Rambo Tribble - Slashdot User

Comment This makes it official ... (Score 1) 369

by Rambo Tribble on Saturday August 30, 2014 @11:12AM (#47790877) Attached to: Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague

... Islamic State is a literal plague on humanity.

Comment Statistics? (Score 1) 115

by Rambo Tribble on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @10:08AM (#47764701) Attached to: Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students

There's an app for that!

Comment So, is this ... (Score 1) 216

by Rambo Tribble on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @10:51AM (#47756773) Attached to: NRC Analyst Calls To Close Diablo Canyon, CA's Last Remaining Nuclear Plant

... fission frisson or just another energy sector meltdown?

Comment Re:Please, don't tell them ... (Score 1) 421

by Rambo Tribble on Sunday August 24, 2014 @10:13AM (#47741655) Attached to: South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur"

Then again, it may simply reflect an act of defiance toward an assignment that was unwelcome.

Comment Re:Please, don't tell them ... (Score 2) 421

by Rambo Tribble on Saturday August 23, 2014 @03:27PM (#47737771) Attached to: South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur"

Isn't that what they call "Sharia Law"?

Comment Re:Please, don't tell them ... (Score 1) 421

by Rambo Tribble on Saturday August 23, 2014 @03:21PM (#47737741) Attached to: South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur"

I was afraid of that. So, how do you get pixie dust off your hands?

Comment Please, don't tell them ... (Score 3, Insightful) 421

by Rambo Tribble on Saturday August 23, 2014 @03:04PM (#47737623) Attached to: South Carolina Student Arrested For "Killing Pet Dinosaur"

... but I strangled my neighbor's unicorn, last night.

Submission + - Youth Arrested for "Killing Pet Dinosaur"

Submitted by Rambo Tribble on Saturday August 23, 2014 @10:08AM

Rambo Tribble writes: In South Carolina a 16-year old boy, Alex Stone, was arrested and charged with creating a disturbance at his school, as well as suspended, for choosing to write: "I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the business," in response to a class writing assignment. The story has attracted international attention.

Comment Fusion: Meeting Earth's energy needs ... (Score 1) 305

by Rambo Tribble on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @10:44AM (#47712265) Attached to: If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly

... for 4 billion years. Why switch now?

Comment Dare I ask ... (Score 1) 70

by Rambo Tribble on Monday August 18, 2014 @01:40PM (#47696755) Attached to: Researchers Discover New Plant "Language"

... if this means strangleweed fills the plant world's niche that, in our world, is filled by the NSA?

Comment On the surface ... (Score 1) 213

by Rambo Tribble on Thursday July 31, 2014 @11:25AM (#47574591) Attached to: Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM

... this would appear to be a call for the ACM to adopt a more open model. And how could that be bad? [Respond on the form provided on the next page.]

Comment Re:Another high point is achieved ... (Score 4, Funny) 205

by Rambo Tribble on Monday July 21, 2014 @12:16PM (#47501241) Attached to: New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids

Which is precisely why I advocate the use of shock collars. The rest of this stuff is just sissy nonsense.

Comment Another high point is achieved ... (Score 3, Interesting) 205

by Rambo Tribble on Monday July 21, 2014 @10:51AM (#47500559) Attached to: New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids

... in the art of modern parenting. Finally, the American standard of social discourse, "I'm right because I'm yelling louder", can be brought to the homey confines of the minivan and ingrained on the little darlings early on.

Comment If you haven't seen this ... (Score 1) 142

by Rambo Tribble on Saturday July 05, 2014 @11:30AM (#47388369) Attached to: Autonomous Trucking

... it's in a related vein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-27BcV6NUE&feature=kp

Comment Yes, but only two words are needed ... (Score 1) 333

by Rambo Tribble on Friday July 04, 2014 @10:02AM (#47383339) Attached to: Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts

... to flip the result entirely: padded recliner.

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