Notices of Proposed Rule-making (NPRMs) are a last step before a proposed rule becomes a regulation. On October 25th, 2014 a proposed rule went before the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House, for executive review and promotion to the NPRM stage. The OIRA maintains a website identifying all activities undertaken[…]
1) The Pilot was Drunk! 2) The Pilot is a Spy! 3) China is installing firmware to take control of any quad copter it has developed! 4) Geofences are not the answer! Okay, this isn’t buzzfeed, but all the above items are, unfortunately, accurate (if not hyperbolic) and make this on-going story more interesting as[…]
It’s not Independence Day on TNT, nor Mars Attacks on Comedy Central, yet today a flying robot crashed into the White House leaving onlookers stunned. Okay, perhaps it wasn’t quite so dramatic, and there were few people around, yet the DJI Phantom 2 Vision +, now totaled on the greens beyond the Oval Office, becomes[…]