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Europe Building Their Own GPS
An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that Europe is planning to build their own satellite-navigation network that will be backward and forward compatible. There's going to be 5 levels ranging from free (1m accuracy) to commercial (1cm accuracy)! Provision is also being made for a search and rescue mode where a signal can be sent to confirm that help is on the way. The system will supposedly even work with existing US network after upgrades to the network."
They should bundle on of those GPS gizmos with the backpacking and tour guides. C'mon, it's only 0.496 KM to the Eiffel Tower!
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If people need to look at a computer screen to determine if they're driving on the correct side of the road, an accurate GPS system should be the least of their worries.
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I applaud them. They could have went to the United Nations and demanded that the U.S. give them control over the US's GPS system. Instead they are building their own. Good for them.
It works better than the Beage 2.
In an effort to protect its valuable property, the satellite consortium has already started sending take-down notices to parties who are using workarounds to share high-precision location information.
One recipient of these notices was the Greenwich Observatory, which was recently forced to replace its narrow brass strip on the prime meridian with a 2m-wide piece of ragged carpet in order to keep freeloaders from pirating highly accurate coordinates.
yah, so we'll shoot yours down too, nya nya..
Of course! Having 1cm accuracy is oodles better than 20m accuracy for tactical nukes. They're such precision instruments donchaknow.
I'll build my OWN GPS! With hookers! And blackjack! In fact, forget the GPS and the blackjack...
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GPS with an accuracy of 1cm.. sounds pleasant. Maybe I'll live to see the day when "computer, locate keys" actually gives a proper response.
Maybe so. But you could think that instead of destroying Iraq, we saved it. In that case, we saved Iraq and have the world's respect and admiration.
"OK, who do we attack next?"
I'd like to nominate France. Considering they supposedly issued French passports to leading Ba'ath Party members to escape from the Coalition Forces, I think they should be listed as an enemy regime and should suffer the consequences. Maybe it is time for the Sixth Republic, or a return to a constitutional monarchy under an Orleanist regime. Come to think of it, the Second French Empire seemed to behave itself with the Anglo-American world so perhaps we should find another Bonaparte to lead them.
But in all seriousness, North Korea has not/cannot be(en) attacked because that would require the consent of China. Which is something the United States would not receive without selling out democratic Taiwan in the process.
Iran just needs a little smacking around (sanctions and some carefully targeted installations destroyed for demonstration purposes). Their youth will not tolerate their regime for much longer. Perhaps covertly aiding the interest in the Zorastrian religion (the native religion of Persia) might bring about change within Iran by decoupling the country from the whole Middle Eastern issues surrounding Islam, and without a full-scale military solution.
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"The day we start implementing autopilots on cars is the day I stop driving."
yeah, that's the point.
Oh dear. Considering that your entire army cant control two 3rd world countries with a total population of around 50 million, where the governments are your puppets, I seriously doubt you could "invade and control" 400+ million people with high tech weapons, well organized armies, and fully developed infrastructure.
But you see, you have Frace hence you have no hope for victory.
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