Destroying hobbyist drones

[J Ed]

Increasing numbers of people are using their own drones to spy on people for fun. What do you think?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Please provide evidence.

 

[J Ed]

Of what?

 

[dylanredefined]

Really depends what it is doing. Buzzing you in your garden crack on in a public space guess you can complain to the operator.

 

[Pickman's model]

what you want's some sort of sam or manpads

 

[J Ed]

what you want's some sort of sam or manpads

Which raises another question, is it alright to operate a drone exclusively to destroy other drones?

 

[Pickman's model]

Which raises another question, is it alright to operate a drone exclusively to destroy other drones?

yes. but readers in rural areas may wish to use shotguns.

 

[DotCommunist]

black widow catapult and a handfull of lead shot (or stones if you are tight)

you get a spread out shot like from a shotgun so are more likely to hit the thing even if your aim is poor.


on a side note, i give it 4 months before we are seeing sex tapes from captured drone footage

 

[High Voltage]

If everybody had drones then we'd all be safe - what this country needs is more drones not less drones - fully automatic drones - you'll take my drone controller from my cold dead hand - Join the NDA - it's your constitutional right to bear drones

 

[J Ed]

People stopped wearing google glasses after people wearing them kept getting a smack, maybe people would be quicker to stop flying their drones if we cut out the middle man...

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Of what?

That this is occurring. You made a statement. My first response was, provide the evidence to support the statement and then we can all respond.
It may be prudent also, to include evidence that someone has destroyed the drone of someone spying for fun otherwise we will all be arguing over a hypothetical scenario.

 

[High Voltage]

. . . otherwise we will all be arguing over a hypothetical scenario.

And?

You've been on Urban how long now??

 

[Pickman's model]

That this is occurring. You made a statement. My first response was, provide the evidence to support the statement and then we can all respond.
It may be prudent also, to include evidence that someone has destroyed the drone of someone spying for fun otherwise we will all be arguing over a hypothetical scenario.

this is urban
we argue over all sorts of hypotheticals and hyperbolics

 

[J Ed]

That this is occurring. You made a statement. My first response was, provide the evidence to support the statement and then we can all respond.

They are spying/killing machines, these spying/killing machines are being used by hobbyists to spy on others for a hobby. I don't know what possible proof you would require for this, do you want me to give you referenced evidence of the colour of the sky?

It may be prudent also, to include evidence that someone has destroyed the drone of someone spying for fun otherwise we will all be arguing over a hypothetical scenario.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...wn_drone_over_his_property_gets_arrested.html

 

[SaskiaJayne]

This is the type of op is the stuff of teuchter . In a cruel futureworld where the drone that delivers your Amazon order also spys on you, the ultimate irony would be to order a gun & shoot down the drone that delivers it.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

this is urban
we argue over all sorts of hypotheticals and hyperbolics

i'd describe some arguments on here as hyper bollocks...

 

[SaskiaJayne]

In the 60s when kids were kids, we shot down drones with catapults made from twisted together elastic bands & Y shaped bits of wood cut from trees with our penknives. Kids today cower indoors with their ipads at the mercy of drones.

 

[Pickman's model]

i'd describe some arguments on here as hyper bollocks...

grand

 

[J Ed]

In the 60s when kids were kids, we shot down drones with catapults made from twisted together elastic bands & Y shaped bits of wood cut from trees with our penknives. Kids today cower indoors with their ipads at the mercy of drones.

I'm more worried about kids inside their own homes being spied on by drone wielding nonces which is the more likely scenario here

 

[Pickman's model]

In the 60s when kids were kids, we shot down drones with catapults made from twisted together elastic bands & Y shaped bits of wood cut from trees with our penknives. Kids today cower indoors with their ipads at the mercy of drones.

they should make them into sharp frisbees like the razor boomerang in mad max 2

 

[keybored]

Why stop at hobbyist drones?

http://mashable.com/2013/07/17/colorado-drone-reward-program/

"We do not want drones in town," Steel told the TV station. "They fly in town, they get shot down."

The ordinance states that a successful shooter will receive a $100 reward.

First, one must claim the bounty in order to obtain a permit — call it a drone-hunting license — and then bring "identifiable parts of an unmanned aerial vehicle whose markings and configuration are consistent with those used on any similar craft known to be owned or operated by the United States federal government," as the ordinance reads.

In other words, the targets are government drones, which might potentially spy on innocent and law-abiding Deer Trail citizens.

 

[DownwardDog]

black widow catapult and a handfull of lead shot (or stones if you are tight)

you get a spread out shot like from a shotgun so are more likely to hit the thing even if your aim is poor.

What's the range of a BW catapult? Even a full choke 12 gauge shotgun isn't going to be much use if the drone is more than 60-70m away.

A guy from my gun club had a stray drone over his property and took a few plinks at it with a .22 rimfire Ruger rifle but didn't hit it. He's a pretty fucking good shot so counter drone warfare is a hard game I reckon.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

I'm more worried about kids inside their own homes being spied on by drone wielding nonces which is the more likely scenario here

I would agree with that. In the 60s kids armed themselves with catapults & killed nonces(called 'nasty men' in those days)that lurked on every street corner, we told them to stuff their sweets & puppies where the sun didn't shine.

 

[DotCommunist]

is there amy way to hck/jam/electronic warfare the bastards? It's like Q says in Quantum of Solace 'I can do more in an afternoon on this laptop than you can achieve by a month in the field'

 

[High Voltage]

It's like Q says in Quantum of Solace 'I can do more in an afternoon on this laptop than you can achieve by a month in the field'

Skyfall(?) but happy to be corrected

Nope - Skyfall it is

Well, I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.

 

[Fez909]

Rather than trying to shoot them down you'd be better off getting your own and intercepting them. Or building a frequency jammer (pdf).

Not sure why the hate on drones, though. Have any bad stories about commercial drones come out yet, or is this just pre-emptive whining?

 

[likesfish]

What's the range of a BW catapult? Even a full choke 12 gauge shotgun isn't going to be much use if the drone is more than 60-70m away.

A guy from my gun club had a stray drone over his property and took a few plinks at it with a .22 rimfire Ruger rifle but didn't hit it. He's a pretty fucking good shot so counter drone warfare is a hard game I reckon.

Well thats fucking stupid .22 rounds will travel over a mile if fired in the air
Only drone I've seen in the wild was a quadrotor which was flying about a playing field looked like a fun toy ability to spy rather limited By 20 min flying time.
ecm would fuck up a drones controls or even an old style morse buzzer had one that effected tv reception in wide area any transmitter on the right frequecy should fuck up the controls.
the twat who got fined for buzzing bridges and the nuclear sub base was flying right on the edge of a no fly zone so might have had his toy taken out by technical means.
No sympathy frankly you shouldnt fly a remote control model over roads or built up areas a drones just an easier to fly version with a camera

 

[DotCommunist]

Skyfall(?) but happy to be corrected

it is skyfall. Quantum of Solace is the shit joyless one about petrol

 

[High Voltage]

. . . Quantum of Solace is the shit joyless one about petrol

And on that we do agree and it had a stupid name as well

 

[DotCommunist]

Rather than trying to shoot them down you'd be better off getting your own and intercepting them. Or building a frequency jammer (pdf).

Not sure why the hate on drones, though. Have any bad stories about commercial drones come out yet, or is this just pre-emptive whining?

there has been a southpark episode making light of it. As cultural indicators go, it doesn't get more solid.