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

Well one problem is that about 1/4 is covered by an empty white column.

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!

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,

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!

Do you have any record of this?

We measure virtually everything with a simple number these days. What's your credit score?

I really can't speak for California, but in the Northeast US ( Pensylvania and North ), Tenure == Due Process.

In my area, a new teacher ( 3years in some states, 5 in others) can be fired or "non-renewed" without a stated reason. In practice, new teachers are given good reviews mid-year and booted without comment or useful feedback. Such would-be teachers are almost unemployable after this, and the lack of feedback means that they can't work to address preceived flaws in case they do find a way to work again.

Experienced teachers can be dismissed for any legal reason. This is usually some combination of illegal activity (bank robbers can't be teachers usually), immoral behavior (porn stars are not encouraged to continue a teaching career), incompetence (yep, you can lose your job for incompetence), and insubordination (boss tells you to be on time, you aren't...). Of course, cause has to be documented. And except for the first two (illegal, immoral), a single incident is generally not sufficient grounds for action. This is good, a single parent complaint should not end a teacer's career.

The "problem" is that when ANYBODY is terminated for cause, their terminaion can be appealed in the state courts. This is not unique to teachers, but unions are in a good position financially to challenge these terminations, and so they do so nearly every time. Ex-employees of private firms generally cannot afford the legal fees to do this, and so generally don't challenge. The union provides the resources to access "due process".

The legal appeals process favors the district if the situation is well documented and if all of the rules were followed. The key to this is making sure that you have administrators with time to spend on process. A solid HR staff can help backstop this. Of course, the only thing that voters and unions agree on is that administration is a waste. And HR looks like more administration. Districts lose these cases a lot because administrators have other priorities and so don't do a great job with documentation or process.

In my current state, employees terminated for cause are not permitted to collect unemployment insurance. Private employers are more likely not to name a cause and accept the bump in their unemployment costs. This also tends to discourage lawsuits ( a bird in the hand...). School systems don't usually have this option with tenured (due process enabled) staff.

Big private companies tend to have the middle managment, HR types, and processes in place to cover themselves when they want to terminate for cause and contest unemployment. Small companies do not, but don't contest.

It's that simple.

Libertarians are... whatever they say they are. They don't need to be defined by you; certainly they do not need to be defined into a corner as you are attempting to do here. Yes, the ideas you've discussed have been promulgated by those who would call themselves Libertarians, but these ideas are not necessarily true of all, or even most modern would-be (l)ibertarians.

The Libertarian Party has adopted questionable policy perspectives in part because they have never had a serious chance of participating in government. (l)ibertarians who have wanted to govern (in the USA...) have had to, by necessity, find a place in one of the parties that were willing and able to do so. With the expansion of programs like the NSA's data collection, with the emergence of private data, with the expansion of all of government, it's really not surprising that more people would want a third option. It may be possible for another party to participate.

You could call them Democrats who feel that Obama and co. are guilty of massive overreach.
You could call them Republicans who feel that Bush and co. were guilty of the same.
Democrats will probably call them backwards racists.
Republicans will probably call them anarchists.
But if they all start to call themselves (L)ibertarians, watch out.

But no True Scotsman expects that to happen.

Also, If he hadn't stayd his ruling, the NSA would have rushed to the appeals court and gotten an emergency stay. And it would have been granted too. By staying his own ruling, he is just doing the reasonable thing. Whatever the collective opinion of slashdot, this is a ruling that would require a substantial change on (relatively) longstanding POLICY. The appeals court WILL want to look at this. They will write opinions. They may send it back to him on a technicality, but it will go back to the appeals court again either way. It WILL be appealed to the supreme court.

Staying his ruling gives his opinion a better chance of standing on appeal. He appears reasonable, decisions by unreasonable people are easy to overturn, & the reverse is true as well. And I'm sure even appeals judges remember if they have to miss an important event to rule on an emergency stay made necessary by an unreasonable judge.

Failing to stay the ruling would have been a dick move and would not have made any diference. Unfortunately.

JEM?

I suspect that it is. This is incredibly specific really. If the school tells the parents that the student will be using Google Apps, the parents can research what the service does in detail if they wish.

What does that mean though? Every school consent form I've seen in the past few years includes 'may lead to the disclosure of personal information' someplace in the body text. What level of consent is needed in your view?