Do I have to commit to participate in the beta or will I be able to do it regardless?  I don't want to commit to some proposals but I'd like to participate in them (with no strings attached).
There's this proposal for a new S.E. site which is about to enter the beta phase. It reads  This proposal is in: Commitment A successful site needs people to commit to use it. This proposal is 100% complete. Committed users will be invited to the private beta soon.  I'd like to participate in the beta but I don't want to commit (due to a full name being required). Will I be unable to participate in the beta if I don't commit?
Every time I insert the SD card from my camera into the card reader, I get this dialog:    Of course there is no need to scan it. Is there a way to disable it? I have filed my 2012 tax return jointly with my wife, along with my wife's ITIN application, back in late March.  In April, I got a letter for IRS ITIN department saying that we should send my wife's original passport to them. So we sent my wife's passport on May 15th. USPS tracking number confirmed that IRS received it on May 20th.  However, last week (end of June) we have received another letter from IRS ITIN department saying that our ITIN application has been rejected, rejected because we have not sent the original identification document that they requested!  Okay, let's put our tax return and ITIN aside. Where is my wife's passport? Right now my wife does not have her personal identification, nor proof of legal status in U.S. Could IRS have lost it?  I tried to call the IRS several times. 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The archaeologist agrees to help.  Unfortunately after the traveler goes back he and the girl find themselves in the middle of a battle between aliens on Earth.  They are chased by a dinosaur and never make it back to the present.  The archaeologist meanwhile is digging for evidence that the traveler went back in time and the story or my recollection of it ends with that. Disable OS X startup sound How can I permanently disable the startup sound (or chime) in Yosemite?  (I am using a late-2014 13" macbook pro)  I already tried several options found here and there :    installed StartNinja.app => did not work installed Auto-Mute.app  => did not work tried to install the old StartupSound prefPane => did not work tried the command "sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80" => volume does not change (I also tried other values than 80, such as 00, 01, or nothing)   NOTE: I know that it is possible to mute the next startup sound by turning the volume down, but this is not a permanent solution. 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I tried using Kirchhoff's laws, but there is no cell given. Is there a term for coining a phrase for a word that already exists? Slipstream Windows 7 + Service Pack 1 Seo: Change the title of a page Lets say my website looks like this:  News -Hello world -Foo -Bar  So the parent page will list the last 3 news messages. For each news message there is a sub-page. For the parent page I was thinking of setting the page title to: News - Hello world, Foo, Bar.  Now if somebody adds a new message the title tag will also change. I googled this and read a few blog posts where people said that changing the title actually hurts the ranking of that page.  So is this true? Should I just set a static title tag for all my pages? How are "Suggested Tags" chosen? 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It seems like a lot of the cruises don't run in this month due to Hurricane season so I'm looking for other good options.  EDIT We'll be travelling in 2012. Let $x*y=\gcd(x,y)$ on $D_n=\{x\in \mathbb N:x |n\}$. I have to prove that $(D_n,*)$ is a commutative monoid and I have a problem when finding the identity element.  $x*e=x$  So $gcd(x,e)=x \to e=xk,k\in \mathbb N^*$ and $e \leq n$  A good $e$ is $0$ but it's not in $D_n$ When you tap a row in a UITableView, the row is highlighted and selected. Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing? SGS2 screen gets more and more dark blue, possibly after overheated charging What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"? Error message "sudo: unable to resolve host (none)" What is the symbol ''$\divideontimes$'' (DIVIDE TIMES) for? I looked "$\divideontimes$" up on Google and now I know that it's Unicode U+22c7 but when would it be used?  I am guessing that $5 \divideontimes 5 = 25$ and $1$...? Do resistances stack? If a creature had resistance to spells, and then cast fire resistance on it, would it take only 1/4 damage from all fire spells?