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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. :-)

Comment Re:Pacific/San Juan de Fuca boundary? (Score 1) 258

The probability the big one will happen in 2200 or in 2011 is exactly the same. 500 years is only an average. Like with dices where the propability is one out of six, but that doesn't mean, every sixth throw gives the same number - all numbers are allways equally possible no matter what the previous numbers were.

Comment Are they finally switching? (Score 1) 298

Hotmail startet on Solaris/*BSD-servers and was a charm to use... In January 1998 Microsoft bought Hotmail and tried to port everything to WindowsNT... In mid-2000 they finally started switching "some" of the frontend-servers from FreeBSD/Apache to Windows2000/IIS... Maybe now they are finally starting to port the database-servers also to Windows-HastaLaVista-New-Experience-Technology, so that's why data gets lost. :-)
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Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools 650

Officials in Riverhead, New York are using Google Earth to root out the owners of unlicensed pools. So far they've found 250 illegal pools and collected $75,000 in fines and fees. Of course not everyone thinks that a city should be spending time looking at aerial pictures of backyards. from the article: "Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments. 'The technology is going so far ahead of what people think is possible, and there is too little discussion about community norms,' she said."

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