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MikeDawg writes "After dealing with the headache of never having enough electrical outlets, not having a cable TV coaxial, not having a telephone hookup in the right places of my apartment, I found this article at CNN. It is nice to see that college dorm rooms are getting filled with outlets to provide students with enough hook-ups with for all their electronics. My question to you (renters/dorm-room dwellers) is does your dorm room or apartment have enough outlets, whether it be electrical, cable, telephone, or anything else you may need? What do you do in a situation like this? Do you load up each socket with a 10+ port power strip (or battery backup as it may be) and pray that you don't knock-out the circuit everytime you start burning a CD?"
You're using socialist propaganda like "fire-extinguisher101.com" to support an argument about leading cause of fire deaths? It doesn't take an especially sharp scientist to know that those numbers are massaged in shameless self-promotion of that web-site.
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If you think about it, it is funny: the digital hub is also turning into a power hub.
Get a life.
My hope is that Power over ethernet takes off. This would mean a single power supply that injects power on the ethernet, and all network components would draw their power off it. Now if my laptop could draw power out of the ethernet link, it would really be nice.
What do you mean, takes off? It's avaialble now. But you can't power printers and laptops off of it for very obvious reasons: LOOK AT THE GAUGE OF CAT5. It's a low power solution only: phones, access points, etc.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
What do you do when you run out of gas at when driving down the highway? Do you walk, or do you just sit there?
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