True. And it was immediately reversed when Merkel's conservative government took over. And then again reversed by the same conservative led government after Fukushima.
As OP hasn't replied yet, I'll take the liberty. The biggest issue is interference (jamming) by malicious actors. This is especially common in the eastern Mediterranean [1]. Earlier this year there have also been reports of interference on Finland's border with Russia [2].
Of course one could imagine other scenarios where GPS might become inaccurate or unavailable on a larger scale, such as an attack on the satellites themselves.
> The biggest issue is interference (jamming) by malicious actors.
And not necessarily malicious. Before I ditched Strava (insert separate rant about tech "ecosystems"), one of my bike rides took me near a nuclear power plant. The resulting GPS track had a sudden hundreds-of-feet "climb" near the power plant that didn't exist in the real world, as if I had literally climbed a wall on my bike.
in android, the GPS config file (some xml) file will do the trick of making the at least the GPS/Location system on the phone unreliable. Apparently each country has their own config file. Found this out when a friend used the Android bought in China in US. So no GPS is NOT reliable for critical situations, it is more a consumer connivence ATM.
I'm going with that this whole thread is extremely astroturfed and that the shills are out in full force. For the sake of my own sanity. FUCK the RIAA.
The shipping industry offers a transportation service to its customers. In the bulk area, not leaving your customers to clean hundreds of containers is part of the service.
>It’s gotten to the point where I trust eBay more.
Absolutely! I recently bought a simple item, a roll of wiring loom tape. It was on Amazon and had a few reviews that stated that the received tape was old and didn't stick very well anymore.
Same item on eBay for cheaper has the seller specifically mentioning that they only sell fresh tape from the running production, not old stock. Even better, the seller specialized in these (and other) tapes.
It seems that eBay has just cultivated a much higher quality base of vendors. Many of them seem specialized.
