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House Bill Slashes Research Critical To Cybersecurity
dcblogs writes: A U.S. House bill that will set the nation's basic research agenda for the next two years increases funding for computer science, but at the expense of other research areas. The funding bill, sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chair of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, hikes funding for computer science, but cuts — almost by half — social sciences funding, which includes the study of human behavior. Cybersecurity uses human behavior research because humans are often the weakest security link. Research funding social, behavioral and economic sciences will fall from $272 million to $150 million, a 45% decrease. The bill also takes a big cut out of geosciences research, which includes climate change study, from $1.3 billion to $1.2 billion, an 8% decrease. The insight into human behaviors that comes from the social science research, "is critical to understanding how best to design and implement hardware and software systems that are more secure and easier to use," wrote J. Strother Moore, the Computing Research Association chair and a professor of computer science at the University of Texas.
Of course cybersecurity isn't critical, no one uses the internet anymore, especially for monetary transactions. Moron. Are you a member of the teatard party?
when the governors were so far behind the curve of technology that it caused physical pain to watch them at work.
Is a powerful Senator hell bent on false god belief any less harmful to the future prosperity of mankind than a 4th World Jihadi member of ISIS?
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
keep in mind this loop is a tea bagger.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
So start a kickstarter fund and shut the fuck up about it.
In case you didn't notice, the budget exceeds 3 fucking trillion dollars.
I know, maybe ditch some useless new entitlement called Obamacare!
Why don't we cut a couple hundred billion out of the multi-trillion dollar "war on everything" Military–industrial complex that's obviously going so well?
Fun-fact: We used to look at the Vietnam War as obviously fruitless and a waste of money and lives. Yet we've been in Afghanistan since 2001.
Timmothy, I beg of you and Dice for a -1 Racist Moderation. I know where hes going with this and don't like it. Obama did not personally make his Obama Care Bill bad and the parent portrays him in a negative light because of this. We need to have a discussion here and Stop. The. Racism. Now.
Just the ones who get elected.
You are welcome on my lawn.