I've worked in the defense sector and although I have not signed up for one of these gigs, I know plenty of people that have. It's true that if you are worth your salt (or look good on paper), can obtain a secret clearance and willing to sacrifice a year of your life working 15 hours a day, every day... you can make $250 in a year in Afghanistan. Good places to look are the company websites: L3, SRI and STG - there are many more. Also job fairs in military towns. HOWEVER, if you really want to do this, get on while the getting is good. As you may know, the US trying to fold up it's many operations in SWA and other combat theaters, plus while the government is going broke, it's going to be hard for the DoD to justify paying a quarter million a year for each contractor working in these places... knowing what I know from my days in the DoD, I suspect this gravy train will come to screeching halt... and soon.

That is an excellent point. I would take a guess that most ISP's are not so much up in arms over the bandwidth aspect of things, but that a fair portion of ISP's just happen to be cable and media providers themselves, with their *OWN* video on demand offerings that Netflix is essentially competing with.

The company I used to work for, most folks had numbers over 100,000 - I was employee # 149259. As a field office, the management was 07XXXX or some such series (thereabout). I remember going to corporate HQ and getting in an elevator... ended up riding with a guy who's badge number was # 2. Who does number 2 work for?? Turns out he co-founded the company... In that respect, the lower your employee number... chances are the more clout you carry.

Agreed. I generally hate auto-complete. MOST annoying is when entering a US zip code to get the weather, such as on Yahoo... auto-complete for a zip code is about the stupidest use I've seen yet. I do however like the auto-complete feature on certain things, like constrained fields. As an example, I would much rather type "Uni" and have "United Kingdom", "United States", "United Arab Emerites" appear from which I can select from, rather than fishing down a long drop-down list. In this case, auto-complete makes sense. But for things like Google search... annoying at best. --ponga

Similar to the "Do not call registry"? That would be nice although seeing that the USPS is mearly a direct marketing convayance, this would cut it's business in half... still, one can wish.

Yup. All Govies carry around a CAC, or Common Access Card, which among others things has an RF interface. The difference between this and US passports, for example, is that the passorts come with a handy booklet shield, that when closed, blocks RF. The CAC card has no such thing, unless suplemented with aftermarket holders, etc. Though, I don't believe much information can be gained as the CAC is a smart card - though I would imagine that you would at least have the knowledge of what it was you detected, but probably nothing further. --ponga

I'm willing to bet this one is going "straight to video" and as soon as several 3D pr0n releases appear, my guess is that 3D television sales will see a jump. And why not, pr0n was leading the charge on both VHS and The Internet... why not 3D televisions!

Ya, hold on. I've been away for a while but, ain't it "From the TFA"??

Agreed!
The Hotness factor of a guy or gal can be bumped up 1 or 2 points by being proficient with a musical instrument!

I chose physics for this poll, which sadly gives me no bonus points with the ladies :(

Hmm. I too use SSH tunnel for port redirection to a remote http proxy, but I've never had to set the FF flag you mention as my FF DNS queries go through the proxy "out of the box" - that's my understanding of how a SOCKS compatible proxy should work. Am I wrong here?

FTFA:

* Many improvements to the sftp(1) client, many of which were implemented by Carlos Silva through the Google Summer of Code program:...

... - Add recursive transfer support for get/put and on the commandline
(Alas!!)

Whole host of other improvements and bugfixes; give it read if SSH is pertinent to your environment....

I agree with this poster. I too draw a distiction between Information Technology and Computer Science. To further the idea, IT is to CS as electrical engineering would be to a physics. One field is devoted to the science of a subject, the other - the application of that science.

Ada Lovelace, Knuth and Turing are soundly in the Computer Science realm for me; I don't equate them with "IT" at all.

Even though I am not an M$ fan, I chose Bill Gates. I'm surprised to see his numbers so low in this poll!

Running Ubuntu at home, seems like once a week there an update for something or other... Thank God Linux is *FAR* more graceful applying patches - I can update anything on the system and so long as the kernel is not touched, no reboot is required. Windoze just kills me... yo have to reboot for every damn thing! Glad I don't have to deal with that...

40C is about average in Phoenix during the summer.