All rogues know thieves cant. If one rogue in the party is talking to an enemy in a language that an ally rogue in the party does not understand, would the speaking rogue be able to use thieves cant to convey a message to the other rogue who does not know the language being spoken to the enemy? Would this realistically be possible without raising suspicion from the enemy? How would you as a Dungeon Master handle this situation? The key thing to note here is that RAW says that thieves cant:  allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation.  So what happens if said conversation is being spoken in a language that only one of the two rogues understands?

In , it is established that Thieves' Cant is more of an encoding system built on top of a language than a language in its own right. According to the Basic Rules,  is:  ...a secret mix of dialect, jargon and code allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves' cant understands such messages. It takes four times longer to convey such a message than it does to speak the same idea plainly. In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves' guild, whether loot is nearby, or whether the people in an area are easy marks or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run. (PBR, p. 27)  Can two creatures communicate using Thieves' Cant if they do not have a basic spoken language in common, or if they are speaking different basic languages? E.g. if one creature knows Orcish, Goblin, and Thieves' Cant, and another creature knows Elvish, Giant, Common, and Thieves' Cant, can they communicate with each other by embedding Thieves' Cant into their own languages? Hypothetically speaking, I can see how this could be possible in our own world, if we assume that Thieves' Cant depends on nuances of body language, emphasis, and tempo, e.g., one might say to a non-Spanish speaker:  Tenemos quEEEEEEE ir (wink) a la tieeeeenda de (shuffle left foot) armas para (twirl hair and giggle) comprar una espada (wink twice) para mi herMANO (wag right pinky and nod).  The literal message itself ("We need to go to the weapon store to buy a sword for my brother.") would just be a carrier - the real message might be hidden within the gestures and the accented and extended syllables. Perhaps the drawn-out "E" vowel means "robbery planned", the wink means "bank", shuffling the left foot means "be there at sunset", etc., and these are things that you wouldn't necessarily need to know Spanish to extract. Is this how Thieves' Cant actually works, or does it require actual comprehension of the literal message transmitted before the "secret" message can be extracted from it?


I am trying to change files so my user owns them, instead of root.  I've searched this forum.  I am getting the same error several hundred times for each command.    This syntax  sudo chown -v -R rpiggott:rpiggott /media/rpiggott/782f830c-c965-4960-8ed2-f8433bfaf8ce/Laptop/PhpstormProjects   is giving me this error message:  chown: changing ownership of '/media/rpiggott/782f830c-c965-4960-8ed2-f8433bfaf8ce/Laptop/PhpstormProjects': Read-only file system   This syntax  sudo find /media/rpiggott/782f830c-c965-4960-8ed2-f8433bfaf8ce/Laptop/PhpstormProjects -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;   is giving me this error message:  chmod: changing permissions of '/media/rpiggott/782f830c-c965-4960-8ed2-f8433bfaf8ce/Laptop/PhpstormProjects/mypainmanagementtracker.net/public/layout': Read-only file system   I've also tried the approach of remount  sudo mount -o remount,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw /dev/sdb1   Which produces the error message  mount: /media/rpiggott/782f830c-c965-4960-8ed2-f8433bfaf8ce not mounted or bad option   The command  sudo parted -l   Gives the result  Model: WD My Passport 0741 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags:   Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags  1      1049kB  1000GB  1000GB  primary  reiserfs

I have got an external hard disk TOSHIBA 1TB USB 3, the permission is always READ ONLY.  fdisk -l (output) :  Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf2198b37     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2046   362369023   181183489    5  Extended /dev/sda3       362371072   976771071   307200000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda5            2048      976895      487424   83  Linux /dev/sda6          978944   362369023   180695040   83  Linux  Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xeba6fb57     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1           16065   312576704   156280320    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5           16128   312573708   156278790+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x297c35de     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdc1              63  1953520064   976760001    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   How can I change the owner and permission of this hard drive ?


I have this assembly file bits 32 global _start extern kmain  section .text _start:     cli     call kmain     hlt  And this .cpp file void kmain(void) {     }  And when running these commands: nasm -f elf32 asmfoo.asm -o asmfoo.o gcc -m32 -c cppfoo.cpp -o cppfoo.o ld -m elf_i386 -T ./linker.ld -o foo-output asmfoo.o cppfoo.o   I get this error: ld: asmfoo.o: in function `_start': asmfoo.asm:(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `kmain'  But when I change the name of the cpp file from cppfoo.cpp to cppfoo.c and run the same compile commands it works without any errors. So how would I call a c++ function from assembly as this doesent work with c++ for some reason.


I understand that two independent random variables are by definition uncorrelated as their covariance is equivalent to 0: $Cov(x,y) = E(xy)- E(x)E(y)$ $E(x)*E(y) = E(xy)$, when x and y are two random independent variables. Therefore, $Cov(x,y) = 0$. However, I am having trouble understanding if two random variables, X and Y, are uncorrelated, it does not necessarily mean they are independent. Could someone also give me a real world example of when two random variables are neither independent nor casually connected? I believe it will help me understand this concept better.

I recently learned that two independent random variables $X$ and $Y$ must have a covariance of $0$. That means that the correlation between them is also $0$. However, apparently, the converse is not true. 2 random variables $X$ and $Y$ can have a correlation of $0$, yet still be dependent. I don't understand why this is. Doesn't a correlation of $0$ imply that the random variables do not affect each other?


I want a page (showmarker.php) that It is used in Google Maps and Markers:  marker.set("type", "point");     marker.set("id", c);     google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', (function(marker, c) {         return function() {             window.location.href = "showmarker.php?location=" + c;              canter=myLatLng;         }     })(marker, c));   this function active with click on each marker.I want send c parameter to showmarker.php without page refresh and get it with php.Please Help me...

I need to do an  request in JavaScript. What's the best way to do that?  I need to do this in a Mac OS X dashcode widget.