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If the goal is to inure the public to drones, the strategy most likely to succeed is the one that will happen naturally, where drones gradually become more and more common while most people don't really notice until one day they're everywhere. Bombarding people with drones out of the blue seems...

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but on the chance you're not: If you think this would get the general public on board rather than creating a huge backlash against drones, I think you're sadly mistaken.

How easy is it to make this kind of alteration? I'm guessing it would require software changes, and I'd expect those to be difficult to accomplish since getting US certification would presumably require that the drones not be easily hacked. The conspiracy theorist in me can't help wondering if...

I believe that many consumer product manufacturers work in batches - they'll make a huge batch of model A and then a huge batch of model B and so on. Sometimes they'll make only one large batch of the product that they expect to last through the supply chain until they introduce a replacement...

Those kinds of prices virtually guarantee that you get a fake card. The Chinese scammers have no problems making fake cards that look genuine, along with all the packaging. Make d@mn sure you test them before you rely on them, and count yourself extremely fortunate if they actually work and...

You'd think that drones with infrared heat-sensing capabilities would be a slam-dunk for search and rescue operations. It's almost surprising that we don't hear more stories like this. Or maybe the tech has already become so ubiquitous that it doesn't make the news anymore?

Maybe YouTube Guy is concerned for your health?

I think it's really useful to see mistakes like this so the rest of us have more hints on what to look for when we run into problems ourselves. I remember getting a new Pentax DSLR - one day I went outside and the image was in monochromatic shades of blue. I panicked and started to think that...

It might be a little stealthier to use "Cine" mode after setting the flight parameters for that mode toi the minimum possible speeds. That will avoid having the motors spin up too much, which will help keep the noise down.

All I can tell you is that we Canadians think that your system in which partisans are in charge of elections, both in terms of drawing the districts and running the actual voting, is nuts. See Elections Canada for an example that tries its best to remove politics from the process. They clearly...

No system is perfect, but a system in which those in power are accountable to the populace beats all the other kinds, IMHO. Unfortunately, voter disengagement threatens such a system. Democracy has to be a choice of the citizens, in every election. Anyone who thinks abstaining is just going...

If the attack on the drone caused any serious harm (i.e., it fell onto a car which then swerved and crashed into something, injuring or killing its occupants) then I'm pretty sure they would follow up on it. But with no injury other than to the drone itself it seems unlikely. It may end up...

This is a good point, but there's a slippery slope argument here too because the same thing can happen if you're flying just outside controlled airspace. Another reason not to fly within controlled airspace within the volume of your own property is that drone detection equipment (the kind that...

Sedona is a just around 20 miles south of Flagstaff, and it's an absolutely gorgeous combination of green pine and rusty red rock. There are countless scenic canyons in that area. Highway 89A is the fastest and most scenic way to get there from Flagstaff, but check for road closures as it was...

It's not as much where they're made that matters, but rather who controls the hardware and software design. And while it's true that many phones have traditionally been made in China, since the Chinese Communist Party started to extend its control a lot of companies have been pulling out...