A  is said to exploit MMS loading.     For now, there's not much end users can do to protect themselves other than to install a patch as soon as one becomes available for their specific Android device. People can also prevent MMS messages from automatically loading in Google Hangouts or other text apps. That will prevent malicious code from being automatically loaded [...]   How to disable automatic loading of MMS messages?  If it depends on the app, the procedure for the most popular apps would be appreciated.
There appears to be a giant security vulnerability with Android that seems to basically affect all phones.  wrote:  The vast majority of Android phones can be hacked by sending them a specially crafted multimedia message (MMS), a security researcher [Joshua Drake] has found. ... Drake found multiple vulnerabilities in a core Android component called Stagefright that’s used to process, play and record multimedia files. Some of the flaws allow for remote code execution and can be triggered when receiving an MMS message, downloading a specially crafted video file through the browser or opening a Web page with embedded multimedia content. ... The MMS attack vector is the scariest of all because it doesn’t require any interaction from the user; the phone just needs to receive a malicious message. For example, the attacker could send the malicious MMS when the victim is sleeping and the phone’s ringer is silenced, Drake said. After exploitation the message can be deleted, so the victim will never even know that his phone was hacked, he said.  What can a regular user do to mitigate the issue? Disable Google Hangouts?
Is the Death Star’s gravitational force strong enough to hold an atmosphere? The Death Star is the size of a small moon. Endor being a moon (not sure if it's small or not) has a rich atmosphere.  Could the Death Star hold a nitrogen/oxygen based atmosphere with its gravity?  (Now re-reading my question, I suppose this sounds a lot like the plot of SpaceBalls... that was not my intention) In C++, what is the purpose of the scope resolution operator when used without a scope? For instance:  ::foo(); My program cannot run with "command not found" error I just switched from Windows to Ubuntu 11.10.  I wrote the following code in C with the text editor and saved it as HelloWorld.c in Documents.  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt; int main() {     printf("Hello World!\n");     return 0; }   And I started the Terminal and enter the following commands:  cd Documents  gcc HelloWorld.c   A file called a.out, which, after some search on Google, is the executable. I entered this command:  a.out   But I get   a.out: command not found   Which step did I do wrongly? Are there examples of third-(or higher)-order linear differential equations in physics or applied mathematics? The classical second-order linear ordinary differential equation is that named after Sturm and Liouville: formally, \begin{equation} (pu')'=ru. \end{equation} It arises naturally in many physical situations, for example through radial considerations of Schrödinger's equation. A higher-order "analogue" of it is the Orr$-$Sommerfeld equation, which, after relabelling the coefficients, may be written as \begin{equation} (\phi u'')''=\psi u. \end{equation} It also arises naturally, namely from certain simplifications applied to Navier$-$Stokes' (in)famous equation, and describes to great accuracy the cross-stream behaviour of channel fluid flow.  I have been thinking long and hard about whether there are additional higher-order linear differential equations that emerge naturally from our mathematical models of the world. It even seems pretty much all of the linear partial differential equations (heat, wave, Schrödinger, etc.) are of second order. Does anybody know of higher-order examples? How can I stream the same music to multiple computers? Is there a way to stream the same playlist on multiple computers at the same time? I want to be able to sync what's playing on multiple computers (for parties etc). How do I test a private function or a class that has private methods, fields or inner classes? I have an iMac, connected to the Internet via Ethernet, and an iPhone 4. I would like to share the iMac's Internet connection to my iPhone via the USB Cable (because my wife dreams of a wifi-less household).  I've set up Internet Sharing, specifying "sharing from: Ethernet  via: USB IPhone", but when I test, the iPhone cannot connect to the Internet. Is there something I need to activate on the iPhone?   iMac, mac os x version: Mountain Lion, 10.8.4 iPhone 4, IOS Version: 6.1 Images for Area51 proposal community promotion on imgur.com? For each proposal on Area51, a promotional image is automatically generated and it shows the current state, e.g. number of followers/supporters or comitted. Example:    They’re obviously useful for  on existing sites. Alas, the current requirements for those say that the image needs to be hosted on imgur.com. I can easily provide the URL https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/{proposal-number}.png in the image upload dialog, to get a cryptic imgur address back, but I’m afraid that it won’t update dynamically.  Please note that I was able to use the area51 URL on some sites until right now, when the poster generator seems to be broken or off-line, but on other sites the software stopped me from posting any image not hosted on imgur. Can we please have the dynamic posters working everywhere (and in “HiDPI”) or be assured that the external service will update them regularly? This error occurs whenever I try to work with sudo. I changed the permissions of /var/ folder to 777 and I think this causes the error. Please help me get back a functional sudo and /var. Let's say there is a user who has found a satisfactory answer to a common question asked on Stack Overflow (or other Stack Exchange website).  This answer may be a snippet of code, or an addon, or a framework, or something else.    Is it acceptable for this user to formulate an answer for one question, find every related question and then copy the exact answer to each of those questions?  And, if not, what should  users who finds themselves in this situation do? "Give him a box that everyone knows what it contains."  Is this correct English? It sounds wrong to me. Is there a canonical way to typeset such quantities in equations and inline math?  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} $Re$, $Nu$ are clearly not an option. $\mathit{Re}$, $\mathit{Nu}$ appear ok to me. \end{document} Have the Linux kernel bugs that caused data loss when using a Samsung 850 Pro SSD been resolved? I just got a brand new Samsung 850 Pro SSD, and I would like to install Ubuntu 14.04 onto it.  I have read some pretty ugly stories of data loss with the 850 series SSDs when using Linux due to bugs in the kernel, as well as bugs in the TRIM operation.  I have done my research, but most of what I'm finding is very outdated. For example, see , and , as well as .  My question is, what is the current status? Have all major the bugs been worked out yet? A simple algebra that is not semisimple My table doesn't fit; what are my options? I have a table that I want to insert on a page, but at least one (perhaps both) of the following conditions are met:   The table is too wide to fit within the text block or page. That is, I'm exceeding some horizontal restriction. The table is too tall to fit within the text block or page. That is, I'm exceeding some vertical restriction.   What are my options to make this table fit? If it doesn't fit, regardless of my attempts, what other options exist? Should I sign, watermark or otherwise label a framed print? And if so how? I am travelling to Budapest and therefore have a Schengen Visa. I hold an Indian passport and a valid US visa. I'm travelling from Chicago-Heathrow-Budapest and returning by Budapest-Dublin-Chicago.  Would I need a transit visa for UK/Ireland?  UPDATE  Hoping this will help someone someday.   I was not allowed to board my return flight (BUD-DUB-ORD) because I do not hold an overnight Irish Transit Visa. They said I could have transited happily if the connecting flight was in the same day, but because I would have to originally land at 10 PM and catch the connecting flight next morning at 10 AM, I needed a transit visa. Well, I thought it was BS, but couldn't help comply with the rules. I booked another last minute ticket and flew via Warsaw via LOT. What techniques are available for collapsing (or pooling) many categories to a few, for the purpose of using them as an input (predictor) in a statistical model?    Consider a variable like  (discipline chosen by an undergraduate student). It is unordered and categorical, but it can potentially have dozens of distinct levels. Let's say I want to use major as a predictor in a regression model.  Using these levels as-is for modeling leads to all sorts of issues because there are just so many. A lot of statistical precision would be thrown away to use them, and the results are hard to interpret. We're rarely interested in specific majors -- we're much more likely to be interested in broad categories (subgroups) of majors. But it isn't always clear how to divide up the levels into such higher-level categories, or even how many higher-level categories to use.  For typical data I would be happy to use factor analysis, matrix factorization, or a discrete latent modeling technique. But majors are mutually exclusive categories, so I'm hesitant to exploit their covariance for anything.  Furthermore I don't care about the major categories on their own. I care about producing higher-level categories that are coherent with respect to my regression outcome. In the binary outcome case, that suggests to me something like linear discriminant analysis (LDA) to generate higher-level categories that maximize discriminative performance. But LDA is a limited technique and that feels like dirty data dredging to me. Moreover any continuous solution will be hard to interpret.  Meanwhile something based on covariances, like multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), seems suspect to me in this case because of the inherent dependence among mutually exclusive dummy variables -- they're better suited for studying multiple categorical variables, rather than multiple categories of the same variable.  edit: to be clear, this is about collapsing categories (not selecting them), and the categories are predictors or independent variables. In hindsight, this problem seems like an appropriate time to "regularize 'em all and let God sort 'em out". Glad to see this question is interesting to so many people! In an ideal circuit, How can there be a current b/w points a &amp; b, when there is no potential difference and thus no electric field between a &amp; b? If there is no current, then where does current across the resistor come from, because that means no charge is coming from the battery (?). IE9 HTML5 video support