Census - 9 August 2016

[Knobby22]

This organistion has the audacity to think they are capable of reporting accurate data to the government!

Edit: Good grief, I've posted in the general chat section!

lol

 

[SmokeyGhost]

Thanks Bill M. I will complete the census despite my doubts as to it's actual usefulness as Governments seem to usually make funding decisions based on a politics rather than according to verifiable data.

However, to get my revenge in having to provide my name I've decided to spit in the face of the pleadings of various genealogy groups so that, in the future, utter nobodies can peer back at the "life" of an utter nobody in the futile cause of family history and so will not agree for my name to be included with my data at the National Archives. That'll show 'em I mean business! Mind you, that particular law could be changed but I won't know about it.

 

[explod]

All a bit of a yaawn really. Did mine in total compliance in about 10 minutes, bit slow as I was happy hour sipping. Got my reciept number and who cares. Not about global warming anyway, its past the point and overpopulation just about there too.

Good luck with expansionism. But Trump's gunna do it and with ****e of Clinton slowly emerging Trump will do it.

 

[drsmith]

ABS site presently a little sick.

Oh well!

Perhaps tomorrow.

 

[trainspotter]

ABS site presently a little sick.

Oh well!

Perhaps tomorrow.

A little sick?



Must be all those poor people on the copper network clogging up the band width

And they did not realise this was going to happen? DOUBLE

 

[drsmith]

I've now got an anaemic sign of life but it was all too brief.

Still looking very much like tomorrow.

 

[Gringotts Bank]

A little sick?

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Must be all those poor people on the copper network clogging up the band width

And they did not realise this was going to happen? DOUBLE

I think the bandwidth is taken up by Anonymous (hacktivists) who got in early and are busy collecting our data as it appears on the ABS servers. Like those wild bears who casually catch salmon as they swim upstream.

Would be hilarious if tomorrow Anon releases a media statement saying "ABS, if you're looking for your data, we have it. Please be more careful with protecting it next time". :

 

[wayneL]

As expected, a schmozzle.

Oceania's IT department will have to get its act together.

Or is failure, success?

 

[drsmith]

It looks like the best that can be done tonight is to sit back and watch the crap to hit the fan.

People trying to complete the census online have been met with numerous error messages, told the system is "overloaded", and advised to call back in two days when they phone a hotline for information.

By 8pm on Tuesday evening, it appeared the website abs.gov.au had crashed entirely, as an estimated 16 million people were due to log on to complete the census.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/cens...o-complete-census-online-20160809-gqop0g.html

 

[Gringotts Bank]

I'm waiting for them to say "the site crashed because of unprecedented demand". That would be a ripper!

 

[SirRumpole]

The website hosting the first online version of the Australian census has gone down as thousands of people around the country attempted to complete the survey.

The Federal Government says work is underway to fix a major outage affecting the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website this evening.

The ABC has been inundated with reports of the census website crashing or failing to load, with many pointing the finger at Australia's beleaguered broadband network for the outages.

"The site just cannot be reached. The phones do not answer and neither does the online messaging," one complainant wrote, while Twitter lit up with #CensusFail.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/abs-website-inaccessible-on-census-night/7711652

"Agile and innovative" ? Sure.

 

[Smurf1976]

11:30pm and still not working.

Let me guess. Someone didn't do the maths and work out that the site needed to be able to cope with at least 500,000 people logged in all at once?

 

[qldfrog]

11:30pm and still not working.

Let me guess. Someone didn't do the maths and work out that the site needed to be able to cope with at least 500,000 people logged in all at once?

Of course you have to trust these jokers with your data and be surprised if you have a stolen identity in the next year;
After this mess never expect to have the government acknowledge any of the coming data breach..
We'll blame facebook or pokemons....

 

[Bill M]

Who knows the website might crash at 8PM when you got a few million doing it.

What are the odds of a server crash at 6:30pm on census night.

And crash it did. Looks like they didn't plan very well for the 16 million people trying to do it online.

Don't thunk I can even complete the thing. I don't recall receiving nuffin in the mail from the ABS but then it seems it was a generic letter such as "To the householder." If so, it's probably been recycled as waste as I tend to look at to whom a letter is addressed not who it's from. That stuff is just advertising junk to me so I immediately throw it out.

Good point, a lot of people might have done the same. Obviously something they didn't think about.

This organisation had five years to prepare for this census. What a mess! I haven't received any notice and I can't get through on the phone to order a form without the nine-digit code. Why didn't they print a few million forms and distribute them to Post Offices or newsagents?

This organistion has the audacity to think they are capable of reporting accurate data to the government!

Yeah seems like a bit of a stuff up. Why couldn't they give the public better guidelines? Like, I didn't know you could do it early or have a Month after census night to complete it, they could have mentioned that on the form. Most people try to do the right thing, they just didn't plan on 16 million people hitting the servers at once. ABS=Fail.

 

[SmokeyGhost]

And now there is a statement by the chief statistician it was taken off line as a result of hacking from overseas sources.

Aside from that it probably would have crashed anyway as it is probable someone assumed a smooth load over 24 hours whereas, in reality, the attitude of many is to get on-line once they got home from work and get the matter over and done with. So did anybody consider a stress test with say 8 million or more on-line at the same time? Highly likely the answer is no; so big fail.

 

[Logique]

What are the odds of a server crash at 6:30pm on census night...

I was out by an hour, they shut the site down at 7:30pm

 

[Tisme]

And now there is a statement by the chief statistician it was taken off line as a result of hacking from overseas sources.

Aside from that it probably would have crashed anyway as it is probable someone assumed a smooth load over 24 hours whereas, in reality, the attitude of many is to get on-line once they got home from work and get the matter over and done with. So did anybody consider a stress test with say 8 million or more on-line at the same time? Highly likely the answer is no; so big fail.

I'm sure there will be plenty meetings with lots of stern faces ... that alone should sort out the problem, not withstanding the technological solution.

Pretty sure "cyber attack" is code for SNAFU and is probably traceable back to the LNP's retirement home for their cronies = Telstra .... NBN anyone?

 

[trainspotter]

I'm sure there will be plenty meetings with lots of stern faces ... that alone should sort out the problem, not withstanding the technological solution.

Pretty sure "cyber attack" is code for SNAFU and is probably traceable back to the LNP's retirement home for their cronies = Telstra .... NBN anyone?

I am with you on this one Tisme and I called Malcolm to find out what really happened ... but he was on the line to the ABS

 

[Ijustnewit]

I just knew it
Read the story on the ABC and they saying that 2 million got through and put in their details and filled in the Census before the hack took effect. They go on to say those 2 million details were SAFELY STORED ... Yeah right we believe you. I'm glad I demanded a paper copy that will also be lost in the mail most likely.

 

[trainspotter]

First the ABS replied the website was working just as expected. Then they shifted the fault back onto the public, suggesting the issue was probably people using out-of-date browsers or maybe we were all typing in the wrong web address. Silly Australians!

http://www.news.com.au/technology/o...l/news-story/f3163738579b430e30e48987e065912c

Like cockroaches in the kitchen when you turn on the light unexpectedly they scurry for the safety of under the fridge. (Or blame the people)

No wait ... let's blame the "hackers" ...



Must be the Chinese after we sledged 'em in the pool

I can see Michael McCormack and David Kalisch having a conversation in the bunker and it goes like this ...

"Yeah that's it ... Lett's blame Mack Horton for calling Sun Yang a "drug cheat" ... that will work, dumb Aussies will believe anything but PULEEEEZE don't tell them it crashed from lack of operating capacity"