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GPS Flaw: Security Expert Says He Won't Fly April 6
Tom's Guide ^ | Paul Wagenseil

Posted on 03/08/2019 7:02:08 PM PST by cba123

Don't look now, but there's another Y2K-like computer-calendar problem on the way, and this one arrives in just one month: April 6, 2019.

(Excerpt) Read more at tomsguide.com ...


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To: roadcat

Paper maps are great
iPhone maps are damn good tho


41 posted on 03/08/2019 9:23:28 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: cba123

This security “expert” is a moron. Even if GPS worldwide takes a dump that day, unless it takes out transponders and radars, too, I don’t see anything beyond a minor glitch.


42 posted on 03/08/2019 9:24:39 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: _Jim

I just checked your personal page.

WOW.

Too late tonight to read all of that, but I plan to later.

I did note the link on tracking thunderstorms.

When I quit there was a gadget whose name I can’t recall right now, but it tracked lightning discharges and presented their location on a 360 degree instrument.

Several of the guys that flew off my home base had it along with radar.

I stuck with radar. I have often thought it would be fun to get an old one and set it up on the farm so as to track bad storms.

But too much trouble and any thunderstorm is a bad storm. It only takes one strike. That is one game where you don’t get three.


43 posted on 03/08/2019 9:26:06 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: frank ballenger

I liked all the stories about microwave ovens, washing machines, and ANYTHING electronic that doesn’t track the date in any way is supposed to be affected. A lot of electronics “experts” got bit on the ass with that. It was a great chance to pick up some great bargain camping gear, though, so hype this, too.


44 posted on 03/08/2019 9:27:44 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

See post 29


45 posted on 03/08/2019 9:27:49 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Vendome

Yep, and I got to buy camping gear off them at fire-sale prices.


46 posted on 03/08/2019 9:28:57 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: old curmudgeon

re: “I just checked your personal page.”

And then there’s my QRZ.com page (that shall remain undisclosed) :)


47 posted on 03/08/2019 9:30:54 PM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Magnum44

Hi Magnum44,

My wife and I have fond memories of meeting you in 2009. I hope that you’re doing well. I spoke at AF Space Command in 2016. There are more details at www.gpsdeclassified.com


48 posted on 03/08/2019 9:33:28 PM PST by Richard from IL
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To: edh

“I do miss maps” Then start collecting them, they are still available.


49 posted on 03/08/2019 9:39:27 PM PST by Cold Heart (Oregon, tyranny and taxes)
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To: adaven

I’m in Telecom and was at the time as well as on the computer company at one point

Nothing happened that was catastrophic or of any note


50 posted on 03/08/2019 9:44:56 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: _Jim

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51 posted on 03/08/2019 9:50:30 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: Fungi

My Tandy 100 never worked after 2000.


52 posted on 03/08/2019 10:15:26 PM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: SubMareener
DANG ! I miss my Tandy. Holy carp that was a nice little computer.

great. I'm old.

53 posted on 03/08/2019 10:38:14 PM PST by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: donna
Who invented the Global Positioning System?

Your Dad?

That’s wonderful.

Are you ok ?

54 posted on 03/08/2019 10:40:11 PM PST by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: cba123

Bookmark


55 posted on 03/08/2019 10:49:26 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks cba123. I'm not going to fly on the other 364 days, either.

56 posted on 03/08/2019 11:19:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: onona; Richard from IL

Check Richard from IL FR home page. He has a link there.


57 posted on 03/08/2019 11:29:16 PM PST by donna (Finish the Wall)
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To: cba123

Well...

If it is “Y2K-like”...

Then no problem.

At all.


58 posted on 03/09/2019 1:10:28 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: donna

Someone invented it.

Might just be his Dad.


59 posted on 03/09/2019 1:45:03 AM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Clutch Martin
every bit of critical infrastructure in this country all had manual backup processes

Yeah but it is that restore that gets you

60 posted on 03/09/2019 2:36:49 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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