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Comment: Re:Poor Google? (Score 1) 150

by Nikker (#39091071) Attached to: Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency
An amendment to the Canadian Copyright Charter is being passed that offers the same protection as the service being offered. The other schools are banking the bill will pass, rendering the fee obsolete. These other institutions are obviously do not feel the same. This is what raised the fee from approximately $3 to the $27 dollar figure, a comapny with a failing business model trying to sustain an unsustainable business. For what ever reason UofT and Western feel the governments protection by law is not sufficient and I would be very interested in finding out why that is.

Comment: Re:knowledge is power (Score 1) 385

by Nikker (#38989195) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Refurbed Drives With Customer Data?
If that kind of vague claim is all they need then you would be able to trace the drive from Newegg to your door. At the very least they will know the brands,model and specs of the drive. Everything about this Ask sounds wrong. There are more people here that already think some how the drive's previous owner was either some CIA agent or the most notorious pornographer known to our times. If this was the top CIA officials very own SATA drive wouldn't it be best it was accounted for ? It is your drive if you paid for it and was not stolen. Therefore you can do with it as you wish, knee jerk reactions in to fantasy land not included.

Comment: Re:Shill study (Score 1) 186

by Nikker (#38924755) Attached to: Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says
As a Rogers customer myself I can guarentee you don't have close to the cap you stated, which turns out to be true as you would only get 12Mb/512Kb plan with a 60GB cap for $46.99 plus taxes and modem rental fee (as per the text below the price).

Rogers has spent more time telling me their network sending reset packets downpipe is all my imagination and even their modems have 2 radios which brodcast your wifi signal as well as a "ghost SSID". I detected 2 SSID's wich had exactly the same signal and sequential MAC addresses. I call Rogers and they straight out tell me I'm lying. Since then all I can do is think about ditching them. SSL connections are flakey and their connections go down for some reason for 30 mins every morning at around 6am. Well the list goes on.

Just out of curiosity if anyone else here has a Rogers modem and has the ability to check for WIFI APs see if you can find a hidden network with WPA2 flags with a sequential MAC to your regular AP SSID. If you do find this please reply to this thread with any info you care to provide.

Comment: Re:Where does AMD come into the picture? (Score 2) 140

by Nikker (#38908769) Attached to: AMD Says It's 'Ambidextrous,' Hints It May Offer ARM Chips
Licensing fees.

AMD bleeds money to Intel for the x86 instruction set. At one point this was manditory since all the programs out there that were able to be run by a comparatively inexperienced computer users were written for the computers they could find at Radio Shack et al. Now that Microsoft and Google are popular and platform agnostic (Linux/Android vs win8) AMD has a window of opportunity to start from scratch and just offer a kernel patch to have your apps run on their chips. This new direction is going to be interesting to see execute. Intel was and is the gatekeeper of the consumer PC space now that is not so stable. Android can and has already been ported to x86,MIPS and a whole slew of variant ARM archetectures. To top it off millions of people use and enjoy Android, distributors like that they can make the products cheaply and must stay with the platform to keep their purchases/investments, lastly carriers love it cause they can lock you in for 3 years at premium rates.

It looks like this time Intel might have to tighten it's belt for a change.

Comment: Re:Dying from lack of surprise... (Score 5, Insightful) 765

by Nikker (#38888465) Attached to: White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd
It is topical and relevant to the conversation. The American Founding Fathers were inundated by intrests other than what they though was right. They wrote down their experiences and came up with the best way they knew how to make sure divide and conquer tactics would not work. The people could decide amongst themselves their destinations in their own lives and with whom they wished to travel with. This is shown by the First Amendment.

While not being from the US but close by I can understand why people would refrence the American Founding Fathers in a time where the same issues they face are being encountered today.

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