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Europe's Own SatNav Galileo Goes Live

posted by FatPhil on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the god-didn't-buy-any-of-these dept.

On IRC, Bytram brings us:

After 17 years, numerous setbacks and three times over budget, Europe's Galileo satnav system went live on Thursday promising to outperform rivals and guarantee regional self-reliance.

Initial services, free to users worldwide, are available only on smartphones and navigation units fitted with Galileo-compatible microchips.

Some devices may need only a software update to start using the service, according to the European Commission, which funds the 10 billion euro ($11 billion) project.

Source: http://phys.org/news/2016-12-galileo-europe-satnav.html

There's a list of Galileo-enabled devices at www.useGalileo.eu. One thought that goes through this editor's mind is that wIth two sources of data, the deliberate inaccuracy in the US military system seems somewhat futile now, I wonder if that misfeature is reaching end-of-life?

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:52AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:52AM (#442323) Homepage

    Europe has much bigger problems - it is presently under attack from weaponized refugees.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 17 2016, @03:04AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday December 17 2016, @03:04AM (#442340) Homepage

    Modded Flamebait, huh.

    Europe will be in the third-world in another few years, and there's not a goddamn thing they're gonna do to stop it. They are victims of widespread social engineering. Our experiment is complete. We now know that inducing and leveraging guilt (which is not a new concept, see Original Sin [wikipedia.org] and learned helplessness [wikipedia.org] ) at an institutional level level will render chaos to the subjects, who can all be rebuilt to our whims at best, or be rendered too divided to present a threat at least.

    Ha ha, yes. It's going all as planned.

    It's no wonder that European Franz Kafka always died at the end of his good books, he was too much of a pussy to fight back.