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Future for Jodrell Bank Telescope is Secured

The Jodrell Bank telescope has been secured for the "medium and long term future", the University of Manchester said yesterday.

Building a Telescope Made of Moondust

A gigantic telescope on the Moon has been a dream of astronomers since the dawn of the space age. A lunar telescope the same size as Hubble (2.4 meters across) would be a major astronomical research tool. One as big as the largest telescope on Earth — 10.4 meters across — would see far more than any Earth-based telescope because the Moon has no atmosphere. But why stop there? In the Moon's weak gravity, it might be possible to build a telescope with a mirror as large as 50 meters across, half the length of a football field—big enough to analyze the chemistry on planets around other stars for signs of life.

Media Alert/Event Advisory: Future Shop Online Community Celebrates First Anniversary With Video Live Chat Future Shop to host discussion on the Future of Computing with representatives from Microsoft, D-Link and HP; Joel Cohen to moderate

As the Future Shop Online Community celebrates its one-year anniversary, Canadians are invited to watch a panel of representatives from leading hardware, software and networking organizations discuss what to look for when shopping for a computer this back-to-school season. These experts will also provide insight into what the future of computing technology holds over the next few years.

Too Easy For Bank Accounts To Spring a Leak

The NYTimes has a cautionary tale of automated clearing house fraud. Parties unknown siphoned money from an individual's bank account. Nothing too unusual there, except that it was an elite private banking account at JPMorgan Chase, and the account holder is out $250K — the bank will only cover $50K of his loss. The $300K came out of the account in small transactions over 15 months. The bank offered no recourse except to open a new account, a large hassle given that the account is more than 20 years old and its holder writes a thousand checks a month. The article details how the spread of electronic settlements between banks has given rise to growing automated clearing house fraud — if anyone gets hold of the magic combination of account number and bank routing number, and once has permission to withdraw funds, all bets are off.

Mercator Transport Group Corporation announces the opening of a $ 1 000 000 credit line with HSBC Bank Canada

LAVAL, QC, July 22 /CNW Telbec/ - Mercator Transport Group Corporation ("Mercator") (TSX-V : GMT), is pleased to announce the opening of a new secured $ 1 000 000 credit line with HSBC Bank Canada. This new credit line is replacing the $ 750 000 credit line held with the Royal Bank of Canada. The new credit line will be subjected to HSBC Bank Canada's preferential interest rate plus 1.50%.

Non-Bank Online Personal Finance Sites Offer Look into Future of Online Banking, But Open the Door for Identity Theft

Non-Bank Online Personal Finance Sites Offer Look into Future of Online Banking, But Open the Door for Identity Theft

Pitfalls of Automated Bill Payment

theodp writes "A few months ago, the NY Times' Ron Lieber extolled the virtues of allowing utilities, phone, and credit card companies to pull whatever you owe from your bank account. Big mistake. Lieber's readers fired back, telling him he was out of his mind for suggesting that they give billers unfettered access to their credit cards and bank accounts. Now Lieber goes through five of the glitches that can occur with any of the various methods of setting up automatic payments: 'You can give each biller permission to pull the full amount from your bank account. You can use the online bill system at your bank to push payments out automatically each month. Or you can charge every bill to your credit card and give only that card company permission to pull money from your bank account when the credit card bill is due.

Most Bank Websites Are Insecure

Anonymous writes "More than three-quarters of bank Web sites have design flaws that could expose bank customers to financial loss or identity theft, according to a University of Michigan study that will be presented this week at the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy. The study, 'Analyzing Web Sites For User-Visible Security Design Flaws,' examined 214 bank Web sites in 2006. It was conducted by University of Michigan computer science professor Atul Prakash and doctoral students Laura Falk and Kevin Borders."

Personal Information From 1 Million Bank Accounts Sold on eBay

Personal Information From 1 Million Bank Accounts Sold on eBay: The personal bank account information of over 1 million bank clients, including account numbers and signatures has been discovered on the hard drive of a computer sold on eBay.

StarGazer's Telescope - Last Dance With Mars

StarGazer\'s ScopeHave you ever wondered what it was like to look through a real telescope? Tired of being clouded out night after night and would be happy with a look through any telescope? After all the exciting news we've heard about Mars, I thought it might be fun to let you take a look through a small telescope and see what Mars really looks like - flaws and all.

NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant Earth-Like Planets

3PAR INC ("PAR-N") - NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant - Earth-Like Planets 3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced that NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage for a mission that will send the Kepler Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun to find planets in solar systems outside our own. Set to launch in February of 2009, the mission will use 3PAR Utility Storage to store digital images taken with the powerful telescope and its camera. NASA Ames chose the resilient 3PAR storage system to meet its strict cost and performance requirements while maintaining massive scalability and avoiding the need for a full-time, dedicated storage expert. "Even rocket launches have budget constraints," said Chris Middour, Deputy Manager for the Kepler Operations Science Center an

Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay

Walpurgiss tips a BBC News story about a man in Oxford who paid $140 for a computer on eBay, and was shocked to find on it bank records of several million customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland, its subsidiary Natwest, and one other bank. "Mr. Chapman said anyone with a basic knowledge of computer software would have been able to find the data fairly simply. 'The information was in back-up CDs and in ISO files so it would have been possibly quite easy to find...,' he said."

Alignment-Insensitive Lower-Cost Telescope Architecture

This architecture features an active wavefront sensing and control scheme along with methods for measuring the relative positions of the primary to aft optics, such as the secondary mirror, and should enable larger and cheaper telescope architectures needed for future applications. This design overcomes the stability requirements of large telescope primary mirrors.

Alignment-Insensitive Lower-Cost Telescope Architecture

This architecture features an active wavefront sensing and control scheme along with methods for measuring the relative positions of the primary to aft optics, such as the secondary mirror, and should enable larger and cheaper telescope architectures needed for future applications. This design overcomes the stability requirements of large telescope primary mirrors.

Hubble Space Telescope - Hubble Telescope,

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into orbit around Earth on 25 April 1990. HST is an observatory first originally conceived in the 1940s and finally operational in the 1990s. The observatory was designed to have a long life span of 15 years. The HST is a co-operative programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The aim of the observatory is to operate a long-lived space-based observatory for the benefit of the international astronomical community.

Potentially Serious Security Flaws Found In Most Bank Websites, Including Large Bank Sites, Study Shows

More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity.

Potentially Serious Security Flaws Found In Most Bank Websites, Including Large Bank Sites, Study Sh

Washington, July 25: More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money or even their identity.

Mozilla Invites People to Design Web's Future: Mozilla is inviting people to take part in a new conceptual series that aims to envision the future design of Web...

Mozilla is inviting people to take part in a new conceptual series that aims to envision the future design of Web...

Bank account details sold on eBay for 35

Personal bank account details of up to one million Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers have been found on a computer that was sold for £35 on eBAY, the online auction site.

Bank's cooling 'teaser' rate burns saver

I'm a little frustrated with my bank, Zions Bank. Last year, I opened an Internet money market account with them at a good interest rate (about 5 percent). My interest rate slowly went down without notice. Now it's at about 2 percent, although they don't make it easy to know what you're getting exactly.

Bank data sold on eBay

A computer sold on the auction site for £35.88 was revealed to have information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers – with data including names, addresses, mobile phone numbers, bank account details, mothers' maiden names and signatures.

Barclays Bank offers customers free software & improves encryption

Barclays Bank is offering its two million online banking customers free internet security software, worth £102. The Kaspersky anti-virus, spy and adware software, plus firewalls and spam filters, can be downloaded under a two-year license, via www.barclays.co.uk, and can be used on up to three personal computers in each household. The bank is also licensing encryption technology from PGP Corporation to safeguard customers personal data

The Future Has a Kill Switch

palegray.net writes "Bruce Schneier brings us his perspective on a future filled with kill switches; from OnStar-equipped automobiles and city buses that can be remotely disabled by police to Microsoft's patent-pending ideas regarding so-called Digital Manners Policies. In Schneier's view, these capabilities aren't exactly high points of our potential future. From the article: 'Once we go down this path — giving one device authority over other devices — the security problems start piling up. Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices, and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?' We recently discussed the Pentagon's interest in kill switches for airplanes.

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