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I'm glad they're allowing it to resolve down to a finer point, although the privacy implications of this are horrific. When I was coding (in perl) some scripts for Nextel, I saw some of the frequency chunks they dropped out for mil use only in the spectrum, and it was quite significant - nice bands with chunks missing every so often. Pretty easy to tell where the signal was.

However, the old GPS was useful in terms of driving moderate to long distances - you could save the GPS point for a route change or your house, or select an intersection, and then tell if you overshot it by a block, but it wouldn't let you encode "turn left in 6 meters" or anything useful for fine navigation.

Of course, that's without buying the commercial "fixed" GPS service some carriers offered for a premium that would let you get back to the correct locations.

Now I can post the GPS location of my Theme Camp at Burning Man and people can find exactly where it is!

If it weren't for the French and other governments in Europe, the lack of Privacy Rights in the US would spread worldwide, as would closed source software.

Now maybe we'll get the MSFT APIs ...

It makes me look forward to Linux Velo 2001, when myself and a few other geeks on bikes will start at Paris (ok, Versailles) and bike during April to Chinon and then south to Bordeaux. Wine, Women, Cafe au Lait, Patisseries, and Linux - who could ask for more! Crash in the Auberges for EU20 a night and if we get behind there's always the trains ...

Oh, hi to all who came to the Seattle Burn on Saturday night - next time my frogs will glow more brightly at Burning Man!

Man, they should have the sattelites flame out during the burn at Burning Man.

Maybe even see if they can impact a few of them around Black Rock - talk about performance art!

Get electroluminescent wire in spools at www.funhouseproductions.com

The stuff is amazing, a company in Israel has the patent on the stuff otherwise I imagine it would be everywhere. Anything you can do with neon you can do with this stuff (although it doesn't last forever) I think that Macintosh should start putting it in their I-Macs. I could see it used in phones, glove compartments, monkeys, everywhere!

If you really want to see this stuff in action go to burning man this summer! People go crazy with it. woo hoo!
-WG

Just think, now you've got some nice CDs to give to your friends - or you can give them a nice NIC and get them to try out Linux at the same time.

Bonus!

Plus, I can use more for my costume for Burning Man...

When the mad scientist running the show got inside the cage at the top, he first said, ``and now we're going to have a highly graphical demonstration of Faraday's law.'' He said that he didn't think anyone had ever been inside a running Tesla coil before, because nobody had ever built one large enough to get inside of before. Afterward, he said, ``I feel odd, but it's not entirely unpleasant.''

(This is why I like San Francisco. ``Hey, let's go check out the World's Largest Tesla Coil tonight'' just isn't the kind of thing you're going to hear in other parts of the world.)

Another interesting site is www.austinrichards.com . I think this was the guy at Burning Man this year who had a tesla coil mounted on top of a delivery van: he was standing on top of the truck wearing a Faraday suit and waving a metal rod around, letting the lightning hit him directly, the whole time shouting through a loudspeaker, ``I am Doctor Megavolt'' or something like that. It was sublime.

while you are all worried about rising RAM prices, I am worried about the rising possibility that the Biblical end of the world is approaching..

One can only hope that the end of the time of people preaching about the Biblical end of the world coming is nigh.

Next year we're going to be forgotton gods for the post-millenial Burning Man confab in the desert. Maybe we'll get some quakes during the event - or maybe Mount Rainier will blow up in Seattle while I'm gone.

One can only hope.

It's probably the result of Burning Man.

However, I noticed in the news that the Taiwan Quake is responsible for at least two stocks I own declaring lower quarterly earnings than expected. Both were tech stocks.

And, the news continues to say that PC deliveries, including those which would be used to replace any PCs that are not Y2K-compliant, are now more than 30 days backlogged due to the first Taiwan quake.

So it does belong on /.