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Phillip Tennen wrote: A few months ago I learned that there were only around 30 GPS satellites serving the entire planet.
I suspect that is all the GNSS you know of.
Well, truth to be told: When I bought my current mobile in early spring 2016, using it properly for positioning would have been against the law in USA: For another two years, receiving positioning information from Galileo satellites was considered 'communicating with a foreign satellite system', which was not permitted until November 2018. I have not seen similar information for GLONASS, but would be surprised if communicating with Russian satellites were more acceptable than communicating with European ones. Even more so for the BeiDou system from China (which we call Red China).
Any decent smartphone sold in Europe for the last few years can handle both GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. My 2016 vintage S7 only handles the first two of these. At the moment, the two have 14 satellites over my head. I guess doubling the number of GNSS services would roughly double the number of satellites over my head as well. Wikipedia tells me that until Nov. 2018, S7 phones sold in the US had Galileo blocked, and needed a software update when listening to them became legal.
Fact is, if the entire GPS network was bombed, all 30 satellites at the same time, it would take a long time before non-US smartphone users (and users of dedicated GNSS equipment) would notice. With the old US panic for 'communicating with foreign satellite systems', I wonder what would be the result in USA. Would a total breakdown of GPS paralyze a lot of activities, because Usatians are so patriotic that they will not communicate with foreign satellites? Or maybe reject Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou on NIH grounds?
Or would most Usatian people and systems be as unaffected by a GPS breakdown as European customers? In particular (but I do not expect any reliable answer to this!), has the USAF degraded themselves to install duplicate (triplicate, quadruplicate) NIH GNSS solutions in their various systems, in case GPS is sabotaged?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The US Space Force announced Thursday it is partnering with two companies, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly, for a first-of-its-kind mission to demonstrate how the military might counter "on-orbit aggression." They just have to convince the aliens to line up and only come in waves
{Insert your choice of Space Invaders or Galaga theme music here}
it was either that, or a Kobayashi Maru reference
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Moonraker. With the silver verses yellow jumpsuits.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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 I wish I had remembered that one in time.
Pew pew!
TTFN - Kent
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Kent, see the time difference between my post and your original? That's how long it took me to remember it so don't kick yourself.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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I'm not saying it's ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) -ing space aliens, but it's -ing space aliens!
-- Wolfenstein 2
Wolfenstein 2 - I'm Not Saying It's Aliens Scene
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I worked on Hawaii, I wonder what region is next. Prolly my house. It's been real y'all. 
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The BBC has just shared another video from its archives, this one showing a report about computer addicts from way back in 1983, when computers were just starting to find their way into the workplace and home. (some of) You are here
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You like doing something I don't? Must be addiction.
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This is the way. 
TTFN - Kent
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.NET Framework port enables backward compatibility for modern software Great news for people that have been holding off from upgrading
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So he ported software from a 25-year-old obsolete O/S to a 28-year-old obsolete O/S. I admire his tenacity and technical skills, but haven't the slightest urge to emulate them.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's safe to say Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pretty jazzed about generative AI's potential to drive profits. He didn't want to say it would be bigger than the wheel or sliced bread?
Hyperbole is the BEST THING EVER
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Let it drive his car before it drives profits. ...something, something, parked emergency vehicle, something, something <tongue-in-cheek> < ouroboros sarcasm >
(interesting. try typing <oroboros sarcasm=""> and not getting the '=""' - what is triggering that?)
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A recent study shows that the cloud benefits the IT department more than other business areas. That’s not enough to make it a success. Ssssssshhhocking!
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JetBrains IDE Services centralizes management of JetBrains IDEs, JetBrains AI, remote development environments, and collaborative programming. An IDE IDE
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In this article, we’ll explore Uno Platform implementations using a ChatGPT-enabled chat application. Write once, AI everywhere
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Deeply immersive and fully interactive, Holodeck-created environments are infinitely customizable, using nothing but language; the crew has only to ask the computer to generate an environment, and that space appears in the Holodeck. And now Moriarty is running amok again
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It has only been a couple of days since an ex-Microsoft veteran engineer had heavily criticized the performance of Windows 11, especially the Start menu Everyone's piling on - taking my job away from me!
A counterpoint: this latest one was responsible (if memory serves) for Vista
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A counterpoint: this latest one was responsible (if memory serves) for Vista
Then he knows his sh*t!
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David O'Neil wrote: sh*t
I believe that's spelled:
sh⁎t
But I might be incorrect.
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In the first quarter of 2024, funding deals within the cybersecurity sector experienced a significant decline of 20% year over year, amounting to $2.3 billion, according to Pinpoint Search Group. And a hacking upturn in Q2 2024
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Windows defines values for the access rights STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ, STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE, and STANDARD_RIGHTS_EXECUTE. But if you look at their definitions, they are all defined to be the same thing, namely, READ_CONTROL. It's because they're supposed to have accents
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Following three years of intensive research, an international team of researchers have compiled the first ever "World Cybercrime Index," which identifies the globe's key cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level. I'm keeping my eye on you, Tokelau
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Top 10 not a real surprise...
If the ranking was about being easily hacked... Germany would be the first. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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