These people used money to affect political change. The records exist because the public has for a long time decided that such information is important. Further they are New organizations researching a story about a directly political activity. The Wisconsin legislator is an elected official trying to force access to the research of someone acting as a journalist.

You don't even know what the fairness doctrine is from your statement.

Only he can, by his own actions, "erode public trust in the department".

They already have over the past 8 years... Fortunately there are organizations that have the ear of the Democrats and will work to fight bad legislation like this. The ACLU comes to mind.

I find this all absurd. It's likely that it will take us more than 50 years to get back to the moon, we should be ready to be on mars by now! And it's likely that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin will have passed away before we get back! All this money they spent on just reusing the shuttles engines is insane. They should have designed a rocket that doesn't need a solid booster, and one that has fool proof protection for the astronauts. Here's my idea 1. Place the parachutes near the tail of the rocket so expensive liquid rocket nozzles are not damaged. 2. 1-2" thick steel plate to protect the crew capsule, make it an inverse cone so it will help throw the capsule away from any explosions. 3. Your not climate police your rocket engineers, stop wasting your money on satellites that you can't even get safely into orbit.

Put three marines on each ship with 3 shoulder fired rockets. Its a lot less expensive than building additional ships and wasting gas sailing around the area. You just set up areas where the ships stop to allow the marines aboard and a place to let them off.

Are they trying to bankrupt themselves? Thats an unthinkable amount of data. And a huge amount of equipment. And will have a huge environmental impact. I hope they cracked cold fusion cause they will need it to run all the data centers they will need.

Is it just me or does it seem idiotic to assume that a map made in the 1930s is accurate enough to make predictions about loosing ice.

Since when is it the FBI job to handle late payments? Either they have far overstepped there bounds or this is not the real reason. If you don't pay a bill you get disconnected then sued.

Perhaps the phytoplankton could be used as a simple fuel source for steam generation/electric generation? At least then we wouldn't be adding more CO2 to the air.

Why don't they just instruct the worm to upload an executable that will delete the worm and then itself? Or if the previous is no possible due to authentication built in they could cause a buffer overun in the worm. Maybe they could even use the buffer overun to delete or damage the worm so it can't run again.

First off I think the school officials should be charged as pedophiles, the girl was 13. Second, If they really needed to know if she had pills you call the police and allow them to find out.

I personally don't want microwave transmiters all around me or next to my head thanks. This reminds me of the foot-o-scope. http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/shoexray.htm

Didn't they just give apple a patent for a similar device, basically a web cam integrated into an LCD screen.

That would be a big problem they have not thought about, how would you get Opera or Firefox if you had no browser in the first place? A basic browser that is always there is a must have in an internet based world. If the EC wants to help consumers they should make Microsoft provide a version of Silverlight that works in Opera. And also make there websites and web applications work in every broswer.