Yes, server to server. My postfix server has been attempting to StartTLS on every outgoing port 25 connection to other mail servers. Many servers (but not all) will speak TLS on port 25.
People I've heard from that oppose voter ID say they oppose it because there's strong circumstantial evidence that this is intentionally designed to disadvantage certain segments of the population. If it's not intentional, then jurisdictions have sure done a good job of disenfranchising some minority groups. As people continue to point out, the problem isn't the voter ID requirement, it's the process of getting the ID, or getting an acceptable ID. Limiting hours of business as ID places, placing restrictions on what kinds of proof must be presented to get an ID, restricting the number of places that can provide IDs, all put a large number of people at a disadvantage.
From an outsiders point of view, this all looks highly suspect. This is coming from someone who is a conservative and who lives in a country that requires ID at the polls.
There's more to it than that. Under the fixed software, if there is a disagreement between the sensors, the MCAS will no longer activate. Also I believe they said something about detecting a pilot override inputs and shutting down MCAS also.
And yet they apparently do. At least a couple thousand people who signed up. Might be insignificant compared to having a million followers on twitter. But let's be honest how many people really want to read others' facebook posts either.
There's always going to be a place for a more traditional email newsletter. I'm subscribed to several for business purposes. It's a heck of a lot easier to just open my email than it is to log into some social media site for something like that. And twitter is just too short for thoughts on market analysis, pricing trends, etc.
Which is unfortunate. I would much prefer standard x86 ISA in a Pi form factor (at similar price point of course) over ARM. I'm tired of dealing with custom linux distros with random binary blobs, and oddball boot loaders. Even if U-Boot is fairly ubiquitous it's not easy like sticking a usb stick in a PC and telling it to boot it to install Linux.
No long ago I replaced my little ARM-based router computer with a much more expensive but tiny Intel computer (not a NUC, it's even smaller). It is just easier to run a standard distro, and provides a lot more cpu power for running some web filtering software, along with a bunch of other LAN-facing services. Sure I can do it on the ARM system (except the web filtering... never seemed to work very well for whatever reason), but it's just easier with the new Intel box.
Mod parent up. This is a very important point. The active ingredients of pesticides are highly regulated, with mandatory toxicity studies. However the other ingredients, including adjuvants and surfactants are not regulated at all, at least here in Canada. So we have no idea how toxic or safe some of these additional chemicals are, which is deeply worrisome, especially the unknown effect on wildlife. Many of these surfactants and adjuvants are required to make the pesticides work better, but aren't included in the jugs; they are added to the tank separately. Most are probably harmless, consisting of soaps and at least one I use is derived from soybean oil. When new formulations of old chemicals come out, I'm not sure how much work has to be done to re-register the chemical.
The MCAS spins the same trim knobs that the pilot spins. So the pilot can trim the nose back and after MCAS spins it down. They might fight each other, but ultimately they are both adjusting (and potentially undoing) the same thing. I'm sure it's initially confusing to pilots for sure, especially because older planes would cancel the automatic trims when the stick was pulled on, but apparently this is not the case with MCAS. If it turns out the MCAS contributed to the Indonesian crash, then it was a matter of training. But Boeing screwed up the design.
Several eyewitnesses reported seeing flames before the plane crashed, but it's not clear whether those were coming from the engines or from somewhere else on the aircraft. It's possible that witnesses are mistaken about the flames before the crash. It could be that the excitement and trauma of seeing the crash happen, and the subsequent fireball, caused them to incorrectly remember seeing flames before the crash.
According to the news article I read, however witnesses did say that the plane was pitching up and down and eventually nose-dived into the ground and caused a fireball. If it weren't for the reports of earlier fire, I could believe this was an MCAS problem and pilots were, perhaps in a panic, fighting the MCAS without remembering to disable the trim motors (there are switches right behind the trim wheels to deactivate the motors). You can bet that 737 MAX pilots from today on will keep those switches in the back of their minds. And Boeing will no doubt be making some changes if MCAS is implicated in any way.
In the meantime, I think with heightened awareness on the part of pilots after these two tragedies, the MAX 8 is still safe to fly on.
Not so much, though it did have a surprising amount of memory. Nearly impossible to reprogram to fix a bug though. Also, it was one of the worst-managed software projects around, and entirely failed to meet its goal. All the burn calculations ended up being done on the ground.
Not quite. I recommend the book, "Digital Apollo" to get a good picture of what was going on. Very enlightening. The AGC was indeed capable of navigating all the way to the moon on its own with only its calculations and inertial guidance. The real reason that calculations were done based on the ground was really the result of a conflict between the faction that wanted to completely automate the entire mission such that the astronauts were just along for the ride, and the air force flyboys who literally wanted to fly to the moon. The astronauts demanded that they have an active part in all phases of the flight. So NASA agreed to do all the calculations on the ground and then radio the burn numbers to the astronauts to punch into the computer so they could feel like they were in control and doing something vital. The original plan was for the AGC to do it all and the ground would just radio up numbers for comparison.
The AGC was a fabulous success and I assure you it did more than meet its goals. "Digital Apollo" says nothing about the project being badly managed. I'd say they did pretty well given the demands of a government bureaucracy.
And yet here you are. And in the meantime Linux has become mainstream, and the idea of open source has become the norm, and expected, even of big proprietary companies. So I'm not quite sure what to make of your comments. The philosophies that propelled Linux and open source to be no only mainstream, but clear overall winners, is now percolating into Microsoft and other companies and we're all better because of it.
Oddly enough, both the Mate desktop and Gnome have built-in calculator apps that appear functionally identical to the good old Windows' calc.exe. I can't really complain about anything here, except to mumble something about HP reverse polish.
Nothing Cornell has made up until now has been unbreakable, judging by all the cracked glass fronts and backs I've seen out there. I doubt this new glass will be "unbreakable" either. Although being flexible it might be less prone to crack less as it it can bend and flex.
3D printers have certainly revolutionized prototyping or one-off development. So don't knock it until you've tried it. Compared to other manufacturing techniques, filament deposition manufacturing is still very slow and crude (and likely will always be on the crude side). But it has its place.
You can go on Amazon right now and buy the Ender 3 3D printer for under $250 that works amazingly well right out of the box (after some minor assembly). All I've done is calibrate the bed and use the default settings in Cura and I've had fantastic results. So far I've mainly used it to make little brackets, fittings, and enclosures for electronics boards. This little 3D printer has been the most interesting thing I've bought in years and to show me what 3D printing can and can't do.
And there are other 3D printing technologies besides FDM that show amazing promise, like stereo lithography that can make things like complex helical micro fluid channels inside a a solid that no other form of manufacturing can do.
It may be popular but it doesn't mean it doesn't suck. Torvalds was right. But maybe for different reasons, many of which probably don't apply to Apple.
The main problem with ARM, at least as I as a Linux user am concerned, is the lack of any standardized, open, boot system like the much-maligned BIOS, or EFI, and the lack of a standardized, minimal device tree. There are literally dozens of of cheap single board computers you can get to run linux on. But how many of them can boot a standard distro off of a hard drive or usb stick you just plugged in? How many can run a standard, generic, Linux kernel and a standard, generic, Linux distro? I don't know of any. And it's very frustrating. Those boards that can run android can run a particular version of android, obtained from the manufacturer, limited to their whims to update it.
The promise of ARM is awesome. But so far I remain disappointed. I've got a drawer full of ARM devices that I used for short periods of time. Sheeva Plugs, a GuruPlug, several raspberry pis, and various random chinese boards. All powerful machines in their own right, but not as useful as I thought. Mostly due to the proprietary (or at least esoteric) boot systems, custom kernels, special device trees, proprietary graphics cores, etc. I just don't really want to mess with U-Boot and flashing special images to partitions just to get the latest version of Debian up and running, or install a 5.0 kernel.
If intel produced a board at the price point as these ARM boards, but could boot regular old Debian with a generic x86 kernel, supporting the GPIO that makes Pis so popular, I'd ditch ARM in a heartbeat (SBCs, not phones).
Again, none of this applies to Apple necessarily, though. They control and access every bit of the hardware to make it sing their song, so I'm sure many users won't know or care, as long as they keep buying from the Apple Store. But it's a definite step towards a completely locked-down appliance. Might take another decade, but that's where Apple seems to be heading.
I just use normal firefox on Android, with the ublock origin add-on. And also ghostery. Android on Firefox is actually really good.
And another essential add-on for mobile browsers is a tap to reflow column add-on. I have a simple one in firefox that works well enough. Many mobile sites are awful compared to the desktop sites (slashdot I'm looking at you), so being able to zoom in on some text for a normal website and reflow it is wonderful. I never quite figured out why Google removed that feature from chrome years ago.
But a discount for cash isn't the same thing as adding a surcharge for credit cards as far as pricing the CC cost into the retailer's prices. Since CC fees vary, fairly wildly, offering a set discount either means that some cards are still going to cost the retailer more than others. The best the retailer can hope for is an average. The retailer certainly can't offer a discount based on what credit card a customer might have used!
A few more details and clarifications. Specifically, there was a class action lawsuit leveled against all the main credit card companies in Canada, and as a result of that lawsuit, retailers are allowed to charge surcharges for credit card starting last year sometime. The details are surprisingly murky right now. It's not clear whether merchants will be able to add on surcharges (some are doing that), or if it will be more like Visa US where retailers can offer a discount. If the court ruling allows the latter, then CC companies are still going to benefit more than retailers.
Not in Canada. This clause was forcibly stripped out of merchant agreements a few years ago. They really kicked up a fuss that the time, but life went on. Except for big ticket items, I don't know of very many places that charge more for using your visa. It definitely happens. Local farm supply retailers will charge an additional 2% typically for large ticket purchases like herbicides or fertilizer. But the fees could depend on the type of card.
According to the US Visa website, retailers can offer a discount for cash. But they aren't allowed to add a surcharge for credit cards. https://usa.visa.com/support/c.... smart of Visa to do it this way, but definitely favors them. On the surface it appears to be the same thing but actually isn't, as CC fees can be anywhere from 1 to 3% depending on the card. High rewards cards have a higher fee.
Even a 1% fee should leave these credit card companies in a very comfortable and profitable position. Greed is universal I guess.
Wait, what? Is all insurance gambling? If I buy trip cancellation insurance from American Auto Association, I'm gambling? Or any other form of external, third-party insurance? I don't think so.
This is not gambling. This is insurance. The only gambling going on is that the company is gambling that most players will not be injured most of the time, so their premiums will cover the occasional payout. If there is an injury, then all the participants in the pool get a pay out. It's not like only one person gets the pot, which is what gambling is.
To me the default UI theme in Plasma these days looks far more like MacOS than Windows 8/10. Also there are plenty of Plasma themes (which use Qt themes to style the widgets) available to make the desktop look to your liking. Of course many Linux themes for Qt and GTK copy other platforms, but in general Windows clones aren't very popular.
Despite these satellites being lost as far as the constellation usability is concerned, the ESA plans to have the system completed by 2020, and that would mean 100% coverage across Europe and most of the world. Right now my phone uses Galileo as well as GPS and Glonas. I just noticed that Glonas reports nearly 100% coverage of the globe right now also.
Some of the GPS units I'm working right including the U-Blox M8T with RTKLIB and the ZED-F9P (integrated RTK) see satellites from GPS, Glonass, Galileo, Beidou, and QZSS. In fact I was able to briefly get an RTK fix on my M8T (Reach RS+) using only Beidou observation data from my base unit, apparently. With cheap receivers like the ZED-F9P, lots of satellite constellations, it's really a golden age for low-cost, high-accuracy GNSS work for agriculture, drones, etc.
There are a lot of reasons for having their own system, including control. But regardless of the reasons, right now there are pieces of five different positioning systems in operation right now. There's GPS (US), GLONAS (Russia), Galileo (Europe), Beidou (China), and QSZZ (Japan). New crops of GPS units, including the very impressive ZED-F9P chip from U-Blox, can see all of these satellites, allowing for more accurate and faster fixes. Also more satellites provides more redundant information for weeding out any bad satellite data, overcoming deliberate jamming, or when a country intentionally degrades the signal. Apparently recently near Georgia and South Carolina there was some GPS jamming going on as part of a naval exercise. Having more systems to work with mitigates this somewhat, although they all use similar frequencies to GPS's L1, L2, and L5 bands.
And recently the FCC has finally allowed American users of GPS receivers to be able to use these other satellites. Odds are your phone is now using GPS, Galileo, and Glonass for positioning. It's a really a win win for those that rely on this technology. I can't see a downside, either for end users or countries to have more of these systems up and running, other than cost.
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Yes, server to server. My postfix server has been attempting to StartTLS on every outgoing port 25 connection to other mail servers. Many servers (but not all) will speak TLS on port 25.
Are you sure you know what that?
People I've heard from that oppose voter ID say they oppose it because there's strong circumstantial evidence that this is intentionally designed to disadvantage certain segments of the population. If it's not intentional, then jurisdictions have sure done a good job of disenfranchising some minority groups. As people continue to point out, the problem isn't the voter ID requirement, it's the process of getting the ID, or getting an acceptable ID. Limiting hours of business as ID places, placing restrictions on what kinds of proof must be presented to get an ID, restricting the number of places that can provide IDs, all put a large number of people at a disadvantage.
From an outsiders point of view, this all looks highly suspect. This is coming from someone who is a conservative and who lives in a country that requires ID at the polls.
There's more to it than that. Under the fixed software, if there is a disagreement between the sensors, the MCAS will no longer activate. Also I believe they said something about detecting a pilot override inputs and shutting down MCAS also.
Which is exactly why I like them! But I am old and very unhip.
But also the kinds of things I get in the form of email newsletters are already monetized in the form of a subscription cost (business analysis).
And yet they apparently do. At least a couple thousand people who signed up. Might be insignificant compared to having a million followers on twitter. But let's be honest how many people really want to read others' facebook posts either.
There's always going to be a place for a more traditional email newsletter. I'm subscribed to several for business purposes. It's a heck of a lot easier to just open my email than it is to log into some social media site for something like that. And twitter is just too short for thoughts on market analysis, pricing trends, etc.
Which is unfortunate. I would much prefer standard x86 ISA in a Pi form factor (at similar price point of course) over ARM. I'm tired of dealing with custom linux distros with random binary blobs, and oddball boot loaders. Even if U-Boot is fairly ubiquitous it's not easy like sticking a usb stick in a PC and telling it to boot it to install Linux.
No long ago I replaced my little ARM-based router computer with a much more expensive but tiny Intel computer (not a NUC, it's even smaller). It is just easier to run a standard distro, and provides a lot more cpu power for running some web filtering software, along with a bunch of other LAN-facing services. Sure I can do it on the ARM system (except the web filtering... never seemed to work very well for whatever reason), but it's just easier with the new Intel box.
Mod parent up. This is a very important point. The active ingredients of pesticides are highly regulated, with mandatory toxicity studies. However the other ingredients, including adjuvants and surfactants are not regulated at all, at least here in Canada. So we have no idea how toxic or safe some of these additional chemicals are, which is deeply worrisome, especially the unknown effect on wildlife. Many of these surfactants and adjuvants are required to make the pesticides work better, but aren't included in the jugs; they are added to the tank separately. Most are probably harmless, consisting of soaps and at least one I use is derived from soybean oil. When new formulations of old chemicals come out, I'm not sure how much work has to be done to re-register the chemical.
The MCAS spins the same trim knobs that the pilot spins. So the pilot can trim the nose back and after MCAS spins it down. They might fight each other, but ultimately they are both adjusting (and potentially undoing) the same thing. I'm sure it's initially confusing to pilots for sure, especially because older planes would cancel the automatic trims when the stick was pulled on, but apparently this is not the case with MCAS. If it turns out the MCAS contributed to the Indonesian crash, then it was a matter of training. But Boeing screwed up the design.
Precisely my point.
Several eyewitnesses reported seeing flames before the plane crashed, but it's not clear whether those were coming from the engines or from somewhere else on the aircraft. It's possible that witnesses are mistaken about the flames before the crash. It could be that the excitement and trauma of seeing the crash happen, and the subsequent fireball, caused them to incorrectly remember seeing flames before the crash.
According to the news article I read, however witnesses did say that the plane was pitching up and down and eventually nose-dived into the ground and caused a fireball. If it weren't for the reports of earlier fire, I could believe this was an MCAS problem and pilots were, perhaps in a panic, fighting the MCAS without remembering to disable the trim motors (there are switches right behind the trim wheels to deactivate the motors). You can bet that 737 MAX pilots from today on will keep those switches in the back of their minds. And Boeing will no doubt be making some changes if MCAS is implicated in any way.
In the meantime, I think with heightened awareness on the part of pilots after these two tragedies, the MAX 8 is still safe to fly on.
Not quite. I recommend the book, "Digital Apollo" to get a good picture of what was going on. Very enlightening. The AGC was indeed capable of navigating all the way to the moon on its own with only its calculations and inertial guidance. The real reason that calculations were done based on the ground was really the result of a conflict between the faction that wanted to completely automate the entire mission such that the astronauts were just along for the ride, and the air force flyboys who literally wanted to fly to the moon. The astronauts demanded that they have an active part in all phases of the flight. So NASA agreed to do all the calculations on the ground and then radio the burn numbers to the astronauts to punch into the computer so they could feel like they were in control and doing something vital. The original plan was for the AGC to do it all and the ground would just radio up numbers for comparison.
The AGC was a fabulous success and I assure you it did more than meet its goals. "Digital Apollo" says nothing about the project being badly managed. I'd say they did pretty well given the demands of a government bureaucracy.
And yet here you are. And in the meantime Linux has become mainstream, and the idea of open source has become the norm, and expected, even of big proprietary companies. So I'm not quite sure what to make of your comments. The philosophies that propelled Linux and open source to be no only mainstream, but clear overall winners, is now percolating into Microsoft and other companies and we're all better because of it.
Oddly enough, both the Mate desktop and Gnome have built-in calculator apps that appear functionally identical to the good old Windows' calc.exe. I can't really complain about anything here, except to mumble something about HP reverse polish.
Nothing Cornell has made up until now has been unbreakable, judging by all the cracked glass fronts and backs I've seen out there. I doubt this new glass will be "unbreakable" either. Although being flexible it might be less prone to crack less as it it can bend and flex.
3D printers have certainly revolutionized prototyping or one-off development. So don't knock it until you've tried it. Compared to other manufacturing techniques, filament deposition manufacturing is still very slow and crude (and likely will always be on the crude side). But it has its place.
You can go on Amazon right now and buy the Ender 3 3D printer for under $250 that works amazingly well right out of the box (after some minor assembly). All I've done is calibrate the bed and use the default settings in Cura and I've had fantastic results. So far I've mainly used it to make little brackets, fittings, and enclosures for electronics boards. This little 3D printer has been the most interesting thing I've bought in years and to show me what 3D printing can and can't do.
And there are other 3D printing technologies besides FDM that show amazing promise, like stereo lithography that can make things like complex helical micro fluid channels inside a a solid that no other form of manufacturing can do.
I'm helping others declutter by storing them.
In terms of time (mainly) and money it would be cheaper for someone to buy one new than for me to wrap one up and ship it to a fellow geek.
It may be popular but it doesn't mean it doesn't suck. Torvalds was right. But maybe for different reasons, many of which probably don't apply to Apple.
The main problem with ARM, at least as I as a Linux user am concerned, is the lack of any standardized, open, boot system like the much-maligned BIOS, or EFI, and the lack of a standardized, minimal device tree. There are literally dozens of of cheap single board computers you can get to run linux on. But how many of them can boot a standard distro off of a hard drive or usb stick you just plugged in? How many can run a standard, generic, Linux kernel and a standard, generic, Linux distro? I don't know of any. And it's very frustrating. Those boards that can run android can run a particular version of android, obtained from the manufacturer, limited to their whims to update it.
The promise of ARM is awesome. But so far I remain disappointed. I've got a drawer full of ARM devices that I used for short periods of time. Sheeva Plugs, a GuruPlug, several raspberry pis, and various random chinese boards. All powerful machines in their own right, but not as useful as I thought. Mostly due to the proprietary (or at least esoteric) boot systems, custom kernels, special device trees, proprietary graphics cores, etc. I just don't really want to mess with U-Boot and flashing special images to partitions just to get the latest version of Debian up and running, or install a 5.0 kernel.
If intel produced a board at the price point as these ARM boards, but could boot regular old Debian with a generic x86 kernel, supporting the GPIO that makes Pis so popular, I'd ditch ARM in a heartbeat (SBCs, not phones).
Again, none of this applies to Apple necessarily, though. They control and access every bit of the hardware to make it sing their song, so I'm sure many users won't know or care, as long as they keep buying from the Apple Store. But it's a definite step towards a completely locked-down appliance. Might take another decade, but that's where Apple seems to be heading.
I just use normal firefox on Android, with the ublock origin add-on. And also ghostery. Android on Firefox is actually really good.
And another essential add-on for mobile browsers is a tap to reflow column add-on. I have a simple one in firefox that works well enough. Many mobile sites are awful compared to the desktop sites (slashdot I'm looking at you), so being able to zoom in on some text for a normal website and reflow it is wonderful. I never quite figured out why Google removed that feature from chrome years ago.
But a discount for cash isn't the same thing as adding a surcharge for credit cards as far as pricing the CC cost into the retailer's prices. Since CC fees vary, fairly wildly, offering a set discount either means that some cards are still going to cost the retailer more than others. The best the retailer can hope for is an average. The retailer certainly can't offer a discount based on what credit card a customer might have used!
A few more details and clarifications. Specifically, there was a class action lawsuit leveled against all the main credit card companies in Canada, and as a result of that lawsuit, retailers are allowed to charge surcharges for credit card starting last year sometime. The details are surprisingly murky right now. It's not clear whether merchants will be able to add on surcharges (some are doing that), or if it will be more like Visa US where retailers can offer a discount. If the court ruling allows the latter, then CC companies are still going to benefit more than retailers.
Not in Canada. This clause was forcibly stripped out of merchant agreements a few years ago. They really kicked up a fuss that the time, but life went on. Except for big ticket items, I don't know of very many places that charge more for using your visa. It definitely happens. Local farm supply retailers will charge an additional 2% typically for large ticket purchases like herbicides or fertilizer. But the fees could depend on the type of card.
According to the US Visa website, retailers can offer a discount for cash. But they aren't allowed to add a surcharge for credit cards. https://usa.visa.com/support/c.... smart of Visa to do it this way, but definitely favors them. On the surface it appears to be the same thing but actually isn't, as CC fees can be anywhere from 1 to 3% depending on the card. High rewards cards have a higher fee.
Even a 1% fee should leave these credit card companies in a very comfortable and profitable position. Greed is universal I guess.
Wait, what? Is all insurance gambling? If I buy trip cancellation insurance from American Auto Association, I'm gambling? Or any other form of external, third-party insurance? I don't think so.
This is not gambling. This is insurance. The only gambling going on is that the company is gambling that most players will not be injured most of the time, so their premiums will cover the occasional payout. If there is an injury, then all the participants in the pool get a pay out. It's not like only one person gets the pot, which is what gambling is.
To me the default UI theme in Plasma these days looks far more like MacOS than Windows 8/10. Also there are plenty of Plasma themes (which use Qt themes to style the widgets) available to make the desktop look to your liking. Of course many Linux themes for Qt and GTK copy other platforms, but in general Windows clones aren't very popular.
Apparently this data can be found in RINEX format here: ftp://gssc.esa.int/gnss/data/h....
Despite these satellites being lost as far as the constellation usability is concerned, the ESA plans to have the system completed by 2020, and that would mean 100% coverage across Europe and most of the world. Right now my phone uses Galileo as well as GPS and Glonas. I just noticed that Glonas reports nearly 100% coverage of the globe right now also.
Some of the GPS units I'm working right including the U-Blox M8T with RTKLIB and the ZED-F9P (integrated RTK) see satellites from GPS, Glonass, Galileo, Beidou, and QZSS. In fact I was able to briefly get an RTK fix on my M8T (Reach RS+) using only Beidou observation data from my base unit, apparently. With cheap receivers like the ZED-F9P, lots of satellite constellations, it's really a golden age for low-cost, high-accuracy GNSS work for agriculture, drones, etc.
There are a lot of reasons for having their own system, including control. But regardless of the reasons, right now there are pieces of five different positioning systems in operation right now. There's GPS (US), GLONAS (Russia), Galileo (Europe), Beidou (China), and QSZZ (Japan). New crops of GPS units, including the very impressive ZED-F9P chip from U-Blox, can see all of these satellites, allowing for more accurate and faster fixes. Also more satellites provides more redundant information for weeding out any bad satellite data, overcoming deliberate jamming, or when a country intentionally degrades the signal. Apparently recently near Georgia and South Carolina there was some GPS jamming going on as part of a naval exercise. Having more systems to work with mitigates this somewhat, although they all use similar frequencies to GPS's L1, L2, and L5 bands.
And recently the FCC has finally allowed American users of GPS receivers to be able to use these other satellites. Odds are your phone is now using GPS, Galileo, and Glonass for positioning. It's a really a win win for those that rely on this technology. I can't see a downside, either for end users or countries to have more of these systems up and running, other than cost.
Nope didn't make it up. But I was clearly misinformed on that point.