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Abate
of Florida
Next State Meeting
Downtown Ft. Myers,
"Bike Night & Block Party," Ft. Myers FL. Sponsored by
Downtown Management Corp. & Harley-Davidson of Ft. Myers. March 12th
6 to 10 p.m. Vendors, Food & Live
Entertainment. :
Safe Place
Poker Run
DATE: MARCH 27TH 2005
TIME: 10am
LOCATION: Tony D’s (corner of Cortez and 41) First bike out at
11 am
When painting the bottom of fences,
to prevent the dirt from sticking to your brush, use an old dust pan to
keep it away from the ground.
The Mozilla Foundation released on Thursday an update to
the Firefox Web browser to fix several vulnerabilities, including one that
would allow domain spoofing.
The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix, among other bugs, a
vulnerability in the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), a standard for
handling special character sets in domain names that lets companies
register domain names that appear to be the same in different languages.
The IDN vulnerability allowed an attacker to create a fake Web site on a
non-Microsoft browser in order to pull off a phishing scam. A spoofed link
would seem to be a legitimate URL in the address bar of affected browsers.
But instead of taking the victim to the trusted site, the link would lead
to a phony Web site with a domain rendered as the same address under the
IDN process.
The updated browser will display the IDN Punycode in the address bar,
preventing URL spoofing. Punycode is the encoding of Unicode strings into
the limited character set supported by the Domain Name System and IDN.
"Regular security updates are essential for maintaining a safe
browsing experience for our users," Chris Hofmann, director of
engineering for the Mozilla Foundation, said in a statement.
Phishing attacks, which try to fool consumers into handing over sensitive
information by creating legitimate-looking Web sites and e-mail messages,
have become a central security concern recently. While vulnerabilities in
Microsoft's Internet Explorer have been the focus of much of the concern,
other browsers also have had their fair share of flaws.
The update is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at Mozilla.org.
Firefox recently surpassed 25 million downloads, achieving that mark in
100 days. Mozilla, which released the free 1.0 program in November, said
an average of 250,000 people download Firefox every day and more than half
a million Web sites feature Firefox promotions.
Mozilla, an open-source software foundation formed by Netscape, was spun
off from Time Warner in 2003.
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PIERRE, S.D. -- The state's highest court on
Thursday upheld Bill Janklow's conviction for a 2003 crash that killed a
motorcyclist, rejecting the former congressman's argument that there
wasn't enough evidence for a guilty verdict.
Ruling unanimously, the South Dakota Supreme Court also found that
Janklow had received a fair trial.
Janklow, 65, was convicted of second-degree manslaughter and reckless
driving for killing 55-year-old motorcyclist Randy Scott in August 2003
on a rural highway near Trent.
Authorities said Janklow sped through a stop sign. Janklow has said he
was in a diabetic stupor and remembers nothing about the crash.
Janklow declined to discuss the ruling Thursday. "I haven't
commented on it since this all started, the date of my accident, and I'm
not going to start talking about it now," he said.
FLFLHTC: Good thing you sorry bastard. You should have gotten the
death penalty
Eight people associated with a local motorcycle
club were arrested in Vacaville Friday on narcotics and weapons charges,
the Vacaville Police Department reports.
At 7:35 p.m. Friday, in the 800 block of Merchant Street, detectives
from the Crime Suppression Team contacted Bernardino Garcia, 46, of
Stockton, James McClary, 38, of Dixon, Ernie Cervantes, 40, of San Jose,
and Andrew Cervantes, 43, of San Jose.
The suspects had been identified as members of the Mongols motorcycle
club and were carrying large visible knives, according to police.
An investigation found both Cervantes brothers in possession of
dangerous weapons. Andrew Cervantes was also found to be in possession
of more than two ounces of methamphetamine. Additional methamphetamine
was found in the vehicle that Ernie Cervantes and Garcia were in.
All five people were arrested on charges of conspiracy to transport
methamphetamine for sale and committing a crime for the benefit of a
street gang.
Each of the Cervantes brothers was additionally charged with possession
of a dangerous weapon and possession of narcotics for sale.
Garcia was also charged with possession of narcotics. McClary was also
charged with possession of a hypodermic syringe and violation of parole.
KEY BISCAYNE –Secretary
Castille joined National Park Service Director Fran Mainella to announce
the official designation of the Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park as a National
Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site. The event is part of
Governor Jeb Bush and First Lady Columba Bush’s month-long celebration
of Black History Month, celebrating Florida’s African American
heritage. The park is the first state park in Florida to receive this
honor.
“As one of the State’s first meeting sites
for freedom seekers, Cape Florida provided a gateway to liberty for
slaves,” said Governor Bush. “This prestigious designation preserves
an important era in our nation’s history and recognizes the hundreds
of people who fought and escaped oppression.”
Situated
on the southern tip of Key Biscayne, Cape Florida was a secret meeting
place and port for runaway slaves and Seminole Blacks during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Observers described a major exodus
of freedom seekers from across Central and North Florida waiting at Cape
Florida to rendezvous with sea captains or board dugouts for a passage
to safety in the British Bahamas. Although not recognized until decades
later, Cape Florida stands as one of the earliest stations on the
national/international Underground Railroad Network.
Hunter S. Thompson, 67,
By David Kelly Los Angeles Times
DENVER-Hunter S. Thompson, a counterculture figure who rode with the
Hells Angels, chronicled the Nixon administration and coined the term
"gonzo journalism," committed suicide last night at his
secluded home outside Aspen, his son said. Thompson was 67.
Thompson "On February 20, Hunter Thompson took his life with a
gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek,
Colorado," Juan Thompson, his son, said in a statement.
"Hunter prized his privacy, and we ask his friends and admirers to
respect that privacy as well as that of his family."
Pitkin County Sheriff's officials confirmed yesterday that Thompson died
of a gunshot wound, saying they got a call from his home shortly before
6 p.m.
Q: What do you call a ghost hanging around
Santa’s Workshop?
A: A North Pole-tergiest
Q: What do you call the secret criminal
organization that can predict the future?
A: La Cosa Nostradamus
Starting on March 2nd, O'Ceallaigh Originals
will be offering some beautiful gourd art FOR THE BUFFALO! at auction
along with an author-signed copy of Buffalo Medicine by April
Christofferson. It is a beautiful hand-crafted one of a kind gourd
buffalo mask with faux fur and glass and stone beadwork. We'll send a
quick reminder out on the second so that you can all have the
opportunity to look at these items. Thanks Mel & April! View a photo
of the mask here:
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/update0405/022405.html#gourd
The gourd mask will be EBay Item number 7303557668 starting March 2 and
ending March 12th.
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