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Why on earth does the military-industrial complex need to spend money on a duplicate, irrelevant technology? I worked at Trimble Nav in the radio group, and the
by disposeofnick9 10y ago
Why on earth does the military-industrial complex need to spend money on a duplicate, irrelevant technology? I worked at Trimble Nav in the radio group, and the POTUS has the ability to increase selective available (SA) to an enormous number (which can be defeated by differential/kinematic corrections, but was set to 0 by executive order under Clinton) or disable the unencrypted channel entirely for a particular region or the entire planet (which includes space). WTF!
- jhayward 10y agoSatellites designed after May 2000 no longer have SA capability.
- disposeofnick9 10y agobecause it's pointless and since areas can be and have been turned off for non-military receivers.
- jhayward 10y agoNo, it has never been turned off since it first went to full availability [1]. [1] http://www.gps.gov/support/faq/#off http://www.gps.gov/support/faq/#off
- mkehrt 10y agoPresumably whatever they are testing will work on other, similar systems over which the US military does not have control.
- zeveb 10y ago> Why on earth does the military-industrial complex need to spend money on a duplicate, irrelevant technology? Why on earth do data centres need to spend money on duplicative, irrelevant RAID-1 disks?