I guess my problem is that if he's that sick/disabled, why does he have unsupervised access to the internet, a dangerous place for naive people? And yes, I guess this goes for children and teens, too.
I voted, but not for Obama or McCain. I finally realized, due to the incessant telemarketing (especially those damned robo-calls!), that neither cared any more about my privacy than the current bozo. It demonstrated to me that both were same stuff as the past, different packages.
The people who came to my door to tout their candidate were irritating, but understandable. I look upon telemarketing as conversion of something I pay for into their marketing resource, and not as a freedom-of-speach issue. I don't care how much junk mail they send me, as they are paying for that, and I can use it for scratch paper.
The fact that Obama's mailing list was UNCONFIRMED opt-in (allowing me, if I was so inclined, to sign up anyone from coworkers to 419-ers) showed either an ignorance or lack of care about privacy, or at least polite internet practices. When I got the first of my calls from McCain's telewhores, I sent a message to McCain's web site describing what I thought of his practices, and telling him that I wanted neither e-mail or phone calls from anymore (that worked about as well as you would have thought). I didn't get any spam from McCain until 11/4, when I received a spam from him, and I figured it was because he was desperate and the account was going to be useless on 11/5 anyway. I also sent a message to Obama's web site telling him, politely, my thoughts on campaign telemarketing and spam, and politely requested that he not follow in McCain's footsteps and please not to call or e-mail me. That message was read by noone past the ethernet jack, and I was added to the "spam-this-guy-to-death" list. I did get one more spam several hours after I requested to be removed from the list.
Despite my disagreements with him on a couple of issues, I would have voted for Obama IF he hadn't incessantly telemarketed me with both volunteers and robo-calls (I received 3 calls, 2 volunteers + 1 robo-call in the space of 15 minutes while I was working on my ham radio setup one Saturday). McCain wasn't an option because he did the same thing. I think the only reason I got fewer McCain calls was he didn't have as much money to spend. As I said before, the telemarketing showed me that "change" probably wasn't happening...
YMMV -- you all have the right to your opinions. I can hope that a change for the better occurs, but I'm not too confident right now.
Some Power Sellers have it good. I like to browse the coins->ancient->greek category, and I have to wade through the listings of high volume sellers hawking crap like jewelry (not even all coin related) and reproductions (even though there is a specific category for these). One
of the reproduction sellers didn't even bother to list the fact that it was a reproduction in
the auction title.
I tried reporting them to eBay as being listed in the wrong category, but that was as effective as yelling at the crack in the sidewalk that I tripped on, and a lot harder to do to boot, since I had to wade through several web pages to actually send the message on.
Apparently, these dealers had the "terms of service = suggestions" package. I do use other sites than eBay, but unfortunately, they don't have the volume or selection.
I guess the most frustrating thing for me is that I can see how much better it could be, if they could only work up the energy to care. They have drifted too far from their garage sale roots, and I don't see any improvement coming. But then again, they are "only the venue", as the keep telling everyone who threatens to sue. With all their marketing, that defense is becoming a bit shaky...
-- Tom
We are still running an Oracle 9 database, and using JDeveloper 9.3.
When one of our programmers converted to IE7, he had to immediately revert to IE6, because when testing a JSP application locally, the session bean was reinstantiated/reinitialized on every page navigation, sort of like the scope was changed from session to page.
I don't know if later JDeveloper versions have this problem, but I wouldn't be at all surprised. We had to give up on Oracle Portals a couple of years ago, because they wouldn't work reliably on anything but IE 5.5. IE6 (or at least, IE6 SP2), seemed to either open two channels, with the Oracle Portal server responding to the wrong one, or paint the page before the server had a chance to respond.
I have no problem with forcing Bill Gates and Larry Ellison to share the blame, but right now, we *cannot* use IE7.
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I guess my problem is that if he's that sick/disabled, why does he have unsupervised access to the internet, a dangerous place for naive people? And yes, I guess this goes for children and teens, too.
I voted, but not for Obama or McCain. I finally realized, due to the incessant telemarketing (especially those damned robo-calls!), that neither cared any more about my privacy than the current bozo. It demonstrated to me that both were same stuff as the past, different packages.
The people who came to my door to tout their candidate were irritating, but understandable. I look upon telemarketing as conversion of something I pay for into their marketing resource, and not as a freedom-of-speach issue. I don't care how much junk mail they send me, as they are paying for that, and I can use it for scratch paper.
The fact that Obama's mailing list was UNCONFIRMED opt-in (allowing me, if I was so inclined, to sign up anyone from coworkers to 419-ers) showed either an ignorance or lack of care about privacy, or at least polite internet practices. When I got the first of my calls from McCain's telewhores, I sent a message to McCain's web site describing what I thought of his practices, and telling him that I wanted neither e-mail or phone calls from anymore (that worked about as well as you would have thought). I didn't get any spam from McCain until 11/4, when I received a spam from him, and I figured it was because he was desperate and the account was going to be useless on 11/5 anyway. I also sent a message to Obama's web site telling him, politely, my thoughts on campaign telemarketing and spam, and politely requested that he not follow in McCain's footsteps and please not to call or e-mail me. That message was read by noone past the ethernet jack, and I was added to the "spam-this-guy-to-death" list. I did get one more spam several hours after I requested to be removed from the list.
Despite my disagreements with him on a couple of issues, I would have voted for Obama IF he hadn't incessantly telemarketed me with both volunteers and robo-calls (I received 3 calls, 2 volunteers + 1 robo-call in the space of 15 minutes while I was working on my ham radio setup one Saturday). McCain wasn't an option because he did the same thing. I think the only reason I got fewer McCain calls was he didn't have as much money to spend. As I said before, the telemarketing showed me that "change" probably wasn't happening...
YMMV -- you all have the right to your opinions. I can hope that a change for the better occurs, but I'm not too confident right now.
-- Tom
Some Power Sellers have it good. I like to browse the coins->ancient->greek category, and I have to wade through the listings of high volume sellers hawking crap like jewelry (not even all coin related) and reproductions (even though there is a specific category for these). One of the reproduction sellers didn't even bother to list the fact that it was a reproduction in the auction title. I tried reporting them to eBay as being listed in the wrong category, but that was as effective as yelling at the crack in the sidewalk that I tripped on, and a lot harder to do to boot, since I had to wade through several web pages to actually send the message on. Apparently, these dealers had the "terms of service = suggestions" package. I do use other sites than eBay, but unfortunately, they don't have the volume or selection. I guess the most frustrating thing for me is that I can see how much better it could be, if they could only work up the energy to care. They have drifted too far from their garage sale roots, and I don't see any improvement coming. But then again, they are "only the venue", as the keep telling everyone who threatens to sue. With all their marketing, that defense is becoming a bit shaky... -- Tom
We are still running an Oracle 9 database, and using JDeveloper 9.3. When one of our programmers converted to IE7, he had to immediately revert to IE6, because when testing a JSP application locally, the session bean was reinstantiated/reinitialized on every page navigation, sort of like the scope was changed from session to page. I don't know if later JDeveloper versions have this problem, but I wouldn't be at all surprised. We had to give up on Oracle Portals a couple of years ago, because they wouldn't work reliably on anything but IE 5.5. IE6 (or at least, IE6 SP2), seemed to either open two channels, with the Oracle Portal server responding to the wrong one, or paint the page before the server had a chance to respond. I have no problem with forcing Bill Gates and Larry Ellison to share the blame, but right now, we *cannot* use IE7.