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Comment Re:Video of India Uranium Processing, Talings and (Score 1) 99

Nobody thinks nuclear is green. Nuclear power however has the chance to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Nuclear is less polluting than natural gas or coal fuels, at least. Polluting in terms not only CO2 emissions, but sulfur dioxide emissions and the like as well.

I'll ask you this, would you rather have a Uranium mine and all of its related mess, or would you rather have a coal mine and all of its related mess and AIR pollution that goes with it.

Or wait, tell me where are you getting the minerals to make those solar panels? How about those rare earths required for those turbines. Those aren't too green either.

I absolutely think nuclear is green. It has the lowest death per energy of any energy source. The only real problem is CO2 emissions from construction, and then mostly from concrete. This can be offset in the future with green concrete, made with hydrogen gas.

Comment Re:Sweden Finland (Score 1) 337

Both Sweden and Finland are members of the EU. There has been talk in both countries about joining NATO after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and this talk has naturally intensified the last week. Russia has openly threatened both Sweden and Finland with serious repercussions in the last days if they do so.

Comment Re:economic toll (Score 1) 337

There is definitely not enough gas on Europe. As a Norwegian, I know for a fact that Norway has exported as much gas as possible since the energy crises started in the autumn. Every facility is producing flat out and exporting to Europe. Norway is the second largest exporter of gas to Europe after Russia, but we can only cover 1/3 of the demand. We have a large LNG facility close to the Russian border, but it has been closed for a year after a fire accident. It is supposed to start up again in April. Germany needs to build more LNG terminals right now.

Comment Re:A measure of control (Score 4, Insightful) 49

Democracy works best with a free press. But press freedom is not a requirement to be a democracy.

The only way a real democracy can work, is with a free and open press. How can you know who to vote for, if the truth is hidden from you? Dictators are using your argument all the time: "We had elections, so we are a democracy." Elections in itself does not a democracy make.
Government

Who Is Still Using IE6? the UK Government 141

Posted by timothy from the increased-customer-enragement dept.
strawberryshakes writes "The death knell for IE6 was sounded a couple of years ago, but seems like some people just can't let go. Many UK government departments are still using IE6, which is so old — 11 years old to be exact — it can't cope with social media — which the government is trying to get its staff to use more to engage with citizens."
Communications

FOSS Multicast Document Sharing? 125

Posted by timothy from the holy-grail-for-remote-work dept.
Jawdy writes "I am currently leading a small game development project with artists and developers scattered all over the country. Getting together is somewhat difficult, but we try to do this every couple of months. We often share all kinds of documents with each other, and even do so while using IM clients (GTalk and MSN), but this winds up being a tedious process of: send document; read and edit; send back; rinse and repeat. What I wanted to ask fellow slashdotters is, if anyone knows of any FOSS software that can handle IM (or even voice chat), Whiteboard and document sharing — where we can all see the document, pass around 'editing rights' and edit live. Even several small apps that handle the individual components would help out!"

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