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Bob the Super Hamste writes: A black hole with daddy issues
Star Wars Episode I
JJ Abrams style lens flair
Snookie in a bar's mens room
The Denver Bronco's Superbowl performance
The GNAA and mycleanpc trolling
Soviet Russia
hduff writes: Look at almost any current Slashdot story and see loyal, long-time members rail against the new site design, willing to burn precious karma points to post off-topic rants against the new design and it being forced on users by the Dice Overlords. Discussion has begun to create an alternate site.
An anonymous reader writes: On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.
Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.
If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.
We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project. We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott
Moderators — only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta Commentors — only discuss Beta http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org] — Vote up the Fuck Beta stories
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot users flame all site stories with comments about the sites forced switching over to Beta version. The comments are relentless, calling for a ban of the site from Feb 10 to Feb 17. The following post is being made in every story comment: On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design. Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system. If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this [slashdot.org] in a new tab. After seeing that, click here [slashdot.org] to return to classic Slashdot. We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project. We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott [slashdot.org] Moderators — only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta Commentors — only discuss Beta http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org] — Vote up the Fuck Beta stories Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention. Captcha: fuckbeta
mwecksell writes: Once Slashdot Classic is turned off is a few months, what tech site should I visit daily in place of my soon to be given up slashdot habit?
wbr1 writes: It seems abundantly clear now that Dice and the SlashBeta designers do not care one whit about the community here. They do not care about rolling in crapware into sourceforge installers. In short, the only thing that talks to them is money and stupid ideas.
Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.
mugnyte writes: With Slashdot's recent restyled "BETA" slowly rolled to most users, there's been a lot of griping about the changes. This is nothing new, as past style changes have had similar effects. However, this pass there are significant usability changes: A narrower read pane, limited moderation filtering, and several color/size/font adjustments. BETA implies not yet complete, so taking that cue — please list your specific, detailed opinoins, one per comment, and let's use the best part of slashdot (the moderation system) to raise the attention to these. Change can be jarring, but let's focus on the true usability differences with the new style.
An anonymous reader writes: Bold Scientists Look to Complete the Behavior Oriented Trading Robot Software with Funding Support from Indiegogo.
It is time for individual investors to get the tools used by large Hedge Funds. Forget about "technical analysis" and enter the world of Quant Trading.
Manuel Delaflor, Sheffield, UK, 1st Feb, 2014 So far, traders have been trading in the markets with obsolete tools. Entire encyclopedias have been written about "technical analysis" and "fundamental analysis". Hundreds of thousands have been thinking that they were competing with the big guys, only to realize, after huge loses, that "something" was missing. The big firms have realized, since along time ago, that well designed algorithms are faster and more efficient than humans when making decisions about the market. Pure and simple. That's why they rely on them to make billions. Currently more than 70%of the operations in the markets are performed by algorithms. This is also why this team of developers have been taking a different approach to the markets, they are not economists, and that is a good thing. Big Hedge Funds and other financial firms are not trading based on obsolete techniques like "technical analysis" or "fundamental analysis". They hire scientists, physicists and mathematicians who work exclusively designing algorithms to determine when to enter and get out of the markets. Their success is based on the use of science and technology and, so far, the only way to obtain those kinds of tools was to invest your money hiring their services, which of course, are expensive. The people behind this project want to change that. They are developing the same set of tools Hedge Funds use and will give them to anyone interested in playing a different game. BOTR (Behavior Oriented Trading Robot) is the natural and necessary next step for individual investors. BOTR is a fantastic technology that will be created using Matlab, the market algorithms have been designed using Tradestation and written in Easylanguage, the programming language that comes with Tradestation. The semantic Algorithms will be able to search the main Social Portals and the leading news websites. The team is using cutting edge research done all over the world with regards to the most advanced techniques currently available to make them run efficiently and accurately. The funding will be used to complete the software.If this funding goal is surpassed, they will add even more exciting features to the Trading Robot. This campaign will only receive funds if at least$25,000USDis raised by its deadline. Funding duration: January 16, 2014 — February 15, 2014 (11:59pm PT). Indiegogo Page: http://bit.ly/1iVEY0V
