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NYPD Is Beta-Testing Google Glass
Presto Vivace writes "The New York City Police Department is trying to determine how useful Google Glass would be for law enforcement. From the article: 'The New York City Police Department's massive and controversial intelligence and analytics unit is evaluating whether Google Glass is a decent fit for investigating terrorists and helping cops lock up bad guys, VentureBeat has learned. The department recently received several pairs of the modernist-looking specs to test out. "We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we're trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes," a ranking New York City law enforcement official told VentureBeat.'"
I wonder how bad Beta slashdot looks on Google Glass?
It optimizes the Web 3.0 paradigm for maximal user experience and audience impactfulness.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
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I think we've all read the "Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!" submission from Timothy at this point.
I was horrified to read this particular sentence within it:
Most importantly, we want you to know that Classic Slashdot isn't going away until we're confident that the new site is ready.
That confirms that Slashdot Classic will in fact be gone at some point. That, of course, also means that it will most likely be replaced with the shitty beta site.
I had some hope this morning that the complete hatred shown by so many users here would be taken seriously. Clearly, that is not the case. The very valid complaints have been totally ignored.
The beta site cannot be salvaged. It is so inherently broken that there's no possible way it could ever be ready to replace the Slashdot Classic site, regardless of how much work they put into it.
I think we should mark today, February 6, 2014, as the day that Slashdot died. This confirmation from Timothy basically guarantees that many of us will be driven away against our will, all due to this shitty, shitty beta site going live. The community just won't survive that, I'm afraid to say.
Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet.
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] - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention. Links of note:
Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=56395415
Discussion of where to go if Beta goes live: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=3321441
Alternative Slashdot: altslashdot.org
IRC Discussion: slashnet.org #slashdot
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Who, in their right mind, would want to destroy the cross-pollination of innovation within the global technology industry?
Dice, do you have the slightest inkling of what you are about to destroy?
> I wonder how bad Beta slashdot looks on Google Glass?
Have you heard the old joke that ends in the phrase, "Coffee break is over; back on your heads."?
I've been reading /. since '98, without the classic UI as an option you have lost me as a user. I will participate in the upcoming boycott.
Well one problem is that about 1/4 is covered by an empty white column.
It optimizes the Web 3.0 paradigm for maximal user experience and audience impactfulness.
How much pepto did you have to drink before you could say that and not vomit in your mouth? The internet wants to know.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
alt.slashdot.refugees?
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Several police forces have been hammering people who record police with wiretapping charges. Eventually wearable computers with 3/4G will be commonplace. I am sure that wearable video will help knock down frivolous complaints against police officers for misconduct and will sometimes magically be corrupted when recordings might prove wrongdoing.
However, eventually there will be so many people wearing so many video cameras it'll be impossible for bad apples to say all of the independently recorded videos magically were deleted or got corrupted on the floppy disc. And there will be so many citizens wearing cameras that there will be too many SD cards to confiscate.
A large enough difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. I think digital video will have as large an impact on policing as the telephone and radio. If you've been following, there was a constable in the UK who basically can be seen lying on camera about smelling alcohol on a protester's breath. (Google it, it's all over LiveLeak.) Guys like this will -- one hopes -- get cashiered. Baddies who hope to win the lawsuit lottery by inventing abuse should also expect to have a hard time.
Of course, police have become used to yelling 'Stop resisting' when handcuffing in case they're being videotaped so the Darwinian behavioural game continues.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
DICE, the community is trying to tell you something. We hope you are listening. This Slash Beta idea you all got obsessed with rolling out is a REALLY bad idea. You obviously tried pencil whip the user feedback portion of your launch plan otherwise the comment system wouldn't have devolved into an outright revolt against the Beta in EVERY. SINGLE. STORY. you have posted today.
Additionally, you should keep in mind that while we love Slashdot, we recognize all good things must come to and end. If this is what you want to do, then do it. However, don't expect a large portion of the community to follow you down that path. I know this because they have told you ALL DAY. I know this because this community, unlike many others, is made up of the people who have the skills and abilities to REPLACE you. I know they will replace you because you've made them passionate about the cause. Even I, a 4 digit UID and pro-lurker, am fired up enough to post! Fix this guys or the community will fix it for you.
#IamSlashdot
May "olives and feta" be our code for "fuck the beta" going forward. Like, you're in a bar in Palo Alto and somebody mentions how their company is redesigning their site and you go, "so it's olives and feta" and they either know what you're talking about or they don't.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Seems to have been slashdotted.
It might go into history as the last site to be slashdotted.
Unless someone swallows their pride and admits they've been polishing a turd since October, there won't be any future slashdotting, because there won't enough users around to overwhelm a server. Unfortunately, it seems like management at slashdot has too much face invested, and don't dare tell the big brass at Dice Holding that the only possible way to survive is to kill their baby.
Sadly, I think I've figured it out.
- Ubuntu did it with Gnome 3.
- Microsoft did it with Windows 8.
- Numerous sites have done it by forcing facebook login to leave comments, by auto-refreshing & forcing Javascript, and by turning web pages into never-ending feeds (e.g. lifehacker.com's home page).
- Now slashdot is doing it.
Doing what? Getting rid of the gray beards.
There is no money to be sucked from bright bulbs. Those who only want to facebook will carry on like nothing has happened. And ultimately the Internet will be completely controlled by business (i.e. wolves), and populated primarily with sheep.
We, the neck bears, have served their purpose. They no longer need us. THEY are giving US the F.U.
I come here for the love
Extend the boycott to the source of our collective angst.
That would be The Quadrangle Group and General Atlantic, the owners of Dice Holdings.
I'm sure they're not too pleased as is with Dice Holdings, but might be unaware that their subsidiary is killing a cash cow through sheer stubbornness.
Hey, do you not think Slashdot has probably got the message now, what with endless thread hijacking and the 800+ comment story where they specifically asked for feedback?
To bring this back on topic, you posting about beta now is ever bit as much an asshole move as wearing Glass into someplace people don't want photos.
#IAmAPersonWhoWantsToReadFuckingTopicalCommentsNotYourPettyVendetta
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
In what way is Slashdot a cash cow for them? I've been using it for more than a decade, and never paid a penny. Most of the time I've had ads switched off. And blocked with ad-block anyway. And even those odd occasions when ads have been switched onI've never clicked on one.
I'm sure that describes much of the slashdot community.
That the ads are there is evidence that it brings in money. Slashdot does not show ads for free, as a public service. Ad revenue are based on several factors - exposure (views), click-through, and targeting.
What brings exposure here at slashdot are the discussions. The contributors, not the headlines.
What increases targeting is that we're a fairly homogenous group. You'd have much more success hawking a PS/2 keyboard here on Slashdot than you would have hawking eyelash curlers. This makes ads on slashdot more valuable to a keyboard manufacturer than, say, an ad on vanity fair.
What Dice Holdings may hope for is an increase in click-throughs by attracting a "wider audience" (and I don't think they mean CowboyNeal).,
What they don't understand is that that wider audience won't come here if the discussion system doesn't work, and all the contributors leave.
And leave, we will. We're fickle. But without us, there are no advertisers.
What's pathetic is that this show is run by the former general manager for Yahoo Video. What's Yahoo Video, you may ask? Exactly.