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Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming To Smartphones In 2018 (ieee.org)
schwit1 writes about a new mass-market Broadcom chip designed for the next generation of smartphones: It'll know where you are to within 30 centimeters (11.8 inches), rather than five meters. At least that's the claim chip maker Broadcom is making. It says that some of its next-generation smartphone chips will use new global positioning satellite signals to boost accuracy. In a detailed report on the announcement and how the new signals work, IEEE Spectrum says that the new chips, which are expected to appear in some phones as soon as next year, will also use half the power of today's chips and even work in cities where tower blocks often interfere with existing systems. All told, it sounds like a massive change for those who rely on their phones to find their way.
Who wants to bet the latest iOS will leave it operational when (you think) you turn it off?
And yet another reason to postpone buying a new cellphone. I'll never get rid of my 2012 phone...
Psychiatry is a vicious enemy
of Christianity and the Bible.
Psychiatry is Anti-Christian
Psychiatry is Atheistic
Psychiatry is Humanistic
Introduction:
Psychiatry has positioned itself to function as a replacement to the church and Christianity.
Psychiatry is not content to share the "turf" with Christianity, it seeks to compete with, replace and obsolete the idea of looking to God for guidance and solutions for life's problems.
Psychology is actually a religion where Psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health workers are the "priests" imposing their own personal atheistic and humanistic value system upon unsuspecting individuals.
The psychiatry industry and insurance industry have banded together to literally yank a minister's or pastor's traditional role of "councilor" out of their hands. This is a very recent phenomena and is unprecedented in history! It is driven by territorial expansionism by the psychiatry industry and simple cash savings from litigation by the insurance industry. It is wrong.
Society has begun to pick up on this message that going to your church, a minister, a pastor, a Christian or the Bible is a second best option for solving personal problems. "Sure", they suggest, "go to your minister just like you would go to a friend"... "but when you really want professional advice that will solve your problems... come see a psychologist or psychiatrist."
The message is loud and clear: counseling from a minister, a pastor, a Christian is a waste of time. If you want results see a psychologist or psychiatrist!
Psychology is the "new religion" where social workers are the priests imposing their own personal atheistic and humanistic value system upon unsuspecting individuals. Psychiatry has positioned itself to replace the church and religion for guidance and life's answers!
A practicing psychologist comments: "Naturally, I continue to wonder what would happen if religion was to take back its role in matters of the "soul," science was to take back the study of the body and behavior, and people could accept life as something more profound than a quest for psychological solutions." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 283
A. Psychiatry opposes pastoral counseling as part of a turf war:
As incredible as it may sound, Psychiatry frowns upon seeking advice from a minister or pastor/elder or Christian. Of course, if the pastor has been certified by the psychiatry industry they are happy. It is all about control!
This is part of a larger territorial turf war where the psychiatry industry wants to put ministers out of the "counseling business".
Here is an example of how pastors merely provide comfort while the psychiatrist fixes the problem. The pastor is banished from the operating room where the spiritual surgery is performed and placed in the waiting room outside. What is shocking about this quote, is that it comes from a very naive conservative Christian: "The pastor provides the Christian comfort and the psychiatrist provides the needed therapy and neither conflicts with the other." (Wesley W. Nelson, Baker's Dictionary of Practical Theology, p. 300) Of course this is as absurd as it is wrong. But it illustrates just how far the psychiatry industry has gone to convince even the church that they should leave the counseling to the pros (psychiatrists)!
"It can be rightly claimed that malingering [faking] is always the sign of a disease often more severe than a neurotic disorder. . . . It is a disease which to diagnose requires particularly keen diagnostic acumen. The diagnosis should never be made but by the psychiatrist." Kurt R. Eissler, 1908-1999, Malingering, p 252)
B. Insuran
I had always heard the lower accuracy from gps was a government imposed restriction or limitations of the protocols not a technical one. is that simply an old myth? I know nothing about the tech personally.
It has been around for quite a while so, same old, same old.
Most of the time, army gets to use it first and when they get something better, the technology becomes deprecated so may as well let the public use it. Most advancements in technology for the consumer followed that path.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
The can load more smaller bombs on the drones and get less bad press for collateral damage.
Just bundle them with facebook and candy crush and people will pay you to track their every movement.
Easier drone strike FTW
Requiem for the American Dream
Hidden "caches" are harder to find thanks to current GPS inaccuracy. Next year, new caches will be so easy to find the game will lost interest ...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
my 'feature phone' has gps that can be turned off completely and activates only for an E911 outgoing call.
You need a surveyors GPS. Normal GPS devices tells altitude from satellites lower to the horizon to get sufficient timing delta, and those signals travel through more air and more water vapour and get slowed, kicking off the timings.
So you really need a better antenna:
http://leica-geosystems.com/products/gnss-systems
All told, it sounds like a massive change for those who rely on their phones to find their way.
It might help some people who need to navigate in the center of large cities, and lower cost with less power is always nice. But for most people the difference between 5 meters and 1 meter in GPS position hardly qualifies as a "massive change".
L5 still looks like it's a US satellite thing only. Part of the reason the older improved is when non-US GPS satellites came on the market. e.g. Russia, EU, Japan, etc. A-GPS as well. I should also mention a different signal at a different frequency will help with atmospheric and communications research.
when you measure in inches like some 19th century luddite I doubt global positioning satellites are even a comprehendable concept. Aren't all imperial measurement users flat-earthers anyway?
In the future, governments everywhere will require law abiding citizens to always have one of these cell phones strapped to their ankle.
Psychiatry is a vicious enemy of Christianity and the Bible.
Psychiatry is Anti-Christian
Psychiatry is Atheistic
Psychiatry is Humanistic
Sounds good to me.
(Skipped the inane drivel that followed.)
sure, if you're so god damned stupid you can't find your way or needed location if your position is a rare 5 meters off. American much?
You can run but you can't hide.
Have gnu, will travel.
... the new GPS chipsets will enable compromising millions of the new devices simultaneously via simple buffer overflows sent from orbiting satellites or handheld devices purchased from Alibaba and eBay for only $25 unit cost.
It'll know where you are to within 30 centimeters (11.8 inches),
Interesting. That's how far light travels in 1 nanosecond.
29.9792458 centimeters or 11.80285267717 inches.
Interesting you can pick up a cheap USB GPS puck for $30 that locks quicker and works more reliably than smartphones with crappy GPS chips cheating via NTP, XTRA and SUPL.
Better GPS for mobiles would be nice.. I wouldn't bet on it actually happening given track record of industry thus far.
I'd rather they focus on other priorities, first of all a way of positioning indoors (under tunnels, between tall buildings, in underground parking and public transport)
Unless things have changed it is US law that forced GPS units to be somewhat inaccurate as the potential to attach such a GPS to a weapon for guidance was perceived as a threat. So I wonder if the US will get such phones. And just why should we need accurate GPS. There are some narrow ocean inlets that are not lighted at night and being off twenty feet can kill you or cause you to sink your boat. Then there is the surveyor expense issue. if you buy land in remote areas getting boundary markers can get very expensive. With accurate GPS you can locate your own property lines and save a fortune. On top of all of that it is quite likely that a foreign nation intending to send a missile would have guidance technologies that did not need GPS systems at all. the entire issue strikes me as a wasteful and ongoing morass of laws, regulations and so-call dangers that probably do not even exist. some where someone made money on this nonsense.
Now they can track everyones' location with pinpoint accuracy.
Find the antenna and short it to ground. Then no one will be able to track you.
Make it EASIER for (insert your favorite government agency) to find/track you. But...it's for YOUR security!!