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volkswagen beetles or toiling over the 4,000 frozen, infected computers that pass through this facility near louisville every day, they all wear the same uniform: white shirts, white socks, and black clip-on ties, a look stephens borrowed from nasa engineers. >> it looks a little weird walking down the street, 'cause people think we're gonna hand out bibles. but when you see, like, 20 of us walk into a bar and start, you know, ordering beers, it looks like an fbi raid. >> he says the biggest complaint about tech support people is rude, egotistical behavior; and the uniform is designed to impart a dose of humility as they work their wizardry. >> there's usually some frantic civilian at the door, pointing at some device in the corner that will not obey, and we've gotta make sense of it. and, you know, hygiene provides bonus points if i don't smell bad. i mean, literally, that was my business plan. just be nice and fix it. >> are people grateful? >> oh, of course. if you look at, like, the focus groups or whatever, people will say, "savior," and, "they saved me," and, "they saved my data." this stuff's ir