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Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sort-of-open-data dept.

Bismillah writes "The ABS has released the census data for the country under a Creative Commons license, but instead of making it easy to get, they've put in Javascript to obfuscate file paths and more. All commented in the source code of course." At first glance, it's an attempt to get people to pay $250 for a DVD with the data instead.

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  1. Re:Criminals and retarded monkeys by Noir+Angellus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... descended from criminals and retarded monkeys.

    No, we're not all descended from the English let alone Americans.

  2. Damn Streisand Effect by istartedi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks a lot Slashdot. Now I have a sudden urge to know precisely how many married couples with the husbands between the ages of 30 and 32 inclusive have children in Queensland, and what the genders of and ages of the children are.

    --
    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  3. Re:Bit torrent by Darinbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha, I won't visit sites with goat in the name. Fool me once...

  4. Re:Criminals and retarded monkeys by lisaparratt · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you've answered your own question.