Australian census website crashes ...

Australia's 5 yearly census is the first time that Australians had to fill out online (although people could still get a paper form on request).

In spite of the Australian Bureau of Statistics promising that it could handle the demand and spending $325,000 to test the load on the system, the website crashed tonight under the weight of the traffic. At this stage, it will be tomorrow at least before people can log onto the web site. Regardless, the ABS is still running ads urging people to complete their census "tonight".

This failure has heightened concerns about privacy given that people have to put their names on the forms.

Australians have until September 23 to complete the census on line. Hopefully, that will be enough time for the website to be fixed.

This is how The Australian reported it: http://ift.tt/2aJzvuc

This failure has gone wild in Twitter with the hashtag #CensusFail getting a lot of comments

Here is a comment from journalist Peter Van Olsen: https://twitter.com/vanOnselenP/stat...78387887468545
(I'm not sure that you can hot link to pictures on Twitter)

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/2bclUQ5