G,

I agree that GA is screwed here - but not because of pride. Just plain
dumbness.

As for Galileo, well, I used to think it was stupid European pride. In
fact, you'll probably find posts by me through Google, where I'm saying
what a waste of money it is to reinvent the wheel for the benefit of
EADS on the bill of the EU tax payer.

Then, along comes Baby-Bush announcing he might just switch GPS off at
his rather dangerous and illogical whim. All of a sudden, Galileo makes
a lot more sense. Sadly.

Also, as I mentioned earlier, I have to wonder about the practicality.
A huge part of emergency response and police forces rely heavily on GPS
to do their thing. In all probability, MORE harm would be done by
switching off GPS after or during a GPS based attack.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)