JetBlue's weird password rule: No Q or Z
May 15, 2014, 1:17 am
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JetBlue's weird password rule: No Q or Z
JetBlue has a funky rule for its frequent flyer members. Make whatever password you want. Just don't use a letter 'Q' or 'Z.'
The dangerously lame "Password1" is okay, but "QueazyQuetzal" is not. How quizzical.
As it turns out, the rule stems from the old school limitations of making travel reservations by phone.
ARTICLE: http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/14/tech...ce=yahoo_quote
The dangerously lame "Password1" is okay, but "QueazyQuetzal" is not. How quizzical.
As it turns out, the rule stems from the old school limitations of making travel reservations by phone.
ARTICLE: http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/14/tech...ce=yahoo_quote
I can not figure out those modern push button things. I stick with the rotary phone I have been leasing from the phone company for the past 50 years. At only $2.99 a month on the lease I am WAY ahead!
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May 15, 2014, 10:15 am
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May 15, 2014, 11:37 am
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I always wondered why my password did not working using my rotary phone. I can not figure out those modern push button things. I stick with the rotary phone I have been leasing from the phone company for the past 50 years. At only $2.99 a month on the lease I am WAY ahead!
I can not figure out those modern push button things. I stick with the rotary phone I have been leasing from the phone company for the past 50 years. At only $2.99 a month on the lease I am WAY ahead!50 x 2.99 x 12 = $1794. An index card $0.01 with a note where Q and Z are--fills in the gap.
$1794.01 - $10 = $1784.01 in the win column for you.
May 16, 2014, 2:55 am
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You all laugh about people leasing telephones from the phone company. I have to dig up the article somewhere, but...
Somewhere about five or even seven years back, a woman going through her elderly mothers bills realized her mother was still paying Verizon a monthly lease for her land line telephone. She actually sued Verizon in a class action on behalf of the roughly ~800 people (almost all elderly and over 80 or 90 years old) who were still paying a monthly cost to lease a telephone. The judge basically looked at Verizon and was like "it's technically not illegal, but really... are you serious?" and Verizon agreed to just up and stop charging the monthly fees.
Sad but funny at the same time.
Somewhere about five or even seven years back, a woman going through her elderly mothers bills realized her mother was still paying Verizon a monthly lease for her land line telephone. She actually sued Verizon in a class action on behalf of the roughly ~800 people (almost all elderly and over 80 or 90 years old) who were still paying a monthly cost to lease a telephone. The judge basically looked at Verizon and was like "it's technically not illegal, but really... are you serious?" and Verizon agreed to just up and stop charging the monthly fees.
Sad but funny at the same time.
May 16, 2014, 3:18 am
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You all laugh about people leasing telephones from the phone company. I have to dig up the article somewhere, but...
Somewhere about five or even seven years back, a woman going through her elderly mothers bills realized her mother was still paying Verizon a monthly lease for her land line telephone. She actually sued Verizon in a class action on behalf of the roughly ~800 people (almost all elderly and over 80 or 90 years old) who were still paying a monthly cost to lease a telephone. The judge basically looked at Verizon and was like "it's technically not illegal, but really... are you serious?" and Verizon agreed to just up and stop charging the monthly fees.
Sad but funny at the same time.
Somewhere about five or even seven years back, a woman going through her elderly mothers bills realized her mother was still paying Verizon a monthly lease for her land line telephone. She actually sued Verizon in a class action on behalf of the roughly ~800 people (almost all elderly and over 80 or 90 years old) who were still paying a monthly cost to lease a telephone. The judge basically looked at Verizon and was like "it's technically not illegal, but really... are you serious?" and Verizon agreed to just up and stop charging the monthly fees.
Sad but funny at the same time.
Who today uses a rotary phone? That dials? Who leases a phone from the phone company? I think back in the 60's everyone did.
It is funny it took JetBlue, until a few months ago to change their policy of passwords to include Q or Z. (as stated at the end of the article).
I'm still sticking with my rotary phones (I have 3 in my house) that I lease from the phone company at $2.99 each per month. So, triple the above figures.
It took me hours to type this using my rotary phone, but it was done.
May 16, 2014, 6:24 am
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Yes, when AT&T was a monopoly, you had no choice but to lease the telephone from the company. On the upside, the quality of the phones themselves was amazing. The standard they were built to was 2 outages in 40 years.
May 17, 2014, 5:34 pm
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In our area (ex-gte verizon area), they just recently did away with a monthly touch tone dialing fee
I have fond memories in the mid/late 80s of a busy GTE store in the middle of the mall. Instead of people rushing for Iphones, they were in line to do warranty swaps on their rotary or touch tone leased phones.
I was only 7 at the time, but I remember asking my grandma why she would pay every month for a phone that sold for only $7.95. She told me that was absurd, phones aren't nearly that cheap. I showed her the newspaper ad which had a conair phone. I helped her plug them in and unplug the GTE phones that night.
May 18, 2014, 3:33 am
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We still have about a half-dozen rotary dial phones at one property in the continental US. They work just fine and guests are always pleasantly surprised to find that such phones are still in service. They also make a great, old-fashioned ringing sound
May 18, 2014, 2:33 pm
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you'll put $100+/year in your pocket.
May 23, 2014, 11:45 am
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I have a rotary desk phone from my grandmother circa late '60s in my home office, connected to an old fashioned copper phone line. And yes, I do use it from time to time as the sound quality is far better than on my iPhone! I leave it unplugged though, as the ringer can never be silenced.
My parents and grandparents both bought their formerly leased phones from AT&T in the early '80s, for a nominal fee ($20-50, perhaps?) They are solid.
My parents and grandparents both bought their formerly leased phones from AT&T in the early '80s, for a nominal fee ($20-50, perhaps?) They are solid.