Are wizards able to avoid Muggle detection after the invention of media cloud storage?
Can Muggles publicly establish the existence of a magical community?
How can I unlock a password locked rar file without knowing the password? I have .rar file that is password protected, but I accidentally have forgotten the password. The file extremely important to me.  How can I get my file back? In windows, there was many programs that could remove the password of such a file. Is there one for Ubuntu? I am trying to INSERT INTO a table using the input from another table. Although this is entirely feasible for many database engines, I always seem to struggle to remember the correct syntax for the SQL engine of the day (, , , , and ).  Is there a silver-bullet syntax coming from an SQL standard (for example, ) that would allow me to insert the values without worrying about the underlying database? Is there a VB.NET equivalent for C#'s '??' operator? Is there a VB.NET equivalent for C#'s ?? operator? Can "real" be used as an adverb to describe an adjective? Collage of six photos, not Facebook Lookback movie What's the starting wealth for higher levels? We're planning to upgrade an existing farm from 2007 to 2013. I learned that the best way and maybe the only way to achieve this is by migrating in two steps. 2007 to 2010 and 2010 to 2013. The actual farm is a sql-server(2008r2 64 bit) and a sperate sharepoint-server(web-frontend, etc....) I want to keep the sql-server as it is, if possible and we want to install a new 64bit host for sharepoint 2013. We will design a new branding for 2013 afterwards, so we need to keep the content, but not the layout. There's so much about migration available on the web, but Can I find something like best practises? Is logic subjective? If logic is constructed from axioms, and axioms are depended on observation which in term could be subjective, does this means that logic could be limited to our observation, and not really absolute and fundamental? Are there any way to execute a query inside the string value (like eval) in PostgreSQL? How to access Render Result pixels from python script? Render Result exists in bpy.data.images["Render Result"] but it contains no data.  Also bpy.data.images["Render Result"].size[0] is 0, even if the render shows as an image in the UV/Image Editor with a width of 1366.  Maybe the render result cannot be accessed as an image or I missing some update or refresh call somewhere but I can't find such a thing in the 2.68 API documentation.  Any tip in the correct direction appreciated. How to ask the position(?) of a president (like 10th) of a country, correctly? After doing a "sudo su -" on an Ubuntu 12.04 notebook I did a "crontab -e", added this:   * * * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/gnome-calculator   and waited for minutes. Nothing Happened. I don't have any external monitors and if I run this command "env DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/gnome-calculator" in the terminal, it just works. But not from cron. Why?   The syslog only contains this:   May 24 14:37:01 localhost cron[1227]: (root) RELOAD (crontabs/root) May 24 14:37:01 localhost CRON[16432]: (root) CMD (env DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/gnome-calculator )   And I already tried an "xhost +localhost".   [root@NOTEBOOK /var/log] xhost access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect INET:localhost.localdomain SI:localuser:USERNAME [root@NOTEBOOK /var/log]    So the solution for another question like this on askubunut didn't worked. Why does boiling water in the microwave make a cup of tea go weird? When I boil water in the kettle, it makes a nice cup of tea.  Sometimes I need to use a microwave because a kettle isn't available.  I boil the water in the mug and it looks pretty normal, but when I drop in the teabag the water froths up and looks foamy.  I don't see what the chemical difference is here, so I assume it must be some physical difference.  I have noticed this with multiple types of tea and multiple microwaves, the results being consistent so it's not just a weird microwave or something like that.    What is the reaction here and how/why does it occur?  Here is a photo of the 'fizzy' looking tea just after dunking in the teabag. Showing $\gcd(2^m-1,2^n+1)=1$ How to unlock device when I forgot my password? I've read  which states that there is an option to disable the lock using my Google account information. However I did not noticed such an option when I entered my password five times wrong. (Although there was also a 20s or 30s delay to complicate brute force attacks.) I use Android 4.0.3 on a Asus Transformer Prime TF201.  Would factory reset work? Continuously copy all file changes from one folder to another on change (Windows) I'm working on a massive Java web application which is kept under centralized version control, but the source files are used to build and run the actual server, which then copies all the files I work on into a random temporary directory while it's running.  My problem is that I need to either rebuild this huge application to see any changes to my files, or keep track of all my changes and copy over the files I've changed back to their source location before committing them back to source control.  My question is: is there a command line script I can run that will monitor any changes in the source folder and automatically copy changed files across to temporary folder X?  The idea is to remove the human point of failure in having to manually mitigate the two-locations problem. QGIS corrupting shapefiles? I'm hoping someone out there might be able to help or suggest some tests to try and resolve some very odd QGIS behaviour of late...  Our core GIS team of 4 users has been testing v2.10 prior to roll-out for the remainder of the organization.  In the past couple of weeks we have had some very odd shapefile corruption things happening and are yet to isolate or identify a potential cause...  These have included:   Editing one line (using the scissor tool to split into two records) and having the resulting records attributes completely replaced by attributes from another geometry no-where near the edited row (spatially or in the attribute dbf) Line geometries completely disappear while their attributes get associated with an unrelated geometry  Line geometry get partially deleted and replaced with a vertice in infinity (line visually extends beyond the dataset and no matter how far zoomed out you never see the end)   The above is happening in a polyline layer, that we did discover has some multi-line geometries..? Perhaps this is impacting... but never saw this issue with v2.8 and the same layer. The layer has undergone MANY save-as's in the past week and many verify geometry checks as we thought invalid geometry may have been the cause...  In another separate layer yesterday, to a separate user (me) i created a layer with approx 30 polygons... adding, deleting some and doing some 'avoid intersection' to remove overlaps. Layer looks fine in qgis, saved and also a save-as to a completely new file but when i load into ArcGIS online (and later is ArcMap as a test) some of the overlaps and deleted objects are still there. Close and reopen qgis,  reopen the file and they are definitely not.  The project was created in v2.8 that i was editing in (but had been saved in 2.10).  Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions.  We do still have 2.8 installed as well as 2.10? We have never encountered issues like this when testing other new qgis versions while still running old ones? Mysterious contact by advanced aliens; leaves humans insane It'd be great if anyone could remember the source of this short story I only dimly remember, but recall finding quite haunting back in my youth.  I read it maybe 20 years ago in a paperback that probably dated from the '80s.  It begins with the protagonist (a young man) being being woken by a deafening noise coming through his cochlear implant.  He's on a spaceship, and has volunteered to be put in a capsule and fired off to a remote part of the solar system.  Once in place in their capsule, the volunteers are visited by what is (presumably) a highly intelligent alien life-form, and gifted with some artefact containing priceless knowledge, like, for example, the cure for cancer.  The (unexplained) encounter leaves the them completely and irrevocably insane, perhaps terrified out of the minds.  Yet despite this, volunteers still clamour to be chosen for the mission. Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++? What are the benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?  Lately, I have seen a number of examples that chose passing function arguments by pointers instead of passing by reference.  Are there benefits to doing this?  Example:  func(SPRITE *x);   with a call of  func(&amp;mySprite);   vs.  func(SPRITE &amp;x);   with a call of  func(mySprite); Why do two bodies of different masses fall at the same rate (in the absence of air resistance)? I'm far from being a physics expert and figured this would be a good place to ask a beginner question that has been confusing me for some time.  According to Galileo, two bodies of different masses, dropped from the same height, will touch the floor at the same time in the absence of air resistance.  BUT Newton's second law states that $a = F/m$, with $a$ the acceleration of a particle, $m$ its mass and $F$ the sum of forces applied to it.  I understand that acceleration represents a variation of velocity and velocity represents a variation of position. I don't comprehend why the mass, which is seemingly affecting the acceleration, does not affect the "time of impact".  Can someone explain this to me? I feel pretty dumb right now :)