Richard Farina On Hacking Airport Wi-Fi

Richard Farina booted up his computer on an American Airlines flight in October from New York to San Francisco. It was one of the first commercial flights to offer wireless Internet service. Within a couple minutes of reaching 10,000 feet, Farina was snooping the airwaves with the ability to see what his fellow pass

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Trade group: video output limits will hit millions of HDTVs

20 million HDTV sets could be adversely affected by Selectable Output Control, a trade association warns. Another group calls that estimate low.

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Despite Oklahoma's win, Texas moves up to No. 2 in new BCS

After its dominating win over Texas Tech Saturday night in Norman, Oklahoma made a compelling case to be playing for the national title in Miami.But it's the team that handed the Sooners their only loss of the season who would be playing in the BCS championship game against No. 1 Alabama if the season ended Sunday.

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Charles Barkley, D. Manning, D. Vitale Join the Hall of Fame

Barkley was honored with a 2008 class that included former Kansas star Danny Manning, Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson and longtime Mount St. Mary's coach Jim Phelan. Former Utah All-American Arnie Ferrin also entered the college hall, as did announcers Dick Vitale and Billy Packer as contributors.

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Jets Beat Titans 34-13 - Five things we learned: Titans-Jets

Five things we learned from the Jets 34-13 dismantling of the previously undefeated Titans (Recap | Box Score) at LP Field on Sunday.....

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Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong with Nunchucks - Video

All I can say is AMAZING. You've got to see it to believe it.

OFFBEAT: University of Illinois Coach Alledgedly Does Something He Should Not Have Done

This is certainly offbeat news away from the depressing economic information we're being bombarded with.  According to the Associated Press and Fan I.Q , a now former gymnastics coach at the University of Illinois was rumored, but not confirmed to have placed a camera in the women's gymnastic team's locker room.  


Yikes!  And he was the coach!  

Why do that?  If he wanted to date one of them, yes they're young but not that young, but reportedly so was he -- all in their 20s for the most part and well over 18 and in college -- just ask for a date.  U.S.A Soccer star Brandy Chastain dated her coach and now they're married!  It's not an unusual happening by any stretch in college -- sorry, it's not.  And it's far better than dating a student who's class he teaches because he's not giving her a grade.  Believe me, it happens more than you think.  But this?  WFT was he thinking?  (If it's true; I hope not.)  


Geez.  

Obama Economic Team: Tim Geithner, Christine Rohmer, Lawrence Summers

President-Elect Barack Obama's just annouced his new economic team this morning :  New York Federal Reserve head Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary, UC Berkeley Professor Christine Rohmer as chair of his Council of Economic Advisers, and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers as head of National Economic Council.


Geithner and Summers have been much-talked about. Summers, even with his mistatements on women, is considered a bright and effective economic policy-maker. Geithner is so well respected on Wall Street that the Dow jumped 200 points after Friday's news leak of his selection as Treasury Secretary.



The surprise is Christine Rohmer, who's well-known in the San Francisco Bay Area as a professor of Economics at Cal-Berkeley. I personally met Professor Rohmer during my second year as a graduate student at UC Berkeley. I found her to be a delightful mix of the personable and the intellectual. A great mix to advance policy points and ideas. On that, Dr. Rohmer was well-regarded and popular with students, and I think if memory serves, won an award for teaching. The point is she can take complex economic matters and explain them in such a way that people can learn them.

MyBO Grassroots Inauguration Ball WDC 1/19/2009

Official website of the Grassroots Inauguration Ball set for January 19, 2009 - for celebration of our Victory - and the Inauguration of Our President Barack Obama as President of Our United States of America. We Did It!

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Obama Eyes $500 Billion in Stimulus

Obama and Bush are rushing to craft measures to bolster financial markets and prevent a policy vacuum during the transition. Meanwhile, Paulson is considering tapping the second half of the government's rescue fund.

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Citigroup Saw No Red Flags Even as It Made Bolder Bets

“Our job is to set a tone at the top to incent people to do the right thing and to set up safety nets to catch people who make mistakes or do the wrong thing and correct those as quickly as possible. And it is working. It is working.”

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Bloomberg: US could lend as much as $7.4 trillion

Financial institutions have purportedly already tapped $2.8 trillion in credit lines from the Treasury. The loans are the largest provided in an economic emergency since the New Deal of the 1930s, in the wake of the Great Depression.

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