Drones are army planes that can fly for hours and probably weight hundreds if not thousands of pounds... Quadcopters are toys that can fly for minutes and weight only a few pounds...
"Drone" covers all UAVs/RPVs whether small enough to fit on your palm or large enough to need a full size air strip to launch.
All UAVs are drones and all drones are UAVs. Not all drones are quadcopters but all quadcopters are drones. Even in the strictest definition, what we commonly call "R/C Planes/Helicopters" actually qualify as "drones."
You might be interested to learn that the FAA has strict regulations on the registration and operation of helicopters, and the licensing of their pilots.
My little racing drone is certainly carbon fiber but it weighs a couple hundred grams.
DJI phantoms, last model I saw is built of plastic.
There hasn't been a recorded plane v drone crash that I've seen documented (the last one that hit the news ended up being birds).
Regardless the rules say under 400', not within 5 miles of an airport and some other locations.
I'm not opposed to a drone 'license plate', I'm all for fining or jailing people that are flying these things near the white house. I'm seeing a lot of hysteria right now triggered by some jackasses who can't be responsible with their toys.
Wikipedia has that bird strikes "cause annual damages that have been estimated at $400 million within the United States of America alone and up to $1.2 billion to commercial aircraft worldwide."
So far drone strikes (excluding deliberate military stuff) have caused damages of $0 I think.
but tiny toy battery-operated "drones" typically fly at much lower altitude then any jet engine would be flying at... while some birds fly at much higher altitudes then toy quadcopters...
If Obama had the opportunity to do the opposite of pardoning him, I'm sure he would. In fact, a drone strike might be what he is thinking about if he wasn't in Russia.
A drone strike or other ways of covertly assasinating Snowden always felt like the trope USGOV should follow if this was an action movie, but it doesn't make much sense in the real world. Mysterious death would only piss off the public even more, and right now the situation is perfectly OK - Snowden is marginalized and harmless. He lives in a far-away land, whatever damage he could do he has already done, no government will ever let him near any data again - he's just a John Doe with no relevance to anything. Not pardoning him keeps it that way.
somewhat off-topic but 10Gbps would be pretty hard to fully utilize for the normal user... mosts sites/servers probably won't even send you small files at this speed.
Are you in NYC as well? I love the antenna, and even though I haven't quite kept up on my promise to myself to learn Spanish the inclusion of multiple Spanish language channels (plus Korean, Chinese, and I believe a few other languages) is a super neat bonus.
I'm in Florida, English and Spanish are the only 2 languages and most are English but there is probably 10 to 15 Spanish channels. But to tell you the truth I only watch a few of those, just like I did when I had cable.
When Obama says something meaningful, you can assume that it is a lie... like stopping the militarization of local city police forces with MRAPs and such (or not renewing the (un)"PATRIOT" Act..
