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  1. Most Galaxies May Not Have Black Holes

    Science · Space · · posted by michael · from the there's-a-hole-in-the-middle-of-it-all dept. · 7 comments
    Jared writes: "A story at space.com reports that new research indicates that black hole formation is tied directly to the amount of mass in a galaxy's central bulge, an ancient and dense sphere of stars that populates the central regions of many galaxies, including our own Milky Way."

  2. ORBS Forks

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the children-with-funny-names dept. · 249 comments
    Noxxus writes: "Wired is carrying this article about the shutdown of Alan Brown's Open Relay Behavior-Modification System, more commonly known as ORBS. Brown, of New Zealand, closed his operation after two local companies won legal injunctions against him for listing them." It seems the list of 94,000 open relays will be maintained by: "Open Relay Black List of Phoenix, AZ, Open Relay Block Zone (ORBZ), of Basingstoke, England, and the Open Relay Database (ORDB), of Aarhus, Denmark." We've gotten a zillion ORBS submissions since the day its website went down, but this is the first post-ORBS story with enough info to be worth a mention. Guess the dust just needed to settle.

    We're obviously in the minority, but I think the EFF's John Gilmore has cut to the chase:

    For Gilmore, spam blocking should occur at the recipient level, not at the level of self-appointed upstream censors.

    "I noticed years ago that the community tends to go 'mob' and lose its morals and principles when it comes to spam," Gilmore says. "Free speech, interoperability, inclusiveness, tolerance, privacy, anonymity -- all go out the window when they get in the way of killing off those damn spammers."

    I wonder if he'll get added to spam lists now, like I do every time I post a story critical of anti-spam activists. Yeah, subscribe me and Rob to more mailing lists under the handle "Spamlover." That's real mature.