N2EY wrote:
In article . com,
"K4YZ"
writes:

"The Shrub"...?!?!

Yes.

If it's OK to call President Clinton "Slick Willy", then it's also OK
to call
President Bush "the shrub".

"April Fool's Joke"...?!?!

Hans, you're an idiot or an Al-Queda supporter.

I don't think he's either.

How do I know this?

Because ONLY an idiot or an Al-Queda supporter could suggest that
making it difficult for terrorists to use our own systems against us
is
an "April Fool's Joke".

Why are we so dependent on such systems in the first place?

BTW...I correct my earlier statement about Slick Willy making the
GPS net available in "93 or 94"...that was when he initially
suggested
it. It became effective in 2000. It was discussed in Flying
magazine
as early and the late 80's.

None-the-less, the idea of being able to inhibit or completely
disable the system is STILL not new, and I for one hope they DO keep
the reigns on it! It was an error to let it loose in the first
place.

You mean "reins"?

IIRC, the inhibition was turned off before Gulf War 1 and simply left
turned
off.

Had to do with inhibiting high-accuracy commercial applications like
surveying and precison aircarft navigation AND the competition. The
Russians have their own GPS system and the Euros are developing yet
another one. Down the road the most accurate of the three systems is
where the traffic will go and there's big bucks at stake in that.
w3rv



73 de Jim, N2EY

wrote


Had to do with inhibiting high-accuracy commercial applications like
surveying and precison aircarft navigation AND the competition.


There are industries, including things as basic as grain farming which depend on
the current accuracy of the GPS system.

Some sheet-head with a bomb doesn't need GPS to find a tall building to target,
but many segments of our economy depend on it. Taking down GPS for that reason
is equivalent to taking down the world-wide-web because Tim McVeigh used it to
look up the address of the Federal Building in OKC.

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" ) writes:
wrote


Had to do with inhibiting high-accuracy commercial applications like
surveying and precison aircarft navigation AND the competition.


There are industries, including things as basic as grain farming which depend on
the current accuracy of the GPS system.

Some sheet-head with a bomb doesn't need GPS to find a tall building to target,
but many segments of our economy depend on it. Taking down GPS for that reason
is equivalent to taking down the world-wide-web because Tim McVeigh used it to
look up the address of the Federal Building in OKC.

73, de Hans, K0HB

But it is sort of interesting, since it's akin to shutting down radio
stations so they can't be beacons in times of war, and countries taking
down signs so invaders would have a bit more difficulty and lights being
kept low during WWII. In other words, there is precedence.

On the other hand, you're right, it would affect quite a bit at this
point. And unless there is all out war, one has to balance the danger
of something against the inconvenience.

Michael VE2BVW