I think your one of those rare parents that understands that its your responsibility to control what media your kid sees, not the medias. Your absolutely right that the problem here is education for parents, who should understand that the government is not a spare nanny for their children and that if they have children its a big deal. Parents know their kids best and know when they are ready to experience certain things, kids know themselves and know what they are going to do or not do no matter what their parents say. People need to realise that their darling little kid is going to have sex, watch porn, drink, smoke and do drugs and do it all when they are too young and there is nothing you can do to stop them so your choice is pretty limited to letting them know what they are getting into and letting them try it in the safest way possible. Chastity programs are stupid and anyone who tells me that they (a guy) found god as a teenager and decided to not have sex or do anything 'immoral' is a fucking liar, no matter how fundamentalist they are or what religion they are. Everyone from Pat Robertson to Osama Bin Laden and the king of Saudi Arabia has dirty little secrets so to tell everyone else how to live their lives is bloody hypocritical.
I think Google should absolutely give the US government this list, however I have one slight change I think they should make. Instead of releasing how often porn turns up in results how about Google somehow gets the ages of users and compiles a statistic of how many times under-18's search for porn! I think its important to let Bush know that 99% of teenagers are only too pleased when porn comes up in search results.
On the other hand when I read the headline I assumed this was terrorism related, now I think about it im outraged that Bush is wasting time on pornography with the world where its at today! Not that I would want the US government looking at search queries.
I understand there are physics issues but I cant help but think there's a bit of unsinkable-ship thinking going on here. Remember Blue-only-a-few-feet-Tooth and Blue-tooth snipers? There might not be a direct way of doing it like turning the power up but if there any possibility then someone will find it. I was thinking along the lines of multiple detectors in different positions that could maybe pickup the same signal and work together to analyse it to really stretch the S/N limit, then there's the possibility of better tags being manufactured (better materials etc) that are more efficient with the limited power they get. Also there might be laws limiting transmitter power but laws can be broken or changed, im sure you could expect to see illegally powerful readers in the hands of high-tech RFID pick-pockets. There's also the tried and tested social engineering, and failing everything else just make sure you get the receiver as close as possible.
And as for cost look at the incredible evolution of mobile phones in the last 10 years, we've gone from clunky, expensive, power-hungry poor performers to DSP witchcraft in a box that seems to work whatever you do. All that's needed is something that everyday people will need receivers for and the market will take care of the rest.
There are so many potential security risks involved with miniature tags that respond to radio its just inevitable that some successful ones will emerge. How about leaving RFID stickers face down on the floor and letting them stick to peoples shoes?
I have to say Tesco are pure pure evil, but they are bloody useful, I had an old supermarket near me it was overpriced, crap quality and only open at traditional business hours, it shut down and was replaced by a tesco - cheap, everything you could imagine under one small roof, always open, always full of people, but I guess thats how the market works, if your business is old and bloated *cough* BT you're going to loose out, personally i find all telecoms companies here are overpriced and have crap service, my old mobile company cost me prices comparable with a satelite call! and 3G drops connections so much its like trying to talk through old-time radio. I think its going to be sad but necessary to take these big telecoms companies round the back and put a bullet in them, sad because there will be potentially so many redundancies but necessary because the world is moving on people now expect to be able to communicate anywhere with anyone for next to nothing. Companies like BT should know better I mean how long did it take for un-metered dial-up to appear? Why have we been using the same old system of analogue phones sampled at local exchanges when we could have pioneered and switched to an entirely digital phone system years ago thus saving allot of hassle and making high-speed net access built in? BT is big on research and they have failed to significantly change the way they do business, therefore they are going to go out of business.
RFID tags maybe the privacy issue but whats really going to matter are readers. Do we have any idea where and how readers will be installed? How fast is RFID reader technology developing? In the coming years readers are going to become much cheaper and have longer ranges and processing power. Worse (or better) these things will start to be networked, I can imagine by 2010 most mobile phones will have built RFID support, security cameras will probably have them fitted too, many building entrances and exits, computers, laptops, and some of these things will have pretty decent ranges or will be able to interact with other readers to get better signals.
This technology is too useful for people to ignore, for example you could have an RFID fire safety system that monitors which tags (just random things such as clothes) enter a building and which tags leave, if there's a fire there will be an instant count of who's in the building and even where, privacy issues will just be put aside because this is about saving lives.
In London this week the police used the travel log of a murdered lawyer to trace his stolen RFID ticket on the tube, this will be completely normal in 5 years, again privacy issues will be put aside because this is about solving murders and rapes.
You're not going to have a choice in RFID, everyone else will ignore the privacy issues forcing you to comply, any job you get will want you to carry an RFID card, if you want to travel you'll need an RFID ticket, if you use money it will have RFID in it, unless you pry it out of everything you buy you're pretty much certain to have at least one RFID tag on your person at all times within the next 5 years.
Im just going to keep a few cyanide capsules around. Unless he has some ideas about curing radiation sickness from a nuclear war, the various illnesses that will be going around after a massive natural disaster or the lack of sun for 100 years if an asteroid hits.
Well I can certainly see how it could be deemed unconstitutional but why not give Congress itself line item veto? If anyone can tack on anything they like then surely it would make sense that anyone else should be able to call a vote to veto that particular bill, not only that but its basic decency that everyone should consider the person who put it in to be an untrustworthy character. The media could do their bit by reporting every time anything is tacked on a bill and then the public can see whats going.
Im not an American but whats with all this hiding laws in other bills bullshit? Surely this is a most weaselly and below the belt tactic? Why is this accepted in anyway? Why does no-one automatically cry foul and make sure whoever did it looses all trust and respect? I can understand why you cant treat it as a hostage taking and automatically vote down any bill that's had something dodgy tacked on - obviously people would use that as a tool to get rid of bills but surely this sort of thing can be controlled or shunned out of practice? How does it work?
Email spam probably will die or decrease - its just starting to get old. People will realise that its not worth the hassle. What with spam filters, spam laws and people getting used to hating it, its slowly going to be less appealing to use. On the other hand there are a whole host of new mediums spammers can use - windows holes are a great delivery system for adware, and instant messaging is quite good - especially if a bot can trick someone for a few seconds, enough time to make the hit.
I'm all for nuclear power, every step away from fossil fuels is a step away from Saudi swine, every gallon of oil funds Saudi terrorists and the fascist little-girl-burning police. I know we can use coal but I feel that the very idea of burning fossil fuels is something the belongs in the dark-ages - kinda like Saudi Arabia. In case you didn't know I like to pick on that graping feces-hole excuse for a country. One day we will be free of them, oil is the only useful thing that's come out of that country in centuries.
I swear this isn't a troll or fb. Also my comments are directed at the Saudi establishment, police etc, and anyone like them, not the entire country, don't confuse this with racism.
Er yeah so to get back on topic, I think were going to find that we have no choice about nuclear power, with all the population growth, could we feasibly do anything else right now? How many nuclear plants could we replace with fossil fuel plants - considering all costs?
Were you watching a high definition version of harry potter? Normal DVD is slightly lower resolution than TV (if i remember right) and analogue broadcast TV shouldn't have any mpeg compression artifacts (which are quite visible if you look at DVDs especially around titles overlaid on picture) It might be that a small time TV station would have some old equipment, but otherwise normal DVD isn't really better - it would have been a waste of money to make it better since there's only so much you can do with the TV system.
If you think that's bad, you're in for a real treat when digital TV comes your way. Digital TV is all about cramming as many channels into expensive bandwidth as possible, as a result you get 1mbit/s mpeg and the compression really shows.
Instead of making the unlikely assumption that Walmart has a racist policy based on the recommendation of 3 films buy a computer, did anyone stop to ask why the system did this? I mean perhaps the films do have something in common, does anyone star in more than one of them? Do they have the same release date/year? or DVD release date? Do they share composers, directors or crew? Are they all catogorised under "American History"? Maybe the most fucking obvious reason is that several people who bought Planet of the Apes also bought these other films!!
The press is always ready for a scandel and never ready to actually follow it up with some investigative journalism. I guess its cheaper to just re-broadcast a video feed and pay the royalties or print something direct from AP.
DVD is dead and yet most people still have a VHS machine, I knew DVD wouldn't last, and neither will the next thing if it follows the same pattern. The standard will be hard-drive or network based players, that's whats still going to be around in 10/20 years. Sure hard drives might change and become something else but the idea will stay the same. You will have your movies on this box (which will also be a PVR and just about everything else. It doesn't matter how your movies get on there they will just be on there, sometimes you will stream films off a network service, sometimes you will burn them to DVD or whatever and take them to someone else. The box will be able to rip your existing DVD and maybe even VHS collection just like you PC rips your CD collection. When better systems come out you can just copy all your existing data over. Movie studios will accept this because they will produce these units and put in all sorts of DRM, we will accept this because it will be cracked within months, and all users will accept this because having to fit places to put cases, looking for the wrong disk in a load of boxes and dealing with scratched disks etc is something we should have given up already.
DVD was crap from the start, an unrecordable, region encoded, over-priced pile of shit and im amazed it caught on. I guess the only good thing about it was the brilliant marketing.
What goes through the minds of people that buy these things? Do you really want something that's dangerous to other people? Do you always want to be worrying that you're backing over someones child (I guess they just don't think at all). Maybe you think that your family is more important than everyone else's?
There will be a law requiring users (even home users) to ensure that their hardware is installed by 'qualified engineers' who can certify that there are no open access points especially on wireless networks. This will be similar to the wae you need to get your car, or maybe gas/electric systems certified. It will be against the law to share an IP address with anyone unless you can guarantee certain conditions such as being able to prove which real person has access at any moment. You will need more ID to open an ISP account, no more free dial-ups! and obviously you will have to have your ID scanned at internet cafes. In the interests of freedom (to make more revenue from lawsuits) many P2P networks will be allowed to operate, however they will need to provide full logs with all sorts of court mandated fields, and they'll need to store copies of every file shared across their network so its content can be used as evidence. Im surprised this isn't law already - there are so many cards you can play on this one - pedophilia, terrorism, piracy, hacking, stopping free 'communist' internet access...
RSS and sites like Google news, realistically make the concept of separate websites redundant. There's not really much point in slash code anymore, slashdot, fark, digg, etc etc might as well be just another blog and all blogs might as well just be one big RSS feed. All news sites might as well join in too and that goes for pretty much any site out there thats news based in any way. Pretty much everything else can go on Wikipedia and the rest can go on AmazonBay. we can make do with three websites for the entire world: one giant categorised RSS feed, one encyclopedia and one online auction and shop.
Well he does have a point, but that's not the point im trying to make. Obviously terrorists moving to other targets is no reason to lax airport security, but this has nothing to do with airport security, if it did then no-flyers would be arrested on sight, fact. There's no due process involved in these lists, you have no opportunity to present a case to be taken off, it sets a dangerous precedent that you can be punished for something but no court will open its doors to hear your appeal.
Could we possibly keep retardedness out of space? Perhaps if someone can point me to one single example of the no-fly list stopping a terrorist attack I would think differently. As it happens, 1000's of suspected terrorists (eg Rep. Don Young) are actually allowed to leave an airport without being arrested, when they CLEARLY tried to get on a plane! I mean how fucking more obvious can you get than going up to the counter and presenting your ticket! These people are suspected terrorists, the incentive is as clear as day and yet they are simply told "no you cant blow up this plane you're on the no fly list, why dont you try blowing up a bus on the way home instead?"
So what happens when you have to crawl or climb something with your hands and feet? Does the 5 pound weight turn into 150? What if you have to hit the deck, how are you supposed to get up easily? Whats the point in a system thats not designed to make you stronger, only to let you carry more weight over reasonable conditions, and only if someone else actually picks it up? Why invest so much in that when you can more cheaply just get an extra person in to share the load? I thought the point of exoskeletons was to make you stronger so you could pick up heavy things (by pick up i mean with your hands or robot hands) and have more stamina, so you could easily win hand to hand combat and so you could have a stable, smooth mount point for your gun to improve accuracy.
Im guessing what will happen is that the US will deal with the EU - GPS will be turned off entirely or severely crippled over the EU and Galileo will be turned off or crippled over the US in return. There are gonna be allot more of these systems in the near future, as the technology becomes more commoditized people like Iridium are going to say 'hell why not'.
The only thing in their way will be government action. But even if satellite navigation is strictly controlled, there are so many other forms of navigation you might as well give up trying. Mobile phone networks are starting their own form of positioning (and no viable terrorist target is going to be outside of a mobile network anyway!), you've got aviation VOR/ADF beacons and we're more or less on the verge of a device that you can just program "these are transmitters, theses are their carrier frequencies, these are their co-ordinates, now tell me mine". In the near future everyone will be able to know their position within less than 1 meter using one system or another, there will be a dozen ways to do it, they will all be affordable and no government will be able to stop it. We have to just accept it and move on.
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I think your one of those rare parents that understands that its your responsibility to control what media your kid sees, not the medias. Your absolutely right that the problem here is education for parents, who should understand that the government is not a spare nanny for their children and that if they have children its a big deal. Parents know their kids best and know when they are ready to experience certain things, kids know themselves and know what they are going to do or not do no matter what their parents say. People need to realise that their darling little kid is going to have sex, watch porn, drink, smoke and do drugs and do it all when they are too young and there is nothing you can do to stop them so your choice is pretty limited to letting them know what they are getting into and letting them try it in the safest way possible. Chastity programs are stupid and anyone who tells me that they (a guy) found god as a teenager and decided to not have sex or do anything 'immoral' is a fucking liar, no matter how fundamentalist they are or what religion they are. Everyone from Pat Robertson to Osama Bin Laden and the king of Saudi Arabia has dirty little secrets so to tell everyone else how to live their lives is bloody hypocritical.
I think Google should absolutely give the US government this list, however I have one slight change I think they should make. Instead of releasing how often porn turns up in results how about Google somehow gets the ages of users and compiles a statistic of how many times under-18's search for porn! I think its important to let Bush know that 99% of teenagers are only too pleased when porn comes up in search results.
On the other hand when I read the headline I assumed this was terrorism related, now I think about it im outraged that Bush is wasting time on pornography with the world where its at today! Not that I would want the US government looking at search queries.
I understand there are physics issues but I cant help but think there's a bit of unsinkable-ship thinking going on here. Remember Blue-only-a-few-feet-Tooth and Blue-tooth snipers? There might not be a direct way of doing it like turning the power up but if there any possibility then someone will find it. I was thinking along the lines of multiple detectors in different positions that could maybe pickup the same signal and work together to analyse it to really stretch the S/N limit, then there's the possibility of better tags being manufactured (better materials etc) that are more efficient with the limited power they get. Also there might be laws limiting transmitter power but laws can be broken or changed, im sure you could expect to see illegally powerful readers in the hands of high-tech RFID pick-pockets. There's also the tried and tested social engineering, and failing everything else just make sure you get the receiver as close as possible.
And as for cost look at the incredible evolution of mobile phones in the last 10 years, we've gone from clunky, expensive, power-hungry poor performers to DSP witchcraft in a box that seems to work whatever you do. All that's needed is something that everyday people will need receivers for and the market will take care of the rest.
There are so many potential security risks involved with miniature tags that respond to radio its just inevitable that some successful ones will emerge. How about leaving RFID stickers face down on the floor and letting them stick to peoples shoes?
I have to say Tesco are pure pure evil, but they are bloody useful, I had an old supermarket near me it was overpriced, crap quality and only open at traditional business hours, it shut down and was replaced by a tesco - cheap, everything you could imagine under one small roof, always open, always full of people, but I guess thats how the market works, if your business is old and bloated *cough* BT you're going to loose out, personally i find all telecoms companies here are overpriced and have crap service, my old mobile company cost me prices comparable with a satelite call! and 3G drops connections so much its like trying to talk through old-time radio. I think its going to be sad but necessary to take these big telecoms companies round the back and put a bullet in them, sad because there will be potentially so many redundancies but necessary because the world is moving on people now expect to be able to communicate anywhere with anyone for next to nothing. Companies like BT should know better I mean how long did it take for un-metered dial-up to appear? Why have we been using the same old system of analogue phones sampled at local exchanges when we could have pioneered and switched to an entirely digital phone system years ago thus saving allot of hassle and making high-speed net access built in? BT is big on research and they have failed to significantly change the way they do business, therefore they are going to go out of business.
RFID tags maybe the privacy issue but whats really going to matter are readers. Do we have any idea where and how readers will be installed? How fast is RFID reader technology developing? In the coming years readers are going to become much cheaper and have longer ranges and processing power. Worse (or better) these things will start to be networked, I can imagine by 2010 most mobile phones will have built RFID support, security cameras will probably have them fitted too, many building entrances and exits, computers, laptops, and some of these things will have pretty decent ranges or will be able to interact with other readers to get better signals.
This technology is too useful for people to ignore, for example you could have an RFID fire safety system that monitors which tags (just random things such as clothes) enter a building and which tags leave, if there's a fire there will be an instant count of who's in the building and even where, privacy issues will just be put aside because this is about saving lives.
In London this week the police used the travel log of a murdered lawyer to trace his stolen RFID ticket on the tube, this will be completely normal in 5 years, again privacy issues will be put aside because this is about solving murders and rapes.
You're not going to have a choice in RFID, everyone else will ignore the privacy issues forcing you to comply, any job you get will want you to carry an RFID card, if you want to travel you'll need an RFID ticket, if you use money it will have RFID in it, unless you pry it out of everything you buy you're pretty much certain to have at least one RFID tag on your person at all times within the next 5 years.
Im just going to keep a few cyanide capsules around. Unless he has some ideas about curing radiation sickness from a nuclear war, the various illnesses that will be going around after a massive natural disaster or the lack of sun for 100 years if an asteroid hits.
Well I can certainly see how it could be deemed unconstitutional but why not give Congress itself line item veto? If anyone can tack on anything they like then surely it would make sense that anyone else should be able to call a vote to veto that particular bill, not only that but its basic decency that everyone should consider the person who put it in to be an untrustworthy character. The media could do their bit by reporting every time anything is tacked on a bill and then the public can see whats going.
Im not an American but whats with all this hiding laws in other bills bullshit? Surely this is a most weaselly and below the belt tactic? Why is this accepted in anyway? Why does no-one automatically cry foul and make sure whoever did it looses all trust and respect? I can understand why you cant treat it as a hostage taking and automatically vote down any bill that's had something dodgy tacked on - obviously people would use that as a tool to get rid of bills but surely this sort of thing can be controlled or shunned out of practice? How does it work?
Email spam probably will die or decrease - its just starting to get old. People will realise that its not worth the hassle. What with spam filters, spam laws and people getting used to hating it, its slowly going to be less appealing to use. On the other hand there are a whole host of new mediums spammers can use - windows holes are a great delivery system for adware, and instant messaging is quite good - especially if a bot can trick someone for a few seconds, enough time to make the hit.
I'm all for nuclear power, every step away from fossil fuels is a step away from Saudi swine, every gallon of oil funds Saudi terrorists and the fascist little-girl-burning police. I know we can use coal but I feel that the very idea of burning fossil fuels is something the belongs in the dark-ages - kinda like Saudi Arabia. In case you didn't know I like to pick on that graping feces-hole excuse for a country. One day we will be free of them, oil is the only useful thing that's come out of that country in centuries.
I swear this isn't a troll or fb. Also my comments are directed at the Saudi establishment, police etc, and anyone like them, not the entire country, don't confuse this with racism.
Er yeah so to get back on topic, I think were going to find that we have no choice about nuclear power, with all the population growth, could we feasibly do anything else right now? How many nuclear plants could we replace with fossil fuel plants - considering all costs?
Now thats a recommendation!
Were you watching a high definition version of harry potter? Normal DVD is slightly lower resolution than TV (if i remember right) and analogue broadcast TV shouldn't have any mpeg compression artifacts (which are quite visible if you look at DVDs especially around titles overlaid on picture) It might be that a small time TV station would have some old equipment, but otherwise normal DVD isn't really better - it would have been a waste of money to make it better since there's only so much you can do with the TV system.
If you think that's bad, you're in for a real treat when digital TV comes your way. Digital TV is all about cramming as many channels into expensive bandwidth as possible, as a result you get 1mbit/s mpeg and the compression really shows.
Instead of making the unlikely assumption that Walmart has a racist policy based on the recommendation of 3 films buy a computer, did anyone stop to ask why the system did this? I mean perhaps the films do have something in common, does anyone star in more than one of them? Do they have the same release date/year? or DVD release date? Do they share composers, directors or crew? Are they all catogorised under "American History"? Maybe the most fucking obvious reason is that several people who bought Planet of the Apes also bought these other films!!
The press is always ready for a scandel and never ready to actually follow it up with some investigative journalism. I guess its cheaper to just re-broadcast a video feed and pay the royalties or print something direct from AP.
DVD is dead and yet most people still have a VHS machine, I knew DVD wouldn't last, and neither will the next thing if it follows the same pattern. The standard will be hard-drive or network based players, that's whats still going to be around in 10/20 years. Sure hard drives might change and become something else but the idea will stay the same. You will have your movies on this box (which will also be a PVR and just about everything else. It doesn't matter how your movies get on there they will just be on there, sometimes you will stream films off a network service, sometimes you will burn them to DVD or whatever and take them to someone else. The box will be able to rip your existing DVD and maybe even VHS collection just like you PC rips your CD collection. When better systems come out you can just copy all your existing data over. Movie studios will accept this because they will produce these units and put in all sorts of DRM, we will accept this because it will be cracked within months, and all users will accept this because having to fit places to put cases, looking for the wrong disk in a load of boxes and dealing with scratched disks etc is something we should have given up already.
DVD was crap from the start, an unrecordable, region encoded, over-priced pile of shit and im amazed it caught on. I guess the only good thing about it was the brilliant marketing.
What goes through the minds of people that buy these things? Do you really want something that's dangerous to other people? Do you always want to be worrying that you're backing over someones child (I guess they just don't think at all). Maybe you think that your family is more important than everyone else's?
There will be a law requiring users (even home users) to ensure that their hardware is installed by 'qualified engineers' who can certify that there are no open access points especially on wireless networks. This will be similar to the wae you need to get your car, or maybe gas/electric systems certified. It will be against the law to share an IP address with anyone unless you can guarantee certain conditions such as being able to prove which real person has access at any moment. You will need more ID to open an ISP account, no more free dial-ups! and obviously you will have to have your ID scanned at internet cafes. In the interests of freedom (to make more revenue from lawsuits) many P2P networks will be allowed to operate, however they will need to provide full logs with all sorts of court mandated fields, and they'll need to store copies of every file shared across their network so its content can be used as evidence. Im surprised this isn't law already - there are so many cards you can play on this one - pedophilia, terrorism, piracy, hacking, stopping free 'communist' internet access...
RSS and sites like Google news, realistically make the concept of separate websites redundant. There's not really much point in slash code anymore, slashdot, fark, digg, etc etc might as well be just another blog and all blogs might as well just be one big RSS feed. All news sites might as well join in too and that goes for pretty much any site out there thats news based in any way. Pretty much everything else can go on Wikipedia and the rest can go on AmazonBay. we can make do with three websites for the entire world: one giant categorised RSS feed, one encyclopedia and one online auction and shop.
So why haven't we? (not that I want to).
Well he does have a point, but that's not the point im trying to make. Obviously terrorists moving to other targets is no reason to lax airport security, but this has nothing to do with airport security, if it did then no-flyers would be arrested on sight, fact. There's no due process involved in these lists, you have no opportunity to present a case to be taken off, it sets a dangerous precedent that you can be punished for something but no court will open its doors to hear your appeal.
Could we possibly keep retardedness out of space? Perhaps if someone can point me to one single example of the no-fly list stopping a terrorist attack I would think differently. As it happens, 1000's of suspected terrorists (eg Rep. Don Young) are actually allowed to leave an airport without being arrested, when they CLEARLY tried to get on a plane! I mean how fucking more obvious can you get than going up to the counter and presenting your ticket! These people are suspected terrorists, the incentive is as clear as day and yet they are simply told "no you cant blow up this plane you're on the no fly list, why dont you try blowing up a bus on the way home instead?"
Am I missing something here?
How many years have we known this? or is this just another Slashdot paid ad to mention the word iPod?
So what happens when you have to crawl or climb something with your hands and feet? Does the 5 pound weight turn into 150? What if you have to hit the deck, how are you supposed to get up easily? Whats the point in a system thats not designed to make you stronger, only to let you carry more weight over reasonable conditions, and only if someone else actually picks it up? Why invest so much in that when you can more cheaply just get an extra person in to share the load? I thought the point of exoskeletons was to make you stronger so you could pick up heavy things (by pick up i mean with your hands or robot hands) and have more stamina, so you could easily win hand to hand combat and so you could have a stable, smooth mount point for your gun to improve accuracy.
So is that spelt "Im anal" or "I'am anal"? I believe thats a contraction of your anus, or is it "that's"?
What did I get wrong in terms of GPS?
What did I get wrong?
Im guessing what will happen is that the US will deal with the EU - GPS will be turned off entirely or severely crippled over the EU and Galileo will be turned off or crippled over the US in return. There are gonna be allot more of these systems in the near future, as the technology becomes more commoditized people like Iridium are going to say 'hell why not'.
The only thing in their way will be government action. But even if satellite navigation is strictly controlled, there are so many other forms of navigation you might as well give up trying. Mobile phone networks are starting their own form of positioning (and no viable terrorist target is going to be outside of a mobile network anyway!), you've got aviation VOR/ADF beacons and we're more or less on the verge of a device that you can just program "these are transmitters, theses are their carrier frequencies, these are their co-ordinates, now tell me mine". In the near future everyone will be able to know their position within less than 1 meter using one system or another, there will be a dozen ways to do it, they will all be affordable and no government will be able to stop it. We have to just accept it and move on.
Would anyone mod me down if I was to say that Jack Thompson is a retard who better not be trying to take over Take2 to take my GTA away from me?