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The Census and Australian Bureau of Statistics websites have crashed on their most important day of the year [Census day for Australians], leaving Australians frustrated and unable to complete their form online. Many trying to log on to the Census and ABS sites were met with an error message on Tuesday evening saying the site could not be reached.
In a first, the census requires a full name to be filled in, though many including politicians are concerned about privacy issues. Crossbench senators including Nick Xenophon, Scott Ludlam and Sarah Hanson-Young are pledging not to comply with rules for the census will be treated like any other citizen and risk fines of $180 per day, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
Some took to Twitter to slam the ABS, with one user sarcastically saying they were "definitely technically competent enough to keep our most private data safe."
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:15PM
I donno about the school deal my kids use.
I did volunteer at a non-profit and they paid google for the $10/month product. Its a metaphysical argument if my volunteering cost them $10 or if they were going to have a treasurer anyway so even if I didn't volunteer they'd be out $10. The feature list is phenomenal. The bill was paid by higher organizational level and I suspect being non-profit we were not paying the full $10/person anyway. I mean we got the $10/mon product but were probably only charged a nominal fee like $1 or they wrote off the full $120/person-year as a tax deductible donation to us, I really donno.
But yeah we paid money and very theoretically if we needed support they had actual humans supporting us (which is rare with GOOG)
If you want, you can pay google $10/month for apps access and they add on some impressive features.
Your point is correct that in theory they could say "F it" and quit at any time, plus or minus contracted service. So if no contracts are longer than 1 year then they can sunset in a bit over a year if they stop selling and renewing today.
I don't know why they would stop, it seems a license to print money, but those idiots did shut down Google Reader so they can't be too bright.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:17PM
But Google reader never had a monitization scheme behind Google reader. And they couldn't see their way to making one.
Our company used to advertise via google, and the click-fraud we endured (that virtually never resulted in sales) meant we paid google far more than the load we ever imposed. So we were annoyed at the spring cleanings, but we understand their need to cover costs. We just learned not to get too dependent on any free google service.
On the other end of the spectrum, If you can embrace the spring cleaning idea: I recently read where they are selling cloud computer instances (Preemptible VM Instances) for as little as 1 cent per hour [techcrunch.com].
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.