In message <55371.12.6.201.2.1299648580.squir...@popaccts.quikus.com>, "J. Fors ter" writes:
>"in reality more than 90 percent of the users of GPS worldwide use it >primarily for a timing reference." > >That makes the LORAN shutdown look even more idiotiuc! Well, how can you argue with closing a system that was aiding terrorists ? The reason LORAN-C got killed was that DoD/DHS couldn't jam it if a terrorist with a suitcase-nuke was trying to find his way to Congress. Your government money at work... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.