How many pictures of your house are you going to take? 1? 2 flights? Are you even going to bother spending the money to get a rig to do it with? Is it going to last more than the weekend you bought it simply because it isn't all that interesting too you by itself?

Now if you're doing it 5 days a week, for income? How about just weekends, for income?

The difference is frequency and motivation. You're unlikely to spend the money required on the camera alone if its just for your house and there is no profit. You certainly aren't going to take too many risks with a $500+ (minimum) camera and $500 UAV if theres no financial gain.

Now if you can pay for the UAV and make a profit? You'll be doing it FAR more often and you'll be FAR more likely to do stupid shit that could hurt people or property.

Yes, I've read their chart. I've commented on their website. Its the same logic as to why you can give your friend a ride to the airport in your personal car with a normal drivers license but you aren't allowed to charge a fee, carry random passengers and run a business without special permits and a CDL.

There are reasons we regulate businesses.

Then you're an idiot.

For $20/month you'd more than pay for all the bandwidth you and everyone you know spends on YouTube at the rates YouTube pays for it. Do you have any idea how ridiculously little ads pay the ones who show them?

The Internet 'RUNS on advertising' because they can make more money that way, not because it has to.

You may be too young to remember it, but it wasn't always that way. There was a time before Google turned it into an ad platform. There was content then as well.

Netflix doesn't run on ads. AppleTV doesn't run on ads. My Internet doesn't involve ads, and not because I use adblock, because I pay up front for the services that are worth paying for and ONLY if they allow me to avoid ads by paying for service.

Ignorant people like you are the ones who think its Okay that you get ads on cable TV and Hulu Plus.

Unplug the network cable, poof, advertising gone.

I didn't realize how bad it was until I had accidentally left the cable unplugged as I'd used that port for another non-Wifi equipped PC. When I started the Xbox 360 again I was blown away by how much more pleasant it was.

And just for the record, being legal with the FAA is a well understood and often used process, its expensive and time consuming, but every aircraft in US skies has done it already. Its not impossible to be legal, its just expensive. Again, safety is more important than your ignorance.

No, stop being such an ignorant douche.

The FAA had made the current policies to prevent idiots who think they know everything (i.e. people like you) who have more money than brains from getting a UAV and hurting people by dropping it on someones head, though their roof or flying it into another aircraft.

All this court has said is that 'your policy isn't a regulation, YET'. Did you notice the YET part.

The FAA is empowered by Congress via congressional order to regulate these activities. Its what they do. The only reason EquuSearch has 'won' here is because the FAA ISN'T RUSHING INTO MAKING A STUPID BUNCH OF REGULATIONS THAT WE'RE ALL STUCK WITH BECAUSE OF SOME ASSHOLE LIKE YOU. The FAA can fairly easily turn their current policies into law and there isn't shit you can do about it, its just a matter of time. Is that what you want?

If you 'search the net' for events relating to drones ... take away the EquuSearch related results, you'll find that pretty much EVERY ONE OF THEM is some fucking moron doing something that either DID hurt someone, was dangers as shit, came very close to hurting someone, or certainly had the potential to hurt someone. That is EXACTLY what the FAA is supposed to prevent.

As someone who flies UAVs for fun and profit (yes, I fly them illegally) I am in 100% agreement with the FAA at this point. I've been flying RC for almost 30 years and universally, the people who scream the loudest about the FAA regulation and policies are the idiots who get people hurt.

What you don't want is the FAA getting pissed off at idiots like you and fast tracking a regulation that makes any autonomous or camera equipped aircraft of any size or use to require a Certificate of Airworthiness, which is the EASIEST thing for them to do. Then EquuSearch is done, and so am I, and so are a bunch of hobbyists ... because some asshole like you with no idea whats going on thinks the Gubment needs to get out of the way and instead gets the exact opposite of what you want. EquuSearch is an EXTREMELY rare exception to the rule.

Screaming idiots like you aren't helping the cause. The FAA won't get 'bitchslapped', making these rules is their job, by law. The only court cases the FAA has 'lost' are ones that essentially say 'your policies are not regulations, go make them regulations'.

The FAA making their current policies regulations is EXACTLY WHAT YOU DON'T WANT.

So I restate my first sentence. Stop being such an ignorant douche.

You mean trading stamps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

And Cory Doctorow is someone that should ever be referenced or listen to since when? Let me guess, you think Dailymail is a news source too?

Cute, you think trading stamps are a subway invention.

Kids these days, know nothing of history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

What shithole do you live in where they haven't upgraded any roads in 50 years? Is your city shrinking in size because theres no way any city, with normal growth, has the same traffic it did 50 years ago. No roads have ever been made wider? No new roads have been added?

Your argument is bunk, its just your ignorance of how your city has dealt with the need for additional capacity either due stupidity or willfully ignoring the obvious upgrades that have been made.

No. A corporations responsibility is to fulfill its charter, that may mean 'make the most money possible', it may not.

Shareholders only really get to argue about fulfilling that goal, if the goal is to feed the world, the shareholders can't bitch about not making money, only about feeding the world.

Actually, it is fast because it does nothing, and thats also the point.

You don't use Apache to serve boat loads of static files, you use Nginx.

You don't use Nginx to serve ASP.NET or Java EE apps.

You haven't worked with large scale virtualization much, have you?

Then why are you posting publicly?

The problem is that you want to post publicly but you don't want anyone to know its you posting publicly.

If you don't want people knowing about your kink, post it privately or not at all because for everything else, you're not one of the 0.001% of the population who is actually capable of keeping two separate identities that can't easily be linked.

Ironic you say those things.

At start, Facebook required real names, was limited to university students at specific schools, you couldn't even invite people outside of there, and had useful features.

On the other hand, getting a G+ invite was never difficult, they gave they'd give people like 20 a day.

Stop quoting that single court case bullshit. The case was dismissed because of an overly broad statement in the way the FAA filed it. The judge pretty much told them to narrow it down and I'll see you again in 3 months ... which it will go through. Guess what ... that very case is already back in the schedule to be retried.

And for reference. There have been 2 cases dismissed. One was retried and found in favor of the FAA and the fine stood, the second is on the schedule for retrial.