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Submission + - Hackers steal millions Visa account numbers

Submitted by jackelfish on Friday January 19, 2007 @03:54PM

jackelfish writes: In a recent report in the Globe and Mail , millions of credit card accounts may have been compromised after hackers stole customer information last year from computer systems of TJX Cos. . The problem was tied to the computer systems that process and store information about customer transactions involving credit cards, debit cards, cheques and merchandise returns — some of them going back to 2003. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the U.S. Secret Service have been called in to investigate.

Submission + - Element Creation 101: Big Bangs and Supernovas

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19, 2007 @02:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: It's an unwritten law that every popularizer of astronomy or physics inevitably publicly states that humans are made of stardust. This idea is mentioned so consistently that it has unfortunately become cliché. But the great minds who have talked about this (Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, etc.) aren't suffering from a lack of creativity. Rather, they realize that the story of nucleosynthesis (element creation) is one of the most profound and beautiful tales science can tell, and immediately connects the events at the beginning of time, or within the hearts of stars, to each person's every-day, Earth-bound existence. Coordinating with two leaders in nucleosynthesis research, Gary Steigman at Ohio State University and Bradley S. Meyer at Clemson University, Seed magazine has condensed the story of the elements into an illustrated poster to give a glimpse of the grandeur behind one of science's most-repeated statements.

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