Sentences with phrase «of civilian drones»

Last year, China implemented a policy requiring owners of civilian drones over a given weight to register their flying gadgets using their real names.

Most of these have been greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism south of the border, largely due to the strict United States Federal Aviation Administration rules governing the use of civilian drones.

Draw Something creator Charles Forman has written a film treatment about the unintended consequences of civilian drones — and now he wants your feedback.

In an email to Valleywag, Forman explained that he's completed a film treatment about the unintended consequences of civilian drones.

Not exact matches

In what's being characterized as the closest encounter yet between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a civilian aircraft, an Air France plane last month came within 16 feet of colliding with a drone.

The Obama Administration's use of drones to attack terrorist targets has drawn scrutiny from those who point out that those same attacks sometimes kill civilians.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Murdering hundreds of Libyan civilians with your drones, masquerading as the ARAB SPRING.

I'm against the U.S. drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.

While the government is quick to tout the benefits of drone weapons, civilian experience tells another story.

What makes this war tactic even more controversial is that U.S. officials rarely mention civilian casualties as a result of drone strikes.

Westerners can denounce Muslim practices like the death penalty for apostasy (a very rare occurrence, by the way), but are we also willing to condemn violence perceived to be committed by «our» side — things like invasions, occupations and drone attacks that kill a disproportionate amount of civilians?

Furthermore, the statistics of modern warfare show a far worse ratioof civilian to combatant deaths, in spite of all the advances in battlefield technology and bluster about «targeted drone strikes».

Initially, the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) was an exclusively military affair; only in recent times have civilian drone developers started to appear on the scene.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

While parts of this logic make sense in the abstract, and do make an attempt to come to grips with the unusual nature of the threat posed by terrorism, the rationale conforms neither to the experience with drone attacks to date (which have incurred heavy civilian casualties) or to the efforts of other countries, such as Israel (more on this below), to respect the imminence restraint.

This summer when a Lake Katrine man was on trial for using a civilian drone outside a Town of Ulster medical building, Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Tom Colonna summed up «drone anxiety» by telling the jury that the machines «put human eyes in a place, like 30 feet in the air outside an exam room window, where human eyes normally wouldn't be.»

Stories like this are rare in the US, where laws for the civilian use of drones have yet to be worked out.

ATTEMPTS to fly drones in civilian airspace are a classic example of an irresistible force (innovation) meeting an immovable object (the law).

Civilians will have to be won over to the new era of friendly drones.

While commercial innovators have been champing at the bit to deploy drones in all kinds of civilian roles, aviation law has mostly prevented it.

Proposed changes in the US and Europe mean that uncrewed aircraft of all shapes and sizes could go mainstream in the next couple of years, surveying buildings, fertilising fields, sniffing out pollution and more (see «Civilian drones to fill the skies after law shake - up «-RRB-.

Gurcan notes that while there are a number of advantages to using drones, such as effectiveness at removing key targets and avoidance of friendly casualties, they may also increase the power of extremists amongst civilian populations by creating a siege mentality.

But the ethical governor finds no weapon or firing position that ensures the safety of civilians and avoids the desecration of the cemetery, so the software orders the drone to hold its fire.

This time the governor permits the drone to fire on the convoy, but only after first weighing the military value of the target against potential damage to civilian structures.

Kill focusing on drone operators is something we haven't seen before and it's shocking because you'd expect it to be one of more difficult jobs considering all the reports of civilians and children getting caught in the crossfire.

For me, this movie comes to mind every time I hear about another batch of innocent civilians our aerial drones have incinerated.

Everything I've said so far is preparation — and I haven't even mentioned baroque elements like Iron Man's «Iron Legion,» his arsenal of drone Iron Men designed for tasks like protecting civilians from collateral damage.

Eye in the Sky — This timely tale of drone warfare features a fierce Helen Mirren as a Colonel hellbent on killing her target despite the potential loss of civilian life.

According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there have been approximately 399 - 500 drone strikes to - date, and approximately 3,000 individuals have been killed by these strikes, many of them innocent civilians, including women and children.

This lesson supports student explorations into the ethics of using drones in civilian life and warfare.

The majority of level goals boil down to defeating every enemy drone so an exit can open, but deviations such as finding keys, escorting civilians to a safe point, and surviving for a set amount of time against endlessly spawning enemies also get tossed into the mix.

From rescuing civilians to solving mysteries to strange drone flight challenges, there are plenty of things for you to do that fall under «not saving the world.»

The proceeds from the sale of graffiti artist Banksy's Civilian Drone Strike, 2017 — a work depicting three Predator drones dropping bombs on a framed illustration of a house and stick figures — will go to two humanitarian organisations: Campaign Against Arms Trade and Reprieve.

This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.

In his 2011 film project 5,000 Feet is the Best, Fast explores the experiences of a Predator drone operator firing on militants and civilians, based on accounts both on and off the record.

Trump: states that illegal immigrants are subhuman (untermenschen) and should be treated as such — he also implies that anyone of «coloured skin» is subhuman (heard that word before in recent history); killed more civilians with drone attacks in his first 7 months than Obama did in his whole presidency; along with most of the super rich, thinks that anyone who hasn't prepared for the imminent collapse of civilisation and doesn't have a well stocked underground bunker is stupid and deserves to die; continues to fail @ 1.4 mil Americans who are still without power in Puerto Rico.

In this sharply written book, El Akkad explores asymmetric warfare, climate change, rebellion, extrajudicial torture, refugees, and the ethics of unmanned drones raining death and destruction on innocent civilians.

But drones found their way outside the military, creating the need for a different set of rules for civilians.

One excellent example of the use of social media to disseminate research findings is a 165 - page report by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic) released this week, Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan.

Lack of regulations for civilian unmanned aircraft systems puts damper on Amazon CEO's drone delivery plans, Reuters

Over the past years, an increasing number of «near misses» — where a drone flies very close to a civilian aircraft — has been recorded across Europe.

Many countries are now rushing to enforce compulsory registration of all commercial and civilian drones

Many countries are now rushing to enforce compulsory registration of all commercial and civilian drones due to concern over the use of drones by individuals with little or no knowledge of aviation rules.

Civilian drone use is regulated in the UK by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for drones up to a mass of 150 kg, at which point jurisdiction currently shifts to Europe.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- China on Thursday put into effect new laws requiring civilian drones over a certain size to be registered under real names, in an effort to improve the safety of its skies.

The high casualty rate from the indiscriminate use of drones in civilian areas and use for extrajudicial executions.

The use of armed drones in conflict situations is increasing, causing far too many collateral civilian deaths.

Portugal (9 October)-- «On new and emerging threats, such as armed drones, autonomous weapons, cyberspace and militarization of outer space, we should encourage transparency and adapt applicable international law or develop new regulatory multilateral security frameworks responsive to the objective of protecting civilians and Human Rights.»

With partners that include Salesforce, Kaiser Permanente, Palantir Technologies and SAP, the center has been studying new ways to implement AI, the civilian use of drones, distributed ledger technology and more.