We really are being spied on!!!

[MoKelly]

When it comes to FAA rules, your opinion don't count anyway.

Doesn’t count.

MoKelly

 

[blee03]

Except for an FAA ruling that drones are considered airplanes and taking down a drone has the same penalty as taking down an airplane. Not a chance I am willing to take.

Id take a video of the drone the next couple times it shows up so you have proof of harassment.

After that, I would be putting clear fishing line all over and hoping it gets caught up in it and goes down.

If I did get it down, I’d just let it sit there and see who comes for it.

Also you could post the video on a social media platform and see if any other neighbors in the area are having the same problem

 

[Philm56]

One of those was "Alexa Pay my Bills".

Wait, Alexa will pay my bills? I'm gonna get two.

 

[dmccarty]

A friend sent her DNA to one of those genealogy type sites. I'll pass as I have no control over what they do with that info. Comedian Bill Burr used to rant about it on his podcast. Something about scientists building a clone of him and then knocking him off. On the postive side people like her have helped solve cold case murder files. Side note: The old timer CA serial killer that was caught lived less than a mile from another female friend of mine.

While I would love to have the DNA tests done, there is no way to secure you privacy and make it anonymous. There are ways to send in your sample so you are anonymous, but with the DNA, they can figure WHO you are based on other people's DNA. It does not mater how one hid their tracks with paying for the sample or getting the results back.

Think about that for a second.... Or two...

Through DNA, people are finding lost relatives, or relatives they did not know existed. Sometimes, this is siblings, but it could also be information from generations in the past. People are discovering that parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc., were really not, based on DNA. The DNA is showing children whose father is not the genetic father. Or finding siblings from other mothers that the father, well, fathered. Some of this is the previous generation but some goes back many generations. Some of what is being found, is hidden family history that was known to some, but not all. The DNA sample can open a door that can turn into a Pandora's Box for families...

There is no being anonymous with a DNA sample, if enough samples have been collected, and it does not appear to need too many samples, there is no anonymous.

Later,
Dan

 

[ovrszd]

While I would love to have the DNA tests done, there is no way to secure you privacy and make it anonymous. There are ways to send in your sample so you are anonymous, but with the DNA, they can figure WHO you are based on other people's DNA. It does not mater how one hid their tracks with paying for the sample or getting the results back.

Think about that for a second.... Or two...

Through DNA, people are finding lost relatives, or relatives they did not know existed. Sometimes, this is siblings, but it could also be information from generations in the past. People are discovering that parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc., were really not, based on DNA. The DNA is showing children whose father is not the genetic father. Or finding siblings from other mothers that the father, well, fathered. Some of this is the previous generation but some goes back many generations. Some of what is being found, is hidden family history that was known to some, but not all. The DNA sample can open a door that can turn into a Pandora's Box for families...

There is no being anonymous with a DNA sample, if enough samples have been collected, and it does not appear to need too many samples, there is no anonymous.

Later,
Dan

I'd rather focus on the positives of DNA heritage. It might show a medical tendancy that could be averted or at least monitored? It might find a DNA match for needed medical procedures?

I definitely support what DNA research has done in regards to criminal activity.

 

[Fallon]

I'd rather focus on the positives of DNA heritage. It might show a medical tendancy that could be averted or at least monitored? It might find a DNA match for needed medical procedures?

I definitely support what DNA research has done in regards to criminal activity.

Or insurance companies get your DNA directly or indirectly then jack up your rates because of a family history or genetic predisposition to cancer. Or drop you entirely before it's likely to manifest.

It's a definite double edged sword. We just need to fet proper legal protections 8n place where we can.

The golden state killer & presumably many others weren't found because of their DNA test. They were found by 3rd or 4th cousins taking some DNA tests. The cops then mined those commercial databases, stitched together family trees & got suspects that way. It's great they got the bad guys, but it shows how lax controls around that data is & how easy it is for them to cast dragnets very wide.

It's suppose to be a free country where I can do what I want as long as it's not illegal. If I wanted to only do government approved activities I'd move to China. It gets to be a very slippery slope once the government realizes it can monitor everything to where it suddenly tweaks the rules & begins cracking down on new things it doesn't like. That's the huge reason gun people are terrified of gun registration. Step 1 register all guns. Step 2 make them illegal one small step at a time.

The 4th ammendment was suppose to keep the government out of your personal business. But they figured out the 4th doesn't apply to private businesses. So if they outsource things from the Government to business they can get around one of our massive protections.

We have a Google Home mini we got for free at one point. I want to use it, but not nearly as much as my wife wants an Alexa. But we are both IT security professionals & don't trust the implications enough. We may break down at some point & give in to our add supported data mining social media overlords. But not yet as the benefits aren't quite high enough... Yet.

 

[ovrszd]

I refuse to live in paranoia.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Except for an FAA ruling that drones are considered airplanes and taking down a drone has the same penalty as taking down an airplane. Not a chance I am willing to take.

Drones can't be in your airspace... less than 400ft.

 

[the old grind]

I wonder if rules against shooting drones are much about not shooting skyward.

So what if we go after the ones flying by the house with a garden hose?

Let 'em argue that you used an inappropriate means ... and that they were more than 400' away.

 

[aczlan]

I wonder if rules against shooting drones are much about not shooting skyward.

So what if we go after the ones flying by the house with a garden hose?

Let 'em argue that you used an inappropriate means ... and that they were more than 400' away.

Water? Fill up a super soaker with liquid pool bleach or cleaning ammonia.
Neither is kind to electronics.

Aaron Z