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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Subject: Re: GPS Availability
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.181355.6239@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 18:13:55 GMT
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- Others said
- # Nope. Selective Availability (the deliberate pseudorandom "fuzz" introduced
- # by the DoD) is very much back in force. Pity.
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- I've never really understood this. What possible difference does
- several hundred meters error make to either:
- a) an incoming 3 gigaton warhead
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- b) or even an [also incoming] t-52 tank
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- I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here......
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- --
- A host is a host from coast to coast..wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
- & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
- Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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