From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 11:11:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E1737B7D6 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 11:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02388; Wed, 3 May 2000 20:10:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Alexander Langer Cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 20:00:06 +0200." <20000503200006.A35116@cichlids.cichlids.com> Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 20:10:15 +0200 Message-ID: <2386.957377415@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000503200006.A35116@cichlids.cichlids.com>, Alexander Langer writ es: >Thus spake Matthew Dillon (dillon@apollo.backplane.com): > >> satellites sitting thousands of miles away in the sky. It's even more >> impressive to see the government do something right for a change! > >It's much more idiotic that the government prevented it before. Well, they have added a new feature (which I can't talk about because I'm not supposed to know about how it works) which gives them an even more interesting and powerful DOS on the GPS system. I doesn't quite work by postal code, but it comes *very* close. >That just means that military use is even better already, i.e. I just >imagine they are at 1m or less already. Not quite, the military system is only better because it has two frequencies, and that doesn't improve things *that* much. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message