MikeNomad
At a superficial level, I think I would notice extra chips/wiring/HD showing up on a naked Mo-board.
Going further, as you wish to approach this in pseudo-apsolutist terms, GOV would simply choke on any effort to go _that_ far. Be it the Hardware Effort or the Software/Data Collection and Processing Effort (times many many millions), they would gag on The Spew. Yes, no encryption protects data for ever, blah blah. Good Encryption and other impediments just makes persuit/enforcement not worth the effort [insert THX-1138 reference and every real-world example of governments failing to absolutely control their populace here].
And since I am willing to talk in Absolute Terms, GOV is lousy at math. They may know something about Social Psychology, Propaganda, et al, but the Citizenry has both the guns and the numbers.
As a long-time IT Guy who has grown tired and disgusted with GOV's fascist, class-war behavior, with this court decision I say to them:
Bring. It. The. FSCK. On.
While maintaining an air-gapped rig is a PITA, I can do that.
While conducting my Connected Life via a live image, removable-media-based system is a PITA, I can do that as well.
While good encryption slathered on everything is annoying, it is doable.
BTW, GOV... As long as you are connected to a network, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy;
Expect your thoughts and beliefs laid bare; your plans to be known by others sooner, rather than later; your secrets to be learned by all;
You want to see what Cyber Warfare _truly_ looks like?
You can't handle the truth.
Also, it looks like Brexit will kill the LSE-DB merger. With LSE slated to be the lesser partner, I doubt the move would have been in GB's best interest.
Asking fellow faculty revealed that they too had wrestled with the same problem, they developed a "feel" for what was right, and that they had simply accepted it as a pain point.
I refused to accept that. One semester I told them at the beginning of the semester that they were competing against their classmates. I was not setting upper and lower bounds for grades, their classmates were.
I used the full range of grades (A+ to F), and when I tabbed the grade distribution, the results freaked me out: It was an almost perfect bell curve. I decided to use the method again the following semester. Same results. I did it again the following semester. Same results again. I then permanently adopted the method.
Other results included the, "Why didn't I get an "A" on Project/Paper X" drama during office hours dropping off to nothing;
Student's were much more comfortable knowing they were competing against their classmates, rather than trying to "figure out" their professor;
My Teacher Evaluation scores didn't change across my changing grading methods;
My stress level went _way_ down, and allowed me to better concentrate on creating and delivering content.
Ours (at a state university) deals with petabytes of data. We've had to escalate to IBM's Tier 3 support a couple of times over the past decade, but we have never lost a file.
I'm probably running afoul of language/translation shear...
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FDR did not take the US off the gold standard, he outlawed private ownership of gold. Nixon took the US off the gold standard in the early 70s.
Cheers to the Newlyweds. May their pasta bowl never be empty.
I don't think the deployment of yet another digital payment method that allows for the highly centralized storage of personal information, in a country that does not yet have enough toilets (yes, there is an initiative under way) or reasonable access to fresh water, qualifies as audacious.
I suppose I may have pulled up short on the Audacity Scale by copping low with sewage and water, instead of mentioning crime and air pollution.
Of course, YMMV.
Also, please expand on their comment re: the event helping a particular candidate. I don't understand how this incident favors / helps a particular candidate over another.
They knew that it would generate support amongst the Vice Hating Crowd, allowing GOV to address the two things they need most:
/ An easier way to issue debt with less scrutiny (Federal Reserve Notes are quite specific debt instruments that we circulate, while GOV's debt load is approaching untenable).
/ A more comprehensive way to track gun sales.
Many people do not trust various levels / types of government, and see gun ownership as a necessary... hedge. Thankfully, the US has the option of The Four Boxes of Governance: Soap, Jury, Ballot, Ammo.
Ultimately, laws and freedoms are maintained at the point of a gun. And it is the Ammo Box, in the hands of The People, that allows the other three boxes to be used.
Unless you are talking about serial editions, etc.
Is it even possible to build a reactor that meets those criteria, let alone be financially viable?
"Unlike in felony criminal cases in federal court, children charged with violating immigration laws have no right to appointed counsel, even though the government is represented by Department of Homeland Security attorneys."
is allowed when we have this (from a Wikipedia entry)?
"The Sixth Amendment (Amendment VI) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions. The Supreme Court has applied the protections of this amendment to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
We could track US Cash: All FRN have unique serial numbers, including codes for which bank issued them.
The more I look into it (and I may not be looking at it clearly), the more bitcoin seems like a digitized version of what we currently have in MeatSpace: An unbacked inflationary currency.
I think worrying about scaling in mining activity is a problem in search of an audience.
If miners hit the wall, and are not able to put more coins into circulation, there is an opportunity to stabilize coin value by having demand tempered by supply. Also, with bitcoin (or any other digital currency) there is the capacity for psuedo-infinite fractionalization of coins.