Welcome cwes. Just to reiterate, the announcement has nothing to do with Einstein, but causes enough problems that even the Wall Street Journal covered it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112258962467199210.html
as well as the original article Dick is referencing:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060422/bob8.asp
And the nerds debate:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/07/30/135239.shtml
Einstein comes in only because SR causes a requirement to adjust clocks due to relative motions between reference points, which is neither unexpected nor computationally difficult (just annoying, and we hate noyings in computer science). I think Dick is arguing that this is a "blow to Einstein" and an "embarrasing hole in theory", whereas I believe it was long ago predicted, understood but yes, annoying.
Figuratively now,
Buffy
