Citation?

From skimming the same article about him I see no reason that his opinion on bitcoins should carry any more weight than mine, or anyone elses. An we all know how much my opinion on bitcoins mean, jack and shit. Which is what Charles Stross opinion means on the subject.

All I know about your opinion on bitcoins is what you've posted about it in this comment (that you think it's worthless).

Charles Stross, on the other hand, has posted more than merely his opinion: he's also posted a cogent rationale for that opinion - one that contains details (with specific citations) that many a technically qualified geek may not have yet considered.

Taken in the context of his demonstrable interest in and fondness for the idea of decentralized societies and you have a critique that's worth considering - particularly by his reasonably large fan base (many of whom are slashdot readers, as evidenced by many of the above comments).

Rather than gleaning, you should simply read some more. These questions have all been answered. If you're targeted well in advance and if you make one of a number of mistakes, it is possible to track you through TOR.
Retroactively?
No, very clearly no.

Tape MUST be sufficiently stable. Reading the reliability specs off the box in front of me and running a few calculations shows that

You didn't use sarcasm tags and sometimes the subtler jokes are a tad hard to discern in text.
You are joking, aren't you? Because if not, have I got a great deal for you - I just need your bank account to transfer the money my uncle, a Nigerian prince, is trying to export. PM me!

The socialists in Canada pay almost $4500 per capita for healthcare, or more than 11% of GDP. Because of the waste inherent in socialist systems, we should not be surprised that healthcare costs in Canada are 7th highest on the planet, yet for all this outrageous expense, they are only tied for 4th in life expectancy and something like 24th in infant mortality

I'm sorry - how is 7th highest cost for 4th highest life expetancy not a deal?
If life expectancy was less than 7th, I might see your point. Beyond that, the US already spends 17.2% of it's GDP on healthcare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States) and has an infant mortality rate around 34th in the world , so moving to an infant mortality rate of 24th in the world for a cost of 11% of GDP is a huge improvement for your southern neighbors.

This is good news, guys. By now MS is an expert in receiving and dealing with DoS.

Yeah, they're very experienced at hiring Akamai to deal with DoS attacks :)

The tapes may be stable (I'm suspicious of that claim: their temperature tolerances aren't as high as modern hard drives, they actually care about dust, and I would expect them to be more susceptible to magnetic interference); but the tape drives are not. Over time drive heads become misaligned. They continue to write fine and can read what they write; but sufficient misalignment prevents other drives of the same type from reading the tape. That tape then becomes only as useful as the drive that wrote it. Lose the drive, you lose the use of the data on the tape. Unless you test reading the tape in a different drive than it was written from (while the writing drive is still available for pulling the data out), this condition's effectively undetectable until you actually need the data.

There's a reason so many shops have moved to disk based backups. Tape simply isn't reliable. Tape is cheap; but definitely NOT reliable.

There's no such thing as 'reliable tape' and there never has been. There's a reason so many companies have moved to disk based backups. Tape drives fail in ways that aren't detectable until you need to read that tape in another drive. The only reason tape was such a dominant backup medium for so long was cost.

I wonder how this research would have shifted if they'd only sampled geo-cachers and Ingress "agents"

Notebook, since apparently even google agrees enough to be testing a clone

I can tell Irene why she sees no consumer demand for her "high end" offering: it's only PRICED as a high end offering. I "upgraded" my residential service through them (to the tune of $100/month) and didn't see a single change in my up or down speeds. It's basically a scam. Yeah, you have to be able to provide what you're currently offering before trying to offer the next generation.

Insync: https://www.insynchq.com/#112472431252847033039/settings An official agent would be better - preferably something that provides a FUSE driver. Something OpenSource would be even better; but Insync works fine. Behaves very dropbox like and even supports multiple google accounts. You're correct, though - without Insync or a better option Google drive might as well not exist, as far as Unix users go.

Don't give up on that 501(c)3, though - avoid those single points of failure, where you can.

Although, if you REALLY want to know who's the suspect, it's easy enough to find out just by reading some of the social media posts further down in this story's comments.

They did mention "filing charges". IANAL, and I doubt Steve is either. If I were in his shoes, I'd be hesitant to publish clearly identifying details until I'd consulted an attorney.