UK. Drones

[akarunway 1]

What is the thinking across the pond on this one? Good or bad? More invasion of privacy?>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/6477831.stm Personally I'd shoot it out of the sky if it was hovering over my house.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[quade 4]

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What is the thinking across the pond on this one? Good or bad? More invasion of privacy?>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/6477831.stm Personally I'd shoot it out of the sky if it was hovering over my house.

They will "fall" out of favor as soon as the first one has a loss of control over a crowd and injures somebody.

While they make perfect sense for some missions, flying over a crowd ain't one of them.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[nigel99 625]

I don't think that people in the UK notice CCTV. It is so prevalent that you just couldn't keep track and there are more important things to rant about (like speed camera's) that are hated with a passion.

I don't really mind the CCTV as it does serve a purpose, and I really don't see it as a high profile "big brother" activity. Video images of me somewhere do not worry me. I am far more concerned with issues such as the airlines passing substantial personal information over to the US, when I fly there and knowing that the US data protection laws are nowhere near as tough as ours. I would object more to things like the arrest warrants being "online" with full contact details - e.g look at the "laughs" people had here with regards to a DZ related event recently.

There are a number of articles interesting events linked to CCT such as

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5000720.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6654971.stm
(I thought this was a pretty good idea, and an ideal way to protest against CCTV if you wanted). Can you imagine organising a group of say 100 people to constantly request their personal CCTV footage under the DPA? I guess the CCTV wouldn't last to long at that location.

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[JackC 0]

Personally I'm dead against them. The last thing we need is another toe-rag reality TV show.

As far as shooting them goes, you'd do better with one of these

[vortexring 0]

Bollox to that - I seen the bastard and decided what a fantastic replacement to the little remote control Bi-plane (which cost a-lot!) that my son flew into the garden fence.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'