My favorite SSID is "Limited Connectivity".

Yeah, she's a winner:

I think it's compared to an software or engineering company. Techies like to dick around with these things more than GP's examples and your examples.

And maybe each hospital can hire a full-time antenna guy. No problem.

But you need to prove this to the FDA. You need to prove (i.e. spend money to test) your implementation of NTP and how it can never end up harming a person (by a bug, skipping a dose after a time reset, or someone deliberately messing with it).

I saw this presentation at ICRA. Believe it or not, they actually tested several materials (coffee, sand, glass spheres, diatomic (?) earth) and the coffee performed best in their tests. I'm sure there are better materials, but don't assume they didn't think of it.

Yeah, but a lot of 3rd-party software only updates the latest and doesn't backport (at least not right away). I've noticed this for Flash, MythTV, even browsers won't update current LTS that are not the latest version.

And 99.9% of my usage has been legal. I imagine Wil's experience is similar, hence his post.

Sad part: since he was rich, he was considered knowledgeable according to the SEC. I don't know a better way of determining the financial savvy of private investors, but assets / income surely can't be the only way.

I agree. Sounds like it's moving in the right direction. Just providing a little perspective on why things are the way they are.

Crowdsourcing in general is illegal because of hucksters tricking people out of their investment dollars. Only when you have a detailed, SEC-approved prospectus can you sell shares publicly as a C-corp. This is an expensive endeavor for small operations. So they raise "private" money, but mostly from accredited investors, who are supposedly rich enough to not do stupid things with their money. Or at least have the resources to sue the people running the company. Kinda arbitrary. But the key is that a company cannot publicly solicit investors. I think that crowdsourcing is a great idea, but we need to be sure to cover the potential for abuse. There's a reason the laws are in place. I'd love to be able to raise some cash this way.

Well, what if it was part of larger harassment? Like, say, the SSID was HattaBlowsGoats or something worse. Would that be protected speech? What IS allowable to have for an SSID? Or does intent matter?

I'm not sure that Bush would win that one (maybe in his 30-year-old brain, but not the mush he has now), but you bring up an interesting point: Sending e-mails is not being technologically adept. Is e-mail more complicated than a phone call? Can the average person really describe how either works?

I hate the temporary nature of digital photographs. Who goes back and looks at digital pics from five years ago? Is that easy to do? My idea: print out an album for every calendar year. A nice one, like what Shutterfly produces. Shutterfly -- now that is what Kodak should have done (and better, too).

I'm an occasional user of Claritin. I remember when Clarinex came out and thought -- now why would I want this when Claritin works just fine and is pretty cheap? As far as I can tell, Clarinex died a quiet death. Good riddance.