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Using P2P To Make Gov't Documents Easy To Find

Posted by timothy on from the whaddya-mean-for-once? dept.

Trinition writes "Kim Zetter wrote for Wired News that "While legislators in Washington work to outlaw peer-to-peer networks, one website is turning the peer-to-peer technology back on Washington to expose its inner, secretive workings." For once, we have a concrete example to point to when citing the merits of P2P."

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  1. Typical US overly high-tech solution... by iapetus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Over here in the UK, the government uses the more reliable low-tech approach of real paper documents available from laybys to spread information about its secret inner workings.

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  2. Attract the wrong kind of attention... by syrinje · · Score: 3, Funny
    Having gone through a gifted infancy, a troubled toddlerdom and an uncertain childhood, p2p is now officially adolescent. The kind of testosterone-driven head-butting that this represents cannot be accounted for in any other way. This is a case of nose-thumbing while jumping up and down screaming "I dare ya, nyaah na na nyaah na" to a Confirmed Texan(TM) who roams a mean praire...

    I am guessing this is one site that will have reason to be thankful for being ./ed.

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  3. Zer0 day by minus9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm downloading AGrikulturalPolicyNOCD+crakz.zip right now.

  4. Re:What does it matter...? by Bendy+Chief · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds to me like the agency was doing its job admirably when it wrote that database:

    "This database will self-destruct in five seconds..."

    Mr. Phelps would be proud.

  5. this guys got mad skillz by uniqueCondition · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It took Anderson about four hours and 2,000 mouseclicks to download more than 13,000 documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force" 2,000 clicks for 13,000+ documents?? via an html interface.. now that impresses me.. i map ~ 1 click : 1 document "Pornography, for example, had a role in pushing broadband into more homes." just giving you guys a reason to rtfa

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  6. Re:P2P and terror by mwood · · Score: 2, Funny

    "This is EXACTLY why I'm voting for Busch in the Fall."

    Next /. poll:

    Your pick for President of the United States:

    o Busch
    o Coors
    o Blatz
    o Guinness
    o Cowboy Molson :-)

  7. Re:um... by po_boy · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...my first fresh Linux dostro downloaded

    It was bound to happen sooner or later. Another "i" in "distribution" finally succumbed to the temptation of becoming an "o". I knew that once "distri" became "distro" we were on a slippery slope to destruction. Pretty soon, all we'll have left are "dostrobutoons". Mark this day.
  8. Re:P2P and terror by Frequanaut · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, I sea buy yur speling that you too ar a produkt of the know child left behind.

  9. Re:Ok... by Oddly_Drac · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Maybe, but this also gives the government one more reason as to why P2P is evil and should be banned, don't you think?"

    Yeah, time to finally close down that 'freedom of speech' loophole that the fags and pinkos have been hiding behind all these years.

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  10. Drop me a postcard... by autophile · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thad Anderson, a second-year student at St. John's School of Law in Queens, New York, said he was driven to launch the site by what he says is the current administration's disregard for fundamental democratic structures and its increasing practice of withholding information from the public.

    Drop me a postcard from Guantanamo, "Thad"... :)

    --Rob

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  11. Re:Hrm... by DahGhostfacedFiddlah · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTP or HTTP, both of which are like the "fascist dicatorships of transfer protocols"...

    What did you think FTP stood for?

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