What everyone fails to discuss is this:

1. They are talking about thousands of these flying over our heads all the time. They have already called it "swarming".

2. Do you want to look up and see thousands of these buzzing overhead. Can you image the sight and noise? An aerial freeway in the sky like something right out of star wars.

3. Are you prepared for Google using Moffett Airfield and the surrounding community for testing these?

Nobody has ever gone to a pretty place in nature, settled in to enjoy the views, and then stated "Oh good, someone with a drone just showed up"
Some of them are like flying chainsaws.

This is just the beginning. Robotics only seen in science fiction will someday be reality of such proportions the Jetsons will seem like the Flintstones.

No Dennis, the Microwave oven was the beginning, this is the progression.
It will actually make Star Wars look like the Jetsons with some Battle Star Galactica thrown in

Oh also, drones should not be allowed on a commercial level, and hobby drones need to be regulated and traceable, but banned in residential or natural areas.

Who thinks Vladimir Putin, the juvenile delinquent in charge of North Korea, ISIS and home-grown extortionists are going to obey rules and NOT use potentially anonymous "commercial" drones to spy on, threaten and-or kill Americans in all 50 states plus Washington DC?

You mean they wouldn't have other means at their disposal?

Go easy on the Tom Clancy stuff, sport.

And what of the birds? Where will they fly? Or are they not in any one's plans for the future?

There is no more effective and less expensive way to spy on, extort and murder Americans with impunity than by using anonymous "commercial" drones. But, gee, if there is a FAA regulation against such uses, I guess that just solves the problem! The important point is that someone will profit from the use of drones and even the destruction of America - including anti-drone manufacturers. What was it that Forrest Gump's mother told him: stupid is as stupid does.

You do realize that nothing you've said so far makes sense, right? Right?

Seriously -- lay off the Alex Jones stuff. You'll be better off for it.

I agree with Gary one hundred percent!

Let them fly along train tracks and freeways. There is too much disruption of peace and quiet here.
What are acceptable means to keep them from flying over our property?

My friend in Gilroy had one hovering over his 12 and 14 year old daughters as they laid by the pool in their backyard, waggling it back and forth in an obvious attempt to engage them.
We need the ability to block the radio waves they use to communicate over our yards.

The technology for small, limited-range guided missiles is cheaper than many people realize and in particular, cheaper than the drones they would be useful against. Multiple possible homing mechanisms exist, even sound might be feasible, I am thinking of a very simple sensor array used in a closed-loop 2-D nulling mode. . .

People are also using the term drone interchangeable for real unmanned crafts versus hobby quadrocopters. I will start swatting those camera'd quadrocopters out of the air if weirdos don't quit following me down the street with them.

They are like Google Glass, only for people who do not want their true identity known.

Wow.

Some of you need to add another layer to your tinfoil hats.

In Los Altos we watched one pause, come back then quickly "scan" directly over my neighbors minor daughter and friend in their bikinis before speeding off. While the girls grabbed towels and ran inside in an obvious state of violation. There was zero mirth or amusement in anyway. It was terribly invasive and disturbing to both girls.

I really think there does need to be regulations surrounding their ability to peer into people's backyards or into their homes through their windows demands this.

"In Los Altos we watched one pause, come back then quickly "scan" directly over my neighbors minor daughter and friend in their bikinis before speeding off. "

I presume you saw all of this in your binoculars while you were "bird watching"? Oh, so sorry the quad interrupted your fun!

Did someone just defend flying a camera into someone's yard to leer at their children while they swim?
I think they did. Check that guy's internet history!

I think the point was that the Bailey Park individual who complained about a quad buzzing his NEIGHBOR'S daughter and friend begs the question why HE was watching those little girls himself!?

It seems that the quad alerted the girls to this individuals peeping. Score one for technology!

OMG, Baily Park is the top of the list so many people pick that one as default to minimize the hoops the voice has us jump through just to get a comment up. Unless comments about a story are pertinent to a specific neighborhood, it really makes no difference where someone actually lives or what drop down choice they pick.

Now, that you have failed to kill the messenger, you can comment about the sicko using his quad to spy on minors in their own yard...a friend of yours who you share your quad pics with?

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Getting in the way, spying/invading privacy, extorting (money and prisoners), murdering anonymously. Those are uses to worry about. But the profiteers will not stop their rhetoric and lies unless and until they are stopped by public outcry and the ouster of corrupt politicians.

I would expect the continued use of these as well an increase in the number of stories such as can be seen above will mandate new privacy laws.
The protection of minors in their own house will demand that.

These are EXTREMELY invasive if in the wrong hands, and so far all we have to protect ourselves is hope that the guy behind the controls won't be pervert.

Hopefully the drones will continue to scare away the anti-copter guy above who admitted to watching his neighbor's daughter.

This is a very common trend. Technological breakthroughs that allow surveillance are reviled by criminals and lawbreakers.

I think people need reading comprehension lessons here, but the stories about invasive drones are pretty disturbing. What are our options to guard against these creeps? Can we knock them out of the sky once they are over our yard? block the signal?
I love the idea of shooting them down like they do in TX, but that's not going to work due to safety and legal concerns.
How else can we knock them out? There's got to be some sort of jamming perimeter we can establish around our yards.

I will absolutely attempt to disable any drone that invades my yard.
I have a VERY high powered water cannon...and we don't want a fire so I'll have to make sure it's completely doused. Just come to my front door in person and ask for it back.

The state may get permission to jam their signals since they have been interfering with wildfire fighting:
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Some very inexpensive jammers can also be made and unless someone is looking for it, the source of the short term jamming "burst" would be very hard to detect. Legal risk is involved with jamming though, for now, but only if they can catch you.

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The FAA doe not own the airspace above your land. It just PERMITS the airspace over your land to be used. You can pin down any FAA person with this FACT.

Quite a while ago, when I lived in MV, the cops got a new toy to play with called a " Midnight Sun " spotlight. For a while, the cops were playing voyeur with that searchlight, peering into backyards, often waking people in the middle of the night, that sort of abuse of their new toy.
A group of us got together with QA tested bad lasers from Spectra Physics.
We all just waited until the chopper using the spotlight came close and then we let that chopper have it, 5 500 mW lasers all at once. That canopy turned a bright red and we scattered. It took several tries and the cops got the message and the Bay area and Silicon Valley saw that light was used for lawful purpose like chasing a criminal across property line. No to ogle midnight nude bathers.

Start with registering your property with that link I gave you.

Then REQUIRE the no-fly zone from 0 feet to over 500 feet OVER MOUNTAIN VIEW CITY LIMITS. That gets rid of the aerial " Peeping Toms ". You can exempt flights for commercial and government use. Make it legal for citizens to " shoot down " drones with a HERF cannon. You have all the " bright boys ", equipment and the knowledge you need to make simple, short LOW RANGE HERF cannons. Google ( it owns YouTube ) has some examples with lousy, UNTUNED ANTENNAE. Silicon Valley people would know how to make a proper HERT cannon to do the job. Now the CITY has to it's job as well.

The application of technology to a technology created problem.

You pointed a laser at a police helicopter? You're lucky you're not still in jail. It's a felony, and the FBI will pay me $10000 to report you.

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