Re: a couple of questions

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Oct 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> > That lets us get the data out but not have to be in the end user  
> > business.
>
> That sounds reasonable to me. And if someone starts putting adwords on
> it or if the Judiciary gets its act together, we can reopen things
> then.

Thanks!  I am *so* glad this redaction death march is done.  I can get  
back to focusing on real strategy now that we have an asset ("the  
audit") to draw on.  It would take the administrative office 12 months  
to audit 32 districts, and they actually own the data already!

You know some of those pdf files are so bad that my adobe acrobat  
professional refuses to open the files?  I have to use apple preview  
to open and save as (e.g., re-distill) for hundreds of files at a time  
before I can even begin the redaction.  find . -name "*pdf" -exec open  
-a Preview.app {} \; and then a whole bunch of alt/shift/s --> <cr> ->  
[yes] -> alt/w.