Bill Proposes Ending Free Weather Data
 

Politics anyone??

The Internet has made weather data more freely accessible to those who want it. Thanks to new policies instituted by the National Weather Service, users can obtain free access to such things as live radar, weather forecasts, and even receive weather on their cell phones. However, a bill introduced last week by Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) may end all that.

read more: http://www.betanews.com/article/Bill...ata/1114178376

What kind of idiot proposed this. The weather isn't an insitution, it's nature and it's a service offered to predict it! Everyone should be entitled to a prediction!

I was reading about that on slashdot I think... there was some mention of the bill being sponsored by weather services that sell thier information. I appreciate thier desire to want to make a profit but I think there are alot of weather enthusiasists who depend on the feeds for NWS and I feel that we should protect this service.

yea, I think it's ridiculous ... and yes ... we are paying for this guy's salary

anything to get your name on the news

This is what happens when someone makes a little money on the side and signs something without reading it. Our tax dollars at work :)

Our tax dollars hard at work. Geesh.

better go register freeweather.com now !
darn beaten. lmao

if this becomes a bill ... no more weather modules

I never pay attention to them anyway :)

http://www.school-house-rock.com/images/bill-pic.jpg

I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.

Couldn't help myself ;)

LOL ... takes me back a decade or so