Your opinions, please!

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:01:52 -0500, "Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net
wrote:

Page loads fine for me but I'm on a cable modem but I can see it becoming a
problem eventually. You may want to have a listing by state with their name
and n-number and maybe one picture and make it a link to anther page. Sort
of like this:
NY
John Doe N123AB Pic
Steve and Amy Smith N54321 Pic


this cries for a database.

next big thread: how to set up a database for r.a.*? what do I need and how
to manage it.

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On 12 Dec 2003 14:48:05 -0800, Javier Henderson wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:


2. The page is slowing waaaay down. I really like the format of the page,
but as it grows it's getting really slow to open. How's it running for you?
Too slow? Okay, yet? How slow is too slow?

The server this is on has only T1 connectivity.


I don't know what stuff you have on your servers, but I know the load on my
servers. And there is no webserver using more than 500 kbit/s peak, average
is 50% of this. (OK, there is only about 150 GB Traffic/month)

Jay, I'll get in touch with you via private email, we should move
it to the server with 100 megabits connectivity.

*ROTFL*

-jav

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 23:28:01 -0600, Montblack wrote:


I agree with Doug's thoughts here. I'm not too interested in someone's
N-number. I do enjoy seeing newsgroup ID's matched up to planes and people.

yes. It is good to have a picture associated to a posting. So it becomes
harder to call the poster an idiot or an a**hole. :-))

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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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2. The page is slowing waaaay down. I really like the format of the page,
but as it grows it's getting really slow to open. How's it running for
you?
Too slow? Okay, yet? How slow is too slow?

Loads fine with DSL, but... if it were my page, I would have pages for each
state represented or by aircraft manufacturer.

Listed by names has already been suggested, but personally, I would rather
look at them by state. That way I can see what my fellow Texas owns.

"Peter Duniho" wrote:

You obviously have no clue what the simplest forms of identity theft can do
to a person's life, never mind the most extreme kinds. You think that
because you are a retailer, that you see the extent of the result of
identity theft. But you obviously don't. The cost of goods obtained
through identity theft is the least of anyone's problems (except perhaps
yours). Much more significant are the years a person has to invest
recovering from the crime.

I read an article about identity theft where the victim found that a
wanted murderer was using his identity, and there were warrants for
arrest in his name. He ended up carrying a letter around with him from
his local police that he wasn't the person wanted for murder, but he
wasn't completely confident that the letter would be effective.

Jay;
If you belong to your local Better Business Bureau, you get the weekly
e-communications. I'm not sure this business only group would be on
such high alert if it weren't actually happening. Very few businesses
are on this bandwagon to make a profit, so although none of your
1,298,066 friends have been victimized, it's still real. Yes, I have
personally heard from one of my customers that she was/is involved in
this. Too much work trying to prove "That's not me!". And to think
of all the owner maintenance I've signed off in the logs over the
years is scary! I changed all my license numbers and strongly suggest
everyone do the same. NEVER give out your SSN to anyone who shouldn't
have it, PERIOD! There is actually a federal law on the books stating
that SSN's are not to be used for record keeping.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 01:43:53 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

We all know the problem with our pilot license numbers. The
name and address of a pilot, his SS number and the exact N-number,
serial number, and address of his airplane, a very valuable tangible
asset, might make easy picking for an identity thief. Am I being
overly cautious, yes.

You know, I hear this ALL THE TIME -- yet, I've never met a single person
who has actually suffered from "identity theft".

As you all know, I use my real name, my real address, my real email address
(well, mostly), and the real name of my business -- thus far, with minimal
hassle. Am I being stupid? Dunno -- but I simply can't bring myself to hide
behind a phony name.

I *really* enjoy the new Visa commercials, with the guy's voice-over on the
little old lady -- they're hilarious and really get the point across about
the risks of identity theft. However, they *are* trying to sell a product,
and (as a result) the cynic in me rises to the fore. I just have to wonder
if this whole "identity theft" thing isn't a product of Madison Avenue, once
again trying to fan the flames of our own paranoia, in an effort to sell us
something?

Does anyone know a real person who has suffered this fate?

Guess he told you --- and everyone else. Imagine everything you've
worked for all your life going down the toilet. Here's how it starts,
and this guy doesn't even do it for a living.

On 13 Dec 2003 00:08:33 -0800, (WAKE UP!!!)
wrote:


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Does anyone know a real person who has suffered this fate?

I've just opened an E-Trade Bank account in your name. It took me 3
minutes. Don't worry, tomorrow I'll close it, I'm one of the good
guys, but in the meantime I could have used that to get a small limit,
secured visa card, and that would establish a mail drop as one of your
legit addresses.

In a month or so, I'd apply for half a dozen credit cards with your
name and ssn, but my mail drop address. I'd use them to buy high
value stuff, like gold, that's easy to sell for cash. Or get a quick
$10k personal loan from Cash Call. I wouldn't buy a car, they're too
easy to trace and you can't get real cash out of them. I might buy an
airplane, fly it down to South America and sell it for 25 cents on the
dollar.

I'm not kidding about the E-Trade account. Check your credit report
in a month, it will be there. I used your real ssn and birthday.

Your SSN and your wife's SSN added together is 792288289

20 years ago you lived at 1562 30th Ave. Apt. 2D, your phone number
was 554-0990. Your wife was living at 2595 N Cramer St, her phone
number was 962-8821. Her name was Udulutch. She was born in June,
1960, in the second week of the month.

You have a business. Your credit is pretty good. If you are in the
open you're a target. You should be checking your credit reports
every 3 months.

WAKE UP!!!! Don't be an idiot. There are 700,000-900,000 cases of
identity theft per year, growing at about 25% per year. Do you know
anyone that's been killed by a drunk driver? Probably not. There are
only 15,000 people killed per year by drunk drivers. That doesn't
mean it's not going to happen.

"Jay Honeck" wrote:
1. Should I include "anonymous" posters? I have received
pictures from several folks who do not wish to use their real
names, have their "N" numbers visible, or have their home
bases publicized.

I think regular posters' "handles" would be fine. After all, this is a
gallery of usenet folks.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dashi wrote:

Do you know anyone that has been murdered?

I did. I knew three murderers, too.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

WAKE UP!!!! Don't be an idiot.

Holy ****! You've convinced me!

Pretty impressive -- especially the part about Mary's maiden name. (NO ONE
can spell her last name correctly -- and you got it! :-)

Don't post it here (of course) but I'd be really curious to know how you
obtained our SS numbers?

(And, BTW, I DO know someone who was killed by a drunk driver.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"