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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."
Does this API propose a "disunion" feature ?
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
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.
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.
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.
What about the "Right to Abolish Government" API? It paraphrases legalese...
None of you could handle such an API, so don't worry about it.
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old computer science student was arrested by the FBI for violations of the Computer Abuse and Fraud Act for accessing unpublished areas of the website.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!
Now this is funny and remarkable, Sir. You appear, here in my Slashdot GUI, with the green-red sign of "foe of a friend". Now, whose foe you may be, I do not care. Yet, you are in danger of becoming my enemy for playing an argument ad hominem , which is absolutely not done in a discussion between polite adults.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
demand China trade free. People speak. We do. China not hackers. China high quality everything. Thank you!
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