Opting my child out of SS taxes?
How do I opt-out of the Social Security system?
Why does the connection time out when connecting to a server? My friend had hosted a Minecraft server before and brought it back up today with my help. He and anyone in his LAN can connect. However we have had a few people try to connect, including me, and when we try to connect it gives the message:  Failed to connect to the server Connection timed out: connect  What does this exactly mean? How do we fix this? What TV movie had lost space cadets who piloted yellow tripod robots, and a squid bad guy? I'm trying to find a movie I watched on TV, probably in the 90s. I think it was a made-for-TV movie.  It was about a ship with an AI. The ship was crewed by young adults. I think they were cadets?   There was an accident (like a warp drive malfunction) and they end up in another part of space where they meet a female alien whose ship had been shot down.  I remember they had manned robots they would pilot and they took them to a planet to get upgraded and they are attacked by more manned robots. They had three legs and they were yellow, I think.  I also remember the baddie had a holo-projector or something like that which allowed him to change his appearance. He commanded a massive fleet and he worked for someone he spoke to in a video chat that looked like a squid. Biblatex ieee incorrect display of volume and issue number An inequality involving 4 real or complex numbers Let a,b,c,d be real or complex numbers with absolute value less than $1$. Is the following true:  $$|ab-cd| \leq |a-c| +|b-d|?$$ How can I ensure my Samsung Series 7 is actually using the Radeon switchable graphics? I have a Samsung Series 7 with the Radeon 6750M switchable graphics. The ATI software lets you force programs to use the dedicated card. However, I'm not convinced it is actually ever using it, as the frame rates on some non-taxing games (Portal, TF2) are merely OK. To make matters worse, it looks like the ATI Catalyst Control has vanished from my laptop. To make it even worse, you can't download the driver and ATI CCC from ATI's site, you need to download it from Samsung, and the ZIP they provide is corrupted.   How can I ensure my Samsung Series 7 is actually using the Radeon switchable graphics? Possible Duplicate:          Well, the question is in the title. I always had the impression that "talk to someone" refers to situations when some information must be conveyed to someone else, while "talk with someone" refers to cases that involve a more complex two-sided interaction. E.g., I "talk to my colleague" to tell him that I'm going for a lunch break (no response is required apart from maybe an acknowledgment), while I go and "talk with my colleague" if I have to discuss something with him in detail. Is this correct, or is there any difference between the two phrases, or is there no difference at all? Is there anyway to find and remove ligatures from tex file? Sometimes when I copy/paste a text to Winedt, it shows perfect, but when I compile it to Pdf, some issues appear, e.g. finding becomes nding.  I am wondering if there is any way to search and find these characters?  Here is an example file (needs utf8 encoding).  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} ﬁ \end{document} Who decides which half of the universe should be destroyed? Find remainder when $f(x^{12})$ is divided by $f(x)$ Custom entity datetime field in calendar I suspect that the name server provided by my ADSL modem/router is buggy. Whenever I browse to a website for the first time in ubuntu, resolving the domain name takes at least 15 seconds.  To work around that problem, I changed the nameserver configuration in /etc/resolv.conf from 192.168.1.1 (my ADSL modem) to 8.8.8.8 (google's primary DNS). This seems to fix the problem, but unfortunately my changes to /etc/resolv.conf are overwritten by "NetworkManager" at each startup.  What is the proper way to configure the name server IP in ubuntu 10.4? A finite $p$-group cannot be simple unless it has order $p$ I am to trying to prove this theorem: A finite $p$-group cannot be simple unless it has order $p$.  I have this:   Let $G = P$ and $|G|=p$; then there exists $N$, a normal subgroup of $G$ by Lagrange's theorem, such that $|N| \mid |G|$ so, $|N|= |e| = 1$ or $|N| =  p$  If $|N|=p$ so $N=G$.  But I don't know how I can prove the part in the case of $|N|=|e| = 1$  Is my start correct? What is a wave? Reference sObject Fields dynamically from a string value Is it possible to reference the fields of an sObject (opportunity in this example) dynamically from a string value? For example, take the following code:  for(Opportunity o: oppList) {       for(String s : strList) {            // I'd like to set the opportunity field values based on the string             // value that contains the API name of the opportunity field       }  }  So, the variable strList contains the opportunity API field names. I'm trying to clear some fields on the opportunity in a before update trigger, but I have to access the field names dynamically in the strList. Which command / configuration file controls the open file limits on OS X?  Is there a different command for OS X 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7?  The options I explore below are ulimit, sysctl, and launchctl  "Too many open files" is apparently a common error on Leopard, perhaps other versions of OS X:        There are many (related?) ways to view the open file limits:  $ ulimit -a core file size          (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files                      (-n) 2048 pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 1 stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes              (-u) 512 virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited   $ launchctl limit cpu         unlimited      unlimited       filesize    unlimited      unlimited       data        unlimited      unlimited       stack       8388608        67104768        core        0              unlimited       rss         unlimited      unlimited       memlock     unlimited      unlimited       maxproc     1024           2048            maxfiles    2048           4096         $ sysctl -a | grep files kern.maxfiles = 32768 kern.maxfilesperproc = 16384 kern.maxfiles: 32768 kern.maxfilesperproc: 16384 kern.num_files: 2049   It has been claimed in some of the above posts that these can be modified with the following commands:  sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 16384 32768 sudo ulimit -n 32768 sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=16384 sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=32768   However, out of the above commands, only the sysctl commands have any apparently effect (i.e. ulimit -n and launchctl limit show no change after the above commands have been entered, while sysctl -a does show the requested changes).  The corresponding locations to change these parameters for the OS are:  /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/launchd.conf   I also discovered one  which reads that ulimit only controls the current shell.  How can I adjust upwards the max files / max open files limits on macOS? Are parallel calls to send/recv on the same socket valid? Let $\mathbb{F}$ be a finite field.  Let $a_1,\dots,a_n \in \mathbb{F}$ be given.  I want to know whether there exists $x_1,\dots,x_n \in \mathbb{F}$ such that  $$a_1 x_1^2 + a_2 x_2^2 + \dots + a_n x_n^2 = 1.$$  My question: Can we characterize when this equation has a solution, i.e., by some criterion on $a_1,\dots,a_n$?  Is there a clean characterization, in terms of $a_1,\dots,a_n$ and the properties of $\mathbb{F}$?    Here's what I can see immediately.  First, if $n=1$, there is an easy answer (the equation has a solution iff $a_1$ is a square in $\mathbb{F}$).  Second, if any $a_i$ is a square in $\mathbb{F}$, the equation has a solution (set all other $x_j$'s to $0$), so we can assume that all the $a_i$'s are non-squares and that $n \ge 2$.  Third, if $-1$ is a square in $\mathbb{F}$, then the equation has a solution: we can take $x_2 =  \sqrt{-a_1/a_2} \cdot x_1$.  But what about the case where $-1$ is a non-square in $\mathbb{F}$?  Is it always guaranteed to have a solution in this case? In Russian we have idiom/saying "To shoot out of cannon into sparrows" (literal translation) which is used to convey an idea of applying too drastic measures to small problems. I believe there should be some native-English equivalents to this saying. Can you share if there are any? Gamma Distribution out of sum of exponential random variables I have a sequence $T_1,T_2,\ldots$ of independent exponential random variables with paramter $\lambda$. I take the sum $S=\sum_{i=1}^n T_i$ and now I would like to calculate the probability density function.  Well, I know that $P(T_i&gt;t)=e^{-\lambda t}$ and therefore $f_{T_i}(t)=\lambda e^{-\lambda t}$ so I need to find $P(T_1+\cdots+T_n&gt;t)$ and take the derivative. But I cannot expand the probability term, you have any ideas? How do I restart the SSH service?