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The Dutch police have partnered with Guard From Above, a raptor training company based in The Hague, to determine whether eagles could be used as intelligent, adaptive anti-drone weapon systems. The eagles are specially trained to identify and capture drones, although from the way most birds of prey react to drones, my guess is that not a lot of training was necessary. After snatching the drone out of the sky, the eagles instinctively find a safe area away from people to land and try [to] take a couple confused bites out of their mechanical prey before their handlers can reward them with something a little less plastic-y. The advantage here is that with the eagles, you don't have to worry about the drone taking off out of control or falling on people, since the birds are very good at mid-air intercepts as well as bringing the drone to the ground without endangering anyone.
Video (in Dutch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifO-ebmE1s
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 03 2016, @04:24PM
The title of the youtube video, as posted by the Dutch police, is "Politie zet roofvogels in om vijandige drones uit de lucht te halen". This translates to "Police employs raptors to take out enemy drones" (emphasis mine).
Why the choice of the phrasing 'enemy' drones? Which enemy? Who's enemy? What did they do to become 'the enemy'?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 03 2016, @04:57PM
"Rogue" may have been a better word choice.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 03 2016, @06:54PM
Doesn't "rogue" imply that the operator of the throne is authorized by whichever organization in general, just acting on his own all of a sudden? Implying they have authorization in the first place.
How about "pesky"?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday February 03 2016, @06:56PM
Hmm, s/throne/drone/. Interesting slip there.
(maybe I've been watching too much Stargate: Atlantis lately, heh)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday February 05 2016, @01:32PM
I'm not the AC but no I don't think it implies that although it could be seen that way in the sense of a drone having gone out of control. Here's the Wiktionary entry [wiktionary.org].
There's also a lot of examples of different uses [wikipedia.org] on WIkipedia.
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(Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday February 03 2016, @07:25PM
Ours. Because XKCD. Drones are more accurate. [xkcd.com]
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday February 05 2016, @01:38PM
Ours indeed. Sadly out of points. Also one of the best and most insightful XKCD ever including the image alternative description text commentary.
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