Sci-fi book from the 80’s or 90’s; aliens control humans using a cap
Book series about aliens who put "caps" on people to control them
Adding a way to mark answer as "partially accepted" When someone gives me an answer which is useful, but doesn't fully answer the question, there is a problem when I need to decide what to do with it.  If I accept this partial answer, no one will answer me no matter how I show the unsolved part of my problem, because the question is considered "answered".  However, If I do not accept it, there is another problem:  if a second person answered the unsolved part, which answer should I accept? But the majority work may be done by the first one. If this style become consistent, who will answered an almost solved question?  In my point of view, there should be something like a progress bar which allows me to allocate the percentage of acceptance to users who answered my question. This would make everyone feel comfortable. "Require Installation Of Untrusted Packages" while upgrading with the update manager It didn't fixed the error. So, how do I fix my GUI update?  For every software I have to install it from command line because I got same error when install software from Ubuntu Software Center. Looking at moving my laundry upstairs, and the right answer is to combine two adjacent closets to get the width and move one of their walls a foot or two into the kitchen to get the depth.  The kitchen floor is 10-inch-square tiles. It would be sort of nice if that continued on into the laundry closet. I do have a full bundle of spare tiles in the basement.   Question: Could/should I plan on the new wall coming in on top of the existing tiles (presumably having to drill to secure the footer without shattering them), or should I plan on removing the ones under the footer and fitting cut pieces back in afterward? Find Oracle JDBC driver in Maven repository If $f^2$ is Riemann Integrable is $f$ always Riemann Integrable? I normally use the iPhone timer to sleep the device after I've dozed off to some music or podcast. Unfortunately this means that when I ask Siri to set a timer for some cooking, Siri waits the allotted time and turns off the phone rather than notify me that the time is up. Any solutions to this? I have two laptops (same manufacture), with the same type of power connector.  However, the power supplies/transformers are slightly different.    The output on the first laptop's power supply is 15.6&nbsp;V at 8.0&nbsp;A. The output on the second laptop's power supply is 15.6&nbsp;V at 5&nbsp;A.  Clearly the voltages are the same, but the currents are different. I assume the second laptop's power supply can not be used on the first, because it can't supply enough power to the laptop.   However, can the first laptop's power supply be safely used on the second laptop? Trying to find the original story (I read it in Russian translation, original was most likely English unless it was Lem).  The story plot had artificial birds designed to serve as cops. The birds started attacking humans who were percieved as being aggressive towards anything alive. So they created more advanced birds to protect against the first ones. This worked for a while until the second kind started attacking humans as well. It ended with the idea that they would need another generation to attack the second-generation birds.  The story wasn't very long. I read it a while back (mid-1980s, which means the original was written even earlier, probably before 1980).  Despite a somewhat Asimov-like "misbehaving robots" topic, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Asimov. "ImportError: No module named _struct" configuring python-minimal When I run sudo apt-get upgrade, the dpkg error appears and interupts the process.  Error details:  Setting up python-minimal (2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1) ... Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main     "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code     exec code in run_globals   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/compileall.py", line 16, in &lt;module&gt;     import struct   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/struct.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;     from _struct import * ImportError: No module named _struct dpkg: error processing python-minimal (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python:  python depends on python-minimal (= 2.7.3-0ubuntu7.1); however:   Package python-minimal is not configured yet.   And this problem leads to a series of dependency problems when processing the following packages:    python  gwibber-service  libgwibber3  libgwibber-gtk3  gwibber  gwibber-service-facebook  gwibber-service-identica  gwibber-service-twitter  python-all  python-dev  python-all-dev  python-apt  python-problem-report  python-apport  python-libxml2  unity-lens-gwibber  unity-scope-video-remote   Finally, nothing I can do for this problem. And several days later, the root directory is full and I even could not uninstall any software because of this problem. There is currently no way to delete questions or answers in the iOS app, even with the required Trusted User privilege. We can edit and vote, but not delete.  Can this option please be added to the app? Historical flight data outside of the USA? The question  only deals with flights in the US sourced from the  . Is there some similar source for EU, Asia etc? Get month name from Date How do you clear a stringstream variable? I've tried several things already,  std::stringstream m; m.empty(); m.clear();   both of which don't work. Footnote, non-inline syntax? I would like to use footnotes without cluttering the container paragraph. Something like:  This is a very long complex\footnote[a] sentence.  \foottext[a]{So complex that I would prefer to pull out the footnote text.}   The idea comes from the [linktext][1], [1]: http://url.com markdown syntax. Motivation behind standard deviation? Today, we had a math class, where we had to show, that $a_{100} &gt; 14$ for  $$a_0 = 1;\qquad a_{n+1} = a_n + a_n^{-1}$$  Apart from this task, I asked myself: Is there a closed form for this sequence? Since I didn't find an answer by myself, can somebody tell me, whether such a closed form exists, and if yes what it is? Is the Doctor Who episode 'Blink' the first use of the phrase "timey-wimey"? What is the difference between a[bc]d and a{b,c}d? Why do people use a{b,c}d when there is already a[bc]d? Say I want a random 1024-bit prime $p$.  The obviously-correct way to do this is select a random 1024-bit number and test its primality with the usual well-known tests.  But suppose instead that I do this:   select random odd 1024-bit number $n$ if $n$ is prime, return $n$ $n \leftarrow n+2$ goto 2   (This approach allows faster selection of primes via sieving.)  Since primes are not uniformly distributed on the number line, it would seem that this algorithm prefers primes that lie after long runs of composites.  Take a piece of the number line around $2^{1024}$ with x denoting a prime:     ---x-x----------------------------x------------------------x---x   Clearly our algorithm above is much more likely to find the 3rd prime above than to find the 2nd one.  Question: Is this a problem? You can think this of the following as a 3d QFT where we try to calculate the self-energy of two fields. $I$ is a this external self-energy and let us assume it does not depend on the loop momenta which I denote a $\vec{x}=(x,y)$. Consider the following propagator  $$ P(\vec{r}) = \frac{x-ia}{2i^2[\,(x-ia)^2+(y-ib)^2+(z-ic)^2]\,} \,\, \gamma_i. $$ Then we want to calculate $$ I(x) = \int \frac{\,dx \,dy\, dz}{(2\pi)^3} \text{Tr} \left( \frac{x-ia}{2i^2[\,(x-ia)^2+(y-ib)^2+(z-ic)^2]\,}\gamma_x \gamma_x  \right), $$ where Tr$(\gamma_i \gamma_j)=2\delta_{ij}$. Therefore  I am trying to resolve the following integral where $x,y,z \in \mathbb{R}$ and $a,b,c$ are constants (internal self-energies if you wish) in $\mathbb{R}$.  Then, after simplifying the propagator $P(x,y)$ we end up with the following expression for the $x$ component:  $$ I = \frac{1}{2i^2} \int \frac{dxdy}{(2\pi)^2} (x-ia) \int \frac{dz}{2\pi} \frac{1}{[\,(x-ia)^2+(y-ib)^2+(z-ic)^2]\,} $$ but it can be shown that  $$ \int \frac{dq}{(q+iv)^2+w^2} = \frac{\pi}{|w|}\theta(|w|-|v|).  $$ (e.g. see here ) Thus we get that for $|(y-ib)^2+(x-ia)^2|&gt;|a|$, $\theta=1$ (for this is what we are interested about) and then we are left with $$ I = \frac{1}{4i^2} \int \frac{dxdy}{(2\pi)^2} \frac{(x-ia)}{|(x-ia)^2+(y-ib)^2|}.   $$ The question is wether I can make the transformation $$ (x-ia) = q \cos \theta  $$ $$ (y-ib) = q \sin \theta $$ in polar coordinates. Then $dx dy = qdqd\theta$ and the previous integral becomes, assuming $|q|&gt;0$, $$ I = \int_0^{\infty} dq \int_0^{2\pi} d\theta \frac{q \cos \theta}{|q|} =0. $$ Is this correct? I am confused since one can find complex poles in the $I$. If not, what would the correct way to resolve this be? I have a suspicion that this integral should indeed give zero but how can we find this?