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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2000 20:10:15 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPS heads up 
Message-ID:  <2386.957377415@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 20:00:06 %2B0200." <20000503200006.A35116@cichlids.cichlids.com> 

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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    
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