Joe, I don't understand why you are screaming on your soap box with an outrageous comparison when you could have bought high-efficiency incandescent light bulb (still producing under the new regulation) to be done with your garage lighting issue! Wrong engineering solution with wrong application don't make any sense! Nobody is saying LED lighting is solution for everything.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-EcoVantage-43-Watt-60W-Household-Halogen-Light-Bulb-2-Pack-409847/202514341#

All within the new regulation while giving you what you want. Now stop whining and give us the /. back so we can talk about more important stuff (e.g. Linux embedded light bulb)

And your infrequent used attic lighting requires US to make millions of them a year so you can buy one every few years? Yeah that is a good scale in economy...

Right. So in the same way it is wrong for government to regulate that we are suppose to buy car insurance before we can drive.

Sorry I am going to use your post as the soap box on how government should set the tone and directions on technological advancement, environmental protection/public health, and social standard through executive branch regulation and legislation. The government has the implicit power to set the direction and tone through its position in leadership. After all that is what leadership is about.

Also noted that the legislation in US does not specifically ban the production of regulator incandescent light bulb. Instead the language specifically address the efficiency of the new light bulb produced. If the combination of materials and manufacturing process would make non-gas filled incandescent to perform up to the efficiency standard it can be produced. Of course the manufacture will want to charge premium for the patent and manufacturing process. That's capitalist market working right there, taken advantage of people's desire of keeping with the old stuff.

The government has the capacity and ability to set the tone for either the welfare of the general public (environment and public health and safety). To regulate and encourage interstate commerce (the Commerce Clause) gives the federal government to set regulation on technological grounds that draws a more even line for fair competition that would otherwise not happening because the laziness of human nature or the extra expense that would not immediately benefit the merchant on a short-term basis, especially if individual business can choose to abide or not. Since the timing of the legislation in 2007 the manufacturing process is maturing for the newer, higher efficiency light bulb it is fair to set the new standard so that everyone doing business in United States are competing on a new standard that is fair for everyone. Where the old light bulb production is already on decline, this allows all the manufactures to focus their resources and energy on newer standard without the distraction of having the keep up with the old stuff. If this was enacted in 2001 I would agree that the government is forcing its hand on a non-matured, to be proven technologies without basis. But to say that government does not have the power to regulate because it can abuse it is like saying companies don't need CEO and Chairman because bad leadership can happen all too easily.

Carl's plan is never to bring Dell to its full potential. He is the M&A expert to break a company down. The only reason Carl is retreating is either it is an utter defeat, or the fact that someone paid him in some form or fashion that he no longer needs to play hardball on Dell's deal.

Why has no one discuss the reason that the good old concrete injection would not do the trick. We have the drilling technology and the injection technology at our disposal, both prove to be highly efficient. Are there issues we don't know about? Also I think the cost estimate seems to be too low.

Why is this post not +5 already for being funny?!

There's something called dielectric gel that works quite well on the marine battery's terminals to waterproof the connections (with some rubber covers). I suspect they work the same way with other battery-utilizing vehicles.

For a cheap 100 bucks tablet that can do word, excel, powerpoint, and outlook? That actually sounds like a great deal if I can do simple stuff without whipping out my full-size laptop (and not having to wait for the corporate boot-up time).

But I gave them no permission to log everything.

Who actually thinks this is a good idea, besides our filthy government?

By dropping the mail to USPS with the external address information you gave them explicit permission to use that external information. Once it is in their system there is nothing you can do to refuse that piece of information being used, at least for now. Unless a specific laws designate the limit of "how" such information should be used they are not part of the coverage of the 4th Amendment.

Pilots can refuse the instructions by the tower by announcing their inability of compliance. Ultimately the pilots have the final say on the plane, not the ground controller.

If you can afford to buy an electric car at $80k, I don't think a parking space with charging capacity is going to be a problem

You know. Given the availability of hardware to run Linux I don't think holding on a PS3 to your dear life to run Linux is as good of an option as before. It is relly cheap to run Linux on Resberry Pi. If you want more processing power other hardware options are available. Unlocked phone is just another device to run Linux/Andriod. If you need to run Linux, there are plenty of hardware to run on.

Unfortunately as it is, game console is increasing becoming a splurge. I agree I won't necessarily going out there to buy a console now. The priority to buy a game console is dropping steadily as the years goes on. I still play games here and there but Apple really knows where gaming is going: to the phones and tablets.

If I am a fleet manager I would not want to spend a lot of time negotiating per vehicle, or per order. Rather it is to all parties advantage to have a set fleet price and order at the negotiated price. And yes, the negotiation is between the car manufactures and the buyers. Dealers are just there to fulfill the orders.

That might be true. But for many of us that might live until 3/4 of this century We will continue to write how much they respect one another. That should be enough to keep Steve's reputation as a tech genius and Bill as a prodigy turn hard-driving tech executive turn philanthropist. You can probably equate Bill and Steve's relationship to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Plenty of people after them will be intrigued by their personal relationship with one another.