I could see a student hollowing out the laptop and hiding a weapon inside to sneak it in if thats the case

That is beyond silly. Unless students go naked they can have a weapon in a pocket.

The point was that if the laptop is taken out and doesn’t go through the scanner, but the rest of the student has to go through the scanner, then the laptop is a great hiding place. Presumably that scanner can at least beep at a pocket knife.

Oh, indeed!

But if they are not otherwise checked it would be quite useless.

don't forget...natures pocket.

It's very likely he wouldn't be able to pass a background check himself, so he stole the identity to secure a well-paid job that he couldn't get himself

Isn't that the whole point? To keep it away from urban populations?

> Who is right and who is wrong?

In Alabama it would the industrial sector that is in the wrong.

Nobody wants to pay for more expensive land, but we should force them to via regulation if they are going to spread cancer in the air.

Looking at the outcome of economic effects with "right and wrong" isn't really a helpful measurement. We should force them, not because they are "wrong" but because the economic incentives deliver an outcome that is undesirable.

Agreed, but I don't see how "economic incentives" and "undesirable outcomes" isn't just a different way of saying right and wrong.

“Right” and “wrong” implies a sense of free will. When the expensive negative externalities of a business are legalized, a market is guaranteed to force any would-be altruistic actors out of existence. Those who get a job in one of these industries have no functional or legal ability to make choices which would bankrupt their own organizations. The only way to solve the issue is with a regulatory level playing field.

Economic incentives are a scientific force. You can’t solve problems by suggesting that people ignore them, you have to work within the bounds of the natural effects that inherently exist. Groups of people do not make moral decisions like an individual person does.

We won’t solve this issue with mere criticism while we continue to financially reward these outcomes. Make negative externalities illegal.

You could pay for YouTube Premium

I don't feel like rewarding a company for grabbing a monopoly on short form streaming video then making their service borderline unwatchable through aggressive, increasingly unskippable ads.

Plus (getting back to the topic at hand), having adblock for all your devices is so ... pleasant. You forgot how jarring and upsetting (and LOUD) advertisements are. Having them puncture your DNS adblock while using Chromecast is like getting a wet slap in the face.

Age discrimination goes both ways, it’s not just 40+ workers that experience it

You're on a tech focus site here.

Age discrimination almost certainly goes one way in these cases. That's if you're above 40, and looking to join an early stage start-up, you'll find you're often not a culture fit.

I agree.

I prefer ipinfo.io

You can even lookup info for other up addresses. E.g. https://ipinfo.io/1.1.1.1

This one supports other IPs also: https://ifconfig.co/?ip=1.2.3.4

And JSON: https://ifconfig.co/json?ip=1.2.3.4

The URL is cleaner with ipinfo.io, don't have to specify GET parameters with it.

Plus if you use curl, it will return JSON instead of HtML

If you use powershell / invoke-restmethod it will return json and get deserialised into a structured object, too.

    PS C:\> irm ipinfo.io

    PS C:\> $x = irm ipinfo.io
    PS C:\> $x.timezone
    Europe/London

Personally, I use http://checkip.dyndns.org/ by habit, with its one-line return.

No it wont, server need to return JSON format itself.

Your example doesn't work. It needs to be:

    irm ipinfo.io/json

Your other example can be get like this:

    irm http://checkip.dyndns.org | % HTML | % body

It will work. The server will return JSON. The URL http://ipinfo.io/ returns HTML if the Accept header indicates that you want HTML, and JSON if there is no header, a wildcard header, or a header that requests JSON. As far as I can see, irm doesn’t add an Accept header, so the command jodrellblank provided will fetch JSON and work correctly.

Doesnt work on Windows 10 using latest pwsh

Works on Windows 10 using Windows PowerShell. In Pwsh it does seem to need /json

curl ifconfig.co/json

He still cloud have connected his Ledger to a compromised client and didn't double check what he was signing before confirming it.

I have candy crush ads in my start menu from a recent fresh install

It reads fine to me, it’s obviously the employee mentioned in the beginning of the paragraph “Still another”

It could be the manager speaking down to them, in in the course of that, suggesting other (black) employees had been passed for promotion.