[mbrameld]

It's been a synonym now for a long time.

[microtonal]

That does not mean one can't protest it ;). You need a way to refer to an actual lousy GPS as well (long fix time, inaccurate). Lumping everything together makes it hard to be precise (like using 'begging the question' wrongly somewhere else in these comments ;)).

[Doctor_Fegg]

"protest _against_ it"

Sorry. I'm still fighting a rearguard action against you crazy Americans' perversion of our language a "long time" ago.

(I know. I know. Someone will be along in a minute to tell me that "protest it" was original authentic British English centuries ago.)

[microtonal]

"protest _against_ it"

Good point :). As a non-native speaker, I sometimes mess up prepositions... And of course, have a carte blanche to make errors :p.

[spacemanmatt]

I don't like it when words I know lose power either, but language changes under stress of modern usage and wrong becomes the new correct. 'Literal' became the new figurative. And so it goes.