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Apartments for Techies?

thedistance asks: "I'm wondering if anyone has heard of companies retro fitting any of the failed telecom hotels for apartment use? It sure would be nice to find an apartment complex that was designed just for the tech croud with a fiber/cat5 infrastructure throughout. It sure would make it a lot easier to setup highspeed internet access, video on demand, and wlans... not to mention an easy way to borrow the spare NIC from your neighbor... (we can just leave the sugar borrowing to the rest of the non-techie world)" If you know of an apartment complex offering high bandwidth, please post a comment, below. Aside from bandwidth, what other amenities would make an apartment complex ideal for the high tech worker in the 21st Century?

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  1. Re:A low-security prison's inmates are treated wel by mellonhead · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Good lord man! What the hell is wrong with someone who goes through two rolls of TP a day?

    You've never been to prison, have you?

  2. Re:A low-security prison's inmates are treated wel by MindStalker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm OJ was never in prison, he might have been in a holding cell for a few days untill be made bail. But prison?

  3. Re:I live in one (Houston, TX) by wavelet · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    so in your mind a "professional" runs and hides from technology that isn't "secure"... nice...

    being a professional isn't about saying something sucks... anyone can do that...

    being a profresional means working with clients to solve security problems...

    the going industry "solution" is to treat your wireless network as a dirty network and VPN/IPSEC over it... with a client side host based firewall its just the same as VPN'ing over then internet...