[xiphias]

This should be illegal everywhere. I'm really afraid of the not too distant future when drones are cheap and autonomous enough so that they are able to be controlled by a small crazy group and used to harm lots of people. I don't think we as a society are prepared for it.

[JoeAltmaier]

Of course its illegal everywhere to kill people with chainsaws.

[orbitingpluto]

Even Texas? (yes I know, I deserve to be downvoted, guilty pleasure)

[bluejekyll]

Depends on if they are looking at you threateningly...

[SlipperySlope]

Sorry, but you could have made your point in a more hackerish way by saying that the Islamic State is looking into using off the shelf drones to widely distribute Cesium 137 dust harvested from Medical X ray equipment. A devout martyr would have no issue with preparing the Cesium and assembling the device.

Such a weapon would cause great economic damage if used in an urban area, as the city would have to be evacuated until a thorough and expensive clean up was completed by thousands of workers in bunny hazmat suits.

[theklub]

I seriously want to start a drone defense company.

[jonase]

Disney are apparently using drones to combat paparazzi drones when filming Star Wars VIII: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/drones-are-patrolling-...

[freyr]

Best options are probably Thors, missle turrets, photon cannons or void rays. Eventually war will be teenagers sitting at computers moving swarms of autonomous machines on a virtual map, and South Korea will take over the world.

[Roboprog]

DoD won't appreciate the competition :-)

[bluejekyll]

DoD outsources most a lot of that work. Though, they'd probably prefer a machine gun.

[lfowles]

Naming inspiration: Department of Drones

[DanBC]

Defending people from drones?

Or using drones to defend people?

(Or both?)

[pmalynin]

I like the framing you've used there, but mostly military drones are used to "attack" people

[theklub]

both but more the former