[John Robertson]

Disagree.

It's a great tool for vendors of used (stolen?) goods. As for the 10000 Sanyo serial-numbered items...yeah, I'd search through the list. But the program could list them in order. I think it's a great idea.

There are fundamental dynamics surrounding new ideas...and those who would execute them. This is from business training, and business books, and business experience: certain people immediately spend thought and energy on coming up with all the ways to say why something WON'T work (that's what you're doing, here), while others spend just as much time and energy figuring out how to make an idea WORK.

Not to say you are always this type, of course, just saying that that is the role you're playing here. IMO.

[willyd]

i have a bridge you might be interested in..

[Right Wing Assault]

My daughter's friend's boyfriend (got that?) stole the girlfriend's stuff and sold it on ebay. The girl saw the stuff (she could read the serial numbers!) and had the guy busted. He had some other stolen stuff, too. Nice guy. So, I guess I could see this working in some cases, anyway.

[mmercier]

Good post. Spot on accurate.

I work every day with people who's entire mental output is spent on demonstrating to others why an new idea to do a mundane thing simply will not work.

When I was younger I thought these people were amusing, today I see them as unutterably weary and tiresome. Sometimes I think there are more of them than those who would move the world. Wait till there is a man who stops the world in order to move it. Bill Gates came close. John Galt did it in fiction.