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A lack of ugly oak cabinets and polyester carpet is hardly a lack of "warmth or personal toughes".

There are quite literally hundreds of different models of phones running Android and yet you list features and specs as if they are the same all across the range of phones. They are not.

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Domestic Partnership works for me.

@Jwink, yes it's fine. The actually wattage is what's important, not the light output equivalency. I have a hanging fixture with a 250 watt equivalent cfl which runs on 42 watts.

Also, people, if you're unsatisfied with the color temperature of your cfl, buy a warmer one. You're probably looking for something in the range of 3,000K, but you can get even lower. The higher you go, the colder it gets.

@King, perhaps, but would you need TWO electric can openers or TWO electric staplers?

@SergDun

It's different because rather than simply adding more sound, earbuds and headphones block at least some of the outside noise. Wearing headphones in cars is illegal for the same reason. Also, most municipalities have laws governing the volume of music coming from a car. For instance, if said music can be heard X number of feet from the car, it is illegal. While this is rarely enforced unless it is in combination with another infraction, I suspect the same to would be true of a headphone ban for cyclists.

If it's secured, you shouldn't have a problem.

Aside from that though, you could also open up only enough wireless connections for the number of devices you have and lock each one to the mac address of one of the devices. Mac addresses can be spoofed, but it's more trouble than most would put into getting a little free wifi.

Files sitting on your hard drive don't slow down your computer, they just take up space. It's the number and type of running processes and services that begin to slow down your computer.

Also, deleting the temp files in the Disk Cleanup wizard is not the same as deleting your browser's cache. Nor is it the same as deleting the temp files under your Windows directory which, if you want the ability to uninstall a Windows update should you need to do so, you shouldn't do.

Batteries used to have this problem. They no longer do. About 10 years ago I had a laptop that had a utility as part of the BIOS that you could run to fully discharge the battery. It would turn the screen brightness all the way up, max out the fan speed and read from the hard drive like mad until the battery was dead and you could plug it in and charge it back up. There's a reason laptops no longer include this ability.

The iphone is still just an iphone. Other companies may sell consumer medical devices that plug into it, but that does not make the iphone a medical device any more than an FM transmitter that plugs into an iphone makes it an FM transmitter. The FCC doesn't perform interference tests in the FM band on the iphone simply because you can buy a peripheral that transmits FM. Those tests are performed on the peripheral.

What's the point? Consumer medical devices are a huge and growing industry. My grandmother checks her blood pressure several times a day with a little $50 home BP monitor. She records the results and looks for trends. While she's not likely to buy an iphone, many people already have them and might like the nifty little graphs the app is likely to spit out. Similarly, my uncle checks his blood glucose level daily. These devices already exist, the only thing new here is you can plug it into your iphone... and people love that.