AOL - People of the world heed my warning

thats very scary !!! that can be done NOT good

 

They just asked and it was given...At least google are putting up a fight...

Me, I'm on Blueyonder with firefox and my own brand of xp (no spyware or logging here..I spoof until a network node somewhere or other about 60 miles away..that one I set static...well it had a few ports open, what do they expect!)

 

101 Uses for AOL Disks

1. Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife).

2. Attach it to a ruler and presto! - you've got a fly swatter.

3. Construct a life size replica of Stonehenge.

4. At a restaurant, shove one under a wobbling table leg.

5. Money clip (use metal door and discard the plastic case...the "rich nerd" look is IN this year).

6. Eye patch (for one-eyed software pirates).

7. Christmas ornaments (the more the merrier).

8. Give them to young children to use as building blocks.

9. Glue them to the bottom of the space shuttle and use them as re-entry burn tiles.

10. Dentures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma).

11. Room dividers for hamsters.

12. Drink coasters.

13. Use multiple disks to create an ideal door stopper.

14. Ice scraper.

15. Bathroom tile.

16. Bookmark.

17. Mini frisbee.

18. Air hockey puck.

19. Dog chew toy.

20. Dart board.

21. Pooper scooper.

22. Grill scraper.

23. Use them for karate board-breaking demonstrations (save a tree).

24. Wrist slicer - after receiving first AOL bill (use metal door).

25. Conversation piece for coffee table.

26. Destroy them - smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress.

27. Light switch cover.

28. Chinese throwing stars (tape 2 together).

29. Clay pigeons for target practice.

30. Greeting card (bind two together at one end).

31. Halloween treat (give them away all night long).

32. Bullet proof vest (arrange together in triple thickness).

33. Firewood.

34. Bird house.

35. Paper weights.

36. Pen holders (make a box without a top).

37. Post it-notes holder.

38. Refrigerator magnet (glue a magnet to the back).

39. A very sturdy base for putting the motorcycle sidestand on when parking on soft surfaces.

40. Keep 'em in the trunk for extra traction in the snow.

41. Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the sun/moon -actually works).

42. Placing one in each back pocket helps children who get paddled by the coach. This spreads the force to a wider area.

43. Make an AOL disk & pasta casserole.

44. Incense burners (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense.

45. Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car's hood).

46. Put them on car windshields at the mall (along with this list).

47. Melt the plastic of the disks into a giant sculpture.

48. Hand them out as party favors.

49. Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place near door. Completely safe...who would want an AOL disk?)

50. Vertical blinds.

51. Be an AOL diskette surgeon and disect a diskette.

52. Bench press weights (I can press 120).

53. Grind 'em up and refertilize the front lawn.

54. The new "Domino's stuffed-crust pizza" filling.

55. Tell the kids to leave warm milk & AOL disks for Santa.

56. Brake shoes.

57. House insulation.

58. Recycle them for the scrap metal.

59. Kitchen tile for Bill Gates' new mansion in Seatle (walk all over the competition)

60. Hockey Puck.

61. Add water and special plant life to make a Chia-Disk.

62. Noise maker for your bike spokes (why damage your valuable baseball cards).

63. Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk...makes the perfect pet.

64. Poker chips.

65. Baseball practice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat).

66. Keychain (Put a key ring through one of the writeprotect holes and you've got a snappy executive bathroom keychain for the office).

67. Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link).

68. Earmuffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of bent coathanger to both disks).

69. Grind them up to make fake snow.

70. Earrings (put loop into write-protect hole).

71. Dental floss (use actual disk).

72. Use them for zipper pulls (instead of ski lift tickets).

73. When your collection of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards.

74. Use them to fill potholes.

75. Hood ornament.

76. Snow blower replacement blades.

77. Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart.

78. Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for platform shoes.

79. Rubic's cube case (make into box).

80. Shipping material (keeps your photos from being bent in the mail).

81. Protect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans.

82. Snack trays (great for holding hors d'oeuvres at parties).

83. Give them as stocking stuffers to all those people who piss you off.



84. Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through middle, hang 2" apart and apply honey to disks).

85. Pocket protector (gee Gilbert I really like your new pocket protector -thanks Lewis).

86. They make a *dandy* addition to a #$*+&% neighbor's back yard. Better yet, get them to actually install it on their computer.

87. Use them as elbow and knee pads.

88. Wax scraper for snowboards.

89. Use them to decorate your aquarium and create Computer City under water.

90. Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad.

91. Collect a large mass and detonate a supernova.

92. A wind clacker (similar to a wind chime).

93. Soap dish (remove metal to prevent rusting).

94. Row markers for your vegetable garden. (carrots, beans, peas....)

95. Makes the perfect dance floor for your ant colony.

96. Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100).

97. Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad.

98. Baby mobile.

99. Fence (may need a few thousand).

100. Toe tags for mortuaries. Great for identifying dead computer nerds.

101. Wonderbra inserts for that Madonna-techno look.

 

You missed one Ireland..

Patent Amsterdam Sphincter Strecher

 

Ireland, I'm starting to get the feeling you're not to fond of AOL. Try working for them, then you'll really love em.

 

AOL pulls back on email ban

p2p news / p2pnet: Shortly after the EFF posted an info-item on the fact AOL was blocking all emails with links to www.DearAOL.com, AOL hastily took the barriers down.

Last Thursday more than over 100 people who'd signed a petition to AOL also tried sending messages to AOL-using friends. But they each received a bounce-back message telling them their emails had, "failed permanently."

"The fact is, ISPs like AOL commonly make these kinds of arbitrary decisions - silently banning huge swathes of legitimate mail on the flimsiest of reasons - every day, and no one hears about it," said EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) activism coordinator Danny O'Brien.

"AOL's planned CertifiedEmail system would let them profit from this power by offering to charge legitimate mailers to bypass these malfunctioning filters."

The DearAOL.com Coalition represents over 15 million people combined – and has grown from 50 member organizations to 600 in a month, says the EFF.

"Since the beginning of the DearAOL.com campaign, more than 350,000 Internet users have signed letters to AOL opposing its pay to send proposal."

If you're in, or will be, around San Francisco on April 20, O'Brien and tech expert Esther Dyson will face off over the question, "Email - Should the Sender Pay?"

Mitch Kapor, one of the EFF's original founders, will moderate.

Also See:
EFF - EFF Debate: "Email - Should the Sender Pay?", April 17, 2006

(Monday 17th April 2006)
http://p2pnet.net/story/8543

 

I've seen how ignorant and hollow the inner sanctum of AOL is. I only worked there a month. I had them for years, glad to be free of the blue beast. They're going the way of the dinosaur, and the higher ups know it. AOL has no foothold in the broadband market. I'd rather pay for high speed and make my local phone or cable company rich than AOL. Good riddance.

 

AOL to go after MySpace?
In terms of relative coolness, AOL and MySpace are on the opposite ends of the spectrum. AOL is most often associated with Internet noobs, while MySpace is arguably the hottest social networking site on the 'Net. A new rumor has the "Web 0.1" company preparing to go after the social networking market with a new, yet unnamed site.
http://dvdxcopy.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/333315

 

Yeah I'm not big on either lol. A lot of my friends have myspace and they use it to hook up with loose women.