Is the preview available on the mobile site, though? I think it submits the post directly, which is rather annoying.

That might be true, but it's still a very, very tiny amount of radiation exposure. I think that this claim came from a paper comparing nuclear and coal power plants under normal operation, and finding that the coal plant emitted 1000 times more.

I looked up some references quickly, and I found this XKCD; but admittedly, I did not try to find arguments in favor of the opposite view.

On the other hand, I think that his interpretation of company culture is quite right.

Now, on doing something to increase employment numbers, how about making employees work less? I know this is controversial, might conflict with the "American Dream", and require further thinking; but it would be an interesting idea to consider. Quite feasible, in my opinion, and much less radical than universal basic income (which might or might not come in a more distant future).

No.

If I ever develop an "electronic person"; it will have no kill switch. Would you do that to a human, or any intelligent "person" for that matter? I would prefer to see some humans and politicians equipped with kill switches before my robots, thank you.
Actually, the "human kill switch" reminds me of the movie Dune.

I agree, and I might bi biased, but I always use PC designate the x86 (IBM-compatible) platform.
Mac is misleading here, though, since:

1. Mac isn't a computer architecture
2. This Debian/PIXEL spin has no PowerPC image

Well, to be fair, I also know a handful of Windows "distributions" (custom windows installers/live environments). I guess OEM installation media could also count as various distributions (and if you are not convinced, see what Alienware tried to do with its Alpha, with Kodi as a GUI).
Most of those are unknown to the general public, and we can see the same pattern here. To my dad, Linux=Ubuntu, because that's something he heard somewhere, even though I installed Linux mint on his computer. And he's still referring to it as "Ubuntu".

I believe that fragmentation is not an issue. It can merely repel people who are afraid of it because they were told it was a "bad thing" (TM); while not realizing that installing any software (say Firefox) on windows was already making it somewhat different from the original one; and the only reason why this is not called a distribution is that you (in this case) do not distribute your new windows installation with Firefox freshly installed as a Windows spin. That's all.

Minor problems such as libraries distribution are what they are, minor (and considered solved) problems with a plethora of solutions.
I usually like the idea of a distribution for a specific purpose. I wouldn't install DD-Wrt on my desktop, or ChromeOS on my NAS, although both are possible. I hope you do not feel overwhelmed when opening your wardrobe and noticing that you have more than one kind of cloth, or that you do not only have hammers in your toolbox :D

Talking about Linux versions, just to nitpick (here, the correct terminology is distributions)... yes, they are fragmented too, but the current stable is generally regarded as being the one from kernel.org, currently 4.8.15.

This is an interesting argument, that I partially answered above: installing a new piece of software, then distributing it makes it a different distribution. But why create something from scratch? Ok, most of the time it's not completely from scratch. But sometimes, they are indeed not completely up to the job, or they would like to try and do something different, showcase a new piece of technology. At other times, distribution makers like to be in complete control of the experience they provide, and that seems to be the reason here. Provide something that's configured out-of-the box like they intend it to be; without any additional tweaking necessary for the end user. Plus, it's not like they are starting from scratch either. They just took a Debian, installed their software plus a few other utilities, and called it a ~day~ distribution :)

(off-topic) Seriously, slashdot? no strike/s/del or small html tag?

That's precisely what's dangerous here, and the reason why we have those IoT botnets bringing the net to its knees. No one feels the need to update their photo screensavers, especially if they are just sitting in a corner.

Either those devices should remain off the Internet (LAN or completely disconnected), or have automatic updates/remote health monitoring by the company.

An other thing to note, however, is that most companies don't care (for long) about your product once they got you to buy it. Especially apple, that usually just wants you to buy the next iThing.

Well, other than the fact that I I am not really interested in this particular title, It's nice to just slap one movie on a USB stick, to watch it anywhere. Or just have it sitting in my kodi library.

But just being able to put it on my phone's SD card to watch later on the go when I have no internet access is nice too. And if by chance I have access to a computer, I can transfer it back from it to have a bigger screen for my viewing pleasure.

These are some of the things I like to be able to do with my movies/TV shows, and DRM usually prevents it. I do not care about the rights that come with the content; the right to watch it (with whomever I want) is enough for me, but I care about *How* I watch it. I am personally not the kind of person who creates derivative works from the original content. So, just the 'M' for Management in DRM is what's bothering me here. Give me my rights back and let me manage my content!

Popcorn time was an open source experiment, and was completely shut down (afaik) following some legal threats. Naturally, and predictably, this spun off countless forks of various quality and with varying ethical standards.

The name is probably just a clickbait to trick more users into installing the malware.

IMHO the movie industry should have embraced the popcorn time distribution model, maybe with some encryption, and make the content paid-for/ads-subsidized (that's just an example, there are countless of other ways to monetize such a product, some of which are better than others). Use the brand/Name recognition to bootstrap the next-gen movie content distribution platform (think steam). Sign me up!

I wonder if this post is intended to be sarcastic or not (It is not obvious, but I think that's the case), but almost everything here could be reversed and applied to the content industry, in my opinion.

I might piss off some people, but I am a prime member, and have no interest in this show whatsoever. I never even used Amazon video.

To be completely fair, I think I'd rather pirate the content than steam it from Amazon. I am not really fond of DRM, and I like to be able to do whatever I want with content I pay for.

Maybe the solution here would be to offer Amazon videos separately from the prime membership? Make it cheaper for people who don't want one of the two functionalities, and offer a combined discount to those who want both. That said, there is probably a reason (good or not, but well-thought in any case) behind the current offering.

I think that what's the most important here is not how simple or complex coding actually is; but rather getting people to know what it is, and not to fear it.
I often meet people (students, most of the time), that are frightened by the idea of creating a project bigger than a couple of C files. The trick in this case is to progressively increase the size or the complexity of the projects they are working on, developing their abstraction, design, and overview skills (as well as testing, documentation, etc.). But, of course, you have to start somewhere. And those projects are a perfect opportunity to do so.

I believe that I more or less started coding the day I started changing .ini files for some game configurations. Then I changed the .bat launchers a bit (in order to load different config files, for example). And increasingly complex, to the Linux kernel and beyond. And in my experience, the same is true for pretty much any field I am interested in (as well as the others).
To reuse your example, say, Lego cars, can probably (indirectly, as a starter) bring someone into mechanical engineering.

We should have this on /. too. "Use of misleading language" Is Something I encounter here a bit too often to my liking, even if not straight up fake news.

As always, the IT seems to be in power here.

And to achieve this goal, they buy electricity from France. A smart move, after all: you get the praise for how clean your energy production is, and you let the others deal with the dangers associated with its production.

The future is [may be] fusion.