Submission + - Favourite Slashdot Memories 4
Kell Bengal writes: What are your favorite memories from the last 15+ years? Hot grits? The slashdot effect? GNAA? APK sockpuppets? Tell us what will you miss most when you move on!
Comment Re:Did the FAA Send a notice to dice? (Score 1) 136
It may well be the first time that a marketing department did this by covering a third of the usable space with an empty white column. I wonder if the method has been patented.
#iamslashdot
Comment Re:Not really a good time to bring up Beta testing (Score 2) 158
Well one problem is that about 1/4 is covered by an empty white column.
Comment Google Glass Whitespace - iamslashdot (Score -1) 158
Since this is a beta, presumably the 'glass limits a policeman's field of view to some arbitrarily narrow fixed width and further obscures that with an empty white column that covers 1/3 of the restricted viewable space and continues empty to infinity. When the policeman attempts to obtain identification of a suspect, all pertinant details are obscured for no reason, especially the license numbers. And all NYPD police reports will now be doublespaced.
Bad "ux" if you ask me. But the NYPD is corrupt and does parallel investigation for the NSA. So
Fuckbeta!
Comment Re:Just be honest - it's not for *US* (Score 1) 2219
First off, thanks for daring to participate in the discussion directly.
Your UI developer should be in here too to explain what (s?)he is is trying to achieve. I really want to understand how the endless vertical column of nothingness makes for a good "UX". Maybe we'll both "learn".
You are currently redirecting 1/4 of your non-logged-in traffic to a site that is, at best, broken. Many of us, even a majority, arrive logged out for a variety of reasons. So nearly 1/4 of your users arrive pissed off. The rest are presented with these announcements that either piss us off or remind us of how pissed off we should be. Make it stop.
I won't even get into the whole contributers != users bit, but you should think about it hard.
The beta feels like an early alpha right now. It's either actually borken, or not feature complete. Your "beta testers" are telling you to kill it with fire.
You can't please everyone, but you can help the rational ones to understand. Many of us have built websites and understand interface design - telling use that a traveler from the future told you that the site would look like a crumudgeon magnet in 2018 really doesn't sell it. WTF are you trying to accomplish? Why now and not 2018?
Do better. We deserve it. Honestly, you deserve better too.
There are three things you can do that will make me believe you are serious about listening to feedback.
1 - On the (alpha), in the banner, add the word "classic" (in plain view) so we don't have to guess about how to get to the working site. The footer is too far away and you know it.
1a - Yeah sure, add a similar link from the working site to the (alpha). Maybe put that in the footer if you believe in footers so much.
2 - Stop sending traffic to the broken site. Your testers have told you that the site is broken until the comment UI is feature complete. Fix it first. When you think it's done, have a poll. (is it done?, yes, no, cowboyneal does my UI) Address the issues highlighted. Then, and only then, try this redirect shit. With volunteers.
3 - Take your time, and explain just what you are trying to do. Include details. Like why you can't make it work without javascript. Like just which users you are particularly hoping to please. And why it's worth pleasing them instead of me.
Regards,
Submission + - Slashdot tells it users politely, to go fuck themselves (slashdot.org) 2
who_stole_my_kidneys writes: The slahsdot beta sparked outrage from the community , to only have timothy come out and state that slashdot will change and its users can basically go fuck themselves.
Comment Crash robot trucks into the Dice managment. (Score 0, Troll) 135
It's their fault. The PHB overlords! Fuckbeta!
http://www.investor.diceholdin...
Complain to investor relations. If this is how Dice manages holdings, the company will be worthless soon. Investor relations should warn everyone to get out now.
Yes Jennifer, you have a responsibility to warn the investors.
Jennifer Bewley
VP, Investor Relations
Phone: 212-448-4181
or 515-313-2086
E-Mail: IR@dice.com
fuckbeta!
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 10
rueger writes: A fair question that is on many people's minds. Given that the beta site is proving incredibly unpopular, what Slash-replacements are out there?
Submission + - Slashdot BETA caused my penis to hide in walls of flesh 1
An anonymous reader writes: no disassemble number 5!
Submission + - Exam Cheating Scandal Hits Navy Nuclear Force (go.com)
mdsolar writes: "In a new twist to a widening tale of ethical lapses in the military, the Navy is investigating cheating allegations against about one-fifth of its trainers at a school for naval nuclear power reactor operators.
It is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year, on top of a series of disclosures in recent months of ethical lapses at all ranks in the military as it transitions from more than a decade of war-fighting.
Unlike an Air Force cheating probe that has implicated nearly 100 officers responsible for land-based nuclear missiles that stand ready for short-notice launch, those implicated in the Navy investigation have no responsibility for nuclear weapons."
The trouble with eternal vigilance is that sometimes you blink and eventually you'll blink at just the wrong time....
It is the second exam-cheating scandal to hit the military this year, on top of a series of disclosures in recent months of ethical lapses at all ranks in the military as it transitions from more than a decade of war-fighting.
Unlike an Air Force cheating probe that has implicated nearly 100 officers responsible for land-based nuclear missiles that stand ready for short-notice launch, those implicated in the Navy investigation have no responsibility for nuclear weapons."
The trouble with eternal vigilance is that sometimes you blink and eventually you'll blink at just the wrong time....
Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted upon me, what site should I use instead? 2
somenickname writes: As a long time Slashdot reader, I'm wondering what website to transition to once the beta goes live. The new beta interface seems very well suited to tablets/phones but, it ignores the fact that the user base is, as one would expect, nerds sitting in front of very large LCD monitors and wasting their employers time. It's entirely possible that the browser ID information gathered by the site has indicated that they get far more hits on mobile devices where the new interface is reasonable but, I feel that no one has analyzed the browser ID (and screen resolution) against comments modded +5. I think you will find that most +5 comments are coming from devices (real fucking computers) that the new interface does not support well. Without an interface that invites the kind of users that post +5 comments, Slashdot is just a ho-hum news aggregation site that allows comments. So, my question is, once the beta is the default, where should Slashdot users go to?
Designer Seeds Thought To Be Latest Target By Chinese 164
An anonymous reader writes "Economic espionage is nothing new but one of the biggest areas being targeted now is agriculture. Here's a story about a FBI investigation to track down theft of seeds from research farms. 'The case of the missing corn seeds first broke in May 2011 when a manager at a DuPont research farm in east-central Iowa noticed a man on his knees, digging up the field. When confronted, the man, Mo Hailong, who was with his colleague Wang Lei, appeared flushed. Mr. Mo told the manager that he worked for the University of Iowa and was traveling to a conference nearby. When the manager paused to answered his cellphone, the two men sped off in a car, racing through a ditch to get away, federal authorities said.'"
Comment Re:So they eliminated their debt with a fire? (Score 5, Funny) 463
Do you have any record of this?
Lawmakers Threaten Legal Basis of NSA Surveillance 206
Nerval's Lobster writes "The author of the Patriot Act has warned that the legal justification for the NSA's wholesale domestic surveillance program will disappear next summer if the White House doesn't restrict the way the NSA uses its power. Section 215 of the Patriot Act will expire during the summer of 2015 and will not be renewed unless the White House changes the shocking scale of the surveillance programs for which the National Security Administration uses the authorization, according to James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.), an original author of the Patriot Act and its two reauthorizations, stated Washington insider-news source The Hill. 'Unless Section 215 gets fixed, you, Mr. Cole, and the intelligence community will get absolutely nothing, because I am confident there are not the votes in this Congress to reauthorize it,' Sensenbrenner warned Deputy Attorney General James Cole during the Feb. 4 hearing. Provisions of Section 215, which allows the NSA to collect metadata about phone calls made within the U.S., give the government a 'very useful tool' to track connections among Americans that might be relevant to counterterrorism investigations, Cole told the House Judiciary Committee. The scale of the surveillance and lengths to which the NSA has pushed its limits was a "shock" according to Sensenbrenner, who also wrote the USA Freedom Act, a bill to restrict the scope of both Section 215 and the NSA programs, which has attracted 130 co-sponsors. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has sponsored a similar bill in the Senate."
Submission + - Slashdot beta sucks 9
An anonymous reader writes: Maybe some of the slashdot team should start listening to its users, most of which hate the new user interface. Thanks for ruining something that wasn't broken.
