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Definitions of lucifer on the Web:

Satan: (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell

morning star: a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky

match: lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction; "he always carries matches to light his pipe"; "as long you've a lucifer to light your fag"

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. Lucifer does not appear in Greek or Roman mythology; it is used by poets to represent the Morning Star at moments when "Venus" would intrude distracting imagery of the goddess. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer

∧ucifer or Lucifer is a Japanese popular music group. Its members are Atsuro, Makoto, Santa, Towa, and Yuki. On April 30, 2003, they stopped working as a group and decided to continue their carriers separately.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(J-Pop)

In cryptography, Lucifer was the name given to several of the earliest civilian block ciphers, developed by Horst Feistel and his colleagues at IBM. Lucifer was a direct precursor to the Data Encryption Standard. One version, alternatively named DTD-1, saw commercial use in the 1970s for electronic banking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher)

Lucifer is a comic book published by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics. The series concerns the adventures on Earth (and beyond) of the fallen angel Lucifer Morningstar, who had abandoned his lordship over Hell earlier in the separate series The Sandman.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(comics)

Lucifer is a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(X-Men)

Angel of light. Sometimes considered a synonym for Satan.

www.religioustolerance.org/gl_l.htm

is the leader of the evil angels who rebelled against God.

www.rbc.org/ds/q1003/page6.html

Satan, especially as the leader of the revolt of the angels before his fall from heaven

www.innvista.com/culture/religion/diction.htm

A son of Aurora.

www.geocities.com/jayce8565/TwoBabylonsDefinitions3.html

One of Elohim's spirit children. He is Jesus' spirit brother. He was a good angel but rebelled and was expelled from Heaven, taking a third of the spirit children with him.

christiandefense.org/mor_define.htm

Firefox 3.0 may block sites fingered by Google

Gregg Keizer

June 05, 2007 (Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company's security chief refused to spell out details, saying Mozilla is "not ready to talk about the feature."

Even so, there are numerous details to be found on a blog by a Firefox designer and in a back-and-forth discussion of the feature in Bugzilla, the management system that Mozilla uses to track changes in its software. Together, the two offer a behind-the-scenes look into Mozilla's open-source development process.

"Similar to how Firefox 2 blocks Web sites that are potentially going to try to steal your personal information, Firefox 3 will block Web sites that we believe are going to try to install malicious programs on your computer," said Alex Faaborg, a user experience designer in a blog entry last week. "Mozilla is coordinating with Google on this feature."

And in a Bugzilla entry that offers comments from Mozilla and Google employees -- including Chris Hofmann, Mozilla's director of engineering, and Mike Shaver, its director of ecosystem development -- information is even more free-flowing about malicious site blocking in the next major update to Firefox.

The discussion centers on how Firefox 3.0 will warn or alert users to a potentially malicious site. Faaborg mocks up a warning notice, then someone else offers up another option titled "Scarier error page." But at times the thread lingers on technical issues.

"If a site does not appear in the blacklist, but the response from Google says, 'This is a malware site,' will Firefox stop showing the page immediately and load this error page in its place?" asked Jesse Ruderman, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego, and a unpaid Firefox developer.

"I think the plan for malware is to only use the local lists so we don't have to slow down page load or unload a page (which would probably be too late anyway)," replied Tony Chang, one of the Google software engineers who works full time on Firefox.

"This is an example of how development goes on [at Mozilla]," said Window Snyder, the company's chief security officer. "This is a great example of working with the [open-source] community" in a give-and-take atmosphere where ideas are batted back and forth, she added. Still, she wouldn't commit Mozilla to adding a malicious blocking tool to the antiphishing filter already present in Firefox. "It's definitely one of the things we're looking at," Snyder acknowledged, while noting that the feature is currently rated P2 (Priority 2). By Mozilla's definitions, only P1 features are mandatory for Firefox 3.0.

If the security tool makes it into Firefox 3.0's final build, Mozilla will rely on long-time partner Google to provide the blocking blacklists. Google already does that for Firefox 2.0's antiphishing feature, which is powered by the search giant's open-source "Safe Browsing" code. (Safe Browsing was offered as a separate plug-in for Firefox before Version 2.0, then baked into the Google Toolbar for Firefox.)

But comments made by developers, designers and others on Bugzilla show that Mozilla has questions about the Google technology. "Will the Google malware blacklist include sites that are known to be exploiting just Firefox, or IE, or all browsers?" queried Hofmann. "Do we need to make that distinction and/or communicate it to the user so we don't overstep our bounds?"

"What we are actually doing here is giving Google veto power over any Web page. Hmm ..." added Gervase Markham, a lead developer for Bugzilla.

Google warns its search engine users of potentially dangerous sites with an interstitial page. Google's current blacklists, and presumably those downloaded to Firefox browsers, come from StopBadware.org, a group created by Google, Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. and Sun Microsystems Inc. that collects flagged URLs. Some Web sites, however, including one associated with a Kansas educational service center, have complained that Google erroneously blocks their sites.

No other browser currently includes an integrated tool for blocking sites flagged for downloading malicious code. When asked if Mozilla sees this as a chance to pull away from the competition, Snyder said, "We're always looking for ways to keep our users safe."

Mozilla's developers have until mid-July to add the feature to Firefox 3.0. According to Mozilla's development schedule, the browser will be feature-frozen for Beta 1 on July 17.

That urgency was communicated by at least one Bugzilla commenter. "Alex's design depends on being able to render error messages as he mocked up, which I'd love to see, but am not sure we can do," said Mozilla's Mike Beltzer. "We need to scope & determine that feasibility pretty damned quickly, IMO."

Industry news

Industry News for 08 June 2007

Gates champions "creative captalism" to eradicate inequity

Vote (and manipulate) with your wallet.

Source: eWeek

Spice up your schedule with the Google Calendar gallery

Find out when the "game is on" and more.

Source: Google

Microsoft fixes Vista mobile bug

Windows Mobile now works with Vista. That didn't take too long, did it?

Source: TechNews World

India's Tata to hire 5,000 staff in Mexico

India outsourcing to Mexico.

Source: Infoworld

AWADmail Issue 265

From: Nancy Friedman (nancyf wordworking.com )
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--premorse
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/premorse.html

In "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times", an episode of
"The Simpsons" that first aired in January 2007, the character
Milhouse takes preemptive action against a bully and calls it
"prevenge". I imagine he subsequently experienced premorse.

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From: J.R. Arner (redragon ptd.net)
Subject: George Herbert: Paradise (1633)

Concerning this week's motif of beheading words, you may remember
George Herbert. Particularly his poem Paradise:
http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/Paradise.html

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From: Tracy Johnston (trackyj acer-access.com)
Subject: Re: beheaded words

I was driving past a recently renovated apartment complex today and saw
their "Now Leasing" sign which made me giggle. They had added, using a
different font and color, the letter "P" to it, making it "Now Pleasing".

A reverse beheading!

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From: Paul Laurance (paul.laurance areva-td.com)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--testate
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/testate.html

I liked the fact that this word is "recursively decapitatable":

testate - valid will
estate - land, property
  state - condition, nation
   tate - common in crosswords, normally defined as an art gallery in London
    ate - past tense eat
     te - Tellurium
      e - base of the natural logarithm

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From: Sue Levy (slevy jalcomputer.com.au)
Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--testate

My husband remembered an incident when he was a child -- his father
received a small share in the estate of a distant relative who died
intestate, and there was some discussion in the family because the
two oldest members each received one penny more than the others. I
just hope they didn't spend it all at once!

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From: Richard Koepsell (haskoepr earthlink.net)
Subject: feedback: testate

My wife, who's a medievalist, tells me testate is related to testimony and
testes. In fact, in one of the orthodox faiths, when the priest makes the
sign of the cross he makes the lowest part of the sign near his testes
because he's swearing by his testes that his testimony is true. Thus he's
willing to give them up if he's not being truthful--thus testimony.

   It's a popular story, but the origin of the word testify is
   really in the Indo-European root trei- (three) implying that
   to testify is to be the third person: to bear witness.
   -Anu Garg

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From: Joel Wollner (bashou peacevillage.net)
Subject: Re: strident/trident/rident
Refer: http://wordsmith.org/words/strident.html

Why cut off your beheadings at two?

More than merely trident or rident, hydra-headed strident can endure five
decapitating blows revealing hidden inner words:

Strident/trident/rident/ident/dent and, if you dare to stick your neck out
far enough, /ent.

Tolkien enthusiasts will immediately recognize ent as the giant, humanoid
tree creatures of Middle Earth. But the word has deep roots in old
Anglo-Saxon, naming the mythical humanoid giants, and appears extensively in
fantasy, folklore, and poetry. Tolkien's adaptation is explored (along with
99 others of his coinage) in the fascinating new book "The Ring of Words:
Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary" by Peter Gilver, Jeremy Marshall,
and Edmund Weiner.

The other uncommon inner word, ident, is defined in the OED as: "a short
sequence shown on television between programmes to identify the channel."

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From: Srinivas Shastri (shastrix gmail.com)
Subject: Topless Words

Ah, that reminds me of a favorite crossword clue:
Fruit, with the top off, is still fruit (6).

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From: Grant Barrett (gbarrett worldnewyork.org)
Subject: Dictionary Society of North America New Word Open Mic

This year Chicago will be hosting the biennial conference of the Dictionary
Society of North America. Of special interest is the "New Word Open Mic",
in which people can share words they've coined and get them critiqued by a
panel of experts and then voted on by everyone present. It'll be goofy, not
serious. The session is open to the public and press Saturday, June 16th,
4:30 - 5:45 pm in Brea sted Hall, at the Oriental Institute of the
University of Chicago in Hyde Park.

More info about the open mic: http://dtww.org/dsna/
More information about the whole conference: http://dsna-chicago.blogspot.com/


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While language is forming, writers are applauded for extending its limits;
when established, for restricting themselves to them. -Isaac Disraeli,
writer (1766-1848)

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