Who gets to be an FBI threat?

A recent Rolling Stone article raises troubling questions about FBI entrapment schemes and their targets

Weekend talk thread May 11 – 13

For those of us who’ve managed to survive Budget week, here’s a new open thread. If the belt-tightening CONTINUES, then yes – that’s a big problem. No it isn’t. Defence spending is a massive waste.

The Idea Factory: How Bell Labs Created The Future

In The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation , Jon Gertner writes of the legendary innovations developed at AT&T's Bell Labs, from lasers and transistors to solar cells and cell phones, and discusses how the lab became a hotbed for new ideas.

Kay Koplovitz: Arthur C. Clarke Inspired MeThen; Peter Diamandis Inspires Me Now: Lessons in Abundance and Exponential ...

Arthur C. Clarke inspired me to envision a world fully connected. Peter Diamandis inspires me to understand a world ripe with abundance, and to imagine wondrous improvements for mankind.

DALY: Happy days are here again - and it's only minicamp

ANALYSIS/OPINION: A quarterback like Robert Griffin III can make a coach like Mike Shanahan feel young again. You could see it in Shanahan's eyes Sunday as he talked about the new face of the Washington Redskins franchise. You could hear it in his voice, too. You might even describe him ...

How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money ??? Without Mining Asteroids

Planetary Resources President and Chief Engineer Chris Lewicki explains the business plan behind the nascent asteroid mining company.