Hundreds of thousands of US servicepeople had access to the stuff put on wikileaks (network was open to every grade), but only one leaked it.

So, yes, open secrets can be kept.

You mean retail price, not cost. The cost of gasoline is not related to crude barrel cost in USA, and heavily loaded by taxes in UK (for example). The cost of electricity generation is often discounted by government; best example being nuclear electricity generation which is priced artificially cheap.

...and you should budget for 8GB memory to run the ZFS filing system properly. Oh, and FreeNAS runs from a 2GB (min) USB stick, doesn't waste a HDD.

To soft-start the investment, you could buy the MB + RAM first, set it up in a cardboard box with a spare PSU and 5 any-size SATA HDDs you have kicking around.

I got a Fractal Design Array R2 Mini-ITX NAS Case which is gorgeous, takes 6 HDD in a small case. MB is Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350 AMD Dual Core E350 which is very low power, 5 x SATA III + 1 eSATA II, USB 3, GbEthernet.

FreeNAS 8 supports the hardware, and ZFS filing system is reliable.

Not enterprise level, but excellent for home use.

"...and signals propagate faster." just ain't true. It's the same speed, just takes less time because the distance is shorter.

In fact she married Bill Posters while he was in prison...

...to alleviate post-offer depression in the price, but there's a sizeable market of US investors who want to get in, and that'll keep the prices up for a while. Of course, initial investors can sell some then, for instant profit.

Care to share details of the USB implementation?

And you may be interested in John Kortink's MMC card storage system for BBC B and Master (at http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gommc/index.htm )

Lede says "Six crimes a day solved by CCTV, Met says" when body says "CCTV cameras across London help solve almost six crimes a day". help solve is not the same thing as solved.

Then we have "The number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year."

How many perps? Well "The Met said among the 2,512 suspects caught this year, four were suspected murderers, 23 rapists and sex attackers and five wanted gunmen.". That adds up to 32 to me... for how many CCTVs in the Metro area of London?

Yup, CFLs and LEDs offer about the same efficiacy (lumens/watt) although most people prefer LEDs because colour temperature is warmer (less blue in the mix). However a 155V/230V AC operating CCFL is cheap to produce - the active components are only two transistors. Cheap AC operating LED lamps use capacitive droppers and typically have short life (see FTC lawsuit: www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/09/lightsofamerica.shtm ).

What's happening here is that the solar/battery system is low voltage only (so low cost), driving LEDs through probably just a resistive dropper and providing 5V USB outputs to charge the phones.

The FBI believes that one third of the western world's news articles are being generated by one 79-year-old Australian-born American man. Rupert Murdoch is being blamed for...

..laughed my cotton socks off. Thanks.

Imagine if investigators simply state that their analysis, not disclosable under state secrets privilege, shows hidden text saying "We'll bomb the Eiffel Tower on Thursday". The suspect is now stuffed with no defense.

All the investigators need to do is run some fake but seemingly complex program that looks at the file under inspection and says "yes, stenography in use". Then the full weight of the law comes down, because now the suspect has to prove the negative - impossible of course.

So actually what is needed is a suspect's right that investigators prove any assertion that files have been hidden if that assertion/analysis is used as evidence in court.

As further proof, 27 percent confirmed that the source of the infection was a USB device connected to a computer.

Actually that's evidence, not proof.