From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 3 11:53:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D23C37BD9B for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 11:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA64004; Wed, 3 May 2000 11:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:48:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200005031848.LAA64004@apollo.backplane.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Alexander Langer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up References: <2386.957377415@critter.freebsd.dk> 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's public knowledge. That is, if you are talking about the military's experiments with regional DOS on the GPS system. In fact, it's one of the reasons cited by the president for turning off SA. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message