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    Google under fire in Europe for tax avoidance techniques

    In google's defense, at least it pays its workers a decent wage and doesn't use sweatshop labor in its factories in China (Apple) or poorly paid temp workers who work in sweatshop like conditions in its warehouses in the US and UK (Amazon). Back to the topic...the EU estimates that losses...
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    The cesspit / chat thread.

    Too short of an outage to warrant its own thread but Leaseweb's DC in Manassas, VA had a partial outage this afternoon and the Public/Private clouds are still down: [US] Power outage WDC datacenter, public and private cloud impacted February 23, 2016 21:18:00 (EST) Dear Leaseweb...
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    What happens when your outsourced Twitter bot goes nuts or gets hacked

     Incorporation agent is in Colorado but the +86 phone number on their WHOIS reflects where their company's office is really located. VPB.com is their English language site.  Company also runs the Chinese language site GChao.com and is incorporated in Colorado as GChao LLC.  The US shell GChao...
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    Storage VPS Options in Europe - Time4VPS?

    Parent company is  UAB,Interneto Vizija, 30+ employees, been around since 2003, largest provider in Lithuania, 80K+ customers. They're not a giant like OVH or Aruba but they're still large enough that they can offer deals like this on a few of their brand/products and it's not going to cause...
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    Yahoo on the sale block starting today

    It would be a good fit with their AOL properties.
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    ARM has legs. Real world use.

    target market is both IOT and object based storage, ARMv8 1 watt power http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/21/nxp-unveils-a-small-and-tiny-64-bit-arm-processor-for-the-internet-of-things/
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    LinuxMint WordPress Gets Hacked, ISO Downloads Infected With DDoS Bot

    LinuxMint is now  indicating the hack occurred via  a WP theme (not WP core), and they just posted a warning that after the hackers gained root access they also grabbed the forum database:
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    The 2016 (USA) Presidential Election Thread

    Emperor Mike, the guy who spent $270 mill to buy 3 Mayoral elections ?  The only ones who benefited from his term in office were large corporations and wealthy (white) Manhattanites.  Everyone else in the city basically got screwed.  Small businesses here were hit especially had during the...
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    LinuxMint WordPress Gets Hacked, ISO Downloads Infected With DDoS Bot

    The hacking of LinuxMint's site is yet another example of why lazy idiots who are running outdated WordPress installs with multiple critical vulnerabilities need to update their sites regularly (hosting industry examples are blog.colocrossing.com WP v3.5.1, lowendbox v 4.3.1, Quadranet CEO's...
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    Host your own DNS or use a DNS specialist company?

    try: rm /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.simplebind.conf
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    DOJ vs. Apple over Terrorist Phone

    The federal government and many local police departments already use software that calculates the "threat score' of everyone based on their public social media profiles and other factors.  Intrado Beware
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    DOJ vs. Apple over Terrorist Phone

    I take it you won't be voting for him for President this year?  :P https://mcafee2016.com/
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    EIG Acquires Lowlife Fathi Said's Spam Friendly Operation Ecommerce Inc / IX Web Hosting

    11,000 square feet in Columbus Their Yelp ratings have been amazingly consistent over the past 5 years: 23 ratings, all of them 1 star http://www.yelp.com/biz/ix-web-hosting-columbus
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    EIG Acquires Lowlife Fathi Said's Spam Friendly Operation Ecommerce Inc / IX Web Hosting

    The only info given was the 2 short mentions in their earnings release that I quoted in the first post.  Footnotes in the quarterly releases seem to be their preferred way of disclosing acquisitions recently.
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    EIG Acquires Lowlife Fathi Said's Spam Friendly Operation Ecommerce Inc / IX Web Hosting

    They have an office in Ukraine that handles a lot of the non-telephone support.    Match made in hell but EIG did acquire some valuable assets in this deal. Ecommerce Inc has a stockpile of 770,048 IPs (all IX Web Hosting and HostExcellence shared hosting plans include a dedicated IP...
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    EIG Acquires Lowlife Fathi Said's Spam Friendly Operation Ecommerce Inc / IX Web Hosting

    EIG has acquired one of the sleaziest web hosting outfits on the planet: Ecommerce Inc / IX Web Hosting.  Fathi Said and his band of scumbags at Ecommerce Inc are one of the most spam friendly hosts anywhere: currently ranked #7 on Spamhaus' Top Ten List.   Prior to founding Ecommerce Inc...
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    California Data Breach Report 2016

    Interesting reading...   l report: https://oag.ca.gov/breachreport2016
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    SolusVM or Proxmox ?

    If the host has anyone on staff with any programming skills who can design a front end to interact with the API, then Proxmox can become a very capable backend.  Example--> Backupsy. Since you asked, according to me, for business I'd target higher end customers and I'd just say no to both...
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    The cesspit / chat thread.

    Random notes: +1 for WHT moderation.  Ban hammer on some shiller moron 16 minutes after being reported this morning.  I mean really, when WHIR writes articles on your two acquisitions, and your name is on the WHOIS of both sites, and then you're dumb enough to post as Brand A and recommend...
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    Any review of Virpus after they bought by WOW?

    gimme an s, gimme an h gimme an i , gimme a...
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