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I must admit that my opinion of Bill Gates went up a bit when I read an article a while ago about his mathematical solution to the "pancake sorting" problem: https://www.aol.com/article/20...

I hate to say it but this article reads like a PR/awareness campaign from some environmental group.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with the need to recycle, and the fact that bottled water is a ripoff, but there is no consumer backlash, and no crisis. But the article doesnt add any factual information and I cant see any content about the consumer view of plastic. These problems have been growing slowly for years, and most consumers have just gone with the flow.

Oh look - whats this? https://www.aol.com/2011/02/03...

About a year ago, California governor channeled his inner Westboro-church pastor and warned Trump of "Divine Wrath":

How funny is it, then, that it is his own State — which hates Trump by an overwhelming majority — that's suffering the most of this wrath?

And yet all the neo-nazi's voted for Trump instead of their own Nazi party candidate. And lets not forget:

https://www.aol.com/article/20...

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-...

So, this begs the question about your statement: Are you a fucking idiot, a fucking liar, or both?

People have been killed http://www.businessinsider.com... or had their house set on fire https://www.aol.com/2011/11/03... for unfriending somebody. Dislike at your own risk.

> But just like reading no lower than 2 on Slashdot, I can
> unfollow friends on Facebook and no one gets booboo feelings.

Are you *SURE* they won't get upset? https://modenook.com/facebook-...

> In nearby Mountain City, Tennessee, a couple is dead because they
> unfriended the wrong person. A woman's father murdered the couple,
> leaving their infant alive in the mother's arms, because they unfriended his
> daughter on Facebook. You can read about that story here on The Tennessean.

https://www.aol.com/2011/11/03...

> Police in Des Moines, Iowa, have arrested 30-year-old Jennifer Christine
> Harris (pictured left) for allegedly setting her neighbor's house on
> fire, according to the Des Moines Register. The suspected motive?
> Retribution for being "de-friended" on the popular social networking site.

I agree with Mark Zuckerberg on one thing. Facebook users are indeed dumb fucks.

it was down at 1 AM EST - and never to return again.

"Received unexpected response from https://api.screenname.aol.com...: Invalid DevId"

Anyone with an @aim address can continue using that email address: https://help.aol.com/articles/...

SSN's were intended to be unique to a person, but they aren't. A duplicate can occurs due to error. Adding DOB will certainly reduce the likelihood but it can't eliminate it.

Oh, it doesn't work the other way round either - some people have been assigned more than one.

https://www.computerworld.com/...

https://www.aol.com/2010/08/12...

That analysis has been questioned by several. In fact the nation that did a story on it is now reviewing their own story for accuracy. There are just too many unknowns and holes in their report. https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] https://www.techdirt.com/artic... [techdirt.com] https://www.aol.com/article/ne... [aol.com] http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... [thehill.com]

That analysis has been questioned by several. In fact the nation that did a story on it is now reviewing their own story for accuracy. There are just too many unknowns and holes in their report. https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] https://www.techdirt.com/artic... [techdirt.com] https://www.aol.com/article/ne... [aol.com] http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... [thehill.com]

That analysis has been questioned by several. In fact the nation that did a story on it is now reviewing their own story for accuracy. There are just too many unknowns and holes in their report. https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] https://www.techdirt.com/artic... [techdirt.com] https://www.aol.com/article/ne... [aol.com] http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... [thehill.com]

That analysis has been questioned by several. In fact the nation that did a story on it is now reviewing their own story for accuracy. There are just too many unknowns and holes in their report. https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] https://www.techdirt.com/artic... [techdirt.com] https://www.aol.com/article/ne... [aol.com] http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... [thehill.com]

That analysis has been questioned by several. In fact the nation that did a story on it is now reviewing their own story for accuracy. There are just too many unknowns and holes in their report. https://www.washingtonpost.com... https://www.techdirt.com/artic... https://www.aol.com/article/ne... http://thehill.com/policy/cybe...

I know that if I donated my blood thinking it was going to save a life, and it was instead sold for profit, I'd be a little disturbed.

Do you honestly think blood isn't already sold for profit to hospitals?

Hmm, let's see... recent terror attacks in the west:
Salman Ramadan Abedi (British)
Anis Amri (Tunisian)
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel (Tunisian)

- and yet neither Britain nor Tunisia were on Trump's proposed travel restriction list.

Meanwhile, in the USA, domestic terrorism is alive and well.

(Note, this isn't a political point. All this was going on before Trump. But the idea that simply keeping out people from a few countries, apparently hand-picked for their non-involvement with violence to date, will do anything to help is just bizarre.)

DONALD TRUMP'S LATEST APPROVAL RATING PLUNGES AS WHITE MALE SUPPORTERS FLEE THE PRESIDENT

Come again?

Where is this up 10%?

Where?

I'd ask for a citation for your claim, but I'll be honest, you seem to be spreading out some codswallop.

Funny how you are neglecting the significant increase in reported hate crimes. There have been over 260 reported since election day, 109 specifically mentioned trump or his policies during the commission of the crime.

Well, you could just Google this (unless you'd rather have your own facts).
http://fortune.com/2017/01/27/...
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-...
https://www.aol.com/article/ne...

Actually it was Hillary Clinton's infamy and unfitness for office that elected Donald Trump, in a close contest of infamy and poor fit for the job.

Well, you're right it was close, but don't tell Trump. He thinks he won HUGELY! HUGELY! He's still convinced it was the biggest ass-kicking in electoral history.

It isn't. So maybe you should call Trump up and tell him.

Trump outperformed Romney in non-whites across the board.

It's still being argued, but a 2 percent gain? Color me unimpressed.

Dems could have run just about anyone but Clinton and taken the office. But no.

A hypothetical we can't test, like it or not.

I think not and you can look about. The latter says 8% of urban americans did not have access to 3/25 as of 2015.

A better analogy would be the US retroactively eliminating deductions (standard or itemized) retroactively and asking you for back taxes and interest.

The US already did something like that, several times:

* In August 1993, President Clinton signed a law raising tax rates on high-income earners and estates. The new rates applied back to the beginning of 1993, and although disgruntled taxpayers went to federal court seeking to have the retroactive application of the rules invalidated, those arguments proved fruitless.

* In 1987, Congress passed laws retroactively repealing an estate-tax provision, a repeal which cost one taxpayer $2.5 million. The Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers have no right to rely on tax legislation being permanent, with the majority arguing that as long as lawmakers act with "a legitimate legislative purpose," retroactive application is constitutional. Even though one Supreme Court justice argued that the government had used "bait and switch taxation," he nevertheless concurred with the unanimous holding of the Court.

* A 1976 tax-law change affected homeowners' ability to shelter capital gains from the sale of a home from taxation. One homeowner took advantage of rules that allowed half of all gains to be free of tax, but six months later, President Ford signed a law retroactively limiting the taxable amount. Just as it did more than a decade later, the Supreme Court upheld the law as being constitutional.

Disney's parent owns Vice Media. Domestic propaganda is legal in the USA again. The rich and powerful people are spending time and money manufacturing consent on sites just like this. Meanwhile, the US government is literally sending supplies to ISIS under our noses. I wonder why this piece is coming out of vice right now.

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

- David Rockefeller's[p]urported remarks at a Bilderberg Group meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany in June 1991, The remarks are said to have been printed in several right-wing French publications shortly thereafter; as quoted in Programming, Pitfalls and Puppy-Dog Tales (1993) by Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, p. 65. Skepticism is in order for the accuracy or attribution of alleged remarks from these exclusive meetings, particularly those which could be manifestations of either satire, sarcasm — or outright fraudulence.

US ticket sales have been declining for years, masked by increasing ticket prices. Revenue is expected to soon turn south as well, as the home theatre experience continues to improve relative to cost. World wide theatre ticket revenue is still increasing, especially in China, but for how long?

Shhh... Your ruining his narrative.

Grow some balls and stand up for your rights, like these guys:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08...
http://blogs.lawyers.com/2013/...

AOL was a dial-up ISP and died because of broadband.

I would love to be as dead as AOL is. Just because a companies original primary business dried up doesn't mean they didn't survive or thrive. The ability to adapt has served them well despite what the 3lit3 h@x0rs think about them.

As for Facebook they look to be dipping their toes into every new trend on the horizon just to cover their bases. Whether they can stay relevant or not remains to be seen.

If y'all would RTFM, then you would find the information readily available.

In short: You can use their application, or you can use IMAP or POP3 if you want.

Attachment limit is 25MB, and they say storage is "unlimited".

The major concerns would be.... (1) They are free, but ad-supported, so will you get spammed?, And (2) Will the service still be available and free under substantially similar terms using the same internet domain, a few years from now?

In other words.... basically the same concerns one should have using the free Gmail service.

Replying as AC because I've already spent quite a few mod-points on this thread. My actual username is NicBenjamin.

It's actually quite difficult to win a race or gender discrimination suit. The salad days of the 70s, when you could have your statistician play with the numbers until there was only a 4% chance of you not being hired/promoted/etc. due to your race ended when Nixon started appointing segregationists to the Supreme Court. Same with gender.

Since Jurors have much more sympathy with people who look and act like them, white suburbanites frequently win suits:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08...
http://www.diversityinc.com/le...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

Tesla's keyless design seems to work well enough so far.

Tesla owners are some of the most satisfied car owners in America, and now they have one more reason to love their Model S: They basically never get stolen.

In the last three years just four of the luxury electric cars have been stolen, MarketWatch reported. Three were reported stolen last year, none in 2012 and only one was stolen in 2011.

It's not like they are too rare for thieves to get their hands on. At least 20,000 were sold last year alone. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says cars are stolen at an average rate of about 3.56 thefts per 1,000 vehicles produced. The Model S, however, squeaks by with a 0.15 per 1,000 theft rate, making it the least-stolen vehicle in America. The second-lowest theft rate is that of the Hyundai Tucson, with 0.40 thefts per 1,000 vehicles, according to the Highway Data Loss Institute.

All that technology makes the Tesla tempting, but ultimately too difficult to steal. The Model S doesn't have any locks to pick, since the car opens and starts only when its corresponding key fob is near. Sure a thief could go to the trouble of hacking the car, but once they had it there isn't much they could do with it. Most cars are stolen and parted out in chop shops, and there simply isn't a market for additional Tesla parts.

http://autos.aol.com/article/o...

Here's one. And there are plenty more out there. The Clackamas mall shooting was one. The US media doesn't cover them as much, because the body counts tend to be low, and they don't fit the narrative of "guns are evil".

It's not a good idea to lie in such absolute terms, when the internet can so easily prove you wrong.

Re Netscape:

What the hell? Dude, Netscape's been dead for 6 years. The browser is completely unmaintained and everything past 7.2 was a crappy respin of Firefox anyway. All that's left of the brand is a crappy web portal: http://netscape.aol.com/

I liked it, too. I used Netscape 7.2 long past its sell-by date. But why would you possibly be using Netscape in 2014?

AOL's e-mail access is completely free. Most people either aren't aware of this, or think the paid plans offer something of value (they're pretty vague, so people think it's more than just an overpriced subscription to McAfee, etc)

While some might run away in horror at the mention of the name AOL Reader, which has been around for a while now.. is pretty great.

It was recently updated and the ad bar was removed, the software is much quicker and with the fact it is not an independent business project like Feedly, or Inoreader.. there is no upselling!

I tried feedly, it was pushing the upsell too hard and the product didn't feel very useful in its 'free' state... ( https://feedly.com/ )

I tried Inoreader and its free product was much better than the feedly one, but its interface felt slow and clunky compared to what I wanted ( http://www.inoreader.com/ )

I tried DIGG Reader but it was so minimal and featureless that I barely went a week of using it before moving on ( http://digg.com/reader )

I also used TinyTinyRSS locally for a good 6 months and while it is quite good, and the only data I'm revealing to others is that i fetched their feed..maintaining the thing is something of a pain that never comes up with other places. ( http://tt-rss.org/redmine/proj... )

As of right now I am back to using AOL Reader as my main RSS feed reader... It is fast, the design is good enough for me.. no upselling ...the feature set is just enough to allow me to do what I did on google reader, and not overload.. and they seem to be actively working on making it better ( https://reader.aol.com/ )

As for women, there's a lot more evidence that HR departments do discriminate

Which is ironic given that almost 60% of HR staff are women, apparently. Maybe HR companies should start hiring more men to bring a male perspective and lived experience to these roles?

http://autos.aol.com/article/A...

The average American doesn't even spent $30,000 on a car, so the price range of these new vehicles is still in the realm of the rich for toys and games.

The average price of a new car in America is $31,252.

Averages can be misleading

average incomes:
welder - 32K
plumber - 26k
electrician - 39K
software - 71k
software engineer - 90k
electrical engineer - 83k
civil engineer - 78k
social scientist - 86k

I think some of those numbers are too low. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says 2012 median pay is:
welder - 36K
plumber - 49K
electrician - 50K

I know median isn't the same as average, but this article says plumbers average $51,500, and this one says $52,950. Also, I think a small part of this is due to work location. Obviously not all of it, but every podunk town in the country has welders, plumbers, and electricians, but engineers and social scientists are much more concentrated in cities with higher costs of living. If you look at San Jose, CA, the median plumber salary ($79K) is 60% higher than the national median (see USNews link above), but the mean electrical engineer salary ($121K) is only 30% higher than the national mean.

I'm an engineer, but some of the most rewarding work I've done was at a research lab where I did all kinds of trade-like stuff, like cutting and hanging electrical conduit and pressurized gas lines, a bit of simple PVC water plumbing (replacing a leaky valve here and there), and a bit of carpentry, building test stands and partition walls with metal studs and drywall. We had all manual pipe cutters, threaders, and reamers/deburring tools, too, which are more physically demanding but way more satisfying to use than the automatic stuff. There were the also simple painting or cleaning tasks, too, but that more fun stuff is what I remember most clearly.

Posts like this is why I don't bother with Slashdot anymore. HuffPo seems fair and balanced compared to the tripe that gets greenlit.

Ah yes HuffPro, before my New HDTV it was the only place I can get a TV listing for this area. http://tvlistings.aol.com/

I remember the ad, and quite some time later the reality.
The Volvo(s) had help.
From a quick google search:
1971 Volvo print ad emphasizing roof strength. Called "Stacking," the ad showed six Volvo 144s stacked atop a seventh. They were real Volvos, but the impressive stack had help. Each of the six stacked cars rested in a wooden cradle that evenly distributed its weight across the top of the car immediately beneath--and also helped keep the stack from toppling over and ruining some hapless photographer‘s day.
http://autos.aol.com/article/s...

Walmart? The retail chain that pays its employees such a low wage that they can't even afford to shop at Walmart, and deliberately cuts back on their employees' hours to avoid having to pay benefits? *this* is the company you hold up as the model of how to run a business?

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2...

If Walmart is a paragon, what the hell does that make Costco?

The great recession of 2009 became the justification of many companies to lay off workers despite healthy revenue and increasing profits. While this may contribute to the GDP, it doesn't do much for employment.

I believe there are companies that are using the excuse of the Affordable Care Act to lower benefits and thus save costs. If AOL hadn't used the excuse of the AFA then it would have been some other excuse. I don't suppose anyone saw the interview withe AOL CEO? Jeez that was an aweful looking work environment. There must have been a thousand people all sitting in from of keyboards on row after row of very long tables. The only interaction a person seems to have are to the person left or right of themself. I also noticed nearly everyone seemed to have their lunch in front of them (evidenced by take-out bags, a dish etc in view). Many tech workers any more are being asked to work like senseless drones at their jobs. I don't know where AOL employee satisfaction ranks but I see that AOL is NOT listed in the top 100 companies to work for in 2014: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2...

It's only Southern California that is normally dry and lacking on fresh water -- Northern California has lakes, rivers and springs all over the place providing fresh water to residents/businesses. We've just been in a drought for the past year or two, as shown in the satellite images of the Sierra snowpack on the same day in January 2013 & 2014.

Beyond the drought, our problem is twofold... We have to share the water with the Central Valley farms (which IIRC now raise water-intensive crops that sell well, rather than drought-tolerant ones) & heavily-populated/theme-park-filled SoCal, which sucks a *lot* of water. Also, greed among local politicians, landowners & developers over the past decade has led to a huge boom in residential, business & vineyard development, so we go through reserves during dry periods *much* faster than we used to.

Just today, I sent some mail and got :

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[CENSORED]@aol.com>
      (reason: 521 5.2.1 : (CON:B1) http://postmaster.info.aol.com...)
<[CENSORED]@aol.com>
      (reason: 521 5.2.1 : (CON:B1) http://postmaster.info.aol.com...)

Too bad AOL seems to have taken those URLs down. A quick hop to archive.org told me that my ISP's been blocked for sending spam ... oh, joy.

Just today, I sent some mail and got :

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[CENSORED]@aol.com>
      (reason: 521 5.2.1 : (CON:B1) http://postmaster.info.aol.com...)
<[CENSORED]@aol.com>
      (reason: 521 5.2.1 : (CON:B1) http://postmaster.info.aol.com...)

Too bad AOL seems to have taken those URLs down. A quick hop to archive.org told me that my ISP's been blocked for sending spam ... oh, joy.

AOL has unlimited dialup service and is available in your area so stop you whining.

Try the cats stealing dog beds

http://on.aol.com/partner/mashed-postatoes-517308467/videoId=517969967?icid=search_results_click

For those not curious, here's a video of cats knocking shit over.

I don't see this monopoly (virtual or otherwise) in search that you are talking about. Care to provide examples?

In that case, allow me.
This is just a small sample of how wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong and hella wrong you are.

That list is far from complete, and is mostly USA-centric. In other countries, not only are there more search providers, but Google does not even rank in the top lists. Or just look at China, where Google is made fun of similar to AOL is in the US today.

If that is what you label a monopoly, I really want to know what you call companies like Microsoft regarding desktop operating systems - or the phone company - or patents/copyrights for that matter.

Agreed, it doesn't fit any of the description of the banned displays.

Back up cameras / displays do fit.

Seems california legislatures are for killing kids. http://autos.aol.com/article/back-up-cameras-law/

Can you watch Netflix on Google Glass? As for backup cameras, those in dash screens specifically do not broadcast video, other than the cameras precisely because of the law. California is not alone in this type of legislation.