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VPS are increasingly coming with cloud features like easy backups and cloning, which can be very useful. High end and cloud VPSs tend to run on better underlying hardware (in particular, more reliable with more redundancy) than low end dedicated.

He thinks Intel buying ARM would be a better solution? What could be further from neutrality!? Softbank is probably as good a buyer as is likely in terms of preserving neutrality. I do not see any real logic to the deal though, for just that reason. No synergies.

That changed, at least, as far as GPL licensed binaries go: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/ There may be a problem with binaries under BSD and similar licences (probably depending on jurisdiction though). Even if Canonical could claim copyright on those...

They cannot give it a name that is similar - that is still covered by the trademark. Similarly CentOS could not use a name like "Red Cap".

Well, yes. The point of trademarks is to allow the trade mark owner to control who uses, and impose conditions. Red Haw will not let you redistribute anything containing its trade mark at all - which is why CentOS exists and no one has a problem with that. So call it something else, or use...

There is a similar position with regard to expanding bullets, I think. The US (which is not a signatory to the Hague Convention but has not used them in the past) army apparently plans to start using them in side-arms, and they have been used by American mercenaries in Iraq (who were not...

Why can someone in the UK not ignore the DMCA? It is not a British law. It does not make much difference in the case of an actual breach of copyright, but it could save you from spam DMCA notices.

Numbers for "internet users" can be misleading because it includes people who make very limited use of the internet, maybe even just one app (most often Facebook) on their phone. Some of them do not even realise that they are using the internet (surveys in some countries showed more people...

CYA. The cost is small in context, its not their money (its the companies) and by using a known brand they cover themselves if something goes wrong. This is the reasoning behind almost all technology (product and service) purchases.

Maxmind should use the coordinates of something interesting, like NORAD or the White House. Are there parallel cases in other countries?

AWS uses a certificate that is not EV and has no organisation info. Not a summer host! Online retailers seem to use a mix of cert types. I do not understand the point of OV certs. There is no obvious indication of the difference so very few people will notice that it is any different from DV...

In spite of which people thought very well of Crissic not long ago: https://vpsboard.com/topic/6093-updated-vpsboard39s-provider-of-the-year-the-results/#comment-83933

Thanks @willie and @DomainBop for running those tests. I have been testing two other providers (Bytemark and Upcloud) recently for a project of mine, and everyone seems to provide bandwidth reasonable close to limit within Europe. They are all a lot slower to Asia or the US. Upcloud has very...

The AI lacks the "I" to avoid being manipulated.

What I find scary is that we cannot discuss it properly because MS has deleted tweets, and people will not quote the most offensive tweets. The best I could find was http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3 and even that has partially...

How much do Google and Amazon trust their outsourced manufacturers? Do they supervise manufacturing to prevent tampering? Given that it is their own designs can they check the hardware and the firmware is clean?

I did not say you did. I think you are probably doing as much as you can honestly do in the circumstances by way of information.

Typo: that last para should be People on LET seem to accept the "it was all OVH's fault" story. I know OVH does not have great customer service, but is it that bad?

Could anyone run networking benchmarks and/or ioping on scaleway and/or online.net personal and/or OVH cloud?

This thread is fascinating and deserved resurrecting. A VPS provider who things RAID 1 offers "a level of redundancy". I suppose it does, if you can have a negative level of redundancy. A sysadmin offering to work for £6/hour? It was two years ago, but that is not all that long ago. I live in a...