A Day after I publish a blog about Drones and the need for media attention, what happens!?
Some idiot in Washington DC flies a Drone or UAV or Quad copter, take your pick, in super-restricted-airspace, and crash lands on the white house lawn!
The president and staff are calling on the FAA….!?
There already is a no fly zone in Washington DC proper. That goes for anything short of a paper airplane! You cannot go into the nearest DC Radio Shack and buy one of their smallest little UAV’s and fly it outside the store without breaking the law!
I for one am glad that this low-information person did it however, as now someone might do something about regulating where these things can fly; at a federal level.
This UAV could just as easily been controlled by a bad person wishing harm to the first family. They did it at 3 AM which is already a no-no as these things are not supposed to be flown at night, even though they are equipped with night vision. Go Figure!
Since nobody asked me about this; here are some free consulting ideas for you.
As we know these are too small to be detected by radar and they literally fly under the radar so, how do we detect them?
These devices should-be-made to identify themselves in their video stream. By law, this video stream must not be encrypted in any way. I wonder if a miniature transponder could be incorporated into the design and if so, what on earth would you use to detect and identify them?
I have ideas on ways to detect these things, and disable them, or at least track them down but of course, nothing is free, and development time has a cost. I even have thought of a way to design countermeasures for these things but again, need funding to make it happen.
So, is this a kick-starter, crowd funding idea, or is this a government grant idea?
Do you realize how many tens of thousands of dollars it takes to get a patent? If you want to protect your ideas in other countries you have to spend thousands for each and every country that somebody might put a plant and build your device. This process needs to be fixed so the little guy can invent and keep his or her idea instead of some large corporation stealing it, which they do!
The media really needs to run with this story, as the people need an education!
-Best
TheTimeDok 
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