[GOP Poet]

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[shibumi]

This is the reason that three of my four vehicles are pre-1994 vintage, swept clean for any RFID tags in the parts and capable of off-road travel.

(Not paranoid, mind you - well, maybe just a little.....)

[mindburglar]

To be renamed “Skynet”.

[Bobalu]

The system is so precise that adjustments must be made because of the speed of the orbiting satellites. You see their speed changes the rate that time passes for the equipment on board compared to equipment on the ground. If the time rate change was not taken into account then the location data would be way off.

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

[Sarajevo]

Without it, ATMs would stop spitting out cash, Wall Street could blunder billions of dollars in stock trades and clueless drivers would get lost.

OK, I understand that some people can't read a map, but the article didn't mention how this affects ATM's and Wall Street.

Can anyone explain?

[visualops]

compared with a margin of error of 20 feet or more today

lol gps can be way more wrong that that

[bmwcyle]

GPS is an important New World Order tool to track you. They can’t let is die.

[BobL]

GPS is a great system to guide incoming missiles to their targets. So, for that matter, the military can turn it off at a moment’s notice.

Think about that the next time you drive in an unfamiliar town.