Please keep in mind that the topic or quality of  does not matter.  If you think the answer is weak, that's fine, irrelevant, down vote it.  What matters is the fact that a link that was posted is redirected.  I posted this  http://www.amazon.com/Oxo-Good-Grips-Salad-Spinner/dp/B00005QB5U  but it now takes you to this  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005QB5U/?tag=stackoverfl08-20  I appreciate that the SE sites exist solely because someone is making money, but I feel this is taking it too far.  That's not my own "affiliate" link.  If it were, I would accept the change.  However, it's not.  Pollute the site with advertising all you want (that's to be expected), but don't alter user's post!
I'm thinking that one way Jeff and the Stack Overflow team could squeeze some extra money out of this site would be to automatically convert all Amazon links posted here into affiliate links, e.g. Stick "tag=codinghorror-20" (or more likely a new site-specific tag) onto every Amazon link. This would bring in some additional revenue every time someone purchased a book via a link on this site.   They could do similar things with other links as well. Amazon's simply the most obvious choice.  So my question is, would anyone have a problem with this?  I know I wouldn't mind, but I don't know how other people would react.  What does everyone think? Is this a horrible idea, a great idea, a waste of time?
Does this email mean that I have been granted the visa? What are the differences between normal and classic difficulties? I can't seem to find a good list of info of all the changes that classic mode offers over normal other than that 'its much harder'.  Does any of the enemy AI improve in classic mode?  Do enemies have more health and do more damage?  Does the panic meter increase faster for countries? I'm trying to run  sed -i "/$variable/c \$variable1' file.txt   But it's not displaying any change in the file: file.txt.  But the same command, with out the variables works fine:  sed -i "/variable/c \variable1' file.txt In Rey's vision, whose voice says "These are your first steps"? How can I set up password-less SSH login? Why do this() and super() have to be the first statement in a constructor? My motherboard currently supports both SATA II and III (3 Gb/s and 6Gb/s respectively), but after reading some online, it seems as though connecting a HDD to the 6 Gb/s is pretty much pointless. If this is the case I'm going to leave my two SATA III ports open for something that can actually use it (which at this point I'm not really sure what can).  This is part of an article I read:     In terms of everything else, we saw basically no difference from the same single drive being plugged into a SATA 6Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s port. All of this is obviously due to the hard drive not being able to actually take advantage of the 6Gb/s bus.   from . How can a structure have infinite length and infinite surface area, but have finite volume? Fraleigh(7ed) Theorem33.12. Let $p$ be a prime and let $n\in\mathbb{Z}^+$. If $E$ and $E&#39;$ are fields of order $p^n$, then $E \simeq E&#39;$.   Proof in the text: Both $E$ and $E&#39;$ have $\mathbb{Z}_p$ as prime field, up to isomorphism. By Corollary 33.6(A finite extension $E$ of a finite field $F$ is a simple extension of $F$), $E$ is a simple extension of $\mathbb{Z}_p$ of degree $n$, so there exists an irreducible polynomial $f(x)$ of degree $n$ in $\mathbb{Z}_p[x]$ such that $E\simeq \mathbb{Z}_p[x]/ \langle f(x) \rangle$. Because the elements of $E$ are zeros of $x^{p^n}-x$, *we see that $f(x)$ is a factor of $x^{p^n}-x$ in $\mathbb{Z}_p[x]$*. Because $E&#39;$ also consists of zeros of  $x^{p^n}-x$, we see that $E&#39;$ also contains zeros of irreducible $f(x)$ in $\mathbb{Z}_p[x]$. Thus, because $E&#39;$ also contains exactly $p^n$ elements, $E&#39;$ is also isomorphic to $E\simeq \mathbb{Z}_p[x]/\langle f(x) \rangle$.  I don't know why $f(x)$ divides $x^{p^n}-x$. $E$ has a zero $\alpha$ of $f(x)$, but it doesn't need to have all the zeros of $f(x)$. So $f(x)=(x-\alpha)g(x)$ in $E[x]$ and $g(x)$ need not be splitted into linear factors. How can $f(x)$ divide $x^{p^n}-x$? How to run a complete GUI as root? I don't care if I mess up the system (which is likely if I do things like this), or the potential security issues that this could imply. Note, that I don't just want to "", but run my GUI from bottom-up as root. I don't want to type my password for anything but just for login and have total control over it.  Of course, I want any application running as root, like Firefox, LibreOffice, etc. without having to mess up with the terminal. So, how do I do this?     This question tries to address users that do not like the current permission system with root being separated from normal users. I do not endorse such behaviors, but if a user wants to, for whatever reason, this question should fit their corncerns.   Not advisable for new users What does the word "SARGable" really mean? I will have a 10 hour layover in Seoul (ICN) and I want to go out and do some shopping. Is it possible to check in a bag during my layover?  I will be traveling on Korean Air.  I will only have 1 checked bag, and international flights allow 2 bags free. "Items collection must be empty before using ItemsSource." I'm trying to get images to display in a WPF ListView styled like a WrapPanel as described in this old ATC Avalon Team article: .    When I try to populate the ListView with a LINQ-to-Entities queried collection of ADO.NET Entity Framework objects I get the following exception:  Exception     Items collection must be empty before   using ItemsSource.   My code&hellip;  Visual Basic  Private Sub Window1_Loaded(...) Handles MyBase.Loaded     ListViewImages.ItemsSource = From g In db.Graphic _                                  Order By g.DateAdded Ascending _                                  Select g End Sub   XAML  &lt;ListView Name="ListViewImages"           SelectionMode="Single"           ItemsSource="{Binding}"&gt;     &lt;local:ImageView /&gt; &lt;/ListView&gt;   I put a breakpoint on that line.  ListViewImages.ItemsSource is Nothing just before the LINQ assignment. Calling future method from batch class? Android Phone SD Card Problem My Samsung Galaxy Admire phone is saying that an SD card isn't found when the SD card is inside the phone: it shows "Please insert SD Card".  What could be wrong? Support for OpenID ended on July 25, 2018 NOTE: Signing up or Logging in via OpenID is no longer officially supported from any of our sites. Currently,  is still on the internet, but we are in the process of completely removing it.    Stack Overflow was an early and strong supporter of . We built our sign up/log in flow around it. We were idealistic and had , but these hopes weren't realized. Over the years people have wondered if  is . We've had to remove support as OpenID providers  or .  The time has come to part ways. The reality is OpenID support has created a ton of complexity in our codebase and the number of users actively using OpenID simply don't justify that cost. 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In the header of my document I set the maximal author names to 2:  \usepackage[style=authoryear-icomp, maxbibnames=9, maxcitenames=2, backend=biber]{biblatex}   Now, when I cite texts with two authors, LaTeX gives me the following:     (Author_A/ Author_B 2012: 232)   When I have three authors or more, LaTeX makes it:     (Author_A/ Author_B et al. 2012: 232)   But I want LaTeX to just name the first author if there are more than two authors ... like this:     (Author_A et al. 2012: 232)   Any tips on how to achieve this ? How to know current name of the database in Django?