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Data Quality Act

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-quantity dept.

The New York Times has a heads-up about a little-noticed add-on to a massive appropriations bill, signed into law by Clinton but taking effect in October. The amendment allows anyone to challenge data published by the Federal government and have it changed or deleted. The main proponents of the law are pro-business groups seeking to tie up environmental and similar regulations by challenging the government's data.

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  1. This can actually help us by Chardish · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who wants to be the first to challenge the extraordinarily limited government data that video games are incapable of expressing ideas?

    -Evan

  2. Or, in shell script... by heretic108 · · Score: 3, Funny

    rm -i `find / -name \*truth\*`
    vi `find / -name \*truth\*

    Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it.

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    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  3. Re:+1 Ontopic on the MQR standard by ncc74656 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Given enough eyeballs, all your documents are shallow.

    Good point, valentyn. With slightly different spin, the ability of anyone to challenge data would have been seen as a Good Thing. I have no idea why you were modded "Offtopic."

    Because the moderators are crack whores. (I can feel the karma burning away right now...)

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    20 January 2017: the End of an Error.