On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:53:25 +0000, Tom Francis wrote:

After doing some searching, I've found complaints from the
Agricultural community in the US and in Australia. Apparently the
outages are raising some problems with harvesting wheat, corn and
such (GPS is used for positioning and reporting yields per acre plus
other arcane agricultural stuff) and for planting (like in Australia).

Curioiuser and curiouser.

I'm wondering. Is this a recent problem, or, perhaps, an ongoing problem
that you are just noticing?