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 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
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