Authorization

An authorization form is normally used by companies that are having their employees stay with us. The purpose is to provide a card to us and specify which charges they want on the card.

We had a person checking in, and they asked to fill out an authorization form. For their own reservation. They gave us their credit card for the incidental deposit, then emailed us the form shortly after. They wrote that the card on the form should only be charged for room, tax, and valet. The card on the form was the same one that was put down for incidentals... They racked up a few room service charges and checked out a few days later.

Today, I received a call from them confused as to why their card was charged more than expected, and asked us to email them the receipt. I did, and in response, they wrote. "I'm confused why the room service charges were put on my card. I clearly wrote that I only want Room & Tax and Valet to be charged to the card. Why didn't you correctly follow the authorization form?"

Bewildered, I (summary) responded, "The authorization form was followed correctly. The card provided on the form was only charged for what was on the form, and the card provided for the incidental deposit was only charged for incidentals. Since you used the same card for both, you got charged for both."

They responded, "The lady at the front desk reconfirmed that I'd ONLY get charged for what was on the form."

Again, I (summary) replied, "The lady at the front desk was correct. The card used on the form would only get charged for what was on the form. Since you used the same card for the incidental deposit, that card was charged for incidentals too. The purpose of the authorization form is to specify which charges go to which card that has been provided. You only provided one card to us. There would be no other possible way for us to take payment for the incidental charges if we didn't use the only card provided to us. If another card was supposed to pay for incidentals, then that card should have been provided for the incidental deposit"

This was all spread across 3 separate emails from them, and I'm awaiting their reply. Just wanted to share because.... just wow. This is also an important VIP guest and the room service charges aren't even expensive, so it's not someone trying to get out of paying.

I still find these confusing as hell. Can you guys drop some tips or info on what exactly PAs are and why they happen and how to go about resolving them? And how to speak to patients regarding PAs (explaining them and such) (I’m in retail pharm)

MY experience if anyone is interested:

I originally applied ($345) in December of 2019, had to use their NYPD website, and uploaded TONS of documents. Sometime in January of 2020 I was asked to come in for fingerprints ($80). I was assigned an investigator in March. The pandemic hit, and I heard nothing until about 2 months ago. I was sent a word document instead of an in-person interview. I had 3 incidents with the MTA for jumping turnstiles and had to go to MTA to receive a TAB disposition. I had also been arrested twice before and had to show proof those cases were dismissed.

The question now becomes, which gun!

have had my eyes on the clock 19 but cannot really find one, even online.

I am able to find p365s on guns.com and Glock 19xs on gunbroker.

The handgun will be my first firearm since I was a kid and be used for home security and range shooting.

Thoughts?

The US Congress has just voted to override a Presidential veto and pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 into law. This bill authorizes a $740 billion annual budget for the Department of Defense, but it also includes specific provisions setting US federal policy on various issues related to national security. Congress.gov has a legislative summary of the bill and Wikipedia [describes some of the history and provisions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._(Mac)_Thornberry_National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2021).

Now that all these new provisions have entered the law, what are the substantial policy changes created by the 2021 NDAA? And what controversial policy changes were proposed but ultimately excluded from the final version of the bill?

This happened on Sunday, which I guess is important for the context.

At check-in, we always explain that there is an "additional $50 authorization for incidentals per day, in the event you would to charge anything to your room, yada yada." I usually add that it will release back after you check out, but most people just nod through it because they've heard it all before. Our property is an independently operated boutique hotel and most of our guests are seasoned business travelers. No big deal. But since we've dropped our rates during the Covid-enhanced off-season, we've been getting local... "non-travelers," so to speak. Man, they do NOT like the "extra $50 charge." Because they can't understand or won't let me explain the difference between a charge and an authorization.

Card won't authorize on Saturday, so I get the whole, "but they quoted me <this amount> on the phone and that's exactly how much I have." Okay, but that's just the rate... not including tax & incidentals. "Uhhh... okay hold on, let me go move some money around..." Great, you do that. They ask for the exact amount the card will need to authorize for, I tell them room & tax amount (what they will be charged) and then "the $50 for incidentals" that the card with also authorize for, and add that to the grand total.

"I get that $50 back though right?" "Yes, we don't charge you. It's just an authorization. It's temporary." "Sounds like some bullshit but whatever." Right. Enjoy your stay.

Checks out next day, calls me AN HOUR after checking out ON A SUNDAY and starts losing his mind, "YOU SAID YOU CHARGED ME THIS BUT MY ACCOUNT SAYS YOU CHARGED ME THIS." The amount, of course, is exactly $50 more than what their statement said at checkout. Cue me getting accused of overcharging. Remember the conversation we had YESTERDAY about the "temporary authorization?" "YOU SAID I WOULD GET IT BACK WHEN I CHECKED OUT."

I don't think I really need to continue the rest of the story... you've heard this all before yourselves, I'm sure. I just needed to vent real quick. The reason I'm telling it now is that he just called me, at 5:00am, asking where his $50 is. I explained it can take a couple of business days, especially for debit cards, and that he should call his bank to check the status of the pending authorization. "I ALREADY CALLED MY BANK."

Sigh.

EDIT: Besides the few comments, which are whatever, I’ve started receiving some random but extremely hateful messages about how

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/intelligence-authorization-act-fiscal-year-2021

Right below section 513 under "Committee Comments" is where it mentions the UAP. Here's the excerpt:

" Advanced Aerial Threats

The Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders. Therefore, the Committee directs the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as ``anomalous aerial vehicles''), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified. The Committee further directs the report to include:

1. A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including data and intelligence reporting held by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force;
2. A detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by: a. geospatial intelligence; b. signals intelligence; c. human intelligence; and d. measurement and signals intelligence;
3. A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace;
4. A detailed description of an interagency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the Federal Government, regardless of which service or agency acquired

Let's implement Permission-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core (.NET 5) + Source Code Included!

Setting up Permissions to access your resources is always a crucial part of your application’s security. In this article, we will implement Permission-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core that builds upon the concept of Claim-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core. As usual, we will be building this application right from scratch to get some detailed knowledge about the whole scenario and how it would actually help you secure your projects.

Topics Covered:

1. What’s Role-Based Authorization? It's Limitation.

2. Permission-Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core

3. List of all Registered Users

4. Manage User Roles

5. Add New Roles

6. Manage Permissions – UI

7. Getting Started with Permission-Based Authorization

8. Pre-Defined Roles

9. Seeding Users and Roles

10. Displaying a List of Registered Users

11. Role Management UI

12. Roles-Permission Management UI

13. Claims Helper

14. Permission Requirement

15. Authorization Handler

16. Permission Policy Provider

17. Registering the Services

Essentially you get to build a Complete User Management System in .NET 5

Read More - https://codewithmukesh.com/blog/permission-based-authorization-in-aspnet-core/

In the past with Sprint I had a family account with several people. One of my relatives was able to walk into a Sprint store and they added a brand new device lease after they broke their previous phone. This was all done secretly. After I checked the account, I found that the rep added the person as a delegate without any permission given by the owner.

I manage the T-Mobile account. I oversee the bills and I want to know every single change that is made on the account and I don't permit anybody adding devices or mucking up plans. I'm sure you guys understand that especially with how delicate free lines and promotions are.

I've done everything I can think of. Nobody knows the PIN. Nobody knows the security questions. The account email is mine, 2FA and all notifications use my number. What more can I do?

Is there a corporate security number I can call to lock down my account and ensure that NOBODY can do anything to the account without me there with my license, PIN and security checks? I don't want to go through something like that ever again. I want full control.

Please tell me what my options are, I want to go full nuclear.

Plenty of agencies continue working and using funds even when they aren authorized so there wasn’t a real substantial risk to national security.

What’s the benefit to immediately submitting?

This is my ansible playbook:

- hosts: gluster-test
  become: true
  tasks:
  - name: Create new VM with minimal options
	community.general.proxmox_kvm:
	  proxmox_default_behavior: 'no_defaults'
	  api_user: '[email protected]'
	  api_password: 'blahblahblah'
	  api_host: 'gluster-test'
	  name: 'test-vm'
	  node: 'gluster-test'

Which I then run using ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass setup-test-vm.yml which gives me this output:

BECOME password:


PLAY [gluster-test] *******************************************************************************************************************************************


TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [gluster-test]


TASK [Create new VM with minimal options] *********************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [gluster-test]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "authorization on proxmox cluster failed with exception: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='gluster-test.jordanbradley.site', port=8006): Max retries exceeded with url: /api2/json/access/ticket (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f2efe49b6a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 110] Connection timed out'))"}


PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************************************************************************

gluster-test               : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0