"Hi Rory - thanks for your comment. One of the things that occurred to me, as I was listening to Jeremy, was that his statements appeared to suggest that it costs $500,000 to several million dollars to buy a UAV (if you read his comments, you will…"

"To provide some more context regarding the comment from Andreas, if you go to the NPR transcript at 
http://n.pr/J92Ib4
and look for the place where the host takes a call from a caller named Jeremy, that's where this portion of the discussion occurs."

"Chris Anderson and I were on a radio interview together last week. One of the other guests was from the Mesa County (CO) Sheriff's office. If I remember correctly, he stated that they had calculated the per hour operating costs of their UAV at…"

"Gary - Thanks for clarifying; much appreciated."

"Seth - fair points. But, I didn't pull FPV out of thin air. It is certainly a term used by some people. For one, the AMA uses it. See
http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/550.pdf
An unmanned aircraft that is flown beyond the line of sight would…"

"Gary - you wrote "Everything that flies and does not actually carry a driver has become an unmanned aircraft." I fully agree, and have didn't state otherwise."

"Paul - one other quick point to illustrate the twists and turns of these terms: The DoD UAV definition you provided (which allows "autonomously or be piloted remotely") is in conflict with the DIY Drones definition which is an "aerial robot" that is…"

"Hi Paul - many thanks for posting your informative chronology. 
One of the points I was trying to make in the article is that traditional terminology has often relied on knowledge only possessed by the operator of the UAV (or whatever we want to…"

"Hi Gary,
  Thanks for your response. I really tried, in this SciAm post, to emphasize some of the amazing and positive things going on with unmanned platforms. For the benefit of those who haven't seen the post itself, I wrote (including a clickable…"

"One more quick comment in response to Gary's statement that
"He completely misses the real definitions of UAS"
Peace . . . I never even used that term in the SciAm article. The term that I did use is "UAV.""

"Hi Gary,
 I saw your comment you posted on the SciAm comments page, and I responded to it on SciAm site. Below is the response I wrote there.
John

I am the author of this post and wanted to respond to the comment from sUASNews. First, thanks…"

"@Gary

>@John if you come back, whats your take on this http://www.suasnews.com/2011/09/8525/cnn-reporting->pentagon-att... it part of an organised FUD campaign against small stuff?

I personally would be very surprised if this arose out of any…"

"Robert,
  You are correct that controls on explosives are critically important. And, as you point out, those controls appear to have been effective to date.
   To carry out an attack, the person in my point 6 needs the drone, and explosives. If the…"

"Response from the AMA to the LA Times piece:
http://bit.ly/H0TWA2"

"Hi all,

I'm the author of the LA Times op-ed, and and wanted to reach out 
the DIY Drones community to attempt to clear up what I respectfully
believe are a few apparent misconceptions.

First, I've never stated that RC rules should be…"