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Rejection of text containing SQL statements OK, I've been having weird problems for the last 1/2 hour trying to  on StackOverflow, and I keep getting this result (on Firefox 3.6)     The connection was reset      The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.         The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few        moments.   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network        connection.   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure        that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.      The problem seems to occur when I try to post some code with 'd--- table' in it, where 'd---' is replaced by the word drop.  I cannot post the following 3 lines, in either SO or this site, if they include the well-known SQL statements DROP.  stat.executeUpdate('d--- table if exists people;'); stat.executeUpdate('create table people (name, occupation);'); prep = conn.prepareStatement(...     'insert into people values (?, ?);');   test again:  'dro* table' 'drop ball' drop the table drop fable drop    t*ble droptable   drop a table  The evil words for me are "drop" and "table"... how come you guys can post? :(  edit: Could someone please suggest another online site that is not stackoverflow that is a quick way to try out a POST request of a text field?  UPDATE: Never mind. I don't know what the answer is, but the same problem occurs on Google's website. So it's not stackoverflow. Now to go to my IT Dept... Given $n$ independent geometric random variables $X_n$, each with probability parameter $p$ (and thus expectation $E\left(X_n\right) = \frac{1}{p}$), what is $$E_n = E\left(\max_{i \in 1 .. n}X_n\right)$$    If we instead look at a continuous-time analogue, e.g. exponential random variables $Y_n$ with rate parameter $\lambda$, this is simple: $$E\left(\max_{i \in 1 .. n}Y_n\right) = \sum_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{i\lambda}$$  (I think this is right... that's the time for the first plus the time for the second plus ... plus the time for the last.)  However, I can't find something similarly nice for the discrete-time case.    What I have done is to construct a Markov chain modelling the number of the $X_n$ that haven't yet "hit". (i.e. at each time interval, perform a binomial trial on the number of $X_n$ remaining to see which "hit", and then move to the number that didn't "hit".) This gives $$E_n = 1 + \sum_{i=0}^n \left(\begin{matrix}n\\i\end{matrix}\right)p^{n-i}(1-p)^iE_i$$ which gives the correct answer, but is a nightmare of recursion to calculate. I'm hoping for something in a shorter form. All Stack Exchange data dumps What is the process for a moderator to request reinstatement or appeal a removal? Please leave any feedback or questions about this process on .   From time to time, moderators will step down or be removed from their positions — they may have expressed their wish to step down due to time constraints or they may have had behaviors unfitting of a moderator and have been forcefully removed, along with a number of other possibilities that fall somewhere between those two. What is the process for evaluating moderator reinstatement or removal appeal requests?  Note: Feedback on the original version of this post can still be found . A Russian girl is asking for 500 euros to get a passport in Russia. Is this a realistic amount of money for a passport fee? Javascript to set cookie Resistor circuit that isn't parallel or series Why do some services list an IPO date that is well after historical price data you can find elsewhere? The IPO date I find for the MMM Corporation is 1/13/1978 ().   Google Finance has price data going back to that date ().   However, Yahoo Finance goes back to 1970 (), as well as other ticker sources.  The main concern, of course, being: How can there be published price information from before an IPO? Slovak (and Czech) babel gives problems with cmidrule and cline I tried to use the Slovak language with the booktabs package.    Let's see a couple of cases.   slovak is included in the options to babel     \usepackage[english,slovak]{babel}   or    \usepackage[slovak,english]{babel}   or    \usepackage[slovak]{babel}`  "slovak" is NOT included in the options to babel  \usepackage[english]{babel}    Similarly two cases for \cmidrule  A. \cmidrule{2-3} is included in the table    B. \cmidrule{2-3} is NOT included in the table    If both (slovak+\cmidrule) are included (case 1A), then following error occurrs  Paragraph ended before \@@@cmidrule was complete   (and a lot of other errors)  In the other cases (1B, 2A and 2B) (NO slovak or NO \cmidrule), then pdflatex is succesful  Does anybody know why 1A is wrong?    And how to use slovak and \cmidrule together (case 1A)?  \documentclass[10pt]{book} \usepackage[english,slovak]{babel} \usepackage{booktabs}  \begin{document}  \begin{tabular}{ccc} A &amp; B &amp; C \\ %\cmidrule{2-3} A &amp; B &amp; C \\ \end{tabular}  \end{document}   I have Win7, TeXstudio 2.5.2 How to inset a face? I am trying to set up a Minecraft rig mouth that will have more controls and will be rounded, but I am having issues trying to figure out what this guy did here. First, he did what looked like a loop cut and slide, but instead of drawing a line it selected all the edges it passed through. He then cut to a new clip where the mouth was already set up like this.    The video is in 3 times speed but if you download a youtube plugin you can slow it down to 0.25 speed of the video and then if you do the spacebar trick you can slow it down so it shows 1 frame at a time and it is really slow.  if you want or need to see the video.  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How do I add the parameter for the redirection? dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/xorg/protocol.txt' with different file `/usr/lib/xorg/protocol-precise.txt', not allowed I just installed Ubuntu (12.04.4) and I upgraded to 13.10  I have no idea how to fix this :/  $ sudo apt-get install -f  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:   xserver-common-lts-saucy 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 1,718 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 175174 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xserver-common-lts-saucy ... Removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/protocol.txt to /usr/lib/xorg/protocol-precise.txt by xserver-common-lts-saucy' dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/xorg/protocol.txt' with   different file `/usr/lib/xorg/protocol-precise.txt', not allowed dpkg: error processing xserver-common-lts-saucy (--remove):  subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing:  xserver-common-lts-saucy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The most common way to refer to non-immediate family? What are the practical applications of the Taylor Series? I started learning about the  in my calculus class, and although I understand the material well enough, I'm not really sure what actual applications there are for the series.  Question: What are the practical applications of the Taylor Series? Whether it's in a mathematical context, or in real world examples.