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Port Stephens Council – "No iPad For You!"

May 5, 2011 23:13 by: Mark Reschke   0 Comments

Evidently those pesky iPad devices are just too darn good at what they do. In a Port Stephens counsil meeting a resident was told to quit taking notes on his iPad or leave, because the iPad was deemed a recording device due to the citizen taking notes on it...

Dick Appleby (love the first-half of that last name), owner of the iPad, said in his defense "To apply this logic you'd have to ban pencils and paper because they can record speech". The council provides hard copies of minutes and business papers for each meeting, but Mr Appleby counted this ancient paper-based technique by stating that he could access this information online with his iPad as he took notes – a more 21st century way.

"The cost of printing out hundreds of pages, to the council and to the environment, is ridiculous," he said. 

Much more fun in this Down Under story here here.

 

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