And don't be an asshole like this guy who provided a URL that you can't click on. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.11

Rubber stamps are fast.

Arch generally resolves problems by working directly with upstream projects themselves. So yes, sooner or latter bits of Arch end up in everyone's distribution. This is true of any good distribution. Good distributions work in upstreams to the greatest extent possible rather than hording large wads of patches to themselves. Being more recent and more vanilla than most distributions helps a lot to that end. You give up some stability (although surprisingly not as much as one would think) but bugs often get resolved more quickly.

Arch is just too much fun to be seriously stable or brainlessly automatic but, yeah, we're still in your upstream to some extent.

Without transparency, how will you know when the bullshit stops?

NSA appointed officials are useless to us.

Wait... They make phones?

You profiled it down to that specific feature? You know, using a tool that isn't subject to personal bias?

Also, please explain how do such features impact performance when they aren't even loaded in memory.

Do you have some evidence of such? Because I haven't seen a damned bit of this ZMGBLOATZ! you speak of. Memory usage is down and performance is up when compared to both previous versions of Firefox AND current versions other browsers which lack such functionality.

Put up or shut up. Show me something concrete which demonstrates your terrible loss.

Uninformed bullshit. AOO is basically not moving next to LO.

The NSA has very few "servers." Their boxes consume not serve.

I almost stopped reading at "Slashdot" but my peripheral vision glimpsed Groklaw so I continued reading. For a split millisecond, however...

Context: http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6

Don't forget that they even suck outside of the browser. We had to have an act of congress (not a figurative reference, this actually had to be addressed with your tax money) to stop the hearing loss due to TV and radio ads being 10x louder than the show content.

This. When they approach Google, MS, FB, asking for data, it's data that they already know is there. They're tapped into every major Internet peering node in the US and an untold number of them over seas. They likely have agents and eavesdropping devices at interesting companies like MS. They know that the data they collect is illegal so they need to manufacture chain of evidence that they can actually use. That's the only reason they send requests/warrants.

I like how we have to "guess" about what our government is doing.