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Here is a quote and a link to the Miami Herald’s coverage of the brawl at the UM / FIU game on October 14, 2006. What transpired was completely unacceptable. People in my section were close to being trampled as a fan fight broke out.

I have posted video of the whole event. Video: Fight at UM / FIU Game Last Night

MiamiHerald.com: Brawl mars UM-FIU game

Crosstown rivalry?

How about backyard brawl?

Whatever it was, it wasn’t much about football Saturday once chaos erupted with nine minutes to go in the third quarter of the inaugural University of Miami-Florida International game.

The Hurricanes won 35-0.

Now, to the brawl.

Thirteen players were ejected after a massive fight that brought both teams onto the field swinging, kicking, punching and doing just about anything else to inflict pain on the opponent. The Orange Bowl crowd of 51,130 even got into it as at least two fights erupted in the stands.

I was at the game in the crowd and was surprised when the huge fight broke out on the field. It began as a small fight near one of the endzones. I turned away for a second and then the field was full of players from both teams duking it out. I then pulled out my Treo and began recording.
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Bravo Microsoft! The video embeded below shows how to change the password of the current user account that you are logged in under without entering the previous password. This kind of thing should not work. I will have to test to see if Vista is susceptible to this “hack”.

The operating system should always ask you for the old password before allowing you to change it. Hopefully this only works when logged in to an administrator account. In Unix the superuser can change other user’s passwords without knowledge of the old password. If logged in as any other account you can change only your own password after typing in your old password.
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JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores:

The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.

All I can say is “WOW.” It takes a lot of pageviews to earn that kind of money! I need to think up the next killer idea…

Here is John Stewart’s reaction to FOX News’ “mistake” labeling Foley as a Democrat.

There are many versions of this video on Youtube. I linked to the one that has the full version of the story. Look at the graphic under the image of Mark Foley and you will see that he is labeled D-FL. Mark Foley is not a Democrat.

As far as I am aware at this moment neither FOX News or the O’Reilly factor appologized or even admitted to the error. It could be an honest mistake, but it really seems a little fishy when there is no acknowledgement.

John Stewart has also commented on this. I will try to find that clip and post it as well.

In this video the incorrect graphic shows up twice. Once around 58 seconds into it, and again at around 2:38. It is also the same photo both times.

MiamiHerald.com | 09/18/2006 | Securing sensitive data

Recently, The Miami Herald brought to light the threat of identity theft facing Floridians because of the prevalence and accessibility of personal information online Public records easy targets for ID thieves, Aug. 27.

This follows the announcement by the Transportation Department that two computers containing sensitive data — in one case, the personal information of more than 133,000 Floridians — have been stolen in the last several months.

Note to the American people, the words liberal and conservative are useless. These words are thrown around instead of intelligently debating the issues at hand. We need to express exactly what actions a government official has taken that we feel are clearly wrong, or what a news personality said that we feel distorts the facts. Why do I feel it is so important that we have more intelligent discourse and stop bickering using words that are too general to be of use?
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NASA’s World Wind software is definitely as good as, if not better than, Google Earth. World Wind’s largest downside is that it only runs on Windows.
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BusinessWeek recently reported on the growing trend of using fog machines to deter criminals. Stores fill up with fog when the alarm is triggered making it much more difficult for the criminal to steal anything. I read this in the magazine and only found one reference to it online from which I have quoted below.
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