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Submission + - O2 provides Andoid 4.1 Jelly Bean update for Samsung Galaxy S3 today (gizmonext.com)

dexter fillip writes: "The Samsung Galaxy S3 users had been awaiting the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for their smartphones since a long time. Now, reports are suggesting that UK networks have finally started to roll out Jelly Bean update for Galaxy S3 phones. The latest report is that O2 has started offering the Jelly Bean update for their galaxy S3 users from today."

Submission + - Websites Are Designed Upside Down (wordpress.com) 2

Karganeth writes: A blog post on the state of web design reveals that even our most symbolic websites (including slasdot) have set up the site to be completely upside down.

Comment Re:Slow down (Score 1) 395

A new standard every 5 years for example. Since HTML is around since 1994, HTML5 would be out in 2014. Developers can easily adapt, and wouldn't have to support other version than the current one and its predecessor... 5 years is also enough time to reach a "stable" and mature standard.

Comment Re:The *real* shame in all of this (Score 1) 1122

We absolutely don't need nuclear power. Nuclear plants account only for a small percentage of all energy produced and consumed world-wide.

In Germany, where 17 plants are in operation, 7 were switched off last week, and the other 10 could also be switched off any time without shortcomings in energy-supply. Germany is producing more energy than it needs.

With a bit more sparing and sensible energy-consumption we could save more energy than all those nuclear plants produce.

Burning oil, gas or coal produces carbon dioxide, yes. But those are not the only alternatives. Don't forget hydropower, wind and sun! My region (South Tyrol in Northern Italy) for example is producing twice the amount of energy with hydropower plants, than we need - we are exporting 50% of this "green" energy.

The only reason to sustain nuclear power is its low cost: greedy people earn a lot of money with it - at our risk and the risk of future generations. I wouldn't care, if my electricity bill would rise a 20% - others shouldn't too, so shut off those nuclear time-bombs ASAP!

Comment Re:Sensationalism and denial (Score 2) 1122

You ask how many have died? We don't know it right now, as the radiation will decay slowly, so the death-toll and (what's worse) the people dying of cancer and leukemia will rise for many generations. In Cernobyl babies are still born crippled - after 25 years of the disaster!!!

Any other incident lasts only a few minutes: earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, dam-breach, mine-breakins, ... The victims are countable and the rebuilding may start the day after the incident.

Wile with a nuclear incident, the surrounding area (and we talk about areas the size of an entire state!) becomes uninhabitable for thousands of years! :-(

Any nuclear risk, as small it might be, is too much risk. There exists only one single nuclear plant world-wide, which is 100% secure: it's in Austria - it was never turned on. :-)

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