As someone who holds a DoD security clearance I can assure you that nothing juicy will be released. This isn't because it would be harmful, but because 99.9% of classified material is spectacularly devoid of anything interesting.

but not too big to fail. If Google decides it isn't making enough profit from advertising to give away services such as Gmail, Maps, etc. they can always start charging for it. I suspect there would be quite an uproar, but most would end up paying. I know I would.

At work when we switched to Java 6 when it came out our application (electronic surveillance data fusion) saw an 11% speed boost. Apparently the Java 6 JVM had tweaks to double and long primitive handling, which we utilized heavily. My point being it doesn't necessarily have to do with how it is compiled.

Looks like Samsung has put a Digital TV chip into its Moment cellular device. It will be able to receive live DTV. They have a demo available at the CES. Hit up the link from Samsung.

That sounds suspiciously like the place I work. You ought to give www.portableapps.com a look. I've been (mostly) IE6 free at work for a couple of years now.

Still cloudy here (about 20 miles away).

Background checks, yes, but not necessarily a lie detector test. It depends on the security level you need to be cleared to.