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Verizon Refuses To Provide Complete IPv6
Glendale2x writes "I'm a progressive sort of guy and I want to go full dual-stack, IPv6 for the future, etc. However I recently tried to turn up a new Verizon circuit with IPv6 (after a 6-month fiber install process), and to my chagrin the order they accepted back in May they're now saying is against their policy to provide. They're missing around 29% of the IPv6 internet and refuse to carry it. Tell me again how we're supposed to encourage IPv6 adoption in the face of a huge black hole like this?"
From the EVIL 29% of the internet.
I think IPv6 is going to end up as another VCD (Video CD).
It's gonna be HUGE in Asia (for a time) while being ignored by the rest of the world?
Fail. Looks like Slashdot doesn't provide complete IPv6 either.
That 29%? All porn. And we're talking good stuff, too.
They're missing around 29% of the IPv6 internet and refuse to carry it.
That's because 28% of it is 4chan and the other 1% is unaccounted-for dark matter.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
Slashdot is a proper American site and refuses to surrender to new-fangled hippie bullshit like Unicode and IPv6. If ASCII and IPv4 was good enough for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it is good enough for us!
The abundant usage of Javascript and AJAX may suggest differently, but after any amount of actually using the site, you'll see it's really a undercover op to make people long for the simple functionality of the pre-Web-2.0 days.
Thanks to China's Carrier-grade NAT you aren't seeing levels seven through 1,345,751,000. In China OLPC means One Level of network address translation Per Citizen.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
OverLoad of acronyms Per Comments, I think
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
There are three methods to dealing with businesses: you can let them do whatever they want to you, you can quietly go elsewhere, or you can speak up loudly and take them to court. //SNIP// I would think a more aggressive approach is the only way to fight back.
Actually, a fourth method would be to bomb and/or sabotage their equipment, lines, etc. Now *THAT* would be an aggressive approach!!
I would think a more aggressive approach is the only way to fight back.
Not me. I'm taking the more passive approach. I'm currently stockpiling static ip addresses. I've got three so far. If all the people of Dubai are surviving on one static ip address alone, I figure I should be able to easily survive on three.
>>They'd damn well better give you a full refund if that v6 was an essential part of the contract.
From my Terms of Service with Verizon, defining a 'bit': "A unit of information that respresent a single character."
Sigh... both a Tech and Grammar Fail.
I wonder if I can sue them for breach of service if they can't come up with a coding scheme that can pack ASCII into a single bit.
"Better politely and PLEASENTLY letting them know that there's a problem."
Visiting in person and spitting the dummy can be deeply satisfying...
I came back to a busy mobile phone store for the fourth time regarding enabling a AU-$30 sim chip, I had also had several lengthy conversations with the phone company over that time. I went through the story (again) with a disinterested "manager" who said it was the phone companies fault, however I used to work for the telco so at this point I knew he was making excuses to brush me off and get back to earning comissions from the 30-40 people milling round the store. I had also just been watching him successfully use the same routine on the woman he served before me.
My blood started simmering but I kept a lid on it and said I no longer cared who's fault it was I just wanted my money back, he replied that the phone company had my money, I said (with a raised voice) "I don't care about the fucking phone company, I gave the money to you". He forcefully refused again claiming he no longer had the money. I replied with some loud random abuse and then picked up a display box of leaflets from the counter and threw them in the air along with the sim chip and paperwork. The "manger" was now tripping over a printer trying to back away into his office - I am at heart a "gental giant", realising I had already scared the shit out of the guy I calmed down.
I quietly turned around to leave and to my surprised delight the previously packed shop was now completely deserted, even his staff had run off! Most memorable $30 I ever spent, my kids still rib me about it 10yrs after the fact.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.