Re: U.S. Researchers Crack Codes to ESA's Galileo GPS

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>]

Drsolly wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, der Mouse wrote:
>
>   
> > > Galileo is Europe's answer to the United States' GPS.
> > >       
> > Ummm...I mist be missing something.  How can a closed, for-pay system
> > be an "answer to" a wide-open system that still works perfectly well?
> >     
>
> A) it's more accurate, and 
>
> B) if Bush decides that open access helps the "turists" then they'll close
> it, and we'll be left without a GPS unless we make our own.
Indeed.  Have we forgotten the civilian GPS "fuzzing" feature they
disabled in Gulf War I?

Jeff

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