biek - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:also need to cut fluff and filler from Educatio (Score 1) 461

by biek on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:42PM (#43350497) Attached to: Let Them Eat Teslas

If you have to carefully review what you typed then why bother with a spellchecker in the first place?

Comment: Re:For April Fools Day (Score 1) 295

by biek on Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:17PM (#43305731) Attached to: When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video)

DVD Polisher :)

Comment: Re:Um... (Score 3, Funny) 612

by biek on Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:57AM (#43234675) Attached to: Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo

Okay, you get funny points, but in case anyone takes you seriously, automatic transmissions pretty much became the norm in the U.S. in the 1950s and from your list only eating and sleeping were available in the car.

Don't forget drinking!

Comment: Re:IOW, we're making it harder get a response... (Score 5, Funny) 337

by biek on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @05:42PM (#42609143) Attached to: <em>We The People</em> Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000

There's no way there are 75,000 more people on the internet with nothing to do.

Comment: Re:Which begs the question... (Score 1) 271

by biek on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @11:38AM (#42179621) Attached to: Voyager 1, So Close To Interstellar Space That We Can Taste It!

Raspberries http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology

Comment: Re:What? (Score 1) 610

by biek on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @03:59PM (#41756309) Attached to: Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child?

Only a truely evil human being would bring a child into this world as it is today.

~Said pretty much anyone at any point in history

Comment: Re:Two can play at this game (Score 1) 638

by biek on Monday August 13, 2012 @09:55AM (#40972459) Attached to: White House Pulls Down TSA Petition

How could it possibly get WORSE?!? We're at the bottom now with reference to the leadership of this country.

You know you're spoiled when you're saying this in America. We still have a looooooong way to go before we hit rock bottom.

Comment: Re:You're a company (Score 1) 430

by biek on Thursday July 05, 2012 @09:34AM (#40550653) Attached to: Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights

If you follow Romney's logic, you don't even need to pull the jail card. Think about this scenario:

Oh my God, all those groceries I bought and ate were PEOPLE D:

Comment: Re:Maybe it is time for the Nuclear Option (Score 1) 216

by biek on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @02:13PM (#40078823) Attached to: US ISPs Delay Rollout of "Six Strikes" Copyright Enforcement Framework

Step 1. Free CD/DVD day.

Black hats everywhere rejoice at the idea of encouraging people to stick randomly-found media in their computers

Comment: Re:Nothing to do with the missiles. It's the radar (Score 1) 675

by biek on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:01PM (#39891307) Attached to: Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense

Now, how do you think the USA would feel with a USSR intel warship sitting off NYC or Washington, listening in?

Rightfully terrified of these time-traveling soviets

Comment: Re:How does this help? (Score 4, Insightful) 255

by biek on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @11:59AM (#39723573) Attached to: British MPs Propose Censoring Internet By Default

Instead of placing the blame firmly on the parents for not regulating/monitoring their child's internet use?

Comment: Re:Headline = Misleading (Score 1) 301

by biek on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @10:31AM (#39710157) Attached to: Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store

The heading is ambiguous

...which is strangely appropriate for a Tor-related story

With a poor diet they're bound to have a hardshit sooner or later