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I care more about airplanes, ships, trucks, and things of that nature. People will be able to get along fine with no GPS, a large ship transiting the Panama Can
by ok_dad 2y ago
I care more about airplanes, ships, trucks, and things of that nature. People will be able to get along fine with no GPS, a large ship transiting the Panama Canal will NOT be fine without GPS.
- barbazoo 2y agoThey can't turn it off completely without hurting themselves, the US needs high precision GPS around the world, so I doubt they'd do that.
- rich_sasha 2y agoGPS has two modes of operation, one low precision and one high precision one, which can optionally be encrypted. It would still be usable for military, but not for others. The low-precision mode might still be available publicly.
- KennyBlanken 2y agoYou're confusing selective availability, which is on the civilian side, with bands. There are four civilian bands, with a fifth in the works for critical uses. There are two military bands, and they are encrypted. The military bands (two) have always been encrypted and being on different bands, cannot be received at all by civilian receivers, though I imagine it's mostly a firmware change with some minor hardware changes. Don't talk about things you wildly do not understand or know anything about.
- rich_sasha 2y ago> Don't talk about things you wildly do not understand or know anything about. Can't see why I wouldn't on a tech forum. Certainly not because some rando on said forum instructs me so. Good day.
- ok_dad 2y agoI would have thought the USA government wouldn’t shoot itself in the face, but look at the current stuff going on. I’m not sure they wouldn’t fuck over all the users of GPS at this point, including themselves.