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In this issue:
* Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane
* Epsilon Data Breach Bigger Than Just Kroger Customers' Data
* Engineering Election Debates With Subtle Cues
* Earth's Gravitational Shape In Detail
* Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism
* Scientists Develop New Method To Improve Passwords
* Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation
* Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla
* New Quantum Record: 14 Entangled Bits
* Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders
* Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer
* A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982
* StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light
* US Open Government Sites To Close
* China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination, 2 In Hospital

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| Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane
| from the doesn't-actually-exist dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 02, @20:18 (Space)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0018221/Amateurs-Spy-On-US-Spy-Plane?from=newsletter
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arshadk writes with this excerpt from Wired's Danger Room: "The X-37B has
generated intense interest, long before it ever left the ground. Boeing
originally developed the 29-foot unmanned craft — a kind of miniature
Space Shuttle — for NASA. Then, the military took over in 2004, and the
space plane went black. Its payloads were classified, its missions
hush-hush. ... You can even [0]see the space plane for yourself: The
X-37B is traveling in a slightly elliptical orbit more than 200 miles up,
swooping from 43 degrees north latitude to 43 degrees south."

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https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0018221/Amateurs-Spy-On-US-Spy-Plane?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/03/secret-space-plane-cant-hide-from-amateur-sleuths/

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| Epsilon Data Breach Bigger Than Just Kroger Customers' Data
| from the trade-loyalty-cards-and-email-addresses dept.
| posted by timothy on Saturday April 02, @23:04 (Privacy)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/016215/Epsilon-Data-Breach-Bigger-Than-Just-Kroger-Customers-Data?from=newsletter
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wiredmikey writes with an update to the [0]previously reported Epsilon
breach: "It turns out that Kroger is only one of many customers affected
by the breach at Epsilon, which sends over 40 billion emails annually and
counts over 2,500 clients, including 7 of the Fortune 10, to build and
host their customer databases. It has been confirmed that the customer
names and email addresses, and in a few cases other pieces of
information, were [1]compromised at several major brands, a list which
continues to grow ..." An anonymous reader points out that U.S. Bank is
on the list of affected companies; I wonder how many more phishing
attempts this will mean.

Discuss this story at:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/016215/Epsilon-Data-Breach-Bigger-Than-Just-Kroger-Customers-Data?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/02/1337202/Hackers-Steal-Krogers-Customer-List
1. http://www.securityweek.com/massive-breach-epsilon-compromises-customer-lists-major-brands

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| Engineering Election Debates With Subtle Cues
| from the after-consultation-with-stephen-bury dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @02:16 (Media)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0241232/Engineering-Election-Debates-With-Subtle-Cues?from=newsletter
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smolloy writes "A recent innovation in televised election debates is a
continuous response measure (the 'worm') that allows viewers to track the
response of a sample of undecided voters in real-time. A potential danger
of presenting such data is that it may prevent people from making
independent evaluations. Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of
London, and the University of Bristol, report an experiment with 150
participants in which they [0]manipulated the worm and superimposed it on
a live broadcast of a UK election debate. The majority of viewers were
unaware that the worm had been manipulated, and yet the researchers were
able to influence their perception of who won the debate, their choice of
preferred prime minister, and their voting intentions."

Discuss this story at:
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0241232/Engineering-Election-Debates-With-Subtle-Cues?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018154

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| Earth's Gravitational Shape In Detail
| from the explains-my-scale's-malfunction dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @05:19 (Earth)
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/031233/Earths-Gravitational-Shape-In-Detail?from=newsletter
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RobHart writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) has released [0]detailed
information about the Earth's gravitational shape, based on data from the
ESA's GOCE satellite (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation
Explorer). The link includes an interesting animation of the data, using
an appropriately distorted Earth."

Discuss this story at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/031233/Earths-Gravitational-Shape-In-Detail?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM1AK6UPLG_index_0.html

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| Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism
| from the perhaps-this-is-why-I'm-not-at-church dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @08:27 (The Internet)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0252229/Vatican-Warns-That-Internet-Promotes-Satanism?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Telegraph reports that the Roman
Catholic Church has warned that [1]the internet has fueled a surge in
Satanism that has led to a sharp rise in the demand for exorcists. 'The
internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about
Satanism. In just a few minutes you can contact Satanist groups and
research occultism,' says Carlo Climati, a member of the Regina
Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome who specializes in the dangers
posed to young people by Satanism. Organizers of a six-day conference
that has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as
doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and youth
workers,co-sponsored by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and
the Sacraments and the Congregation for Clergy say the rise of Satanism
has been [2]dangerously underestimated in recent years."

Discuss this story at:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/0252229/Vatican-Warns-That-Internet-Promotes-Satanism?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8416104/Surge-in-Satanism-sparks-rise-in-demand-for-exorcists-says-Catholic-Church.html
2. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101298.htm

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| Scientists Develop New Method To Improve Passwords
| from the start-thinking-of-random-things dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @09:34 (Security)
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1333212/Scientists-Develop-New-Method-To-Improve-Passwords?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for
Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany have developed a novel
method to improve password security. A strong long password is split in
two parts. The first part is memorized by a human. The second part is
[0]stored as a CAPTCHA-like image of a chaotic lattice system."

Discuss this story at:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1333212/Scientists-Develop-New-Method-To-Improve-Passwords?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1103.6219

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| Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation
| from the don't-keep-that-all-bottled-up dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @10:37 (Japan)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1435216/Crack-In-Fukushima-Structure-May-Be-Leaking-Radiation?from=newsletter
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SillySnake writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "Tokyo Electric Power
Co (TEPCO) said it had [0]found a crack in the pit at its No.2 reactor in
Fukushima, generating readings 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour
in the air inside the pit. 'With radiation levels rising in the seawater
near the plant, we have been trying to confirm the reason why, and in
that context, this could be one source,' said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy
head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), said on
Saturday." Also of interest: Cryptome is featuring [1]high-res photos of
the reactor site, taken by UAV.

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1435216/Crack-In-Fukushima-Structure-May-Be-Leaking-Radiation?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/03/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110403
1. http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm

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| Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla
| from the shocking-truth-as-a-staid-defense dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @11:44 (The Courts)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1543204/Top-Gear-Fights-Back-At-Tesla?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Top Gear's producer Andy Wilman [0]responds
to Tesla's lawsuit: 'We never said that the Tesla's true range is only 55
miles, as opposed to their own claim of 211, or that it had actually ran
out of charge. In the film our actual words were: "We calculated that on
our track it would run out after 55 miles."' Interesting points, and as
far as I can remember also correct. But I'm assuming Tesla is going the
get the PR they want on this regardless of any court rulings."

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1543204/Top-Gear-Fights-Back-At-Tesla?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2011/04/02/tesla-vs-top-gear-andy-wilman-on-our-current-legal-action/

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| New Quantum Record: 14 Entangled Bits
| from the austrian-bits-are-more-highly-polished dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @12:44 (Technology)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1613206/New-Quantum-Record-14-Entangled-Bits?from=newsletter
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Tx-0 writes "Quantum physicists from the University of Innsbruck have set
another world record: They have achieved [0]controlled entanglement of 14
quantum bits (qubits) and, thus, realized the largest quantum register
that has ever been produced. With this experiment the scientists have not
only come closer to the realization of a quantum computer but they also
show surprising results for the quantum mechanical phenomenon of
entanglement. By now the Innsbruck experimental physicists have succeeded
in confining up to 64 particles in an ion trap. 'We are not able to
entangle this high number of ions yet,' says Thomas Monz. 'However, our
current findings provide us with a better understanding about the
behavior of many entangled particles.' And this knowledge may soon enable
them to entangle even more atoms."

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https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1613206/New-Quantum-Record-14-Entangled-Bits?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=20823.php

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| Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders
| from the hey-I-pay-per-text-you-insensitive-clod dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @13:40 (Android)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1642237/Pirated-Android-App-Shames-Freeloaders?from=newsletter
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[0]MojoKid writes "A pirated version of an Android app is actually a
Trojan that shames someone who installs it by [1]sending an SMS message
to all his/her contacts telling them of his/her piracy. The original app
is called Walk and Text, and costs $2.10 in the Android Market. The app
uses the camera on the back of a smartphone to show a user a visual of
his upcoming surroundings, which will supposedly prevent the user from
running into the street or across a set of train tracks. The pirated
version is available from unofficial Android app markets, and once
installed redirects the pirate to the legitimate app in the Android
Market, while also sending the SMS message to the phone's entire contact
list."

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1642237/Pirated-Android-App-Shames-Freeloaders?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hothardware.com/
1. http://hothardware.com/News/Shame-on-You-Pirated-Android-App-Really-Shameware/

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| Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer
| from the competition-doing-its-job dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @14:49 (Firefox)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/1848212/Firefox-5-Details-Sharing-Home-Tab-PDF-Viewer?from=newsletter
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An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 4 may be still new, but Firefox 5 is
already being prepared by Mozilla. At least the UI features have been
laid out by the Mozilla team — there are [0]nine new features in total.
There are some features that are replicating Chrome functionality (tab
multi-select or an integrated PDF viewer that will also extend to other
file formats), but there are completely new features such as tab web
apps, an identity manager a home tab that replaces the home button as
well as a social sharing feature that is integrated in the URL bar and
enables users to post directly to their Facebook and Twitter pages."

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Links:
0. http://www.conceivablytech.com/6581/products/firefox-5-social-sharing-home-tab-pdf-viewer-tab-apps

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| A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982
| from the how-far-we've-come-or-not dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @16:07 (GUI)
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/207229/A-Multitasking-GUI-Circa-1982?from=newsletter
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autospa points out a post (with video) [0]showing off the multi-tasking
abilities of the [1]Blit terminal, developed in 1982 by Rob Pike and Bart
Locanthi. Before Windows, before X, and before the Mac (but somewhat
later than the [2]Xerox Alto), the Blit terminal provided a multitasking,
mouse-driven graphical interface; it took a Unix server on the other side
to do the heavy lifting, though.

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Links:
0. http://www.ispyce.com/2011/04/video-explains-multitasking-and-user.html
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)
2. http://www.maniacworld.com/alto-computer-video.html

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| StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light
| from the taking-blinded-by-science-literally dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @17:14 (Crime)
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/2113243/StunRay-Incapacitates-With-a-Flash-of-Light?from=newsletter
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[0]Hugh Pickens writes writes "Scientific American reports that a newly
patented method of non-lethal incapacitation can render an assailant
helpless for several minutes by [1]overloading the neural networks
connected to the retina with a brief flash of high-intensity light. 'It's
the inverse of blindness—the technical term is a loss of contrast
sensitivity,' says Todd Eisenberg, the engineer who invented the device.
The device consists of a 75-watt lamp, combined with optics that collect
and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like
a flashlight to [2]project a controlled beam of white light more than 10
times more intense than an aircraft landing light with a range as far
away as 150 feet. Recovery time ranges from 'seconds to 20 minutes,' says
Eisenberg. 'It's very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a
very dark room.'"

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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/2113243/StunRay-Incapacitates-With-a-Flash-of-Light?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=patent-watch-apr-11
2. http://www.genesis-illumination.com/Applications/StunRay.html

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| US Open Government Sites To Close
| from the spending-other-people's-money dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @18:20 (Government)
| https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/2219203/US-Open-Government-Sites-To-Close?from=newsletter
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SEWilco writes "US government sites which promote open government are
[0]going to shut down soon due to not enough funding being directed at
them."

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https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/2219203/US-Open-Government-Sites-To-Close?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798

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| China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination, 2 In Hospital
| from the clickaclicka-click-click dept.
| posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, @19:45 (Japan)
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/2345208/China-Detects-10-Cases-of-Radiation-Contamination-2-In-Hospital?from=newsletter
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According to an article at The Sydney Morning Herald, "China has detected
[0]10 cases of radioactive contamination among passengers, aircraft,
ships and containers arriving from Japan since March 16, quarantine
authorities said on Saturday. On Wednesday, radiation exceeding permitted
levels was detected on two ships from the Japanese port of Chiba, near
Tokyo, in the ports of Nantong and Zhangjiagang, Li Yuanping, spokesman
of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine, said on its website." Meanwhile, airborne radiation from
Japan is detectable in China, but thus far [1]not considered a danger.

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/03/2345208/China-Detects-10-Cases-of-Radiation-Contamination-2-In-Hospital?from=newsletter#commentlisting

Links:
0. http://www.smh.com.au/environment/china-detects-10-cases-of-radiation-20110402-1csg4.html
1. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/128280/20110329/japan-s-radiation-china-radioactive-iodine-131.htm

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