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Older Machine, Industrial PC, < Shiver > CMP <'/' Shiver >
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If it was easy they wouldn't have to pay me to do it. 
Phil
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It seems like St. Murphy was at work. Nearly everything that could have possibly gone wrong did.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Are we the people that you moaned to or did you give someone local a bit of verbal? 
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Let's just say that you weren't the first (or the only) people who got to hear about it.
Phil
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 well done!
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Phil, I feel your pain. We go through that crap all the time, since we use industrial PC's to control our systems. One of my roles as the DSJB(*) is Creator-Of-Windows-10-Images, where I get to go through all the cumbersome claptrap required to create an image ready for installation on new hardware. It typically takes anywhere from a couple days to a week, depending upon how much work it takes to locate motherboard drivers, etc.
(*) Departmental Shït-Job Boy
Software Zen: delete this;
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That you're not allowed flying near airports is obvious.
But I noticed that in Germany you by law need to have an insurance that is, also by law, not possible to get for nonresidents.
What's the rules in your country?
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Just one simple international rule... don't get caught!
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That is a very generic rule that is not just applicable to drones.
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And if you do, just say "No Comment" to everything they ask. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Every country should have its own version of the 5th amendment... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Is that the one about arming bears?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No it's the one where you have the right to remain silly! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Here - beside the airport - you have to keep away (at lest 250 m) from any building or person, over and around...
You can not fly higher than 50 m...
You can not fly commercially without license...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Over here you can't fly within a 10 km radius of airports and you can't put them up in the air above 300 ft.
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After the Gatwick and Heathrow shutdowns after some F'Wit was deliberately flying his drone(s) over runways, they are pretty restrictive in the UK:
You may not fly above 120m.
You may not fly within a radius of 2.5 miles from an airport at all, or anywhere near the approach lanes: Airfield restrictions - Dronesafe[^]
Assume it will get more restrictive, not less - I suspect that drones will be licenced and heavily restricted soon, once governments catch on to where you can get a drone, and what you can carry / drop with one. Anyone want to bet a drone could drop a grenade on a politician from a KM away? Once they work that one out, they'll be effectively banned worldwide.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff: Anyone want to bet a drone could drop a grenade on a politician from a KM away?
Funny you should mention that, some years ago authorities prevented a similar attack where drones were carrying explosives with remote detonation and built-in timers. Thankfully they caught the guys responsible before the drones took off.
After that they added some severe restrictions, even media centers are not allowed to use them for aerial pictures anymore.
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That's approximately the same as in Sweden.
It was quite a bit tougher after your F'wit, but now they're coming to some normalization it seems
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Don't call my T-Rex a drone ever again! It hears very well and would be rightfully insulted because that's very much like calling your horse a donkey.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Rule No:1 in Germany.
Don't fly close to a T-Rex. 
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One like this one here: T-Rex 550E[^]
A real veteran, probably more than 10 years old now and with with many hours in the air. But it still flies as good as ever. And best of all, it#s not the microcontroller that gets to fly it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Once we (i.e. the public) gets access to more powerful lasers, we need these drones to practice on! And we need we pages describing where the different models are most vulnurable to beam attacks. I guess that it won't take long before have access to tracking software that can automatically orient the beam to the sensitive spot, once we got the high-power beams.
I don't expect the high-power beams to be legal in very many countries. But I would guess that at least half of the high power laser guns in this country are highly illegal already. Getting similar stuff that does not provide a continous beam but sends away all the energy in a single, short blast, would do the trick. For home purposes, we can live with a recharge time of quite a few seconds, even minutes. (I understand that for military purposes, the long recharge time is an issue, but they require blasts of at least a magnitude or three larger than that required to take down an amateur drone.)
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In Canada/Kanada, we used to have a rule that you only needed a drone pilot license if you flew the drone for profit or commercially. The rules were changed last month, after the same UK F'Wits incident and now, "All pilots of drones that weigh between 250 g and 25 kg must get a drone pilot certificate."
New rules for drones in Canada - Transport Canada[^]
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