Could you send me one of those books, too?

Tristero mocks the New York Times and the Justice Department for not being able to figure this one out:

The Justice Department earlier this month posted on its Web site a report from an outside contractor on employee diversity within the department. Many of the negative findings in the report, which the department had refused to release publicly for more than a year, were heavily edited. But Russ Kick, a writer and editor in Tucson, who maintains a Web site that archives government documents, found a way around the editing. He said he was able to call up the document in its Adobe Acrobat format and, using software that allows editing of PDF documents, then highlighted the blacked out editing bars and deleted them. The original, unedited text then appeared.

He then offers to send them a copy of Acrobat for Dummies.

So, okay, I admit I am barely computer literate. But I thought that was the whole purpose of publishing information in pdf - so it couldn't be edited.

Anybody who wants to explain this Adobe editing business further, please send Nell a note. (If you need to know about Nell, check the sidebar.)

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.