I understand that, but what is a subpoena worth in a court in another country? Generally nothing, really. Sure if you fail to show up for a civil trial in another court they could find against you because you didn't show up but they still won't be able to get far with that unless you have assets in that country that they can seize.

I can understand companies wanting to avoid dealing with it in the US court if they can, but I don't see the point of being so paranoid about it in other countries.

Small calibre SAM? Right.

You're clearly an expert in these matters.

I know it's bad form, but did you RTFA?

It is a different thing. Old-school RC model is steered by a pilot who can - at all times - see it.

A drone isn't. It may use a camera link and/or have a certain degree of autonomy, i.e. it gets no signal it hovers.

I don't see any reason to be afraid of being sued by Russian criminals. A few jobs ago I once had a webpage up (which attracted very little attention) that somewhat similarly exposed a particular registrar as being overwhelmingly spammer-friendly. My employer got nervous and pulled down said web page on my behalf (it was being hosted on their server at the time - yeah, I should have had it elsewhere) because they were afraid of being sued.

Frankly I don't see any reasone why it would even be a bad thing to be sued by these goons. They usually are doing their "business" in countries that don't have any kind of extradition (yeah, I know that usually doesn't matter in civil suits) agreements with the US or any other way to force me to show up for their lawsuit or be bound by its findings.

After all, once you account for all the drugs (and other stupid things) that he has done he is well over 2,000 years old. He doesn't remember anything before WWII but you can explain that through his drug use as well.

It did _almost_ happen. That means it did _not_ happen yet.

FTFY.

It is not relevant if it has not happened in a few decades of the technology being available.

I was wondering where the kids had gone and who that old woman is.

I've slept till 2025, haven't I?

Another point, TFS quotes an altitude of 700 feet for the aircraft. That would mean that a drone would not need to be operated at a very high (or technically 'illegal') altitude to be "near" the extremely low-flying aircraft.

Around an airport controlled airspace is shaped like an inverted wedding cake. The smallest layer - which contains the runways - touches the ground; therefore you can be knee height in there and still flying illegally if you don't have permission.

http://xkcd.com/1400/

It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.

Apparently it was 3 grand. Not much of a boatload. A canoe load, maybe. Certainly not an aircraft carrier load.

My first thought when I saw the headline was "can it float and launch planes at the same time?"

Couldn't they have found someone better to name it after?

If, on the other hand, it's a marijuana charge, there are some areas where they can't hire enough techies if they screen people like you out.

Would one of those be where RedHat's based?

The fundamental problem is - sysadmins have more or less unfettered access to a companies' systems, and there's no good way for non-technical people to tell if a sysadmin is misusing his position. If you're the one running a company's mail server, you can conceivably intercept all sorts of sensitive information. It's the same if you're the one responsible for keeping company desktops operational.