Embarking on a Schengen-bound flight on the night before my visa is valid
If my Schengen visa starts on the day of arrival which is one day ahead of departure, would they let me get into the plane?
I am trying to remember the title of a children's SF book I once read, maybe 20 to 25 odd years ago.   I don't have a great number of details (and some of what I recall may be completely wrong), but the details (such as they are):   A war between two alien groups ended, and some technology that should have been destroyed was instead imprinted into a human baby. A few years later, both groups find this out and attempt to retrieve it. The main characters are the child, and an alien that I believe was called "Yacob" (or similar) who was sent to protect the child/retrieve the technology, and the antagonists were the other group of aliens that had previously lost the war and were trying to get the technology to start it up again (again, I don't remember the exact details, but I think it was a fairly simple black &amp; white/good vs. bad scenario, being a children's book and all). There was a scene in which Yacob/the alien gives the child blue food, who complains that it's blue, and the alien states "close your eyes and it's just food". The alien had a space shuttle/some other piece of tech disguised as a van. I vaguely recall a scene in which it is under attack and it flies or something. According to the , you can harden a MySQL server by adding passwords, or removing the anonymous accounts.      If you want to prevent clients from connecting as anonymous users   without a password, you should either assign a password to each   anonymous account or else remove the accounts.   Before hardening, my users table looked like this.   mysql&gt; select user,host,password from mysql.user; +------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+ | user             | host      | password                                  | +------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+ | root             | localhost | *F3A2A51A9B0F2BE246XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | root             | gitlab    |                                           | | root             | 127.0.0.1 |                                           | | root             | ::1       |                                           | |                  | localhost |                                           | |                  | gitlab    |                                           | | debian-sys-maint | localhost | *95C1BF709B26A5BAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | myuser           | localhost | *6C8989366EAF75BB6XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | +------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+   I've remove all anonymous accounts, so that the user table now looks like this.  (I'm using puppet to manage the users, but puppet effectively performs a DROP USER command).   mysql&gt; select user,host,password from mysql.user; +------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+ | user             | host      | password                                  | +------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+ | root             | localhost | *F3A2A51A9B0F2BE246XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | debian-sys-maint | localhost | *95C1BF709B26A5BAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | myuser           | localhost | *6C8989366EAF75BB6XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | +------------------+-----------+-------------------------------------------+   Why is it that I am still able to login to my test system without a username or a password? What do I need to do to prevent any unwanted users from logging in?   root@gitlab:~# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 98 Server version: 5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (Ubuntu) .... mysql&gt;    Update:  I've also just discovered that I can login as root, without entering a password.  Update2: I found  which has some good information, but does not solve the issue.   There are no anonymous users.  mysql&gt; select user,host,password from mysql.user where user=''; Empty set (0.00 sec)   I login as root@localhost.  mysql&gt; select USER(),CURRENT_USER(); +----------------+----------------+ | USER()         | CURRENT_USER() | +----------------+----------------+ | root@localhost | root@localhost | +----------------+----------------+    I do not have a default password, or skip-grant-tables defined in my.cnf  root@gitlab:~# cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf |grep -i 'skip-grant-tables'|wc -l 0 root@gitlab:~# cat /etc/mysql/my.cnf |grep -i 'pass'|wc -l 0   Update3:  I have tried performing these steps with puppet, (which should perform a flush privileges automatically). I have also manually flushed privileges and also tried restarting mysql.   Update4: I've also tried changing the mysql root password and flushed privileges. No luck, I can still log in as any user without a password. I've seen the phrase "sh compatible" used usually in reference to shells. I'm not sure if it also applies to the programs that might be run from within shells.  What does it mean for a shell or other program to be "sh compatible"? What would it mean to be "sh incompatible"?  Edit: This question asking the difference between bash and sh is very relevant:   I'd still like a direct answer to what it means to be "sh compatible". A reasonable expectation might be that "sh compatible" means "implements the Shell Command Language" but then why are there so many "sh compatible" shells and why are they different? Is $R^2$ useful or dangerous? Getting nauseated from air travel, but it's not motion sickness... what to do? See how many duplicates of a post? Can I see how many duplicates there are of a post? I.e. how many posts have been labelled as duplicate because of this post? If so, how? And can I also get a list of these duplicated posts? Show that any prime ideal from such a ring is maximal. Let R be a commutative ring with an identity such that for all $r\in$ R, there exists some $n&gt;1$ such that $r^n = r$. Show that any prime ideal is  maximal. (Atiyah and MacDonald, Introduction to Commutative Algebra, Chapter 1, Exercise 7.)    Any hints? Short sci-fi story about Earth blockaded by other human colonies Like the subject: short sci-fi story about Earth blockaded by other human colonies.  The best humans have colonized some stellar systems. But they begin to treat humans of earth like inferiors. A war began, colonies won the war and blockaded the earth, but despite this the earth won. Who is the author? Is Python/ArcPy capable of delimiting strings with commas into different fields, and running a calculation based on those separate columns Using ArcGIS ArcMap 10.6: I have a text field in an attribute table that has comma separated values (example: 12,24, 64, 87,29). For this example, I will name this field VALUES. Please note that VALUES includes data collected from field work so the spacing between commas will be varied. My current workflow is as followed:  Export the ID and VALUES fields in the attribute table into a .csv file using Table to Table in ArcMap 10.6 Open the .csv in Excel and run the 'text to columns' function under the Data ribbon Separate the VALUES field into multiple columns based on commas Run the calculation: Copy Column I values and ID columns into a new .csv file Save and close the new .csv file and join the shapefile to the new .csv file based on ID Export the newly joined shapefile into a new file and delete the duplicate ID field in the new shapefile  I am wondering if there is a way to automate this Python/ArcPy so I can create a custom script tool to do this without leaving the ArcGIS environment. Is there a way to separate values in a text field based on commas into different columns, run the above calculation, and have the values from that calculation entered in a new field named VALUES_CALCULATED? past simple or present perfect Why isn't reflexivity redundant in the definition of equivalence relation? An equivalence relation is defined by three properties: reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity.  Doesn't symmetry and transitivity implies reflexivity? Consider the following argument.  For any $a$ and $b$, $a R b$ implies $b R a$ by symmetry. Using transitivity, we have $a R a$.  Source: Exercise 8.46, P195 of Mathematical Proofs, 2nd (not 3rd) ed. by Chartrand et al How to prove this statement: $\binom{r}{r}+\binom{r+1}{r}+\cdots+\binom{n}{r}=\binom{n+1}{r+1}$ Contemporary written usage of "whom" in objective case Possible Duplicate:          I was writing a LinkedIn recommendation one day, and ended up pondering for a while which of these forms to use:     … is a great developer whom I always   found easy to work with.      … is a great developer who I always   found easy to work with.   Both are basically correct in contemporary English, right? But is one or the other preferable, and if so, why?   (In this case I went with the latter, as it seemed more common (Google)  and I wanted to avoid sounding unnecessarily “archaic”, although I’m not sure whether that would have been the case. Also note that I try to write in a “friendly professional” style instead of overly formal one. :-) Why is spawning threads in Java EE container discouraged? One of the first things I've learned about Java EE development is that I shouldn't spawn my own threads inside a Java EE container. But when I come to think about it, I don't know the reason.  Can you clearly explain why it is discouraged?   I am sure most enterprise applications need some kind of asynchronous jobs like mail daemons, idle sessions, cleanup jobs etc.  So, if indeed one shouldn't spawn threads, what is the correct way to do it when needed? I am looking to build a camera trap for wildlife viewing, able to capture pictures (or even videos) in decent quality to be able to identify distinct features. I do however need to be able to see the pictures in real time, so the camera would need some sort of wireless connection to a receiving device such as a phone.  I thought of using an FPV setup as used in drone racing, but the quality and range seems to be quite low, and the strengths of an analog signal seem to be latency and fps, which are both not important to me. It would be nice to have some sort of digital signal to be able to do some editing, such as storing pictures. It would also be cool to connect several cameras to one device.  Are there any solutions to this problem? Would a raspberry pi/arduino setup work in some way? Thanks! Lots of questions in the reopen queue Dealing with non-integral powers on negative numbers If we are given an expression $(-8)^\frac26$, how do we solve it?  If it is $(-8)^\frac13$, we can find the cube root of -8 which is -2. However, if we square it first and find the sixth root, we get +2 (or maybe $\pm2$, which still isn't the same as just -2.  Also realised that when solving logarithmic and exponential questions, I had often made the assumption that if $b^a=b^c$, then $a=c$, either explicitly, or via some formula. I don't know if this is really true now.  So is there some convention by which we solve non-integral powers or is it just undefined to do so or something?  P.s. Talking of non-integral powers, will a quantity like $(-8)^{√3}$, will it be positive or negative. (Basically that's an irrational power now.) Let me begin by stating that I did google the answers (and I'll reference to them soon). Yet each of the resources I found discussed one particular method, I'm interested in a comparison of the approaches.  So far, I've found three ways to deal with this problem:   split the number into two columns (integer and fractional parts), as documented  or . The LaTeX code is simple, but the approach is a pain when it comes to copying and pasting tables from external sources. use  manually use Mike Zhang's automatic  (). I have yet to test it.   What do most people use? dcolumn? Are there other options? Question of an isomorphism of $\epsilon_ 0$ and a subset of the rationals. How does a USB 2.0 Wall Charger negotiate current output? I'm trying to use a mobile phone charger for my projects, and want a high current output. I have read , however my measurements show something else.  is a link to the Battery Charging Specification Rev. 1.2.  1.4.7 Dedicated Charging Port A Dedicated Charging Port (DCP) is a downstream port on a device that outputs power through a USB connector, but is not capable of enumerating a downstream device. A DCP shall source \$I_{DCP}\$ at an average voltage of \$V_{CHG}\$. A DCP shall short the D+ line to the D- line.   I verified on three different chargers, and all read \$R_{DCP\_DAT}\$ as ~1.5 Ohms. Now, if there is a short between the D+ and D-, there is no detection on the charging port side, and the charger should always output \$I_{DCP}\$ {0.5 - 5.0A max} on the VBUS line - is this correct? I tested the current output of three chargers, but they are all completely different. Charger 1 - Nokia Rated current output: 1.3A Measured current output: 1.34A Charger 2 - Asus Rated current output: 2.0A Measured current output: 0.7A - 1.1A (unstable) Charger 3 - HTC Rated current output: 1A Measurent current output: 0.1A If all these dedicated charging ports have no current negotiation, how come only one charger is showing it's rated output? N.B All three chargers can charge a mobile phone in a reasonable amount of time.