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Ron Paul blimp charts unprecedented course
Look!
Up in the sky: It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s ... Ron Paul?
If a whimsical publicity stunt goes as planned, a blimp hyping the long-shot Republican presidential campaign of the Texas congressman will launch next week.
The Ron Paul blimp is set to fly from North Carolina, over Washington, New York and Boston, before heading to New Hampshire, where the Jan. 8 primary offers the iconic libertarian perhaps his best chance of translating his zealous Internet support into votes.
Like the unprecedented online fundraising behind Paul’s bid, the blimp effort, which appears on pace financially, isn’t affiliated with the official campaign and pushes traditional political conventions.
And that’s not just because it likely would be the first blimp to be turned into a flying billboard for a White House hopeful.
It also tests the reach of campaign finance rules by employing an innovative funding structure that could expose a new way to pour largely unregulated money into politics.
If the model is successful, hypothetically it could allow a media consultant to produce slick attack ads and — without ever disclosing how much was raised or spent — solicit millions from “sponsors” to air the ads in key states.
“It’s much more than just Ron Paul’s campaign,” said Jerry Collette, a former California Libertarian Party official who’s managing the effort.
“It’s a whole new way of presenting opportunities to individual people to be able to participate in elections in a way they’ve never really done before.”
Read the whole article here.
Look!
Up in the sky: It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s ... Ron Paul?
If a whimsical publicity stunt goes as planned, a blimp hyping the long-shot Republican presidential campaign of the Texas congressman will launch next week.
The Ron Paul blimp is set to fly from North Carolina, over Washington, New York and Boston, before heading to New Hampshire, where the Jan. 8 primary offers the iconic libertarian perhaps his best chance of translating his zealous Internet support into votes.
Like the unprecedented online fundraising behind Paul’s bid, the blimp effort, which appears on pace financially, isn’t affiliated with the official campaign and pushes traditional political conventions.
And that’s not just because it likely would be the first blimp to be turned into a flying billboard for a White House hopeful.
It also tests the reach of campaign finance rules by employing an innovative funding structure that could expose a new way to pour largely unregulated money into politics.
If the model is successful, hypothetically it could allow a media consultant to produce slick attack ads and — without ever disclosing how much was raised or spent — solicit millions from “sponsors” to air the ads in key states.
“It’s much more than just Ron Paul’s campaign,” said Jerry Collette, a former California Libertarian Party official who’s managing the effort.
“It’s a whole new way of presenting opportunities to individual people to be able to participate in elections in a way they’ve never really done before.”
Read the whole article here.
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Researchers track Ron Paul spam back to Reactor botnet
In a report published this week by security firm SecureWorks, researchers reveal that the recent flurry of Ron Paul spam originated from a Reactor botnet controlled by a commercial spammer through a colocation facility in the US.
The researchers analyzed header elements of the spam e-mails to trace them back to zombie systems that were infected with the Srizbi trojan, an unusual piece of malware with highly advanced features. According to Symantec research, which has independently studied Srizbi, the trojan is one of the first pieces of malware found in the wild to operate fully in kernel mode with no userspace code. Srizbi bypasses firewalls and packet sniffers by directly manipulating the kernel-level TCP/IP stack. The Srizbi trojan is largely propagated by the well-known msiesettings.com site, which is paid by spammers to deploy viruses and trojans for spam botnets.
SecureWorks collaborated with network administrators to analyze the traffic from some of the computers infected with Srizbi that were responsible for sending the Ron Paul spam. This allowed the researchers to discover the location from which the botnet was operated—a colocation facility in the US. The researchers collaborated with Spamhaus to get the server shut down and then obtained the source code used on the control system, a Python-based spam botnet management tool known as the Reactor Mailer. The logs present on the system prove that it was indeed the origin of the Ron Paul spam. Further research showed that other systems in the same colocation facility were also controlling various segments of the Srizbi botnet, and using it to transmit spam advertising replica watches and enlargement pills.
Whole article here.
In a report published this week by security firm SecureWorks, researchers reveal that the recent flurry of Ron Paul spam originated from a Reactor botnet controlled by a commercial spammer through a colocation facility in the US.
The researchers analyzed header elements of the spam e-mails to trace them back to zombie systems that were infected with the Srizbi trojan, an unusual piece of malware with highly advanced features. According to Symantec research, which has independently studied Srizbi, the trojan is one of the first pieces of malware found in the wild to operate fully in kernel mode with no userspace code. Srizbi bypasses firewalls and packet sniffers by directly manipulating the kernel-level TCP/IP stack. The Srizbi trojan is largely propagated by the well-known msiesettings.com site, which is paid by spammers to deploy viruses and trojans for spam botnets.
SecureWorks collaborated with network administrators to analyze the traffic from some of the computers infected with Srizbi that were responsible for sending the Ron Paul spam. This allowed the researchers to discover the location from which the botnet was operated—a colocation facility in the US. The researchers collaborated with Spamhaus to get the server shut down and then obtained the source code used on the control system, a Python-based spam botnet management tool known as the Reactor Mailer. The logs present on the system prove that it was indeed the origin of the Ron Paul spam. Further research showed that other systems in the same colocation facility were also controlling various segments of the Srizbi botnet, and using it to transmit spam advertising replica watches and enlargement pills.
Whole article here.
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DM Cross
You want to see a magic trick?
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Meet The Press is excluding Ron Paul from their "Meet The Candidates" feature. Let's bombard them with emails letting them know this is bogus. Maybe a huge outcry will make them come to their senses. This is something that costs you nothing that could make a huge difference for the Ron Paul Revolution!
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That's right Seth. Joining the Revolution! Now you are talking!
DM Cross
You want to see a magic trick?
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Actually, I saw that on Digg and just CnPed the introduction because I knew it would interest you ^.^
In all seriousness, with 2008 almost here, I have to start thinking about who I'm voting for in November!
I was too young to try to help vote Bush out, but this election is my first time! ^.^ I do plan on voting!
In all seriousness, with 2008 almost here, I have to start thinking about who I'm voting for in November!
I was too young to try to help vote Bush out, but this election is my first time! ^.^ I do plan on voting!
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Hopefully you clicked on some of the links in this thread and as long as you are informed you are better off than alot of the U.S. Glad to hear you are going to vote no matter who you are going to vote for!
DM Cross
You want to see a magic trick?
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I'm one of the people that believe everyone should vote because everyone has that opportunity. A lot of people have died in the past to give us all that opportunity and wasting it purely ignorant.
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Ron Paul Song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-yBw5mmy_ho
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-yBw5mmy_ho
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Ron Paul for the Long Haul
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-bCRc2ub8hU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-bCRc2ub8hU
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Ron Paul on Mad Money with Cramer
Ron Paul on Mad Money with Cramer - this is actually a fantastic piece
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8teEHdCrFqE
Preview of a Ron Paul Documentary on PBS - another great piece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NtysJ5WI0
Ron Paul on Mad Money with Cramer - this is actually a fantastic piece
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8teEHdCrFqE
Preview of a Ron Paul Documentary on PBS - another great piece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NtysJ5WI0
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I don't really have anything intelligent to talk about other than I like Ron Paul.
It does seem he might be a bit weak on the military aspect of government, though.
Anyway.
I have a present for all you Ron Paul fans out there. Something I cooked up myself:
Enjoy Ron Paul
It does seem he might be a bit weak on the military aspect of government, though.
Anyway.
I have a present for all you Ron Paul fans out there. Something I cooked up myself:
Enjoy Ron Paul
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Cool!
esb
Because none of us are as cruel as all of us.
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Hhm.. maybe, you could link a banner to Ron Paul's site, The Helper, somewhere in the links or something like that, to support him I'm not sure if many people are old enough to vote though.
He seems like he would make a good president.
And Ghan, it's awesome
I'm not sure if many people are old enough to vote though.He seems like he would make a good president.
And Ghan, it's awesome
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Amazing.
As of 8:08 PM (Eastern) Ron Paul has $16,277,596.77.
If he keeps up this rate he will have $17,000,000 by about 11 PM Eastern
As of 8:08 PM (Eastern) Ron Paul has $16,277,596.77.
If he keeps up this rate he will have $17,000,000 by about 11 PM Eastern
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Its the Boston Tea Party day.
http://www.teaparty07.com/
He has already raised 3.7 million today as of this post.
http://www.teaparty07.com/
He has already raised 3.7 million today as of this post.
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New dessert for Summer - https://www.thehelper.net/threads/recipe-lemon-blueberry-layer-cheesecake.194113/
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Varine:
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Varine:
I bought an Ender 3 during the pandemic and tinkered with it all the time. Just bought a Sovol, not as easy. I'm trying to make it use a different nozzle because I have a fuck ton of Volcanos, and they use what is basically a modified volcano that is just a smidge longer, and almost every part on this thing needs to be redone to make it work
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Varine:
Luckily I have a 3d printer for that, I guess. But it's ridiculous. The regular volcanos are 21mm, these Sovol versions are about 23.5mm
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Varine:
So, 2.5mm longer. But the thing that measures the bed is about 1.5mm above the nozzle, so if I swap it with a volcano then I'm 1mm behind it. So cool, new bracket to swap that, but THEN the fan shroud to direct air at the part is ALSO going to be .5mm to low, and so I need to redo that, but by doing that it is a little bit off where it should be blowing and it's throwing it at the heating block instead of the part, and fuck man
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Varine:
I didn't realize they designed this entire thing to NOT be modded. I would have just got a fucking Bambu if I knew that, the whole point was I could fuck with this. And no one else makes shit for Sovol so I have to go through them, and they have... interesting pricing models. So I have a new extruder altogether that I'm taking apart and going to just design a whole new one to use my nozzles. Dumb design.
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Varine:
Can't just buy a new heatblock, you need to get a whole hotend - so block, heater cartridge, thermistor, heatbreak, and nozzle. And they put this fucking paste in there so I can't take the thermistor or cartridge out with any ease, that's 30 dollars. Or you can get the whole extrudor with the direct driver AND that heatblock for like 50, but you still can't get any of it to come apart
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Varine:
Partsbuilt has individual parts I found but they're expensive. I think I can get bits swapped around and make this work with generic shit though
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The Helper:
New recipe is another summer dessert Berry and Peach Cheesecake - https://www.thehelper.net/threads/recipe-berry-and-peach-cheesecake.194169/
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