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Thanks, Mike Murphy, for the recent column on thermostats [“Technology Went Too Far This Time,” Nov. 1, 2010]. You have just touched my hot button. But in the editorial, the wrong question is being asked. I think it should be rephrased as: “Who in their right mind would want something as boring as a thermostat on the wall?”