You took that seriously? heh.. most of the women who have commented on that said they thought it was hillarious because there's a little tiny bit of truth to it. A former coworker of mine said the "mental block" I described is actually quite frustrating from a women's perspective, which isn't something that had ever occurred to me. In any case, it was not meant to be taken seriously at all.
Look, I don't know who you are, or what you want from me. All I can say is that these accusations are false. If I've done something to you in the past, I'm sorry. Contact me by e-mail if you'd like to talk about it.
You'll find when you grow up and finally finish puberty that dating becomes more than just getting laid. It's about friendship, common interests, trust, and enjoying the person whom you're with (I leave the gender open for you, but the species implied is human).
Of course I know this, and I didn't mean to suggest that that's what you were looking for - my comment was in response to the guy who suggested blackmail. I'm sorry if it was taken as anything more than a joke.
As for the false accusations, I really have nothing to say; I just wish these people would leave me alone.
Wow, talk about being stalked. I don't even know who you are. For the record, the "relationship" you've apparently decided is your business is a friendship that has helped her with her self-esteem issues; once I earned her trust I was able to persuade her to start seeing a psychologist. I'm sorry if you took a joke too seriously, and I hope you'll accept my apologies and move on.
Why bother with dinner if you have naked pics of her? Google the name of her parents, and blackmail her into having sex with you, sending the pics to her parents if she doesnt want to.
So um, you couldn't get a girl who's obviously looking for sex (why else would she post naked pics on online dating sites?) to sleep with you, unless you blackmailed her? That's pretty sad, dude.
No, you're missing it. If they're tracking that an individual surfs Arabic sites or reads Poindexter's bio, and can identify who that individual is in meatspace, that's a really really bad thing. If they're tracking a corrolation between people who surf Arabic sites and people who read Poindexter's bio to see how large a group is interested in both, that's really not a problem, until you start picking individuals out of the group. Companies like AOLTW are not interested in finding terrorists and handing them over to the FBI; they're interested in demographics and marketing. If the government offered to pay large sums of money for that kind of data, then I'd be worried.
Knowing what CD tracks you listen to and when, what groceries you buy and when, and videos you rent and when, who you call and when, where you go and when, and the list goes on and on. The sum of these things is just a bit too much information for corporate america to be keeping detailed track of.
I think there's an important point here that you missed. Corporate America is not a single entity, and each of these things is not added to a sum. Sure, Safeway knows what kind of food I buy, and Blockbuster knows what videos I rent*, but there's no way to corrolate my food purchasing habits with my video rental habits. Even if Safeway and Blockbuster were both owned by the same parent company, they don't use the same database.
The other important point is, if the only thing this information is being used for is gathering statistics to help the companies market more effectively, I don't care. They're not invading my life.
* Not really; public libraries are wonderful things.
I want someone from directTv broadband to explain why I got a call TWO days ago trying to sell me directtv DSL? I didn't take them up on the offer but why are they selling to service to new people two days before they shutdown. BAHHH
Two days ago, only upper management knew, and they didn't tell any of the rest of us.
But so many posts above were looking for other alternatives, as thier ISP is shutting down... Hence, the warning to avoid Directway as an *alternate* ISP, as they are NOT a good choice in my opinion, and from my experience...
Fair enough - and from what I've heard, I agree, unless you have no other broadband option, and maybe even then, stay away from any satelite ISP.
Does this mean I stil have to mail them their modem or I get to keep it permently? I would nto mind keeping it so I can hack around with it. Any ideas? Can it be used as a normal DSL modem?
It's not fake, it really is a router - so no, it won't work with another ISP, unless you could get the ISP to spoof Telocity's servers, which they could only do if they had inside knowledge of exactly what the gateway is looking for when it tries to download configs.
You'll notice you're on a 4-IP subnet. Add one to the last octet of your IP address; that's the gateway's LAN interface. The gateway also has a WAN interface on a different subnet. It's a router.
I'm a former sys-admin who is working at Stream right now.
I heard Stream just laid off 500 people today too; is that true? In any case, the rumor has been going around for awhile that Stream's Beaverton callcenter will be closing any time now.
You work for them right? Concerning the Telocity modem/fake routers that we use currently, for the services, can you tell us how we can mod them in order to use its routing capabilities? I am going to assume, that directv will lets the consumers keep them. What are your thoughts on this?
I'd assume they'll let everyone keep them - they're basically worthless on any other network, and why pay for the return shipping? They're not fake routers, they're real routers - you'll notice you're on your own 4-IP subnet. It's the option to enable NAT that you're interested in, which I won't tell you how to enable. Not that it matters much, but I do still have a job.
I'm on DirecTV DSL right now...so I have 60-90 days to switch to new ISP?
If you stay with DirecTV DSL, we'll try to migrate you to a new ISP and make it as painless as possible (no guarantees about that, but we'll do our best). If you cancel, you have to wait for the LEC to release your line before you can sign up with another DSL provider, so you're looking at around a month of downtime if you choose to go that route. However, I have no idea what the new ISP will be, and they may not offer a static IP. Check the web site (don't call!); there may be more info on Tuesday.
Yep, over 10,000 domains set up for free. That means over 6% of our user base has domain hosting. Still more do their own hosting, which we allow (officially residential only, but we don't care unless you're causing a problem).
It was $49.99/month, and the vast majority of our 160,000 customers got good speeds. For those that didn't, our service was no worse than any other ISP offering DSL service on the same phone line.
I swear I saw advertisements for DirecTV DSL just the other day. Is this sudden or what?
Yes, it was VERY sudden. Rumors and speculation was sort of going around this week (directors disappearing for off-site meetings, hmmm...) but before this morning, nobody had any idea it would happen like this. The marketing department is gone now, of course, but wouldn't have pulled the ads before today (if they have yet).
For those of us who do tech support and sometimes run into DirecTV broadband issues, can I just say, yippee!
What issues? In general, the service rocked - static IP, standard Ethernet with DHCP (with USB also available, bleh), easy setup (if you don't like the installer or don't run Windows, just point your browser to http://10.5.1.2/ and enter your phone number, and the gateway configures itself with all your settings).
What does DSL have to do with a dish service? Did people have to have the satelite service + the DSL service as a package to get it? Was there any discount?
Marketing had some package deals going on, and I think they managed to get combined billing working, but other than that, no, DirecTV Broadband has nothing to do with DirecTV.
Unfortunately, this was largely due to the large amounts of bandwidth unfairly utilized by the "power users" of the network, who used applications such as KazAA and Napster most likely to pirate music and other questionable activities.
This was not the problem. The main problem was having to do business with ILECs, which are monopolies that compete against us. A secondary problem was some not-so-bright management decisions, and not being able to offer value-added services (and collect additional revenue) because the main database system was designed by morons.
It is sad that we will no longer be able to get satellite TV here because a few people using DSL had to ruin it for everyone else by getting greedy.
Huh? DirecTV Broadband has nothing to do with DirecTV satelite.
Why can't people just take what they need, instead of running off with everything that isn't nailed down?
I guess I can kind of understand the attraction of being able to use the grid across various architectures, but you're throwing away (at least) 90% of your computing power.
huh? Where'd that 90% come from? Are you talking about the JRE? As I understand it, Java bytecode gets compiled at runtime, so for computational stuff where you're only launching the app once and letting it run for awhile, it should be pretty fast.
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You took that seriously? heh.. most of the women who have commented on that said they thought it was hillarious because there's a little tiny bit of truth to it. A former coworker of mine said the "mental block" I described is actually quite frustrating from a women's perspective, which isn't something that had ever occurred to me. In any case, it was not meant to be taken seriously at all.
Look, I don't know who you are, or what you want from me. All I can say is that these accusations are false. If I've done something to you in the past, I'm sorry. Contact me by e-mail if you'd like to talk about it.
You'll find when you grow up and finally finish puberty that dating becomes more than just getting laid. It's about friendship, common interests, trust, and enjoying the person whom you're with (I leave the gender open for you, but the species implied is human).
Of course I know this, and I didn't mean to suggest that that's what you were looking for - my comment was in response to the guy who suggested blackmail. I'm sorry if it was taken as anything more than a joke.
As for the false accusations, I really have nothing to say; I just wish these people would leave me alone.
Wow, talk about being stalked. I don't even know who you are. For the record, the "relationship" you've apparently decided is your business is a friendship that has helped her with her self-esteem issues; once I earned her trust I was able to persuade her to start seeing a psychologist. I'm sorry if you took a joke too seriously, and I hope you'll accept my apologies and move on.
Why bother with dinner if you have naked pics of her? Google the name of her parents, and blackmail her into having sex with you, sending the pics to her parents if she doesnt want to.
So um, you couldn't get a girl who's obviously looking for sex (why else would she post naked pics on online dating sites?) to sleep with you, unless you blackmailed her? That's pretty sad, dude.
No, you're missing it. If they're tracking that an individual surfs Arabic sites or reads Poindexter's bio, and can identify who that individual is in meatspace, that's a really really bad thing. If they're tracking a corrolation between people who surf Arabic sites and people who read Poindexter's bio to see how large a group is interested in both, that's really not a problem, until you start picking individuals out of the group. Companies like AOLTW are not interested in finding terrorists and handing them over to the FBI; they're interested in demographics and marketing. If the government offered to pay large sums of money for that kind of data, then I'd be worried.
Knowing what CD tracks you listen to and when, what groceries you buy and when, and videos you rent and when, who you call and when, where you go and when, and the list goes on and on. The sum of these things is just a bit too much information for corporate america to be keeping detailed track of.
I think there's an important point here that you missed. Corporate America is not a single entity, and each of these things is not added to a sum. Sure, Safeway knows what kind of food I buy, and Blockbuster knows what videos I rent*, but there's no way to corrolate my food purchasing habits with my video rental habits. Even if Safeway and Blockbuster were both owned by the same parent company, they don't use the same database.
The other important point is, if the only thing this information is being used for is gathering statistics to help the companies market more effectively, I don't care. They're not invading my life.
* Not really; public libraries are wonderful things.
I want someone from directTv broadband to explain why I got a call TWO days ago trying to sell me directtv DSL? I didn't take them up on the offer but why are they selling to service to new people two days before they shutdown. BAHHH
Two days ago, only upper management knew, and they didn't tell any of the rest of us.
But so many posts above were looking for other alternatives, as thier ISP is shutting down... Hence, the warning to avoid Directway as an *alternate* ISP, as they are NOT a good choice in my opinion, and from my experience...
Fair enough - and from what I've heard, I agree, unless you have no other broadband option, and maybe even then, stay away from any satelite ISP.
DirecWay has nothing to do with DirecTV Broadband. not even really the same company, just the same logo.
Does this mean I stil have to mail them their modem or I get to keep it permently? I would nto mind keeping it so I can hack around with it. Any ideas? Can it be used as a normal DSL modem?
It's not fake, it really is a router - so no, it won't work with another ISP, unless you could get the ISP to spoof Telocity's servers, which they could only do if they had inside knowledge of exactly what the gateway is looking for when it tries to download configs.
You'll notice you're on a 4-IP subnet. Add one to the last octet of your IP address; that's the gateway's LAN interface. The gateway also has a WAN interface on a different subnet. It's a router.
I'm a former sys-admin who is working at Stream right now.
I heard Stream just laid off 500 people today too; is that true? In any case, the rumor has been going around for awhile that Stream's Beaverton callcenter will be closing any time now.
You work for them right? Concerning the Telocity modem/fake routers that we use currently, for the services, can you tell us how we can mod them in order to use its routing capabilities? I am going to assume, that directv will lets the consumers keep them. What are your thoughts on this?
I'd assume they'll let everyone keep them - they're basically worthless on any other network, and why pay for the return shipping? They're not fake routers, they're real routers - you'll notice you're on your own 4-IP subnet. It's the option to enable NAT that you're interested in, which I won't tell you how to enable. Not that it matters much, but I do still have a job.
I'm on DirecTV DSL right now...so I have 60-90 days to switch to new ISP?
If you stay with DirecTV DSL, we'll try to migrate you to a new ISP and make it as painless as possible (no guarantees about that, but we'll do our best). If you cancel, you have to wait for the LEC to release your line before you can sign up with another DSL provider, so you're looking at around a month of downtime if you choose to go that route. However, I have no idea what the new ISP will be, and they may not offer a static IP. Check the web site (don't call!); there may be more info on Tuesday.
Not sure if DirecTV offered a Linux compatible satellite internet solution, but I think I would have noticed it if they did.
As far as I know, you're correct, DirecWay and DirecPC are Windows-only (maybe Mac too, but I'm not even sure of that).
As opposed to DirecTV Broadband, which has UNIX installation instructions in the manual.
Yep, over 10,000 domains set up for free. That means over 6% of our user base has domain hosting. Still more do their own hosting, which we allow (officially residential only, but we don't care unless you're causing a problem).
It was $49.99/month, and the vast majority of our 160,000 customers got good speeds. For those that didn't, our service was no worse than any other ISP offering DSL service on the same phone line.
I swear I saw advertisements for DirecTV DSL just the other day. Is this sudden or what?
Yes, it was VERY sudden. Rumors and speculation was sort of going around this week (directors disappearing for off-site meetings, hmmm...) but before this morning, nobody had any idea it would happen like this. The marketing department is gone now, of course, but wouldn't have pulled the ads before today (if they have yet).
For those of us who do tech support and sometimes run into DirecTV broadband issues, can I just say, yippee!
What issues? In general, the service rocked - static IP, standard Ethernet with DHCP (with USB also available, bleh), easy setup (if you don't like the installer or don't run Windows, just point your browser to http://10.5.1.2/ and enter your phone number, and the gateway configures itself with all your settings).
Great! Finally, an opportunity for the underdog to topple the stronghold DirecTV had on the Satellite Broadband provision network.
DirecTV Broadband has nothing to do with DirecTV satelite.
What does DSL have to do with a dish service? Did people have to have the satelite service + the DSL service as a package to get it? Was there any discount?
Marketing had some package deals going on, and I think they managed to get combined billing working, but other than that, no, DirecTV Broadband has nothing to do with DirecTV.
Unfortunately, this was largely due to the large amounts of bandwidth unfairly utilized by the "power users" of the network, who used applications such as KazAA and Napster most likely to pirate music and other questionable activities.
This was not the problem. The main problem was having to do business with ILECs, which are monopolies that compete against us. A secondary problem was some not-so-bright management decisions, and not being able to offer value-added services (and collect additional revenue) because the main database system was designed by morons.
It is sad that we will no longer be able to get satellite TV here because a few people using DSL had to ruin it for everyone else by getting greedy.
Huh? DirecTV Broadband has nothing to do with DirecTV satelite.
Why can't people just take what they need, instead of running off with everything that isn't nailed down?
Because they're offered unlimited service.
I dunno why they posted this under "Ask Slashdot", but here's some more info:
DSLReports (forum)
DirecTV DSL (info for customers)
Press Release from Hughes (parent company of DirecTV)
I guess I can kind of understand the attraction of being able to use the grid across various architectures, but you're throwing away (at least) 90% of your computing power.
huh? Where'd that 90% come from? Are you talking about the JRE? As I understand it, Java bytecode gets compiled at runtime, so for computational stuff where you're only launching the app once and letting it run for awhile, it should be pretty fast.
Damn. That was hysterical. Thanks. :-)