Two strangers have sent us money to our paypal account in the past week; the total is almost $700. What kind of a scam is this? I've had no contact with either of these people; the money just appeared as a payment received. I haven't had good customer service from paypal in the past, so I'm thinking if I call them, I'll end up with no help, and wasting an hour or two of my life trying to talk to people who won't and can't do anything. Have you heard of anything like this?
Possible Australianism - netbank = a website + app by which an Aussie can do their banking, including transferring money to other people.  A while ago, I ended up with $1000 transferred into my account, which in the description looked like a netbank transfer, not like a cheque, cash deposit etc, and which looked like it had already cleared and landed in my account. Usually when something is still working through the bank's system it displays as 'pending', but did not in this case.  I received a phone call from someone, saying that they had accidentally typed in the wrong account number, and wanting me to send them the same amount of money back via netbank.   Surely bank account numbers have a checksum, which make it relatively difficult for a typo to result in a payment going to the wrong person? What are likely sources of them being able to find my phone number to call me? Obviously, the bank either being hacked, or giving it out in response to a query from this person (but surely the bank is unlikely to tell me my own mobile number if I claim to have forgotten it?). Presumably either my phone, or the phone of someone I have sent money to/received money from could be compromised. Has anyone heard of any instances of this happening?  I then went to my bank, explained the situation and said that I did want to refund the money through the officially sanctioned methodology. After the laughter died down, the bank told me to ask the person to fill out a form, then they would get me to fill out a form that would authorize undoing that exact payment.  I rang up the person to tell them this, and over the course of about a week received an increasingly elaborate story about how that wasn't working, they needed the money immediately, there was a fee to fill out that form and they couldn't afford to pay it etc.  After that, I never heard back from them again. I check my netbank for several weeks after, expecting the money to magically disappear, but it did not. This was probably a year ago, and I'm pretty vague with money so may not have noticed if it disappeared more recently. How were they expecting to benefit?  Were they hoping to get the transfer from me, and undo the transfer to me, to leave them $1k up? If so, how can an internet banking transfer be 'undone' once it has already shown as 'received'. Or was this to do with money laundering? The account they requested me to send money to was the same as the one that the money appeared to come from. This was a scam, right?
I have a script that reads a text stream and generates a file of sed commands that is later run with sed -f. The generated sed commands are like:  s/cid:image002\.gif@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/1922/g s/cid:image003\.gif@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/1923/g s/cid:image004\.jpg@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/1924/g   Assume the script which generates the sed commands is something like:  while read cid fileid do     cidpat="$(echo $cid | sed -e s/\\./\\\\./g)"     echo 's/'"$cidpat"'/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/'"$fileid"'/g' &gt;&gt; sedscr done   How can I improve the script to ensure all regex metacharacters in the cid string are escaped and interpolated properly? How to watch Youtube fullscreen on one monitor of a dual-monitor display? How to watch Youtube fullscreen on one monitor of a dual-monitor display, in Linux?  If I do it in Google Chrome, as soon as I do anything at the other monitor, Chrome jumps back to normal window.  Edit: added that OS is Linux. I did an upgrade today to the latest version of ubuntu. Everything looked good and fine only for me to discover that I cannot find my applications after clicking the 'Show Applications' icon. The same applies when I search for an application in the search bar, I do not see it. It shows me an endless search.  These are the screenshot images of the problem:      In the meantime, I access my applications from the menu at the top bar and also use the terminal to run applications with CLI. How can I recover contact information from a stolen phone? A calligraphic font with small (lowercase) letters Is there a widely available calligraphic font that (1) contains small (lowercase) letters and (2) has a recognizably calligraphic capital letter O?  Background. (1) In mathematics (algebraic geometry), , the latter being written in calligraphic script (standard notation for sheaves). However, most books end up typesetting the sheaf as follows    pulling the small letters from the italics of a completely different font.  (2) The calligraphic capital letter O plays a special role in algebraic geometry, too, and most authors insist on it being recognizably calligraphic (i.e. not just a closed round loop)    Edit. The following are achieved with extra kerning from @egreg's and @UlrikeFischer's answers (in chronological order)    @egreg's answer  \makeatletter \DeclareFontEncoding{LS1}{}{} \DeclareFontSubstitution{LS1}{stix}{m}{n} \DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathcal}{LS1}{stixscr}{m}{n} \makeatother  \DeclareMathOperator{\sHom}{\mathcal{H\mkern-7mu o\mkern-2.5mu m\mkern-1.5mu}} \DeclareMathOperator{\sExt}{\mathcal{E\mkern-4.5mu x\mkern-2.5mu t\mkern-1mu}} \DeclareMathOperator{\sEnd}{\mathcal{E\mkern-4mu n\mkern-4.5mu d\mkern-1mu}}       @UlrikeFischer's answer  \DeclareFontFamily{U}{mathc}{} \DeclareFontShape{U}{mathc}{m}{it}% {&lt;-&gt;s*[1.03] mathc10}{} \DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathcal}{U}{mathc}{m}{it}  \DeclareMathOperator{\sHom}{\mathcal{H\mkern-3mu om}} \DeclareMathOperator{\sExt}{\mathcal{E\mkern-3mu xt}} \DeclareMathOperator{\sEnd}{\mathcal{E\mkern-3mu nd}} How I can automatically add a page if the total number of pages is odd? I need automatically add a blank page (also without document header, numbering and footer) at the end of the document, if the total numbers of pages is odd. How I can do that? And preferably without using any additional package. :) I'd really like your help proving:  $(A\rightarrow B),(A\rightarrow C)\rightarrow B,  \mapsto_{HPC} B $  Where $HPC$ is the Hilbert's system proof which contains the following relevant axioms:   $A\rightarrow(B \rightarrow A)$ $(A\rightarrow(B\rightarrow C)) \to ((A\rightarrow B)\rightarrow(A\rightarrow C))$ $(A\rightarrow B)\rightarrow ((A\rightarrow\bar{B})\rightarrow \bar{A})$ $\bar{\bar{A}} \rightarrow A$   In addition tried to use these following lemmas: $\bar{A} \rightarrow (A \rightarrow C) $ and $(A\rightarrow B)\rightarrow (\bar{B} \rightarrow \bar{A})$.  Any suggestions? How to read ext4 partitions in Windows? I have two questions on ext4:   Is there currently a way to mount an ext4 partition in Windows (XP/Vista/7) to get basic read support? If not, are there any plans to support this someday? How did nobody at Hogwarts (especially Dumbledore) figure out what killed Myrtle? The information is all clearly there, since Harry and Ron, two 12-year-olds, were able to figure it out (with a bit of help from a petrified Hermione), thought at the time Aragog was much younger and smaller and wouldn't have been as easy to find, so maybe the "spiders flee before it" clue would have been lost, although to be honest it's not exactly as vital a piece of the puzzle as the others.  Dumbledore himself is obviously a very capable and intelligent Wizard, and after Myrtle died she came back as a ghost and was able to provide (admittedly limited) details of her own death.  I don't know about you, but I'd have thought at least someone would have tried to piece it together at the time, and it wouldn't have taken them long to figure out "Oh, she saw a pair of big yellow eyes after hearing a boy speak a funny language in the bathroom and dropped dead? Sounds like she might have heard somebody order a Basilisk to look her in the eyes in parseltongue", especially if the investigator in question was someone like Dumbledore.  Do we have any info on why nobody seemed to have found out anything in 50 years prior to Harry Potter (and, probably more importantly, Hermione Granger) turning up at Hogwarts? Simple georeferenced 3D data format for building models How do I give myself an item that can only be placed on a block with a certain damage value? I'm currently in the process of making a custom map and I want to add blocks that can only be placed on a certain colour clay.  This is the command I tried using.  /give @p cobblestone 1 0 {CanPlaceOn:["hardened_stained_clay"],Damage:3}   However, even with this command the cobblestone can be placed on any colour of stained clay. What command can I use for placing only on a certain block? How do I prevent the blank screensaver when using keyboard shortcut to lock the computer? I am looking for a device that can track my location (lat,long) and speed all day long. Perhaps, I need GPS and accelerometer data bundled together.  What I want to do is to log my daily activities. I spend time walking, running, driving, taking a bus, staying in a building, etc., just like any normal human-being :) I am willing to carry the device with me at all times and would like to see every place I go into and my speed at certain positions.  My requirements are that the location and speed data should be recorded at least every ~20 seconds. I would also like the device to timestamp (date+time) each record. It would be enough if timestamp is precise to nearest minute and the location can go off about a maximum of 10-15m. (30-50ft.)  What I want is a portable device so I can carry all day long for about 2-3 months. I will only use it during casual, daily activities.  I don't want real-time tracking. I can collect the data from a storage later on. When to use virtual destructors? I have a solid understanding of most OOP theory but the one thing that confuses me a lot is virtual destructors. I thought that the destructor always gets called no matter what and for every object in the chain. When are you meant to make them virtual and why? Having recently introduced an overload of a method the application started to fail. Finally tracking it down, the new method is being called where I did not expect it to be.  We had  setValue( const std::wstring&amp; name, const std::wstring&amp; value );  std::wstring avalue( func() ); setValue( L"string", avalue ); std::wstring bvalue( func2() ? L"true", L"false" ); setValue( L"bool", bvalue ); setValue( L"empty", L"" );   It was changed so that when a bool value is stored we use the same strings (internal data storage of strings)  setValue( const std::wstring&amp; name, const std::wstring&amp; value ); setValue( const std::wstring&amp; name, const bool&amp; value );  std::wstring avalue( func() ); setValue( L"string", avalue ); setValue( L"bool", func2() ); setValue( L"empty", L"" ); &lt;&lt; --- this FAILS!?!   The problem with L"" is that it is implicitly casting and previously it was happy to be a std::wstring, but not it prefers to be a bool. The MSVC compiler does not complain, or raise warning, so I'm worried that even if I "fix" the setValue( L"empty", L"" ); to be  setValue( L"empty", std::wstring() );   somebody else may come later and simply use setValue( L"empty", L"" ); and have to track down this issue again.  We thought to use explicit on the method but it is not a valid keyword for this usage. Is there some way to get the compiler to complain about this, or otherwise prevent the issue?  Otherwise I'm thinking to change the name of the method which takes a bool to ensure it can't make an incorrect guess. How to show every field is a Euclidean Domain. I'm having trouble proving this. This is what I have so far:  Let $F$ be a field. Let $v(x) \rightarrow 1$ for all $x$ not equal to $0$.  So if we let $x$ be in $F$ where $x$ not zero then we can write $x$ as: $x=qy+r$ for some $y$ in $F$. If $r$ not zero then $V(r)=1$.  Not sure what to do from here. I know eventually I'm supposed to get no remainder $(r=0)$ but I'm stuck at applying the definition and valuation map. Selecting an ID with a colon in it with jQuery In the Harry Potter world, there's the term "muggle" for people with no magical abilities, "muggle-born" for those with magical abilities who's parents are muggles and "squib" for those with no magical abilities who's parents are magical.  But is there any collective term for all magical people (as opposed to wizards for males and witches for females)?  I don't recall seeing any word that refers to all men and women and children with magical abilities, and it's the only group left without noun or collective noun to describe them. DateTime "null" value I've been searching a lot but couldn't find a solution. How do you deal with a DateTime that should be able to contain an uninitialized value (equivalent to null)? I have a class which might have a DateTime property value set or not. I was thinking of initializing the property holder to DateTime.MinValue, which then could easily be checked. I guess this is a quite common question, how do you do that? In Revenge of the Sith, after first being Force-choked by Anakin and then given births to Luke and Leia, Padme Amidala eventually lost her life on Polis Massa. We later, however, see her in the funeral procession on Naboo. The question is, how did she get there?    I mean, whoever delivered her there must have faced a lot of difficult questions, not just from her family but also from both the people and the authorities, since she was the former queen of the planet. Whoever it was, he could not have been just somebody, because it most certainly must not have been an easy task. It most likely was not any of the Jedi, since the world was probably half full of Palpatine's collaborators who would have immediately given them away.  So, who was it? And how was it carried out, in practice?