I'm not sure when you were a kid but until the mid 1990s, we actually used to have good educational television. The roster was something like: Sesame St - Pre school reading / numbers and socializing (currently a shadow of its former self) The Electric Company - Grade school reading / basic grammar 3-2-1 Contact - science Bill Nye - also science Square One TV - math (varying ages)
Very little of what is around now seems to pass for children's educational TV, compared against the above list. These were shows you could plop your age-appropriate kid in front of, and it would both hold their interest and spark a healthy curiosity in the subject matter. People are going to have the TV babysit their kids anyway - with good educational television at least they'd be learning something in the process.
I had a college roommate for about two months who was from the country. He couldn't sleep: 1 - with the window open, because of the street noise... 12 stories below 2 - with the curtains open, because of the lights from the rest of the campus... 9 stories below
Other than the dorm's twin 1200 feet away and the campus far below there was nothing but mountains and fields out that window. Maybe all that natural environment piece and quiet he experienced growing up would have resulted in better performance, but we wouldn't know because he dropped out and moved back home; he simply could never get sleep (we both agreed the window and curtains had to be open due to no A/C). The flaw in the logic that those raised in a natural environment will perform better is that most people spend most of their lives in an unnatural environment. Being raised without being adapted to noise/light pollution is actually a disadvantage for our current society.
Obligatory XKCD. By dividing it into 28 hours it makes a perfect 6 "day" week.
When I had a 100% flexible work schedule with no reporting location, I tried this a few times, but I never had the discipline to see it through an entire week. It's quite interesting to see something like that actually work!
Actually, I imagine piracy is a major reason why Adobe would do this. Photoshop is probably the most pirated app of all time. Gimp will probably have a windfall of new users soon.
More like paint.net will have a windfall of new users, since most workplaces will be using Windows PCs anyway [the Gimp is still king in Linux]. I don't know if the Gimp ever got away from that whole floating windows with no parent window / menu bar design, and I'd imagine neither does anyone else who has ever tried the Gimp and been put off by its UI. Paint.net's UI has very little learning curve for those coming from Photoshop.
You need to use unetbootin 494 or earlier. I don't know what they changed to make later ones stop working for Debian, nor do I remember where I learned this fact, and since 494 seems to work for every linux distro I've tried (Suse, both types of Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora 17) I question whether that change even has a purpose.
In America, suburban schools are usually better than inner city schools. Being that said, I am willing to take a slight pay cut for telecommunting privlege and indefinite tenure.
While true, inner cities also have private schools which are better than suburban public schools (particularly since problem students can easily be expelled, thanks to the safety net of public schools). Take ~$6,000/yr for high school for example - if schools are the main reason for moving to the suburbs, determine if you are losing more than $6,000/yr in money or time by commuting - it may end up actually being cheaper.
Debian's multimedia has always been a bit weird... anyway it really wasn't that hard to add in the deb-multimedia repository.
Also, I hate to say it because I am a huge Debian fan, but even the newest offerings are a bit lacking if you have underpowered equipment - the deb-multimedia versions for wheezy work better on my ancient laptop than the official packages.
That said, for many of the file formats that require the special repository, you need to download a codec pack for Windows - same amount of effort, and the millions of Windows users are fine with it. Not a big deal.
What *is* a big deal is that newer Linux distros seem to be dropping "out of the box" support on things that are far more important than multimedia. I was all set to use Mint, but was forced to go with Debian Testing because both the Ubuntu and Debian-based versions are lacking in a feature that is far more important to work "out of the box": the ability to set up full disk encryption on installation. RedHat based distros, Debian, and Ubuntu have done this for ages. Setting up full disk encryption after the fact is far more difficult than getting a few multimedia packages from a third party repository.
What dialog to shut down? There is none in 7! If you mean because some program is holding things open that's the fault of software not properly handling the shut down signal... and XP would warn for the same things.
Customizing the splash screen? I hadn't tried... I haven't had to reboot except for updates, because the sleep/resume works flawlessly (unlike XP).
It's more convenient because there are a lot of good drivers for 7 in Windows Update... like my ancient HP printer.
I like the desktop background slideshow (a feature KDE has had for ages, finally implemented in a mainstream OS) and widgets.
It is safer because of UAC - being able to arbitrarily deny a program admin rights even when running as an Administrator. And keep in mind the slowdown which afflicts XP machines after a few years, usually remedied by an OS reinstall or a plethora of shady "registry cleaner" programs... nothing of the sort necessary with 7.
And do you actually feel that scrolling through your XP start menu was better than Windows key+start typing+hit enter?
I hold on to OSes too, I kept 2000 until support ended, and I had XP 64bit until early 2011... but IMO Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever made. I cheered when they upgraded our work laptops.
As for Linux Mint, I 100% agree that it is an amazing OS. I just tried it out in a VM (initially was looking for a nice KDE based distro, found I enjoyed Cinnamon) and I think it's going to replace the OEM Vista install on my aging laptop... not even a factory reset with bloatware omitted could get Vista to be bearable.
Require a name as well. The name would be the name on the credit card used to purchase the game (in all caps). The combination of name and key would unlock the product and (like another poster said) anyone who leaks it will have their name spread far and wide on the internet.
While it is worded badly, it essentially what they have been doing with colleges. The content owner would send a DMCA complaint with an XML file to the college IT department (or ISP the college contracted out to). The file contains the name of the infringing file and the P2P service it was found on, along with the IP address and UTC timestamp. The school is free to deal with the infringing student as they see fit (small fee, 30 day service suspension, etc). At no point is the identity of the student revealed to the content owner unless the student agrees to fight the claim in court (depending on circumstances giving this info out could be a FERPA violation).
However, in a college setting it's easy to have the student agree that they are responsible for all traffic over their IP address. Also, with some cleverness with DHCP, subnetting and packet shaping (along with disallowing personal wireless routers), you can prevent most of the ways someone could use an IP they didn't "sign out".
The worst thing about tipping is the stupid calculations people come up with for it... an example: Restaurant A: waitress is decent but rarely stops by and takes forever to fulfill simple requests like drink refills Restaurant B: waitress is perfectly attentive and anticipates our needs before we even realize we have them (drink refills, extra napkins, other things I can't remember).
I gave waitress A a $2 tip, and get yelled at by my friends for under tipping. I gave waitress B a $3 tip and this same group of friends wants to reduce their tip accordingly because they think it is "too much".
The difference? The meal at location A cost double what the meal at location B cost. Everyone calculates based on the price of the meal, not the quality of the service - this is what is retarded about tipping nowadays. Like expensive food is somehow more difficult to carry across the room than cheaper food.
I hate to reply to my own post but I hit submit instead of continue editing.
Anyway you can get a RedHat self-support Desktop subscription for $50 (access to Knowledge Base) or a full service Workstation one for $300 (can make tickets). Not exactly cheap like windows but not requiring a corporate level of income either.
If you are looking to spend money RedHat is probably best you can get, if you can get a subscription with support. The reason you cannot find good answers in forums and such for RedHat, CentOS, and the like is because the paid knowledge base for RedHat is fantastic. In addition to having answers to almost any problem, there are no "wrong" or overly inefficient answers mixed in there to confuse you. Also, in the event your problem is too weird for the knowledge base, you can make a ticket in exactly a similar manner to a forum post. But unlike a forum someone is guaranteed to respond in a timely manner with a correct answer (not a worthless "just google it"), and will continue to respond until you have solved your problem. These support tickets also get turned into knowledge base articles from time to time.
Because of this fantastic support, a good chunk of people using the distribution don't bother with forums and the like. So you end up with a void of information.
That said, if you are looking to spend absolutely no money but want stability, a good choice is Debian. Since none of the knowledge is locked behind paywalls, almost all support that has ever been given to those with Debian installations is available online. Debian is excellent for servers and very good for desktop use, with major updates only once every 3 years (and you never need a reinstall to do the update). Until I joined a company with actual money, this was my distro of choice because no matter what you wanted to do, you could do it on Debian with only a handful of Google searches. It was installed on an Eee, Desktop, and a handful of servers. Also it makes good business sense to go with Debian - people who screwed around with Ubuntu in their free time can be turned into Debian sysadmins much more easily than into RedHat based sysadmins, so it's cheaper / easier to provide in-house support.
Simply don't enforce any copyright laws against these products until the pricing reaches parity. "Authorize" a local "distributor" to sell it at the cost of the blank media it is distributed on. Make sure businesses are aware that they can get in on this action too, and that any copy acquired in this manner will be free from any future prosecution of copyright infringement. If the companies don't play ball after that, Australia suddenly becomes a much cheaper place to set up a small business... win-win.
Really I think these are what "floater" holidays are designed for. For example Christmas should actually be converted to a floater holiday. For non-Christians it's basically a paid weekday off with little value since you can't get anything done because most places are closed. Come up with a set number, say 5, and make it federal law that all employers offer 5 "floater" holidays for religious observance. The law could require that they can be used like vacation days but if coinciding with a religious holiday the time off must be approved.
Now the hairy part is schools. You have people of all different faiths who need to take different days off. For that, they should group the holidays, and students should be able to select from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, etc group. Make those days "light" days. It is certainly do-able, my grade school and high school both had scheduled half-days in which half the classes were simply ignored, and the other half (since they would get "ahead" of the cancelled sections) simply had educational films and other things which were interesting but not required.
It sounds like his users require Java for some crucial work-related application. So, if the choice was expose users to possibility of an exploit, or not get any work done, enabling a vulnerable Java is probably the less costly measure to take.
The hope for humanity would be for a simple and money-optional society. Everyone "gets" the basics (food, shelter, simple clothes, education, healthcare, public transportation, maybe a computer with internet access) with no requirement to contribute anything to society. If they want anything more than that (iPod, trip to Disney Land, a car, a house with front yard, clothes other than a solid color t shirt) they will need to make money, and for that they will have to work in one of the few jobs available. These jobs would be almost entirely academic (research will always be necessary), service, or cultural in nature. People would work until they could afford whatever luxuries they want, and then could opt to go back to having free time to explore their own desires/ambition. Without the requirement to work, working conditions would automatically improve, as companies would no longer be able to keep workers if "doing nothing" is better than the job they are offering.
That is possible today actually, if we change the welfare system from something that gives out money to something that only provided necessities, and not money. Instead of farm subsidies, flat out buy the food.
This system would only work if the "public option" for things that was held to a standard that anyone would be willing to accept. What passes for public housing now does not qualify, but what passes for dorms / cafeterias at a public college would be a start.
He was not talking about self-serve. There are machines which, upon the appropriate drink being keyed into the register, select the cup and fill it to the appropriate height (and they do properly compensate for ice/no ice/small amount of ice). While self-serve saves the same amount of employee labor, it has the unfortunate side effect of allowing easy access to free refills. While McD's corporate policy is free refills the likelihood of someone waiting on line with an empty cup just for the refill is much lower than someone getting up to refill at their leisure from a self-serve fountain, thus the existence of these machines.
There will always be extremists, but what is worse is those who sympathize with them - they are the ones who rally behind the cause without knowing any facts and make progress politically unpopular. Such people should be made to watch the Star Trek DS9 episode Paradise (the WP description doesn't do it justice, watch it on Amazon Prime if you can)... While the "leader" in that story is not anti-progress for religious reasons or out of any irrational fear (the two common causes for the mindset), I think divorcing the philosophy from those reasons actually makes the story more effective. It is a nice splash of cold water for anyone who expresses "anti-progress" attitudes as it focuses on the consequences of a "100% back to nature" attitude.
5th? 15th? 17th? If that's true, then I would agree with you... I just didn't know to what extent you expected them to be punished.
Simple: Permanent revocation of license. If that requires the drunk (former) driver to relocate to a public housing development in an urban area while changing to basic retail/food service level employment, then so be it. A perk would be they would now be within walking distance of bars.
Here in the US, trains slow down for at-grade crossings to 30 kph.
I don't know what crazy lines you're riding but the only time that is done is if it is an unprotected crossing (no gates or flashing lights). I can only conclude your US rail experience is from tourist railroads.
Almost all of the MTA's services are back to normal, with a few minor branches being bussed. Even if it is a shuttle bus public transit is still the most viable option.
However I agree that the NJ railroads are still unbelievably fucked. It's bad enough that they've had to borrow buses from neighboring states so I would agree that the rules are a bit different there - however this article was about NY. In fact the AG's plan might screw up NJ even more, now people who might have wanted to drive some upstate NY gas (no shortage) down to NJ residents and sell it at $20/gallon won't be allowed to.
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I'm not sure when you were a kid but until the mid 1990s, we actually used to have good educational television. The roster was something like:
Sesame St - Pre school reading / numbers and socializing (currently a shadow of its former self)
The Electric Company - Grade school reading / basic grammar
3-2-1 Contact - science
Bill Nye - also science
Square One TV - math (varying ages)
Very little of what is around now seems to pass for children's educational TV, compared against the above list. These were shows you could plop your age-appropriate kid in front of, and it would both hold their interest and spark a healthy curiosity in the subject matter. People are going to have the TV babysit their kids anyway - with good educational television at least they'd be learning something in the process.
I had a college roommate for about two months who was from the country. He couldn't sleep:
1 - with the window open, because of the street noise... 12 stories below
2 - with the curtains open, because of the lights from the rest of the campus... 9 stories below
Other than the dorm's twin 1200 feet away and the campus far below there was nothing but mountains and fields out that window. Maybe all that natural environment piece and quiet he experienced growing up would have resulted in better performance, but we wouldn't know because he dropped out and moved back home; he simply could never get sleep (we both agreed the window and curtains had to be open due to no A/C). The flaw in the logic that those raised in a natural environment will perform better is that most people spend most of their lives in an unnatural environment. Being raised without being adapted to noise/light pollution is actually a disadvantage for our current society.
Obligatory XKCD. By dividing it into 28 hours it makes a perfect 6 "day" week.
When I had a 100% flexible work schedule with no reporting location, I tried this a few times, but I never had the discipline to see it through an entire week. It's quite interesting to see something like that actually work!
Actually, I imagine piracy is a major reason why Adobe would do this. Photoshop is probably the most pirated app of all time. Gimp will probably have a windfall of new users soon.
More like paint.net will have a windfall of new users, since most workplaces will be using Windows PCs anyway [the Gimp is still king in Linux]. I don't know if the Gimp ever got away from that whole floating windows with no parent window / menu bar design, and I'd imagine neither does anyone else who has ever tried the Gimp and been put off by its UI. Paint.net's UI has very little learning curve for those coming from Photoshop.
You need to use unetbootin 494 or earlier. I don't know what they changed to make later ones stop working for Debian, nor do I remember where I learned this fact, and since 494 seems to work for every linux distro I've tried (Suse, both types of Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora 17) I question whether that change even has a purpose.
I didn't bother watching the ones other than the first link, but they're clearly fraudulent advertisements.
You formed an opinion on all three by watching only one? I don't even need to correct you: you've automatically invalidated your opinion.
In America, suburban schools are usually better than inner city schools. Being that said, I am willing to take a slight pay cut for telecommunting privlege and indefinite tenure.
While true, inner cities also have private schools which are better than suburban public schools (particularly since problem students can easily be expelled, thanks to the safety net of public schools). Take ~$6,000/yr for high school for example - if schools are the main reason for moving to the suburbs, determine if you are losing more than $6,000/yr in money or time by commuting - it may end up actually being cheaper.
That was a good read, thanks for that!
It would be nice if baseball could help revive the ideals of personal freedom...
Debian's multimedia has always been a bit weird... anyway it really wasn't that hard to add in the deb-multimedia repository.
Also, I hate to say it because I am a huge Debian fan, but even the newest offerings are a bit lacking if you have underpowered equipment - the deb-multimedia versions for wheezy work better on my ancient laptop than the official packages.
That said, for many of the file formats that require the special repository, you need to download a codec pack for Windows - same amount of effort, and the millions of Windows users are fine with it. Not a big deal.
What *is* a big deal is that newer Linux distros seem to be dropping "out of the box" support on things that are far more important than multimedia. I was all set to use Mint, but was forced to go with Debian Testing because both the Ubuntu and Debian-based versions are lacking in a feature that is far more important to work "out of the box": the ability to set up full disk encryption on installation. RedHat based distros, Debian, and Ubuntu have done this for ages. Setting up full disk encryption after the fact is far more difficult than getting a few multimedia packages from a third party repository.
What dialog to shut down? There is none in 7! If you mean because some program is holding things open that's the fault of software not properly handling the shut down signal... and XP would warn for the same things.
Customizing the splash screen? I hadn't tried... I haven't had to reboot except for updates, because the sleep/resume works flawlessly (unlike XP).
It's more convenient because there are a lot of good drivers for 7 in Windows Update... like my ancient HP printer.
I like the desktop background slideshow (a feature KDE has had for ages, finally implemented in a mainstream OS) and widgets.
It is safer because of UAC - being able to arbitrarily deny a program admin rights even when running as an Administrator.
And keep in mind the slowdown which afflicts XP machines after a few years, usually remedied by an OS reinstall or a plethora of shady "registry cleaner" programs... nothing of the sort necessary with 7.
And do you actually feel that scrolling through your XP start menu was better than Windows key+start typing+hit enter?
I hold on to OSes too, I kept 2000 until support ended, and I had XP 64bit until early 2011... but IMO Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever made. I cheered when they upgraded our work laptops.
As for Linux Mint, I 100% agree that it is an amazing OS. I just tried it out in a VM (initially was looking for a nice KDE based distro, found I enjoyed Cinnamon) and I think it's going to replace the OEM Vista install on my aging laptop... not even a factory reset with bloatware omitted could get Vista to be bearable.
Require a name as well. The name would be the name on the credit card used to purchase the game (in all caps). The combination of name and key would unlock the product and (like another poster said) anyone who leaks it will have their name spread far and wide on the internet.
While it is worded badly, it essentially what they have been doing with colleges. The content owner would send a DMCA complaint with an XML file to the college IT department (or ISP the college contracted out to). The file contains the name of the infringing file and the P2P service it was found on, along with the IP address and UTC timestamp. The school is free to deal with the infringing student as they see fit (small fee, 30 day service suspension, etc). At no point is the identity of the student revealed to the content owner unless the student agrees to fight the claim in court (depending on circumstances giving this info out could be a FERPA violation).
However, in a college setting it's easy to have the student agree that they are responsible for all traffic over their IP address. Also, with some cleverness with DHCP, subnetting and packet shaping (along with disallowing personal wireless routers), you can prevent most of the ways someone could use an IP they didn't "sign out".
The worst thing about tipping is the stupid calculations people come up with for it... an example:
Restaurant A: waitress is decent but rarely stops by and takes forever to fulfill simple requests like drink refills
Restaurant B: waitress is perfectly attentive and anticipates our needs before we even realize we have them (drink refills, extra napkins, other things I can't remember).
I gave waitress A a $2 tip, and get yelled at by my friends for under tipping.
I gave waitress B a $3 tip and this same group of friends wants to reduce their tip accordingly because they think it is "too much".
The difference? The meal at location A cost double what the meal at location B cost. Everyone calculates based on the price of the meal, not the quality of the service - this is what is retarded about tipping nowadays. Like expensive food is somehow more difficult to carry across the room than cheaper food.
I hate to reply to my own post but I hit submit instead of continue editing.
Anyway you can get a RedHat self-support Desktop subscription for $50 (access to Knowledge Base) or a full service Workstation one for $300 (can make tickets). Not exactly cheap like windows but not requiring a corporate level of income either.
If you are looking to spend money RedHat is probably best you can get, if you can get a subscription with support. The reason you cannot find good answers in forums and such for RedHat, CentOS, and the like is because the paid knowledge base for RedHat is fantastic. In addition to having answers to almost any problem, there are no "wrong" or overly inefficient answers mixed in there to confuse you. Also, in the event your problem is too weird for the knowledge base, you can make a ticket in exactly a similar manner to a forum post. But unlike a forum someone is guaranteed to respond in a timely manner with a correct answer (not a worthless "just google it"), and will continue to respond until you have solved your problem. These support tickets also get turned into knowledge base articles from time to time.
Because of this fantastic support, a good chunk of people using the distribution don't bother with forums and the like. So you end up with a void of information.
That said, if you are looking to spend absolutely no money but want stability, a good choice is Debian. Since none of the knowledge is locked behind paywalls, almost all support that has ever been given to those with Debian installations is available online. Debian is excellent for servers and very good for desktop use, with major updates only once every 3 years (and you never need a reinstall to do the update). Until I joined a company with actual money, this was my distro of choice because no matter what you wanted to do, you could do it on Debian with only a handful of Google searches. It was installed on an Eee, Desktop, and a handful of servers. Also it makes good business sense to go with Debian - people who screwed around with Ubuntu in their free time can be turned into Debian sysadmins much more easily than into RedHat based sysadmins, so it's cheaper / easier to provide in-house support.
Simply don't enforce any copyright laws against these products until the pricing reaches parity. "Authorize" a local "distributor" to sell it at the cost of the blank media it is distributed on. Make sure businesses are aware that they can get in on this action too, and that any copy acquired in this manner will be free from any future prosecution of copyright infringement. If the companies don't play ball after that, Australia suddenly becomes a much cheaper place to set up a small business... win-win.
They are mentioned in the article actually...
Really I think these are what "floater" holidays are designed for. For example Christmas should actually be converted to a floater holiday. For non-Christians it's basically a paid weekday off with little value since you can't get anything done because most places are closed. Come up with a set number, say 5, and make it federal law that all employers offer 5 "floater" holidays for religious observance. The law could require that they can be used like vacation days but if coinciding with a religious holiday the time off must be approved.
Now the hairy part is schools. You have people of all different faiths who need to take different days off. For that, they should group the holidays, and students should be able to select from the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Chinese, etc group. Make those days "light" days. It is certainly do-able, my grade school and high school both had scheduled half-days in which half the classes were simply ignored, and the other half (since they would get "ahead" of the cancelled sections) simply had educational films and other things which were interesting but not required.
It sounds like his users require Java for some crucial work-related application. So, if the choice was expose users to possibility of an exploit, or not get any work done, enabling a vulnerable Java is probably the less costly measure to take.
The hope for humanity would be for a simple and money-optional society. Everyone "gets" the basics (food, shelter, simple clothes, education, healthcare, public transportation, maybe a computer with internet access) with no requirement to contribute anything to society. If they want anything more than that (iPod, trip to Disney Land, a car, a house with front yard, clothes other than a solid color t shirt) they will need to make money, and for that they will have to work in one of the few jobs available. These jobs would be almost entirely academic (research will always be necessary), service, or cultural in nature. People would work until they could afford whatever luxuries they want, and then could opt to go back to having free time to explore their own desires/ambition. Without the requirement to work, working conditions would automatically improve, as companies would no longer be able to keep workers if "doing nothing" is better than the job they are offering.
That is possible today actually, if we change the welfare system from something that gives out money to something that only provided necessities, and not money. Instead of farm subsidies, flat out buy the food.
This system would only work if the "public option" for things that was held to a standard that anyone would be willing to accept. What passes for public housing now does not qualify, but what passes for dorms / cafeterias at a public college would be a start.
He was not talking about self-serve. There are machines which, upon the appropriate drink being keyed into the register, select the cup and fill it to the appropriate height (and they do properly compensate for ice/no ice/small amount of ice). While self-serve saves the same amount of employee labor, it has the unfortunate side effect of allowing easy access to free refills. While McD's corporate policy is free refills the likelihood of someone waiting on line with an empty cup just for the refill is much lower than someone getting up to refill at their leisure from a self-serve fountain, thus the existence of these machines.
There will always be extremists, but what is worse is those who sympathize with them - they are the ones who rally behind the cause without knowing any facts and make progress politically unpopular. Such people should be made to watch the Star Trek DS9 episode Paradise (the WP description doesn't do it justice, watch it on Amazon Prime if you can)... While the "leader" in that story is not anti-progress for religious reasons or out of any irrational fear (the two common causes for the mindset), I think divorcing the philosophy from those reasons actually makes the story more effective. It is a nice splash of cold water for anyone who expresses "anti-progress" attitudes as it focuses on the consequences of a "100% back to nature" attitude.
5th? 15th? 17th? If that's true, then I would agree with you... I just didn't know to what extent you expected them to be punished.
Simple: Permanent revocation of license. If that requires the drunk (former) driver to relocate to a public housing development in an urban area while changing to basic retail/food service level employment, then so be it. A perk would be they would now be within walking distance of bars.
Here in the US, trains slow down for at-grade crossings to 30 kph.
I don't know what crazy lines you're riding but the only time that is done is if it is an unprotected crossing (no gates or flashing lights). I can only conclude your US rail experience is from tourist railroads.
Meanwhile, in upstate NY trains regularly go 110MPH through crossings (not my video)...
And every time they ask for help on a web forum they'll probably be met with "Just Google it!"... stroke of brilliance by the Chinese gov't.
Almost all of the MTA's services are back to normal, with a few minor branches being bussed. Even if it is a shuttle bus public transit is still the most viable option.
However I agree that the NJ railroads are still unbelievably fucked. It's bad enough that they've had to borrow buses from neighboring states so I would agree that the rules are a bit different there - however this article was about NY. In fact the AG's plan might screw up NJ even more, now people who might have wanted to drive some upstate NY gas (no shortage) down to NJ residents and sell it at $20/gallon won't be allowed to.