Re: time sync? time servers give wrong time

Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

That's all to true. A lot of people are using (and worse, running)
computers and have absolutely no idea what it is doing, never mind how

So do you know in detail how your body works, how your mind works? Do you

The software we've developed in our heads since birth knows that stuff
very well, or we'd not still be alive. Thankfully, intimate knowledge
of quantum mechanics is not a life or death question.

Why should they care how and why it does what it does. That is not their
job. A computer is a tool not a life.

Because there are many unintended consequences, from botnets, identity
theft, creeps surfing for children, ... It's a tool, but it's an
interconnected tool making connection after connection with $foo knows
who. If one of those foos takes over that machine, the rest of us
suffer.

People like this are encouraged to drive cars, but they're expected to
pass a driver's test first, and buy insurance to cover any victims
they inconvenience.


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