News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by catigula on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:01PM (#44162445)
I highly doubt people are shooting at drones. Shooting at any aircraft is incredibly illegal & dangerous. I'd assume people have better self-preservation instincts than that.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by SoftTalker on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:10PM (#44162531)
People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse. I don't think such people have self-preservation instincts, or at least they aren't developed against threats such as "this might lead to an investigation and possible criminal charges some time in the future"
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:20PM (#44162625)
> People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse

Most people don’t have dashcams. Drones, on the other hand, would have evidence of both the crime and criminal intent.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by sneak on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:39PM (#44165376)
People very very rarely (almost never) shoot at cars due to road rage.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by sib on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:07PM (#44162497)
You know what they say about assuming...
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by dole on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:56PM (#44162971)
it makes an ass of u and massad ayoob
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:15PM (#44162570)
You would be incorrect. It happens frequently and gets prosecuted.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by catigula on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:18PM (#44162598)
The word "frequently" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:20PM (#44162621)
Completely up to what that word means to you.

Just do a search for "charged with shooting at drone".

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by catigula on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:24PM (#44162657)
I had AI do a collation of news events and the general conclusion was

> Civilian shootings at drones occur at a rate likely below 15 incidents per year in the U.S., compared to over one million registered drones.

I'm going to have to conclude that this strains and breaks the bounds of the term 'frequently' and the initial term 'incorrect'.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:26PM (#44162671)
So more than once a month an idiot is in the news for shooting at a drone.

Depending on where you live, they might even be neighbors of yours.

Something showing up every month is pretty damn frequent, especially when it leaks into national news and always grabs headlines, yet idiots still do it.

I mean if a plane fell out of the sky once a month, is that frequently?

What about if your bank blocked access to your account once a month when you needed it?

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Larrikin on Monday June 02, 2025 @06:33PM (#44163921)
Your strained analogy would actually be if any bank blocked one account from all bank accounts once a month.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:08PM (#44164271)
I guess some of us count life in web requests.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Larrikin on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:10AM (#44166176)
Can you write up a blog post about how many months of the year you are being blocked from banking?
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:58AM (#44166446)
How much "frequent" means to you is entirely what I posted immediately as a response.

I frankly don't give a shit to spend time on this with you anymore.

It's pointless to debate our personal definitions.

Have fun

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Larrikin on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:30AM (#44169901)
Don't be pedantic on the internet and then double down and get mad when called out on it. Just argue in good faith and admit when you're wrong.