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2008-01-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

"All your thermostats belong to me" -Terminator

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Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-11 16:16|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 NO!

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-11 18:56|| 2008-01-11 18:56|| Front Page Top

#2 My home is my castle! Period!

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-11 18:56|| 2008-01-11 18:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet it will be used in a different way, though. If someone gets behind on the bill, they will drive around and set the thermostat to 65 degrees.

And what happens when some school kid figures out how to hack the system and sets everyone in the neighborhood's thermostat to 85 at 2am?

Posted by crosspatch 2008-01-11 20:09|| 2008-01-11 20:09|| Front Page Top

#4 ANOTHER CASE OF BETTYCROCKERCRATS IMPOSING THEIR WILL==>NO KEN OF ELEC CIRCUITS >>>>STUPIDITY ISLAND.
/JOE CAPS.

A Thermostat is nothing but a switch. Wire another switch or thermostat in parallel away from the special sealed tamperproof ~~idiot crafted~~ temperature sensing unit. Do what you want. Or stick an ice cube on the stat and cool it down. What a bunch of moroons.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-01-11 22:03|| 2008-01-11 22:03|| Front Page Top

#5 If I thought CA was still part of the USA I might find this objectionable.

Posted by regular joe 2008-01-11 22:06|| 2008-01-11 22:06|| Front Page Top

#6 driving home from LA last nite - listened to John and Ken on KFI - they've driven a campaign to get this law disembowelled. A caller said he salled teh CA Energy Commission hotline...apparently they've had thousands of calls against, and like 4 for this proposal

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-11 23:25|| 2008-01-11 23:25|| Front Page Top

#7 or "called" even. Salling doesn't help....damn

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-11 23:26|| 2008-01-11 23:26|| Front Page Top

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