No "large enterprise distro" currently ships with KDE as the main DE. SUSE is the only one that has decided to ship KDE by default, and that too very recently. Also, Linus's infamous statements are not a factor for people when deciding which DE to use. Seriously, they're not.

The reason why KDE is growing so much is because their community is insanely motivated. The only other community I've seen more motivated is the Drupal community. KDE is able to project a halo of (mostly valid) hype around itself which attracts users and hence contributors, which results in more features and hype, and so on.

OTOH, a lot of GNOME development is done by RedHat/Fedora dudes, and I constantly get the feeling that they are a closed book and don't pay attention to engaging the community and gaining contributors. There are exceptions of course, such as Richard Hughes and Dan Williams.

Do you think it would go undetected for long if thousands of cellphones and laptops made in China, Korea or wherever had a hardware sneak-chip installed?

Do you think it would be worth the effort to seed just a few of those thousands for some possible marginal gain? (Also keep in mind that specialized changes wreak havoc on an assembly line's schedule)

Much easier to just target the fish directly.

It's not racial profiling, it's (current or previous) nationality profiling, you know, the information that's visible on your passport?

I'm tempted to make a funny reply about how entropy increases cause a change in mass...

However, I'm pretty sure they're talking about hard-hacks, aka "chips under your keyboard" to listen in to network traffic, keyboard usage, hard disk IO, VGA screen dumping and what not.

Anarchy?

Eclipses might not happen at all in that case. Remember that the distances of the Sun and Moon from Earth are *just* right for the Moon to exactly cover the Sun during an eclipse.

What about the (over-ambitious, and hence comatose) dashboard project[1]? Is that close enough to what is needed?

1. http://nat.org/dashboard/