IBM I believe where the developers of th8 inch floppy the gradaddy of the 3.5 I can still remember the distinctive *Granch* sound of the old hard sectored display writers

I suspect there is an entire private infrastructure used just for government BB's

remember government computing has a lot more security issues than say Sony does especially the president ad his advisors security - at least they haven't employed a female version of Steve Bong http://www.theregister.co.uk/A...

and around 60k is the base salary for a Tube driver

for developers in London id want £400 -£500 perday maybe £350 if I was in desperate need of a job

could do with turning down the cutesy hyperbole meanwhile over in the real world its reckoned that the traditional pstn with be dead and gone in ten years replaced by 100% ip

mm that is the reason until recently in the uk you had to for sensitive jobs in the civil service have both sets of grandparents as natural born I certainly had to provide names and addresses of both sets at work as my boss had bent the rules and got me to analyses some experimental data that was defence related .
Its a bit more relaxed now but some jobs still have reserved status.

Some what surprising that a Guy born in Saudi Arabia would even get security clearance.

Or at least that's what our system does on a nice south facing roof in the UK

hmm where these "constructive well thought out amendments " actually spoiling amendments?

you do know how parliamentary procedure works with you know amendments to motions :-) id suggest reading Citrine and Roberts rules as background than the standing orders and rules of debate for the congress before making that assumption

or have the tragedy of the commons devalue the ssl certificate

I did the approved cisco course as an evening class for fun semesters at 3 hours a week a was a pretty good grounding in tcp/ip networking I recon a 19 week 5 days a week could get some one bright enough up to the ccnp level no problem.

I think you mean cut and paste code that they don't know how it works

The uk tested (MI5) them back in the 50's and discarded than as worthless