It depends.

Groupon's entire business model is based on extracting as much cash as possible from desperate businesses, even if that means those businesses go bankrupt. Groupon doesn't fear bad PR. If it was afraid of bad press, it would have folded long ago.

Also, 32 XSS security issues seems like a pretty high number. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if those 32 XSS vulnerabilities traced back to a single problem. That being said, I have no idea if that's the case, or not.

Either this researcher, or Groupon, would have to tell us what those 32 XSS vulnerabilities were in the first place, for us to really understand this situation.

It's actually the meth.

Yeah - this is certainly my impression from looking at Google. I've seen a lot of quality programmers who started out there and then left as they got older (and were greatly helped in cashing in by having cool sounding Google experience on their resume).

For me, I went to their offices for a bit (they gave us a tour during Google Code Jam), and while the general idea sounds fun I quickly soured on the prospect of actually working there. I don't care about free cereal or the game console in the break room or whatever. At this point in my career I want an office (rather than a cubicle space 3 feet down from the next guy and backing onto a high-traffic hallway), and I want to go home sometimes.

Because if the feds fund it, and the research gets actual results we don't already know, Microsoft is going to run out and implement it and make the next version of Windows the same headache for themselves that XP has been turning out to be?

What does it matter *who* funds it, if no one implements anything based on the results (if any) of said research?

Scratch that... I guess it matters to currently unemployed behavioural scientists, although they are likely more concerned*that* it's funded, rather than *who* is funding it...

That doesn't matter. The chip iPhone uses combines the wifi/baseband/bluetooth/radio/wifi-assisted-location all-in-one to save on battery.

And per the 3GPP technical specifications for GSM, the low baseband is never actually turned off (in case of an earthquake warning or a tsunami warning, it's always listening for a polling call for it to wake it up, or to boot up the device), This works even when the mobile cell phone service is turned off, when the wifi is turned off, and it can even work even when the phone itself is turned off. This standby mode is called the "paging channel" and it's supposed to only take 1% of the battery each day.

If you know people in Asia where there have been a few tsunami warnings, those people can tell you that their phone (or their friend's phones) will turn on all by themselves when there is a Tsunami warning. So we know that this functionality is already active in some parts of the world.

The 'normal' level of vitamin D has also crept upwards over the years.

Have to wonder if this has something to do with the interposing https phased rollout by Comcast for their CloudFlare based CDN that they use for web acceleration to reduce their peering overhead. It was preventing me from getting to e.g. LinkedIn and Amazon.com for a couple of days, until they had the kinks worked out. I'm told that I was in one of the "early rollout areas".

Obviously, no one complaining about this gives ISP or other useful diagnostic information in their postings, so it's impossible to give them a good technical answer for their problems, since the problem statements are all lacking in technical information.

This may help; I'd suggest a rename, rather than a delete on the cache stuff, though - in case that's not it:

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

Do you have a cite for this? I haven't heard anything like that.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft can fund this research, if they even actually want to fund it. Probably they don't: they learned their lesson, when people were satisfied with XP, and really didn't want to buy newer operating systems: "Good enough is the enemy of repeat sales".

There's no mandate. Just a removal of bullshit exceptions to an rule preventing unvaccinated children from attending schools.
Kind of like anti-dumping laws - you don't get to drain your sewer into the streets, just because you don't believe in "government mandated" plumbing.

If the smart people let the stupid people out-breed them into extinction, are they actually the smart ones?

Wow! I would have been pissed.

No one should ever fire me when I have low blood sugar.

Driving half a soccer team to the soccer field because it's "your turn to drive the kids".

Wrong. They only tested 54 of the embryo's afterward. 28/54 is a 51.8% success rate.

The off-target mutations in the remaining 26 embryos was not only expected, it was predicted about 16 years ago, when we first started experimenting with retroviral splicing vectors.

I don't think most of us really care about people stupid enough to remove their progeny from the gene pool so that they don't pass on the "stupid gene" to future generations. Maybe you care about these people, but I pretty much think that the fact they have medical power of attorney for their children until the age of majority is a great negative feedback mechanism.