Never-mind the side-effects. It might not even work! This article is awfully one-sided. NPR recently had a much more in-depth overview into the debate about resveratrol and aging. Basically no one has been able to reproduce the original study with the same results, the original authors have even lowered their initial claims, and a few articles published in Nature even dispute that resveratrol activates sirtuins (the claimed mechanism that "prevents aging").
Also, lifespans are actually *falling* in many communities (in the US at least). Contrary to what big pharma wants you to believe, well-being also includes healthy lifestyle and nutrition, not just some expensive pills.
If you want your email server to actual deliver mail, rDNS is required as many major email providers like AOL and MSN/Hotmail now require them to even accept incoming connections. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it, it's already a standard because of this.
I would not configure any servers to reject mail outright originating from servers without rDNS though. As the OP notes there are some legit servers whose admins apparently did not get the memo or do not care about delivery rates (if your ISP will not allow valid rDNS switch hosts or sign up for a free Google Apps for your domain, your mail deliver rates will be absurdly low without rDNS). Like someone else suggested a SpamAssassin/SCL rule to put it in a Junk folder instead would allow the one off legit message to be retrieved.
Although still imperfect, DNSBLs like Spamhaus and Barracuda seem to be a safer method to block spammy servers outright.
I work for the University of Florida's Open Systems Group http://open-systems.ufl.edu/ which manages the email system used by 49,000 student + faculty among other services. AOL treats any mail from *.ufl.edu as spam simply because they receive so much mail from our domain, mainly due to numerous students forwarding their email to their AOL account. Our university and many others have been trying unsuccessfully to convince AOL to create a whitelist (or use SpamAssassin) for educational institutions and other legitimate sources but have been forced to discontinue email forwarding for students. This is a case of maladroit administrative policies so I would not use AOL as a basis for generalization.
The Newscientist article fails to report an important change with the new plans to rank credibility of news sources. On their "About Google News" page, Google claims a main feature of their News service is that is "compiled solely by computer algorithms, without human intervention". However the patent states "a human opinion of the news source" and "amount of important coverage that the news source produces" will be used along with a number of other factors mentioned in the Newscientist to determine the credibility of the source. Maybe Newscientist should actually read the patents themselves. http://www.wipo.int/cgi-pct/guest/ifetch5?ENG+PCT- ALL.vdb+14+1135032-SCORE+256+4+-1+DECL-ENG+31+52+2 6+25+SEP-0/HITNUM,B,,SCORE+google
technology have expanded during only the last 2,000
Since technology must consecutively build upon itself to progress, it has been expanding for a lot longer than that. For example, stone tools were first used in Africa 2.4 MYA. But yea I agree, it is not exactly clear that this necessarily has improved the quality of life of the species. In fact, many like Rousseau would argue that it has actually decreased it.
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Never-mind the side-effects. It might not even work! This article is awfully one-sided. NPR recently had a much more in-depth overview into the debate about resveratrol and aging. Basically no one has been able to reproduce the original study with the same results, the original authors have even lowered their initial claims, and a few articles published in Nature even dispute that resveratrol activates sirtuins (the claimed mechanism that "prevents aging").
Also, lifespans are actually *falling* in many communities (in the US at least). Contrary to what big pharma wants you to believe, well-being also includes healthy lifestyle and nutrition, not just some expensive pills.
If you want your email server to actual deliver mail, rDNS is required as many major email providers like AOL and MSN/Hotmail now require them to even accept incoming connections. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it, it's already a standard because of this.
I would not configure any servers to reject mail outright originating from servers without rDNS though. As the OP notes there are some legit servers whose admins apparently did not get the memo or do not care about delivery rates (if your ISP will not allow valid rDNS switch hosts or sign up for a free Google Apps for your domain, your mail deliver rates will be absurdly low without rDNS). Like someone else suggested a SpamAssassin/SCL rule to put it in a Junk folder instead would allow the one off legit message to be retrieved.
Although still imperfect, DNSBLs like Spamhaus and Barracuda seem to be a safer method to block spammy servers outright.
I work for the University of Florida's Open Systems Group http://open-systems.ufl.edu/ which manages the email system used by 49,000 student + faculty among other services. AOL treats any mail from *.ufl.edu as spam simply because they receive so much mail from our domain, mainly due to numerous students forwarding their email to their AOL account. Our university and many others have been trying unsuccessfully to convince AOL to create a whitelist (or use SpamAssassin) for educational institutions and other legitimate sources but have been forced to discontinue email forwarding for students. This is a case of maladroit administrative policies so I would not use AOL as a basis for generalization.
The Newscientist article fails to report an important change with the new plans to rank credibility of news sources. On their "About Google News" page, Google claims a main feature of their News service is that is "compiled solely by computer algorithms, without human intervention". However the patent states "a human opinion of the news source" and "amount of important coverage that the news source produces" will be used along with a number of other factors mentioned in the Newscientist to determine the credibility of the source. Maybe Newscientist should actually read the patents themselves. http://www.wipo.int/cgi-pct/guest/ifetch5?ENG+PCT- ALL.vdb+14+1135032-SCORE+256+4+-1+DECL-ENG+31+52+2 6+25+SEP-0/HITNUM,B,,SCORE+google
technology have expanded during only the last 2,000
Since technology must consecutively build upon itself to progress, it has been expanding for a lot longer than that. For example, stone tools were first used in Africa 2.4 MYA. But yea I agree, it is not exactly clear that this necessarily has improved the quality of life of the species. In fact, many like Rousseau would argue that it has actually decreased it.
You gotta love a genre that has a hard time taking itself seriously.
And you gotta love a characterization of a whole genre just by a few of its mainstream 'artists'.
According to nforce.nl this release is nuked, so it is not being distributed or available for download.