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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 13:01:11 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPS time.
Message-ID:  <20020401130111.B37363@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3CA813AF.51ACF538@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:00:47AM -0800
References:  <3CA80E9E.B091200F@mindspring.com> <47573.1017647416@verdi.nethelp.no> <3CA813AF.51ACF538@mindspring.com>

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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:00:47AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > > > Hopefully European GPS project (Galileo) will provide an alternative.
> > > > It still has a long way to go though.
> > >
> > > Galileo strikes me as unnecessary, unless the receivers will be
> > > cheaper to get the same resolution.  The 1 meter resolution seems
> > > a little poor, compared to differential.
> > 
> > Galileo may be unnecessary *if* you trust the US. As a European,
> > my view of US and European politics is that they're sufficiently
> > different (both in methods and goals) that I don't trust the US
> > that much. Thus I think Galileo is a good thing, even if it'll be
> > very expensive.

..

> nice target lock for transmitters at all U.S. commercial airports
> that were installed to de-wiggle the signal.  8-).
> 
> If it comes down to it, the U.S. has the capability of "turning
> off" Galileo, if it ever felt that it needed to do so.  8-) 8-).

While not stepping up to solve the world politics: the US government
claiming the right to define the law for everything is unnerving to
lots of non-US (and US I suppose) people alike.

GPS is just one of these things..

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