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Re:Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interfe... by Terry_Roll on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:09AM (#30661874)
> GPS spoofer), surely I don’t want to alert the enemy to it, lest they develop defences

What normally happens is the GPS stops working and then you lose your satnav, so you dont know where you are going until you reset the satnav and even then it might not work. This is why Streetview logged all the wifi it could find and uses wifi to roughly place a phone in an area to make the gps locating algorithms faster.

Now it could be a way to get a jet to fly over enemy territory, but it could also be an excuse to false flag. Russia's Satnav is better around the north and south pole, the US is better around the equator from what I understand.

With the fog of war, its impossible for most people to know who is telling the truth, in much the same way its impossible to tell if a multivitamin contains what is claimed on the bottle, or some cheese has been aged for several years and not several months.

Society is constructed in such a way to be dependent on others and have to trust others which means you can be manipulated by more knowledgeable persons.

In other words we are all pawns.

Re:Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interfe... by Ntrails on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:26AM (#30662042)
> Society is constructed in such a way to be dependent on others and have to trust others which means you can be manipulated by more knowledgeable persons.

I would describe it as co-dependence in order to be able to have a combined knowledge base greater than any single person could contain. You make it sound like a weakness rather than a strength!

I cannot explain how floating points work, but I can explain how linear regression works. This scales up millions of times as people rely on expertise differentials and not first principals.

I am both pawn and player.

Re:Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interfe... by Terry_Roll on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:25PM (#30662758)
> I am both pawn and player.

No we are both pawns and useful idiots, because of the butterfly effect.

Re:Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interfe... by altcognito on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:44PM (#30663002)
This is a rejection of your own agency. You don't have to know the whole truth about every detail to be able to come to a reasonable conclusion.

If you think it is difficult or tricky being dependent on others and trusting others, I'd suggest the contrary is much worse.