FDRQRacist computers! Or is it sexist? Whatever the “ist,” these computers needs to be banned. They are obvisously very dangerous.
I think their computer should be forced to attend sensitivity and diversity training.
This idiots code should have been DMBASS instead
Only morons don’t know the record locators are randomly generated
They were so sorry they let the couple join the airline’s mile-high club for free.
PC gone mad again.
Following the hubbub over this, the computer password has beenn reset to ‘LUVFAG’
There’s no way that was “completely random”.
There’s something else going on here. Extortion, perhaps?
>>“At first I didn’t think I read it right,” Mr White, a student at the University of West Florida, told the newspaper. “I was worried that another customer might think I somehow picked that code. If I were a gay male, I might have thought that a Delta worker purposely gave me that code, and that would have made me extremely uncomfortable.”<<
And in a sane world, a man who doesn’t sit down to pee would have just laughed at this and went about his day, not gone to the press and whined like a little b!tc#.
Perhaps the algorithm needs some massaging.
FDRQI had GTLUKI once.
In other words, it's ridiculous to even report this as a news story.
If I’m in charge:
“This code is generated by a computer program. It is meaningless. Your attempt to read meaning into it is stupid, foolish, and puerile. Now if you don’t mind, I have work to do.”
I can bet you with absolute certainty, that some officially-certified victim will someday claim a random code is “hate” speech and sue and win.
This is not a sane world.
Well, we can't have THAT now, can we?
Assuming only letters and numbers, a 6-digit code has ~2.2 billion different combinations (also assuming no rules, like has to start with a letter, or any blacklist). Delta has about 5,800 flights per day, each with around 80 passengers. So that’s 170 million codes per year. They’ve probably generated this code (and several others that might hurt your feelings) multiple times previously, only no one’s been too thin-skinned to ever care.
That’s funny. License plate codes are scrubbed so nobody gets to drive around with an offensive (however defined) plate for 20 years.
Making an airline reservation “no print” list to allay sensitivities seems totally over the PC top, as the codes are seen only by the passenger, and occasionally, the ticket agent.
What if it were H8XTIANS?
I can't think of any instance where anyone has ever seen my confirmation codes (other than airline employees if I call in for an upgrade or to check bags). It's not like they tattoo it to your forehead.
So if the codes are randomly generated, that means there’s an equal change for “GAYMRG” or “LVBOYZ” to show up, which I’m sure would be much more palatable to these sorts of people.
Sigh.
H8GAYS....METWO.