Google made $65,000,000 last year (And that's sales not profit). Scientology offered $12,000,000 just to settle one case. Google is really no match for Scientology.
Maybe the should have taken the risk and fight this battle but what about other, even smaller companies, what about individuals ? It's really the law that makes a problem, isn't it ?
In Brittany, the tidal power has also been used to power mills since the XIIth century. They would trap the the tide behind a wall and let it go back through the paddle wheel of the mill.
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Basically if an IP was verified clean then it could not be resubmitted within 30 days, fair enough I guess, but this really fell apart with spam originating from what appeared to be dynamically allocated pools of DSL users.
The workaround was to block the entire pool of IPs then. Including "good" servers running in this pool of DSL lines. It looks like a decision only you can make.
I mean the OR in ORBZ means Open-Relay and not "likely to be open" or "not-open but run by someone with a funny name".
It's good that you found (well built) a better service for your needs but it will not suit everyone.
And there must be, somewhere in this small world, someone who is allowing mail from a server he knows to be open because he has some important traffic coming from it.
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Perhaps the best solution, if things get too far out of hand, is to use the input of people who would be pissed off about crappy listings.
If you use the Google Toolbar with IE for Windows, you have something similar to this. There's a couple of buttons which allow you to vote for a page as explained here.
But at the moment "th[e] feature is in testing; [...] you will not see any immediate effects by voting for or against a page."
I don't know if this a good idea as i'm afraid some people may start to abuse the system (not while it is in test of course but after it has been widely known). If they decide to use it they should offer an option to turn it off.
A quick, back of a napkin calculation shows that a supernovae at around 3 light years would appear roughly as bright as the sun
They agree with you on that (Quote from the article, page 3):
"At distances larger than a few pc, the only component of the SN emission capable of performing serious damage to the biosphere is the charged cosmic ray radiation [...] UV radiations [...] would produce level [...] smaller than the amount of similar radiations received from the sun"
In their scenario the SN would have occurred around 40 pc (~130 ly) from our solar system.
Their idea is that the cosmic ray may have "speed[ed] up the production of NO, which catalytically destroys large amount of ozone."
The actual damage to any life form would have actually then been caused by the radiations coming from the sun because of a lesser protection by the ozone layer.
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Great job, Google!
Google made $65,000,000 last year (And that's sales not profit). Scientology offered $12,000,000 just to settle one case. Google is really no match for Scientology.
Maybe the should have taken the risk and fight this battle but what about other, even smaller companies, what about individuals ? It's really the law that makes a problem, isn't it ?
In the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, there is a small tidal power plant (experimental, I think).
There is a tidal power plant (not experimental) in Brittanny (France). It's been working for more than 30 years and powers 250 000 homes.
See here (in French) and here about the Bay of Fundy(in English).
In Brittany, the tidal power has also been used to power mills since the XIIth century. They would trap the the tide behind a wall and let it go back through the paddle wheel of the mill.
Basically if an IP was verified clean then it could not be resubmitted within 30 days, fair enough I guess, but this really fell apart with spam originating from what appeared to be dynamically allocated pools of DSL users.
The workaround was to block the entire pool of IPs then. Including "good" servers running in this pool of DSL lines. It looks like a decision only you can make.
I mean the OR in ORBZ means Open-Relay and not "likely to be open" or "not-open but run by someone with a funny name".
It's good that you found (well built) a better service for your needs but it will not suit everyone.
And there must be, somewhere in this small world, someone who is allowing mail from a server he knows to be open because he has some important traffic coming from it.
Perhaps the best solution, if things get too far out of hand, is to use the input of people who would be pissed off about crappy listings.
If you use the Google Toolbar with IE for Windows, you have something similar to this. There's a couple of buttons which allow you to vote for a page as explained here.
But at the moment "th[e] feature is in testing; [...] you will not see any immediate effects by voting for or against a page."
I don't know if this a good idea as i'm afraid some people may start to abuse the system (not while it is in test of course but after it has been widely known). If they decide to use it they should offer an option to turn it off.
A quick, back of a napkin calculation shows that a supernovae at around 3 light years would appear roughly as bright as the sun
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They agree with you on that (Quote from the article, page 3)
"At distances larger than a few pc, the only component of the SN emission capable of performing serious damage to the biosphere is the charged cosmic ray radiation [...] UV radiations [...] would produce level [...] smaller than the amount of similar radiations received from the sun"
In their scenario the SN would have occurred around 40 pc (~130 ly) from our solar system.
Their idea is that the cosmic ray may have "speed[ed] up the production of NO, which catalytically destroys large amount of ozone."
The actual damage to any life form would have actually then been caused by the radiations coming from the sun because of a lesser protection by the ozone layer.
Those cartoons are adorable, and I wish they had a gallery of past cartoons available for the browsing
Well, they have.