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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 09 2016, @01:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-to-find-a-scapegoat dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:32PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday August 09 2016, @11:32PM (#386029)

    Umm, have you ever been to an urban city in the USA?

    Yes, because I live in one. It doesn't sound like you have though, because what you're describing doesn't match in any way what I've seen in the bad areas of either my city or the cities I've visited recently (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago). It does, however, sound very much like a caracature of what these places were like that is used to convince white people to stay away and thus have no clue what's actually going on in those areas.

    I just drove through one of the worst parts of my city on my way to work this morning, one of the most crime-ridden areas in the country, where about 1 in 55 residents will be the victim of a violent crime this year. I also did some work there as part of a tech education program. And in that neighborhood you will find law enforcement, road repairs, public schools, reliable municipal water, public parks, a fairly reliable local bus system, etc. People were basically obeying traffic laws. And yes, the signs weren't getting stolen, and the stoplights were working.

    While the cops don't come close to completely enforcing the law in that neighborhood, they do catch enough of the bad guys to make a real difference and have some legitimacy in the eyes of the residents. They have gotten into trouble over killing 3 unarmed completely innocent black people in the last decade, and as you can imagine black people were (rightfully, in my view) quite angry about that, but they and the US DoJ are working with the cops to try to fix the problem. The gangs aren't completely powerless, but they're definitely not in control.

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