Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/0113220 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2006-03-30 02:15:00 [1]cnet-declan writes "Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been flying over Iraq and Afghanistan, but now the Bush administration wants to use them for [2]domestic surveillance. A top Homeland Security official told Congress today, according to this CNET News.com article, that: "We need additional technology to supplement manned aircraft surveillance and current ground assets to ensure more effective monitoring of United States territory." One county in North Carolina is already using UAVs to [3]monitor public gatherings. But what happens when lots of relatively dumb drones have to share airspace with aircraft carrying passengers? A pilot's association is [4]worried." References 1. http://www.news.com/ 2. http://news.com.com/Drone+aircraft+may+prowl+U.S.+skies/2100-11746_3-6055658. html 3. http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2006/060215uav.html 4. http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2006/060109uav.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]