or for individuals to sell generators that they had bought before the storm at double their retail value.
By making that illegal it becomes better for someone who has an extra generator to simply not sell it. While the generator would be doing no one any good, it is still available to the person holding it in case he needs it - to him the $700 generator is worth $1400 (the risk of needing it and not having it is worth $700 to him) but by not being allowed to sell it at that price, he would be taking a perceived loss for no reason. I fail to see how this is better than allowing supply/demand to take over.
As for gas, keep in mind this is the NY metro area. Very few people actually *need* gas. If the prices at the stations were allowed to rise to $10, people who do need the gas would be able to get it, and people who don't would take the bus/railroad/subway. Right now, the commodity being sacrificed is time: people who have more time on their hands and can sit on a line for 5 hours are better able to get gas than those working 3 jobs. How is that right?
How about mandating exactly 6 characters and requiring a number and special character? I wish there was some place to report piss poor password schemes for banks (BBB?), no amount of my complaining has done it, not even informing them that they are strictly my "just enough to use the ATM every week" bank, and my real money is elsewhere...
Fundamentally, no phone can ever be a second factor for authentication purposes, period, so long as it is possible to enter your password or PIN through that phone.
Not at all. If you never enter your bank password or pin through the phone in the first place, there is no way a compromised phone will be able to obtain it. I do all of my online banking from a computer, so a second factor being the phone would work fine (unfortunately only the least important of my three banks uses two factor).
you're going to buy that last can of chicken soup from your corner market rather than shopping around for a better deal further away
Except, when prices are allowed to rise, if you *really need* that can it is still available. If the store is forced to keep it at their normal price, the can would have been gone hours before you got there, to some random person who could have done just as well with a can of ravioli.
Declare a national holiday so all can vote on a day off to eliminate the lines.
It's funny how governments and unions are the only ones who seem to be able to accomplish giving election day off... Federal employees and various autoworker unions got it as an actual day, state employees around here got a floater (which everyone uses the day after Thanksgiving rather than on Election day). I know no non-union private sector employee who actually got anything for it (though my sample size is fairly small).
You can also tell when stores have a minimum purchase requirement for credit. In many states it is illegal to charge more for a credit transaction, however it is not illegal to offer a discount for using cash... it would be interesting to see stores offer a "2% discount on all cash purchases!" deal.
Generally I pay cash at independent stores and credit at chain stores... if the price is the same, paying cash is effectively subsidizing those who would pay by credit. The credit card charge is built into the price, so those extra cents are straight up profit for the store.
This is one of those situations where the invisible hand of the free market fails miserably:
Company A: plans properly for contingencies, but has to charge $10 more per customer.
Company B: thinks they have planned for contingencies as well as A (but accredit the cheaper pricetag to their managerial prowess), makes the same claims about uptime as company A, and undercuts company A.
Company A goes out of business as B steals all of A's customers.
Disaster hits, but due to company A having gone out of business 2 years ago, B can legitimately say "no one could have planned for this!" and likely gets away with it...
And in some places that get a little *too* serious, you end up with some stupid proprietary appliance that can't be rack mounted but the PHB swore was needed. And for that, you will have one of these. And in the extra space next to said proprietary POS, you can put something like the abovementioned HP server.
I, too have a 28" 1920x1200... I had been looking for a better quality one (one which can letterbox 1920x1080 so that my PS3 isn't vertically stretched) but I gave up after realizing I can't even find something *as good* as the one I have. When this goes I'll probably do something weird like use a 1080p TV as my primary display and an old 20" widescreen rotated 90 degrees for web browsing / document viewing...
Not only that, the only derailment was *during an earthquake*, and the "problem" has since been corrected. In the US we wouldn't have even seen that as a problem, it simply would have been written off as "well it was an earthquake what do you expect?".
Bahamas, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico are correct from the original list.
This list here has ~45 entries using "US-style" power with ~230 entries using other stuff (not necessarily European either, one primarily used in Australia and China is fairly popular as well).
That's why you learn from either a print book, or the simplest online guide out there, and ignore the discussion community entirely...
I know it is real because I have accidentally done it a few times, I just really don't care enough to improve the odds by doing all the mental exercises out there.
An easy example: A sign that you are dreaming is inconsistent numbers, and simply being aware of this fact will help trigger lucid dreams if you encounter numbers in a dream. To improve the chances of this occurring, you can make a habit of checking your watch / clocks / other things with numbers twice while awake, and verify that the numbers remain consistent. This isn't as easy as it sounds, which is why I gave up...
Thanks for that! I found two amusing bits of information in there: -The screen replacement is far superior in the iPhone 5 than the Galaxy S3 (I looked at their piece on the S3 afterward). -I was most amused at finding out the iPhone 5 battery and camera are made by Sony... hopefully this silences some of those people who feel the need to post about having not bought a Sony product since **insert ancient history here**.
Seriously tell me hailing a cab is easy after you've tried to do it while standing in the snow an hour after bars close and you don't want to take three more God-forsaken hours to get home to an outer borough shithole apartment that costs $waytoofuckinmuch... Not that I'm bitter.:)
Most intelligent city residents bother to keep the number of a good car service... I can remember "four ones" from growing up there, I'm sure similar companies exist nowadays.
And in pretty much any other city, the *only* way you're getting a cab when you need one is by calling the cab company, or walking to a bus terminal/train station/airport.
I'll raise you that, and working over 40 hours (which 90% of the time is voluntary) is paid at time and a half.
Honestly if overtime exemptions were eliminated, we would simultaneously solve the "overworked intern" issue and employment issues (after all if 80 hours of work regularly needs to get done every week, it would suddenly become cheaper to hire a second shift).
Good points from the article for the lazy: -People who feel like they've been "good" for one meal will simply compensate by eating worse for the rest of the day -A construction worker who buys one large drink and nurses it all day would be impacted. (I would include tourists and shoppers in this as well).
And the best one: -If this fails, no one will try anything like it anywhere in the US for a *very long time*, preventing any actual worthwhile legislation from being passed.
You can still purchase as much soda as you like, you just can't purchase it in large containers. Sounds like a balance between public health and freedom to choose.
As someone who likes to buy a large (32oz) beverage at fast food places with lunch and sip at it my leisure for the rest of the day whenever I'm in NYC: fuck you. Even if the price is the same, I will be stuck having to carry two containers, and make damn sure to chuck the extra one in the middle of the street, hopefully to get lodged in a storm drain and cause some flooding.
But hey, it's better than letting people control their own portioning, right?
I always thought there was a law against charging for tap water at eateries, but looking around it appears there isn't - it's just supposed to be bad business.
I usually raise holy hell a place tries to charge for tap water... I'm ok with a 25 cent charge for the cup / labor but no more.
That is what it *said* created the file. Dhclient is still changing it and I really couldn't be bothered to figure out where to tell it not to.
In any case the "proper" method doesn't scale well. Editing/etc/network/interfaces works for Debian based systems (coincidentally what I use personally) but for RedHat based it's/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/[interface] (which is what I often deal with). That's already two different places. The target files also happen to have contents customized to the machine's hardware layout, not an easy situation to script.
So I can either manually edit one or the other config file every time a new system comes my way, or spend hours making a script to read and properly alter the appropriate files, or just run this:
Throw in a "service network restart" or "dhclient" afterward and your resolv.conf is right back to normal. Simple and clean. No dialog boxes, no editing text files, just clobbering one that gets recreated automatically anyway.
As far as:
Preventing the DHCP client from doing what it is intended to do is breaking DHCP.
Really? The important parts of DHCP (contact DHCP server, configure IP, routing, etc) is working just fine. How is hardcoding a nameserver breaking DHCP?
My procedure has the benefit of working on almost any Linux system with any network configuration. Other than a few wasted processor cycles when dhclient or what have you tries and fails to write resolv.conf, I can't see any benefit the so-called "right" way has.
Really? The first line of the file says "# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)". And if you just read the man page, you are told which files to edit to make changes to the resolver config.
Really? Mine just says " Generated by NetworkManager". Different distros like to clobber resolv.conf in different ways, my method gets the intended result 100% of the time on the first try.
The reason turning off write doesn't work is because resolvconf runs as root, of course. And it's not a good idea anyway unless you like breaking DHCP.
1. A proper program running as root (ie: try editing a file with vim) will ask if you want to override read-only protection (and as a daemon, will simply choose to respect it). Just because it *can* ignore the permission doesn't mean it should. Samba for example will not write its LDB files if it does not have write permission, even though it runs as root.
2. How is preventing DHCP from writing resolv.conf "breaking DHCP"? I have my own DNS server that I would rather use than my ISP's which hijacks DNS errors.
which makes a glorious pain in the ass out of itself by deciding it's smarter than you when it comes to your/etc/resolv.conf config file
I never know what utility is overwriting my resolv.conf but editing it by hand and running "chattr +i/etc/resolv.conf" always seems to stop nonsense like that...
I shouldn't have to resort to that; chmod -w should be enough. It's pretty stupid when a utility doesn't respect the read only attribute.
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or for individuals to sell generators that they had bought before the storm at double their retail value.
By making that illegal it becomes better for someone who has an extra generator to simply not sell it. While the generator would be doing no one any good, it is still available to the person holding it in case he needs it - to him the $700 generator is worth $1400 (the risk of needing it and not having it is worth $700 to him) but by not being allowed to sell it at that price, he would be taking a perceived loss for no reason. I fail to see how this is better than allowing supply/demand to take over.
As for gas, keep in mind this is the NY metro area. Very few people actually *need* gas. If the prices at the stations were allowed to rise to $10, people who do need the gas would be able to get it, and people who don't would take the bus/railroad/subway. Right now, the commodity being sacrificed is time: people who have more time on their hands and can sit on a line for 5 hours are better able to get gas than those working 3 jobs. How is that right?
How about mandating exactly 6 characters and requiring a number and special character?
I wish there was some place to report piss poor password schemes for banks (BBB?), no amount of my complaining has done it, not even informing them that they are strictly my "just enough to use the ATM every week" bank, and my real money is elsewhere...
Fundamentally, no phone can ever be a second factor for authentication purposes, period, so long as it is possible to enter your password or PIN through that phone.
Not at all. If you never enter your bank password or pin through the phone in the first place, there is no way a compromised phone will be able to obtain it. I do all of my online banking from a computer, so a second factor being the phone would work fine (unfortunately only the least important of my three banks uses two factor).
you're going to buy that last can of chicken soup from your corner market rather than shopping around for a better deal further away
Except, when prices are allowed to rise, if you *really need* that can it is still available. If the store is forced to keep it at their normal price, the can would have been gone hours before you got there, to some random person who could have done just as well with a can of ravioli.
Declare a national holiday so all can vote on a day off to eliminate the lines.
It's funny how governments and unions are the only ones who seem to be able to accomplish giving election day off... Federal employees and various autoworker unions got it as an actual day, state employees around here got a floater (which everyone uses the day after Thanksgiving rather than on Election day). I know no non-union private sector employee who actually got anything for it (though my sample size is fairly small).
I'd imagine that helps skew the results a bit...
You can also tell when stores have a minimum purchase requirement for credit.
In many states it is illegal to charge more for a credit transaction, however it is not illegal to offer a discount for using cash... it would be interesting to see stores offer a "2% discount on all cash purchases!" deal.
Generally I pay cash at independent stores and credit at chain stores... if the price is the same, paying cash is effectively subsidizing those who would pay by credit. The credit card charge is built into the price, so those extra cents are straight up profit for the store.
This is one of those situations where the invisible hand of the free market fails miserably:
Company A: plans properly for contingencies, but has to charge $10 more per customer.
Company B: thinks they have planned for contingencies as well as A (but accredit the cheaper pricetag to their managerial prowess), makes the same claims about uptime as company A, and undercuts company A.
Company A goes out of business as B steals all of A's customers.
Disaster hits, but due to company A having gone out of business 2 years ago, B can legitimately say "no one could have planned for this!" and likely gets away with it...
And in some places that get a little *too* serious, you end up with some stupid proprietary appliance that can't be rack mounted but the PHB swore was needed. And for that, you will have one of these. And in the extra space next to said proprietary POS, you can put something like the abovementioned HP server.
I, too have a 28" 1920x1200... I had been looking for a better quality one (one which can letterbox 1920x1080 so that my PS3 isn't vertically stretched) but I gave up after realizing I can't even find something *as good* as the one I have. When this goes I'll probably do something weird like use a 1080p TV as my primary display and an old 20" widescreen rotated 90 degrees for web browsing / document viewing...
It also only appears to those with positive Karma, so ACs never see red bars...
Not only that, the only derailment was *during an earthquake*, and the "problem" has since been corrected. In the US we wouldn't have even seen that as a problem, it simply would have been written off as "well it was an earthquake what do you expect?".
Very easily. You can get one way for $212 if you book it today for a trip starting next Wednesday. As for kids, it's half fare under 15.
The cost goes up if most of your trip is on a weekend, or if you book too close to departure.
Why would it be "a matter of time"? Are terrorists going to figure out how to hijack a high speed train and fly it into a building?
Bahamas, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico are correct from the original list.
This list here has ~45 entries using "US-style" power with ~230 entries using other stuff (not necessarily European either, one primarily used in Australia and China is fairly popular as well).
That's why you learn from either a print book, or the simplest online guide out there, and ignore the discussion community entirely...
I know it is real because I have accidentally done it a few times, I just really don't care enough to improve the odds by doing all the mental exercises out there.
An easy example: A sign that you are dreaming is inconsistent numbers, and simply being aware of this fact will help trigger lucid dreams if you encounter numbers in a dream. To improve the chances of this occurring, you can make a habit of checking your watch / clocks / other things with numbers twice while awake, and verify that the numbers remain consistent. This isn't as easy as it sounds, which is why I gave up...
Thanks for that! I found two amusing bits of information in there:
-The screen replacement is far superior in the iPhone 5 than the Galaxy S3 (I looked at their piece on the S3 afterward).
-I was most amused at finding out the iPhone 5 battery and camera are made by Sony... hopefully this silences some of those people who feel the need to post about having not bought a Sony product since **insert ancient history here**.
Seriously tell me hailing a cab is easy after you've tried to do it while standing in the snow an hour after bars close and you don't want to take three more God-forsaken hours to get home to an outer borough shithole apartment that costs $waytoofuckinmuch... Not that I'm bitter. :)
Most intelligent city residents bother to keep the number of a good car service... I can remember "four ones" from growing up there, I'm sure similar companies exist nowadays.
And in pretty much any other city, the *only* way you're getting a cab when you need one is by calling the cab company, or walking to a bus terminal/train station/airport.
I'll raise you that, and working over 40 hours (which 90% of the time is voluntary) is paid at time and a half.
Honestly if overtime exemptions were eliminated, we would simultaneously solve the "overworked intern" issue and employment issues (after all if 80 hours of work regularly needs to get done every week, it would suddenly become cheaper to hire a second shift).
Would this memo be on recycled paper?
*Mod parent up!*
Good points from the article for the lazy:
-People who feel like they've been "good" for one meal will simply compensate by eating worse for the rest of the day
-A construction worker who buys one large drink and nurses it all day would be impacted. (I would include tourists and shoppers in this as well).
And the best one:
-If this fails, no one will try anything like it anywhere in the US for a *very long time*, preventing any actual worthwhile legislation from being passed.
You can still purchase as much soda as you like, you just can't purchase it in large containers. Sounds like a balance between public health and freedom to choose.
As someone who likes to buy a large (32oz) beverage at fast food places with lunch and sip at it my leisure for the rest of the day whenever I'm in NYC: fuck you. Even if the price is the same, I will be stuck having to carry two containers, and make damn sure to chuck the extra one in the middle of the street, hopefully to get lodged in a storm drain and cause some flooding.
But hey, it's better than letting people control their own portioning, right?
I always thought there was a law against charging for tap water at eateries, but looking around it appears there isn't - it's just supposed to be bad business.
I usually raise holy hell a place tries to charge for tap water... I'm ok with a 25 cent charge for the cup / labor but no more.
That is what it *said* created the file. Dhclient is still changing it and I really couldn't be bothered to figure out where to tell it not to.
In any case the "proper" method doesn't scale well. Editing /etc/network/interfaces works for Debian based systems (coincidentally what I use personally) but for RedHat based it's /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/[interface] (which is what I often deal with). That's already two different places. The target files also happen to have contents customized to the machine's hardware layout, not an easy situation to script.
So I can either manually edit one or the other config file every time a new system comes my way, or spend hours making a script to read and properly alter the appropriate files, or just run this:
echo "search example.com" > /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 10.0.0.99" >>
chattr +i
And to undo: /etc/resolv.conf
chattr -i
Throw in a "service network restart" or "dhclient" afterward and your resolv.conf is right back to normal.
Simple and clean. No dialog boxes, no editing text files, just clobbering one that gets recreated automatically anyway.
As far as:
Preventing the DHCP client from doing what it is intended to do is breaking DHCP.
Really? The important parts of DHCP (contact DHCP server, configure IP, routing, etc) is working just fine. How is hardcoding a nameserver breaking DHCP?
My procedure has the benefit of working on almost any Linux system with any network configuration. Other than a few wasted processor cycles when dhclient or what have you tries and fails to write resolv.conf, I can't see any benefit the so-called "right" way has.
Really? The first line of the file says "# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)". And if you just read the man page, you are told which files to edit to make changes to the resolver config.
Really? Mine just says " Generated by NetworkManager". Different distros like to clobber resolv.conf in different ways, my method gets the intended result 100% of the time on the first try.
The reason turning off write doesn't work is because resolvconf runs as root, of course. And it's not a good idea anyway unless you like breaking DHCP.
1. A proper program running as root (ie: try editing a file with vim) will ask if you want to override read-only protection (and as a daemon, will simply choose to respect it). Just because it *can* ignore the permission doesn't mean it should. Samba for example will not write its LDB files if it does not have write permission, even though it runs as root.
2. How is preventing DHCP from writing resolv.conf "breaking DHCP"? I have my own DNS server that I would rather use than my ISP's which hijacks DNS errors.
which makes a glorious pain in the ass out of itself by deciding it's smarter than you when it comes to your /etc/resolv.conf config file
I never know what utility is overwriting my resolv.conf but editing it by hand and running "chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf" always seems to stop nonsense like that...
I shouldn't have to resort to that; chmod -w should be enough. It's pretty stupid when a utility doesn't respect the read only attribute.