If you go to their lab's publications page, you can read through the acknowledgements for each paper - that tells you where the funding for each particular bit of research came from.

Looking at their first few papers it appears to me that they are mainly running on various public funds (e.g. research grants, other university monies) along with some money from not-for-profit foundations.

This is publicly funded research. It bothers me that faculty and universities - as well as their corporate partners - end up reaping millions (or even billions) of dollars in windfalls based on research paid for on the taxpayers' dime.

At a minimum, these deals should have a clause requiring the amount of public money spent on such research should get paid back from these corporate proceeds before the schools and companies start collecting.

I strongly suspect she'd be a big fan of the Space: 1999 style unisex pantssuit.

Hillary Clinton's pantsuits through the ages

I fail to see where any of this is saving me much time or effort compared to what I can do today. We already keep our grocery list in a Dropbox file. One might argue that knowing you're out of something is an advantage; but in practice it's too late at that point - and "running low" is dependent on what you're planning to eat over the next several days.

Having a recipe displayed on my phone or iPad is certainly handy - but I can do that now, with no more effort than is described above ("find a recipe" is the only effort involved - and you have to do that either way).

Configuring the correct settings on my smart oven? That's like 5 seconds - tops - on my current oven. And my current oven is at least 25 years old! I have to turn a dial to set the temperature... oh, the humanity!

Seriously, as far as I can tell the only "advantage" this particular corner of the Internet of Things offers is either to 1) advertisers hoping to sell me stuff; or 2) other various parasites.

When your data size is 1, drawing conclusions is problematic.

Also, the blob itself went away last fall. There is a significant amount of warmer than average water that has appeared along much of the West coast this winter, but it's not in the same location as the blob.

This is NOT a report. This is not based on observation, either direct or indirect. This is simply a claim based on a theoretical paper providing a theoretical explanation of how this could happen (if the author's theory is correct).

He posted it on Facebook?!

Of course you're not going to get too many rocket scientists wanting to die a martyr's death; but still...

This is specifically about making it easy to offer an encrypted web site - so "Linux only" will mean it's available for the majority of websites in the world.

Unfortunately there seems to be a huge disconnect between what the Slashdot summary and linked article claims and what the actual Linux Foundation web page states is the goal (making encrypted websites easy to deploy). This is a much less ambitious project than the submitter thinks it is.

Could be worse... I really hate when you give money to a cause, or purchase an item, and they "congratulate" you on being such a superior discerning person.

Is there any evidence of that happening post-Jobs, though?

The ads will feature a reanimated Richard Burton.

If I want to know the chemical makeup of anything, I'll just ask Moss to smell it for me.

I'm trying to recall the last time I read a book because it won an award... but I'm coming up blank.

This is alarmingly close to the secret laws Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about in the Gulag Archipelago.

Note that he actually lives in New York City; but he prefers to shop in Connecticut.