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Pure BS. Even if someone was retarded/insane enough to build such a product, no store would sell it,

Yeah because people wouldn't design such a product. (Well, to be fair, they wouldn't - but hardware, like software, can have bugs)

And even if they did make such a product, people would spot *before the thermostat got fitted* that something may go on fire months, possibly years after installation. (Remember the problem with a certain car and their brakes? Came down to a part that was worn down in a slightly unexpected way)

And nobody has ever made any defective product that has gone on fire before. (Everything from phone chargers to laptops to cars,cars,cars to washing machines...)

That's easy - you suffer from a very severe case of confirmation bias.

Nope. I'm just acutely observant.

To be fair, Jaguar didn't make my list, but in my defense, I don't think I've never actually seen one on this side of the pond except on a lot or in a museum....

America Online wasn't based in and focused on America?

Indeed not. They were a reasonably significant broadband ISP in the UK too, though their decline here has paralelled that in the USA.

Yes I remember their famous "faux pas", like telling the residents of Scunthorpe that they should rename their town Sconthorpe to register, thinking people from Penistone were taking the piss - there couldn't be a town called that could there?, and telling the Welsh that they has to use English in the Welsh language forum. They even blocked emails in Welsh. Needless to say they were not the biggest ISP in the UK!

America Online wasn't based in and focused on America?

Indeed not. They were a reasonably significant broadband ISP in the UK too, though their decline here has paralelled that in the USA.

Yeah.

Alex Jones and The Atlantic Monthly , noted wingnut, anti-globalist conspiracy rag:
"Yet in the view of several vaccine skeptics, this claim is suspicious on its face. Influenza causes only a small minority of all deaths in the U.S., even among senior citizens, and even after adding in the deaths to which flu might have contributed indirectly. When researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases included all deaths from illnesses that flu aggravates, like lung disease or chronic heart failure, they found that flu accounts for, at most, 10 percent of winter deaths among the elderly. So how could flu vaccine possibly reduce total deaths by half? Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle." "
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/brownlee-h1n1

I guess if you are not a pro-ball cheerleader, you have nothing to worry about:
Washington Redskins Cheerleader Desiree Jennings Permanently Disabled From Flu Vaccine
http://video.najoomi.com/videos/0VMRWLgF8V8/Washington-Redskins-Cheerleader-Desiree-Jennings-Permanently-Disabled-From-Flu-Vaccine.html

http://loudountimes.com/blogs/loudoun-lowdown/2009-10-13/loudoun-lowdown-nicholas-graham-flu-shot-desiree/

http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/cheerleader-with-dystonia-from-flu-shot-may-have-it-all-in-her-head/2264303090

http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/update-on-washington-redskins-cheerleader-crippled-for-life-after-being-vaccinated/1581295953

http://www.huliq.com/8059/87650/nfl-cheerleader-suffers-irreversible-dystonia-after-flu-shot

Yeah.

Alex Jones and The Atlantic Monthly , noted wingnut, anti-globalist conspiracy rag:
"Yet in the view of several vaccine skeptics, this claim is suspicious on its face. Influenza causes only a small minority of all deaths in the U.S., even among senior citizens, and even after adding in the deaths to which flu might have contributed indirectly. When researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases included all deaths from illnesses that flu aggravates, like lung disease or chronic heart failure, they found that flu accounts for, at most, 10 percent of winter deaths among the elderly. So how could flu vaccine possibly reduce total deaths by half? Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle." "
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/brownlee-h1n1

I guess if you are not a pro-ball cheerleader, you have nothing to worry about:
Washington Redskins Cheerleader Desiree Jennings Permanently Disabled From Flu Vaccine
http://video.najoomi.com/videos/0VMRWLgF8V8/Washington-Redskins-Cheerleader-Desiree-Jennings-Permanently-Disabled-From-Flu-Vaccine.html

http://loudountimes.com/blogs/loudoun-lowdown/2009-10-13/loudoun-lowdown-nicholas-graham-flu-shot-desiree/

http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/cheerleader-with-dystonia-from-flu-shot-may-have-it-all-in-her-head/2264303090

http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/update-on-washington-redskins-cheerleader-crippled-for-life-after-being-vaccinated/1581295953

http://www.huliq.com/8059/87650/nfl-cheerleader-suffers-irreversible-dystonia-after-flu-shot

Apparently you aren't as familiar with what AOL stands for, either. America On-Line. That's why there isn't a United Kingdom Version.

Oh crap. I fail it too.

here you go :) http://hometown.aol.co.uk/JBono117/goatse.jpg SFW! (I think)

It's not really enough to just check the URL against some phishing database. The phishing sites now use unique URLs for each phish going out. Some even use unique subdomains. An example is http://onlinesession-949076872.natwest.com.nigy3r.cn.

We've been struggling with this for SiteTruth, which, among other things, uses PhishTank's data. Originally, we used PhishTank's online query API, but that required an exact match on the URL, which was useless. Now we download their entire database every few hours and blacklist the entire base domain (what you buy from a domain registrar) if there's a verified, active phishing site anywhere in the domain.

That seems reasonable enough. But there's collateral damage. So, most days, we have AOL, Microsoft Live, and Yahoo blacklisted. That's because those major sites have "open redirectors" - URLs which will redirect to any specified site. For example,

• http://r.aol.com/cgi/redir?http://mgw1.haoyisheng.com/icons/asp.html
  A convenient, easy to use redirection script popular with phishers. Provides a URL that appears to be on AOL, but isn't. Interestingly, AOL treats as spam any email that uses their own redirector URL. So it's only useful for attacking non-AOL users.
• http://login.live.com/logout.srf?ct=1179231565
  &rver=4.0.1532.0&lc=1033&id=64855
  &ru=http:%2F%2Fby117w.bay117.mail.live.com%2Fmail%2Flogout.aspx%3Fredirect%3Dtrue
  %26logouturl%3Dhttp:%2F%2F62.49.9.117:443/HB.onlineserv.cgi/
  The "logout" page for Microsoft Live can be abused, with some effort, to make it appear as if some hostile site is on Microsoft Live. This looks like Microsoft tried "security through obscurity" and failed.
• http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5VTi9_RDDbAA3TJXNyoA;
  _ylu=X3oDMTE2ZXYybGFuBGNvbG8DdwRsA1dTMQRwb3MDMQRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANpMDIxXzQ3/SIG=15j5u6auo/
  EXP=1140214114/**http://hticketing.com/www.bankofamerica.com/sslencrypt218bit/online_banking/
  A Yahoo redirector URL intended to create the illusion of a Bank of America site. It may be possible to exploit this as a cross site scripting attack.

These were all active phishing sites an hour or two ago.

Yes, arguably the intelligent user should be able to visually parse the URLs above and realize that they're not really on the sites indicated. Or notice that a redirection took place. But most users don't notice that. Neither do many anti-phishing tools, especially if the attacker combines both techniques described above.

Phishing has reached the point that if you have an open redirector or proxy on your web site, someone will use it to borrow your reputation for their scam. Open redirectors are now like open mail relays - a nice Internet feature that had to be shut down because of exploits.

So fix those open redirectors, people, or expect to be listed as a phishing-friendly site.

• Mass Surveillance
  
• Police state
  
• Criminalized society
  
• Centraliztion and resale of citizens personal data - without their permission
  
• Fortunately, the inner-party elite that did this to us are about to be expelled
  

>>As a resident of the Rest Of The World...
>>What the hell is AOL?

http://www.aol.co.uk/

This is all because AOL dropped dialup service. (Could you ever get it in the UK? There must have been an equivalent.)
AOL has always offered dialup in the uk and still does but unlike most providers they didn't (at least under the AOL name) go into the subscription free make the money from the phone calls buisness.

they still offer an unlimited dialup (no phone call charges) package here in the uk but its more expensive than thier basic broadband package. http://info.aol.co.uk/dial-up/anytime-dial-up.adp? promo=228937&promoCode=228937

Callum: I'm 23, but I feel much older, and wiser. I know everything. I've seen a lot of the world.

Alex: What does the rest of the world have to tell us about how to do things? Build more trains? Have people elect their leader rather than an elite electoral college? Ride a bike to work like a girl scout or a clown with dietary concerns? No thanks, Vladimir.

In case you weren't aware, AOL does offer service in other countries.

Oh wow! Dougal from the Magic Roundabout! (Well, almost. You can see Dougal's face.)

They still focus on dial up, versus the exploading broadband arena.

That may be the case in the US, but here in the UK they're very much pushing broadband. Just look at their home page. For what it's worth, the prices quoted are competitive with other broadband services.

In the UK, AOL do offer broadband, either over DSL or over cable. http://www.aol.co.uk/broadband

Does AOL even know what AOL stands for?

Apparently not.

There really aren't very many of those people around. Well, unless you have your head stuck firmly in US soil.

Perhaps it is you who needs to get their head out of their . . .

Well anyways just look at one of these sites:

http://www.aol.co.uk/
http://www.aol.ca/
http://www.aol.de/
http://www.aol.fr/

Huh? Then what were they doing? At least here in the UK, that's pretty much all they do, and it's the main focus of all their advertising.

AIM for Palm is still free (beer). Go to the AOL UK site. It's still free there.

AIM for Palm OS is still available for free on AOL's UK site. I downloaded it today and installed it. It works, but it did not load my buddy list.

Technically correct, but still misleading. It suggests there's a new stable element heavier than Bismuth. (Yeah, chemistry/math geeks know the stable part of the periodic table is full. But most people don't. Certainly not the writers at Stargate SG-1.) How about, "Bismuth not stable; Polonium now heaviest stable element."

Please, someone explain America On-Line: France, Austrailia, Germany, UK, and all of their other world ventures. I dunno, I think it'd be a little weird for me to sign up for Germany On-Line or something, so why doesn't it bother all of AOL's foreign customers?

Then again, everyone here in the US goes gaga for anything with a French name..

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Unfortunately we cant get AOL in Europe

Perhaps not everywhere, but you can in the UK, France, and Germany at least.

-dair

AOL has no presence in Europe. Nor will it ever have one.

What about AOL UK, AOL Germany, AOL France , and AOL Sweden ?