A "scientific hypothesis" starts as potentiallyfalsifiable - my "criticism" (and/or question) was about the difference (if any) between the terms "speculation" and hypothesis.
When something is un-scientific (e.g., non-empirical), it is NOT "religion"... it is just un-scientific!
Keep in mind that "religion", when it is a belief *with* knowledge (of God) instead of a belief *without* knowledge (of God) IS empirical (a Greek word -i am a Greek by the way- meaning "derived from experience/observation"), it is just "non-scientific".
Since the scientific method for a scientific theory starts with a scientific hypothesis (everything in bold is Greek - i am a Greek by the way) i don't understand why it is "bad form" or "abuse of the terminology" - "hypothesis" is translated to Greek as "speculation" and a "scientific hypothesis" is a (scientific) speculation.
Do you think "anti social media" would be a better term considering how some use it and what the companies/governments do with your data?
Yes, "anti-social media" is a good term if you think how some people (ab)use facebook and other "social" media (i exclude the companies/governments case because, even if it may be also "anti-social", it then becomes more of a privacy issue, plus i don't examine any anti-social criminal/illegal/terrorist/etc use cases) - i don't have any "social" account, but just by creating a Slashdot account a couple of months ago i become extra anti-social!
You should also stop using Slashdot for posting reasons to stop using Facebook and other "social" media, because that makes you a suspect - fuck... now i am a suspect also, because i advised you stop using Slashdot for posting reasons to stop using Facebook and other "social" media, because that makes you a suspect!
That was a good explanation of what is the point of this story. I have an analogy for such cases: defending someone who kills kittens, by claiming others did the same before and/or in a greater extent - o.k., maybe a bad analogy, but "a great symbol of free enterprise with government's money" is an oxymoron in any case!
Hello Sir - i appreciate ANY (not only constructive!) feedback on my English, even when not so "gentle" (who does not love a good -grammar- NaZi?), so thank you very much.
BUT: i write "(Greek) NaZi" deliberately - it is my way for indirectly making people think about the Nationalistic-Socialistic ideology and differentiate (i hope this was a proper English word!) between both Nationalism and Socialism PLUS the German/Hitler's and other kinds.
I am a Greek (and/or European!) Nationalist -but not Socialist!- who supports (for many reasons, one of them: because i am an anti-Fascist!!!) a Greek party that IS Nationalistic-Socialistic (and honors Hitler in a strange way, since it is the descendant of the Greek Nationalistic-Socialistic party that ruled Greece during WW2 and fought AGAINST Hitler)... so, i hope you understand!
In any case: thank you again, and please don't hesitate to become a -grammar- NaZi... i respect them!
Does anyone really give a fucking shit about every little thing Elon Musk does?
At least Slashdot does, and thinks it must have a story everytime Elon takes a crap...
Is the media really so determined to manufacture a new Steve Jobs?
Good point - i understand that the media AND the people love to have their "heros", and i respect the guy, but enough is enough.
And are we really at the point of calling Solar City, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX "corporate empires"?
I tried to read the fucking article, but i failed because in the middle of the first paragraph i read "[...] Mr. Musk has built the Tesla brand into the world's most desired automobile [...]" - after that i came here and found your comment... one of the best "first posts" i ever read!
I am not a "hacher" (nor a burglair!), but it was baffling for me why he used a toy and not build it himself, so: good points about the "press coverage purposes"!
Are you fucking serious dude? "We Europeans"* invented "goverment spying on its citizens" , plus we currently do it also (much more shamelessly) - actually, it is the "Yankees" that don't tolerate it (because of their long tradition -yep, even Yankees have some "long traditions"...- of freedoms).
I am Greek myself, so, for that special case of grouping, the least "European" for that specific "We" (we Greeks don't share so much that "goverment spying on its citizens" tradition with the rest of our fellow Europeans), althrough i don't support Snowden (i don't like traitors generally, and i don't like this narcissistic anti-hero specifically) - but let's not pretend that "We Europeans" stand in some higher moral ground than Yankees, at least not when the issue is anti-state ethics, something that Yankees are above everyone else in the world.
I loved Athens, the islands, and the Greco-Roman antiquities of the Turkish coast (May, 2001).
I hate Athens (i live here the last few decades, but i am originaly from some other *beautiful* Greek city), the islands were much better before you "barbarians" come (o.k., i guess the income from tourism is not bad for the local population), every antiquity is Greek (Romans just copied Greeks, plus the East "Roman" Empire was actually continuation of Greek, later to be known as "Byzantine"), and there is no such thing as "Turkish coast" (it is just Greek coast under occupation from Muslims) - but i know you try to be nice (!), so: thank you very much Sir, you are always welcomed in Greece, i hope we Greeks did not totaly disappointed you (and don't judge Greeks from me, some nice folks still exist!)...
O.K. thanks mate! I am not American so i did not got your reference (i was able to translate "Das Suden lied" as "Song of the South", and while i understood it was about something racial... i expected some "Waffen SS" stuff, but i could not think any known NaZi reference to connect it!) - my "Greek soundtrack" is a Greek nationalist sosialist song talking about Greeks protecting the white race, and the Germans SS as brothers that took the "flame of Olympians" from Spartans... and stuff like that!
Please keep in mind that the Greek NaZi regime at the time of WW2 fought AGAINST Hitler (and that i am a Greek/European nationalist -but not sosialist-... so i don't have a problem making some fun of the "political correctness" around here!)
Anyway, also thanks for having some sense of humor AND logic!!!
It was the following line that caught my interest:
These negotiating texts are supposed to remain secret for five years after TISA is finalized and brought into force.
What is the need for secrecy? If this is a good deal then doing out in the open is clearly the way to go. That they are attempting to bury it suggests that this a crappy deal for all but a select few.
I think it is not the actual Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) that would remain secret for 5 years but the negotiating texts, i.e., records/transcripts of the conference proceedings, something usual.
We know you are Greek. No need to insert it into EVERY post unless it is pertinent to that post. Thanks!
You are welcomed Sir, BUT:
1) Who is "We"? I thought that this "anonymous coward" was a single individual...
2) In a discussion (in which i make an -indirect- question actually) about a US legal case, i find it pertinent to mention that i am Greek, without much knowledge about the US laws.
3) "repetitio est mater studiorum" - I am a Greek!
I don't know any German (other than "Heil Hitler", "Arbeit Macht Frei"... and "ich liebe dich"!), so...!
But i can recommend to Disney (it's THEIR movie!) a Greeksoundtrack - for any Germans listening to it: you could not claim anymore that we dislike you!
I also don't think that a US court justice has any jurisdiction in India, BUT i am not so sure that suing Facebook (an American company) in a US court to demand that Facebook potentially goes against the law in India is illogical, since any American company must follow US laws - this does not mean that what Facebook did is against any US law (from what i know - i am Greek), nor that an American company can not follow India's laws when does business in India... it just means that if India's laws demand to sacrifice a human baby in order to do business in India and facebook do it (even if the baby is Indian, and the sacrifice is done in India!), i don't find it so illogical for US justice to intervene.
I am not a lawyer, so this is more of a question to anyone with more knowledge about the issue.
I expect a story about a cute nationalist white bunny named Adolf trying to survive in a European forest after it has been gang raped by an awful immigrant hyena called Muhammad and its hideous gang of black baboons...
Hey Disney, i would pay good money to see it - DO IT!
note: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Some of the aside projects maybe be due to incompetency, lack of coordination and redundancy, but I bet a few are to escape giving accountability to the HQ.
Which is "good" for everyone starting those projects but bad for HQ (*IF* they are against this kind of "flexibility").
Seeing all this problems as a technical project is doomed to failure.
I guess they (HQ) don't see it so much as a "technical" but as a "managment" project - see above about "flexibility".
What are they doing to prevent this situation won't happen again in a few years?
The usual: they do this "overhaul phase" and wait few years before they do the next... (usualy, things get worse if an organization is expanding)
Who says nowadays one needs a local physical datacenter anymore when rogue players can put together a datacenter in the cloud?
Slashdot Mirror
A "scientific hypothesis" starts as potentially falsifiable - my "criticism" (and/or question) was about the difference (if any) between the terms "speculation" and hypothesis.
Keep in mind that "religion", when it is a belief *with* knowledge (of God) instead of a belief *without* knowledge (of God) IS empirical (a Greek word -i am a Greek by the way- meaning "derived from experience/observation"), it is just "non-scientific".
Since the scientific method for a scientific theory starts with a scientific hypothesis (everything in bold is Greek - i am a Greek by the way) i don't understand why it is "bad form" or "abuse of the terminology" - "hypothesis" is translated to Greek as "speculation" and a "scientific hypothesis" is a (scientific) speculation.
Is Elon's shit carbonfiber-reinforced and Li-Po-powered?
Of course it is dude, he is Elon, that is his super power, and he is using his rocket propelled shit when he takes a crap on bad guys.
'Cause if it is, that *might* just be a turd that I want to read about...
You read it here first!
Do you think "anti social media" would be a better term considering how some use it and what the companies/governments do with your data?
Yes, "anti-social media" is a good term if you think how some people (ab)use facebook and other "social" media (i exclude the companies/governments case because, even if it may be also "anti-social", it then becomes more of a privacy issue, plus i don't examine any anti-social criminal/illegal/terrorist/etc use cases) - i don't have any "social" account, but just by creating a Slashdot account a couple of months ago i become extra anti-social!
You should also stop using Slashdot for posting reasons to stop using Facebook and other "social" media, because that makes you a suspect - fuck... now i am a suspect also, because i advised you stop using Slashdot for posting reasons to stop using Facebook and other "social" media, because that makes you a suspect!
That was a good explanation of what is the point of this story. I have an analogy for such cases: defending someone who kills kittens, by claiming others did the same before and/or in a greater extent - o.k., maybe a bad analogy, but "a great symbol of free enterprise with government's money" is an oxymoron in any case!
Hello Sir - i appreciate ANY (not only constructive!) feedback on my English, even when not so "gentle" (who does not love a good -grammar- NaZi?), so thank you very much.
BUT: i write "(Greek) NaZi" deliberately - it is my way for indirectly making people think about the Nationalistic-Socialistic ideology and differentiate (i hope this was a proper English word!) between both Nationalism and Socialism PLUS the German/Hitler's and other kinds.
I am a Greek (and/or European!) Nationalist -but not Socialist!- who supports (for many reasons, one of them: because i am an anti-Fascist!!!) a Greek party that IS Nationalistic-Socialistic (and honors Hitler in a strange way, since it is the descendant of the Greek Nationalistic-Socialistic party that ruled Greece during WW2 and fought AGAINST Hitler)... so, i hope you understand!
In any case: thank you again, and please don't hesitate to become a -grammar- NaZi... i respect them!
Does anyone really give a fucking shit about every little thing Elon Musk does?
At least Slashdot does, and thinks it must have a story everytime Elon takes a crap...
Is the media really so determined to manufacture a new Steve Jobs?
Good point - i understand that the media AND the people love to have their "heros", and i respect the guy, but enough is enough.
And are we really at the point of calling Solar City, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX "corporate empires"?
I tried to read the fucking article, but i failed because in the middle of the first paragraph i read "[...] Mr. Musk has built the Tesla brand into the world's most desired automobile [...]" - after that i came here and found your comment... one of the best "first posts" i ever read!
I am not a "hacher" (nor a burglair!), but it was baffling for me why he used a toy and not build it himself, so: good points about the "press coverage purposes"!
I am Greek myself, so, for that special case of grouping, the least "European" for that specific "We" (we Greeks don't share so much that "goverment spying on its citizens" tradition with the rest of our fellow Europeans), althrough i don't support Snowden (i don't like traitors generally, and i don't like this narcissistic anti-hero specifically) - but let's not pretend that "We Europeans" stand in some higher moral ground than Yankees, at least not when the issue is anti-state ethics, something that Yankees are above everyone else in the world.
offtopic: i thought Soulskill's weekends started at Tuesday or Wednesday!
I loved Athens, the islands, and the Greco-Roman antiquities of the Turkish coast (May, 2001).
I hate Athens (i live here the last few decades, but i am originaly from some other *beautiful* Greek city), the islands were much better before you "barbarians" come (o.k., i guess the income from tourism is not bad for the local population), every antiquity is Greek (Romans just copied Greeks, plus the East "Roman" Empire was actually continuation of Greek, later to be known as "Byzantine"), and there is no such thing as "Turkish coast" (it is just Greek coast under occupation from Muslims) - but i know you try to be nice (!), so: thank you very much Sir, you are always welcomed in Greece, i hope we Greeks did not totaly disappointed you (and don't judge Greeks from me, some nice folks still exist!)...
O.K. thanks mate! I am not American so i did not got your reference (i was able to translate "Das Suden lied" as "Song of the South", and while i understood it was about something racial... i expected some "Waffen SS" stuff, but i could not think any known NaZi reference to connect it!) - my "Greek soundtrack" is a Greek nationalist sosialist song talking about Greeks protecting the white race, and the Germans SS as brothers that took the "flame of Olympians" from Spartans... and stuff like that!
Please keep in mind that the Greek NaZi regime at the time of WW2 fought AGAINST Hitler (and that i am a Greek/European nationalist -but not sosialist-... so i don't have a problem making some fun of the "political correctness" around here!)
Anyway, also thanks for having some sense of humor AND logic!!!
Go metric and your dicks will become about 2.5 times larger!!!
It was the following line that caught my interest:
These negotiating texts are supposed to remain secret for five years after TISA is finalized and brought into force.
What is the need for secrecy? If this is a good deal then doing out in the open is clearly the way to go. That they are attempting to bury it suggests that this a crappy deal for all but a select few.
I think it is not the actual Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) that would remain secret for 5 years but the negotiating texts, i.e., records/transcripts of the conference proceedings, something usual.
Hey, you're not Greek by any chance, are you? Just wondering.
Yes, i am a Greek (how did you know it?), sorry for not mention it in my original post - i did it here.
We know you are Greek. No need to insert it into EVERY post unless it is pertinent to that post. Thanks!
You are welcomed Sir, BUT:
1) Who is "We"? I thought that this "anonymous coward" was a single individual...
2) In a discussion (in which i make an -indirect- question actually) about a US legal case, i find it pertinent to mention that i am Greek, without much knowledge about the US laws.
3) "repetitio est mater studiorum" - I am a Greek!
Not quite yet - still on 4.1-rc6, final version not yet released.
(At least as far as kernel.org is concerned).
Correct!
Title suggestion: Das Südenlied.
I don't know any German (other than "Heil Hitler", "Arbeit Macht Frei"... and "ich liebe dich"!), so...!
But i can recommend to Disney (it's THEIR movie!) a Greek soundtrack - for any Germans listening to it: you could not claim anymore that we dislike you!
Seriously? Well, good for them then, great minds meet... plus: i never claimed copyrights!
I also don't think that a US court justice has any jurisdiction in India, BUT i am not so sure that suing Facebook (an American company) in a US court to demand that Facebook potentially goes against the law in India is illogical, since any American company must follow US laws - this does not mean that what Facebook did is against any US law (from what i know - i am Greek), nor that an American company can not follow India's laws when does business in India... it just means that if India's laws demand to sacrifice a human baby in order to do business in India and facebook do it (even if the baby is Indian, and the sacrifice is done in India!), i don't find it so illogical for US justice to intervene.
I am not a lawyer, so this is more of a question to anyone with more knowledge about the issue.
...just what you'd expct [sic!] from Disney
I expect a story about a cute nationalist white bunny named Adolf trying to survive in a European forest after it has been gang raped by an awful immigrant hyena called Muhammad and its hideous gang of black baboons...
Hey Disney, i would pay good money to see it - DO IT!
note: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental .
Will it work?
Who knows? Only Time!
Some of the aside projects maybe be due to incompetency, lack of coordination and redundancy, but I bet a few are to escape giving accountability to the HQ.
Which is "good" for everyone starting those projects but bad for HQ (*IF* they are against this kind of "flexibility").
Seeing all this problems as a technical project is doomed to failure.
I guess they (HQ) don't see it so much as a "technical" but as a "managment" project - see above about "flexibility".
What are they doing to prevent this situation won't happen again in a few years?
The usual: they do this "overhaul phase" and wait few years before they do the next... (usualy, things get worse if an organization is expanding)
Who says nowadays one needs a local physical datacenter anymore when rogue players can put together a datacenter in the cloud?
HQ?
It was an information-poor article ("/." summary has almost all the "info"!), but at least it was about IT...