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  1. Re:Coincidentally? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    ... by the way the reason is that Colorado is of Spanish origin ...

    San Francisco -- San Franciscan

    Mexico -- Mexican

    Colorado -- Coloradan

    Chicago -- Chicagoan

    Ohio -- Ohioan

    Idaho -- Idahoan

  2. Re:Coincidentally? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, "Coloradoans" in some cases as in the Fort Collins Coloradoan (a newspaper) who, ironically, officially uses the term "Coloradan" and is owned by the same company that owns the Sante Fe New Mexican paper.

    You might see Coloradoan in older writings and this is what older generations might use, but when spoken it would still be pronounced Coloradan.

  3. Re:Reefer madness? on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Speaking of side effects of the War on Drugs, there was an interesting story the other night on the news in Denver.

    A lot of pot shops are employing military grade security personnel to protect them these days. Granted, one of the most likely reasons is that this is a cash based business (the only non-cash transactions are based on creative use of ATMs), so there is motivation from others to rip them off on their way to deposit their monies. However, it is clear that the need for such specially trained security is due to the fact that pot was illegal for so long and run by the black market. Now you have those same thugs trying to rip off these businesses trying to get their hands on the product so they can take it back to the black market.

    Had there not been a War on Drugs in the first place, there really wouldn't be this need for such high security at these shops.

    Of course, on the other hand, it has helped to improve our local economy. I would say that I have approximately 20 friends that I see on a regular basis. Out of those 20, nearly half of them are employed directly by pot facilities, and several more are employed indirectly by businesses that have pot shops as clients.

    There are many effects the War on Drugs has had on our society, and most of those effects are not going to be known until the War on Drugs ceases to exist.

  4. Re:This just in... on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1

    Simple, do the study here in Denver where people smoke openly and have no worries about "constant surreptitious activity".

  5. Re:Get a real mail account on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    1. Settings button (top right of Gmail)

    2. Accounts and Import

    3. Add POP3 Account

    4. Read email.

  6. Re:Get your own domain name on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    I've been using "me@myname.com" for awhile now. It's nice when verbally sharing your email address because people you don't have to spell it out to dense people.

  7. Re:Abandon Your Real Name on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: -1

    I do wish that Google would come up with a proper disposable email address solution.

    You mean like "youremail+disposablekey@gmail.com"? Try it and you'll find it still makes its way into your inbox.

  8. Re:The only plausible solution... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 1

    I've often thought the same thing, having a unique name was so convenient!

    Now, though, I'm not so sure, as the proliferation of personal information available to anyone means that I don't get lost in the sea of common names.

  9. Re:Current PCs are good enough. on PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History · · Score: 1

    I am Nobody!!!

  10. Re:List of Vulnerable Banks / Bank Apps, Please? on Mobile Banking Apps For iOS Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    They're just little HTML apps with a web wrapper, so of course they need to have a small `config.xml` file or the like stored somewhere that provides MySQL creds.

    This isn't Nam, there are rules!

  11. Re:Dillon, CO has moved several times on How Do You Move a City? · · Score: 1

    They flooded it once, so how did it move several times? Or are you simply referring to the sprawl known as Dilverthorne?

  12. Re:Obligatory Nirvana... on Mending Hearts With Light-Activated Glue · · Score: 1

    Most of us tend to call it alcohol.

  13. Re:Great technology on Mending Hearts With Light-Activated Glue · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ponder the intricate structure of something as fundamental as the Periodic Table of Elements or the constant e and try to argue that these things "just are" and aren't in fact parameters to some entity's ridiculously complex algorithm.

  14. Re:Why is "forgetting" such a problem apparently? on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 1

    Even simpler is to use the physical address of where the machine you're using is located along with some special characters or other variety for good measure.

    For example: 19Th&WashingtonAve@50224!

    It's rather trivial to remember, and if you can come up with your own basic pattern, it becomes easy to manage a bunch of different passwords for different things in your life.

  15. Re:A piece of paper in a drawer on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know that it might seem obtuse, but there are in fact companies out there that don't even have an IT department and chances are the "IT system" is just a bunch of random machines doing random things and password resetting isn't a practical option.

  16. Re:underground stuff is still really poorly mapped on Object Blocking Giant Tunnel Borer Was an 8" Diameter Pipe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Part of my line of work involves calling in "locates" prior to digging. This is generally done on behalf of our customer. Most of the time, people are happy and welcome the security of knowing where things are in the ground behind their house. On occasion, there's the idiot individual that refuses based on some kind of principle or that a locate was already done five years ago. In those cases, we tell them we can either leave the trees in their yard for them, the install costs forfeited, and they can dig the holes and plant the trees themselves, or they can have the locate done so none of the crew guys have to worry about smacking a natural gas line with a skid steer.

    Maps and plans are useless. The only way to know what is in your dirt is to have a locate done and most municipalities will/should do this at no cost to the home owner. This also gives you indemnification in the event that you do end up hitting something that needs repair (so long as you dig within the time frame allowed).

  17. Re:Slashdot keeps on pushing the boundaries on Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings · · Score: 1

    The correct and appropriate typo would have been "Soulshill".

  18. Re:Time to drive the hipsters out of the industry. on Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great way to induce an age discrimination suit.

  19. Re:Still 3K$ for a monitor on YouTube Goes 4K — and VP9 — At CES · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone please get this man laid.

  20. Re:Still one of the stupidest things of 2013. on Snapchat Update Addresses Security Hole · · Score: 1

    They said the same thing at the Alamo. Or was it an Isotopes game? Pfft. Either way, the sentiment is the same ... wait, who is Snapchat?

  21. Re:Before anybody complains on Postal Service Starting To Use Mobile Point of Sale Tech · · Score: 1

    At first I thought TFA was talking about a public outgoing mailbox.

  22. Re: Yogi Berra on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    Once you get kids it's pretty obligatory to post pictures when they do something cute or funny

    Which seems to be just about all that happens on Facebook. Well, that and pictures of what people cooked that night. Honestly, I don't care about your kids and I don't care that you know how to open a box and put it in the oven. The only thing that really matters is that I get to continually remind myself how much more awesome I am than the people I went to high school with.

  23. Re: Who would believe it? on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 1

    I had a "Web Design" class require me to use Dreamweaver located on a remote VM. At least in this case they are having students use something that is a professional standard.

  24. Re:CSS on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    I assess my own skills, but yes, you are correct. I've worked with other developers that do nothing but roll their chair to your desk to ask a question that could be answered by a quick search on stackoverflow.

  25. Re:fair? on Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses · · Score: 1

    So the argument is that you need to read the fine print. That's wonderful. What a great business practice.

    You might be displayed a "final price" before checkout, but that is definitely not always the price you end up paying. According to GP, though, that's quite alright because the transaction is complete.