Streaming the Olympics, Completing (or not) the Census, and so much more. August 7 2016

The Rio Olympics have started, and all through the land, not a creature was stirring, lest they disturb the fragile feed of the live stream from Rio. Apps ain’t apps, streams ain’t streams, and bandwidth ain’t bandwidth, it would seem.

And then there’s the Australian Census, 2016 style. You can do it online, if you’re one of the lucky ones who has received your log on ID. If not, it seems that you could call the ABS on their lukewarm line, and request a paper form … quoting, of course, the your log on ID, that you have yet to receive.

Does anyone else see a minor problem here?

And then there’s a matter of privacy …

All this, and so much more, on this week’s show.