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Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you're-not-busy-this-week dept.

stalebread writes "MSNBC has an article looking at an internet-based 'many hands make light work' approach to data sifting. From the article: 'The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web's power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded. Web surfers have begun posting translations and comments, digging through the documents with gusto.'"

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  1. Not strictly a dupe... by SpectreHiro · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/19/203723 2

    See, the story last time was that the Boston Globe was reporting it. Now MSNBC is reporting it. That's news, baby.

    Tomorrow's Headline: The Poughkeepsie Herald reports that the US Government is using Open Source techniques to...

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  2. Iraqis Gone Wild: Desert Heat Edition! by JonTurner · · Score: 2, Funny
    you don't know if A is doing X to B in paragraph 1 and B is doing Y to A in parag 7, or if A does both X and Y to B.
    That sounds like some crazy wild stuff. Any chance you have a link to the video?
  3. Right... by Jeian · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're trusting the medium that spawned SomethingAwful, GNAA, goatse, tubgirl, etc.? That's... not very reassuring. :P

  4. Re:Something is Fishy about this Whole Story by Sigg3.net · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Washington paid a translator salary of $200,000, hordes of translators would suddenly appear out of the woodwork.)

    That's it! They're in the woodwork! Gas 'em outta there!

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