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Created by bazell bazell  > 9 months ago, 9 Aug 2016
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bazell
bazell

NSW

120 posts

9 Aug 2016 8:22pm
I have been trying for 40 minutes to get onto the site!! Bloody annoying. Anyone else having trouble?
Macaha
Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

9 Aug 2016 8:23pm
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bazell said..
I have been trying for 40 minutes to get onto the site!! Bloody annoying. Anyone else having trouble?



Yes filled it out pressed send and it crashed just read online the system has crashed wtf.
decrepit
decrepit

WA

12802 posts

9 Aug 2016 7:21pm
well it was to be expected, that's why we filled ours out 3 days ago.
Sites often crash when every body in the country is trying to use them at the same time!
elmo
elmo

WA

8879 posts

9 Aug 2016 7:41pm
Bin there done that, just had trouble spelling Paul Keeting
Macaha
Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

10 Aug 2016 6:34am
Overseas hackers
Gizmo
Gizmo

SA

2865 posts

10 Aug 2016 8:10am
So your telling me that overseas 'Hackers' came up with millions of 12 digit numbers that matched the log in code 'EXACTLY'...... I call BS

Bet you we won't have an OnLine election soon.
Chook2
Chook2

WA

1249 posts

10 Aug 2016 7:35am
All went well.

My biro never missed a beat.
Mr Milk
Mr Milk

NSW

3120 posts

10 Aug 2016 10:08am
This should be a wake up call for all those politicians who want to put bushfire warnings and information online. At least that's what they were all saying after the Victorian fires a couple of years ago.
If the ABS couldn't set up a system to handle the load that they expected, about 3M per hour, how do they think they are going to handle the traffic that would come with a big bushfire hitting international media with all the bored people overseas deciding that they want to have a gawk at what is happening?
westozwind
westozwind

WA

1416 posts

10 Aug 2016 8:29am
Geo block to Australia (the ABC do this with iView).
International DDoS attack? I call shenanigans!




holden
holden

WA

42 posts

10 Aug 2016 8:40am
I hear it doesn't have to be done till 24th September.
evlPanda
evlPanda

NSW

9207 posts

10 Aug 2016 12:40pm
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decrepit said..
well it was to be expected, that's why we filled ours out 3 days ago.
Sites often crash when every body in the country is trying to use them at the same time!


Filled mine in a day before. Why not?

Why did (nearly) EVERYONE think they had to actually fill it in on the night the snapshot was being taken? I'm genuinely bemused.

Was it myth spread by FaceBook? Baaa-aaa.
rod_bunny
rod_bunny

WA

1089 posts

10 Aug 2016 10:51am
I filled mine in last night
I definitely did
Must be lost in the ABS system

I'm not doing it twice
FormulaNova
FormulaNova

WA

15090 posts

10 Aug 2016 11:12am
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evlPanda said..
decrepit said..
well it was to be expected, that's why we filled ours out 3 days ago.
Sites often crash when every body in the country is trying to use them at the same time!


Filled mine in a day before. Why not?

Why did (nearly) EVERYONE think they had to actually fill it in on the night the snapshot was being taken? I'm genuinely bemused.

Was it myth spread by FaceBook? Baaa-aaa.


I think it actually says as much on the letter they sent out that it is to be done on the night.

I don't care much and filled it out partially earlier, but never got around to submitting it. It sounds like I wouldn't have been able to anyway.

southace
southace

SA

4794 posts

10 Aug 2016 12:47pm
Yes I filled mine in

must have got lost like the rest I filled in over the years

what fines?

No i dont have evidence it is your word against mine


slammin
slammin

QLD

998 posts

10 Aug 2016 3:51pm
I was part of the DOS.

I tried lodging at 7.30 just to watch the shight hit the fan.

Surprise surprise by golly Gee.
Jupiter
Jupiter

2156 posts

10 Aug 2016 4:28pm
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elmo said..
Bin there done that, just had trouble spelling Paul Keeting


I entered "Elmo" on mine, and hit "Send". No sure about what happened to the data though.

Signed..
Paul Keeting
Ian K
Ian K

WA

4164 posts

11 Aug 2016 5:50am
It's an ill wind that blows no good. It's been great for me, it led to my discovery that you can scroll by stroking the back of the mouse. Was I the only person in Australia who scrolled with up/down arrows?

Anyway I asked that smart member of the family who had correlated this habit with my age how she went with the census?

"Yes I did it, no worries! Well I got to question 3, somehow got a "Thank you for your submission" message and it was gone, lost forever. They know I'm female, that's about it"

DelFuego
DelFuego

WA

213 posts

11 Aug 2016 9:07am
there I was all ready, on a public terminal, VPN and tin foil hat, false name and stolen code and the bloody site crashed.
you try and do the right thing for the country and look what happens
Im now getting that fax machine in the vacant office, without a link to myself, to fax in a paper copy

Can I get the paper copy from a government office? cameras? Ill need a disguise.
evlPanda
evlPanda

NSW

9207 posts

11 Aug 2016 11:21am
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DelFuego said..
there I was all ready, on a public terminal, VPN and tin foil hat, false name and stolen code and the bloody site crashed.
you try and do the right thing for the country and look what happens


If you used a stolen code then the code associated with your address wouldn't register as completed. What were you trying to achieve?

Gizmo
Gizmo

SA

2865 posts

11 Aug 2016 11:06am



whippingboy
whippingboy

WA

1104 posts

11 Aug 2016 10:45am
Brought to you by the letters I B M
and the numbers 4 5 7

DelFuego
DelFuego

WA

213 posts

11 Aug 2016 11:06am
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evlPanda said...

DelFuego said..
there I was all ready, on a public terminal, VPN and tin foil hat, false name and stolen code and the bloody site crashed.
you try and do the right thing for the country and look what happens



If you used a stolen code then the code associated with your address wouldn't register as completed. What were you trying to achieve?



I was trying to achieve anonymity.
Just found the letter in the bin at work. I didnt think they were linking the code to an address. Or were they!!!!!!
felixdcat
felixdcat

WA

3519 posts

11 Aug 2016 1:07pm
How could it be linked to an address?????? It is addressed to the home owner. No delivery note on the envelope. Did not see the posties taking note of the code and matching to the delivery add.
gs12
gs12

WA

421 posts

11 Aug 2016 1:23pm
ours has an address and the code so yeah they are linked
DelFuego
DelFuego

WA

213 posts

11 Aug 2016 3:03pm
so is the conspiracy theory of the ABS having your IP address and physical address true?
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