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LOTD for June 24

The Marines will use 4 unmanned ground vehicles designed by Virginia Tech students in their war games in Hawaii with 13 other countries. The unmanned vehicles are designed to resupply troops, to reduce the actual loads manually carried by Marines, and to provide an immediate means for the evacuation of any casualties in combat:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/marines-use-autonomous-vehicles-built-virginia-tech-students


A 7th grade science class chose to study lava tubes on Earth and Mars as their class project and ended up discovering a hole in the roof of a cave on Mars!
http://www.asdnews.com/news/28745/Teen_project_one-ups_NASA%2C_finds_hole_in_Mars_cave.htm


Brown researchers documented dozens of channels carved by melted water from glaciers in Mars:
http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/06/mars


The LA Times revealed that California welfare cards can be used in more than half of California casino and gaming rooms ATMs! California officials reacted to the story by saying that they would try to block ATM transactions at casinos. I think that it is horrible that people on welfare could withdraw taxpayer dollars from casino ATMs when they are supposed to use that money for essentials such as food:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-welfare-casinos-20100624,0,6190326.story


YouTube's win over Viacom in court may have a significant effect on search engines and hosting services. The court ruled that internet companies, even if they know they are hosting infringing material, are immune from copyright liability if they take works down at a rights-holder's request:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/dmca-protects-youtube/


Last week a WiMAX operator in the UK ended operations and this week a WiMAX operator in the Netherlands is ending WiMAX service. Worldmax is blaming the Dutch military for their demise, saying that they couldn't expand WiMAX because of interference in the 3.5 GHz band with a military ground station for an intelligence satellite:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/another-wimax-operator-calls-it-quits/2010-06-24


Argument between a brother and sister over whether or not to use butter or margarine in a mac-and-cheese recipe ended up with the sister being arrested after she tried to cut her brother's neck!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/23/ap/strange/main6611453.shtml

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