There was a reason DoD was concerned about this sort of monitoring many decades ago. Electronics were shielded to prevent EM tradition form being used to deduce what was being done.

Exactly. If they dropped ~150K for laptops they probably have a lawyer that does work for them. Once the 3 week window passed Dell should have gotten a certified letter and email from their lawyer.

The entrenched operators will spend whatever it takes to protect their monopolies; especially since bandwidth will be the real valuable commodity, not cable channels, as more services begin to offer content separate from a cable subscription. If real competition was introduced they will lose a lot of money and want to prevent that at all costs. The fear Google and local authorities who threaten their monopoly; and want to avoid any federal rules or laws that overturn local actions because it's easier (read cheaper) to influence local politicians than national ones.

Random referral requests and thus pollute the collected data?

Actually, currency is just a way to store value and to use as a medium of exchange. Problems arise when a currency fails to hold its value, causing people to turn to other means of storing value. BitCoin essentially has undergone a very large inflationary period as its value dropped, eroding its usefulness as a currency. Who wants to hold money that is getting less valuable every day? Unless you are speculating you'll want to dump BitCoins for something more stable. However, large stores of BitCoins may be hard to exchange for cash and even if you can likely to erode its value further and reduce people's confidence in it as a form of currency.Companies that accept BitCoins are smart in that they really don't accept them but simply use an exchange that converts BitCoin into cash immediately. They don't carry a stack of BitCoins on their books, unlike cash, since they do not ant to assume the volatility risk.

People,, will however, accept the dollar bill as a form of payment because they have a good idea what it will be worth tomorrow. BitCoin, not so much; and limited supply has nothing to do with an item's value.

Depends if they are using TOR or smother network...

Not necessarily, it would depend on your defense. You may not want someone who understands civil engineering because they may disagree with the facts you present and be able to convince the other jurors to ignore them or to downplay them. You have weakened your lawyer's ability to tailor the narrative to your advantage and thus increased the risk of you losing. Having a jury your expert can educate and whose testimony supports your lawyer's narrative would be more beneficial. As anecdotal evidence, I was on a jury where the defense's main point was that roadside sobriety tests are wrong 25% of the time and thus there was reasonable doubt whether her client was guilty of DUI. Unfortunately he failed several different tests a total of 8 times and .25**8 is a very small number indeed. Had she kept the jurors who actually knew how to calculate probability off the jury she may have won. As it was, she lost before we even started deliberations, all we had to do was explain to our fellow jurors what she had really proven by questioning the test's accuracy. Lawyers want to educate the jury, not have an educated jury.

Just realized that. I followed up to the wrong post. Sorry about that.

Fair enough: Defenders of John Kerry's service record, including nearly all of his former crewmates, have stated that SBVT's allegations are false.[4][5][6]

It's pretty clear the attacks had very little to do with the truth but were simply a way to attack someone politically.

Except they weren't true, as almost all of his cremates have said.

They ran an editorial about it:

he who shall be named repeatedly

Excellant point. I have worked for several companies that had very clear and strict data retention and destruction guidelines; thus ensuring all of our working papers were destroyed and thus not subject to being part of discovery in a lawsuit. The only time we did not destroy the working papers was when we were informed we were about to served as part of a lawsuit against a client; we beat feet and got out Dodge before the server arrived and turned all the working papers over to our lawyer.

1. Triage calls for call back. If they won't leave a VM on my cell it is generally not a serious issue requiring immediate attention

2. To tell people they have reached the wrong number and the person they want to reach is at extension xxx. I use that at a client site because a PM has the same last name as I do since I get calls for him by accident on occasion. This message at least lets callers know they have reached the wrong person so they know to call back and dial the correct extension; which I give in my VM. I do get the occasional idiot who insists they dialed the correct extension, and says so in their VM, and leaves a request for information they need RIGHT NOW. Since I am rarely in my office and all my clients have my cell # anyway those requests generally never get answered. I assume they call back and actually dial the right extension when they do not hear back from the person they thought they left a message.

The problem for him is his definition of all enemies, foreign and domestic could be very different than a court's. An interesting defense but if you guessed wrong the consequences will be severe.

Tip of the hat, monsieur.

Laughing at them as they scream is a nice reward; I also hope it makes them more likely to dump a real mark, thinking they are being played, when the victim takes too long to con or isn't moving fast enough.