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Orlandu


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Posted on 06-04-10 04:04:12 PM Link | Quote
Five six, niner, ten...

I never understood the need for niner. Why is said as niner?

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Posted on 06-04-10 04:10:34 PM Link | Quote
Well, the ICAO has changed many times.

Probably because Mike and Nine are close in terms of what you might hear over the radio (for the letter M instead of 9).
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Posted on 06-04-10 04:13:57 PM Link | Quote
I guess so, but these days its clear enough to hear nine. Unless they think they're speaking German and saying "nein"...

Lima Oscar Lima

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Posted on 06-04-10 04:18:50 PM Link | Quote
I think it's because 5 and 9 sound too similar, so military/aviation people say "fife" and "niner" to help distinguish them.

It's like how they use that Alpha, Bravo, Charlie stuff instead of just A, B, C, as many letters sound similar to each other.

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Orlandu


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Posted on 06-04-10 05:17:38 PM Link | Quote
Nobody mentioned the Feist reference yet, I'm sort of sad

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Posted on 06-04-10 06:48:53 PM Link | Quote
Yea... I liked that Feist song, back when it was used in the iPod Nano commercial a few years ago. =)

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Posted on 06-04-10 06:50:58 PM Link | Quote
I was going to say that I know so many people who use this as their PIN (or variants of it thereof, like 4123 or 4321) that it's sad. Same with internet passwords, what with 123456 still getting quite a bit of milage ... at least until some sites started enforcing better passwords as a rule.

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Posted on 06-04-10 06:56:05 PM Link | Quote
One of my friends told me his password for something a few years ago. It was 12345698. I never understood why he did that, but I've done a mix of letters and numbers for a long time now.

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Posted on 06-04-10 07:02:09 PM Link | Quote
I used to use words, sometimes made-up ones, spelled in reverse as passwords, or words with numbers interleaved as in ba3na2na, as directed by my parents. Now I'm likely to use a random password generator or convert a phrase unintuitively into a password (like, sometimes the first letter, sometimes the last, sometimes how many letters, sometimes a random punctuation mark).

For PINs, I try to come up with them in similarly obscure ways and commit the digits to memory.

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Posted on 06-04-10 08:04:50 PM Link | Quote
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When you're calling some horrible outsourced Indian customer support, you still need such things. Between the line noise and the lack of English speaking ability, that's what it generally becomes. :/

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Posted on 06-04-10 08:08:05 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
When you're calling some horrible outsourced Indian customer support, you still need such things. Between the line noise and the lack of English speaking ability, that's what it generally becomes. :/

So true. I called something one time and got an outsourced call center. They asked for my email... f - as in frank, f - as in frank, a o r - as in robert, l - as in larry, a n - as in nancy, d - as in david, u @...

That was the worst. I think I had to repeat myself twice to get it through. Kept thinking it was supposed to be orlando and not orlandu.

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Posted on 06-04-10 08:10:35 PM Link | Quote
Yeah, I hate having to give my E-mail address verbally. The place I'm staying at in Seattle apparently heard "terrabramford93" and never confirmed my reservation via E-mail. Then, they read it "Terr Abram Ford", like a car dealership.

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Posted on 06-04-10 08:13:00 PM (last edited by Sanky at 06-04-10 05:16 PM) Link | Quote
   When had to say my email address in a bank (gsanky@gmail.com), they even asked me to spell out the first part. And made a remark about "kids and their crazy email adresses". Guess what I ended up with?

gsanky@gmel.com

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Posted on 06-05-10 10:48:35 PM Link | Quote
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Oh come on, it's not hard to remember a couple strings of 32 random characters.

My favourite password fail is Twitter's server password being "password". Close behind is a forum whose administrator's password was "notpassword" - but he smartened up quick.

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Posted on 06-05-10 10:57:52 PM Link | Quote
At least with my email address, the "eternal" part isn't messed up... although on occasion, I sometimes get "shala" instead of "schala". =/

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Posted on 06-06-10 12:17:18 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Schala
At least with my email address, the "eternal" part isn't messed up... although on occasion, I sometimes get "shala" instead of "schala". =/


I imagine someone might use "internal" for the first part

Usually I just spell out my E-mail address if I have to give it verbally, but it does have 13 letters and 2 digits in the part before the @, so it gets awkward and mistake-prone.

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Posted on 06-06-10 10:20:12 AM Link | Quote
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It's annoying trying to verbally give an email address. Even something simple like paulguy is screwed up.

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