On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:00:47AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hopefully European GPS project (Galileo) will provide an alternative. > > > > It still has a long way to go though. > > > > > > Galileo strikes me as unnecessary, unless the receivers will be > > > cheaper to get the same resolution. The 1 meter resolution seems > > > a little poor, compared to differential. > > > > Galileo may be unnecessary *if* you trust the US. As a European, > > my view of US and European politics is that they're sufficiently > > different (both in methods and goals) that I don't trust the US > > that much. Thus I think Galileo is a good thing, even if it'll be > > very expensive.
.. > nice target lock for transmitters at all U.S. commercial airports > that were installed to de-wiggle the signal. 8-). > > If it comes down to it, the U.S. has the capability of "turning > off" Galileo, if it ever felt that it needed to do so. 8-) 8-). While not stepping up to solve the world politics: the US government claiming the right to define the law for everything is unnerving to lots of non-US (and US I suppose) people alike. GPS is just one of these things.. -- | / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands We are FreeBSD. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be committed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
