They're rather late to the game, PG&E has been running a 900MHz ISM IPv6 mesh network for several years over the whole of Silicon Valley, every electricity meter is a node, with gas meters relayed via the electricity meters, and indeed the same radios proliferate many other places in the world.

Make sure that the person sending the message doesn't have your iCloud e-mail in your contact information. This would be another, and completely understandable problem.

Or install Hangouts for iOS as a much broader platform with cross platform everything.

Amen to the "Ball of hurt".

I design USB3 H/W....what. a. piece. of. shit. I have truly given up hope of engineering anything that will ever work universally, even Intels interfaces which you would like to believe would be a model reference design look like crap when you plug them into a gizillion dollar Agilent USB3 analyzer. Should I be be surprised? Probably not, USB has never exactly been the premium interface has it? Firewire didn't go away because USB was technically superior thats for sure. Thunderbolt just friggin' works, day in, day out, incredible and reliable performance. Sure cables are expensive, they have all sorts of clever active electronics...because...thats what it takes to make 10G in a consumer application work...not a $1.99 piece of injection molded crap from god knows what Asian hell chemical works. In fact Thunderbolts worst problem is ....Intel.....who seem to have a bizarre attitude towards people who want to buy components from them to make peripherals...I honestly don't get it.

Temperature? Peace of cake! Nasty insect born diseases and drastically reduced supply of food and fresh water? There will be a much less than 6 billion of us left after it all goes down.

Just to let you know, it will likely be very hazardous for your back end. You will be put on pager rotation and made to be reachable at all times from Thanksgiving to New Year, when these sites make the most money. By contrast, client software may cause panics at the end of release cycle, but once its shipped it stays shipped for some time.

If you go this route, try to get into Oracle. There is so much bureaucracy in getting past consultants, support and product managers to get a developer to look at your problem, that you will have days of heads up and be able to work at more convenient time.

This implies that every company has an HR department, let alone one that knows about CS jobs.

You should be focusing on building your credentials with prominent open source contributions and publishing your own mobile apps. Chances of landing a very meaningful corporate project with just one year of CS classes are slim, and besides you will have the rest of your life to work corporate jobs. On the other hand, legal and time reasons would leave limited opportunity for open source.

I can see exceptions like if you are really desperate for money or get invited to join your dream startup, but otherwise what's the hurry?

Our new mother overlords!

There is now such a glut that people are spoiled and few are willing to pay money, even after spending a lot of time playing the free part. Try making something genuinely useful and you may do better.

You should refrain from using Internet and especially posting any compromising content. Just take a picture of your tablet with your phone or vice versa and presto!

Conveniently these buggers are open source and so truly catastrophic issues will be fixed while there is even a modest interest in running XP. And after that, nobody will be interested in attacking either.