What's funny about this is that it's actually harder to write a program that only works between certain hours than it is to write one that works whenever it's available. As I posted in another thread: maybe there wouldn't be a programmer shortage if programmers actually worked on things that were valuable. A program to prevent someone from pasting in their password and a program to take a web service offline at a certain time involves a fair amount of engineering effort, but makes the world a worse, more disorganized place.

I always thought the role of humans was to try to stave off the effects of entropy. Work like this makes entropy do its business even faster. Think about that when you're sitting in your chair 10^100 years from now and the Universe's protons start decaying all around you: this is your fault for implementing a website that only works from nine to five.