Wouldn't AT&T try to claim in this case that it was the customer who broke the contract by swapping phones?
Regardless, it would be worth breaking the contract (even at the cost of a termination fee) just to get the Hell away from AT&T and switch to either T-Mobile or an MVNO that uses the AT&T network.
According to this, the average person in the US watches 4 hours of TV per day.
However, that doesn't mean the average amount of time per day a TV is turned on is the same. First of all, the previous statistic averages in people who don't own TVs at all. Second, sometimes people leave the TV on when they're not watching it. Third, often the same TV gets watched by multiple people. The first two factors would tend to cause the average to increase, while the latter would tend to cause it to decrease. I haven't been able to find enough information to determine either way.
First of all, I almost can't believe your post is genuine and not written as a prank by someone who hacked your account.
Second, $7.25 is minimum wage. The only reason you could possibly be having a hard time making that as a college graduate (i.e., someone with a decent enough work ethic to manage to get the degree) is that you have Biblically horrific soft skills or some kind of disorder. That's what your real problem must be, vastly overshadowing any employment gaps or technical skills atrophy.
My advice to you is to make a concerted effort on your people skills, get whatever crap job you need to get to pay the bills (or keep living with your parents if you can stand it), and work on some kind of personal programming project in your spare time. (When I was turned down for a job a while back it wasn't necessarily because I had a year-long gap on my resume, it was because I didn't have a portfolio of code to demonstrate.)
Another strategy would be to get some kind of training in a field different from CS, but for which programming skills can be helpful. Then find a job in the niche at the intersection between those two fields. For example, I studied CS and civil engineering, and my job is in intelligent transportation systems (I had been looking for jobs in things like structural modeling software too, so I'm not necessarily talking about a single niche, either).
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
stated purpose of the freedom is to allow for the security of the state, not to arm the populous in defense against the political leaders of the state. In fact, the Constitution outright criminalizes the waging of war against the government.
How is it that you quoted the key word, but then proceeded to ignore it? The key word is "free," and the freedom of a state "of the people, by the people, for the people" can only be secured by -- guess who -- the people!
You think Intel's branding doesn't matter? Fine, then show me an example of a laptop of similar thinness and specs as an Ultrabook or Macbook Air that's without the branding. (Bonus points if you can find one with an AMD processor.)
Sure, thin, light and powerful laptops don't have to use Intel's "Ultrabook" branding... but they don't have to exist, either!
Compared to other majors, Comp Sci is low in the rankings. GA Tech is #3 in Civil Engineering, #5 in Electrical Engineering, #6 in Mechanical Engineering, etc. (Of course, those are all rankings for grad programs, whereas TFA is about undergrad. But still...)
They're making "warm white" LED Christmas lights now... but I like my "cool white" ones better anyway because my icicle lights look more like icicles that way.
The main problem with UEFI is that... it's practically a complex "pre-OS" by itself...
...I'd go with the opposite approach, *unless* a defined boot key is held down then just run whatever is defined as the standard boot option ASAP... If you *do* press the boot key and the simple boot device selection isn't enough you'd have to load an "extended BIOS" from USB/CD-ROM that could have all the other junk to give you a GUI, mouse, network, wireless, RAID etc.
If it's supposed to work "even if you used completely different... hardware" then how is it supposed to know you pressed a key (let alone find the USB/CD-ROM) without probing the hardware and loading the drivers?
For a manufacturer to provide a computer with Windows 8 pre-installed, or to label their product as compatible with Windows 8, they MUST allow end-user modification of the bootloader keys.
So what does that make Microsoft Surface? A toaster?
The important thing to understand here is that we're one Microsoft policy change away from completely fucked: if ARM is allowed to be locked down, then x86 will be too. We need to be drawing a line in the sand right now, not rationalizing the issue away like frogs in a cauldron.
I don't mean to gloss over the only real use SecureBoot has: To prevent you from installing your own OSs and Applications, and having control over your own computers.
Nevertheless, you did exactly that IMO. Please allow me to reiterate for the benefit of others:
Technical solutions as proposed above are irrelevant, because the fundamental problem here is that I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FIND A GODDAMN EXPLOIT TO RUN MY OWN CODE ON MY OWN COMPUTER!
So who decides what keys can be added to the bootloader? The end user, in the case of every x86 board.
AND WHAT ABOUT ARM DEVICES?
If such restrictions are allowed to happen everywhere, they will inevitably end up happening everywhere. The situation is already completely unacceptable!
But super-fast and super-hot motherboards of this kind are not what the digital rebel needs, IMO. He needs a small, lightweight, portable system - a tablet would be ideal, especially if it accepts external attachments like the monitor and USB. In reality all modern tablets are already suitable for the task.
Except the ARM version of Microsoft Surface, on which Secure Boot can't be disabled...
The only way to block this is to make it illegal. But I cannot imagine how you can make microcontrollers illegal today. Would I need a license to own a debugger or a soldering iron?
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They must have backed off by the time they started calling it "SimCity Classic" though; that's the version I had and it required no such code sheet.
Or the opposite: that your house is a good place to steal a gun from.
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Isn't one of the "benefits that go with modularity" supposed to be that it's easier to write new kinds of modules (say, to support new hardware)?
Wouldn't AT&T try to claim in this case that it was the customer who broke the contract by swapping phones?
Regardless, it would be worth breaking the contract (even at the cost of a termination fee) just to get the Hell away from AT&T and switch to either T-Mobile or an MVNO that uses the AT&T network.
We're at step 2 already and step 3 is inevitable. That means we've already lost.
According to this, the average person in the US watches 4 hours of TV per day.
However, that doesn't mean the average amount of time per day a TV is turned on is the same. First of all, the previous statistic averages in people who don't own TVs at all. Second, sometimes people leave the TV on when they're not watching it. Third, often the same TV gets watched by multiple people. The first two factors would tend to cause the average to increase, while the latter would tend to cause it to decrease. I haven't been able to find enough information to determine either way.
First of all, I almost can't believe your post is genuine and not written as a prank by someone who hacked your account.
Second, $7.25 is minimum wage. The only reason you could possibly be having a hard time making that as a college graduate (i.e., someone with a decent enough work ethic to manage to get the degree) is that you have Biblically horrific soft skills or some kind of disorder. That's what your real problem must be, vastly overshadowing any employment gaps or technical skills atrophy.
My advice to you is to make a concerted effort on your people skills, get whatever crap job you need to get to pay the bills (or keep living with your parents if you can stand it), and work on some kind of personal programming project in your spare time. (When I was turned down for a job a while back it wasn't necessarily because I had a year-long gap on my resume, it was because I didn't have a portfolio of code to demonstrate.)
Another strategy would be to get some kind of training in a field different from CS, but for which programming skills can be helpful. Then find a job in the niche at the intersection between those two fields. For example, I studied CS and civil engineering, and my job is in intelligent transportation systems (I had been looking for jobs in things like structural modeling software too, so I'm not necessarily talking about a single niche, either).
How is it that you quoted the key word, but then proceeded to ignore it? The key word is "free," and the freedom of a state "of the people, by the people, for the people" can only be secured by -- guess who -- the people!
Chattanooga, TN has gigabit service too (run by their power company, of all things).
You can avoid that kind of thing if you live in the bigger cities, like Atlanta.
You think Intel's branding doesn't matter? Fine, then show me an example of a laptop of similar thinness and specs as an Ultrabook or Macbook Air that's without the branding. (Bonus points if you can find one with an AMD processor.)
Sure, thin, light and powerful laptops don't have to use Intel's "Ultrabook" branding... but they don't have to exist, either!
Compared to other majors, Comp Sci is low in the rankings. GA Tech is #3 in Civil Engineering, #5 in Electrical Engineering, #6 in Mechanical Engineering, etc. (Of course, those are all rankings for grad programs, whereas TFA is about undergrad. But still...)
You say "state uni" like it's a second-class choice, but one of the schools on that list is a state uni!
...It's 8th on the list, but still don't get no respect!
For what it's worth, GA Tech was my "match" school, and the one I attended. I don't know why I even bothered applying to a "reach..."
The way things are going, soon they're not going to make the non-locked down stuff anymore.
Obligatory XKCD.
Sandia National Laboratory did a study on growing marijuana using LEDs?!
They're making "warm white" LED Christmas lights now... but I like my "cool white" ones better anyway because my icicle lights look more like icicles that way.
If it's supposed to work "even if you used completely different... hardware" then how is it supposed to know you pressed a key (let alone find the USB/CD-ROM) without probing the hardware and loading the drivers?
; )
So what does that make Microsoft Surface? A toaster?
The important thing to understand here is that we're one Microsoft policy change away from completely fucked: if ARM is allowed to be locked down, then x86 will be too. We need to be drawing a line in the sand right now, not rationalizing the issue away like frogs in a cauldron.
Nevertheless, you did exactly that IMO. Please allow me to reiterate for the benefit of others:
Technical solutions as proposed above are irrelevant, because the fundamental problem here is that I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FIND A GODDAMN EXPLOIT TO RUN MY OWN CODE ON MY OWN COMPUTER!
AND WHAT ABOUT ARM DEVICES?
If such restrictions are allowed to happen everywhere, they will inevitably end up happening everywhere. The situation is already completely unacceptable!
Except the ARM version of Microsoft Surface, on which Secure Boot can't be disabled...
Maybe you can't imagine it, but RMS imagined it a decade and a half ago.
Much like 1984, it was scary then, but scarier now.