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And I still dont care.

Well la de freakin da.

Jeez you and pushbrk. Unreal.

I still believe *some* of it has to do with the GZ office becoming under scrutiny by either their own government or other governments, or any organization. You just can't churn out 100% first time pass thru visas without someone doubting the process is good enough to stop fraud and other things, like the office staff not doing their job. You must have some failure rates to report else you will have the higher-ups on your back. It's just like the local cops in this town who set up speed traps and other sweeps at certain times of the month or quarters, just to make a quota or to meet other internal processes.

Maybe it's because since GZ is the only place in all of mainland China to get a K1 or K3 visa (least that's what I heard), it would put that little office in Guangzhou under a huge microscope if every single K1 and K3 passed with no problems.

As long as there's no information that others shouldn't see. Just display a status date? I thought by inquiry that meant more than a status report. BTW Don some of those word to html exports don't render in all browsers readability wise. Also you may not want to overwrite the file each time since you may need to keep versions of previous postings for audit reasons of what you have posted to the public. Database access risk is minimized thru many techniques like using read only views of the data and allowing only database level admins all other access.

Me too. Makes we wonder if Jeff is technically challenged? 162066[/snapback] Lately I feel that way

Physically accessing the data could be a problem, but also it could be easily solved. It's probably more along the lines of allowing access of potential sensitive data. Depending on what data you would like them to show you if it were available on the web, then you would have to have some security in place. If it's just a generic status message like the one on the BCIS site (I don't exactly remember the acronym), where you enter the GUZ number and you get back a status, that's different. Anyone can use that site and sit there and guess GUZ numbers and get back results, even though they are meaningless unless you know who belongs to that GUZ number. But if you are displaying more than that, then first the transmission needs to be encrypted (SSL, they'd have to buy and maintain an SSL certificate, not to mention a web server with some web pages for this), and then you'd have to create user accounts and passwords to gain access to this data. I wouldn't leave it wide open for someone to enter a GUZ number and be able to look at someone's data, so you'd have to have password accounts. That means someone would have to create those each time they get a case, (or automate it, which takes code writing too), then allow the access from the site to the database. That part is easy once you get past the account creation, authentication and encryption hurdles. All this costs money and would need some ongoing administration/maintenance as well. I'd be interested in doing it.

Hmm. Now why didn't I think of that? I may just do that

I don't know guys I just called Dynasky, (after busy signals the past 2 days), and finally got hold of someone, you know she was real nice and everything but she was talking so quiet and was obviously NOT very good english speaker. (You know that blows me the most when you call western union to send money and the guy speaks broken english, and you're trying to spell the receivers name cause if it's wrong it's so very hard to correct after they've sent the request thru. I make them spell it all back to me, but shouldn't have to man they should have understandable speakers!!!) Dang it, and then yes firefox does not work but damn, it's not so freakin hard to at least throw up a message stating that we only support MSIE users and no one else. Jeez even I can do that, this here site was tested with IE (5+ and up), mozilla, firefox, and yes even Opera (which is still a bit buggy), and I would've tried mac IE but I don't have a mac to test with. Just a bit incompentent if you ask me after all, they are selling something so the expectation of a functional site is a lot higher than candle. Just blowing steam feel better now. Is there no call service with service?? Is that so much to ask?

A business plan, capital, website, dedicated servers, advertising, however they use the physical lines, and most important, CUSTOMER SERVICE! did i say that loud enough?

That does it, if Don goes I go too!

Still down 9:25 AM 08/19/05 Pacific time dang you onesuite!

I just ask why did you marry an american woman?

Can't believe they're still down, looks like I'll have to switch too, but I'm with zingaro, I use firefox and the site does work if you know where to go cause some links don't work, just buggy and not written for the masses.