Hi Boob,
I was happy to see those updated numbers on OS. That corroborates Spock's testimony. I think that data is updated by the transfer agent. They don't have an email, just a number. I prefer my emails.
Anyway, that warning is just a formality. There is nothing illegal about trading this ticker. The only thing we have is public material to work with, so we are in the clear. At least, I am. Google, Facebook, SEC, emails to company -- that's all public information. Anything they reply to that's illegal is on them, not us. Asking for information is not illegal. Spies on street corners, satellite pictures -- all public domain. Searching sign-in registrations sheets of conferences, looking for related names -- public domain. If I have access to it, the public has access. How hard on ehas to work for that public information is irrelevant to whether or not it's public information.
For those that choose not to look under rocks, that's their problems. But all rocks in the public domain and what lies beneath is public domain. If somebody were to post *alleged* inside information in a public forum, that then becomes public domain to everyone but the one that posted it. Whether or not it's good intel to act on or the validity of interpretations -- Well, that's an entirely different and unrelated situation.
Luckily for me, Etrade gives me all the rope I need to "hang" myself. For the unlucky ones that have Merrill Edge (I have that one too), they would not be able to buy this stock. But that's about inside company regulations, not law or legalities. That's just brokers trying to protect people from themselves. Has nothing to do with govt. regulations. And most of them do need to be regulated. But me, I don't need regulations. Others, yes, and rightly so.
