I would love to see ID's (Score 1)

Recently a friend of mine had 5 moderately well equipped servers stolen from him. While his insureance will cover some of the purchase price, he has lost thousands of hours of time and work. If when one purchases a computer, they could register a CPU ID to their name, this would allow for it to be made possible to track if your computer came online, from which host/ip and possibly regain stolen possesions. This would of course have to be overseen with strict security, as we don't want everyone seeing what we're doing, but it would make stealing a computer the same as boosting a cell f0ne, in that after a while, it becomes worthless, and no one will provide service.