I think it was a big ask to expect an online census system to cope with the
potential volumes.
The ABS made people believe that the census had to be completed on the
evening of the 9th August.
Given that 90% of the population live within a 30 minute time zone
difference, most people would have
I can't predict the future for IBM's Australian cloud, but it seems
unlikely that "C" will be as dead as a dodo anytime soon. I think that
there are a couple of operating systems that still use it :-)
I would agree with you that "C" is a lousy choice for application code, but
not because of
Re the Computer problems with the Census at the Australian Bureau of
Statistics in 2016, I submitted these notes to one of the major
Australian Newspapers "The Age" today.
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A computer language that I designed and wrote in the 1970's was used by
the Australian Bureau of
Australian cloud is in deep dodo
The Australian prime minister has just given a press conference and pointed the
finger directly at IBM for this debacle. It's entirely predictable in this day
and age that a high profile event like an online census will face some kind of
cyber attack. It happens all
The Australian prime minister has just given a press conference and
pointed the finger directly at IBM for this debacle. It's entirely
predictable in this day
and age that a high profile event like an online census will face some
kind of cyber attack. It happens all the time. IBM, the service
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/09/australian_census_slips_in_the_ibm_cloud/
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