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I'm on a large corporate network right now and I get responses back from `ping www.google.com`.

But also this technique doesn't depend on ICMP that is just what the example happens to use. Pwnat itself uses only UDP for outgoing requests.

It gets strange with Schools, they are actually allowed to keep medical records on students that are exempt from HIPAA and instead are covered under FERPA.

In what case isn't it obvious? C# makes it quite clear, you allocate to memory on the heap whenever you see the "new" keyword or whenever you see a new closure (because closures are of course just a poor man's objects).

In my city it's essentially illegal to build higher density residences than exist currently. Not sure how this is a failure of the market. So of course rents and real estate values are soaring and the current landowners do everything in their power to prevent development of anything that would allow people to live in the city cheaply.

> recently, the Somerville planning office released a report in which they confided that, in a city of nearly 80,000 people, there are exactly 22 residential buildings that meet the city’s zoning code. Every single other home is too dense to be legal: Either it takes up too much of the lot, or it has too many homes, or it’s too tall, or it’s not set far back enough from the street, and so on. (Note that this calculation actually doesn’t include parking requirements, which might very well do away with those last 22 conforming buildings.)

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/

So many innocent people pay ransoms. Any politician who pushed though that law would get destroyed by the press the first time the government imprisons some sympathetic person who panicked and paid a ransom to keep their nudes from being sent to their family.

What you can do is basically use partially overlapping beams to energize an area smaller than any of the individual beams (think venn diagram). Its a similar technique (except in 2 dimensions) to radiation therapy where multiple beams of radiation are passed through healthy tissue such that their intersection point is on cancerous tissue. That way only the cancerous tissue receives a highly damaging dose of radiation while the healthy tissue receives significantly lesser dosages.

I agree using the common definitions sweeteners could be called flavors. However the FDA has only approved sucralose as a non-nutritive sweetener which for regulatory purposes is a different category of ingredient than artificial flavors.

Approved artificial flavors: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...

Approved artificial sweeteners: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/additional...

Dead people have basically no rights, at least in the United States.

Its not fraud, at least not as federally defined because that only covers money, property, or "depriv[ing] another of the intangible right of honest services". It does not cover information.

The shareholders certainly consider bankruptcy to be relevant. One would think they would find the hiring of "responsible" people who bankrupted their previous company to be relevant also.

They are not all soldiers, the corps has considerable civilian staff as well. But the reason is mostly historical. The corps existed first to build and maintain coastal fortifications and then when the western frontier opened up it made sense to assign them to secure the rivers and improve the waterways west (the western expansion was as much a military operation against the native peoples as it was a civilian migration).

Same, HR and c level are the only ones left with real offices.

They specially address your question.

> This policy will not apply to taxpayer-funded entities including independent public broadcasters.

And yet other laws require the collection and retention of sensitive user data, in particular any service that allows for transmission of large amounts of money (crypto exchanges were a good example).

But a startup which is unwilling to reimburse people for work phones or provide a phone probably doesn't require mobile device management either.

Couldn't you say the same thing about any security hole? If Equifax didn't want people reading their databases then they shouldn't have allowed anyone with an internet connection to remotely execute code on their systems via https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/issues/8064

Where is it illegal in Europe?

Knowingly and willingly usually refers to the level level of awareness that is required to be held culpable for a crime or violation. If the Lambda school was unaware that they were committing the conduct proscribed by law then they would have a defense (assuming knowingly and willingly was the standard required). However they do not need to be aware that the conduct was proscribed by law, just of the the conduct itself.

Yeah but we didn't need to fully understand how animal wings actually work, we just needed to understand what they do (generate lift). Similarly I don't understand the focus in this conversation on fully understanding the protein interactions that make neurons work. We just need to understand what neurons do. And I thought what they do is actually pretty simple due to the "all or nothing" principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-or-none_law

He may have acquired his grit through other means, in his words:

> By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising that was put down at gunpoint... [where] many young people were killed; countless others were interned. Some two hundred thousand Hungarians escaped to the West. I was one of them.

> and we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence.

Aren't we close to this? Most insects only have a few million neurons in their central nervous system, so we can model their intelligence in real time at least. Maybe we still lack the tools for training such networks into useful configurations?

Git rebase interactive with fixup or squash will combine the commits into the first one. So the timestamp will still be somewhat reflective of when work is done (on average).

They just don't call it a "free one month trial". Instead they say "sign up and get an extra month free". Which is basically what the "free trial" is if you fail to cancel it.

I don't think that is true with iframes, which is what plaid uses to allow users to enter their banking information. So plaid still can get all your keypresses but an app that uses plaid does not.

To be clear you have to trust plaid, and you have verify that the web app is actually using an iframe and not just faking the plaid interface. But you are not just trusting a random web app with your banking credentials.

I think by "memory access improvements" they are referring to the new zero cost memory abstractions (called Span and Memory) not to memory safety. This makes the most sense in context because these abstractions were inspired by similar zero cost abstractions in rust.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt814808.aspx

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.span-1?vi...

Tracing the bitcoin transactions might prove which account stole the money. But the device tracking helps prove which real person was controlling the account.

Don't we spend less time at work than ever? Makes more sense to me that loneliness would be caused by too much free time rather than not enough.

You could just ask the clerk for all the records, this is what public records databases do. They drive around to all the court houses and make copies of all the public records, put them into one big database and sell access to it.

I think it really depends, I use amazon prime as my primary shopping method, without it I would definitely need a vehicle.

> Experts say that e-commerce could actually, if optimized, be beneficial for the environment. Getting into your personal vehicle and going to the store isn’t very efficient, but consolidating multiple shoppers’ deliveries into one vehicle can be. Anne Goodchild, director of the University of Washington’s Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, told BuzzFeed News, “Broadly speaking, delivery services have the potential to dramatically reduce miles traveled.”

Chromecast doesn't have its own UI or authentication, it just uses the authentication of the device the stream was started from (being able to delegate that is a requirement for chromecast support). So it solves the same issue but in a very different way. Its a pretty clever solution but requiring all interaction with your tv to happen through another computing device can get annoying.