In message <[email protected]>, Javier Herrero writes:
>El 09/03/2011 06:29, J. Forster escribi=F3:
>> This is a surprise:
>>
>> "in reality more than 90 percent of the users of GPS worldwide use it
>> primarily for a timing reference."
>>
>>
>This is a phallacy, except if we are taking into account indirect GPS
>users, 

By far the biggest one is cell-phone base stations, and since these
don't work without good timesync (See recent story about the Koreas)
I think it is fair to include the "indirect users" in the collateral
damage.

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