Some of these patches are already on stable marked kernels. In fact, I'm already running them. There was also an issue where some different default GCC flags hardened gentoo uses was causing the kernel to not be able to boot.
Let's remove the internet from the equation. So you have a grudge with someone, you know they have epilepsy, so you assault them to trigger one. Is this a crime? Most likely, I know if I had epilepsy I would hope so (and judging from this article I think it is) So why is it ridiculous for assaulting someone on Twitter specifically to trigger a seizure some how ridiculous that it's a crime?
Generally the add-ons are for streaming websites, which are generally the target of the infringement issues here (not to say the user isn't breaking the law, they just aren't likely to get in trouble over it)
This is also the source of he issues here. The Kodi team is blamed when these illegal sites are taken down.
In cultures where it is "considered woman's animal" the chickens provided by Heifer will most likely be raised by them. These woman will help bring in money for their families. That is what is empowering.
It should be optimized out. The keyword is should. It may not for all iterators (especially custom stuff) and it may not at all optimization levels (important for debugging)
There most likely some legal issues (like he probably had to sign some sort of contract that protected the source or some shit), but luckily both parties involved seem to want to open the Linux port. So it should really be an issue. And I think he mostly ends up using SDL rather than middleware that would cause issues.
The limited checking I did on my machine points to this, at least that's what the URLs in the code appeared to be for. Didn't really look at the code, just searched for the URLs.
They have the money the hire those that can fix the issues. The issues also greatly affects their business, so they allocate resources to look into them. Less latency in the network stack means faster response time, means more ads delivered in less time. And a smoother user experience.
Free as in freedom, not beer. You can look at the code of the free software, therefore tell if it's phoning home or not. More importantly, changing it.
I've noticed an increase amount of racist crap posted on more generic subs like /r/videos since the closing of /r/fatpeoplehate etc. It bothers me greatly. This shit shouldn't be getting to the top, but it is.
I'm not sure I would say its supremely arrogant to tell them to upgrade their kernels. I'm sure if they realized that they were breaking sub 3.16 kernels they would of announced it before hand, but they fudged that. So instead of fixing it to not use a kernel feature they wanted to use, they just said "well this sucks"