I can't remember exactly where, but someone suggested that this might be a possibility on one of the Bitcoin forums. A day later, someone said in an IRC channel that they had been raided. I'm pretty sure they made it up based on the previous day's speculation. And now a website has picked up the IRC claim, and now Slashdot picks up that website's claim. As far as I can tell there's no backing that this supposed drug bust ever happened, but it's pyramiding into bigger and bigger news based on nothing.

They are tracable to a hash of a signature. I don't think these hashes are easily traceable to a person.

Difficulty of generating new Bitcoins is a feature, not a bug. If it were easy, they would have no value. The purpose of Bitcoin is to function as a form of money for saving and exchange, not to get rich by using your processor to print money. But you're right on the second part, the biggest obstacle is the lack of businesses that accept them.

And when was money first thought of? It has been around since prehistoric times.

Bitcoins can be divided up into units as small as .00000001 The software currently only supports 2 decimal points, but this can be increased in later versions.

True. Dollar-parity is just a psychological milestone. What is meaningful is that Bitcoin has increased from about $.05 in September to $1 now.

Numerous powerful US political figures and pundits have unashamedly called for his assassination. Fear of going to Guantanamo is not unreasonable. http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com/

I've never gotten a telemarketer call in the years I've been on the list.

People commonly confuse MREs with C-rations (or MCI rations), which do last for decades.

The only argument against that which I can think of is that you are essentially mortgaging the phone with most phone plans - you get it for a low or zero upfront fee and you're essentially buying the phone with higher monthly fees. And when you mortgage a house, there are certain things the bank says you can't do to it while they own it - among other restrictions, I specifically remember them saying I couldn't store large tanks of gasoline in my house. For phones, I guess it would come down to whether this is explicitly stated in the service contract.