I lost the privilege to ask questions on Stack Overflow about a week ago, due to some questions that I had posted that were just flat-out lazy, etc. I take full responsibility.  However, since that time, my reputation has gone up by over 10%, from edits and accepted answers. Isn't that enough to get it back? How much longer should I expect to wait?
If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you  to understand what has happened and how to regain the permissions that you lost. While trying to ask a question, one could see:  We are no longer accepting questions from this account. See  to learn more.  Likewise, for answers:  We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See  to learn more.   Why am I getting this message? Are deleted posts taken into account too? Is a question/answer ban the same as a suspension? How do I avoid getting a question ban? How long do I have to wait before I can post again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my account? Can I simply create a new account? I'll just ask somewhere else on the SE network, and they'll migrate my question to the correct site! Will a ban on one Stack Exchange site affect my standing on other sites in the network? Does this apply to meta sites too? My account is in good standing. Why am I still blocked?
Is this group solvable? Let $G=H\times K$ (a direct product of $H , K$) where $H$ is an abelian 2-group and $K$ is a non-abelian simple group. Is $G$ solvable? why?  These three answers are true, and I thought so. But in a book I found a remark that made me confused: T.M. Gagen, Topics in Finite Groups, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., vol. 16, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1976, Remark, Theorem A on p. $40 $ and Definition $11.3$ on p. $39$. Please see it and say me your ideas. Downgrading from OS X 10.9.2 to 10.9 VirtualBox 5.0.40 crashes the whole host since update to kernel 4.13.0-26-generic I received the updates through normal Software Updater, 10-Jan-2018. After this VirtualBox would not start any VM, complaining about dkms and asking to make modprobe vboxdrv. Following the advice I reinstalled virtualbox-dkms with:  sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox-dkms   After this and a reboot I tried to start a VM which freezed the whole machine and a hard reboot was necessary.  Is there a way to make VirtualBox work with the latest kernels?  EDIT:  As suggested by N0rbert, the command:  apt-cache policy `dpkg -S VirtualBox | head -n1 | sed -e 's/://g' | awk '{print $1}'`  gives:   virtualbox-qt:   Installed: 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2   Candidate: 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2   Version table:  *** 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 500         500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status      5.0.18-dfsg-2build1 500         500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages   EDIT (on 29-Mar-2018): Issue is resolved for me, with the Ubuntu Ubdate from today. I have seen that it had some virtualbox-updates, therefore I tried to boot with the most recent kernel again. Then I had to run  sudo apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox-dkms  And after this my virtual machines in VirtualBox started working without crashing the whole computer. Finally! Can we create a subsection of the References Cited section with different reference numbering? Looking for an intuitive explanation why the row rank is equal to the column rank for a matrix Objective-C for Windows What would be the best way to write Objective-C on the Windows platform?  Cygwin and gcc? Is there a way I can somehow integrate this into Visual Studio?  Along those lines - are there any suggestions as to how to link in and use the Windows SDK for something like this. Its a different beast but I know I can write assembly and link in the Windows DLLs giving me accessibility to those calls but I don't know how to do this without googling and getting piecemeal directions.  Is anyone aware of a good online or book resource to do or explain these kinds of things? How can I set default value in ActiveRecord?  I see a post from Pratik that describes an ugly, complicated chunk of code:   class Item &lt; ActiveRecord::Base     def initialize_with_defaults(attrs = nil, &amp;block)     initialize_without_defaults(attrs) do       setter = lambda { |key, value| self.send("#{key.to_s}=", value) unless         !attrs.nil? &amp;&amp; attrs.keys.map(&amp;:to_s).include?(key.to_s) }       setter.call('scheduler_type', 'hotseat')       yield self if block_given?     end   end   alias_method_chain :initialize, :defaults end   I have seen the following examples googling around:    def initialize      super     self.status = ACTIVE unless self.status   end   and    def after_initialize      return unless new_record?     self.status = ACTIVE   end   I've also seen people put it in their migration, but I'd rather see it defined in the model code.  Is there a canonical way to set default value for fields in ActiveRecord model? Would it be possible to generate the original data from a SHA-512 checksum? So, I have a file that is XY Exabytes big. I create a SHA-512 hash from it.    Are there any theoretical chances that I can retrieve the original data just from the sha512 hash?    Also, are there any better hashes then sha512? I used to study at Cambridge School I used to study at Cambridge School.  I am used to studying at Cambridge School.  If the verb is continuous tense, it need to be added "verb to be" before used to? When does $(e^a)^b = e^{ab}$ hold? For a complex number $A$ and a real number $B$, when does the well-known formula $(e^A)^B = e^{AB}$ fail? Or does it hold at all for complex A?     Since $e^{2\pi i} = 1$, if this formula holds for all complex numbers $A$ and real numbers $B$, then it would imply that $e^{2\pi ti}=( e^{2\pi i} )^t = 1^t=1$ for all $t$, which is obviously false. Introductory Calculus textbook for physics? I have the summer to prepare myself for a high school calculus-based physics course; however, I will have to study calculus by myself. I've completed a course in precalculus and I'm beginning to read .   I am looking for a textbook that has mathematical rigor (i.e. not memorizing formulas), yet also provides adequate foundations for a physics course. From similar stack exchange questions, my top candidates are  and . Which one of these textbooks, if any, would be the best choice for my situation? Suspected adware infection of Mac Scientists have found very bright source of light which they call  and the are found to be . So these black holes are so massive that they cannot be formed by a supernova. So how are these formed? I have encountered this question while tring to figure out why every sequential space $X$, is a quotient spaces of a metric space. If I understand correctly, given a sequential space, every sequence (including it's limit) can be identified with the space $Y=\{0\} \cup \{\frac1{n+1}|n \in N\}$. So The space $X$ can viewed as a quotient space of $\bigoplus_{(x_n) \in C} \{(x_n) \} \times Y$ where $C$ is the set of all converges sequences in $X$. My question is, How can I show that this space is metrizable?  Thank you! Shir Assign VNC password using script I am using a script to automatically set up a computer. I need to assign a password to the vnc server for the user, which is normally done using the vncserver command. However, it prompts for the user to enter and re-enter their password, neither of which the script is capable of doing. So, how can I set up the VNC password without an interactive prompt?   Thanks. Links that are italics and bold not showing as links in Mobile Web Just don't show UI for actions that can't be actioned Recently I just deleted one of my answer in stackoverflow where there was one comment. After deleting the answer it also show for sometime that we all know but in the comment it still allow us to up to make it useful but as I clicked it it just showed me the message:  If we are not allowed to do then what was the meaning? Why don't it just be removed or make it disable if the answer is deleted. Just don't show UI for actions that can't be actioned I forgot what email I used for my other ploxtic id: how do you find out what my email was?   The account is user:2078229. When should a verb be followed by a gerund instead of an infinitive? One may not always know the Type of an object at compile-time, but may need to create an instance of the Type.    How do you get a new object instance from a Type?