6:24 PM
Boeing won the $35 bil deal to build 179 refueling tankers...is the finally the end to the 7-year battle over the tanker deal?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/sorry-euros-boeing-wins-tanker-deal-again/
US Army general in Afghanistan is accused of ordering soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting VIPs (members of Congress, etc.) into providing more troops and funding for the war. Gen. Petraeus has ordered a probe to find out the facts of this issue:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/2chambers/2011/02/carl_levin_pentagon_must_inves.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
Scientists have been able to make volunteers experience having 3 arms at the same time, with the subject's brain deciding that the person has 2 right arms and 1 left arm. The same Institute in Sweden has demonstrated the ability to make people perceive that their physical selves were located not in their own bodies--volunteers perceived that their bodies were in the bodies of mannequins or other people, so they could put a male in a female body, or make someone feel that their body were in a different race or very different aged body:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/scientists-create-illusion-of-having.html
Verizon's alliance with Motorola to provide LTE roaming to public safety users will be great for public safety organizations...and great for Verizon since it will keep T-Mobile and Sprint from getting 700 MHz spectrum for LTE while giving Verizon subscription fees from public-safety users:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/will-verizons-public-safety-partnership-motorola-keep-competitors-getting-d/2011-02-24
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/sorry-euros-boeing-wins-tanker-deal-again/
US Army general in Afghanistan is accused of ordering soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting VIPs (members of Congress, etc.) into providing more troops and funding for the war. Gen. Petraeus has ordered a probe to find out the facts of this issue:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/2chambers/2011/02/carl_levin_pentagon_must_inves.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
Scientists have been able to make volunteers experience having 3 arms at the same time, with the subject's brain deciding that the person has 2 right arms and 1 left arm. The same Institute in Sweden has demonstrated the ability to make people perceive that their physical selves were located not in their own bodies--volunteers perceived that their bodies were in the bodies of mannequins or other people, so they could put a male in a female body, or make someone feel that their body were in a different race or very different aged body:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/scientists-create-illusion-of-having.html
Verizon's alliance with Motorola to provide LTE roaming to public safety users will be great for public safety organizations...and great for Verizon since it will keep T-Mobile and Sprint from getting 700 MHz spectrum for LTE while giving Verizon subscription fees from public-safety users:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/will-verizons-public-safety-partnership-motorola-keep-competitors-getting-d/2011-02-24