Sci fi movie where a killer robot wears the face of the main character There's a movie, that I watched in the mid 90's, with a scene where a killer robot wears the face of the friend of the main character.  The scene I remember is on a planet e.g. the moon, and that the main character is in a white dome like structure hiding from the robots. The robot walks by with the friend's face on and peers through the little window on the door of the dome. The robot was a metal structure with long metal legs and only the face was human.  I thought it was Screamers, with Peter Weller, but I've just watched the whole thing and it did not happen.
Movie about hostile robots disguised as footballs I saw this on TV in mid 90s I think. One or more people travel to another celestial body (might or might not be the/a moon or mars), they find an American football. The football transforms into a robot that is hostile. They later find LOTS of these footballs/disguised robots.  Since there are lots of robotic projects with "football robots" or " robots", it is very hard to filter search results using Google etc.
What is Ubuntu's status on the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? Any questions relating to status updates, or asking if anything is going to be patched for these vulnerabilities should be closed as duplicates of this question.    are in the news right now and sound pretty severe. I don't see any security updates from Ubuntu that cover these vulnerabilities.  What is Ubuntu doing about these vulnerabilities, and what should Ubuntu users be doing?  These are CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754. What command do I need to unzip/extract a .tar.gz file? I received a huge .tar.gz file from a client that contains about 800 mb of image files (when uncompressed.) Our hosting company's ftp is seriously slow, so extracting all the files locally and sending them up via ftp isn't practical. I was able to ftp the .tar.gz file to our hosting site, but when I ssh into my directory and try using unzip, it gives me this error:  [esthers@clients locations]$ unzip community_images.tar.gz Archive:  community_images.tar.gz   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. note:  community_images.tar.gz may be a plain executable, not an archive unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of community_images.tar.gz or community_images.tar.gz.zip, and cannot find community_images.tar.gz.ZIP, period.   What command do I need to use to extract all the files in a .tar.gz file? Can SQL Server's Page Life Expectancy be too high? I've read several articles about SQL Server's Page Life Expectancy and what it means and what kind of information you can glean from it. In most of these articles that I've read, a common, healthy PLE value is somewhere around 1000-2000 seconds. I've read that getting down to around 300 seconds can mean you're likely low on RAM.  I recently just upgraded our hardware to have 64GB of RAM, up from 14GB. On the 14GB my PLE was around 300 seconds, and I was having a lot of 5-6 memory grants pending per second. So, that was bad and I increased the RAM. Now, my PLE is much, much higher around 5000 seconds, and no more pending memory grants. I've seen it 7000 seconds, if I recall. This is much higher than anything I've read.  Can a high PLE be a bad thing? Or is it the higher the better?  EDIT: I'm sorry, my PLE wasn't 7000 seconds, it was 70,000 seconds! Although, at the moment it is down to around 7000.     The database size is around 160GB. A few tables have 5+ million rows. max_server_memory is set to 2147483647. Why can't Python's raw string literals end with a single backslash? To find the total no. of six digit numbers that can be formed having property that every succeeding digit is greater than preceding digit. I have a question and got strucked on this.. To find the total no. of six digit numbers that can be formed having property that every succeeding digit is greater than preceding digit. Please guide me to solve this. Thanks in advance. Delete all lines in Notepad++ except lines containing a word I need? Is there a way to connect my MacBook Pro to two external monitors (either VGA or HDMI; no Thunderbolt) in such a way that the Mac screen serves as a third monitor?  What hardware do I need? Having trouble indexing and executing a query in O (log n) time.  The query includes an INNER JOIN, an ORDER BY, and an equality operation. If I understand the laws of databases correctly, a query can be indexed and executed in O (log n) time (or thereabouts) if a non-equality operator is not used on more than one column. In this case, I believe the INNER JOIN does count as an equality operator and the non-equality operator would be the ORDER BY portion of the query. This table has upwards of 10,000,000 rows and needs to handle several reads and writes per second.  Using PostgreSQL. This is what the table looks like. As you can see, the column 'Names' is a list property and it is the column that the INNER JOIN goes against:  Age Names                       Date 34  ['carla', 'john', 'sam']    3/13/2011 26  ['json', 'cindy', 'joel']   3/13/2011 72  ['beth', 'amber', 'susie']  3/13/2011 14  ['john', 'jim', 'debie']    3/13/2011   This is the query that we are trying to do:  SELECT * FROM the_table WHERE Age==26 AND Names=='john' ORDER BY Date   My background is from using App Engine's Big Table, so I've used equality operators here to indicate that 'john' should be one of the names in the Names column. This would be an acceptable query in GAE's big table, it would execute in O (log N) time as all Big Table queries are reqyured to do. I am assuming there is a way to do this in PostgreSQL as well since PostgreSQL accepts list data types as columns.  Is this possible to do in PostgreSQL?  If so, how should the index be set up (we can't figure out how to set up an index that takes into account the three properties)? Well, the original task was to figure out what the following expression evaluates to for any $n$.  $$\begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; 1 \\ 0 &amp; 1\end{pmatrix}^{\large n}$$  By trying out different values of $n$, I found the pattern: $$\begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; 1 \\ 0 &amp; 1\end{pmatrix}^{\large n} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; n \\ 0 &amp; 1\end{pmatrix}$$  But I have yet to figure out how to prove it algebraically.   Suggestions? Find the value of : $\cos x \cos 2x...\cos 999x$ given that $x=\frac {2\pi}{1999}$ Given $x=\frac {2\pi}{1999}$  Find the value of $$\cos x \cos 2x \cos 3x ...\cos 999x$$  So I tried expanding $\sin {2000x}=2\sin 1000x \cos 1000x$  Then rewriting  $\cos 1000x= \cos {(999x+x)}$   No luck so far. Failed to load map. Error contacting Google servers. This is probably an authentication issue Mavericks input source is set to US keyboard in login screen I'm from Belgium, and on my own user account, the input source is set to a Belgian (actually French) keyboard. The input sources menu is enabled in the menu bar, so I can switch it to the Belgian keyboard before entering my password, but how can I permanently change the input source used for login? I'm the system admin, and I know how to get root access if necessary.  It worked perfectly in Mountain Lion. I know that this sounds like Strange Days, which I haven't seen, but from the Wikipedia description I don't think that's it.  I saw this back in the early-to-mid-90's on TV, pretty sure it was a premium channel. It follows a research group who develops a way to record experiences. Not thoughts, but at least the sights, sounds, smells, touch, etc. They record it onto this reel-to-reel tape, it looked striated and golden in color. The protagonist is the head of the research team.  I don't remember a great deal of the plot, but there were conspiracies surrounding the invention. The lab clown decides to give it a whirl by putting the bike-helmet-sized apparatus on his head and going out to have a little fun, in the classic wine, women, and song fashion. Once he returns, an older member of the team finds the tape and finds a section where the clown is having sex. Later on, the protagonist, who is the lead researcher, finds the older member shut up in his house seemingly for days and nearly comatose. The older researcher had the playback device over his head and is non-responsive. Worried, the protagonist removes the helmet and puts it on himself, only to find that the older researcher had snipped a few seconds of tape and had them running on a non-stop loop; the moment of orgasm for the clownish researcher. The older researcher eventually comes to and awkwardly apologizes.  I think there were also experiments in recording the sensorum of a lab monkey, and that played into the plot. I remember the plot seemed fairly thin and dull for what seemed to be a pretty neat idea. I don't desperately feel the need to watch the movie, but I'm mildly curious if my impressions would differ 20 years later now. I got the Turkey e-visa several times with my schengen visa. In the e-visa form there is a condition      I have a round-trip ticket with Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airlines,   Onur Air or Egypt Air.   What if I am traveling from another country to Turkey or using another airlines like Nile Air form Egypt? What is the limit of $n \sin (2 \pi \cdot e \cdot n!)$ as $n$ goes to infinity? Why I cannot use universal instantiation rule here? I have the following premise:      $$\forall x (Fx \vee \neg Fx) \rightarrow Ga$$   Why I cannot use UI and get: $(Fa \vee \neg Fa) \rightarrow Ga$ And what is the difference between the first premise and the below premise:     $$\forall x ((Fx \vee \neg Fx) \rightarrow Ga)$$   Thanks in advance. Capture characters from standard input without waiting for enter to be pressed Unable to install Cisco Packet Tracer 7.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 What is the official name for the "special" ASP.NET tags like this:  &lt;%# %&gt; &lt;%= %&gt; &lt;%@ %&gt; &lt;%$ %&gt;   I can't seem to figure out the conceptual or well known name for these, so I'm having trouble searching for more info.  As a bonus, can anyone give me a quick rundown of all of the possible "special tags" and what each one of them does (or point me to a resource)? Express partial derivatives of second order (and the Laplacian) in polar coordinates $z=f(x,y)$ where $x=rcosθ$ and $y=rsinθ$  Find $ \frac{\partial z}{\partial x}$ and $ \frac{\partial^2 z}{\partial x^2}$  I'm having big troubles with using chain rule, in particularly the second derivative. Spent 2 hours on this already. What I have...  $ \frac{\partial z}{\partial x}=\frac{\partial r}{\partial x}\frac{\partial z}{\partial r}+\frac{\partial z}{\partial θ}\frac{\partial θ}{\partial x}$. So I'm guessing that $\frac{\partial z}{\partial r}$ and $\frac{\partial z}{\partial θ}$ are unkown? And I will need to use them to differentiate again. Any help is really welcome. This is simply only part of a bigger question.   Full Question: