Will there be any spyware be contained in the next LTS version 16.04?  I'm asking this because Ubuntu has been associated with spyware .
Richard Stallman states that Ubuntu "has installed surveillance code". See:   Is this true?   I agree with him that "Any excuse Canonical offers is inadequate....".
Why does your reflection suddenly turn upside down while slowly walking away from a curved mirror? Many people should have realised, when looking into a concave curved mirror (or even a rather reflective spoon in that fact) at a close distance, you will see a slightly distorted reflection. But as you move further away, the image will suddenly become upside-down.  why is this? I need help to advance in the resolution of that limit: $ \lim_{n \to \infty}{\sqrt[n]{\frac{n!}{n^n}}} $ Is the set of polynomials of degree less than or equal to $n$ closed? This question is in relation to the space $C(I)$, $I = [a, b]$. Define $P_n =\{ a_0+\dots+a_nx^n \mid a_i \in \mathbb{R}\}$ (any or all $a_i$ could be zero); clearly $P_n \subset C(I)$. The norm I'm using is $\lVert f\rVert_I = \sup_I |f(x)|$. Is $P_n$ closed under $\lVert\cdot\rVert_I$?   I am almost sure the answer is "yes", but I can't seem to prove it. My first instinct was to biject  $P_n$ to $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, using coefficients as coordinates, and prove that sequences of degree-$n$ polynomials converge to degree-$n$ polynomials, but I can't prove that the metric $\lVert\cdot\rVert_I$ is equivalent to the standard metric on $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. Next, intuitively given a function $f \in C(I), \notin P_n$ I should be able to find some $\epsilon &gt; 0$ such that there are no low-degree polynomials "nearby", then that function was not a limit point of $P_n$ so $P_n$ is closed. Again I have no idea how to prove this. What should I do? What Nikon lens to buy to make photos of birds? How can I ensure my Samsung Series 7 is actually using the Radeon switchable graphics? I have a Samsung Series 7 with the Radeon 6750M switchable graphics. The ATI software lets you force programs to use the dedicated card. However, I'm not convinced it is actually ever using it, as the frame rates on some non-taxing games (Portal, TF2) are merely OK. To make matters worse, it looks like the ATI Catalyst Control has vanished from my laptop. To make it even worse, you can't download the driver and ATI CCC from ATI's site, you need to download it from Samsung, and the ZIP they provide is corrupted.   How can I ensure my Samsung Series 7 is actually using the Radeon switchable graphics? Given the following HTML:   &lt;div id="container"&gt;   &lt;!-- Other elements here --&gt;   &lt;div id="copyright"&gt;     Copyright Foo web designs   &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    I would like #copyright to stick to the bottom of #container. Can I achieve this without using absolute positioning? Why would the command "ls *" generate an error about invalid options? There is a thread that talks about ls "*" not showing any files, but I actually wonder why the simple  ls *   command doesn't output anything in my terminal other than  ls: invalid option -- '|' Try 'ls --help' for more information.   while   ls   will list all the files in the current directories as    1                  ferol                      readme.txt  2                  fichier                    sarku  2018               GameShell                  Templates  22223333          '-|h4k3r|-'                 test  3                  hs_err_pid2301.log         test2  CA.txt             important.top.secret.txt   toto.text  CA.zip             JavaBlueJProject           tp1_inf1070  countryInfo.txt    liendur                   'tp1_inf1070_A19(2) (1)'  currency           liensymbolique             tp1_inf1070_A19.tar  curreny            LOL                        Videos  Desktop            Longueuil                 'VirtualBox VMs'  Documents          Music                      words  douffos            numbers                    Zip.zip  Downloads          Pictures  examples.desktop   Public   Any ideas as to why the globbing doesn't take effect here? I'm on Ubuntu, working in the terminal, I don't know if it makes a difference.  Thanks. How do comment @replies work? Is it really possible to break the speed of light by flicking your wrist with a laser pointer? Minutephysics has a popular  called "How to break the speed of light". In the video it states that if you flick your wrist while pointing a laser that reaches the moon, that the spot of light on the moon will travel 20 times the speed of light. Now don't get me wrong, I do like their videos, just this one seemed a bit fishy to me. At first I thought it all practically made sense, then I realised something...  In my mind, I would think that light particles (photons) travel from the laser to the moon and bounces off the moon and back to your eye (it doesn't just stay there, in place, so you can't move it around). Now, what he is stating is that if you flick your wrist these photons that have travelled to the moon will move along with your wrist. Wouldn't these photons be bouncing off of other objects or still travelling to the moon by the time you flick your wrist? i.e. dissipating, therefore new photons will be travelling to the moon (from the laser directly).  For example: let's say you point the laser at the moon, and once it reaches the moon, you wait a couple of seconds and then flick your wrist. The laser that you have flicked will emit photons in every direction that your wrist was in, correct? i.e. The photons would shoot out in a straight line (unless disrupted) continuously, with your wrist taking no affect on the speed of the photons.  So back to the question, is this video wrong? booting windows 10 spends too long In august 2015, I have upgrade my laptop from windows 8.1 to windows 10. But it spends always 10 minutes to boot it. It is not normal that it spends so long. What can I do for boot him faster? Below some information about my laptop.   age: +/- 2 year (on august 2015) edition: Windows 10 Home   File trace are removed.  Update:    I must also say that always there comes a windows update, I have the same problem again form slow booting. Is it good that I turn off the updates? If yes, how can I do that? Also it is in periods that my pc booting to slow. Some time it is like normal (a few seconds) and other times a few minutes. I don't know how it comes that it is fast or slow. The UK Visas and Immigration Directorate publishes  that provides helpful tips that can result in successful visa applications. Section 2 of this guidance opens is entitled &quot;other documents you may want to provide&quot; (emphasis mine).  Section 2: other documents you may want to provide – all visitors This section provides guidance on the types of documents that you may want to provide to help us consider your application against the Immigration Rules. Previous travel documents/passports, which show previous travel. Financial documents showing that you have sufficient funds available.  These must clearly show that you have access to the funds, such as:  bank statements building society book proof of earnings such as a letter from employer confirming employment details (start date of employment, salary, role, company contact details) where a third party (who is either in the UK or will be legally in the UK at the time of your visit) is providing financial support to you e.g. a business, a friend or a relative, documents to show that they have sufficient resources to support you in addition to themselves and any dependant family should be provided   The first item is &quot;bank statements&quot; and this ties in with the , which says...  evidence that you can support yourself during your trip, eg bank statements or payslips from the last 6 months  (Note 'eg' is a Latin abbreviation meaning &quot;for example&quot;; this appears to be optional rather than a fixed requirement.) Question: How should someone interpret this such that the chances of success are maximized? How many statements should I submit? What are they looking for and what do my bank statements tell about me? How to check the tasks that are running at different run levels in debian? Why doesn't backpropagation work when you initialize all the weight the same value (say 0.5), but works fine when given random numbers?   Shouldn't the algorithm calculate the error and work from there, despite the fact that the weights are initially the same? ImportError: No module named pkg_resources What other languages have features and/or libraries similar to Perl's format? Sentence vs proposition Keen eye for detail (or details?) Which one is correct? "To have a keen eye for detail" or "To have a keen eye for details"? Intellisense in IntelliJ no longer working How do you find all subclasses of a given class in Java? How does one go about and try to find all subclasses of a given class (or all implementors of a given interface) in Java? As of now, I have a method to do this, but I find it quite inefficient (to say the least). The method is:    Get a list of all class names that exist on the class path Load each class and test to see if it is a subclass or implementor of the desired class or interface   In Eclipse, there is a nice feature called the Type Hierarchy that manages to show this quite efficiently. How does one go about and do it programmatically? Moment of inertia of a cylinder about its base I've tried to find the moment of inertia of a cylinder rotating about an axis parallel to its base (i.e about the 'End diameter') as one can see  . But when I checked my results with different references ,I've found that it's incorrect!.I need a help to figure out where I did it wrong. since $$I=\int\limits x^2.dm$$ $$dm = \rho.dv$$ where $$dv= r.d\theta . dr .dh$$ &amp; $$\rho=\frac{M}{\pi R^2 H}$$ $M$:cylinder total mass. $H$:total height of cylinder. $R$:the radius of the cylinder. The distance of each infinitesimal element from the axis of rotation would be : $$\sqrt{r^2+h^2}$$ Therfore, $$I= \frac{2M}{ R^2 H}\int\limits_{0}^{R} \int\limits_{0}^{H}\, r(r^2+h^2)dh\,dr$$ and this gives a result of : $$\frac{M~H^2}{3}+\frac{M~R^2}{2}$$ Which is obviously wrong since the second term should be multiplied by a factor of $1/2$.