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And so it starts...
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:51:21 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:57:38 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:15:42 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:35:06 -0500, John H. wrote: Registration requires only your name, address, and e-mail address; and can be done on-line. I wonder how many people could register as "John Smith, 1600 Pennsylvania avenue Washington DC and Noneofurbizxxxx@hotmail or some other free server" Are they really going to do any kind of background check or verification on the application? Mo money, Mo money === Being untruthful with the government is probably not a good idea. The penalties for that can be far worse than those for flying an unregistered plane. Again, how many people would it take to catch anyone? Anonymous Email accounts, public hot spots etc. We are having trouble tracking terrorists with virtually unlimited resources being thrown at the hunt Mo money Mo money Again what was wrong with the idea of just filing criminal charges against anyone who interferes with aircraft? That should already be something they can do within the current infrastructure. If they don't actually catch the guy with the controller in his hand, they don't have much anyway. A decent lawyer will blow away any case built on a number scratched on a drone that you can deny ever seeing if they can't place you at the scene. (not my drone, lost that drone last year, sold it on craigs list a year ago, threw it in the trash etc) Bear in mind, the drone itself is not even registered. === I view the whole thing as a make work excercise to appease the complaining pilots who have not yet seen an actual threat, nor are they likely to. Lying to the feds is always a bad idea however. That's how they turn suspects into real criminals. |
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#5
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 22:04:28 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:51:21 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:57:38 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:15:42 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:35:06 -0500, John H. wrote: Registration requires only your name, address, and e-mail address; and can be done on-line. I wonder how many people could register as "John Smith, 1600 Pennsylvania avenue Washington DC and Noneofurbizxxxx@hotmail or some other free server" Are they really going to do any kind of background check or verification on the application? Mo money, Mo money === Being untruthful with the government is probably not a good idea. The penalties for that can be far worse than those for flying an unregistered plane. Again, how many people would it take to catch anyone? Anonymous Email accounts, public hot spots etc. We are having trouble tracking terrorists with virtually unlimited resources being thrown at the hunt Mo money Mo money Again what was wrong with the idea of just filing criminal charges against anyone who interferes with aircraft? That should already be something they can do within the current infrastructure. If they don't actually catch the guy with the controller in his hand, they don't have much anyway. A decent lawyer will blow away any case built on a number scratched on a drone that you can deny ever seeing if they can't place you at the scene. (not my drone, lost that drone last year, sold it on craigs list a year ago, threw it in the trash etc) Bear in mind, the drone itself is not even registered. === I view the whole thing as a make work excercise to appease the complaining pilots who have not yet seen an actual threat, nor are they likely to. Lying to the feds is always a bad idea however. That's how they turn suspects into real criminals. I don't think the situation would ever present itself. The person who's going to interfere with aircraft isn't going to have his ID on the aircraft. Surely no one is really that stupid, unless it's ISIS and they're wanting to take credit. -- Ban idiots, not guns! |
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