Recreation.Gov

2Rad4U wrote:

RGar974417 wrote:
I just used it to make a reservation. I looked on the map,called and picked my site. It was very easy.

Why did you have to call?

I prefer to call.But I saw on another thread,they said they couldn't see the site pictures etc.I had no problem with that.

RGar974417 wrote:
I just used it to make a reservation. I looked on the map,called and picked my site. It was very easy.

Why did you have to call?

I just used it to make a reservation. I looked on the map,called and picked my site. It was very easy.

.."Or you can use the old way of calling the ranger office closest-to/at the park/area you want to go to. I often do this and they'll check openings and make reservations for you right over the phone. Sometimes the Internet is not all it's cracked up to be."

Sometime they will & sometimes they won't, I've called a park CG only to be told that I HAD to contact Recreation.gov, they couldn't do it
from the park. Actually had it happen a few times. I Wish it worked that way, I'd Much rather talk directly to the folks onsite, instead of a computer 1000 mi. away.

gkainz wrote:

gkainz wrote:
I agree the new website is horrible. I've been in IT since before IT was called IT. I would bet with a high degree of confidence that the website development was off-shored.
My old account information could not be verified after the new deployment - even though it recognized my old username. It insisted that my driver's license number could not validate the account, but was happy enough to use my passport information. Suspicion level ramped up another level on personal information harvesting from yet another intrusive source.

i apologize for misinformation in my above post. The issue I described was with ReserveAmerica.com, not recreation.gov. I was wrong.

I just checked my recreation.gov account, and, while yes, they did make me generate a new password, my account and information was intact. There was no additional confirmation of identity with drivers license number or passport number as there was with ReserveAmerica.com.

My apology for the inaccurate memory and information, and undeserved criticism.

Why would reserveAmerica require anyone to provide a DL or a passport number ? Me thinks you just gave a hacker some very valuable information.

gkainz wrote:

tdiller wrote:

gkainz wrote:

tdiller wrote:
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Its amazing what people did in the early days with only 64MB of memory.

64MB? The computer I had in the Navy E-2 Hawkeye that covered over 300 miles of airspace and tracked hundreds of contacts did all this with 64K of memory.

About like the mark 86 gunfire control system on the ship I was tracking your hawkeye with.

LOL! After we upgraded from the E-2B to the -C, and got a passive detection system, I could track you tracking me! :)
Oh and also upgraded our 8k memory modules (about the size of an old fashioned encyclopedia) to 16k each, we had more memory than we knew what to do with! 128K! Living large!

And those things took up a lot of space back in the day. Our gunfire computer was an old sperry univac model that was about the size of a refrigerator with all kinds of blinking lights on the front.

Dutch_12078 wrote:

gkainz wrote:

gkainz wrote:
I agree the new website is horrible. I've been in IT since before IT was called IT. I would bet with a high degree of confidence that the website development was off-shored.
My old account information could not be verified after the new deployment - even though it recognized my old username. It insisted that my driver's license number could not validate the account, but was happy enough to use my passport information. Suspicion level ramped up another level on personal information harvesting from yet another intrusive source.

i apologize for misinformation in my above post. The issue I described was with ReserveAmerica.com, not recreation.gov. I was wrong.

I just checked my recreation.gov account, and, while yes, they did make me generate a new password, my account and information was intact. There was no additional confirmation of identity with drivers license number or passport number as there was with ReserveAmerica.com.

My apology for the inaccurate memory and information, and undeserved criticism.

ReserveAmerica has never asked for my drivers license or passport info when making a reservation. They do ask for my vehicle and license plate info a week out for the voluntary pre-registration though.

To clarify - my comment above was after the website upgrade/rewrite or whatever they did, my account no longer worked. Kept saying invalid password (I use a password manager app, so I wasn't mistyping). To revalidate my account, it prompted me to enter my drivers license number, which it rejected as invalid (I don't recall now if it was invalid format, or some other error, but smelled like a coding error to me.). Passport number was another option, and as much as I didn't like entering that, I did, and then I could reset a password. I know they weren't using those numbers to actually validate I was who I said I was, because I've never entered either of those numbers before. It was a data fishing exercise, in my opinion, for whatever reason.

gkainz wrote:

gkainz wrote:
I agree the new website is horrible. I've been in IT since before IT was called IT. I would bet with a high degree of confidence that the website development was off-shored.
My old account information could not be verified after the new deployment - even though it recognized my old username. It insisted that my driver's license number could not validate the account, but was happy enough to use my passport information. Suspicion level ramped up another level on personal information harvesting from yet another intrusive source.

i apologize for misinformation in my above post. The issue I described was with ReserveAmerica.com, not recreation.gov. I was wrong.

I just checked my recreation.gov account, and, while yes, they did make me generate a new password, my account and information was intact. There was no additional confirmation of identity with drivers license number or passport number as there was with ReserveAmerica.com.

My apology for the inaccurate memory and information, and undeserved criticism.

ReserveAmerica has never asked for my drivers license or passport info when making a reservation. They do ask for my vehicle and license plate info a week out for the voluntary pre-registration though.

tdiller wrote:

gkainz wrote:

tdiller wrote:
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Its amazing what people did in the early days with only 64MB of memory.

64MB? The computer I had in the Navy E-2 Hawkeye that covered over 300 miles of airspace and tracked hundreds of contacts did all this with 64K of memory.

About like the mark 86 gunfire control system on the ship I was tracking your hawkeye with.

LOL! After we upgraded from the E-2B to the -C, and got a passive detection system, I could track you tracking me! :)
Oh and also upgraded our 8k memory modules (about the size of an old fashioned encyclopedia) to 16k each, we had more memory than we knew what to do with! 128K! Living large!

gkainz wrote:

tdiller wrote:
snip
Its amazing what people did in the early days with only 64MB of memory.

64MB? The computer I had in the Navy E-2 Hawkeye that covered over 300 miles of airspace and tracked hundreds of contacts did all this with 64K of memory.

About like the mark 86 gunfire control system on the ship I was tracking your hawkeye with.