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I use a freeware called AtomTime to synchronize my notebook and other
systems to the atomic clock in Boulder, CO.  You can find it on the
Internet.  (Alta Vista returned 375 hits immediately and the first one is
the proper one.)  It runs over the Internet, of course.

Bruce brings up a good point about having ordinary people being able to use
the Internet.  This is one of the reasons I am so against this great push
to have all the schools in the country connected to the Internet.  In order
to pay for this, you will see your phone bill jump in January (in the US,
of course.)  I am against this because the Internet is a very powerful and
even dangerous tool.  My teenage daughter likes to surf the Internet at
night.  First place she usually visits is some chat room, where the
wildest, sometimes nastiest conversations take place.  I have had to drill
into her that she is not to give ANY information of any kind about herself
or any one in the family or anything.  I spot check.  As President Reagan
said:  "Trust, but verify!"  I have taught her how to use Alta Vista, but
she looked at me funny when I said the word Boolean.  We also have the
Britannica CD, which uses Netscape as the browser.  I feel much happier
when she uses the CD.

I can just see the pedophiles and the crazies just waiting anxiously for
all these youngsters to have unmoderated, unsupervised access to the
Internet.

I can also see having these millions of extra users downloading all sorts
of stuff is not going to have a positive impact on the performance of the
World Wide Wait.

The Internet, as Bruce so eloquently explained it, is not an easy place to
get information if you know nothing of  computers and how the information
is stored, organized and retrieved.  The paradigm shift (I can't believe I
said that), is going to occur when voice recognition hits its stride and
computers understand what people are saying.  Bill Gates, the man people
love to hate/envy, said recently that M$ was working hard on voice
interface and that in the future that up to 90% of OS could be dedicated to
this function.  Doesn't bode well for bloatware.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
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