I currently have a question with (what I feel is) a very large bounty.  While the question has received some excellent attention, there is only one answer of (in my opinion) somewhat low quality.  As the only answer, I believe it will receive the bounty when it auto-awards.  I feel as though the answer was only posted in order to obtain the bounty auto-award by default.  I have no problem forfeiting the reputation from the bounty, but I'd prefer it to go on an answer of semi-quality, and not have it auto-award to what amounts to an answer for the sake of answering.  I feel that this "bounty sniping" constitutes an actual problem with the system's (ostensibly fake and worthless) currency.  Is there a way to circumvent the auto-award and just have the bounty get discarded?
I recently put a bounty on a question regarding the . I did this as the only two answers on that page are not satisfactory and I wish to encourage a tractable answer.  I am concerned that when the bounty period expires, if I do not select an answer for the bounty that it may be awarded automatically to one of these speculative and unsatisfactory answers. How might I prevent that? I could put an answer of my own stating "no satisfactory sources are available" and award the bounty to that, however I feel that there should be a better way.  I stress that I put the bounty on the question specifically because the current answers are not satisfactory and I do not want to award them.
I cannot mount Windows 8 partition disk on Ubuntu 12.10.  My Windows 8 is installed on "C" partition, and I have another "D" partition.  I can easily mount "D" partition, see files and make changes on them. Actually I also have a problem with this: when I copy a file from ubuntu to "D", I cannot see this file on Windows 8.  My main problem is when I try to mount "C" partition I get this:     Unable to mount 121 GB Volume   Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/furkan/06DEC78FDEC77589: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda3" "/media/furkan/06DEC78FDEC77589"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.   Failed to mount '/dev/sda3': Operation not permitted   The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows   properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or   mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.   For example type on the command line:           mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda3 /media/furkan/06DEC78FDEC77589 Conditional sentences not starting with "if" Were I rich, I would live on Long Island.   If I were rich, I would live on Long Island.   Is the first sentence still used, or is used in particular contexts (in example, to give emphasis to the sentence)? 1.I will study hard until I get a high score on this exam. 2.I will study hard until I've gotten a high score on this exam.  I think these sentences are grammatically correct. but if I add a specific time, I think these sentences have to be only this one:  3.I will study hard until I get a high score on this exam on July 25th.  And how about these?  a. I'd like to watch all of the holocaust movies present in the world until I've become an expert on it. b. I'd like to watch all of the holocaust movies present in the world until I become an expert on it.  Since there's no a word representing a specific time, both of them are okay, right? And what I'd like to know is the difference between &quot;have gotten&quot; and &quot;get&quot;. What I know about them is we can use &quot;future perfect&quot; to refer to unspecific future event that might happen before some accident. but &quot;get&quot; refers to future event that could be either a specific scheduled event or unspecific future event. that's why if I add a specific time mentioning, I have to use &quot;get&quot;. Why are all nonzero eigenvalues of the skew-symmetric real matrices pure imaginary? Assume that $A$ is an $n\times n$  real matrix, i.e. $$A^T=-A.$$  Since $\det(A-\lambda I)=\det(A^T-\lambda I)$, $A$ and $A^T$ have the same eigenvalues. On the other hand, $A^T$ and $-A$ also have the same eigenvalues. Thus if $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $A$, so is $-\lambda$. If $n$ is odd, $\lambda = 0 $ is an eigenvalue.  A curious search in Google returns  the nonzero eigenvalues of $A$ are all pure imaginary and thus are of the form $iλ_1, −iλ_1, iλ_2, −iλ_2,$ … where each of the $λ_k$ are real.   Here is my question:     How can I prove the fact that "the nonzero eigenvalues of $A$ are all pure imaginary"? Manually disable a module Is there to make the login screen appear on the external display in 18.04? I have two groups with equal variances and unequal sample size (28 and 8) and I want to run a Student t-test. Can I use Mann-Whitney considering that the variances are equal? Do you think if there is a better test to compare the samples? Highlight a word with jQuery Opening Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop on WSL2 I installed Ubuntu 20.04 (server/terminal) from the Windows 10 app store, and then after launching the Ubuntu Terminal via WSL2 (Windows Subsystems for Linux) , I installed Ubuntu Desktop and did several steps to try and get a desktop instance of Ubuntu 20.04 launched.  In short, the steps involved editing the .bashrc file, installing Xming, and then attempting to open the Ubuntu desktop in Xming with the &quot;startxfce4&quot; command.  However, &quot;startxfce4&quot; just doesn't open the desktop for me.  I can get programs to open with &quot;grun&quot; and the file explorer to open with &quot;gopen&quot; though, so it is working partially. Does anyone have any alternative suggestions to how I might get the terminal to open up the full Ubuntu Desktop?  Obviously, this wasn't what Windows had in mind with WSL2 so this is kind of a reach, but any input would be helpful.  Could I somehow do this from the file explorer or with a program that could opened from &quot;grun&quot; or &quot;gopen&quot;? How do I record a screen cap video of the iPad? I'm looking for a method to record the video without actually filming the device. Does such a method exist? how do you make commands not show up on the chat I am making a server, and I put a comparitor clock down to constantly have clear weather. How do I silence the commands? There are a number of times in Lord of the Rings where the "east" is mentioned -- the pirate ships, the slave-driven farms. And of course all of the peoples subservient to Sauron who come to fight Gondor and the West. Are there any maps of the East of Middle-earth, and what is out there? I read this story a long time ago and cannot remember either the title or the author. It was written in the 60s or 70s. The setting is sometime in the 21 century.  Here is a summary of the plot.  One of the great classical composers (maybe it was Schubert, I'm not sure) is revived with some future technology. All the guys in the lab are very happy about it, the world cheers the achievement. The composer is also quite excited to be alive. Naturally, he is asked to perform a concert. He asks for ink and music paper. Nobody knows what that is: in those days everybody writes music directly in "frequency spectrum" and similar stuff.  The composer, excited to create music again, tries to come up with something but he doesn't like anything he writes. The music is well written, but lacks something essential, it doesn't sound like his real music. Finally, the composer realizes that the lab guys recreated his mind from reviews by music critics, and his music just sounds like that. He performs the concert. The audience enjoys it, applauds and bravos. Not only to composer, but also to the lab guys.   At the end, if I remember it right, the composer gloats over the  primitive taste of the audience. The audience who writes music in frequency spectrum and applauds to lab guys at the music concert did not see the failure in the concert and ate it as it is.  Does someone recognize the story?  PS all the recent talk of advent of AI machines with Machine Learning algorithms reminded me of this story. I have a bit of a unique problem. Well, maybe not a problem because I'm really just curious about it, but...  I have a simple 8 digit calculator. It has +, -, x, /, and a constant operation function. It has no usable memory slot.  I need (lit. would like to know how) to calculate ln(x) on this calculator. Any series I have found lose a lot of precision since whatever is outside the 8 digit range is truncated without rounding. I have used Padé approximants with trig functions, and a continued fraction for exp(), but none of these two methods are adequate for ln(x), either because there is no way around the truncation error or it requires writing down many intermediate values, or it requires memorizing and punching in many constants.  Does anyone know any good way to calculate ln(x) (or any other base, since memorizing one constant is OK) to as many digits as possible as easily as possible on this calculator (bonus points to methods where the value on the screen is immediately, meaning you don't need to write it down)?  For that matter, if you happen to know some good ways to calculate other special functions, I am interested in that as well.  Thanks! What is a tty, and how do I access a tty? Evaluating the limit of a sequence given by recurrence relation $a_1=\sqrt2$, $a_{n+1}=\sqrt{2+a_n}$. Is my solution correct? Where can I ask questions regarding Electronics? I am currently doing some electronics and microcontroller programming, and I have a couple of questions to ask the people here.    Most of the questions are regarding wiring on breadboards and components.    On which of the websites (Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or Super User) should I ask these particular questions? Why is $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{-n}], n\ge 3$ not a UFD? note: this question has been updated to reflect that we are currently using MySQL, having done so, I would like to see a how much easier it would be if we switched to a CTE-supporting database.  I have a self-referencing table with a primary key, id and a foreign key parent_id.  +------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field      | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          | +------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id         | int(11)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |  | parent_id  | int(11)      | YES  |     | NULL    |                |  | name       | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |  | notes      | text         | YES  |     | NULL    |                |  +------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+   Given a name, how can I query the top-level parent?  Given a name, how can I query all of the id's associated with a record of name = 'foo'?  context: I am not a dba, but am planning to ask a dba to implement this type of hierarchical structure and would like to test some queries. The motivation for doing so is described by .    Here is an example of the relationships among ids in the table:    -- ----------------------------------------------------- -- Create a new database called 'testdb' -- ----------------------------------------------------- SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0; SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL';  CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS `testdb` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci ; USE `testdb` ;  -- ----------------------------------------------------- -- Table `testdb`.`observations` -- ----------------------------------------------------- CREATE  TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `testdb`.`observations` (   `id` INT NOT NULL ,   `parent_id` INT NULL ,   `name` VARCHAR(45) NULL ,   PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE = InnoDB;  SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE; SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS; SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS;  -- ----------------------------------------------------- -- Add Example Data Set -- -----------------------------------------------------   INSERT INTO observations VALUES (1,3), (2,5), (3,NULL), (4,10),     (5,NULL), (6,1), (7,5), (8,10), (9,10), (10,3); How to turn off the iOS-style character picker menu