[opendtv] Re: Europe lobbies to wrest Internet control from U.S.

  • From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:12:45 -0500

Stephen W. Long wrote:

>We've heard this same stuff about GPS.  At SMPTE meetings I ran, got grief
>from some junior members of delegations griping about the USA owning the
>GPS system.  My response back to them was - fine, if you don't like it,
>build your own.
>  
>


That's exactly what they are doing.

This costs us big money: we have to send up new satellites for ours that 
are capable
of both jamming and spoofing theirs, so that in case of military 
emergency we
can still keep control.

Doug McDonald
 
 
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