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"In keeping with previous Congressional attacks on research, this one would target the social sciences at the NSF, cutting its budget by nearly half. Also targeted are the Earth sciences, which would take a 12 percent hit (a separate bill is contemplating even more drastic cuts to geoscience research at NASA). Environmental research at the Department of Energy would take a 10 percent cut, as would the Advanced Research Projects Agency‐Energy, a high-risk research body modeled on DARPA."

"In keeping with previous Congressional attacks on research, this one would target the social sciences at the NSF, cutting its budget by nearly half. Also targeted are the Earth sciences, which would take a 12 percent hit (a separate bill is contemplating even more drastic cuts to geoscience research at NASA). Environmental research at the Department of Energy would take a 10 percent cut, as would the Advanced Research Projects Agency‐Energy, a high-risk research body modeled on DARPA."

[And its user intended to have a beer. by Ken Valyear - May 24, 2015 8:30pm CEST ]

"A Microsoft Linux distribution would be remarkable, but Redmond says it doesn't have one. by Peter Bright (US) - Sep 22, 2015 11:22am CEST"

"A Microsoft Linux distribution would be remarkable, but Redmond says it doesn't have one. by Peter Bright (US) - Sep 22, 2015 11:22am CEST"

"by John Timmer - Aug 18, 2015 9:42pm CEST Share Tweet 70 Gene Likens (Wikipedia link, naturally) is an ecologist who set up a longterm study of a forest in New Hampshire. That study found that the water entering the ecosystem was unusually acidic, a finding that was eventually tied back to pollution. This turned out to be one of the earliest indications of acid rain."

"by John Timmer - Aug 18, 2015 9:42pm CEST Share Tweet 70 Gene Likens (Wikipedia link, naturally) is an ecologist who set up a longterm study of a forest in New Hampshire. That study found that the water entering the ecosystem was unusually acidic, a finding that was eventually tied back to pollution. This turned out to be one of the earliest indications of acid rain."

"I answered calls from the public for a few months so you don't have to by Lee Hutchinson - Jul 17, 2015 2:00 pm UTC"

"Series of papers proposes new methods to keep science honest and accurate. by Cathleen O'Grady (UK) - Jul 2, 2015 2:14 pm UTC"

"School scores lowest among 485 colleges and universities in SecurityScorecard scan. by Sean Gallagher (US) - Sep 12, 2015 1:35pm CEST"

"Just as defenders find their feet, lawmakers move to outlaw security research entirely. by Sebastian Anthony - Oct 5, 2015 10:15am CEST"

" IPT says politicians can be surveilled like public citizens, overturning "Wilson Doctrine.""

So The Media, Now, request what the Internet Users have been claiming since last 90's to definitively resolve the sharing practices, while -since then- The Same Press criticized all the proposals of The Internet Community to legalize Sharing, extracting some portion of The ISP's Fees to Pay Creation... Meanwhile, everyb@dy know that if Press is... See More Losing Spreading is not for the Internet competence but because the frivolous actual tendency of traditional Media to try to compete with Entertainment, what Have Led Them to Lose Credibility... gonzalo-san-gil.blogspot.com

"by Cathleen O'Grady Nov 24 2014, 4:00am CET If you know how to do something and people around you start doing it differently, you have two options: stick to what you know, or change to use their strategy. If the new strategy is more efficient than yours, or gets better results, it's a no-brainer, so you switch. But if it's exactly as efficient and produces the same results, the decision to switch is based on another factor-conformity."

"by Cathleen O'Grady Nov 24 2014, 4:00am CET Share Tweet 24 If you know how to do something and people around you start doing it differently, you have two options: stick to what you know, or change to use their strategy. If the new strategy is more efficient than yours, or gets better results, it's a no-brainer, so you switch. But if it's exactly as efficient and produces the same results, the decision to switch is based on another factor-conformity."

"by Cathleen O'Grady Dec 1 2014, 6:00pm CET Share Tweet 14 For researchers interested in studying human behavior, the explosion of social media data provides incredible opportunities. The result has been an explosion of research using this data, which was only brought to the attention of many users by Facebook's infamous study on emotional words, in which researchers manipulated the emotions of unsuspecting users."

"by Cathleen O'Grady Dec 1 2014, 6:00pm CET Share Tweet 14 For researchers interested in studying human behavior, the explosion of social media data provides incredible opportunities. The result has been an explosion of research using this data, which was only brought to the attention of many users by Facebook's infamous study on emotional words, in which researchers manipulated the emotions of unsuspecting users."

"In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer at Europe's largest Physics Laboratory (CERN), was frustrated with how the Internet would only enable sharing of information between clients and a single server. "

"The number of people using woefully crackable passwords has decreased dramatically"

"The number of people using woefully crackable passwords has decreased dramatically"

[In conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Pew Research Center has conducted a large poll that measures both public attitudes toward science and the attitudes of scientists themselves. ...]

[In conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Pew Research Center has conducted a large poll that measures both public attitudes toward science and the attitudes of scientists themselves. ...]

"Lots of conversations like this can lead to increased novelty in a language. Ed Yourdon If you ever wondered as a child who invented the English language, the answer might have surprised you: no one did. We got this incredibly sophisticated system of communication from no particular person. Languages just sort of sprung up and evolved, just like biological organisms."

"Lots of conversations like this can lead to increased novelty in a language. Ed Yourdon If you ever wondered as a child who invented the English language, the answer might have surprised you: no one did. We got this incredibly sophisticated system of communication from no particular person. Languages just sort of sprung up and evolved, just like biological organisms."

# ! (Good) News from the World we Share... "First time on record they've been stable while the economy grew. by John Timmer - Mar 13, 2015 7:55pm CET"

[Note: (Good) News from the World we Share...] "First time on record they've been stable while the economy grew. by John Timmer - Mar 13, 2015 7:55pm CET"

"California's push for renewables may provide a preview of the world's changing grid. by John Timmer (US) - Nov 1, 2015 12:00am CET"

"Secret prisons, surreptitious DNA testing, and a disregard of public safety. by Jonathan M. Gitlin (US) - Dec 25, 2015 9:02pm CET"

"Secret prisons, surreptitious DNA testing, and a disregard of public safety. by Jonathan M. Gitlin (US) - Dec 25, 2015 9:02pm CET"

"But costing upwards of £4,000, it may take a while for a Powerwall to pay for itself. by Sebastian Anthony - Feb 8, 2016 12:17pm CET"