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Submission + - Occupy Wall Street's Rolling Jubilee to Bail Out the People (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Quince alPillan on Friday November 09, 2012 @07:55PM

Quince alPillan writes: Occupy Wall Street has a new plan for helping the 99%. They've set up an old-fashioned telethon they're calling the Rolling Jubilee to buy up bad debt with donations and then forgiving the debt outright. As a test run, they set themselves up as a debt collector and they were able to use $500 to buy $14,000 worth of bad debt, which they then forgave. The telethon will be held at the Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday, November 15. It will also stream online.

Comment Re:Good for him (Score 1) 576

by nmoore on Thursday November 08, 2012 @06:59PM (#41925681) Attached to: All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True

I cast a ballot to vote for a slate of electors who claimed they would cast their electoral vote in a particular way. The duplicity is the ballot had the Presidential candidate's name and not the electors' names, but in my state only politics, and not law, demands that the electors actually vote for the name I selected.

Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 259

Posted by timothy on Friday May 14, 2010 @08:09AM from the pretty-printing-for-piano dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This is incredible. This guy has built a music notation engraver entirely in JavaScript, allowing for real-time music editing right in the browser. Here's a demo. The library has no external dependencies, and all the glyphs, scores, beams, ties, etc. are positioned and rendered entirely in JavaScript."

Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy 522

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @07:11PM from the our-competitor-is-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: 'Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing.' Microsoft's first criticism is Chrome's combining the address bar and the search box into a single entry box; IE8 keeps those fields separate. 'By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected and the addresses of the sites you're visiting aren't automatically shared with Microsoft, or anyone else,' says IE product manager Pete LePage."

Comment Re:...So.... (Score 1) 174

by nmoore on Thursday July 02, 2009 @10:45AM (#28557731) Attached to: Your Browser History Is Showing

who's the numbnuts who thought it would be a great idea to make this information available to anyone who asks for it?

Changing the color of a link you've visited has been around forever. Changing the style of a link you've visited to one that can send information back to the server eg "background-image:url(/visited.pl?site=slashdot)", that's newer.

Sorry but I don't think I fully understand how that relates to this story. Would you elaborate please? What you describe there sounds like a re-implementation of so-called "http ping."

By putting this CSS under an a:visited selector, they only get the ping if the link points to a URL you have visited. Though they can't get your entire history list, they can query whether (your browser thinks) you've been to a specific page.

Comment Re:Zero-watt computer (screen) standby (Score 2, Informative) 222

by nmoore on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @09:22PM (#26554957) Attached to: Fujitsu To Show Off "Zero-Watt" PC At CeBIT

You're right. According to that document (p. 4, about halfway down), the machine draws 1.6 to 2.7 W (depending on model) in standby; 1.5 to 2.1 W in soft-off with wake-on-LAN enabled; and no power in soft-off with wake-on-LAN disabled ("wake up power button only"). So the article is simply wrong when it says the computer is "able to use no power while in standby mode", unless they're redefining "standby" to mean S5 rather than S3.

It may simply be that, when WOL is disabled, shutting down the machine puts it into "mechanical off" rather than "soft off"—just like in pre-ATX PCs.

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