Then the proper response should be something like:

Run the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::NTP qw(get_ntp_response);
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
my %response = get_ntp_response();

.
.
etc.

Using nukes (or even a large dose of conventional warfare) is beyond a point of no return. Where most other nations will refuse to deal with you. Some may, but then you end up with a division into two groups. Like the Axis and Allied powers during WWII. And we all know how that ended up.

It's not a situation one can step back from easily and return to the negotiating table.

ChatGPT is an idiot savant. It "knows" the contents of the entire web. But it can't figure out NTP?

I use a wristwatch.

Does anyone really know what time it is?
Does anyone really care?

... my peers. If I were to hang around people who use hallucinogenics all the time.

Well, I am on Slashdot, so ...

Because the Uyghurs have too much support from the various global NGOs. Nobody is going to come to the aid of robots.

Hasn't the Crocodile Dundee franchise pretty much run it's course?

... advertisements.

It's mostly a contracting issue. Sometimes, if a customer wants full rights to all documentation and design details (or source code or whatever), they have to pay more. If they want exclusive full rights, they have to pay even more. This can be beneficial for some things, not so good for others. If you want to customize your ERP system (SAP or something like that), you'll generally bring in an outside company to do it. You could demand all the source code for everything they did and pay more for it, but if you don't have the necessary expertise on tap to make use of it, it's just throwing money out the window.

The taxpayers paid for the goods along with their research and development.

Not always. Companies do undertake their own research on their own dime, hoping to later sell it to government or other contractors. To take a simple example, a government that purchases a Cessna Citation jet for travel purposes is mostly buying off the shelf. They may customize it with their own communications gear, but they didn't pay for the R&D that went into it. Textron (owner of Cessna and part of RTX) paid for that and is making it up over time with sales of the jet.

A more complicated example is Anduril, which started developing families of weapons on its own and then started getting contracts to further the development process. How much of that should the government own, or at least get access to, if they didn't pay for it?

I agree that the government should be able to fix its own things through contractors of its choosing, and it should get access to all necessary design data. But it's still a contracting issue.

Hello, this is your slashdot comment. Just interact with it like you normally would.

Political correctness? From what I've heard, Stranger Things had a heavy handed political turn in later seasons, but it wasn't to the left.

But not the same way luminous matter (the "standard" stuff) clumps up. The mass distribution needed to explain spiral galaxies assumes that this "dark matter" remains at the periphery of the galaxy, keeping the rotational velocities constant as one moves away from the galactic center. So now, dark matter has to be something that doesn't interact with gravity (or curved space-time) the same way normal matter does. It curves space-time like normal matter does. But it isn't pulled into the gravity well (space time curve) toward the center of a galaxy the way other matter is.

Or, our model of gravity/space-time isn't quite right.

27% of the cosmos is not insignificant. Unless it is distributed very unevenly. So now your theory has to explain that.

The ones Samsung got their start making.