DSL Robot
Premium
join:2000-12-23
Carson, CA
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|  reply to ROCINANTE 2112
Re: Solid proof that AOL users are idiots?
I'm not an AOL user, but isn't it possible that aol.exe could contain a virus? What's so dumb about that? What if some other program modified aol.exe?
Maybe some of the so-called "dumb" people deleted it and re-installed. Better safe then sorry.
I think it's a rotten hoax. I hope the hoaxer's systems crash big time, preferably from a virus. 
[text was edited by author 2001-06-09 10:54:11] |
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JrFreud
join:2001-03-14
Glen, NH
clubs: |  Couldn't happen to one of my more "favorite" companies. ROFLMAO.
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Anon
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I hope he gets sued. I've said it before - those of us at the top of the IT food chain benefit from AOL's 30 million in many ways. They keep up the demand for broadband or even just plain bandwidth, they have driven the usability standards in software over the last 8 years, and they keep the computer industry mainstream enough that some of us can make a living in it. Bandwidth and computer parts would not be cheap if it was just a million or so hackers buying it. Lay off them - they have their purpose. |
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radmish
Hi
join:2000-04-15
Oakland, NJ | It was on a joke site! He was joking and never claimed it was truth. The people who couldn't figure that out are at fault not for him. Since when can't you tell a joke? |
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dave
Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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said by RR Robot:
I'm not an AOL user, but isn't it possible that aol.exe could contain a virus? What's so dumb about that? What if some other program modified aol.exe?
It's dumb to follow instructions from people you don't know, without having some reason to believe that they know what they're talking about, and without being sure that they mean you no harm.
(That's how viruses spread)
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DSL Robot
Premium
join:2000-12-23
Carson, CA
| said by daveporter:
It's dumb to follow instructions from people you don't know, without having some reason to believe that they know what they're talking about, and without being sure that they mean you no harm.
(That's how viruses spread)
I agree with you, but as one of the article links mentioned, some people got the warning from people they know, like their sister or brother. So maybe somebody along the line was "idiotic", but they ended up making it look valid.
I think the hoax itself turned into a nasty virus. Again, better safe then sorry. So what if somebody deleted aol.exe and reinstalled.
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pazuzu
@home.com | reply to Anon
AOL (tried hard to avoid using 'AOHell') driving usability standards? Haha, whatever you are smoking! Ever heard of Apple Computer? |
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Anon | Never heard of them. Seriously, Apple may have invented the user-friendly interface, but they never had 30 million users who now take it for granted. AOL users by their sheer numbers now have a mountain of influence - certainly much more than we do - and this has to be influencing interface design. I was also not giving AOL credit for inventing anything, merely for mainstreaming it. If you can argue that one, go ahead. Also, if you can give me example of how any of these 30 million bottom-of-the-food-chain users are a detriment to you, let's hear that one too. |
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Netbars
join:2001-02-09
Bronx, NY
| Right on, jscott! We must not forget the 30 million paying customers who keep AIM, Winamp, and various other programs free! Go AOL, AOL users are my favorite pals! (Of course, there are other free programs out there, but the large majority of net users either a) already use AOL, see the 30 million people note as mentioned previously, or b) use the AIM program to in order to communicate with the suckers who foot the bill for AIM, aka AOL users.
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JrFreud
join:2001-03-14
Glen, NH
clubs:
| [aol2dsl]Right on, jscott! We must not forget the 30 million paying customers who keep AIM, Winamp, and various other programs free!]
Well, now that you put it that way, my best wishes to all AOL users. LOL.
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bigunk
Gort, Klattu Birada Nikto
join:2001-02-10
Santa Clarita, CA
·AT&T Yahoo
| reply to Anon
Wrong again Honey. Apple did not invent the user interface. Bob Metcalf (the guy who started 3COM) and his bean bag dwelling cohorts at Xerox PARC did it. Whether Apple stole, bought, borrowed or whatever is not in question here. As far as 30 million bottom feeders go, they are the price we pay for having access at all. I mean....someone has to believe these stupid hoaxes. Yeah, it drives our incomes, but it gets disturbing to have to deal with these know nothings as a career. |
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kleee
@net.ph | reply to radmish
It wasn't on a joke site. The joke was sent via email to his subscribers. |
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Anon | reply to Anon
Since when was any more proof needed??? Thirty Million Monkeys. Monkeys. Monkeys.
AOL user equals
minivan driver equals
Random Lane Changer (traced to fly DNA splicing) equals
jerk/twit driving while talking on the cell while changing the radio station equals
scum who slow down to 'scan for dead bodies' when there's an accident, thereby adding 10 minutes to our commute equals
bast*** who hoards the coffee creamers in his desk to take home later, leaving other coffee drinkers S.O.L. (thought I didn't know?) equals
boneheads who actually applauded that macveigh freak's execution equals
all the apes who actually voted for bush..(there were only 30 million of you right?) equals
the freaks who lie on their resumes to get jobs they're not capable of doing equals
dumbasses who buy dell and gateway PCs equals
and the extended warranty plans (hahaha) equals
the ones who actually know the NAMES and LIFE STORIES of people on friends and gideons crossing and ER.
Yeah. One in three of us is a monkey. Look on both sides of you if there is someone there and they aint monkeys welllll...... |
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RayFan
@mcs.net | reply to kleee
Yes ... sent via e-mail to subscribers to a JOKE LIST!! |
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irene
@209.194.x.x
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Ok, so the AOL users are catching all kinds of slack for this one, and on one side, I feel kinda sorry for them. But, then again, some part of me wants to just scream at people who can't catch a joke about such obvious factors as deleting your main AOL executable file -- and I might even give a few rank beginners this one, but if you don't know what aol.exe is, maybe you should sign up for a computer course before jumping on the Internet...it's much safer! -- or this line in the so-called hoax:
WARNING: KEEPING THIS FILE ON THE SYSTEM AFTER JUNE 8 WILL COST YOU $2.90 MORE PER MONTH!
FAILURE TO REMOVE THIS FILE WILL KEEP YOUR "UPPER MEMORY MANAGEMENT" MODULE OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ OVER 85) BLOCKED. DELETING AOL.EXE WILL FREE YOUR IQ TO GO ABOVE 85!!!
DELETING THIS FILE WILL ALLOW YOU TO SPELL CORRECTLY AND USE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROPERLY.
Ok, tell me now this isn't an obvious joke.... I'll forgive a few users a lack of computer-saavy, but for cryin out loud! READ an e-mail before you panic...if it's a joke or a hoax, it will give itself away. I can't feel sorry for people who failed to read this line and decided to screw up their own ISP connection. |
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