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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. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post! wahoo!

  2. blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot sure is homofied. 300 gb of mp3s!

  3. Please help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just went to the doctor who thinks that I might be pregnant. So I went to the chemists straight after and bought one of those testing kits. I weed on it, and there is a little LCD screen. This came up on it:

    procs memory swap io system cpu
    r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
    1 0 0 1084 4424 10160 211564 0 0 15 6 162 329 1 3 96

    Is the baby going to be OK? I'm scared.

    Please help.

    1. Re:Please help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ah jeeeze that is the funniest thing ive seen all week

    2. Re:Please help me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No - kill your baby as soon as possible. Such a freakish thing should not be born and allowed to breath.

  4. Re:Bad idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you new to Slashdot?

  5. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    where?

  6. A low-security prison's inmates are treated well. by NRAdude · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People who commit a crime like petty theft, petty vandelism, or other stupid little things, are arrested and put in these miniature hotels we call a low-security prison. They all have a bed, a toilette, two rolls of toilette paper a day, 3 meals a day, and a wooden desk and chair with a computer and internet access. But this is eclipsed by the even tougher, brawnier, more violent criminals who commit crimes like rape and murder. Take OJ Simpson for example. Even OJ Simpson had all this in prison WITH a library of books and a phone. LOL! I wonder if I'll get that when they arrest me for slaughtering and cooking my own beef on your front yard for everyone to see. My mouth is watering...

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    without prejudice
  7. 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?

  8. 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?

  9. 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...