Re: [offtopic] Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Mitch Davis]

Michael Gersten wrote:
> 
> second!). These happen more often in times of war (more precisly,
> about a 2 week period before war activities start, or after they
> stop. Someone told me that the GPS satellites can be moved to
> provide more accurate tracking in an area,

This is very off-topic, but you may find this of interest:
GPS produces two signals, an encrypted accurate one, and a
plaintext one which is deliberately inaccurate.

During the Gulf War, the US did not have enough mil-grade
GPS units for their troops, so they encouraged the GIs to
mail-order civilian GPS units.  (They were later reimbursed).

During the conflict period, the US turned off the fudge
factor on the civilian signal so the troops could have high
accuracy.

ObCVS: Someone recently said that CVS would sleep until the
clock had ticked to the next second.  Why is this sleep
necessary?  What operations would it speed up if it were
not necessary to do this sleep?

Regards,

Mitch.
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