Older book where a slacker is abducted by aliens and trained
Alien studying human race for mental capacity and ESP
What do we mean when we say "for all n where n is an element of..." When we write "for all n where n is an element of A, P(n) is true." do we mean for all n, if n is in A then Pn or for all n, n is in A and Pn? Who is sample No. 118 in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward? In H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Dr. Willett      Enters Joseph Curwen's dungeon and resurrects a dead person identified as No. 118 by reciting the incantation of the Ascending Node over his salts.   Dr. Willett is told by      The resurrected Joseph Curwen, impersonating Charles Dexter Ward, who he secretly murdered,   that   " 'twas Number 118, and I conceive you would have shook had you looked it up in my list in t'other room."  No. 118 himself gives Dr. Willett a note asking the doctor to      kill Joseph Curwen.   It soon becomes clear that No. 118 is opposed to the nefarious dealings that have been transpiring and desirous of being an ally of Dr. Willett.  Who is No. 118?  Earlier in the story,      The grave of Ezra Weeden, a primary instigator in Joseph Curwen's initial downfall and the romantic rival of Curwen, is robbed. There doesn't seem to be any other mention of Weeden in the 20th century occurrences, so without a further connection the passage seems superfluous.   The shared goals of these two people seem to indicate that No. 118 may, in fact, have been that person, but the      Note given by No. 118 to Dr. Willett in eighth century Latin seems to indicate someone much older than Ezra Weeden.   It also occurred to me that No. 118 could be      The recently murdered Charles Dexter Ward himself. Ward's reference to killing Dr. Allen (who is actually an alias of Curwen) and dissolving his body with acid and No. 118's mention of doing the same to Curwen seem to support the idea, but that still doesn't explain the archaic note. Ward is described as writing in a somewhat modern style, at least as opposed to Curwen. It also doesn't explain why Curwen would want to murder Ward if he was going to resurrect him later anyway. grep a file, but show several surrounding lines? We have a system hosting many websites for our customers, and inside that system there is a method that non-live customers can view their sites before we turn them on.  Say the link is something like this: ourbigcompany.com/customer/domain=thisisanewsiteurl  Those links are not linked to anywhere outside a secure login - they are only sent to the customer via email. They are publicly viewable, as they have to be, but that's not the real problem.  The real problem is that somehow Bing is getting hold of them and trying to crawl the sites.   I know how to stop the crawling, but that would be like treating the symptoms without fixing the problem.  We log the traffic and there is no referrer - so that is not helpful.  If I change the querystring value for a site, Bing has it within hours. I need to figure out where Bing is getting the links from so that I can close what is obviously a security hole, but I am not sure how.   Any ideas on how to figure that out? How can I give a user one password for normal usage when logging in, and another password for system administration and sudo access? I want one user to have two passwords. I'm trying to get:  document.createElement('div')  //=&gt; true {tagName: 'foobar something'}  //=&gt; false   In my own scripts, I used to just use this since I never needed tagName as a property:  if (!object.tagName) throw ...;   So for the second object, I came up with the following as a quick solution -- which mostly works. ;)  The problem is, it depends on browsers enforcing read-only properties, which not all do.  function isDOM(obj) {   var tag = obj.tagName;   try {     obj.tagName = '';  // Read-only for DOM, should throw exception     obj.tagName = tag; // Restore for normal objects     return false;   } catch (e) {     return true;   } }   Is there a good substitute? Is it possible for a physical object to have an irrational length? Network simplex method, leaving and entering variables Could someone give me a hint on this question, which is a past exam question:     Under what circumstances will an entering variable in the network simplex method be the same as the leaving variable?   Thank you for your help. Why doesn't the auxiliary will qualify as future tense? According to A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, Tense is defined as follows:     Tense. A system marked by verb inflection or auxiliaries whose basic use to locate the situation in time: I liked it (past tense, past time), I like it(present tense, present time).   However, the author also points out:     ..., English is not one of them: it has no future tense. It does have several ways of talking about future time, and the most basic one does involve the auxiliary will.   These two quotes made me puzzled because, as noted above, Tense is denoted by inflection or auxiliaries and the auxiliary will seems to clearly meet the criteria. In conclusion, my question is   Why doesn't the auxiliary will qualify as future tense? sudo: unable to resolve host   I think I need to edit the /etc/hosts file to make an entry for 127.0.1.1 PC name.  But how can I do that if I can't access sudo? It seems to have gone since I updated to 13.10.  I have tried nano, which still doesn't work. Evalute $ \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\sum^{n}_{k=0}\frac{\binom{n}{k}}{n^k(k+3)} $ Motion Tracking objects that go out of frame and re-enter later From what I understand, the  states that there is a fundamental natural limit to how accurately we can measure velocity and momentum at the same time. It's not a limit on equipment but just a natural phenomenon.  However, isn't this just an observational limit? There is a definite velocity and momentum, we just don't know it. As in, we can only know so much about the universe, but the universe still has definite characteristics.  Considering this, how do a wide range of quantum mechanical phenomena work? For example, quantum tunneling - its based on the fact that the position of the object is indefinite. But the position is definite, we just don't know it definitely. Or the famous light slot experiment? The creation of more light slots due to uncertainty of the photon's positions?  What I am basically asking is why is a limit on the observer, affecting the phenomenon he is observing? Isn't that equivalent to saying  because we haven't seen Star X, it doesn't exist? It's limiting the definition of the universe to the limits of our observation! Attack moving or Attack Canceling I watch streams sometimes and i see the high elo Ranged AD move between each shot. Do they gain anything with this? And if so whats a good way to practice it. Windows 8 opens notepad on boot- no startup entry found I just upgraded from windows 7 to windows 8 and everything is working fine except notepad keeps opening on boot with a "access denied" window that comes up as well. I've ran MBAM and removed some junk, I've disabled every "file not found" item in autoruns as well as something that had a text/xml title in it and I've ran CCleaner a few times. Nothing is working, any help is much appreciated! can't create a jobs user profile I'm stuck on this page even after linking stackoverflow and github accounts. Is it a good approach to call return inside using {} statement? Can a hotel kick you out if you let an unregistered guest share a room with you? PDF editing within Apex/Visualforce How can we get "Developer" bugs logged with Technical Support? I recently found a bug, which I mentioned on , as well as submitting a case, and after a few days fumbling around with the case, they closed it by saying that they only provide this type of support for Premier Support customers.  Is there a better channel for reporting bugs than by submitting a case, or is there something "special" we have to do? I realize this question is similar to , except that I've already gone the route of , as suggested by the answer there (i.e. submitting a case), to no avail.  How can I make sure that a bug like this can find its way to someone capable of at least confirming that the behavior was expected? This behavior isn't documented anywhere, and so I assume that it's a bug that needs to be addressed.