I have always thought of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or the new name Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) as those with very limited capabilities but it appears that it's no longer the case, page 39 of the 2005 UAV Roadmap, emphasis added by me: "The sale of U.S.-manufactured UAS to foreign militaries offers the triple advantages of 1) supporting the U.S. industrial base for UAS, 2) potentially lowering the unit costs of UAS to the Services, and 3) ensuring interoperability by equipping allied forces with mutually compatible systems. Balanced against these advantages, however, are two areas of concern. The first concern is the potential for transfer of critical technology. This is mitigated by export license reviews and establishment of UAS disclosure/reliability policy guidance. The second concern is that an UA capable of carrying a given weight of reconnaissance sensors and data links on a round trip could be modified to carry an equal weight of advanced weapons twice that distance on a one-way mission. As the range, accuracy, and payload capacity of UA have overtaken those of cruise missiles and some ballistic missiles, controlling their proliferation has become a concern."

Now on the side of frustration, I had such a hard time getting my Windows 2000 SP4 box to recognize my new Western Digital WD1600JB 160Gb hard drive. Dell GX204 A05 BIOS recognized the drive as 160Gb. I have already enabled 48-bit LBA support by setting the parameter HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Parameters\EnableBigLba to 1 according to this article. Western Digital Data Lifeguard reported the drive capacity as 160Gb but when I tried to create a partition, all it allowed me are 137445Mb, roughly 137Gb. I was ready to give up since I have read everything I found on both Western Digital and Microsoft websites, and did everything that could have been done. I decided that I am going to bring the drive home and try to install it on my Windows XP box at home and switch it with the 120Gb I have at home. One last search and I stumbled across someone's mentioning of something called the Intel Application Accelerator. I went and downloaded it for my chipset, 845, installed and prayed. Then opened up the case again, put the drive back in, boot it up. Whoa la, My Computer, Manage, Disk Management reported a 149Gb drive, certainly something better than the 137Gb figure. I then pulled up Western Digital Data Lifeguard and saw what I have wanted to see all day long, 160049Mb maximum size partition. Praise God! I should have prayed early this morning. Something I thought I had learned but apparently not.