What is the public description of the "attempted Jedi coup"?
What did the public at large know about the assassination attempt on Palpatine and how he survived it?
I have recently registered some domains on the basically brand new .directory gTLD. Because of operating costs to maintain a gTLD, it is assumed that many of the hundreds being rolled out this year and next will fail. I will admit I am not very knowledgeable on how the TLD process works.   What exactly does a new TLD failing mean? I realize that they lose ICANN accreditation, but does that just mean that they will be no longer be sold? If the .directory TLD were to go under, would my .directory domains be affected? I bought it from domain registrar Gandi if that helps. Proof that Conditional of Poisson distribution is Binomial How do I with ufw deny all outgoing ports excepting the ones I need? Seeking shapefile of city boundaries in US? Monitor hard drive changes to files Several months ago I saw someone using an application that showed him files on the computer being modified in real time.  Basically there was an application that wasn't working correctly, so he installed the program, ran the application, and saw all the various files that the application either read from or wrote to.  He found out the application was writing a large debugging file it shouldn't be, which ended up being the problem.  I don't remember the application or the name of the person who used it, but I believe it's a freeware application.  Does anyone know what this program might be? In my assignment I have to prove that the following function doesn't have a limit:  $$f(x)=\frac{x}{x-\lfloor{\sin x}\rfloor}$$ when $${x \to 0}$$  In other words, I have to prove that for every $\delta$ such that $0&lt;|x-{x_0}|&lt;\delta,$ $|f(x)-L|&gt;\epsilon$.  In fact, I don't even know how to start. Do I choose my $\delta$? I know that the sin function has certain values that's supposed to help me. How do I use it?  I have to prove this by definition, so I can't use limit arithmetic for example  Thanks. Can I take a sex-toy on plane through UAE? I will be traveling from Australia to Austria, transferring in Abu Dhabi. Is it alright for me to bring a vibrator in the check-in luggage, or are there laws against that?  It is approximately 17cm long. Are there any precautions to take? Limit of $(x_n)$ with $0<x_1<1$ and $x_{n + 1} = x_n - x_n^{n + 1}$ Let $0 &lt; x_1 &lt; 1$ and $x_{n + 1} = x_n - x_n^{n + 1}$ for $n \geqslant 1$.      Prove that the limit exists and find the limit in terms of $x_1$.   I have proved the existence but cannot manage the other part.  Thanks for any help. What will result in better page ranking in search results: Page views or time spent on page? Minimize the sum of distances between two point and a circle Let's $A$,$B$ and $O$ be random point in a plane, such that they are not colinear. Let's $c$ be a circle centered on $O$, such that points $A$ and $B$ are outside of it. Find a point $X$ that lies on the circle $c$ and the sum $AX + BX$ is minimal.  First I tried to minimize the function:  $$f(x,y) = \sqrt{(A.x - x)^2 + (A.y - y)^2} + \sqrt{(B.x - x)^2 + (B.y - y)^2}$$ with  constraint $$g(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 - r^2 = 0$$  By moving $O$ to $(0,0)$ and do the same with $A$,$B$ so the relative distance will not change.  But these works when we know the coordinates of $A$,$B$ and the radius of the circle. Yet this isn't the right way because the problem is to construct that point.  Later I tried to approach using geometry.  The smallest distance from the point $A$ to the circle is the intersection of the circle $c$ and the ray $OA$, this is the same for $B$. Then we construct circles centered on $A$ and $B$ that are tangent to $c$. If the two circle intersect we'll get a common point for the both $A$ and $B$ and the distance will be minimal. Using computer I find the point X should be somewhere around the intercetion of the circle $c$ and the ray from $O$ to the new point.   Sometimes the optimal point differs just a bit and also this method fails when the two circles do not intersect each other Migrating to full Ubuntu after dual installation on WinXP I previously ran 12.04 alongside WinXP to see how it performed on my mom's older laptop.  i also migrated her email to Thunderbird. If I now convert from dual WinXP/Ubuntu to only run Ubuntu will things like her Thunderbird emails be transferred as part of the Ubuntu full install? Or must I do something else? I am fairly tech aware, but not a full IT boffin! Show that the ring of all rational numbers, which when written in simplest form has an odd denominator, is a principal ideal domain. Show that the ring of all rational numbers $m/n$ with $n$ an odd integer is a principal ideal domain.  We haven't really discussed principal ideal domains. I've heard that this is easy, but I just lack the basic knowledge of what a principal ideal domain is. Regular Expression to match valid dates I'm trying to write a regular expression that validates a date.  The regex needs to match the following   M/D/YYYY MM/DD/YYYY Single digit months can start with a leading zero (eg: 03/12/2008) Single digit days can start with a leading zero (eg: 3/02/2008) CANNOT include February 30 or February 31 (eg: 2/31/2008)   So far I have   ^(([1-9]|1[012])[-/.]([1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[-/.](19|20)\d\d)|((1[012]|0[1-9])(3[01]|2\d|1\d|0[1-9])(19|20)\d\d)|((1[012]|0[1-9])[-/.](3[01]|2\d|1\d|0[1-9])[-/.](19|20)\d\d)$   This matches properly EXCEPT it still includes 2/30/2008 &amp; 2/31/2008.  Does anyone have a better suggestion?  Edit: I found  on RegExLib  ^((((0[13578])|([13578])|(1[02]))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|([469])|(11))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(30)))|((2|02)[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9]))))[\/]\d{4}$|^\d{4}$   It matches all valid months that follow the MM/DD/YYYY format.  Thanks everyone for the help. Italian keyboard: entering tilde (~) and backtick (`) characters without changing keyboard layout Here is what the layout of an Italian keyboard looks like:  As you can see, the curly braces, which are absolutely necessary to write code in any of C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Objective-C, and others, appear in purple in this picture. This is because while the other characters can be seen visually as printed characters on most Italian keyboards, these purple characters are actually usually not printed on the keyboard's keys. These characters, found in the upper right corners of the given keys, can usually be generated with the following key combinations: (RIGHT SHIFT or LEFT SHIFT) + (RIGHT CTRL or LEFT CTRL) + (Alt or AltGR) + ([ or ]) (Actually as the MSKLC application shows, SHIFT + AltGr + [ and SHIFT + AltGr + ] are enough to generate the curly braces.) Characters such as the at (@) sign (called 'chiocciola' in Italian) and the hash (#) key (called 'cancelletto' in Italian) found in the lower right hand corner of the keyboard can be generated easily as follows (AltGr + @) or (AltGr + #). Such characters are also fundamental to programming as they can, for instance, be found in CSS, namely with media queries and with selectors referring to the id html attribute. Upon further inspection, we can see that all of the US ASCII keyboard / programmer's keyboard are covered by the keys of the Italian keyboard, except for the following, which are the tilde, which is especially useful on the Linux command line and is used to refer to a user's home directory on such system, as well as the back-tick (`), also known as the back-quote, which is also very useful on the Linux shell when we want to turn the output of a command into a command-line input. So, here comes the question: With all those empty upper-right hand corners of keys, why isn't there a better way of generating these characters, perhaps through a CTRL-ALT-SHIFT modifier key combination? All I've been able to find regarding generation of these characters are the following ALT-codes:  ALT code 96  corresponds to ` ALT code 123 corresponds to { ALT code 125 corresponds to } ALT code 126 corresponds to ~  and to generate a character via an ALT code, you make sure that the NumLock key on your keypad is toggled on, hold down the ALT key, enter the keycode, and release the ALT key. ALT code are documented at:  If someone knows of a better way of inserting these characters from an Italian keyboard without switching the keyboard layout in the Control Panel, then please let me know. Thanks. In high Reynolds numbers we have turbulent flow. This is because the inertial forces are much greater than the viscous forces. I understand inertial forces to be actually the fictional forces due to the momentum of the moving fluid. And viscous to be the forces that drag each layers together. But why when inertial forces are too high than the viscous forces, there is turbulence? Why don't the molecules just continue to move laminarly due to their momentum? I can assume the viscous forces are not very strong in high speeds (in high inertial forces) to keep them together to form a laminar flow? But again, why they result in irrational movement after the effect of viscous forces is not anymore considerable? As a mechanical analogue, if I have balls attached together and make them travel linearly, and remove their between them attachment, they can continue to travel linearly. But what happens in fluid molecules that turbulence is created? To show for following sequence $\lim_{n \to \infty} a_n = 0$ where $a_n$ = $1.3.5 ... (2n-1)\over 2.4.6...(2n)$ Presently, how much information can a quantum computer store, in how many qubits? What restrictions are there and how does it vary across realizations (efficiency of data storage, ease of reading and writing, etc)? Both options affect colors in a similar way, but I can't figure out the difference. Centering in tabularx and X columns How can I center the column when using X in tabularx environment like in this example?  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lXXXXX@{}}  1 &amp; 2 &amp; 3 &amp; 4 &amp; 5 \\    \end{tabularx} What is the la command? I just mistyped ls as la. Without noticing, I ran it:  tim@Hairy:~$ la detection.sh   output-2.jpg  output-4.jpg  output-6.jpg  output-8.jpg Test1.pdf output-1.jpg   output-3.jpg  output-5.jpg  output-7.jpg  output-9.jpg          tim@Hairy:~$ ls detection.sh   output-2.jpg  output-4.jpg  output-6.jpg  output-8.jpg Test1.pdf output-1.jpg   output-3.jpg  output-5.jpg  output-7.jpg  output-9.jpg    What's the difference between ls and la?