Between doing something for the lulz and doing it for profit. The former gives you a slight nod from various interesting parties at Blizzard, the later gets you lawyers so far up your @$$ that you'd better live in a country not known for extraditing citizen to the US to avoid a severe pounding by the penal system.

I get emails from Ebay all the time recommending I change my password. They even provide a handy link in the email for me to click on.

Went to see about pre-ordering a Surface Pro 3 today and started by scouring the net, then contact the local Microsoft Store, then contacted online support who then referred me to another Microsoft phone number. The consensus is that none of them know which particular i7 processor the Surface Pro 3 with the i7 option will have, and apparently they are all powerless to use their intelligence to solve problems and find the people who do know the information. I guess Microsoft thinks all i7 processors are created equal when many have a different number of cores, clock speeds, cache, extensions, etc. I think I will hold on to my $2,000 for now.

Although I don't completely share your sentiment that got old a few years after Cyprus Hill was popular, this does demonstrate an improper self-serving allocation of money seized whether via drugs or speeding. Perhaps only an amount needed to cover EXCESS budget spending for ABNORMAL speeding and drug trends should have been allocated and then the rest allocated towards drug rehabilitation programs, drug awareness, foster care and adoption of children from drug abuse families, traffic fatality education programs, community awareness programs, etc., etc. Having the people who enforce the laws receive the majority benefits is a Bad Idea® all around.

Nuff said

How dare the impoverished state of Oklahoma try to make the rest of America pay more for oil. Time to invade this agriculturally stunted land and then instead raise federal taxes to pay for our fight against this financial and economic aggressor.

Attend a local user meet-up for PHP development. You should easily be able to find one at Meetup. Simply showing your face is a great start, but if you really want visibility to local employers who are hiring, put together and submit a presentation regardless of how basic it may seem. Try not to say "I don't know that" but instead talk like you're interested in learning more but without BS-ing. Most likely the people hiring will have seen a lot more than you have and won't have time for someone who pretends to know things they don't, but will greatly appreciate enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn. Once you start to get to know people and they get to know you, you'll find the type of people you actually want to work for/with and the feeling will be mutual.

In my many years of experience none of this will ever change until a mass exodus of the IT department occurs and all the unappreciated talent leaves. And even then executives will probably never be able grasp how good they really had it because they'll be in recovery mode for a minimum of the next 3 years.

The only other situation I've seen is when the CTO is a really charismatic guy who can describe the most simplest of task in the most interesting way and can play enough politics so people kiss his butt to make sure he's happy. Then the CTO tells his underlings how appreciated they are by the executives even though they themselves never thought to say so.

I think more importantly we need to investigate what IP blocks the FCC chairman and other VIPs in the FCC use at their houses and tarpit those as well. You know, make sure the point really hits home.

I'm going to use your simile as my #2 rule on posting to /.

Just because the word scientology shares the first four letters of the word does not mean it is or ever was based on science. Regardless that's a troll argument since Scientology is a closed and secret system where as everything related to Bitcoin is publicly available for you to review if you are so inclined (or paranoid).

Bitcoin is backed by science. Which do you trust more?

I also help my landlady carry out her garbage.