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Monday, 31 October 2005

PROOF

Here ye, I offer further proof that SBC sucks, as evidenced by the stupid-beyond-all-reason remarks of the head moron in charge over there.

Umkay... Google and Vonage do not seek out my computer and make connections to it. No. I seek THEM out and I make connections to them.

And why is this OK? Oh yeah, because I pay for MY "pipe"!!!

talk to the hand

Netflix is really starting to piss me off. They have a technical problem with their website, and they won't fucking listen to me when I try to tell them what the problem is.

Basically they have a flaw in one of the two login pages they use. If you have a double-quote character in your password, it will tell you that you've entered your password incorrectly (which is bullshit). The other login page however, works fine.

I've had a HUGE email thread going with them, and finally they told me to call them. I called them up today and the explained the problem, and the first thing they tell me is "you're not supposed to be using foreign characters in your password. The double-quote is a foreign character". Ok, WTF. I explained to the guy that when I signed up with Netflix, there was NOTHING that said my password had to be alphanumeric. (see for yourself: http://www.netflix.com/Register --you have to logout of NF to see that page ) And besides, if that was a requirement, why did the website accept my password when I signed up? And why is it that I can sign in on some login screens but not others.


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