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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by mikeash on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:00AM (#13427279)
The lack of any mention of a major military conflict on nytimes.com, cnn.com, and news.google.com is a pretty good indication. You don't need to care about a half-finished GNSS system if you're just bombing ISIS.
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by SolarNet on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @12:18PM (#13428105)
Unless you wanna kill it before it is deployed. For example if the U.S. was aware that a nation state was about to pull out on funding for it and wanted to keep the economic dominance of GPS.
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by Piskvorrr on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @02:39PM (#13429606)
Ukraine?
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by mikeash on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:15PM (#13429883)
They'd jam GLONASS and block GPS in the area as well, if that were the case.
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by dogma1138 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:35PM (#13430053)
Ukraine is a major military conflict? Mexican drug related violence kills more per month than what is going in Ukraine for the past 3 years.
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by frandroid on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:51PM (#13430633)
Mexican drug wars are violent but do not involve competing state militaries, so I would not call it a major military conflict. It's a criminal problem being solved using the military.
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by dogma1138 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:15PM (#13431409)
There are no competing state militaries, whilst Russia is involved it's military isn't there in any major capacity.

As far as the fighting goes the Ukraine is negligible considering all the armed conflicts around the world.

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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by Piskvorrr on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:56PM (#13431249)
In the same vein, alcohol kills more per month than drug gangs. Doesn't make either of those a war, regardless of rhetoric.
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by SixSigma on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:35PM (#13428932)
Sat January 14, 2017

Poland welcomes thousands of US troops in NATO show of force

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/14/europe/poland-us-troops-nato-w...

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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by mikeash on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:46PM (#13429077)
Are you proposing that the US would hack Galileo as part of stationing a few thousand soldiers on an ally's territory?
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Re:Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures by jessaustin on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:07PM (#13429819)
C'mon man keep up; all hacking now is the Russians. Just like a few years ago it was all the Chinese.
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