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  1. Re:Marijuana? on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 2

    Amendment 64 also doesn't require Colorado farmers to seek federal approval before growing hemp. But that doesn't mean the feds couldn't crack down if they wanted to.

    This is no different than those growing for medical and recreational purposes. Yes, the DEA can crack down if they want to, but it's not going to do any good in the long run.

  2. Re:Marijuana? on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 2

    Also, here is a good article from a local magazine discussing the hemp industry here in Colorado. Westword

    Amendment 64 also doesn't require a federal permit to grow industrial hemp (as other states have done), so as it stands right now, go right ahead and grow it knowing that yours may be the landmark case that allows others to cultivate in the future.

  3. Re:Marijuana? on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Entire? Not quite. It's been discussed here plenty for you to already know that there are states that have enacted legalization.

    Colorado even just recently approved the regulatory structure for stores selling pot products.

    You may certainly continue to believe what you want to believe, it's just fictional.

  4. Re:Marijuana? on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed, it's the same plant in the same way that a Yorkshire Terrier is the same animal as a Golden Retriever. Only through selective breeding did they reduce the THC concentrations low enough that the plants couldn't be practically used for psychoactive contents.

  5. Re:Firebug is awesome on Firefox 21 Arrives · · Score: 2

    A bit moot, but in general, web developers need to be familiar with the debug tools provided by all of the browsers. If you use Firebug mainly, there are times when you'll need to use CDT (Chrome Dev Tools) instead, or the incredibly feature rich and UI-tastic IE debugging stuff.

    So yeah, not only did we get stuck having to support various browsers on the front-end; in order to do so, we are forced to learn multiple development platforms as well.

    I mainly use CDT, but I will attest that IE's debug tools are used the second most frequently.

  6. Re: Why not? This proves Warmists are wrong. on CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record · · Score: 1

    My completely unscientific theory about the breaking point is simply that with warming comes rising seas, which means the bottom of those seas cool down because of diffused solar energy, thus currents are affected.

  7. Re:Nothing new ... on Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach · · Score: 1

    You really don't want to know how many, because, well, it's a lot! I have at least three former clients that do this (ignoring my suggestions).

  8. Re:Funny to tap them on the neck on Oculus Rift Guillotine Simulation · · Score: 1

    Ah! Perfect gift for the gf's birthday coming up!

  9. Re: Developer? on A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major · · Score: 1

    But you don't have to know what obscure codepath...

    A stack trace certainly helps!

  10. Re:Developer? on A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You probably would need to be rather humble as well. I would imagine a good proportion of the screw-ups you'd find would be reported, and then a week later you hear back that "this bug is not critical" and it ultimately gets ignored because fixing would cascade too much work onto the desks of other people, and there are fishing trips, bbqs, and dance recitals that need to be looked after.

    Of course, then you get to be smug down the road when the product releases, bugs intact, and you can point out to others, "see that bug? I know how to fix it, have told the people responsible for fixing it how to fix it, yet, it never gets fixed."

  11. Re:Must be getting old on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams · · Score: 2

    If we really push how "uncool" it is to be a script kiddie, before long we will have hipsters calling themselves script kiddies. At that point, we can have someone to point and laugh at.

  12. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 1

    You work in a Russian prison, don't you?

  13. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 3, Funny

    8 weeks is a long time to recover from child birth.

    Not really. I'm sure Justin Beiber's mother is still on the mend.

  14. Re: Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like Sweden would be a great place to plop out some triplets.

  15. Re:Reword on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Before my grandfather started a successful retail tree nursery, he "peddled piles of shit" on the north side of Denver. It used to be that it was a pretty good spring/summer business, supplemented with firewood sales to all the condos in Vail/Breck/Aspen in the winter.

    In all that time since, seems the only thing we've learned is that it is better to build stuff out of wood instead of burning it, and instead burning the crap and trash for fuel.

  16. Re:i guess they are popular outside the USA on The Balkanization of Chatting · · Score: 2

    I am only mildly surprised to learn that people are still paying for text messages. But then, I haven't had a cell plan for a couple of years now.

  17. Re:One of two things. on Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is also a strong correlation between interest and hobbies - if they are doing techie things for fun, they will usually be in the wizard category.

    I can't really disagree here, but I wouldn't say that the correlation be restricted to what is considered a 'tech hobby'.

    I have known a number of men in their upper years that I would classify in the 'wizard' category, yet their hobbies included things like fly fishing, baseball statistics, flying small planes, etc. I would really consider any of these a 'tech hobby', but I would consider them hobbies that require a great deal of technical aptitude to also be a wizard in.

    Keeping the mind sharp is the key. If you do that by observing local caddis fly species, tying your own imitations, nailing the presentation to the fish (including time of day, weather conditions, season, physical stealth), and ultimately landing a 22 inch trout on 7x tippet, I imagine that keeps you just as sharp in the day job than simply doing more day job like things in your free time.

    Hobbies are meant to be hobbies for a reason. If you are an aspiring musician gigging at the local clubs to make your cash and you then spend your free time doing more of the same, but "just for fun", your musical career is probably not going to take you where you'd like it to.

    Completely detaching from concepts related to your occupation/career during your "me time" is absolutely essential to having a long enough career to ever become one of those "wizards". If you're a programmer, and you spend your free time programming for fun, you'll certainly become a solid developer, but there are very few people who love code enough to be able to sustain that for 20 or more years.

    TL;DR - going fishing is better than having a 'tech hobby'.

  18. Re:Kind of innevitable and entirely reasonable on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    Except in Denmark, you don't have San Diego, New England, and everything in between (not to mention the outlying territories...)

  19. Re:Capital Gains on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    I tend to drink on Sundays also.

  20. Re:Just say NO to GMO on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    I don't think you're going to find grasses that get sexually frustrated enough to really get down to business and secrete the juice.

    THC grows best exactly where it already is. If you were thinking something more oozie, you'd be on the right track... A Peony ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paeonia_(plant) ) seems like a more obvious choice to myself.

  21. Re:Translation on NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs · · Score: 1

    I would have loved to learn Latin in school. I like knowing why a sunflower is called helianthus.

  22. Re:no testing I guess? on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 1

    This is an infamous practice of Fry's Electronics. I haven't been to one in some time, so I can only assume they still do it.

    I am not sure if this is true or not, but I have heard that when they are doing that, they have no legal right to detain you from leaving the store, and you are more than welcome to simply leave without them checking the receipt. This could be a California thing, or maybe not even true at all. Whenever I used to leave Fry's, I would walk right past the door receipt checkers, when they said, "I need to check your receipt and your bag" I would just tell them no thank you and keep walking. I was never once given a hard time for that.

  23. Re:Two words on $5 Sensor Turns LCD Monitors Into Touchscreens · · Score: 1

    I recall a student from, I believe Texas A&M (not sure at all) that designed what sounds to be like a very similar device. I think I came across the video from something he had listed on Kickstarter... or maybe it was a TED video... I really can't remember.

    Point is, this has already been done before.

  24. Re:Reminds me of this book on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    Indeed, there was that 'phantom' home run last season, after all.

  25. Re:Sexist!!!!!!!!!! on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    Only with Skittles. Share the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow.