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.

also, now that I think about it I'm pretty sure the inital debian I evaluated was potato, not woody.

Point of clarity - the above list only refers to desktops/laptops. Servers would complicate the chronology pretty significantly.

Initially I installed a number of distros in a mult-boot config to figure out which one I wanted. I evaluated:
CalderaLinux,
TurboLinux,
Debian (woody),
SuSE (6.2), and
RedHat (also 6.2).
I picked SuSE - mainly because every package I looked for in the first few weeks of use were available on one of the 6 cd's the distro came on; but for other reasons, too (liked some aspects of Yast and there was an early LVM how-to written with SuSE in mind).

From there, it was (in order):
SuSE 6.2
SuSE 6.3
SuSE 6.4
SuSE 7.0
SuSE 7.1
SuSE 7.2
SuSE 7.3
Lindows/Linspire (remember those $799 laptops? yeah, I had one)
RedHat 9
Gentoo (forget the version number)
FreeBSD 4.0
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
openSuSE 10.2
openSuSE 10.3
openSuSE 11.1
openSuSE 11.2
openSuSE Tumbleweed (based on 12.1)
Ubuntu LTS 12.04

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shred_(Unix)

Really, glitchy drivers? Way to RTFA: "On the third day of use a loud coil squeal/chirp became apparent, becoming louder when it was running on battery power. Within hours the wireless chipset failed and refused to connect, the display began glitching with horizontal lines appearing through it, and it became unresponsive. I tested it with a Windows live USB thumb drive"

If he'd have caught this front page article he'd have saved himself some future embarrassment.

Hey, the 90's called -- they want their "Ask Slashdot" question back!