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European MEPs Back Single Charger Standard

posted by Dopefish on Saturday March 15 2014, @08:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-plug-to-rule-them-all dept.
lhsi writes "Members of the European Parliament have backed a regulation for all smartphone devices to use a standardized charger, a Micro USB connector being the favored type (and one that is in use already).

The regulation is still only a draft law and must be approved by Europe's council of ministers. However, that body has already given its informal backing to the law, suggesting it will win final approval.

European member states will have until 2016 to translate the regulation into national laws and manufacturers will then have 12 months to switch to the new design

The reason for this regulation is both to help consumers and to cut down on electronic waste (51,000 tonnes annually)."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday March 15 2014, @12:00PM

    by janrinok (52) on Saturday March 15 2014, @12:00PM (#16864) Journal

    As an editor, I suppose the easy answer is - it depends on how the editor's computer is configured. Mine is UK English and I would have passed the original article without any spelling changes. Also, I choose not to change US spelling to meet UK requirements in articles originating elsewhere. If the spelling is consistent and understandable in TFA then it is good to go in that respect. But if an editor has a US-configured computer where a word would show as a spelling mistake during the editing process, he or she might choose to change the spelling to avoid genuine mistakes slipping through. If you ignore one red-lined word intentionally you might ignore another by accident. There is no intention to Americanize the articles, as far as I am aware.

    I believe that your question was only partly serious, but it is a valid question nevertheless, and I decided to reply to let you and others know what (probably) happened. ;)

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  • (Score: 1) by lhsi on Sunday March 16 2014, @04:55AM

    by lhsi (711) on Sunday March 16 2014, @04:55AM (#17129)

    Thanks for taking the time to answer :-) I suspected that was what had happened. I was interested in getting an answer but was mostly being sarcastic asking. Maybe I should have used tried to see if this site supports this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation [wikipedia.org]