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As Florida Legislators carve up the state’s political boundaries, they are armed with a data mine that includes the voting patterns of every household in Florida, the demographics of every city, county and census block and powerful computer programs. And they are handing over the same information and software to the public.

It is a technological leap into transparency that many national observers say is more ambitious than most states.

The Florida House has launched the website, FloridaRedistricting.org, a Microsoft product that contains information on the public hearings, the timeline, charts with census data and reams of legal resources. Attached to it is the House’s MyDistrictBuilder.org, that allows users to program their own maps using the same tools legislators use. House staff has also produced a how-to video at: http://www.youtube.com/MyDistrictBuilderFL .

The Senate has its own website and district builder, using open source software on an Amazon cloud server. They ask users to request their own account at: http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Redistricting/ .

These are the latest tools in the growing science of redistricting that, critics say, has made it easier for politicians to pick their voters instead of voters picking them.

Florida legislators say they have no option but to make sure the public is engaged. Because of the redistricting amendments that impose strict new guidelines forbidding incumbent protection and political gerrymandering, they have to engage the public more than ever. The last thing legislators want is to have someone prove their intent was the carve a district to favor an incumbent or string together a series of districts to benefit a political party.

“Florida has been out front in political participation for redistricting for a long time,’’ said John Guthrie, staff director of the Senate Redistricting Committee and a 30-year veteran of redistricting efforts in Florida. “This time it really becomes a mandate. We have to build the record of intent and rely on that record to support the boundaries.”

Rep. Will Weatherford, the House Redistricting chairman, said that the goal was to make Florida’s system “the most transparent process we can make and to do that we decided to develop a 21st Century software program.”

It is an evolution that began in 1982 with the use of mainframe computers to draw the first automated political maps. By 1992, legislators sealed off one floor of the Capitol building, lined the room with personal computers, provided secure access to a select few and used a room-sized copier to reproduce colorful computer-generated maps.

Copyright: With Youtube downloads completely harmless | Economics ...

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Since there is the internet, is music and movie files are provided. But not everything that is offered in the network may also be downloaded to your own computer. Because often the deals in violation of the copyright.

The uncertainty among consumers is high. How Donwload deals he can get involved? What he should avoid at all costs. Or he may even just buy music at online stores and download?

“World Online” asked the federal Justice Department, which is working on the amendment of the Copyright Act. Later this year it will be introduced in the federal cabinet. The aim of the amendment is to adapt the legislation to reflect current developments in the digital world.

Basically, music, movies and text are the intellectual property that must be purchased. However, there may be exceptions to this rule. Since the invention of the tape and the cassette recorder, for example, music lovers can record their favorite songs from the radio program. This is explicitly allowed in Germany.

“This is only true when this recording will be made solely as a private copy and is not used commercially,” said ministry spokesman Harald Schuett.

Today, hardly anyone to record songs from the terrestrial broadcast program, but rather resort to the Internet. But the digital broadcast radio can be recorded only for private personal use.

There is good news for fans is now the Internet portal YouTube. The listed video files to users not only view but also incorporate into your own web pages, or download to your own computer.

This says the Justice Department: “The reputation of videos that can be seen on Youtube, is generally not a problem. Download as a private copy is legal. However, it may not be yet a manifestly unlawful produced video. “The latter would be about the case when you see a current movie.

But this is possible only because Youtube with the Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights (GEMA) and the music and film industry negotiates and pays seems appropriate fees, which come in turn benefit from the authors.

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