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posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045

A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.

Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.

Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.

They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.

The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.

Help and donations are requested.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by fritsd on Friday December 16 2016, @04:54PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Friday December 16 2016, @04:54PM (#442098) Journal

    Do people not realize how "real" life works?

    Yes, we do :-) Some of us weren't born yesterday, you know.

    Somebody high in the hierarchy sighs "won't somebody rid me of that troublesome scientific organisation?"

    Some eager climbers take action, unsanctioned, unauthorized. They command an underling to do the actual deed "or you're fired"

    The underling does the evil deed

    The underling gets found out and prosecuted for criminal action (eventually)

    The eager climbers get found out and prosecuted eventually

    They may or not be sentenced to become a Fox News talkshow host after several years (cf. Oliver [wikipedia.org] North [wikipedia.org]).

    The high ups are let off completely scot-free [wiktionary.org].

    The end.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @06:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @06:28PM (#442138)

    For those who missed the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket#Assassination [wikipedia.org]