I sometimes find the need to leave my bike on my bike rack while I'm away from my car.  It's a simple strapped-on rack, so locking the bike to the rack doesn't help.  (My car doesn't have a towing hitch.)  What can I do to secure the bike to the car in a way that will deter theft?
We are planning a trip with a bike rack attached to our trailer hitch. What is the best way to lock the bikes while the vehicle is unattended? I see some racks have locks on the knobs but they don't seem very strong.   What do you suggest?
Is it safe to give out one's bank account number? I'm managing the utility of the house and I'm sharing with another person. He asks me to provide my bank account number, so that he can transfer his money to my account when paying the utility.    I wonder if it is safe to give out my bank account number?   For example, if I'm correct, many online payments just need the account number to draw money out of it. Is giving out the bank account number safer than handing a check to another person, since there is also the account number printed on the check? Where's the energy in a boosted capacitor? Suppose I look at a parallel plate capacitor in its rest frame and calculate the electrostatic energy, $E$.  Next, I look at the same capacitor in a primed frame boosted in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the plates. In this frame, the $E$-field is the same strength, there is no magnetic field, and the volume over which the $E$-field extends is less by a factor $1/\gamma$. This suggests $E' = \frac{1}{\gamma} E$, but relativity states that energy transforms as $E' = \gamma E$.   Where is the missing energy? What is the closed formula for finding      $$ \sum_{i=0}^{k} \binom{n}{2i}=?\quad ,k\leq \lfloor{n/2}\rfloor $$   I need summation only up to some intermediate  $k$ where $k\leq \lfloor{n/2}\rfloor$ .  SAY I need a closed formula to calculate $\binom{8}{0}+ \binom{8}{2}+\binom{8}{4} +\binom{8}{6}$  HERE $n=8$ and $k=6$ How do I install drivers for a Canon LBP-2900 printer? I seen many times how people describe how to's about LBP-2900, and 10-12 steps from start to end of how to download, unpack, build driver, fix driver, make it work... Could be there some .deb package with ready-to-go driver for Ubuntu? This printer is very popular... If we have a function $f:A \rightarrow B$, then one way to give meaning, I think, to this function, in terms of set theory, is to say, that $f$ is actually a binary relation $f=(A,B,G_f)$, where $G_f \subseteq A \times B$ is the graph of the function. Now my question is: what is $f$ if   $\bullet \ A=\emptyset, \ B\neq\emptyset$,?  $ \bullet \ B=\emptyset, \ A\neq\emptyset$ ?  $ \bullet \ B=\emptyset, \ A=\emptyset$ ?  (Another way to formulate this, I think, would be: How do the sets $\emptyset\times B,\ A\ \times \emptyset, \ \emptyset \times \emptyset $ look like? Are they all $\emptyset$ ?) Deferring admission to a computer science graduate program Whenever I boot Ubuntu, I get a message that it cannot mount my windows partition, and I can choose to either wait, skip or manually mount.  When I try to enter my Windows partition through Nautilus I get a message saying that this partition is hibernated and that I need to enter the file system and properly close it, something I have done with no problem so I don't know why this happens.    Here's my partition table, if any more data is needed please let me know.     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1            2048    20000767     9999360   83  Linux /dev/sda2        20002814   478001151   228999169    5  Extended /dev/sda3   *   478001152   622532607    72265728    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4       622532608   625141759     1304576   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5        20002816   478001151   228999168   83  Linux I'm getting the following error message:     System.QueryException: Didn't understand relationship 'AccountContactRelation' in FROM part of query call. If you are attempting to use a custom relationship, be sure to append the '__r' after the custom relationship name. Please reference your WSDL or the describe call for the appropriate names.   Select Email, Id, (Select ContactId, AccountId From AccountContactRelation) From Contact  In AccountContactRelation object there are two lookup fields for Account and for Contact.  Please advise how to avoid such error message? Prove that equation has exactly 2 solutions Find $\lim_{n\to \infty}({1\over \sqrt{n^2+1}}+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+2}}+\cdots+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+n}})$ strong textFind $\lim_\limits{n\to \infty}\left({1\over \sqrt{n^2+1}}+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+2}}+\cdots+{1\over \sqrt{n^2+n}}\right)$. I do know it is bounded by $1$. I tried using the sandwich rule with no success. How can I solve it? How to execute .sh file on Windows? When I am trying to execute a file(name.sh) in the command line by the command  ./name.sh  , I am getting the error that:     "." is not recognized as an internal   or external command, operable or batch   file   please help me execute the .sh file Proof that Conditional of Poisson distribution is Binomial Let $p\in[1,\infty]$, $a\in\ell^\infty$ and $$T:\ell^p\to\ell^p\;,\;\;\;x\mapsto ax.$$ Note that $\left\|T\right\|=\left\|a\right\|_{\ell^\infty}$. It's easy to see that if $a\in\ell^1$, then $T$ is nuclear and hence compact.  Can we more generally conclude that $T$ is compact?  Assume $p&lt;\infty$. The intuitive approach would be to define $$T_n:\ell^p\to\ell^p\;,\;\;\;x\mapsto(a_1x_1,\ldots,a_nx_n,0,\ldots)$$ for $n\in\mathbb N$ and to show that $\left\|T_n-T\right\|\to0$. Now, $$\left\|(T_n-T)x\right\|^p=\sum_{i=n+1}^\infty|a_ix_i|^p\tag1$$ for all $x\in\ell^p$ and $n\in\mathbb N$. The right-hand side of $(1)$ clearly converges to $0$ as $n\to\infty$, but this only yields convergence in the strong operator topology. On the other hand, if $(a_n)_{n\in\mathbb N}$ would be nonincreasing and $a_n\to0$ (e.g. $a_n=\frac1n$), then $$\left\|(T_n-T)x\right\|^p\le|a_{n+1}|^p\left\|x\right\|_{\ell^p}^p\tag2$$ for all $x\in\ell^p$ and $n\in\mathbb N$ and we could immediately conclude $\left\|T_n-T\right\|\to0$. EDIT: Maybe the general result can be obtained from the convergence in strong operator topology (which holds by $(1)$) by noting that $\ell^p$ has the approximation property; but I'm not sure whether this is true. Recently I answered two questions on SO: The  is a completely trivial answer to a really basic question (kind of "read the manual and follow the one liner example there"). On the other hand, my  is a much more complicated answer that requires much more specialized knowledge of a very specific domain (happens to be related to my PhD research).  Clearly, the first answer could have been given by many SO users - I just happened to be the first to pick up the glove on this question. However, this is not the case for the second answer.  In contrast, when it comes to reputation - the first answer instantly got upvoted (everyone can relate to a simple question/answer), while the second one - I don't believe it will get much upvotes...  So, life isn't fair: for the one answer that really very few people could provide (the second answer) and is much harder to find and get -- is not rewarded, while the trivial answer is rewarded fast and strong...  How can we amend this? How can we encourage rare and specialized answers for difficult and deep questions?  Do we want SO to turn into a pool of trivial and superficial questions?    Update: Thanks to many meta-users who took the time to read through this question and ponder its implication, both answers I used as examples got exposed far beyond their fair-share. So, despite the fact that my original claim that the specialized answer get less reps is no longer valid, this does not change fact that in general my claim is stil valid: specialized answers requiring expert knowledge will recieve less attention at first.    Bottom line: (following my wish to have some sort of ). Indeed it sometimes seems like life isn't fair, but this is only in the short term. In the long run high quality answers do get their proper credit and exposure and their fair share of reputation. The reputation system of SO works quite well balancing and accounting for many factors and parameters. It would require a really strong argument backed up with serious research to change this mechanism.   Thank you all for the lively discussion and for showing me that life is fair after all. Why "was" not "were" in "Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account" I've always said "$100 were taken" not "$100 was taken" because I thought $100 is plural. Could you explain why "was" not "were"? Any other helpful notes about the issue would be appreciated.     Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account Can I remove a digital signature from a DLL? What makes frictional force the centripetal force of a car turning along a curve? As friction is the opposing force and acts anti-parallel so there is no component of frictional force towards the center,right? Then how can frictional force be centripetal force? Why can't I press the Install button when installing applications from unknown sources? Uncaught TypeError: 'set' on proxy: trap returned falsish for property Name Am not doing anything fancy, just trying to update a field on Contact in JS of LWC but getting this exception.  Uncaught TypeError: 'set' on proxy: trap returned falsish for property 'Name' throws at mydomain/auraFW/javascript/mhontaYdOya4Y_lBu7v9yg/aura_prod.js:2:27687  HTML Code:   &lt;template&gt;      &lt;template if:true={wiredContact}&gt;          {wiredContact.Name}          &lt;lightning-input value={wiredContact.Name} onchange={updateName}&gt;&lt;/lightning-input&gt;     &lt;/template&gt;  &lt;/template&gt;   JS:   import { LightningElement ,wire,track,api } from 'lwc'; import myContact from "@salesforce/apex/ContactController.fetchContact";  export default class Myrefreshapextest extends LightningElement {    @track wiredContact;   @wire (myContact)         fetchedContact({error, data}){             if(data){                 console.log(JSON.stringify(data));                 this.wiredContact = data;             }else if (error){                 console.log(error);             }     }      updateName (event){         console.log(JSON.stringify(event.detail.value));         console.log(JSON.stringify(this.wiredContact));         this.wiredContact.Name = event.detail.value;     }  }   Apex:  public class ContactController {      @AuraEnabled(cacheable=true)     public static Contact fetchContact(){         return [SELECT Id,Name FROM COntact LIMIT  1];     } }   On top of my head, am not doing anything wrong, anyone has idea what's wrong with my code?  When I print console.log(JSON.stringify(this.wiredContact)); I get old values so am pretty sure it exists.  I tried with @track and @api, but same response. Can anyone shed some light? How do you use script variables in psql? In MS SQL Server, I create my scripts to use customizable variables:  DECLARE @somevariable int   SELECT @somevariable = -1  INSERT INTO foo VALUES ( @somevariable )   I'll then change the value of @somevariable at runtime, depending on the value that I want in the particular situation. Since it's at the top of the script it's easy to see and remember.  How do I do the same with the PostgreSQL client psql?