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China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-space-nobody-can-hear-the-competition dept.

hackingbear writes "Unsatisfied by the reliance on American GPS navigation systems and not feeling much security joining the European Galileo system, China will expand its 4-satellite Beidou navigation system to a full-fledged, competitive, and encrypted system by 2010."

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  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And will this mean that my take-away will be delivered on time and, importantly, to the correct address? I hope so!

  2. Peace and Harmony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, now they can spread peace and harmony more precisely, +/- 1m.

  3. Re:Interference? by Adambomb · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry, with Macs still around we'll still be able to understand and use their networking protocols, hack into it, and upload a virus compatible with their system of computation to make for a dramatic cliffhanger explosion moment.

    No matter.

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  4. Re:Interference? by mk_is_here · · Score: 2, Funny

    One of the big concerns about the Chinese system is interference with the US and European GPS systems, and up until now there haven't been any set specs to start a meaningful discussion over. [Citation needed]
  5. Re:GPS is primarily a military application by digitig · · Score: 1, Funny

    As my philsophical opponents say so often "This is'nt rocket science". It would appear your philosophical opponents were prone to daydreaming in English class. Not necessarily. They say it. It's hard to hear the position of an apostrophe in speech.
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  6. Re:GPS is primarily a military application by sapphire+wyvern · · Score: 5, Funny
    You have a point, but as Schlock Mercenary points out:

    Note also that the correct term for 'a missile to be deployed against "anti-missile missiles"' is not "anti anti-missile missile." It's "anti anti-missile-missile missile." You're always supposed to have one more "missile" than "anti," because otherwise nothing will blow up. Granted, this information comes from civilian linguists, rather than from military sources. Military sources would almost certainly be using acronyms instead.


  7. Re:Interference? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dunno about that. Jeff Goldblum isn't getting any younger you know.

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  8. Re:Interference? by stranger_to_himself · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the big concerns about the Chinese system is interference with the US and European GPS systems, and up until now there haven't been any set specs to start a meaningful discussion over. [Citation needed]

    How can you expect anybody to cite the lack of published specs?

    Unless of course its in the Big Book of Unpublished Specifications, which causes any reader to disappear in a puff of paradoxical smoke.

  9. Re:Interference? by ajlitt · · Score: 2, Funny

    All the better. If Geoff learns UNIX then he won't be reliant on nine year olds to escape islands with biological experiments gone awry.