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In my neighborhood (rural) a drone hovering over someone's property would be likely used as target practice. If delivery drones become commonplace, there are going to have to be regulations about which air corridors they can use (altitude and routes) or it will be chaos.
For what it's worth, shooting at aircraft (including drones) is a federal offense, and the FAA takes that one pretty seriously. Drones also have cameras.
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looks like some people didn't get the word play. perps + traitors ... :) or alternatively, which some of us know, HNers don't like humor by some people, but like it by others. seen many examples of that in the past.
Or alternatively the word play wasn’t very good.
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Why would the drone be hovering over a property where it's not making a delivery?
I guess it could be to film your house and garden for advertising tracking purposes. If you’ve got a new car or your kids are wearing new clothes could be important data points. Sadly, I’m only half joking. Whatever you can think of some fucker will be willing to try.
I don't know what laws in other states/countries are, but I would guess many have something similar that would prevent that.
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I like the fishing line idea a lot but wouldn’t that get birds as well
perhaps, but birds dont like drone frequented areas either, your thickets/coppice will clear out under requent drone traffic. you dont need nets just single dangling lines
My concern is less the occasional drone and more when Google decides that all their delivery drones - already carrying cameras/radar/lidar for navigational purposes - can be used to update google maps in near realtime. The sheer Big Brother possibilities are insane. The future: "saferoom is where the pants aren't"
I live in Iowa where the governor just signed a bill that outlaws drone surveillance of private farms and farmland. I haven't read the full bill yet, so it's possible that it also outlaws surveillance of homes that aren't on farmland, but would at least be illegal to do what you're describing if you own a farm in Iowa.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43226901
Wanted to let you know that I released a big update this morning which fixes this issue. Hope you give it a try and let me know. Feel free to email me from the app.
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I live in Iowa where the governor just signed a bill that outlaws drone surveillance of private farms and farmland. I haven't read the full bill yet, so it's possible that it also outlaws surveillance of homes that aren't on farmland, but would at least be illegal to do what you're describing if you own a farm in Iowa.
Sorry for unrelated comment. You reported a bug in this comment of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43226901 Wanted to let you know that I released a big update this morning which fixes this issue. Hope you give it a try and let me know. Feel free to email me from the app.
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Sorry for unrelated comment. You reported a bug in this comment of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43226901 Wanted to let you know that I released a big update this morning which fixes this issue. Hope you give it a try and let me know. Feel free to email me from the app.
Hey, I just tested it and it works great — thanks for letting me know! I love the app <3
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I guess it could be to film your house and garden for advertising tracking purposes. If you’ve got a new car or your kids are wearing new clothes could be important data points. Sadly, I’m only half joking. Whatever you can think of some fucker will be willing to try.
It is illegal in Texas to capture, posses, display, or use images or video from drones taken of private property or people on private property without permission or other limited authorizations (active pursuit of a suspect, investigating crime scene, search warrant, some licensed real estate activity, etc) I don't know what laws in other states/countries are, but I would guess many have something similar that would p…
Or maybe claim any cameras are just for obstacle avoidance and require you to let them film as part of the delivery contract?
I mean Meta downloaded almost every pirated book[1] they could and no one’s really done anything to punish them.
1. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
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It is illegal in Texas to capture, posses, display, or use images or video from drones taken of private property or people on private property without permission or other limited authorizations (active pursuit of a suspect, investigating crime scene, search warrant, some licensed real estate activity, etc) I don't know what laws in other states/countries are, but I would guess many have something similar that would p…
You don’t think they’d just deny what they were doing? Or maybe claim any cameras are just for obstacle avoidance and require you to let them film as part of the delivery contract? I mean Meta downloaded almost every pirated book[1] they could and no one’s really done anything to punish them. 1. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
Sure, they can say the cameras are for "obstacle avoidance" all they want, the camera is on? Well, they just captured and used images/video of everyone's private property to get to that delivery and did so with intent. So they might have permission from the one person getting the delivery but they don't for the hundreds of others they past, and I would not want to get that settlement bill in the mail.
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Because projectiles don't stop at any particular distance and can reach vehicles with humans which are flying over other humans, all of which were innocent of any spying, and most people are complete shit at judging size and distance when looking at objects in the air. (lots of great examples of this with the mystery drones in nj a while back) I would like to shoot them down too but then I became 12 and a half years…
>I have no idea how bird hunting is handled but I bet it simply fails a logic test and shouldn't be allowed for the exact same reasons. Bird hunting is handled with #8+ bird shot, which at 45+ degree angle it is essentially at terminal velocity by the time it comes down, considering they are basically BBs it is mildly unsafe coming down (as in you'd have to be incredibly unlucky) anywhere within maybe a couple hundre…