In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Langer writ
es:
>Thus spake Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> satellites sitting thousands of miles away in the sky. It's even more
>> impressive to see the government do something right for a change!
>
>It's much more idiotic that the government prevented it before.
Well, they have added a new feature (which I can't talk about because I'm
not supposed to know about how it works) which gives them an even more
interesting and powerful DOS on the GPS system. I doesn't quite work
by postal code, but it comes *very* close.
>That just means that military use is even better already, i.e. I just
>imagine they are at 1m or less already.
Not quite, the military system is only better because it has two
frequencies, and that doesn't improve things *that* much.
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