On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 06:42:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

[snip]

Drones are human-controlled devices, not cybernetic pit bulls.



rj

Ralph, not to be argumentative - but the wedding parties in Afghanistan that were visited by drones might disagree.

What Dan said. Drones do what the human operator tells them to do --
for good or ill. And on a Stateside fire surveillance mission, the
human operator wouldn't likely to tell them to shoot everything in
sight -- or even send them out armed to begin with.

rj