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Submission + - The birthplace of Romulus and Remus found

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jd writes: "A cave known to the Romans as the Lupercal has been found. The Lupercal (a 26' high cave) was believed by the Romans to have been the place that Romulus and Remus (the founders of Rome) were rescued and suckled by a she-wolf. Now, whether these two people ever existed is another matter entirely, but even the place itself had descended into myths and legends, with no serious archaeologist believing it existed. Due to the extreme instability of Palatine Hill, where the cave exists, the archaeologists have not been inside. Instead, exploration has been by robots with cameras, endoscopes and laser scanners. These have mapped some amazing mosaics, marble artwork and an amazing white eagle."
Wireless Networking

Submission + - Another city wide wireless project failing

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An anonymous reader writes: The Madison Wisconsin's city wide wireless project built with Cisco is having setbacks because the signals are having various 'challenges'. Those include trees, hills, concrete and apparently entire brands of consumer wireless client devices. "... a PC user will get better service than a Mac user at the same location because the wireless cards in Macintosh computers are less powerful," according to Todd Anderson, Mad City Broadband technical project manager. With 90 percent of the entire subscriber base on a single provider (who has announced they are terminating their contract with Mad City Broadband) will the project be able to survive long-term?
Input Devices

Submission + - Web rating system for landlords

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Pick-A-Landlord.com is the first website of its kind to offer tenants the ability to rate their landlords. It's totally free and you don't even need to sign-up to rate your landlord. All ratings are completely anonymous! You can also view ratings that other tenants have written by creating a FREE account and logging in.

Other features include:
— receiving bills online (optional)
— receiving notification online (optional)
— finding housing for over 55,000 cities
— and more..."

Feed Discovery Of New Family Of Pseudo-metallic Chemicals (sciencedaily.com)

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A new discovery allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discovered 50 years ago in such as way as to give the molecule metal-like properties, creating a new, "pseudo" element. The pseudo-metal properties can be adjusted for a wide range of uses and might change the way scientists think about attacking disease or even building electronics.
Security

Submission + - University IS Uses Patriot Act against students

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An anonymous reader writes: I was reading this story at www.digg.com about University of Portland and how their IT security appears to be inhibiting the learning of their engineering students. Specifically, how one CS student was learning about the security holes for educational reasons and made a program that bypassed Cisco Clean Access to demonstrate its flaws and now this student is being suspended for a year. There is interesting discussion at http://www.digg.com/security/University_VP_of_Info rmation_Services_Uses_Patriot_Act_Against_Students and the articles and letters are fairly interesting to read, too, at http://www.mgridley.com/rogueUP/Rogue_Blog/Archive .html. Just thought it might make some more interesting discussion here, too. Thanks.
Music

Submission + - Andersen v. RIAA Now Up for Dismissal Decision

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The counterclaims (pdf) in Atlantic v. Andersen, for Electronic Trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Invasion of Privacy, Fraud, Negligent Misrepresentation, the tort of Outrage, Deceptive Business Practices under Oregon Trade Practices Act, and Oregon RICO, first reported in October, 2005, are now being challenged. The RIAA has moved to dismiss the counterclaims (pdf) brought by a disabled single mother in Oregon who lives on Social Security Disability and has never engaged in file sharing, this after unsuccessfully trying to force the face-to-face deposition of Ms. Andersen's 10-year-old daughter. Ms. Andersen's lawyer has filed opposition papers (pdf)."
Power

Submission + - New reactor to recycle nuclear waste

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w42w42 writes: This article details a $405-million DOE project to develop a process that can use what is now considered nuclear waste to generate electricity. It is supposed to "...transform nuclear leftovers into fuel for a new breed of reactors. The new reactor/fuel combo, GNEP officials say, could produce up to 100 times as much energy as conventional reactors and could generate 40 percent less waste"
Space

Astronaut Has 'Wasabi Spill' in Space 164

Posted by Zonk from the argh-my-eyes-all-i-see-is-green-and-burny dept.
Sda~ writes "You learn something new everyday: There is nothing in the astronaut training manual about how to clean up flying wasabi. An inadvertent Wasabi spill this week aboard the ISS has made space agencies re-evaluate including the spicy paste in future meals. The astronauts are allowed some of their favorite foods on each trip, to alleviate homesickness. 'Williams, whose father was born in India, has several Indian dishes in her bonus container, including Punjabi kadhi with pakora - vegetable fritters topped with yogurt and curry - and mutter paneer, a curry dish. The dishes are packaged to have a long shelf life in space. Her U.S. crew mate, astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, is an even bigger foodie. Lopez-Alegria, who was born in Madrid but grew up in California, had Spanish muffins known as magdalenas, chorizo pork sausage and latte in his bonus container.'"

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