boarding flight at intermediate stop Suppose I book a flight ticket from place A to place B. This flight has a stop at place C.  Is it possible/allowed for me to board the flight at place C instead of place A?  If it is necessary, place A is Edinburgh, place C is London, place B is Bengaluru.
Do you have to take the second leg of a domestic flight? Say I want to book a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Chicago.  Say the airline also flies to St. Louis from Fort Launderdale but has a connecting flight through Chicago.  If I book that flights from FLL->ORD->STL and just get off in Chicago, what possible problems can I run into, assuming I didn't check any bags and only have carry on?  This scenario exist for Southwest, but I wanted this be more of a general question that would apply to all airlines.
Shine a light into a superconductor A type-I superconductor can expel almost all magnetic flux (below some critical value $H_c$) from its interior when superconducting. Light as we know is an electromagnetic wave. So what would happen if we shine a light deep into a type-I superconductor? Suppose the magnetic field of the light is significantly lower than $H_c$.  And what about type-II superconductors? Backtrack, Wi-Fi not working I've installed Backtrack 5R3 KDE, and I realized that my wireless is not working, but wired is working fine.  Here's the lshw output:     *-network         description: Ethernet interface         product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller         vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.         physical id: 0         bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0         logical name: eth0         version: 05         serial: 04:7d:7b:b7:46:f8         size: 100MB/s         capacity: 100MB/s         width: 64 bits         clock: 33MHz         capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation         configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.2.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s         resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0404000-f0404fff memory:f0400000-f0403fff   lspci output:      00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Panther Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Panther Point LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Panther Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Panther Point SMBus Controller (rev 04) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 05) I have put a bounty on , however I don't see it appear in the  (also not when I'm not logged in).  Why is this. Aren't all bounty questions supposed to be visible there? Ubuntu 17.10 and later: can't change the input switching shortcut to alt+shift Probability that a quadratic polynomial with random coefficients has real roots The following is a homework question for which I am asking guidance.     Let $A$, $B$, $C$ be independent random variables uniformly distributed between $(0,1)$. What is the probability that the polynomial $Ax^2 + Bx + C$ has real roots?   That means I need $P(B^2 -4AC \geq 0$). I've tried calling $X=B^2 -4AC$ and finding $1-F_X(0)$, where $F$ is the cumulative distribution function.  I have two problems with this approach. First, I'm having trouble determining the product of two uniform random variables. We haven't been taught anything like this in class, and couldn't find anything like it on Sheldon Ross' Introduction to Probability Models.  Second, this strategy just seems wrong, because it involves so many steps and subjects we haven't seen in class. Even if I calculate the product of $A$ and $C$, I'll still have to square $B$, multiply $AC$ by four and then subtract those results. It's too much for a homework question. I'm hoping there might be an easier way. What algorithm is used in linear regression? Could a website force the browser to go into fullscreen mode? I want to run a psychological study for which participants have to look at large images.  The experiment is done on the web and therefore in a browser window. Is it possible to tell the browser to go into fullscreen, for example on button press?  I know there is the possibility to open a fixed-size popup window. Do you think this would be a feasable alternative? And if, what would be the best way to do it? Are there elegant ways of detecting a popup-blocker, to fallback and run the study in the original browser window.  The main concern is that the participants of this study are not familiar with technical details and should not be bothered by them. If I use the starting wealth rolls of my class, do I keep any remaining money left over? If I use the starting wealth rolls of my class, do I keep any remaining money left over after I buy equipment?  In D&amp;D 5e you can roll the 4d4 &times; 10 to determine starting gold, forgoing any equipment your class and background  gets.  This is not up for question.  What is up for question is whether or not the PC keeps any remaining gold that they don't spend on equipment.   As far as I have been able to tell, this is not explicitly stated in the PHB nor in the Basic Rules documents. shell: keep trailing newlines ('\n') in command substitution I want to be able to capture the exact output of a command substitution, including the trailing new line characters.  I realise that they are stripped by default, so some manipulation may be required to keep them, and I want to keep the original exit code.  For example, given a command with a variable number of trailing newlines and exit code:  f(){ for i in $(seq "$((RANDOM % 3))"); do echo; done; return $((RANDOM % 256));} export -f f   I want to run something like:  exact_output f   And have the output be:  Output: $'\n\n' Exit: 5   I'm interested in both bash and POSIX sh. Is $v=\ (r_i)^{-1}\cdot z $, a uniformly random value of a field? We consider a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ where $q=2p+1$ and $q$ and $p$ are prime numbers.  Let $r_i$ be a value picked uniformly at random from the field such that $r_i&gt;\frac{q}{2}$. Let $z$ be a fixed field element.   Question: Is $v=(\ (r_i)^{-1}\cdot z) \bmod q$, a uniformly random value of the field? How to select an index value from a String Array in a JOptionPane SSMS wont give up file associations A and B disjoint, A compact, and B closed implies there is positive distance between both sets Claim: Let $X$ be a metric space. If $A,B\in X$ are disjoint, if A is compact, and if B is closed, then $\exists \delta&gt;0: |\alpha-\beta|\geq\delta\;\;\;\forall\alpha\in A,\beta\in B$.  Proof. Assume the contrary. Let $\alpha_n\in A,\beta_n\in B$ be chosen such that $|\alpha_n-\beta_n|\rightarrow0$ as $n\rightarrow \infty$.  Since A is compact, there exists a convergent subsequence of $\alpha_n\;(n\in\mathbb{N})$, $\alpha_{n_m}\;(m\in\mathbb{N})$, which converges to $\alpha\in A$.  We have   $$|\alpha-\beta_{n_m}|\leq|\alpha-\alpha_{n_m}|+|\alpha_{n_m}-\beta_{n_m}|\rightarrow0 \;\;\;as\;\;m\rightarrow\infty.$$ Hence $\alpha$ is a limit point of B and since B is closed $\alpha\in B$, contradiction.  Is my proof correct? I feel as though I am missing something simple which would trivialize the proof. How do I move the MySQL data directory? I am trying to move the data directory of my MySQL database to a second disk array that I have as a mount point /array2/.  The problem I am having is I have tried everything and after I modify the location of datadir in my.cnf mysql will not start up again.  All I get is:  start: Job failed to start I am looking for a JavaScript array insert method, in the style of:  arr.insert(index, item)   Preferably in jQuery, but any JavaScript implementation will do at this point. fitch style proof problem regarding rule of inferences Okay I have the following fitch proof almost figured out, from here I know I have to move forth in conlcuding but I don't know what I am missing  (2 premises)  S → (R ∨ P)  P → (¬R → Q)   my work below  new scope assume S   Rule: > elim  R ∨ P  New scope assume R  Q∨R     Rule: V intro  End scope – (new scope assume P)  ¬R → Q         Rule: > Elim  my confusion comes where I go from here  Q∨R            rule Taut Con ??  Goal:├ S → (Q ∨ R) When and where do I have the highest chance of seeing auroras? I'm wondering what time of year is best, and what locations might be best, for catching the aurora.  I'm currently thinking of February up at Sweden's ice hotel, but since the whole point of the trip is so that my wife can see the Aurora, I want to pick a location that affords the best chances to see one.  Edit: Just adding a link so you can see realtime aurora activity in the northern hemisphere    I know this is anecdotal, but I ended up going to Iceland in late february during the new moon and saw the aurora 3 out of 6 nights I was there.  There was activity every single night but the biggest problem was weather.  It was cloudy almost every single night. "It was me" or "It was I" It was ... salted the earth around your flower deck.    I wrote the second form "It was me". I have chosen the most "appropriate" answer to this question as somebody who is learning English.  This decision was made on a phonetic basis so it's for sure I made a mistake.   Surely you have a rational explanation to this exercise, maybe a grammar rule, or is it an English expression? How can I get an underbrace and an overbrace to partially overlap in an equation? Sometimes I want to describe portions of an equation using \underbrace and \overbrace in such a way that the portions are not completely distinct, for example:          /-------\ x = A + B + C + D + E     \-------/   \---/      What is the best way to do this? Notifications in browser tab A very nice feature for Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) would be to indicate the number of notifications (if any) in the browser tab like seen on Facebook:    Of course that would require automatic update if content has changed. Some kind of 'push-notification' which would be a nice feature as well.