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Some people argue that AOL means Time Warner. Time Warmer staff has to eat snakes on a plane and fried worms. Those who think it was funny may stay. Lord of the Rings was a recent Time Warner success. So our Lords of the ringtones think it makes sense to provide AOL's special features for FREEEEEEE. It will end up like this. Citizens will get paid by AOL for testing spyware, watching advertisement and the resurrection of Harry Potter.

I interpretted this press release as follows.

We're giving away some of our services that you've enjoyed for years for free... to everyone who isn't currently an AOL customer! AOL customers will continue to pay $25.90/month for these features plus basic dial-up!

you don't need to call, you can go here.

there is no program to be discontinued, it's an entire change in the business model.

Been using AOL for 10+ years. Even after broadband it was very useful for email and the occasional dial-up access (.10/minute). Having said that I just completed the below transaction.

1) Dial : 8008276364 Don't press or say anything until a live person answers.
2) When operator answers Explain that you are have broadband and do not need to use AOL.
3) You will be offered AOL free of charge. This is for the AOL with DSL or Cable only. Dial-up (including 1-800 surgcharge number) is not free.

Two caveats :
1) No Live Tech Support (go to http://help.aol.com/ for tech information)
2) No Customer Service (it's free now, what would you need?)

If the above 2 points are important to you, ask for the 4.95/month option.

AOL has already started expanding on this ad-based model and has beaten Yahoo in the media game. They are working with Mark Burnett in a reality adventure show that is hosted at http://www.aol.com/goldrush

They already have some decent publicity for this show based on the marquee production company working on it. Whether this is going to be the future of television is still for the jury to decide

AOL is perfectly aware of how bad their rep is. That's why everything they do now is branded 'AIM'. Like OpenAim to allow third parties to make AIM clients, and AIMPages, their new blogging software. They also have AIM mail accounts on the AOL Webmail system, which uses the same spam filter and storage system (which may have been lame in 2002, but now is a leader in features and capability) as the in-client AOL mail service.

Of course, they tried to do this with Netscape (as their answer to NetZero) too, and failed to support it properly, and it never prospered. Hopefully, now that it's do or die, they won't fail to rebrand again.

The only game that ever came close to making me cry was the alternate ending in Riven, where you trap Gehn but fail to rescue Catherine. See http://members.aol.com/jamesstep2/hints/endings/en dings2.html

More detailed New York Times article from a few weeks ago with an interview with Bill Lawrence.

True. After all, we all know that Alabama is working on getting The Bomb.

Wow, what a weird coincedence! I just stumbled on this article today about certain people's predisposition to be a victim of a mosquito attack vs. someone who never manages to get attacked. Some interesting stuff. Seems that you are more likely to get attacked if you are exuding higher levels of colestoral, uric acid or expelling me C2. BTW, I am not a fan of AOL, I just play one on TV. http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/Article /90/100719.htm?pagenumber=1

Funny you should mention that...

I know this is way off-topic, but I had to post this quote from the article you pointed to:

The switch from gunshots to injections is a sign that China "promotes human rights now," says Kang Zhongwen, who designed the Jinguan Automobile death van in which "Devil" Zhang took his final ride.

This is just one of the most outrageous piece of hypocrisy I have read in a long time. All this really does is hide the killing from the rest of the population. The guy ends up just as died and since shooting people is generally cheaper (we must always keep a close eye on the economy, right?) then the reasons for killing people with injections instead of just shooting them is to make it more discrete.

So, Why not just shoot them in the "death van" and save money?

A Blu-Ray burner is like the ferrari of the tech world, and you're complaining about a lack of cupholders.

Here, now it's a cupholder too.

(Explanation here).

Funny you should mention that...

Ok, done talking to myself now.

More various astromovies:

Lunar Transit by the International Space Station Alpha: http://members.aol.com/mrtsp91/iss.htm

Meteor explodes in Earth's atmosphere:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981123.html

A Martian dust devil passes rover Spirit:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050426.html

Fast moving stars orbiting black hole SgrA* in the Milky Way's center:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001220.html
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2002/vide o/vid-02-02.mpg

Dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/movies. html

Cat's Eye nebula expanding:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990916.html

Variable stars "twinkling" in globular cluster M3 over a single night:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041012.html

Shock wave of supernova SN1987A creates hot spots in surrounding material:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/ releases/2004/09/video/a

To find more videos try searching NASA's astronomy picture of the day archive: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_sear ch

I *heart* astronomy :]
Me too.

"There is no comparable threat to Iran (yeah, you might say the US, but the only thing Iran has to worry about from the US is caused directly by their nuclear weapon ambitions in the first place)."

Yeah, right. Tell that to Saddam Hussein.

I'm not going to bother digging out the links, but take a few minutes to google "petrodollar" and "petroeuro" and read up on it. Notice what happens to countries that consider selling oil for something other than dollars. Iraq--invasion on trumped up charges. Venezuela--attempted coup with US backing. Iran?

"the US maintains its stockpiles of nuclear weapons solely to serve as a deterrent against other nations, while Iran's leadership has publicly and repeatedly declared that Israel should not exist as a state and has funded terrorist acts in order to remove it - it may very well use nuclear weapons in a first-strike effort against Israel [...]"

Oh, "we've got that bomb and that is good 'cause we love peace and motherhood?"

Iran's Ayatollah Khameini has explicitly stated that using nuclear weapons is against Islamic rules. Believe him or not, but remember that the US has explicitly stated that "all options are on the table" and has not explicitly ruled out a nuclear first strike.

Well, one good thing, though. The United States of America has never funded terrorists. We fund "freedom fighters." Big difference.

"And for a third, Iran's government maintains a stranglehold over its people - the people are fairly Westernized as the region goes, and they are interested in legitimate democracy. [...] Finally, the stability of the US government is much greater than that of Iran. The chances of Iran's government collapsing at some point in the future, relegating their nuclear weapons to whoever can get their hands on them first, are significant."

Okay, okay. Now I'm a bit confused.

The reason the current leaders of Iran are in power is because of their stranglehold over their citizens. If it were up to their citizens, they'd throw the bums out and have a legitimate democracy. So, in other words, the biggest threat to "stability" in Iran is...the forces of democracy? And these people might get ahold of nuclear weapons?

I agree with you. To me, a machine has to have a minimal level of intelligence - the ability to choose between a number of alternative behaviours or activities based on its own assessment of the situation. For example, Jay Francis' Dinobot would qualify.

AOL's UnCut Video? It launched a few weeks ago

http://communityvideo.aol.com/Main.do/

I haven't been to LA in years, but Toronto is certainly starting to remind me of Blade Runner's LA.

I remember seeing this in the 80s and thinking the cars were absurdly round and bulbous, and now here we are in 2006, and I think 13 years is more than enough to turn this into this.

That sounds a hell of a lot like the browser that gets installed with the new version of AIM. During install I tried telling it not to install the browser but it did anyway, was amazingly slow and had lots of pop ups. It sounds pretty similar to this worm.

What? Then please explain the following:
http://television.aol.com/in2tv/
http://www.movielink.com/
http://www.vongo.com/

Won't somebody think of the children?
Won't somebody think of the children???

Fitzpatrick and fellow Republicans, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, on Wednesday endorsed new legislation that would cordon off access to commercial Web sites that let users create public "Web pages or profiles" and also offer a discussion board, chat room, or e-mail service.

• PhysOrg Forum
  
• SparkNotes Math & Science Message Boards
  
• StudentDoc Medical Message Board
  
• AOL Domestic Abuse Support Message Board
  
• Scarleteen Sexual Abuse Support Message Board
  
• Etc...etc...etc...
  

We've all heard stories of children on some of these social websites meeting up with dangerous predators.

I attended the TCO 2006 finals as a spectator, because TopCoder does attract some really great talent and therefore makes for good recruiting and good entertainment. The talent pool does skew toward non-US and early 20s developers, because as you say, people who already have good programming jobs don't have the time or the real need to put in the hours of practice required to compete at these levels.

But TopCoder is still a lot of fun. I gave it a shot - if you just look at it as a fun way to compete in a field in which you have skill, and not as some reflection on your overall talent level - you can have a good time.

Even being a spectator in the finals - being able to watch the top competitors attack some hard problems in real-time - was an exciting experience.

More thoughts on TCO 2006: http://journals.aol.com/juberti/runningman/
Photos from the TCO 2006 finals: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juberti/sets/72057594 129668120/

If you mean:

http://www.nonluoghi.net/Bicicrazia/bici.pdf

It seems to've been done in OpenOffice.

That said, it's unfortunate that Scribus hasn't followed InDesign and made use of TeX's H&J algorithm.

For those who're curious, I've a similar .pdf up in the TeX Showcase, Okakura Kajuzo's _The Book of Tea_ which shows how nicely TeX can a compose page.

http://members.aol.com/willadams/portfolio/typogra phy/thebookoftea.pdf

Serif used to be done in TeX and _The Free Software Magazine_ is, as is of course TUGboat.

William

AOL user's actual IPs do not change mid-session, but the web proxy server that is making requests on behalf of the user changes all the time; my server logs even show certain objects on a single page for the same user are requested by different cache-*.aol.com servers.

Lots of info about that is here.. including the proxy IP list, etc... http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html they say specfically "When a member requests multiple documents for multiple URLs, each request may come from a different proxy server. Since one proxy server can have multiple members going to one site, webmasters should not make assumptions about the relationship between members and proxy servers when designing their web site."

Quite a few people believe it is our duty to support our President, even if he's a lying, cheating, murdering, egg-sucking, goose-fucking prick(*)

(*) Some exceptions may apply

-

There are various wind farms being opposed in Vermont, the most currently notable of which is proposed for a former radar base on top of a remote mountain which already has a road up it to the base. In more populous parts of the state (which is the most rural in population distribution of any state), a totally assinine outfit calling itself the Glebe Mountain Group had been running seriously dishonest advertisements in all the local papers claiming that due to energy credits wind power generation just enables more coal generation elsewhere, so is bad for the environment. They also lie and claim that intermittency means that wind has no real effect in reducing generation needs from other sources. They'll say anything, and their refrain is always that they're revealing the "facts" the the evil, "corporate" people are hiding - totally perverse considering these idiots almost entirely consist of retired corporate hacks and their various whores.

Meanwhile, Vermont is getting most of its energy from a vibrating nuclear plant and Hydro Quebec dams, which have flooded large areas of Native American land and release massive amounts of mercury from the flooded soils. Yeah, fucking Vermont, home of ... well, me.

...to the point that I don't even see why we have a news story. What's next? "Nintendo thinks that fun games are useful". "Microsoft thought it would help to get a head start". "The Sky is blue, but only if you write your game that way".

To counter this non-news news, Nintendo fanobys (especially those eager for the Revolution) might want to check out AOL's sweepstakes page. A contest, starting today and ending on the 28th, gives one lucky winner a three day visit to CA, passes to E3, and to be the first commoner to play the actual Revolution.

Did I mention you'd play it in front of an audience of thousands? Unfortunatly, only one entry per person. :(

There already is a service that allows you to use keywords instead of URLs.

http://www.aol.com/

Enjoy!

Actually, it looks like you can get a $15/month plan if you have DSL/cable/etc. already. They used to call it a "bring your own connection" plan, but they seem to have lumped it in with a 10-hours-of-dialup plan

$26/month seems to be their AOL-and-a-connection pricing, whether it's DSL or dial-up.

Actually, it looks like you can get a $15/month plan if you have DSL/cable/etc. already. They used to call it a "bring your own connection" plan, but they seem to have lumped it in with a 10-hours-of-dialup plan

$26/month seems to be their AOL-and-a-connection pricing, whether it's DSL or dial-up.

http://hometown.aol.com/prismaticecho/Homepage.htm l

lol... yum.

Here's a couple of websites that could help you out in the pursuit of managementspeak --> http://members.aol.com/matt999h/bullshit.htm and http://www.ebaumsworld.com/officespace.html. I don't mind folks using terminology for more efficient communication between true peers. But the clueless PHB's that employ the art of B.S. to mask their own incompetence is sadly typical and far too common.

Couple of weeks ago the In2TV service was launched. There was a couple of shows that I really wanted to see but unfortunately I and some other users noticed it works in the US only (we were unsuccessful to fool the IP verification when the licence server need to authenticate the content that gets downloaded via the Hi-Q P2P client, any tip by the slashdot audience? my thought was to use a US based proxy when I'm about to play the content but I've tried many without any success). The issue is raised here http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.ph p?boardId=560716&articleId=48&func=6&channel=Commu nity+Member+Forum&filterRead=false&filterHidden=tr ue&filterUnhidden=false.
Are there any more details if this service too will be US only?

Meh. My trusty Radio Shack Robie Sr. has been fetching my beer (well, cokes, when I was younger) for twenty years. His cassette player (on which programs are stored) is getting a little rusty though.

I also agree that there is a strong but changing historical precedent for men treating women as property. And I agree that some of the behavior described in the OT reflects the view that women are property.

I would however want to make a careful distinction between descriptions and norms, as indicated above. The Bible was written in the context of certain cultures, but does not endorse every attitude within those cultures.

The most interesting case in point is that of polygamy. On the one hand, polygamy is treated as a deviation from the "one-flesh" notion of marriage; on the other, it is regulated (Ex. 21:10) but not prohibited, except indirectly through the commands against adultery and coveting (i.e., how does one get a second wife? By lusting after another woman while married, a clearly prohibited activity). It might even be commanded in the case of "Levirate marriage" (Deut. 25:7 - 10), although the command might be "void where prohibited by law", so to speak.

Putting the two hands together, God does not seem to have been in a hurry to stamp out polygamy *even though* it would have been a natural parallel to the polytheistic practices so richly condemned in the OT. Go figure.

By the time we get to the NT, the situation is clearer -- yet some of the commands of Paul seem to leave a small window of possibility for polygamy even still. Titus 1:6 commands that a pastor is to be "the husband of but one wife" (mias gunaikos anhr). Does that leave the back door open for a non-elder to be a "dua gunaikos anhr"? Doubtful, but weird.

Bottom line: piecing together the intended relationships between men and women out of the Scriptures is very tricky, perhaps because it doesn't seem to have been quite the same obsession as it is with us today. For a laugh, read this on polygamy.

What do I need to convince you of, that you really haven't studied religion and it is apparent?

you can't convince me. because I don't believe there is a god, not in any western religious way.

this world seems FAR too chaotic for there to be ANY kind of supreme controller. what do you have to offer that negates that?

religious appologists always turn the argument around saying 'god is beyond proof, you can't prove him'. or 'he hides'. or 'he won't play your stupid science test games'. all just 'interference' with the actual issue - that it can't be proven (and also can't be dis-proven, as well).

I'll refer you to 'bible errancy' and let you have a good read of that. come back when you can refuse THOSE arguments (they're deep and numerous - should keep you out of trouble for a while) ;)

http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/ (bible errancy link)

I'm surprised to find out there even is a 6th largest RPG company...

I thought after the first few it was pretty much guys self-publishing their home game campaigns, unlike the good old 80's when variety thrived.

True. That said, AOL and Time Warner still maintain their corporate connections.

Copied straight from the first paragraph of http://www.corp.aol.com/whoweare/index.shtml:

"America Online, Inc., a division of Time Warner Inc., is a leader in interactive services."

To paraphrase the great bard, "A pile of crap by any other name would smell as bad."

I work for a financial services company who has a clients who are supposed to receive emails from us related to trades. Since I manage our web presence, email deliverability is also my problem.

Here are the places to start:

Free Certification
AOL: http://postmaster.aol.com/whitelist/
Yahoo: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmai l
Verizon: http://www2.verizon.net/micro/whitelist/request_fo rm.asp?id=isp

Reporting
Spamcop: http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=ispsignupform
Hotmail: http://postmaster.msn.com/snds/
Senderbase: http://www.senderbase.org/

Email Signing
SPF: http://www.openspf.org/
DomainKeys: http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/

Paid Certification
Bonded Sender: http://www.bondedsender.com/
Habeas: http://www.habeas.com/
Goodmail: http://www.goodmailsystems.com/

A lot of providers outside the US have many of their own rules and regulations to follow, which makes it quite difficult to achieve deliverability. At the end of the day, we try to follow all the rules that have been laid out from existing companies and then deal with individual providers on a needs basis. The more users that use that ISP, the more we are willing to obey their individual rules.

Unfortunately, I see paid certification becoming the way of the future. If I can pay to guarantee to have my clients email delivered rather then negotiate with ISPs every other week based on their varying criteria, I'm pretty sure my company will pay for it. I don't like it, but results are the bottom line.

It's the error received after one installs the Mozilla plug-in and then uses the Hi-Q VIDEO link (and IE doesn't auto open for you) that send you to this ugly url.

http://kontikiapp.stream.aol.com/zodiac/servlet/zo diac/template/pub%2Cinstall%2CGetIt.vm/moid/8cba9b d2-9d32-efcc-f56d-ebd94262dafa/m/d7a28aad-1f36-e5c f-8b0e-76a7412d3034/s/kdx/kget/urn:kid:aol_hqv:aol _hiq:moid:8cba9bd2-9d32-efcc-f56d-ebd94262dafa here

The actual message he sees (in case you don't) is http://cdn.digitalcity.com/_media/hiqvideo/error.g if that does indeed mention that 64-bit is not included in support.

Well, their streaming server is running Red Hat, so, uh, yeah...

I had the same problem until I went here http://hiqvideo.aol.com/ and installed the HiQ plugin.

Here http://television.aol.com/in2tv

Here http://television.aol.com/in2tv

• Operating System: Windows® XP, 32 bit or 64 bit
• Media Player: Windows® Media Player version 10.0 get it HERE!
• Web Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Netscape® 7.2 and 8.0+, Firefox® 1.0.7+
• An Internet connection
• Macromedia® Flash Player 8. Get it HERE!
• In2TV video is only licensed for viewing in the United States.

We're sorry, this feature requires the Mozilla ActiveX Plugin. Click here to install.

All I got was a big error message telling me I needed XP (not 64bit), Internet Explorer 6.0 and Media Player 10.0

I hadn't seen anything about that until having a really close look, but if you go here:

http://television.aol.com/in2tv/heroes_horror_tv?d efaultLevel=0&defaultItem=0

And click on the "HI-Q Video" link in the spotlite, it brings up the error page.

Its only after this (in Internet explorer) that it asks about an ActiveX control.
I believe however the FLASH console hosts the expected ActiveX and thats what is telling you its needed.
(Standard missing plugins are the green jigsaw pieces usually...)

If 100% of Latin America were Christian (which it is not) that would still only make up 25% of the total population of Christians world-wide.

South America: 25%
Europe: 23%
Africa: 18%
Russia: 6%
Asia: 14%
North America: 13%
Oceania: 1%

[Catholics] then grew into the largest denomination in the United States, now numbering 52 million, nearly one-fourth of the country's population. Most recently the American church has even begun to wear a Third World face: Hispanics now comprise 25 to 30 percent of American Catholics.

They knew iraq wanted to invade, they told them, they asked them

" can we invade ? its really ours, kuwait is stealing our oil "

and usa lady APril said, "sure we have no interests, we dont care"

http://members.aol.com/bblum6/iraq2.htm

25 July: Saddam Hussein was personally told by the US
ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, in a now-famous remark, that
"We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border
disagreement with Kuwait." But she then went on to tell the
Iraqi leader that she was concerned about his massive troop
deployment on the Kuwaiti border in the context of his
government's having branded Kuwait's actions as "parallel to
military aggression".{11}

Transcript here - http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.h tml

Photo here - http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/8/8a /Saddam_anf_April_.jpg

Shes recently retired, but will not speak against her department or the govt. Basicly a suck-up.

So the real people behind the so called bad CIA decisions are the people in power, James Baker, Bush, and
good old Rumfseld and the rest of the NEOCONS.