[q]until the sheriffs and law enforcement arrived and that was not "ok" anymore[/q]

This is just another version of "might makes right".

The reputation of shoot-out at the OK Corral is not justified. You were far more likely to be killed by Indians than "outlaws". And that was well earned, honestly, considering how horribly the government treated the Natives.

The same with be true with BTC or other crypto currencies.

The physical cost of that money may go away, but the costs of accounting for it and protecting it digitally will not.

Pointless, really.

I don't NEED a bank to spend money.

If you want to include the BTUs my body expends trading money with some dude, sure

So let's assume the article is write 0.5% of worldwide power generation, and my local electricity charge of $.20/kwh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption
Says in 2012, WW energy consumption was 20900 TWh.
so 20900 M kwh.

$4,180,000,000

I think I did that math right.

Your assumption is that the money spent on banks and other institutions would NOT be spent in a BTC regime, and I beg to differ.

The costs of using Bitcoin do not scale linearly, and go up the more transactions that are on the ledger. There is probably 10 orders of magnitude more cash (real or digital) than BTC transactions.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all

Shows a maximum of 500K confirmed daily transactions in BTC.

Shit, this happens in my city of 50K probably every day,

0.5% of worldwide power generation?

No amount of dollar bills ever cost that much per year.

Bullshit. 9/11 was a law enforcement fuckup. The FBI sat on valid intel that some of the terrorists were learning to fly plane but not land them.

The deaths of 3000 people is insignificant to the privacy and security of every person still alive.

Which other hypervisors offer live migration across VM hosts?

Xen is the only other one I know about:
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115813

Q: Does XenMotion support live relocation of virtual machines between Intel-based and AMD-based host systems?
A: No, XenMotion supports live relocation of virtual machines between systems with the same type and manufacturer of processor.

VMotion doesn't require Windows. You can VMotion any supported OS.

https://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf

Exactly.

A switch away from intel will kill the performance users.

You'll lose them all to the surface books.

Can you elaborate?

I believe the Founding Fathers would have considered DNA subject to 4th amendment protections. IE: Get a warrant.

I cannot control where I shed skin and hair.

Why are you bullish on blockchains?

Most likely already has a shitload of crypto, and saw what the news of the Bitcoin ETFs did to the price, and now lending their support to them will cause it to go back up so they can cash out the rest.

You. Will. Be. The. Bagholder.

Again.

Oh god no. A switch away from Intel would be the nail in their coffin.

No more VMware fusion or Bootcamp. No more performance. All new drivers for everything.

I guarantee it. Switching to ARM will be the end of Mac OS. You will lose the developers. Though Ballmer was a fucking monkey, he was right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

No.

But contract with someone with volume - get them to make you a mostly identical version of a wide-production motherboard that apple can put their special license ROMs on (or a special TPM the add in a seperate step).

Pick any manufcaturer who has decent volume - Supermicro would probably be a good choice for the Mac Pro. ASrock, ASUS, both make great home user motherboards.

Walk back away from the 2 year upgrade cycle - give people something they can get 10 years out of, because at this point YOU CAN. It's not like we're making the dramatic leaps of 1990-2010 here anymore. Most of the advances are in GPUs at this point

If they made a decent machine, and charged a premium say 10% of what I could get for a hard-core ASRock or ASUS and let me put in CPU and memory upgrades and gave me ports like NVDIMM and lots of PCI x16 slots (for workstation), and something straightforward on the desktop, like just replacable CPU and memory for the Mini, then they'd have a Windows killer everywhere.

Not twice the price, 3 times the price, but 10-20% premium.

I'd replace almost all my Linux boxes in a heartbeat. Bring back the MBP 17, or at least give me 32G of RAM at an under $2500 price point... ugh.