True, but good luck as it's pretty much banned everywhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

Nationwide service radio system? Likely a SAT-phones. Not cheap to use, but if you have a real major emergency (* except for strong X-class solar flares/CMEs in the direction of Earth :), they will usually get thru when all other forms of communication are failing...

Building down in that area is pretty much for one reason only: length of the fiber run to wall street. In a world of nanosecond trading, every mile you are away from Wall Street means that much more of an advantage someone else has over you. Is it extremely risky/expensive to build in these locations? Hell yes. Is it likely financially worth doing so? Hell yes. There are costs to doing business, this is just one you have to factor in and see if the overall risk/reward equation works out (I'm betting it does for these folks)

Most small/personal (portable) generators use UNLEADED gasoline (or if you are really smart, you have one hardwired in to your property fed from propane or natural gas) whereas the big commercial ones use diesel, so even if they wanted to "share" it with the masses, it would be mostly useless...

I've found packages to be reliable too, but not regular 1st class mail...packages go through a different system than the auto-sorters for 1st class mail.

OMG - I just spit my coffee everywhere...that was the funniest thing I read all morning (the being rare part :)

Most kiddie-porn statutes do not require ANY intent, just simple possession is enough to get you busted.

WRONG metaphor to use with this story, now it will take a few strong drinks to get that mental image out of my head...

That is assuming you can get a GPS signal to where your computer is located - I've seen absolute CRAP reception in many buildings (even putting the GPS receiver ON the inside of the windows, if there is film on them, you commonly will see zero or only 1-2 birds in the constellation, not enough to get a consistent lock for most receivers) and running a pulse trigger or USB down from the roof usually isn't an option (although sometimes it is).

Provably secure? *snicker*

One could argue they learned their lesson from Katrina....then again one could also argue that last time we have a (R) in office and this time we have a (D). I think both arguments might be at least partially true...

Nevermind, I see they expanded under that option....that didn't use to be there, when did it show up?

Um, where??!? The only 'Signature' option I see on mine is at the top level Accounts screen (between the Increase Quote Level and Default Account options), there are no Signature options in the per-account area...

<quote><p>Multiple email account support, unified or separate.</p></quote>

This is half-assed IMHO. I've used an iPhone for several years now and still one of my biggest pet peeves is the single signature block that is global to all email accounts (this is a PITA if your work requires some standard boilerplate garbage that must be on every email but you really don't want that crap on your personal emails as well). They finally did do one thing right and break up / allow assignment of the outgoing SMTP servers on a per account basis (tied to accounts) so you don't route your personal email via work, but even that took a while. If they would just make ALL of the settings PER ACCOUNT instead of having some global, then life would be much better...

You don't want to do this for a gaming setup, it will impact performance...if all this computer is going to be used for is gaming, don't worry about security beyond Microsoft Security Essentials. Just remember, if something seems fishy, wipe and reinstall, it doesn't take that long...