Recent content by jonat

No, existing links won't break if you add an http to https rewrite in your server's .htaccess file. (Some web hosts have a control panel option for this redirect.) One problem is that the cookie is transmitted insecurely and this allows for user spoofing. Another is that all the text sent and...

I have had Ooma for 4-5 years now, and it has been very good. I pay for the Premier level for added features and use it with Google Voice. No issues with the phone service itself, though they are maddeningly slow to add user control features. For example, you still can't see which calls they...

My wife is on a Medicare Advantage plan from United Health, sponsored by AARP. It includes all our doctors and, unusually, has the same copay for in-network and out-of-network - just the OOP limits are different. It's also cheap - she is paying $81/mo for it. The pharmacy coverage is a bit...

Wanted to get our second shots, but every pharmacy is out of stock. The local Walgreens put me on their list to be notified when they get some (we got our first shot at Costco.) My insurance is changing this weekend - I hope the new one will pay for Shingrix as the old one did.

I agree that it is almost certainly the anti-siphon feature. Sometimes you can replace the part as shown in the video, but in my case I had to replace the valve. I used SharkBite connectors instead of soldering, and it's trouble-free.

If your bank doesn't offer this feature (none of mine do), check out https://privacy.com It's a free service to generate merchant-specific or "burner" card numbers with an optional dollar limit. The drawback compared to the bank-offered options is that the money is debited from a checking or...

Not sure if it has been mentioned here, but I see that Spaceballs is available for free on Amazon Prime.

There are, literally, hundreds of different "scores" available from the credit bureaus, each with slightly tweaked formulas. Also, the report you as a consumer get isn't the same as what the bank gets. How badly does your friend want this particular card? If not so much, there are other card...

I just bought trip insurance for a trip a year and a half out. Every time I have bought trip insurance there has been a statement that the "lookback period" on preexisting conditions is waived if you buy the insurance within some period (usually 14 days) of initial booking. This is also...

Exactly what I did.

In many states, the state medical licensing board has a process for filing complaints about a facility.

The ONE Plus plan gets you: Unlimited HD streaming, 10GB LTE tethering, 2X data speed abroad (256K vs. 128), Unlimited in-flight WiFi on GoGo flights, Voicemail to text and Name ID (https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-23551 but some of the features aren't available on iOS.) Without this, you...

Waze also has a setting to tell it that you have a transponder for one of a bunch of toll systems. As for Hertz in Florida, they once billed me months afterward for driving on a toll road I wasn't within 100 miles of. I had to fight it out with the toll road people, but they accepted copies of...

That and faster international data plus caller names. I did it too.

Back in 2010, DW and I booked a cruise on Cruise West, which we had sailed with (on the same ship) twice before. They were sending this ship on a round-the-world cruise, broken up into segments. You could book as many segments as you wanted. We did just one (in the Baltic Sea), but two women had...