Maybe they will install a rootkit on my e-reader, too!

Offering someone money for goods, services, or assets and having them accept your terms is not a particularly good definition of "force."

Security through obscurity? That's genius. I'm surprised it hasn't been tempted before.

Well the problem is with Blu-Ray you have to cram so many things to store everything in there.

Electricity throughout most of the country?

OK, I'll take on the second law of thermodynamics if you tackle the first. Go team! We can do it!

I've got a bridge that generates its own power to sell you.

A keyboard is simply a poor substitute for good control design.

Can't argue on the mouse, though.

@ M

Of course nothing is free. But if it costs more to implement this then it is the wrong time to implement this. One seeks alternatives when the current method is not efficient. If a new television makes me happier than my current one, it doesn't necessarily cost me more even if the new television is more expensive in strict dollar terms.

So therefore, perhaps someone could argue that the market price of energy is currently not properly accounting for externalities, and so this is an improvement. It might be a good argument, if the data is available. But then it wouldn't be "costing more" to do this.

And, sure we're paying our own companies. Not that I think that matters much in the grand scheme of things. Free markets, free trade, and all. Of course, it is more convenient for our companies to have us take the long view when it costs us more, but the short view to justify them doing it so they can collect.

I guess there's no law to demand consistency in energy policy.

@phanbouy
Without validated genetalia, you have to pay double when you park it. Validate it, dude.