding numbers of algorithm driven small vehicles.

      Events such as the Super Bowl are particularly vulnerable, and despite the privacy and liberty intrusion, I lean to the FBI stance, in this instance.
      I mean, anybody got a better idea? I don't at this time...

      You are a clueless twit that has no concept of what blitzkrieg is all about. I doubt you bothered to learn any world history in school because you think it is racist or whatever.

      Blitzkrieg refined the concept of probing for the weak point in an enemy's front line in order to breakthrough. The goal is to minimize losses among the attacker's forces.

      Blitzkrieg's key concept was applying overwhelming force to a specific point in an enemy's frontline in order to breakthrough their defenses. The Germans (Nazis, if you will) called this "schwerpunkt".

      Blitzkrieg combat, in a World War 2 sense, is capped off by the concept of deep penetration/exploitation (cue the sex jokes!) into an enemy's behind-the-lines positions in an attempt to cause confusion among their rear-area troops and reinforcements. The goal is to disrupt an enemy's headquarters, supply lines, and lines of communications with the intent of preventing them from coordinating an effective response to the attack.

    2. Re:death by a thousand cuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Swarm" warfare requires a swarm. So they could ban, say, putting up thousands of drones, rather than putting up any drones at all.

      Not that anybody who was going to attack with a swarm would give a fuck about their bans. The only value of a ban is that it lets you assume anything in the air is hostile; it doesn't actually keep anything out of the air. And you would assume a "swarm" was hostile anyway, so the ban would add absolutely no value whatsoever against that threat.

      Furthermore, even if there were a real threat, which again there is not, if the game couldn't be played without massively disrupting everybody for miles around, then the right response would be NOT TO HOLD THE GAME.

  17. Ideally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ideally, a minimum of 3 planes will crash upon the shitdome of fuckball and nothing of value will be lost.

  18. Sheep shag army! by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Rams FTW, down with the Puncturers!

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  19. Im amazed.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They were there to stop drones from seing a football match, but when drones are spotted near airport we close the airport instead of ttaking the drones down...

    We see where the priority lies...

  20. SB by maxiposik · · Score: 0

    In my personal opinion, the current Super bowl sucks. You know, the performances were quite so-so. Moreover. I have miscalculated with some matches and have lost money. I think it's better to turn back to soccer and win bets watching the right soccer tips

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