On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Roger Barnes <ro...@mindsocket.com.au>wrote:
> Ignoring the choice of semantics from the name (what you can hack on is > pretty clear), > The wording is very tricky. "Governments collect and publish enormous amounts of data, but have limited resources to get it into the hands of their citizens in engaging ways." That statement seems non-factual. Lot's of Australian Government data has been readily available in "engaging" ways such as wikileaks from Julian Assange. It's also available in great quantities and along with good interpretations in selected beer/wine drinking establishments in Europe and the Middle-East. What's available there is basically the complete snapshot of the dataset that we have here. Can we bring our own copy of the Australian Governments dataset ? The Governments in this country have no shortage of million dollar contracts with advertising agencies to pump out whatever interpretations of the information that they want to do. Usually if the facts show one thing, the message will be spun to show the opposite. "Hacking" the truth isn't really hacking. No matter how "engaging" government type people try to make that be. What really does the description given really have to do with any practical form of computer hacking ? I can see nothing that would allow any computer hacker who does stuff from www.hackaday.com to have any reason to go there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
