If we did not, the firm was risking a $10000 fine.
This is federal law.
I think the federal law you are talking about is the Telephone Consumers Protection Act. The relevant law and complications with using it are analyzed pretty well at Junkbusters U.S. Laws on Telemarketing.
You are right, it was peer reviewed... and rejected. Science is publishing it anyway.
Here I was always worried about that the reviewers were going to say about our group's submissions to Phys Rev B, turns out all I had to do was submit it to Science with some huge claims attached to it and all worry could cease.
Sometimes it is not the user's vacation program that is doing it. If someone sets the Reply-To field to point to the list instead of them the autoreply will probably go out to the whole list. Since it looks like it comes from a legit user the list forwards it on.
I am on a list right now that sets the Reply-To to the whole list. I am very nervous about that, but so far nothing bad has happened.
The confirmed part of the equation seems to be the responsibility of the customer who is using DARTMail (i.e. the business who uses it for managing their list of email contacts). They just give a pre-made list to DoubleClick for management.
Having said that, though, since the email will be coming from doubleclick it seems like it would be in their best interest to make sure that they don't piss lots of people off by sending them emails from poorly managed lists.
They have to have some way of checking the compliance of the person who made the list with some pre-stated standard of opt-in emailing. Probably seed the list of the client with a few email addresses to see what kind of email they get back. Postal mailing list managers do it all the time.
I remember buying a big chunk of single crystal sapphire when we were building a neutron beam at our school's reactor. Sapphire crystals make good fast neutron filters. We got a 3 inch diameter by 6 inch long cylinder of the stuff (which was slightly pink colored when we installed it) for a couple thousand dollars. Cost a lot to have it sliced so it would fit though, heh. So I bet the expensive part of the process would be the machining to make your lenses, not the sapphire itself.
When we took it out of the neutron beam it was brown colored. Strange that sapphire turns brown when irradiated, topaz turns blue, and pearls turn gray.
Ah, but you DO have access to cyclotrons and such.
Most large facilities at government research labs have research user programs. There is a proposal process where you submit a research proposal There is a review process where the proposal committee sorts through the many that they get and decides which ones warrant time on whatever instrument was requested. Then the time on the instrument is scheduled and the researcher is told when to buy his plane ticket. It actually works quite well.
Here are some samples of the places that you can get access to, provided that you have real science you want to do and the knowledge required to someday publish your results:
Nice. Thanks for pointing that out. I did not check the new options that were added with the new Mozilla build I downloaded, but this makes me like the browser even more.
When I was at the University of Illinois I saw a multi-media presentation called "Grand Hotel des Etrangers" that blew me away.
I went to see what I thought was going to be a stage with a scrim in front of it where images would interact with the live actors. The first thing that happened was that the visible scrim at the front of the stage was withdrawn when the lights went down. Then the actor came out and images proceeded to float around him for the next hour and a half. Very nice trick making an obvious scrim to remove to aid suspension of disbelief.
They used subtle things as simple as barely audible street noises and as complex as projections that were so well coreagraphed (sp?) with the actor that they appeared to be interacting with him in all 3 dimensions.
The presentation had me thinking about it for the next week. I still wish I could see it again.
The URL for the production company that put on this spectacle is http://www.4dart.com/. If one of their presentations ever come to your town definitely go to see it.
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I think the federal law you are talking about is the Telephone Consumers Protection Act. The relevant law and complications with using it are analyzed pretty well at Junkbusters U.S. Laws on Telemarketing.
The amount is not $10000, but $500.
You are right, it was peer reviewed... and rejected. Science is publishing it anyway.
Here I was always worried about that the reviewers were going to say about our group's submissions to Phys Rev B, turns out all I had to do was submit it to Science with some huge claims attached to it and all worry could cease.
Sometimes it is not the user's vacation program that is doing it. If someone sets the Reply-To field to point to the list instead of them the autoreply will probably go out to the whole list. Since it looks like it comes from a legit user the list forwards it on.
I am on a list right now that sets the Reply-To to the whole list. I am very nervous about that, but so far nothing bad has happened.
The confirmed part of the equation seems to be the responsibility of the customer who is using DARTMail (i.e. the business who uses it for managing their list of email contacts). They just give a pre-made list to DoubleClick for management.
Having said that, though, since the email will be coming from doubleclick it seems like it would be in their best interest to make sure that they don't piss lots of people off by sending them emails from poorly managed lists.
They have to have some way of checking the compliance of the person who made the list with some pre-stated standard of opt-in emailing. Probably seed the list of the client with a few email addresses to see what kind of email they get back. Postal mailing list managers do it all the time.
I remember buying a big chunk of single crystal sapphire when we were building a neutron beam at our school's reactor. Sapphire crystals make good fast neutron filters. We got a 3 inch diameter by 6 inch long cylinder of the stuff (which was slightly pink colored when we installed it) for a couple thousand dollars. Cost a lot to have it sliced so it would fit though, heh. So I bet the expensive part of the process would be the machining to make your lenses, not the sapphire itself.
When we took it out of the neutron beam it was brown colored. Strange that sapphire turns brown when irradiated, topaz turns blue, and pearls turn gray.
Nice. Thanks for pointing that out. I did not check the new options that were added with the new Mozilla build I downloaded, but this makes me like the browser even more.
When I was at the University of Illinois I saw a multi-media presentation called "Grand Hotel des Etrangers" that blew me away.
I went to see what I thought was going to be a stage with a scrim in front of it where images would interact with the live actors. The first thing that happened was that the visible scrim at the front of the stage was withdrawn when the lights went down. Then the actor came out and images proceeded to float around him for the next hour and a half. Very nice trick making an obvious scrim to remove to aid suspension of disbelief.
They used subtle things as simple as barely audible street noises and as complex as projections that were so well coreagraphed (sp?) with the actor that they appeared to be interacting with him in all 3 dimensions.
The presentation had me thinking about it for the next week. I still wish I could see it again.
The URL for the production company that put on this spectacle is http://www.4dart.com/. If one of their presentations ever come to your town definitely go to see it.