So you're on the beach....everyone sees you and some might be looking at you. How do you expect privacy?
I'm an often misunderstood poster. I haven't made up my mind whether it's me or the audience.:smt043
Kevin, have I missed the part where someone said lets go out hunting drones in the wild? I thought we were talking about regulation?? As in 'I do not want thieves casing my neighborhood with quad copters, or snoopy neighbors hovering over my house, or kids buzzing my dogs in the back yard, or my secluded anchorage thick with drones operated by people clearly not getting enough at home'. If you were in my back yard with a camera, it would be a pretty clear violation of the existing law. Trespass is a harder crime to prove with a quad copter that was just "out-of control", or 'taking aerial photo's of my neighbors house', or 'the wind blew it', or whatever. No one questions the coolness of the video footage that has been (and could be) acquired by this technology. The question is whether we should regulate how annoying you can be with it. This is the USA and some of us really fight against every freedom we loose, and every peace of privacy we relinquish to our government , or our fellow citizens. The 4th amendment has been slowly and carefully eroded away by our politicians but it still protects me from "unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause". We are afforded no real guarantee of "privacy" so far as I know. Here is what I feel the sentiments expressed in this thread are pointing toward. 1)Portable generators are BAD! 2) Not many of us trust that the affore mentioned "regulation" would protect us in any way, and suspect another money grab by our politicians. 3) With no government guidelines regulating quad copters with video camera's we are willing to be fairly vigilante about enforcing our own security. If you are taking cool pictures of a snowboard adventure or your boat on plane, you do not have much to worry about. If you are casing out my home, annoying my dogs, or operating your device in a fashion I think is intrusive, you had better be nice and have a ready explanation that does not include how hot my daughter is looking. I am just an average guy working hard for what I have as well. I do not play my stereo at top volume in the mooring field, or run my generator after 9:00PM. I do not drive in circles around other boats with hot girls snapping telephoto pictures. In general I respect my neighbors and fellow boaters and display the courtesy I expect from them. Drones have the potential to be a real problem, as well as very cool toys, and I have enjoyed the thread.
Good Point, but it is much harder to be sneaky in an ultra light, or a gyrocopter, as they sound like lawn mowers, and have much more limited maneuvering. Plus there are people on board, so if they did manage to get in my tree cloaked back yard, without five of my neighbors calling the police, they would have to risk being eaten by my dogs or still be in the tree when I came home.
Says you,:smt043 maybe being facetious? For decades this world has been filling up with automated cameras of all types with no actual operator to OK each frame. Street corners, store fronts, intersections, toll booths, SeaRay boat cams, beach cams, marina cams, bird in a nest cam, work shop cams, look at the neighbors messy yard cams(really), look at the neighbors hot wife mow the lawn videos, dude got his head beat videos, even head chopped off videos, stadium cams zooming you with recognition software, license plate reader cams(do you know about them), boat launch cams, inside the bar cams, woods trail cams, cams here....cams there....cams everywhere, 24 hrs a day non stop. Whatever, where ever, there are pics, videos, and cams in both public and private areas. Hell the CSR group currently even has a Snow Cam due to Wayne, thanks Wayne it's exciting.:lol: That cam is pointed at someones house, we can watch what they do in their yard all day long while the actual owner of the cam might never look.
