Exploding disk was demonstrated on Myth Busters Episode 2. I watched this episode and they ran the cds around 60k rpms; it was quite hard to get the cds to fragment. They finally got them by compressing the center to a hub which i suspect caused undue stress to fracture the cds but they did fragment and they had a dummy which showed sever laceration from the flying debris
Episode 2: Cell Phone Destruction, Silicone Breasts, CD-ROM Shattering
In this episode, Jamie and Adam test several explosive theories. Can chatting on a cell phone while pumping gas cause the pump to blow up? Our mythbusters put themselves at risk so you don't have to. They also put silicone breast implants to the test at high altitude. Will they burst under pressure? Finally, we'll learn once and for all if high-speed CD-ROM players can really shatter a compact disc.
Your post is the most underrated yet in regards to the Disney commercials and menus. Very few fully know what you mean about ripping Disney DVDs so your sibling doesn't have to touch the original and what a pain all those commercials & menus really are, Especially when you change a DVD every 45 minutes or so. I recently bought my first DVD burner and ripped out those 30 minute commercials with menus; you simply insert the DVD and walk away. My wife kisses me every time the movie automatically start to play and the children get quiet for a few minutes of the day. My burner has paid for itself many times over with the amount of time I saved by not having to forward through that garage.
The first full-fledged beta isn't due out until sometime in 2005
I don't see anything wrong with these specs. Next year well be in the 4 GHz range and my system today has 2 @ $150 gig memory which isn't a bunch either, Gigabit Ethernet is on ~2/3ds of the mommaboards today, Moore's law will take care of tripling the video processor over the next few years, AMD is kicking butt with their 64 bit chip so Intel will get it's 64bit ready for the masses, if you're not running 802.11g then great you can upgrade to wireless SuperG @108Mbps. When long horn comes out in ~2006 than I imagine this will be the average system. MS is making quite good estimates on the intended consumer. But then you read that a dual processor machine is on the horizon makes me wonder if LongHorn isn't targeted for desktops.
I participate in Distributed.net and if you look at the CPU speeds you'll see that AMD currently has the fastest CPUs for that project. My next processor may be an AMD.
If you are still evaluating or testing the updates detailed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011, we strongly recommend that you expedite your review and deployment of these updates as soon as possible. These updates will protect your systems from the Sasser worm and its variants. If your systems have become infected, we have made a tool available for download that will detect and remove the Sasser worm and its variants. The tool is available at www.microsoft.com/sasser.
In addition, on Tuesday May 4th, the Security Business and Technology Unit and Product Support Services are hosting two technical Web casts to provide the latest details of the Sasser worm and answer your questions about deploying MS04-011 to help protect your network.
Please join us for one of the following Web casts by registering using the links below. The Web casts also will be available on demand at the same links.
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For technical details on Sasser and manual steps to remove, please to go http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/alerts/s asser.mspx.
Thank you, Microsoft Corporation
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I would be interested in hearing the performance and ease of use. I am particularly interested in the performance of the PowerPC chip and the integration of the hardware with the OS. In fact I would be interested in purchasing a Mac and wiping the OSX to run native Linux - can someone enlighten me on OSX; is it like running Cygwin on a PC?
The main reason towards my shift on the MAC hardware is the PowerPC chip, the keyboard lights discussed recently, Titanium/Magnesium Frame & shell, FireWire 800, the list goes on. What does other Slashdoters recommend on running Linux on a PowerPC architecture?
Your data should be treated like what your mom said about underwear. She always said you better have a clean set just in case you get hit by a bus and have to go to the hospital; you better have a clean pair. Just like underwear being clean, you better not have anything you don't want her to see - at least encrypt the good stuff or even use those crazy alternate data streams but don't leave it for everyone to find (especially anyone from RIA because you know they dig you up to get you into court).
Anyone have a Perl script to generate click throughs automatically - parse a set of pages of know web page add payers and generate hits while I'm sleeping? If so post it here and I'll split the profits with you.:-]
After that you'll need to gather a pool of developers on sourceforge for any would be counter measures that could be used by the click thorough payers.
And who said that America is loosing its scientific talent.
Since you have root canales than you know that the tooth "dies" when you remove the blood vessels. The tooth is a healthy living organ requiring nutrients. You can remove this but than the tooth starts turning black from the lack of nutrients (any real dentist please step in and fill the voids of knowledge). The nerves are there to let you know when something is wrong. Yeah I wish my legs didn't have nerves when I brook it but I need to know that something was wrong.
It would be really neat if you could drop in an electronic sensor to replace your film in exciting cameras. Have the exact form factor of current 35mm barrel film with only added electronics. The data could be stored in the film barrel and a sensor could be drawn out like you do with current 35mm strip. The mechanical film advance would "tell" the electronics that a picture was taken and save what it just saw. That would be the best of both worlds - able to have electronic pictures and able to use 35mm regular film plus all the camera hardware is already built.
This case looks like one of those power distributors outside some office buildings. I wonder where I could buy some surplus power transformers and build my own case simmilar to this. The Zalman TNN 500A is $1,195.95 - not on any of my buy lists.
I keep forgetting about the RF stuff. I too don't have a Plexiglas port to see inside because of the RF. I was actually thinking about the total Plexiglas cases from Lubic and replacing the clear stuff with wood. The frames aren't very expensive - got keep cheap in min, ya know.
The goal of silencing a PC is thinking like the cheapest man you have ever known.
Start with the Case - Aluminum is the best but really expensive a cheapo person would make a case out of wood (im sure your going to do this one).
Next the Case Fans - yeah you can buy those fancy isolators, better yet use silicon to "glue" the fans to the outlets.
Hard Drive - Noisy little beast you can actually have it free hanging in the pc or use zip ties to isolate it from the case. Or you can sandwich it in between two thick sheets of copper or aluminum (wouldn't use wood here) and put bolts at the corners and tighten lightly.
CPU cooler - hmm can't use the fans from a hair drier, any other ideas?
The Actual Fans - ball bearing last longer and are a little more expensive, better go with the sleeve bearings because they are quieter. Also if the fan gets noisy peel the off sticker (half way so you can re-stick it) on back and drop some 3n1 oil in the hole.
Placement - get the computer off of the desktop and put it into a ventilated box. I have been thinking about building a small box with a regular household box fan on the back having a solenoid start the fan when the computer is on.
Helium is extracted from natural gas. Most of our supply comes from natural gas wells in Texas and Oklahoma. Oklahoma actually has a larger untapped reserve than Texas due to more natural gas wells in Oklahoma as opposed to the majoriy are oil wells in Texas - can't find a link and don't know if it meant per capita, per square mile or per volume.
Even in sue happy America this case would be dismissed. It's like suing a library because I went to look for say McDonalds and found that Burger King also sells hamburgers. McDonalds is mad wanting to bundle library with a default configuration whereby McDonald's information is installed in the library and cannot be removed once installed nor can it be collocated with other Hamburger joints. Now that McDonalds has the market captured it can now be the dominate player in the hamburger field (reminiscent of a browser pun everyone). So now that McDonalds has the default configuration of libraries setup, McDonalds can now expand to, say, French Fires - you now must eat vegetable fried fries with fake beef flavoring. Did this court also award any damages from Amazons one click shopping scheme? This is crazy I'll stop now...
In a related story SBC is suing ATT for avoiding fees associated with VoIP call transportation. Apparently SBC doesn't mind VoIP as long as they get paid for using their infrastructure or is it that SBC sees VoIP as a threat to their LD and Local services?
Here is the full article for those of you too tired to click through:
SBC Sues AT&T Over Internet Phone Fees
Fri Apr 23, 4:56 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SBC Communications Inc., (NYSE:SBC) the second-largest U.S. local phone company, has sued long-distance giant AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T) claiming it avoided paying at least $141 million in connection fees for calls carried partly over the Internet.
The lawsuit by SBC, filed in a St. Louis federal court on Thursday, follows a ruling by federal regulators a day earlier that AT&T was improperly deeming long-distance calls it carried over the Internet as local calls and paying local phone companies lower fees than normal.
SBC "seeks not only to recover the exchange access charges that AT&T has unlawfully avoided -- which SBC estimates to be at least $141 million and possibly much more -- but also to enjoin AT&T from perpetuating its unlawful conduct," the lawsuit said.
An AT&T spokeswoman said the company did not comment on pending lawsuits, but that it would defend its case vigorously.
The decision by the Federal Communications Commission was seen as a win for local phone companies like SBC, as the FCC rejected AT&T's argument that calls that travel even partially over the Internet are not subject to higher FCC-mandated access charges.
AT&T criticized the FCC's ruling when it was released, and told analysts on Thursday that it did not expect to have to pay back charges from the ruling. It also said additional costs from the ruling would be less than $100 million a year, compared with the $9 billion a year it usually pays local phone companies for connection charges.
The FCC sought to distinguish AT&T's tactic from other Internet phone services, based on technology known as voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP. Those services offer phone calls over high-speed Internet connections, at a far lower cost than traditional phone service.
AT&T's strategy converts traditional phone calls to data so they can be carried on its Internet backbone, and was not noticeable to consumers
For some reason I just cant feel sorry for a company not being able to rally its workers and threaten the workers of off shoring their work. I believe that AWE got exactly what it deserved - number portability was nothing new and they should have been able to get the job done. Yet AWE insisted on moving towards outsourcing instead of figuring out what needed to be done. I have seen similarly situations where no matter how much cheaper labor you look for, if you can't devise the plan, no one will be able to follow it.
Good riddance to AWE and I wonder if Cingular is going forward with the outsourcing.
Go get a hard Drive led for your desktop... Here is one of a dozen for windows: http://hdled.home.comcast.net/
The software puts an Icon in your task bar a lights up as if it was the led in front of the case.
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Something funny when I did a yahoo search (to get a cahced article) this is the only page about www.virtualmda.com on http://www.sndr.org/email_deployment.html; Interesting...
Email Deployment
Reliable and Effective Email Campaigns
Sendmails Corporation has created relationships with over 60,000 individuals throughout the world who act as sending agents for the Sendmails Corporation Distributed Email Delivery System. Sendmails Corporation has developed a software called VirtualMDA (see www.virtualmda.com ) which resides on these sending agents’ machines and periodically talks to an array of servers within our data center, looking for messages to deliver. When messages are available, each agent machine can receive up to 100 emails to deliver. For example, with 20,000 agents sending 100 emails each, the Sendmails Corporation Distributed Email Delivery System can deliver 2 Million emails in one quick shot.
Politeness is key
There are approximately 4500 "well known" mail servers within the US and Canada, so being "polite" on how we connect and deliver the messages is important. Sendmails Corporation doesn’t want to cripple the receiving mail servers with millions of messages, so we create delays and meter traffic so not to overload the receiving server with connections.
Distributed delivery prevents blocking
Sendmails Corporation developed our Distributed Email Delivery System because many email providers will obstruct otherwise legal emails from very large senders at will and without notification to the sender/list owner. Using sending agents and VirtualMDA, blocking is much less likely.
Creating a campaign
Once signed up with Sendmails Corporation, most customers can create their campaigns in a few easy steps through our web interface:
1. Create the campaign
2. Test and OK the campaign
3. Set delivery date and time
4. Upload your data records
5. Set the campaign to "Ready."
6. Our system automatically starts delivery at the time and date set within the campaign.
For more information about using Sendmails Corporation to deploy your next email marketing campaign, contact us.
As you can see from the replies above Quantum security if venerable to Man-In-the Middle attacks where you think your talking to one person but your actually not.
Now after you overcome the problem of Man in the Middle you must overcome Tempest Attacks which captures the output radiation of electronic devices to gather sensitive data. I once saw a program that illustrated this that used two TV's side by side. One had a picture and the second one was very close and finely tuned to see the image on the first screen. Yeah it was a simple demonstration but illustrates that security is tough.
So we had a slashdot article today about CEOs should be held responsible for security at their organization. Then the law should be written to hold companies responsible for security should be fined 3 x $50,000 = +-$150,000. That would make MagiQ' server a bargain at only $50,000.
I think it's great that attention is being drawn to security. I think that there should be triple damages for a company releasing data defined private or against any agreement you had pre-arranged. Yet how are you going to protect your data when you outsource your transaction to some place that doesn't live by these rules? You can't. Except recognize that certain corporation outsource and use this information for your decision on who to use. Evaluate it and if you feel that this type outsourcing isn't protecting your data and interests than don't use said corporation.
Are we slaves to the batteries that run the machine that runs the software? What about food - are we slaves to McDonalds so we can the strength push the buttons on the machine running on batteries that execute the software?
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Exploding disk was demonstrated on Myth Busters Episode 2. I watched this episode and they ran the cds around 60k rpms; it was quite hard to get the cds to fragment. They finally got them by compressing the center to a hub which i suspect caused undue stress to fracture the cds but they did fragment and they had a dummy which showed sever laceration from the flying debris
Episode 2: Cell Phone Destruction, Silicone Breasts, CD-ROM Shattering
In this episode, Jamie and Adam test several explosive theories. Can chatting on a cell phone while pumping gas cause the pump to blow up? Our mythbusters put themselves at risk so you don't have to. They also put silicone breast implants to the test at high altitude. Will they burst under pressure? Finally, we'll learn once and for all if high-speed CD-ROM players can really shatter a compact disc.
Your post is the most underrated yet in regards to the Disney commercials and menus. Very few fully know what you mean about ripping Disney DVDs so your sibling doesn't have to touch the original and what a pain all those commercials & menus really are, Especially when you change a DVD every 45 minutes or so. I recently bought my first DVD burner and ripped out those 30 minute commercials with menus; you simply insert the DVD and walk away. My wife kisses me every time the movie automatically start to play and the children get quiet for a few minutes of the day. My burner has paid for itself many times over with the amount of time I saved by not having to forward through that garage.
The first full-fledged beta isn't due out until sometime in 2005
I don't see anything wrong with these specs. Next year well be in the 4 GHz range and my system today has 2 @ $150 gig memory which isn't a bunch either, Gigabit Ethernet is on ~2/3ds of the mommaboards today, Moore's law will take care of tripling the video processor over the next few years, AMD is kicking butt with their 64 bit chip so Intel will get it's 64bit ready for the masses, if you're not running 802.11g then great you can upgrade to wireless SuperG @108Mbps. When long horn comes out in ~2006 than I imagine this will be the average system. MS is making quite good estimates on the intended consumer. But then you read that a dual processor machine is on the horizon makes me wonder if LongHorn isn't targeted for desktops.
I participate in Distributed.net and if you look at the CPU speeds you'll see that AMD currently has the fastest CPUs for that project. My next processor may be an AMD.
Got this from my hotmail account talking about MS statement and Fix for the sasser worm:
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Valued Microsoft Customer,
If you are still evaluating or testing the updates detailed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011, we strongly recommend that you expedite your review and deployment of these updates as soon as
possible. These updates will protect your systems from the Sasser worm and its variants. If your systems have become infected, we have made a tool available for download that will detect and remove
the Sasser worm and its variants. The tool is available at www.microsoft.com/sasser.
In addition, on Tuesday May 4th, the Security Business and Technology Unit and Product Support Services are hosting two technical Web casts to provide the latest details of the Sasser worm and answer your questions about deploying MS04-011 to help protect your network.
Please join us for one of the following Web casts by registering using the links below. The Web casts also will be available on demand at the same links.
Tuesday, May 4th, 9:00 am - 10:00 am PT
TechNet Webcast: Technical Update on the Sasser Worm http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=28571
Tuesday, May 4th 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PT
TechNet Webcast: Technical Update on the Sasser Worm http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=28573
For the latest information on Sasser and the cleaner tool, please go to www.microsoft.com/sasser.
For technical details on Sasser and manual steps to remove, please to go http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/alerts/s asser.mspx
Thank you,
Microsoft Corporation
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Protect your PC: Microsoft has provided information on how you
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You can learn more about Microsoft's software distribution policies here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/p olicy/swdist.mspx
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Has anyone tried running Yellow Dog Linux on a PowerBook?
I would be interested in hearing the performance and ease of use. I am particularly interested in the performance of the PowerPC chip and the integration of the hardware with the OS. In fact I would be interested in purchasing a Mac and wiping the OSX to run native Linux - can someone enlighten me on OSX; is it like running Cygwin on a PC?
The main reason towards my shift on the MAC hardware is the PowerPC chip, the keyboard lights discussed recently, Titanium/Magnesium Frame & shell, FireWire 800, the list goes on. What does other Slashdoters recommend on running Linux on a PowerPC architecture?
Your data should be treated like what your mom said about underwear. She always said you better have a clean set just in case you get hit by a bus and have to go to the hospital; you better have a clean pair. Just like underwear being clean, you better not have anything you don't want her to see - at least encrypt the good stuff or even use those crazy alternate data streams but don't leave it for everyone to find (especially anyone from RIA because you know they dig you up to get you into court).
Anyone have a Perl script to generate click throughs automatically - parse a set of pages of know web page add payers and generate hits while I'm sleeping? If so post it here and I'll split the profits with you. :-]
After that you'll need to gather a pool of developers on sourceforge for any would be counter measures that could be used by the click thorough payers. And who said that America is loosing its scientific talent.
Since you have root canales than you know that the tooth "dies" when you remove the blood vessels. The tooth is a healthy living organ requiring nutrients. You can remove this but than the tooth starts turning black from the lack of nutrients (any real dentist please step in and fill the voids of knowledge). The nerves are there to let you know when something is wrong. Yeah I wish my legs didn't have nerves when I brook it but I need to know that something was wrong.
It would be really neat if you could drop in an electronic sensor to replace your film in exciting cameras. Have the exact form factor of current 35mm barrel film with only added electronics. The data could be stored in the film barrel and a sensor could be drawn out like you do with current 35mm strip. The mechanical film advance would "tell" the electronics that a picture was taken and save what it just saw. That would be the best of both worlds - able to have electronic pictures and able to use 35mm regular film plus all the camera hardware is already built.
Here you go, not cheap but not ugly either: Exoticwoodcrafts
This case looks like one of those power distributors outside some office buildings. I wonder where I could buy some surplus power transformers and build my own case simmilar to this. The Zalman TNN 500A is $1,195.95 - not on any of my buy lists.
I keep forgetting about the RF stuff. I too don't have a Plexiglas port to see inside because of the RF. I was actually thinking about the total Plexiglas cases from Lubic and replacing the clear stuff with wood. The frames aren't very expensive - got keep cheap in min, ya know.
Start with the Case - Aluminum is the best but really expensive a cheapo person would make a case out of wood (im sure your going to do this one).
Next the Case Fans - yeah you can buy those fancy isolators, better yet use silicon to "glue" the fans to the outlets.
Hard Drive - Noisy little beast you can actually have it free hanging in the pc or use zip ties to isolate it from the case. Or you can sandwich it in between two thick sheets of copper or aluminum (wouldn't use wood here) and put bolts at the corners and tighten lightly.
CPU cooler - hmm can't use the fans from a hair drier, any other ideas?
The Actual Fans - ball bearing last longer and are a little more expensive, better go with the sleeve bearings because they are quieter. Also if the fan gets noisy peel the off sticker (half way so you can re-stick it) on back and drop some 3n1 oil in the hole.
Placement - get the computer off of the desktop and put it into a ventilated box. I have been thinking about building a small box with a regular household box fan on the back having a solenoid start the fan when the computer is on.
Helium is extracted from natural gas. Most of our supply comes from natural gas wells in Texas and Oklahoma. Oklahoma actually has a larger untapped reserve than Texas due to more natural gas wells in Oklahoma as opposed to the majoriy are oil wells in Texas - can't find a link and don't know if it meant per capita, per square mile or per volume.
Even in sue happy America this case would be dismissed. It's like suing a library because I went to look for say McDonalds and found that Burger King also sells hamburgers. McDonalds is mad wanting to bundle library with a default configuration whereby McDonald's information is installed in the library and cannot be removed once installed nor can it be collocated with other Hamburger joints. Now that McDonalds has the market captured it can now be the dominate player in the hamburger field (reminiscent of a browser pun everyone). So now that McDonalds has the default configuration of libraries setup, McDonalds can now expand to, say, French Fires - you now must eat vegetable fried fries with fake beef flavoring. Did this court also award any damages from Amazons one click shopping scheme? This is crazy I'll stop now...
we can just hope that one day someone will figure out how to poke blue tooth in the package. Ala Ti-84 B++.
In a related story SBC is suing ATT for avoiding fees associated with VoIP call transportation. Apparently SBC doesn't mind VoIP as long as they get paid for using their infrastructure or is it that SBC sees VoIP as a threat to their LD and Local services?
Here is the full article for those of you too tired to click through:
SBC Sues AT&T Over Internet Phone Fees
Fri Apr 23, 4:56 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SBC Communications Inc., (NYSE:SBC) the second-largest U.S. local phone company, has sued long-distance giant AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T) claiming it avoided paying at least $141 million in connection fees for calls carried partly over the Internet.
The lawsuit by SBC, filed in a St. Louis federal court on Thursday, follows a ruling by federal regulators a day earlier that AT&T was improperly deeming long-distance calls it carried over the Internet as local calls and paying local phone companies lower fees than normal.
SBC "seeks not only to recover the exchange access charges that AT&T has unlawfully avoided -- which SBC estimates to be at least $141 million and possibly much more -- but also to enjoin AT&T from perpetuating its unlawful conduct," the lawsuit said.
An AT&T spokeswoman said the company did not comment on pending lawsuits, but that it would defend its case vigorously.
The decision by the Federal Communications Commission was seen as a win for local phone companies like SBC, as the FCC rejected AT&T's argument that calls that travel even partially over the Internet are not subject to higher FCC-mandated access charges.
AT&T criticized the FCC's ruling when it was released, and told analysts on Thursday that it did not expect to have to pay back charges from the ruling. It also said additional costs from the ruling would be less than $100 million a year, compared with the $9 billion a year it usually pays local phone companies for connection charges.
The FCC sought to distinguish AT&T's tactic from other Internet phone services, based on technology known as voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP. Those services offer phone calls over high-speed Internet connections, at a far lower cost than traditional phone service.
AT&T's strategy converts traditional phone calls to data so they can be carried on its Internet backbone, and was not noticeable to consumers
For some reason I just cant feel sorry for a company not being able to rally its workers and threaten the workers of off shoring their work. I believe that AWE got exactly what it deserved - number portability was nothing new and they should have been able to get the job done. Yet AWE insisted on moving towards outsourcing instead of figuring out what needed to be done. I have seen similarly situations where no matter how much cheaper labor you look for, if you can't devise the plan, no one will be able to follow it. Good riddance to AWE and I wonder if Cingular is going forward with the outsourcing.
Go get a hard Drive led for your desktop...
Here is one of a dozen for windows: http://hdled.home.comcast.net/
The software puts an Icon in your task bar a lights up as if it was the led in front of the case.
Something funny when I did a yahoo search (to get a cahced article) this is the only page about www.virtualmda.com on http://www.sndr.org/email_deployment.html; Interesting...
Email Deployment
Reliable and Effective Email Campaigns
Sendmails Corporation has created relationships with over 60,000 individuals throughout the world who act as sending agents for the Sendmails Corporation Distributed Email Delivery System. Sendmails Corporation has developed a software called VirtualMDA (see www.virtualmda.com ) which resides on these sending agents’ machines and periodically talks to an array of servers within our data center, looking for messages to deliver. When messages are available, each agent machine can receive up to 100 emails to deliver. For example, with 20,000 agents sending 100 emails each, the Sendmails Corporation Distributed Email Delivery System can deliver 2 Million emails in one quick shot.
Politeness is key
There are approximately 4500 "well known" mail servers within the US and Canada, so being "polite" on how we connect and deliver the messages is important. Sendmails Corporation doesn’t want to cripple the receiving mail servers with millions of messages, so we create delays and meter traffic so not to overload the receiving server with connections.
Distributed delivery prevents blocking
Sendmails Corporation developed our Distributed Email Delivery System because many email providers will obstruct otherwise legal emails from very large senders at will and without notification to the sender/list owner. Using sending agents and VirtualMDA, blocking is much less likely.
Creating a campaign
Once signed up with Sendmails Corporation, most customers can create their campaigns in a few easy steps through our web interface:
1. Create the campaign
2. Test and OK the campaign
3. Set delivery date and time
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As you can see from the replies above Quantum security if venerable to Man-In-the Middle attacks where you think your talking to one person but your actually not.
Now after you overcome the problem of Man in the Middle you must overcome Tempest Attacks which captures the output radiation of electronic devices to gather sensitive data. I once saw a program that illustrated this that used two TV's side by side. One had a picture and the second one was very close and finely tuned to see the image on the first screen. Yeah it was a simple demonstration but illustrates that security is tough.
So we had a slashdot article today about CEOs should be held responsible for security at their organization. Then the law should be written to hold companies responsible for security should be fined 3 x $50,000 = +-$150,000. That would make MagiQ' server a bargain at only $50,000.
I think it's great that attention is being drawn to security. I think that there should be triple damages for a company releasing data defined private or against any agreement you had pre-arranged. Yet how are you going to protect your data when you outsource your transaction to some place that doesn't live by these rules? You can't. Except recognize that certain corporation outsource and use this information for your decision on who to use. Evaluate it and if you feel that this type outsourcing isn't protecting your data and interests than don't use said corporation.
Are we slaves to the batteries that run the machine that runs the software? What about food - are we slaves to McDonalds so we can the strength push the buttons on the machine running on batteries that execute the software?