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“But complete friendship is the friendship of good people similar in virtue; for they wish goods in the same way to each other insofar as they are good, and they are good in their own right.” Nicomachean Ethics, Irwin translation p 144. Bekker 1156b8-9  

For questions (1) – (6): Please discuss the significance and meaning of EACH of the following quotations in a well-formed paragraph. Please focus on discussing the quotation from Aristotle’s ethical perspective.

Suppose I wrote a simple program to take in a filename from a user and then execute a command to copy that file to a particular location (e.g. my own submission directory). How could this be exploited for command injection? What security measures should be implemented to prevent it? cp user_input subfolder/

You have a function taking in two unsigned integer variables, x and y. You want to add x and y but ensure an overflow does not occur. Write C or C++ code to perform the addition safely and return an error if overflow is detected.

“For low-carbon steel beams, what is the recommended factor of safety used by AISC?”

Cancer can develop in very young individuals, like children, because: 

Which organelle produces energy?

Where is shear stress in a rectangular beam at its maximum value?

What condition identifies the location of the maximum moment in a beam?

Because individuals with autism spectrum disorder vary greatly in the degree and nature of their deficits, some researchers have proposed that ASD