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"We the People" API To Be Released
Kwyj1b0 writes "The Whitehouse plans to open up the APIs to its 'We the People' initiative. The first set of Read APIs (allowing anyone to read data on petitions) will be released in March 2013. In addition, selected people will be invited to attend the White House Open Data Day Hackathon on February 22nd. Write APIs will follow, allowing people to extend petition capabilities to their own sites. Privacy, of course, should be an important concern that needs to be addressed."
Let's start a petition that they stop wasting tax money on this pointless joke!
the set-theoretic "More Perfect Union" API.
So one could theoretically, through this very API, gather signatures for this API to be discontinued ?
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
...maybe we can get more signers for another death star petition...or similiar silliness.
... don't give a frak...
Perhaps it's the intention of the Petitions and API and extension of this whole thing specifically to subvert the privacy of those who may be opposed to the administration's policies.
A bit conspiratorial, I know, but hey... what better way to find out who your friends and enemies are than to have them tell you. And since you have to give some of your information away, identification becomes trivial in most cases.
Just sayin'....
I think the editors are confusing petitions with voting. Petition and their signatures are supposed to be public. Non-repudiation is crucial to how they work.
bring Riquelme back to the Boca Juniors squad
change this fine nation's anthem to the theme of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. (and the home of the Bronys)
Make Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Ed DeMarco personally call 10 underwater homeowners a day
Establish Lunar New Year as a National Holiday. Give it the same importance and weight as the other cultural holidays. (gung hay fat choy bitches)
PLEASE HELP ME ABOUT VISA I NEED VISA FOR MEET WITH MY GIRLFRIEND ! Regards from TURKEY
Require that all Civilian Firearms be Painted Pink (Or add penis measurement to the permit application process)
Make Dance Education a Right of Every Child at any level of schooling. (And if they don't dance Well they're no friends of mine.)
Force change in the Social Security Disability standards and process for those suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease (The shit is about to hit the fan)
Provide Military Service Animals the Dignity of a Soldiers Burial (Now we will paws and observe a moment of silence)
The President should pick a date of his choosing and declare that day as "Gun Appreciation Day"
Grant Kennedy Center Honors to William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols. (Caus fuck James Doohan thats why)
I'd like to see all bills source controlled... GIT being the obvious best choice. I want every line.. every change to be documented as to who wrote it and when with the full repo being publicly readable.
function process_petition($num_votes)
{
if ($num_votes>=30000)
{
$response=make_polite("Fuck You");
return $response;
}
else
{
return NULL;
}
}
//this is actually all of the code except the make_polite function and some HTTP request handling
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Releasing a budget instead. I'm not taking sides, but it is at least their job to present something.
I believe this is the API the GP is looking for, which is for congress: govtrack.us
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
News of the future:
Today a 21 year old computer science student was arrested by the FBI for violations of the Computer Abuse and Fraud Act for accessing unpublished areas of the website. The student's attorney has flatly denied the allegations and has said that the student merely reported that the API was vulnerable to buffer overruns and he could obtain private information about other users of the API merely by accessing the website in a certain way.
The University has said that they are forwarding this onto their academic standards review committee for further disciplinary action, which means that the student may be expelled for these actions as well.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
These spams are still here? Pseudo-randomly generated text with references often to BSD or GNAA. Link is to goat.cx. In topic there is usually something like "you fail it" or "mod down". Who maintains the system that sends these? Spooky!
demand China trade free. People speak. We do. China not hackers. China high quality everything. Thank you!
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
That website is completely useless.
Any petition for anything of substance gets immediately denied..
And now they want to make an API for it?
seriously, save the money for a better project ..
i want my god damn death star!!