100% y2k-compliant, 93.82% bitch

ok so i got verizon dsl yesterday. it fucking PISSED ME off. after i opened the box, i found out i had to buy an ethernet card. so off to best buy we go. oh did i mention how there were TWO SIGNS on the shelf under the TWO ROWS of ethernet cards that said $14.99 - $10.00 rebate = $4.99. well that was for the Dslink card but i got the "symbol that totally resembles a D"slink card. i told them i don't care if it's not the right one, it shouldn't have been stacked so neatly above the signs. The guy at customer service, literally 3 feet away from the fucking shelf told me that they aren't the ones who stock the shelves. i mean COME ON, i admit, if it was just one there that somebody sat down, and YES i've mistakenly grabbed those and bitched about it only to find out i'm wrong, i get no refund and i've wasted my time AND made a complete ass out of myself, but anyway if it was a mistake then no big, BUT IF THERE ARE 50 OF THE FUCKING THINGS ALL NEATLY STACKED ABOVE THE TWO NOT ONE BUT TWO SIGNS, THEN IT IS MISLEADING, and therefore i deserve ten dollars. yes the thing i bought was $24.99 and get this!!!!! IT ALSO HAD A $10 REBATE, which is just TWICE as misleading. ok my point is that verizon pisses me off because:

• the dsl service was already on when i plugged in the modem, but i had to install something to get a name/password anyway;


• i could not just use windows and configure a dial-up mechanism of some sort to get name/password;


• i had to install their shitty winpoet software WHICH FUCKING INSTALLED NETSCAPE WITHOUT ASKING ME AND NOT ONLY OVERWROTE MY CURRENT VERSION OF NETSCAPE BUT PUT 800,000 FUCKING ICONS ALL OVER MY DESKTOP, TASKBAR AND TRAY. FUCK ME IN THE ASS WITH NO VASELINE, WHY DON'TCHA?!!!!!!!


• i called them and the guy told me that i could uninstall netscape when i was done, but that i needed it to get a user name/password. when i looked in my list of add/remove programs, i saw only one netscape, which means if i uninstall it, i will have no netscape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


• in the instruction booklet, it says that if you use netscape, to back up your bookmarks somewhere else on your harddrive. well i use ie5.5 so i didn't worry about it. what it didn't say was that if you have ANY FUCKING VERSION of netscape ANYWHERE on your computer IT WILL BE OVERWRITTEN and you will LOSE ALL YOUR FUCKING BOOKMARKS regardless of what the instruction booklet says WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT;


• oh well, warez sites disappear quickly anyway;


• it changed all the icons for jpgs although they're still registered to psp;


• when you finish the installation of the cheap-ass freeware dialer AND the NETSCAPE, you have to go into all the new icons on the taskbar "verizon dsl" -- "netscape" -- "netscape account setup" which, in order to work, forces you to grant an extraordinary number of file writing, sharing, modifying and sending permissions TO IT, which i saved as a log; and then it takes you to a FUCKING SIMPLE PAGE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ACCESSED IN ANY FUCKING BROWSER, SO THE INSTALLATION OF NETSCAPE WAS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. THE ONLY REASON FOR INSTALLATION OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO TOTALLY CONTROL YOUR COMPUTER IN A WAY THEY LIKE WITHOUT YOUR KNOWING IT.
  
• i went thru my add/remove programs today, to see where this fucking low-resolution bubble popping game came from (jazz could have installed that by accident or on prupose---note: jazz said she didn't do it. it came from the shitty logitech software and there is no uninstall information- it zaps my monitor every time i try to access is because it DEMANDS my resolution to be fucking 480x640. i'm so glad i got a free $10 webcam with software from 1932!) and it said i has used quicken YESTERDAY. i haven't even opened the program this month. does verizon really need to know my checking account number and everything else about me??


• the damn dsl line (which they explicitly TELL YOU not to show in the taskbar once it's connected and of course i did just the opposite, already on to their scam) was sending packets constantly, even before i signed up, and even afterwards when i had stopped my browser and was viewing nothing.


• their installation changed my homepage in ie5.5, even though i didn't use ie to register my acct.


• it reconfigured ie5.5 so that it no longer asks if it should be the default browser i will have to change that myself


• i looked in the installation booklet again and it said something about netscape and ie are included with the installation CD. THAT'S A FUCKING LIE


• they include a webcam for you to use for free and i set it up pretty easily


• in order to get it working i had to install its software (which, to publish anything you HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT AT "SPOTLIFE" which you first MUST REGISTER FOR) thereby giving your personal information away ONE MORE FUCKING TIME THAT DAY.

why do they need all these fucking permissions when you can access the same page thru other browsers. i think they intentionally use netscape because they can program it to ask for those permissions before going to that page, ie might be harder to do that way. and they need the permissions to overwrite your default browser (WHY?) overwrite your bookmarks (WHY? other versions of netscape don't do that) overwite your home page in netscape and other browsers (WHY?) change your registry (WHY? the winpoet crap was already installed) and modify, write, delete and send other items on your computer (AGAIN I ASK WHY?!!!)

posted by y2kira @ 6:53 PM