Wow, people sure are butthurt. Gates has done more good than every single poster here put together.

Invisible expect for the whole fact that you're now so bright in IR that people could spot you from another planet, not even mentioning all the other EM noise emitted.

You may be slightly less visible on radar, but you're screaming "I'M HERE!!!!" in so many other ways it doesn't matter.

Yes. Being intentionally precise is not difficult. A fire accidentally setting off each explosive within the tiny fraction of a second required is incredibly unlikely. This is not a difficult concept, if you pull your head out of your ass.

Even if the core had been loaded, HE-implosion based nuclear bombs require incredibly precise timing of the explosives to compress the core to criticality. You could never get a nuclear detonation from a bomb in a fire. It is essentially impossible to detonate one of these unless you do it on purpose. It would have been a dirty bomb, yes, and dangerous. But 6 figure immediate death toll? Only if you have no concept of how these bombs work.

Here are some links:
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/09/one_week_inside_the_haystack

http://jilliancyork.com/2010/09/13/haystack-and-media-irresponsibility/

http://calixte.tumblr.com/post/1120185415/no-more-haystack - Lead Developers resignation Letter

http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2010/09/14/haystack-vs-how-the-internet-works/

The software is dead. The board has resigned. The primary developer says the software in use now was never meant to be secure. It was an early testing version, and should never have been distributed.

Haystack was designed to circumvent government censorship in Iran. If it doesn't work, it can get people killed.

Yes, I'm sure the Streisand effect will resurrect the central server and allow the software to be used again.

So the way you choose to deal with a "barbaric religion" is to become just like them?

Right, Christians have never, ever committed terrorism.

Has the last few years really made people this fucking stupid?

The IRA and Abortion Clinic bombers would like a word with you.

Slashdot moderation violates our founding ideals. You shouldn't use slashdot.

http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html

This actually gives details.

NTP servers require an accurate clock source, they don't generate time out of thin air. This is either directly from an atomic clock (which requires corrections for all these problems you've mentioned), or from GPS time (There are lots of GPS based NTP servers out there, your imaginary problems were solved ages ago.).

Someone had better tell the makers of GPS-based time servers that their products are useless!

For your next trick, name a clock source that doesn't have this problem. GPS even provides the proper correction, I'm pretty sure the vibrations of cesium atoms don't.