Texas has nothing to worry about. Until we actually start building more nuclear plants, the energy for all those electric cars you want to see on the roads will come from coal and natural gas. The EPA just introduced some more rules to favor natural gas over coal, and guess which state produces the most natural gas. (HInt: Its capital is Austin.)

The Saudis don't have to worry that much, either. Only 60% of petroleum is used for transportation, and much of that is for aviation. They'd be more worried about their pets in DC failing to block the Keystone pipeline.

With Directed Energy Sea Mammals —even if thef Orbiting Pelican Relay Mirror (OPRM) is no longer needed to whack Osama.

Tom Lehrer, you have a phone call on line three.

If your customers want a City address and an 020 phone number, a virtual office is £LOTS cheaper.

This article is so old that its subject has been the ODNI CIO for almost a year now.

The Leaky Establishment, where the large engineering firm is the Atomic Weapons Establishment and the item to be smuggled back in is a physics package.

Will CellOS make it easier to install Linux on a dead badger?

In eastern Washington, on the other hand, T-Mobile's coverage is majorly lacking. Tiny specks of UMTS around downtown Ellensburg and Yakima, maybe a little more in the Tri-Cities and Spokane; everything else is 2G or (more likely) hope-you-brought-a-US-Cellular-handset.

Coverage in the US: Verizon > Sprint >>> AT&T > T-Mobile — US Cellular is up there in some areas of the country (e.g. WA, OR). Compared to VZW, Sprint may not be so hot, but it has somewhat more coverage than AT&T.

Also, by "somewhat more coverage" I'm taking AT&T's zoomed-out coverage map as gospel. In particular, I'm counting GSM as if it's real coverage. Considering UMTS only, which makes sense because a) GPRS blows goats and b) their marketing heavily emphasizes activities that require UMTS or HSPA, AT&T's coverage wouldn't suffice as a dancer's outfit in a titty bar.

Why would you hack the average Pakistani's bank account? May as well hack Mr. Ten Percent's.

Oh, wait a second —Swiss banks aren't subject to this law. Never mind.

+1. You can pry my vt320 out of my cold, dead hands. And, no, that's not a vt320 emulator.

Bingo. Heavy-lift rockets are nifty, but trying to replicate Saturn V is just overcompensation.

My local post office (Yakima, WA) is only open Monday through Friday, 0800-1730. Where US post offices are open on Saturday, they're almost never open late enough that you can actually pick up a package on Saturday after an attempted delivery on the same day. I'd go for weekday delivery only in exchange for the post offices being open a minimum of twelve hours a day, seven days a week.

If there's a need to subsidize rural mail delivery, the government can just as well levy a tax on all postage and contract with privatized-USPS or someone else to provide service in areas where it would otherwise be uneconomical.

In the current system, the USPS monopoly allows it to have hours that make banks look good and send men with guns to shut you down if you even think about sending a non-urgent document by FedEx.

Outside the M25? Could be ages.

Then again, T-Mobile's US UMTS network is practically nonexistent. Take Boston as an example: they've got 3G inside 495, except for a large number of inexplicable nulls and EDGE-only areas. Then you go from Worcester to Springfield and it's EDGE only. 2G coverage for a 4G world.