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Most Amazon employees only stick around for 2 years or so, but yet Amazon is still supporting its users.

spamlordon Yelp now lets you see how long the wait will be at the hospital's ER

I strongly recommend people avoid hospital ERs for anything but a true life threatening emergency. If you break your foot/arm or something go to an urgent care place that is 24x7, it will be way cheaper and basically the same care. Hospitals are a scam.

spamlordon Soylent 2.0

http://www.orijen.ca/

spamlordon Amazon Aurora Now Available

RAX only offers support for Azure, not AWS...

spamlordon Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking

Not getting listed on Spamhaus was a constant battle. One time our network engineer made a huge mistake by announcing 15-20 /20 blocks registered with RIPE out of the US ASN. Spamhaus apparently automatically scans for this type of suspicious behavior and falgged like 20,000 ips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)

spamlordon Chrome is blocking torrentz.eu

This random security site that I have not vetted at all says the site loads a file containing suspicious javascript "show_ads.js"

http://www.quttera.com/detailed_report/torrentz.eu

spamlordon Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking

I used to work at a spam company and we did this and similar techniques.

One similar technique was we basically created our own fake ISPs, disguised as rural wireless Internet providers. Paid yearly ARIN fees, had or own /20 blocks of IP space allocated, etc. We specifically requested ip filtering completely removed from our peering connection with major upstream/backbone ISPs. They did so without question. This allowed us to source route any IP out to the Internet. Then, we would purchase large blocks of IPs (a couple of /20s a month) from Romania and Argentina. We would create GRE tunnels over to RO and route them back to the US. It's been years since I was involved so my memory of the technical details is hazy now...