CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo pops up in Dubai « Peterjcooper’s Weblog

You could almost think this is not the most severe financial crisis to face the world since 1929. Will all the economic problems of the world be solved that quickly?

Hack-pocalypse for Proprietary DVD Formats

It was really only a matter of time, but I kind of thought it would take the hacker community a bit more of it."Arnezami, a hacker on the Doom9 forum, has published a crack for extracting the "processing key" from a high-def DVD player. This key can be used to gain access to...

Seekr Search Engine Follows the Political Money

"If you're a regular visitor to our site you noticed sometime last week, on the left side of our home page, our latest widget - we've dubbed it Sunlight Seekr. It's the first step to a one click search engine that culls through multiple databases. We put it up last week to...

Houston, you have a problem

"It was the BBC that previously held the record for losing historic tapes - the first Top of the Pops, the early Pete 'n' Dud shows, and more than 100 episodes of Doctor Who have all disappeared. But US space agency Nasa has now claimed the crown. In fact, it has set a record...

A lip-synching ship

"'Top of the Pops' is set to end on 30th July, 2006 after 42 years on television in the UK. The show has been loved by some and criticized by others for having bands mime their own tunes on the air, but was a mainstay up until a recent ratings slide. Over four decades TOTP...