On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 06:30:21 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

If you operate a drone, Uncle Sam wants to know your name. The
Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration
announced a speedy new plan to require all drones to be registered by
their operators, whether they're used for commercial, media, research,
aid or recreational purposes.

Monday's news from Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA
Administrator Michael Huerta follows an increase in reports of
near-misses involving drones around airports and of interference with
public safety workers.

It also sets an aggressive schedule: The plan is to have the registry in
place by the holidays, when the FCC expects over 1 million drones to be
sold.

http://tinyurl.com/oynud59


The real questions, of course:

Will the NRA object to drone registration?

Will cops check drones for registrations?

Will Romney declare that drones are people?

Will drones have the right to marry pencil sharpeners?


But, if you are a Libertarian, you don't have to register your
drone...if it crashed into an airliner, well, hell, that's just the
unregulated free market at play.

They are going to exempt "toys" but I am not sure how that will be
defined.
It does sound like another one of those cases where the government is
"doing something" without actually accomplishing much. It sounds like
there will be a tax but I doubt it will be enough to actually pay for
the program.
Until these things have transponders, there is no real way of knowing
who's drone was the offender.