Just as likely that they picked it up from some raw meat in a landfill or somebody's garbage pile. Think about it... Raw meat from somebody's BBQ harboring the antibiotic-resistant bacteria gets eaten by seagulls. The bacteria hitch a ride in seagulls and end up in poop.

There's something called rain and runoff. Seagull shit gets to more places than just where you see the dropping.

Cable management at the desktop is pretty simple. But the submitter was asking about MDFs, IDFs, and comm closets. You should really avoid velcro and cable ties there.

Start with good comm layouts. We use 48-port 3750s with a 48-port patch panel right under the switch. Then, 1' CAT-6 cables are used to patch all the drops hot.

If you are stuck with an older layout where switches are in one rack and patch panels are in another, then get some vertical and horizontal cable raceways. I *love* the ones with little plastic "fingers" that have a plastic cap over the front.

http://www.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=43

Get loads of pre-fab cables in every length you can think of. I find 3', 5', 7', 8', 14', and 20' are most used.

I have tried labeling individual cables, but I found that it's better to have a cut-sheet inside the rack describing the patches. Write this in *pencil*.

That's exactly this analyst's take on the situation, from that dirty hippie magazine, Forbes:

What Solyndra's Bankruptcy Means For Silicon Valley Solar Startups

But as the companies finally begin mass production — Solyndra just flipped the switch on a $733 million factory here last month — they are finding that the economics of the industry have already been transformed, by the Chinese. Chinese manufacturers, heavily subsidized by their own government and relying on vast economies of scale, have helped send the price of conventional solar panels plunging and grabbed market share far more quickly than anyone anticipated.

Many years ago, I ran a site called Half-Empty. It was an exciting time, I was in college, and had hacked together this site (letting my grades suffer in the process) as a way for people to share stories and vote on them. It was kind of like a ghetto version of Digg, where the users posted content not links.

One of the biggest thrills for me ever was when I sent an e-mail to /. about its initial launch and made it onto the front page. My dorm room was Slashdotted, I pulled RAM out of my roommates computers and threw it into my little server, which somehow survived. I knew it was inevitable my cable connection would be cut off so I sent an SOS out for anyone who would be willing to host the site for free, I was a poor college student, and Krellis from DynDNS stepped in. Half-Empty grew for a few years and became a large part of my life and many others. I owe the experience entirely to that initial Slashdotting, which gave the site the momentum it needed to stay alive. I regret not keeping the site up; it was a victim of a hard drive crash and I was enough of an amateur at the time to not have been making regular backups.

So, thanks again Rob. Good luck, and be proud of all you've accomplished with Slashdot. Cheers!

RC glider guider here. Most of my flights are between 500' and 1500'; some higher.

I've heard about the FAA/AMA agreement on the 500' limit, but it is *never* enforced. Even at AMA sanctioned events, it's common to see glider LMR contests with every entrant pushing 2000'.

It may not happen soon enough in the scale that will impact the majority of the people, but it is already happening.

Here is a link to a guy who took the plans for an old Guillows free-flight plane and converted it to a 3d printable version:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/thumbgallery.php?t=1455808&do=threadgallery

Here is a link to a company that makes a "printer" for foam for simple models and prototyping:

http://www.phlatboyz.com/Phlatprinter-3-Kit_p_9.html

I think we are fast approaching the time when the printers will be able to print another copy of itself.

Sure, you'll need the raw material, but we are at the point now where you could "print" an Ikea furniture piece.

I've been following the following thread over at RC Groups for about a month:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/thumbgallery.php?do=threadgallery&t=1455808

It's 124 grams right now and almost ready to fly.

You can add the custom PPA and see if it's out there yet:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
sudo apt-get update

apt-cache search sun-java7-jre

If it's there, then do this:

sudo apt-get install sun-java7-jre sun-java7-plugin sun-java7-fonts

I don't necessarily agree with your "life critical" reasoning.

However, I would like to think that the data on my phone would be encrypted. With Android, it shouldn't be too hard.

Things like date/time of calls and SMS don't need to be protected. Neither would location data. All these things can already be determined from 3rd party sources.

But the contents of my SD card (photos, text of SMS, calendar entries, etc) should be protected inside a TrueCrypt partition and secured with a long password.

Under the UCMJ, he is granted a "speedy trial". They have 120 days from arrest to arraignment.

I have heard the defense is delaying the trial to have Manning evaluated for psych problems.

If the prosecution was delaying the trial, at 120-days the defense would have filed a motion to dismiss and it would, in all likelihood, have been granted.

He signed a contract. He violated the terms of that contract.

They aren't "persecuting" him, they are prosecuting him.

I think you are confusing age of consent with underage pornography. In GA, the age of consent is 16. However, you can still be charged with possession of sexually explicit images of anyone under the age of 18.

Not that I'm a fan of hiding breaches from the customer, but what if the company notices a breach and wants to collect data from the hacker or direct the hacker to a honeypot?

Here is a great read about just such an event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg_(book)

I think notifying the FBI within 6 hours of the breach should be mandatory. With hourly updates for the next 18 hours. And maybe 6-hour briefs for the next 96 hours.

If they haven't collected enough evidence in 120 hours, then they should pull the plug.

Windows Media Center does what you want.