for the past decade GM had refused to ease up on its strategy of selling SUV's, betting instead that customers would continue to buy even as gas went beyond $10 a gallon. as gas approached $4 a gallon and SUV sales went into steep decline, GM was faced with a stockpile of midsized cars that came from such an incestuous group of design teams, sometimes the only thing that changed was the badge. if a car were so shitty as to be un-sellable, they just slapped a new brand on it and kept pushing. For example: the PT Cruiser was such a collosal piece of shit, it was rebranded the Chevy HHR in what i can only imagine was a complete lack of respect for their customer. then when GM failed, we bailed it out. so can GM compete? no. more importantly though, it now knows it doesnt have to try.
in 2004 GM's offering for hybrid technology was basically a toyota ripoff. based so closely on Toyotas development of Hybrid Synergy Drive, they were later forced to license 21 patents from toyota just to offer a hybrid vehicle. Their first hybrid vehicle? the Chevrolet Silverado, part of the same portfolio of overweight gas guzzlers GM just couldnt seem to sell to anyone.
their electric vehicle is electric, in the most ass way possible, because GM doesnt care. it doesnt care if you buy the cars or if their technology is all that great, because they understand they will just be bailed out if they dont succeed in an industry that has so far outpaced them, GM itself has started rebranding and outsourcing most of its "innovations"
The Dart is based on a version of the Fiat Compact platform
the Pontiac G6 is based on an Opel platform
the Ford Fiesta is based on a Mazda platform
such a pandemic will kill 2 percent of the infected population, or about 2 million people.
thats a pretty generous statement considering 34 million americans go without health insurance. even if they dont seek medical attention, which isnt likely considering the media hype surrounding the condition, we're assuming a nation 36% obese and 74% overweight is nutritionally capable of weathering this. workplace policies that forbid or restrict sick days will also amplify transmisison vectors.
sequestering people into their homes for a protracted amount of time isnt going to work as we've intended. whereas 50 years ago the average american kitchen would be prepared to spend two weeks without leaving the house, the average american today is barely capable of anything more than zapping a burrito once weekly in lieu of going to a restaraunt. based on consumer spending data, during an emergency most americans simply stock up on poptarts and beer. http://www.hurricaneville.com/pop_tarts.html
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route add $facebook_ip gw 127.0.0.1 lo
I'll thank you kindly to finalize your intentions post haste for any doctorates, statues, or parades or street names in my honour you wish to confer upon me.
no stable system has been proposed, only a concept, and yet we're willing to confide in private industry to fill in the gaps? what happens if a rock hits my expensive plate? how much more will this cost than a traditional plate? whats to prevent me from reverse-engineering the plate and reducing an entire parking garage to STOLEN?
hundreds of questions remain unanswered. legalizing the plates is one thing but unless there is more transparency in the trial program or its restricted to a small minority of state vehicles i cant see this as any sort of appropriate service to californians from their duly elected government. and given the nature of devops and software engineering in general, isnt it a bit hasty for a "trial program?" Shouldnt this proceed more like googles autonomous driver system as opposed to make;make install; plate.exe; "we're good!" or at very least throw it around the security community and see if we can break it first (im assuming it would be trivial.)
I for one spend a sizeable chunk of time trying to explain escalation attacks and SSL issues to my boss, in the hopes that at some point he conveys pertanent information to the upper echelon and secures the funding i need to make things better.
sometimes these are extremely technical problems, so you shouldnt expect me to ensure you understand every minutae before you tell the boss. Sonetimes the problems are caused by us, and thats okay, but hiding them from upper management to ensure your team looks good is so counterproductive it hurts. other times the problems are with existing services that if addressed would cause blocking issues for major corporate goals for the year. not telling the bigwigs about this is sabotage at best. Finally, sometimes upper management just doesnt give a shit. problems like database encryption would slow down the final goal of getting the new cloud widget going, so despite our firm 'fix it now' policy the guys with all the power basically ignore their own mandate and say 'fix it later.' six months later when our widgets get hacked, we get reamed for not fixing the DB issue when we instead had to allocate too much time developing more new features for cloud widget. At this point we just get more myopic, often times ignoring cloud widget entirely in pursuit of fixing ancientDB.
From the 20th of September 2013 you will also be able to access to the worldâ(TM)s first open-access quantum processor
so its not a cloud, or even a cluster. you'll need to register for an account to use the processor and as such id expect the service is going to look more like the superdome 9000 access i had in college than anything close to cloud. FIFO or RR scheduling will be used to execute jobs simulated for time as a component of their priority level. This is actually the way every supercomputer works, we're just extending the academic luxury of such a machine to the general public.
so long as we know what mailbox to stuff, what phone number to ring, the marketing can continue until accuracy improves. It could be argued that any information about a potential customer at the onset of marketing is irrelevant so long as you accurately determine the operating system being used and eventually, the browser.
Our customers, that is other major corporations, are more interested in our products browsing habits. Browser tracking, third party cookies and history snooping will quickly and accurately determine what our customers likes and dislikes are. in two or three days we'll know more about her than her gynecologist and her parents combined.
in rare cases NSA wiretaps reveal information about terrorist plots. in most cases of warrantless NSA spying however they do not. the purpose of NSA wiretaps is often used as a guilt generation and conviction assurance mechanism. Yet when it fails to produce any satisfactory outcomes, as this device would preclude it from doing so, the laws can and are frequently adjusted accordingly to suit the prosecutiorial entity. expect the installation or presence of this software to be acceptable grounds for the confiscation of your phone and further investigation of you and your property.
the problem with nasa is its inception was intended to combat the USSR on a number of fronts. It advanced technologies like ICBM which were used to further the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. It also worked to advance american scientific achievements and progress in the face of a scientific juggarnaut that invented magnetic resonance imaging, staged rocket launches, the luna 1 space probe, the satellite, and had launched the first man into space. Space as it was tasked to NASA was in many respects propaganda. this definition is validated today when considering almost every commercial satellite, from Iridium to XM, has been launched by a former soviet launch site (Baikonur) and on a proton or similar Soviet/Russian vehicle. We just needed to prove to ourselves and the world that "Murica is still number one"
It wasnt until 2010 that an american corporation was successful in delivering the same level of satellite delivery service as its russian counterparts (SpaceX) but my point remains: NASA kept engineers and physicists busy because it didnt try to commercialize its endeavors. NASA has it been proposed this year would be lambasted as a clandestine socialist program to waste federal money in the pursuit of junk science that does nothing to validate jesus. NASA as it was 50 years ago was the dream on the heart and mind of every school child, whereas today its mostly a clearinghouse for different politically motivated, nearly schitzophrenic technological endeavors that occasionally backfire hillariously and produce scandalous outcomes like validating climate change or evolution.
its not a happy conclusion, but 50 years ago russia 'did science' while america chest-thumped and grand-standed until people conceeded.
as a Gen Y guy myself, i have to wonder what this quote means:
manage, motivate, and retain talented members of the Millenial generation on the job.
in the wake of the enron scandal, the recession, and the fact that most of my friends and peers are not only out of work but saddled with 50k or more of unforgiveable debt, the idea of "corporate loyalty" is laughable. If you want to motivate me and retain me, pay me. To me work is work, a means to get paid and do something i genuinely appreciate. im sure any generation can relate to that
beyond the most generic office etiquitte noted by OP, here are a few others:
read your IM's, i use them more religiously than you can imagine to convey important information.
Do not call me. the phone is on my desk and i've an extension, sure, but its far more natural and efficient for me to email or IM you. If you have to call me, keep shit brief. no um's or err's or giggles...just the facts. telephones are incredibly distracting.
try to maintain communications parity. for example: if i email you, email me in response. dont take every IM as an occasion to march down to my cube, its a timewasting distraction.
I dont care about the office politics. dont bring it to my desk.
I'm curious to know what a mannekin is, is it like a moccasin? or a mandolin? does it taste good with lemon pepper? can i expect it on my next inflight meal thanks to this research?
I also wonder if we had any mannequins onboard without electronic sensors...but sorry, back to the topic at hand. is there a special fork i should use when eating a mannekin or do i just crack the shell and eat it with my fingers?
A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) (or mobile other licensed operator (MOLO) in the United Kingdom) is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which the MVNO provides services to its customers.
so....headline reads: "wireless resellers are cash cows"
google: I guess just...takedown notices, or DMCA takeouts, or whatever it is you want in response to twerk team videos and spiderman endings. EFF: %s/intellectual property/imaginary property MPAA: whats the name of that jellyfish with a sting that causes weeks of agony? that one. thats our suggestion. RIAA: In the eyes.
new cars are great but i dont know anyone stupid enough to buy one. what we need is an open system to easily and securely buy and sell used cars between people. Craigslist is OK until you have to deal with a car owner that freaks out over selling his Kentucky car to a person with a California drivers license because hes watched too much real housewives. ebay isnt terrible until you factor in the cut taken by PayPal. dealerships however take the cake with notoriously high pressure sales, outright lies about the used vehicles they sell, and markup that borders on the surreal.
the president is commander in chief. For hagel to insist he wasnt ready would be dereliction of duty.
for those wondering if we should ask congress if they want a war,
under the War Powers Act, the president can declare war on any nation for 90 days without the approval of congress.
that which keeps america out of syria currently is the same as that which keeps us out of Iran: a modern contingency of air-defense weaponry acquired after their prior thrashing by Israel, and a level-headed president willing to ignore the usual war-hawks on both sides.
on a more sincere note, as an american I find the tragedy in syria appaling. something should be done, but if you're looking to america to start doing it then you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. our history in the middle east is colourful at best. We replace regimes, hoard oil, pay off guys like assad to keep it flowing, and crush any nation with even the slightest aspiration toward regional power. not to mention the fact that most americans are pretty war-weary after afghanistan and iraq sending a sizeable quantity of our troops home legless and insane.
Administrative leave is a temporary leave from a job assignment, with pay and benefits intact. Generally, the term is reserved for employees of non-business institutions such as schools, police, and hospitals.
this is an investment firm, with at-will employment. While im certain the glitch was of great concern to "investor confidence" this just feels like an absurd move to stifle any possibility of a negative market reaction, imaginary or concrete. If i were the IT guy being awarded this transition in employment, it would be difficult not to offer an ultimatum. That if, as its implied by the administrative leave, you in fact value me so much as a team member and employee, perhaps you should judge me by my past works and not by your board of directors insipid demand for job reassignment routinely applied to a police officer after she kills a suspect.
id also be more inclined to check across the street and see if any other investment firms might care to hire a coder.
the only crime here is the gentleman indulged these assholes for more than three hours in a groundless invasion of his privacy and freedom of religion in the pursuit of domestic travel. shit like 'how many times do you pray' and 'did you eat breakfast' are pointless.
and that cold feeling? thats called physical exhaustion. low blood sugar , blood pressure and high stress.
unless chimeracoder feels like pressing charges or hiring an attorney though, which im sure the TSA would clearly apreciate if he didnt, its just another story of a government agency that glad-hands people into submitting to pointless unlawful detention based on skin color. Use your instincts. refuse full body scans and opt for public pat-down. if thats not an offer, refuse private pat-down and leave. Sure, you may be detained or arrested by police as a matter of policy, but its seriously unlikely you'll face or be convicted of any misdemeanor or criminal charge.
this is the guy whos sole interest in "the internet" as it stands in his portfolio of offerings is to ensure two billion people are capable of being catalogued as potential members of a cacophany of target demographics for sale to the highest bidder. For him to give two shits about the underprivileged masses who cannot afford a free-as-in-speech internet experience would be the event that shattered occhams razor. What he cares about is exactly what investors are stampeeding from in droves: emerging markets. While you may not be able to sell shit to these people, you can be damned sure they add an impressive bump to your portfolio if they somehow become the product you sell. Convincing major multinational corporations they have any worth is however a zuckerberg trademark at this point, although i can imagine a few dictatorships that are more than excited at the prospect of a new facebook branded spyglass with which they can peer into their citizens lives and crush formenting dissent.
UPDATE Slashdot.headline SET headline_txt=REPLACE(headline_txt, '/Bradley\ Manning', 'Chelsea\ Manning ') where headline_author != 'cmdrtaco';
and i guess on a personal level, i have to start saying, "a prime example of a capitalist dictatorship exercising its ability to persecute political prisoners is the incarceration of Chelsea Manning"
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for the past decade GM had refused to ease up on its strategy of selling SUV's, betting instead that customers would continue to buy even as gas went beyond $10 a gallon. as gas approached $4 a gallon and SUV sales went into steep decline, GM was faced with a stockpile of midsized cars that came from such an incestuous group of design teams, sometimes the only thing that changed was the badge. if a car were so shitty as to be un-sellable, they just slapped a new brand on it and kept pushing. For example: the PT Cruiser was such a collosal piece of shit, it was rebranded the Chevy HHR in what i can only imagine was a complete lack of respect for their customer. then when GM failed, we bailed it out. so can GM compete? no. more importantly though, it now knows it doesnt have to try.
in 2004 GM's offering for hybrid technology was basically a toyota ripoff. based so closely on Toyotas development of Hybrid Synergy Drive, they were later forced to license 21 patents from toyota just to offer a hybrid vehicle. Their first hybrid vehicle? the Chevrolet Silverado, part of the same portfolio of overweight gas guzzlers GM just couldnt seem to sell to anyone.
their electric vehicle is electric, in the most ass way possible, because GM doesnt care. it doesnt care if you buy the cars or if their technology is all that great, because they understand they will just be bailed out if they dont succeed in an industry that has so far outpaced them, GM itself has started rebranding and outsourcing most of its "innovations"
The Dart is based on a version of the Fiat Compact platform
the Pontiac G6 is based on an Opel platform
the Ford Fiesta is based on a Mazda platform
such a pandemic will kill 2 percent of the infected population, or about 2 million people.
thats a pretty generous statement considering 34 million americans go without health insurance. even if they dont seek medical attention, which isnt likely considering the media hype surrounding the condition, we're assuming a nation 36% obese and 74% overweight is nutritionally capable of weathering this. workplace policies that forbid or restrict sick days will also amplify transmisison vectors.
sequestering people into their homes for a protracted amount of time isnt going to work as we've intended. whereas 50 years ago the average american kitchen would be prepared to spend two weeks without leaving the house, the average american today is barely capable of anything more than zapping a burrito once weekly in lieu of going to a restaraunt. based on consumer spending data, during an emergency most americans simply stock up on poptarts and beer. http://www.hurricaneville.com/pop_tarts.html
the more challenging and involved effort will be the calculus of integrating this detailed graviton map into future "your mother is so fat" jokes.
802.11n fully supported yet?
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I'll thank you kindly to finalize your intentions post haste for any doctorates, statues, or parades or street names in my honour you wish to confer upon me.
no stable system has been proposed, only a concept, and yet we're willing to confide in private industry to fill in the gaps? what happens if a rock hits my expensive plate? how much more will this cost than a traditional plate? whats to prevent me from reverse-engineering the plate and reducing an entire parking garage to STOLEN?
hundreds of questions remain unanswered. legalizing the plates is one thing but unless there is more transparency in the trial program or its restricted to a small minority of state vehicles i cant see this as any sort of appropriate service to californians from their duly elected government. and given the nature of devops and software engineering in general, isnt it a bit hasty for a "trial program?" Shouldnt this proceed more like googles autonomous driver system as opposed to make;make install; plate.exe; "we're good!" or at very least throw it around the security community and see if we can break it first (im assuming it would be trivial.)
I for one spend a sizeable chunk of time trying to explain escalation attacks and SSL issues to my boss, in the hopes that at some point he conveys pertanent information to the upper echelon and secures the funding i need to make things better.
sometimes these are extremely technical problems, so you shouldnt expect me to ensure you understand every minutae before you tell the boss. Sonetimes the problems are caused by us, and thats okay, but hiding them from upper management to ensure your team looks good is so counterproductive it hurts. other times the problems are with existing services that if addressed would cause blocking issues for major corporate goals for the year. not telling the bigwigs about this is sabotage at best. Finally, sometimes upper management just doesnt give a shit. problems like database encryption would slow down the final goal of getting the new cloud widget going, so despite our firm 'fix it now' policy the guys with all the power basically ignore their own mandate and say 'fix it later.' six months later when our widgets get hacked, we get reamed for not fixing the DB issue when we instead had to allocate too much time developing more new features for cloud widget. At this point we just get more myopic, often times ignoring cloud widget entirely in pursuit of fixing ancientDB.
if i were to die by drone (radio controlled aircraft in this case) id rather it be the one I control.
From the 20th of September 2013 you will also be able to access to the worldâ(TM)s first open-access quantum processor
so its not a cloud, or even a cluster. you'll need to register for an account to use the processor and as such id expect the service is going to look more like the superdome 9000 access i had in college than anything close to cloud. FIFO or RR scheduling will be used to execute jobs simulated for time as a component of their priority level. This is actually the way every supercomputer works, we're just extending the academic luxury of such a machine to the general public.
TL;DR: fuck your cloud, get off my lawn.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/05/07
naming anything in space is laughable when you consider what you are in relation to it.
so long as we know what mailbox to stuff, what phone number to ring, the marketing can continue until accuracy improves. It could be argued that any information about a potential customer at the onset of marketing is irrelevant so long as you accurately determine the operating system being used and eventually, the browser.
Our customers, that is other major corporations, are more interested in our products browsing habits. Browser tracking, third party cookies and history snooping will quickly and accurately determine what our customers likes and dislikes are. in two or three days we'll know more about her than her gynecologist and her parents combined.
in rare cases NSA wiretaps reveal information about terrorist plots. in most cases of warrantless NSA spying however they do not. the purpose of NSA wiretaps is often used as a guilt generation and conviction assurance mechanism. Yet when it fails to produce any satisfactory outcomes, as this device would preclude it from doing so, the laws can and are frequently adjusted accordingly to suit the prosecutiorial entity. expect the installation or presence of this software to be acceptable grounds for the confiscation of your phone and further investigation of you and your property.
the problem with nasa is its inception was intended to combat the USSR on a number of fronts. It advanced technologies like ICBM which were used to further the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. It also worked to advance american scientific achievements and progress in the face of a scientific juggarnaut that invented magnetic resonance imaging, staged rocket launches, the luna 1 space probe, the satellite, and had launched the first man into space. Space as it was tasked to NASA was in many respects propaganda. this definition is validated today when considering almost every commercial satellite, from Iridium to XM, has been launched by a former soviet launch site (Baikonur) and on a proton or similar Soviet/Russian vehicle. We just needed to prove to ourselves and the world that "Murica is still number one"
It wasnt until 2010 that an american corporation was successful in delivering the same level of satellite delivery service as its russian counterparts (SpaceX) but my point remains: NASA kept engineers and physicists busy because it didnt try to commercialize its endeavors. NASA has it been proposed this year would be lambasted as a clandestine socialist program to waste federal money in the pursuit of junk science that does nothing to validate jesus. NASA as it was 50 years ago was the dream on the heart and mind of every school child, whereas today its mostly a clearinghouse for different politically motivated, nearly schitzophrenic technological endeavors that occasionally backfire hillariously and produce scandalous outcomes like validating climate change or evolution.
its not a happy conclusion, but 50 years ago russia 'did science' while america chest-thumped and grand-standed until people conceeded.
manage, motivate, and retain talented members of the Millenial generation on the job.
in the wake of the enron scandal, the recession, and the fact that most of my friends and peers are not only out of work but saddled with 50k or more of unforgiveable debt, the idea of "corporate loyalty" is laughable. If you want to motivate me and retain me, pay me. To me work is work, a means to get paid and do something i genuinely appreciate. im sure any generation can relate to that
beyond the most generic office etiquitte noted by OP, here are a few others:
read your IM's, i use them more religiously than you can imagine to convey important information.
Do not call me. the phone is on my desk and i've an extension, sure, but its far more natural and efficient for me to email or IM you. If you have to call me, keep shit brief. no um's or err's or giggles...just the facts. telephones are incredibly distracting.
try to maintain communications parity. for example: if i email you, email me in response. dont take every IM as an occasion to march down to my cube, its a timewasting distraction.
I dont care about the office politics. dont bring it to my desk.
I'm curious to know what a mannekin is, is it like a moccasin? or a mandolin? does it taste good with lemon pepper? can i expect it on my next inflight meal thanks to this research?
I also wonder if we had any mannequins onboard without electronic sensors...but sorry, back to the topic at hand. is there a special fork i should use when eating a mannekin or do i just crack the shell and eat it with my fingers?
A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) (or mobile other licensed operator (MOLO) in the United Kingdom) is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which the MVNO provides services to its customers.
so....headline reads: "wireless resellers are cash cows"
google: I guess just...takedown notices, or DMCA takeouts, or whatever it is you want in response to twerk team videos and spiderman endings.
EFF: %s/intellectual property/imaginary property
MPAA: whats the name of that jellyfish with a sting that causes weeks of agony? that one. thats our suggestion.
RIAA: In the eyes.
new cars are great but i dont know anyone stupid enough to buy one. what we need is an open system to easily and securely buy and sell used cars between people. Craigslist is OK until you have to deal with a car owner that freaks out over selling his Kentucky car to a person with a California drivers license because hes watched too much real housewives. ebay isnt terrible until you factor in the cut taken by PayPal. dealerships however take the cake with notoriously high pressure sales, outright lies about the used vehicles they sell, and markup that borders on the surreal.
the president is commander in chief. For hagel to insist he wasnt ready would be dereliction of duty.
for those wondering if we should ask congress if they want a war, under the War Powers Act, the president can declare war on any nation for 90 days without the approval of congress.
that which keeps america out of syria currently is the same as that which keeps us out of Iran: a modern contingency of air-defense weaponry acquired after their prior thrashing by Israel, and a level-headed president willing to ignore the usual war-hawks on both sides.
on a more sincere note, as an american I find the tragedy in syria appaling. something should be done, but if you're looking to america to start doing it then you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. our history in the middle east is colourful at best. We replace regimes, hoard oil, pay off guys like assad to keep it flowing, and crush any nation with even the slightest aspiration toward regional power. not to mention the fact that most americans are pretty war-weary after afghanistan and iraq sending a sizeable quantity of our troops home legless and insane.
Administrative leave is a temporary leave from a job assignment, with pay and benefits intact. Generally, the term is reserved for employees of non-business institutions such as schools, police, and hospitals.
this is an investment firm, with at-will employment. While im certain the glitch was of great concern to "investor confidence" this just feels like an absurd move to stifle any possibility of a negative market reaction, imaginary or concrete. If i were the IT guy being awarded this transition in employment, it would be difficult not to offer an ultimatum. That if, as its implied by the administrative leave, you in fact value me so much as a team member and employee, perhaps you should judge me by my past works and not by your board of directors insipid demand for job reassignment routinely applied to a police officer after she kills a suspect.
id also be more inclined to check across the street and see if any other investment firms might care to hire a coder.
the only crime here is the gentleman indulged these assholes for more than three hours in a groundless invasion of his privacy and freedom of religion in the pursuit of domestic travel. shit like 'how many times do you pray' and 'did you eat breakfast' are pointless.
and that cold feeling? thats called physical exhaustion. low blood sugar , blood pressure and high stress.
unless chimeracoder feels like pressing charges or hiring an attorney though, which im sure the TSA would clearly apreciate if he didnt, its just another story of a government agency that glad-hands people into submitting to pointless unlawful detention based on skin color. Use your instincts. refuse full body scans and opt for public pat-down. if thats not an offer, refuse private pat-down and leave. Sure, you may be detained or arrested by police as a matter of policy, but its seriously unlikely you'll face or be convicted of any misdemeanor or criminal charge.
this is the guy whos sole interest in "the internet" as it stands in his portfolio of offerings is to ensure two billion people are capable of being catalogued as potential members of a cacophany of target demographics for sale to the highest bidder. For him to give two shits about the underprivileged masses who cannot afford a free-as-in-speech internet experience would be the event that shattered occhams razor. What he cares about is exactly what investors are stampeeding from in droves: emerging markets. While you may not be able to sell shit to these people, you can be damned sure they add an impressive bump to your portfolio if they somehow become the product you sell. Convincing major multinational corporations they have any worth is however a zuckerberg trademark at this point, although i can imagine a few dictatorships that are more than excited at the prospect of a new facebook branded spyglass with which they can peer into their citizens lives and crush formenting dissent.
this is one of the reasons Linemen have a union...im certain at the boom era of electricity the problems were similar.
Be optimistic about it. if it gets any worse, we'll be able to use sushi instead of toothpaste.
UPDATE Slashdot.headline SET headline_txt=REPLACE(headline_txt, '/Bradley\ Manning', 'Chelsea\ Manning ') where headline_author != 'cmdrtaco';
and i guess on a personal level, i have to start saying, "a prime example of a capitalist dictatorship exercising its ability to persecute political prisoners is the incarceration of Chelsea Manning"