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I don't know about you, but I always find the names of home Wi-Fi spots interesting. It doesn't matter if you're in a neighborhood or live in an apartment it's always interesting. The BBC recently had an article about this.

Wireless internet users are typically asked to assign names to their networks when installing new routers. These names can be seen by anybody within range who searches for networks.

Many stick to mundane options like "Home" or "Wireless01". The more adventurous may even use their surname or address.

But this is an era of bite-sized self-expression. It's possible to see names like "Drop it like it's hotspot", "Terror network", and "Virus Detected Shutting Down". Or witticisms like "Pretty fly for a Wi-Fi" and "Wi Believe I Can Fi".

I was looking for an open Wi-Fi connection in one apartment I lived at (I needed to test a VPN implementation). One of the Wi-Fi names I saw was "Get off my 'effing' Connection" "effing" having been spelled the normal way. Needless to say, I connected to it because it was unsecured.

I've seen any number of crazy names, some even list the owner's apartment number. The one I have used before is "Join Other Network". Of course I have come up with more like "Your Mama", "Join At Your Own Risk", "Packet Sniffing Here", "Your Personal Info For Sale", "Random Name", "Guess Who", "I Knew You Would Come", "We Are Waiting" and so on...

As the article points out Wi-Fi names are used as a means of semi-anonymous communication.

What are some of the names you've seen?

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Biden and Ryan

Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan will debate on Thursday, October 11, 2012.

Topic: Foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan
Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)

The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.

Joe Biden is beyond goofy --to the point that Biden is seen by our enemies as a weakness. I don't know about you but that's a pretty embarrassing position to be in. Here is a list of some Biden gaffes.

Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize special cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Obama and Gen. David H. Petraeus.

“The reason for concentrating on them,” the al-Qaeda leader explained to his top lieutenant, “is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency. . . . Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour . . . and killing him would alter the war’s path” in Afghanistan.

Expectations for Joe Biden are extremely low. Biden needs to make it through the debate without using profanity, accidentally trashing the president and remember that he's at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. If he can keep it together for 90 minutes, the media will report that Biden looked very "statesman-like" --presidential even.

You will also notice that there will be little attention paid to substance when referring to Biden during the debate. Most of the focus will be placed on Biden's "experience" not what is said during the debate.

After the debate; be prepared to hear the most insane reasons for why Biden lost the debate. At least, that's my guess on how it's going to go down.

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Romney to Obama, "...puny god"

There was a clear winner in the presidential debate last night --Mitt Romney.

Obama is now being skewered by his own people. Obama said nothing last night that could have energized his base. This is dangerous for Obama because his base seems to idolize him. As soon as they see that he is weak, or no longer holding with his "god" status, Obama's base might just turn on him.

"Tonight wasn't an MSNBC debate tonight, was it?" Chris Matthews said after the first Obama-Romney presidential debate concluded on Wednesday night.

"I don't know what he was doing out there. He had his head down, he was enduring the debate rather than fighting it. Romney, on the other hand, came in with a campaign. He had a plan, he was going to dominate the time, he was going to be aggressive, he was going to push the moderator around, which he did effectively, he was going to relish the evening, enjoying it," Matthews said.

"Here's my question for Obama: I know he likes saying he doesn't watch cable television but maybe he should start. Maybe he should start. I don't know how he let Romney get away with the crap he throughout tonight about Social Security," Matthews complained.

Yes I know "throughout" is not correct, but it's what the site has and I'm quoting it.

If Matthews' methodology were implemented it would be no different than Romney going on stage and saying that Obama is a socialist. Obama didn't come out and say that Romney is some rich guy that doesn't care about poor people and there is a reason for that. Personal attacks in debates don't work well. People are looking for substance not goofy attacks. Remember how well Newt Gingrich did when the moderator asked him about his ex-wife?

When Gingrich was asked in the January 19 debate, shortly before he won the South Carolina primary, about his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich's claims, he unloaded on moderator John King of CNN. The former House speaker decried "the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media" and saying the question was "as close to despicable as anything I can imagine."

Gingrich's attack on King was met with a standing ovation from the audience, and exit polls out of South Carolina suggested his debate performance was a significant driver of his double-digit victory there.

It seems that Obama has nothing left but personal attacks. The vast majority of Obama campaign ads are personal attacks on Romney. When Obama tries to attack Romney on substance he does so by purposely misquoting Romney. Misquoting didn't work in the debate because Romney shut it down. Romney is not McCain.

All Romney has to do to wrap up this election is to bring to each debate what he brought last night.

-- Next Thursday, October 11, 2012 is the debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden. --

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There was a link to this on Fox News. I've never seen or heard of anything like this before. Amazing!

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Romney said the following at a fund raiser in May of this year.

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney said in the secretly recorded remarks. "There are 47 percent who are with [President Barack Obama], who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."

"My job is not to worry about those people," he continued. "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Romney was speaking in the context of votes. Romney is not worried about trying to win the votes of people who will vote for Obama because of their dependency.

In a Fox News interview Romney stood by his 47% comment; further explaining what was already obvious considering the context in which it was stated.

The problem, Romney argued, is that people are so poor nowadays that they’re not paying taxes.

“I want to get people back to work,” he said. “I’d like to see everybody who’s not retired, not in the military, having the privilege of having a good job and a good income – enough that they qualify to pay taxes.”

But even while he tried to make a broader policy argument, Romney in the next breath said that his comments at the fundraiser were not about policies – they were a measure of his political chances of winning the White House.

“I was talking about the fact that I don’t expect to get 60 or 70 percent of the vote,” Romney said. “I understand that some portion will be the president’s, some portion will be mine. I’ve got to get as many as I can from every single cohort in this country.”

Romney several times referenced a 1998 clip that surfaced just before his interview, which shows Obama, then a state senator, advocating for helping the poor through “redistribution.”

I think it's pretty clear what he was getting at. Now let's shift gears for a minute to what Obama has said. Of course everyone remembers Joe The Plumber right.

OBAMA: ... in order to give -- in order to give additional tax cuts to Joe the plumber before he was at the point where he could make $250,000.

Then Exxon Mobil, which made $12 billion, record profits, over the last several quarters, they can afford to pay a little more so that ordinary families who are hurting out there -- they're trying to figure out how they're going to afford food, how they're going to save for their kids' college education, they need a break.

So, look, nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself. But ultimately, we've got to pay for the core investments that make this economy strong and somebody's got to do it.

The 47% comment by Romney is correct. There is a large percentage of the population that stands to benefit from handouts. If that were not the case why then vote for Obama? What has Obama done to limit government dependency?

This Obama comment from 2008 gets to the core of the debate. Obama actually believes that "investment" in government is going to make the economy strong. Romney was pointing out that he wants the economy to do better by having less government involvement. The government will have increased tax revenue when more people pay into it, not taking more from the few that pay in now.

The economy is the private sector. Taking money from the private sector and putting in government is never going to result in a stronger economy. It simply makes no sense.

Obama has been an advocate for higher taxes and more government economic intervention from the very beginning, even before the 2008 election. People just didn't catch on. I only hope this time that people pay more attention to what Obama says and include his past actions when formulating their opinion of him.

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