Via BoingBoing.net,

Alec Saunders reports that Montreal airport has put covers over its electrical outlets, presumably to stop people from charging their laptops and phones while travelling. Which is, you know, really dumb: frequent travellers need juice between flights, and airports that sell WiFi without providing the electricity to use it are like coffee-shops without toilets. They’re missing out on the revenue they’d get from people who’d buy the WiFi if only they had the power to use it.

Precisely. What I fear, though, is that airports will soon start renting power by the hour, and that we’ll soon see electrical outlets in airports with a meter attached. (Dang, now I’m giving them ideas…)

Time to invest in another spare laptop battery.