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

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.

Re:Criminals and retarded monkeys

[Noir Angellus]

... descended from criminals and retarded monkeys.

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

Damn Streisand Effect

[istartedi]

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.

Re:Bit torrent

[Darinbob]

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

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