Does anyone here use a ride app on their smart phone?

[BigNorm]

For the people on this side of the pond------Lollipop Lady=School Crossing Guard

Thanks for elaborating. I had something else in my mind all together. num num num.

 

[Old N' Grumpy]

I used to plan, operate and manage field staff to cover and enumerate 1,000,000 sq km in light aircraft and 4x4 over 6 months every five years while doing up to 20,000 mile in a 4x4 myself. I used knowledge, field experience, maps and a map wheel to plan itinerarys and work programs for six staff employing hundreds of subordinates to conduct population census in remote and urban areas. All without an app or internet.

Now with apps you'll do twice that with half the staff!

 

[Nogrey]

All GPS devices I have used, will occasionally say left and you look at the map and it's pointing right, and vice versa.

My experience as well.......not to be outdone, I'm old enough to remember using paper maps that did the same thing on occasion!

 

[Ishrub]

Now with apps you'll do twice that with half the staff!

Glad to say my last work on the census was 15 years and I resigned from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2 years later and have since retired after another completely different career turn.

We just had Australia's quinquennial CENSUS last night amid a HUGE stuff up after they tried to get the bulk of the population to complete it online for the first time and stated that for the first time name and address data would be kept for 4 years to link to other Govt datasets and future Statistical collections for RESEARCH purposes only. Needless to say the sh-it hit the fan, and some politicians refused to fully comply and other privacy experts including my previous boss the Head of the ABS from 1995-2000, who drafted the last amendments to the Census and Statistics Legislation in the 1980's, said it was unlawful.

The ABS can and always has been able to compel people to comply after formal direction with $180 per day fines for non compliance, but only in regard to statistical data to be collated and published without revealing or retaining an individual's details afterwards and certainly not for refusing to provide their name.

Then to cap it off their online systems supposedly had three hack attacks using 'denial of service' overload techniques supposedly from overseas before 7.30PM last night (Census Night), but the ABS did not come out openly about it at the time and have been avoiding the media. The current Government has been severely cutting ABS funding for years and staff has dropped by more than a third since I was there.

Heads will roll - a self caused problem and crap public relations. They tried to introduce this 10 years ago and the Privacy Commission wrote a report blocking it. They then tried again 5 years ago until the wiser ABS Head at the time decided to scrap the idea due to risk of public confidence and compliance. The latest ABS head has ignored advice and tried to justify with an internal review stating it was all OK and went ahead this year.

Glad I had nothing to do with it this time around

 

[rocketjohn]

Doing census online? That's a recipe for disaster. Better to make it an option...if you do it online by a certain date you won't get visited by a census taker....miss the date, and you will get a visit. Of course that would only work if you knew who was out there. Census taking desires to know most of all, those who are not yet known, and those whose position in life has changed so much that they might as well be unknown at this point.

 

[Ishrub]

Doing census online? That's a recipe for disaster. Better to make it an option...if you do it online by a certain date you won't get visited by a census taker....miss the date, and you will get a visit. Of course that would only work if you knew who was out there. Census taking desires to know most of all, those who are not yet known, and those whose position in life has changed so much that they might as well be unknown at this point.

Yes, totally agree, the informed running the previous two census here allowed on line completion as an option. This time around paper was the option, but key issue still the name retention.

 

[Ishrub]

Well the Prime Minister has now stated "he is very angry and heads will roll". Besides ABS management issues and Govt funding cutbacks it turns out IBM was contracted to prepare online systems for $10 million and didn't adequately test or include sufficient 'denial of service' defense capability as is a std procedure these days. This may now effect IBM's world wide reputation as well.

 

[Claviger]

Living on an island....is boooooooooring.

No random mid day let's go get lost somewhere on the way to nowhere trips.

No Google maps driving me to a spot that looks like people have been murdered in a field when I'm supposed to be at a gas station.

No "hey let's take that random road" moments.

I'm really looking forward to all the things above, and actually wanting/needing a map to get somewhere!!

 

[Nogrey]

Living on an island....is boooooooooring.

No random mid day let's go get lost somewhere on the way to nowhere trips.

No Google maps driving me to a spot that looks like people have been murdered in a field when I'm supposed to be at a gas station.

No "hey let's take that random road" moments.

I'm really looking forward to all the things above, and actually wanting/needing a map to get somewhere!!

What Island do you live on?

 

[Claviger]

Oahu, the land of corruption, terrible driving, no helmets, Harley Davisons, red clay and moss covered roads, HORRIBLE traffic, and 1950s era speed limits. Yes the weather is nice, but I can think of at least 50 other places in the world I've been that I'd rather live as a rider than here.

I consider it a bikers hell.