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U.S. May Reduce Non-Military GPS Accuracy
ward99 writes "The U.S. government may be degrading GPS satellite signals, to cripple Iraqi forces' ability to use those systems
during the war. This could potentially reduce accuracy from ~3 meters to
over ~100 meters. Users depending on GPS systems may want to do sanity checks on any data returned by those systems during the war. The U.S.
will do this by increasing the inaccuracies on the civilian C/A code, turning back on S/A (Selective Availability), by having the satellites deliberately and randomly return inaccurate information on where they are. S/A degrades GPS
accuracy to only 100 meters 95 percent of the time and 300 meters the other 5 percent of the time. This will not effect the military P code."
Yes except the US Military owns the satellites and basically lets everyone else use them so they're not just a waste of space (pun intended.) Also worth noting is that they can do this locally, so basically the accurracy would probably only decrease (if it does at all) in the areas in and around Iraq. I doubt the US or western Europe will be affected at all.
I didn't see that one coming.
just as the fact that
- i didn't see the war coming
- terroriste aren't the only reason to attack
- internal conflicts start when bush is gone.
- europe has to clean up the country once bush is gone.
mod me down, but mark my words.
just take that stable democracy in Afghanistan as an example.
Privacy is terrorism.
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Main Entry: fascism
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Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
This is just some yellow journalist trying to get support for the stupid Galileo concept. It has been widely reported that the government intends no such thing. The only impact of the war on GPS will be reduced availability in the theater of war.
Is it this map?
Stumbling in the dark
I hear slavering of jaws
Eaten by a grue.
The Europeans won't do anything about it for a couple of reasons:
1) Europeans are uncomfortable committing funds to anything except social welfare programs.
2) Europeans are dreadfully uncomfortable with taking initiative and leading.
3) But most importantly, nobody in continental Europe really gives a crap except what's pleasurable this week.
How can a GPS system possible pass this muster?
US-Army: We're terribly sorry, but unfortunately it has already been more than ten years since be bombed some brown people, so we will have to render our service unuseable for an unspecified amount of time.
Sorry, field-science, sorry, maritime travel and transportation, sorry you folks out there in the Sahara, Australian Outback or South-American rainforest. sorry Mercedes-Benz, sorry Motorola, sorry air-travel, you shouldn't be flying anyway during terror-level orange.
my
Enough is enough..... Bush needs to grow up already. Hasn't anyone else notices this? He keeps pushing the limits of the American people, even though over 70% of the world is against this war, and bush only has 58% support from the american people, which dropped from 70% the week before. GPS is not only going to mess up the Iraq troops, and regular civilians, its also going to mess up cargo ships which rely on GPS to navigate the ocean, and hunters and tree cutters use GPS. I can only hope that the airspace doesn't use regular GPS to navigate their planes, if they do, we'll all screwed.
Ya, we wouldnt want terrorists, suicide bombers, or hostile foreigners deprived of using "mapping software".
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.