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10-17-2005, 04:51 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Linton, nr Maidstone, Kent, England
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Friends: 0 |  Hi All! I haven't posted here a lot, forgive me if I picked the wrong forum or anything... Yesterday I discovered a website called Frapper, which I think is really really cool... it's hard to describe but mainly it uses Google Maps in an interactive way... so I have started a map of all Prius users! It is here: http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/priusowners# It is less than 24 ours, and we are up to nearly 200 members...but that is chickenfeed, there must be thousands registered here alone, and I want everyone to join. I know many of you belong to other groups, and I see that some of you are in already... a certain efusco, my old buddy Wayne Brown, that nice man with hsd on his forehead...;-) I have to say, I think this is really cool technology, and it seems entirely appropriate to me that the Prius group should become the biggest map they have..please help! I don't like to write to all known prius sites and groups, it doesn't seem good etiquette to me. But I do want everybody to know about the map. Would you all please have a look at any other sites you belong to, and consider posting a message to it, if you like the idea of a world map of Prius owners.. Thanks! and best regards JerryW |
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10-17-2005, 05:13 PM
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| Troll Slayer  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Nixa, MO
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Friends: 37 | Please, everyone, do sign up at Frapper....but also be sure to post your local at the PriusChat Member Map--> http://priuschat.com/index.php?act=membermap |
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10-17-2005, 05:34 PM
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Friends: 0 |  <_< No way! I'm a software engineer and very concerned with identity theft. Minimizing the amount of publicly availalable personal information is an important strategy in protecting yourself. This site requires a zip code which could easily be correlated with other, publicly available information to identify you, your address, the size of your mortgage... If you do register, I recommend using the zipcode a large city nearby rather than your real zipcode.  |
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10-17-2005, 05:47 PM
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| Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Linton, nr Maidstone, Kent, England
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Friends: 0 | [quote] <_< No way! I'm a software engineer and very concerned with identity theft. Minimizing the amount of publicly availalable personal information is an important strategy in protecting yourself. Hmmm. I sympathise with your concerns but it does make life more interesting, the more you engage with others... I don't believe that any American with a bank account and/or a mortgage can't be traced, by those who know how. I shan't worry, for myself. regards Jerry |
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10-17-2005, 05:50 PM
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| Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Linton, nr Maidstone, Kent, England
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I have added my pin to the member map, apparently I am the only member in the UK, and when I looked there were only 293 in the US! I was wondering, Priuschat is such an impressively hitech site, could it be tied to member registration? you say where you're from, then it just adds the pin... Regards, and in admiration of the sophistication of Priuschat... Jerry | |
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10-17-2005, 07:35 PM
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| Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Oakland, California
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10-17-2005, 07:49 PM
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| 3rd Time was Solariffic!!  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Puget Sound, WA
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Friends: 10 | hey Kiloran... ease up man... you paranoid. all you need is your name...any name, nickname, etc. and zipcode my name is Dave my zipcode is 98506 go ahead...steal something. i dare ya |
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10-18-2005, 12:13 AM
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| Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Winters, CA: Prius capital of US. 30 miles W of Sacramento
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Friends: 0 | Jerry: thanks! ("endoildependency" on Yahoo Prius groups) |
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10-19-2005, 10:17 AM
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My background and the volume of other peoples personal information, over which I have complete access and little to no oversite makes me keenly aware of how easily this information can be accessed and abused. I'm not paranoid, I'm reasonably cautious and I'm trying to help my fellow PriusChat members protect themselves by advising them to protect information which can be used to identify them. Nobody has to take my advise if they disagree with it. | |
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10-20-2005, 01:33 PM
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| Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
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Friends: 0 | Is this thing (Frapper) still working? I don't see any entries since the 18th, and I just tried entering mine. Also, the dots disappear below a certain zoom level. |
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