I set my own hours and basically do whatever I want so long as the clients are happy.
Generally my week days goes like so: - 7:00am get up, shower, get myself ready - 7:45am get the kids up, check sons blood-glucose, administer meal time insulin, feed kids breakfast, get them ready for school - 8:40am take the kids to school - 9:00am sit down at my desk, work or play on computer (depending on workload and mood) - 11:30am go pick up my daughter, check my sons blood-glucose and administer lunch time insulin - 12:00 noon lunch for myself and my daughter, my son stays at school - 1:00pm-ish get back to my desk, my daughter will possibly bother me all afternoon. Some days she leaves me alone - 3:30pm pick up my son from school, begin planning supper - 5:00pm-6:00pm cook supper, check sons blood glucose, administer meal time insulin, feed kids - 8:00pm check sons blood-glucose, administer basal insulin, bedtime for both kids - 8:30pm after kids finally in bed, sleeping, go back to office and work some more, sometimes I'll sit in the living room and put on Netflix in the background and use the laptop to casually work on something, or muck about on the web. - 2:00am-4:00am go to bed
My wife's work schedule is all over the place, but she's in there too depending if she works or not, or what shift she's stuck with. If she's home during the day I'll spend time with her in the morning instead of work if I can get away with it. I'll forward my office phone to my cell if we leave the house.
Weekends are a free for all. I'll squeeze in some work if it needs to get done.
Did he really believe he would be able to write stuff that people will/want/, and make a living at it?
That's the problem with creating anything. People have to want to buy it. Whether it be books, movies, tv shows, beer or basically anything else.
Personally I'm pretty picky about what I spend my money on. I pay for Netflix because it's convenient. I buy the odd movie here and there if I like it. Maybe twice a year if there is something really good in the theatre's I will take my wife or my family.
Never once have I paid for a book. Never once have I been compelled to buy a book. Never once have I pirated an book or ebook, as there is simply WAY TOO MUCH legal free content online that I enjoy reading.
Books are a dying medium, and believing you'll be able to put bread on a table by simply writing an ebook is asinine. Too much free and paid content around, he'll get lost in the ocean.
If his work is truely good, he'll partner up with a publisher and get a big fat advance and residual income from sales down the road.
One of my clients, and fairly good friends, is a writer. She writes for the Young Adult Genre (read: tween romance), and wrote a trilogy that has done quite well. She wrote the first one, and they gave her an advance to live on while she wrote the remaining two. The third one was just published last month, and she's already earning from the first two.
Self publishing in digital formats is not going to get you bread on the table unless you already have a following.
The alternative is write for the love of writing, and publish it for free. If it catches on, ask for donations and maybe you will be able to ask for money for later works some day.
Sorry, but this is the sad truth in the book business.
There are levies on certain devices, and recordable media (writable CDs), now-a-days dubbed as the "ipod tax".
It only covers personal use, technically. Sharing content while making a profit is still illegal (eg. File sharing site with ads on it), and punishable with hefty fines and possible jail time.
Sharing with friends and family is a grey area, and generally regarded as safe to do.
Basicslly as long you're only downloading for personal use, there is nothing the media corps can do about it. If you seed back into the torrent swarm, however, it gets a little muddier, as technically you are contributing to sharing the content.
Android based TV boxes that use illegal streams (usually from China) are rampant around here, though, as technically there is no uploading or contributing back to the "illegal" sharing of content, so they are generally accepted as legal by the public.
Lots of gotcha's but all in all generally regarded as legal, fair use of content.
There is no additional taxes or levies on internet connections that I am aware of.
... or use an e-mail client (desktop, mobile) instead of their web based mail client? I'm not sure if Outlook supports plain old IMAP and SMTP, though.
Back when I used Gmail for a brief period, that's what I did.
Now I pay for e-mail through a service provider... though I'm working towards putting together an e-mail cluster of my own.
No mention of how much storage space. Doesn't clarify if you have to pay the fee for each mailbox on a custom domain or if that yearly fee gives you all 5 mailboxes. No real information anywhere.
I did read in the comments below the article that if you buy a domain through them, Microsoft owns it and you can not transfer it out.
I would buy if I could. I am 28 years old, married, with two school aged children.
Here in Canada they keep making it more and more difficult for first time buyers. They took away 30 year mortgages, they raised interest rates, they increased the mortgage qualification bar for first time buyers.
I'm also self employed. Apparently that looks bad on an application, because I can't "guarantee" my income will continue at the level it's at. Despite providing financial records from the past 3 years that show a steady growth. It is an absolute bullshit excuse, because no job is ever guaranteed.
By being self employed, I have control over my future. I decide how much money I pay myself. I decide if my business continues, or if it fails in how I manage it. If I worked for someone else, my future would be in the hands of my employer. I've worked for 2 companies in the past that went under due to mismanagement. Businesses fail, whether they are mine or not.
So now here I am paying $1200/mo in rent for a house that if I could have qualified for the mortgage (this exact house was on the market when I was trying to buy), I'd be paying less than I am currently and building up my own equity. I pay all of my own utilities (power, heat, water/sewer, garbage/recycling collection), so its not like the landlord is doing me any favours.
We can clearly afford it, as we're not struggling in any way. The banks said no, but the guy that bought this house is a serial purchaser, turns around and rents out to make a profit and builds up his equity on my dollar.
It's a messed up system. Because those who buy to rent out make a profit, and the young families miss out on opportunities, and are forced to pay more by renting.
On the other hand, we already decided we're going to move across the country when the lease is up. Mostly because we've lived here most of our lives and are ready to experience somewhere new, but also because we're not tied down, and some other unrelated reasons.
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These aren't the 'cheap' hosts either. Some accounts were costing upwards of $25USD per month for less than 1GB of storage. I'm not sure if any of them are still around.
> That's great that you have proper offsite backup which you test on a regular basis, and retain several copies of backups from different times, so you can restore to a copy that was made *before* the malware was added, the site deleted, etc.
Indeed. I do. Like I said, I'm not new to this.
> Since you have that, you may be able to fairly easily have the backup process report which files changed, filtering out the files that are supposed to change regularly. That way you won't be serving up malware for more than a day without knowing about it.
Even one better, the system scans hourly for common malware directly on the files. It also continually monitors tmp directories and sends me notices as soon as something seems out of place. I've had a few false positives when clients update their CMS.
I've been running web-facing servers almost as long as you have (since 2002), and only ever had to restore a site from backup once. Granted up until 2008 they were only my own sites/projects, while I outsourced clients hosting to other service providers. One of the reasons I decided to start hosting clients projects directly is because every other host I tried were incompetent, would have various issues while they tried to cram 900 websites onto a server with 1GB of RAM, or would get bought up by someone else and support would get even worse. These aren't the 'cheap' hosts, either, s
Adding a password doesn't inheritly make it any more secure.
We're talking about protocols and internet facing applications.
The daemons accept connections as a root user, then forks off another process and setuid/setgid the process before handling the request. In the specific cases of FTP and SSH, the authentication still done by the root user. If there is an exploit at this level, authentication does absolutely nothing.
With MPM-ITK, all it does at the root user level is accept the connection, then hands the rest off to the process that that is setuid/setgid to the user that needs access to the files to serve the requests. It does not handle the requests itself.
You've yet to mention a solution better than ITK for multi-tenant web servers.
All you've done is complain about how the default setup is insecure. You've made your point on that. The rest of what you're saying is simply not true to MPM-ITK.
For each request, MPM-ITK will accept the incoming request, check the headers and determine which VirtualHost it belongs to. From there it will fork off a process and setuid/setgid's the process to the VirtualHost's defined uid/gid before handling the request. It's important to note that it uses setuid and setgid, NOT seteuid and setegid. Once that process is forked off, it's permissions are permanently set to the defined UID/GID.
It's important to note that all SSH, and FTP daemons work in a very similar way. Even the Apache Event MPM works this way in order to utilize the linux kernel's Epoll API.
Any scripts run either through CGI or PHP's mod_php will inherit the permissions of the process that executes them. If your permissions are set correctly, the processes handling these scripts will not be able to access files outside of the ones they have permission to access. They can't setuid back to root or another user.
Now, that's not to say there isn't any possible way to exploit it and gain root access, but that is a risk with any internet facing application/protocol. The past has shown there are privilege escalation exploits out there even for simple programs that are not run as root. MPM-ITK has been fairly extensively tested and has proven to be "good enough" security. If you cannot accept that, that's fine.
The purpose of KernelCare is that they splice security patches into the kernel while it's running. That is what I was referring to in regards to not having to worry about security patches, and to further explain, I meant I don't have to worry about rebooting (and thus causing down time) after applying kernel security patches.
I'm well aware of the problems with suExec and suPHP (and suHosin, etc).
I used mod_ruid2 up until they finally incorporated support for ITK. This specific server only handles about 20 clients. This allows each account to have permissions of 0600, and with suexec and friends never having been enabled this is about as tight as you can get in terms of filesystem permissions.
Everyone else is in their own KVM virtual server, set up specifically for their requirements, based on Funtoo.
I'm not new to this, and resisted cPanel for a long time. This specific server was only set up in 2014.
I just set up a new server running CentOS 7, kernel 3.10. Good to know it will be well supported into the future. I also pay for KernelCare, so I don't have to think about security patches.
I still have a CentOS 6 server running 2.6.32 in a KVM virtual machine. It's thoroughly embedded with cPanel/WHM so upgrading it will be a pain in the butt.
I use Funtoo Linux everywhere else, and have recently deployed 4.9 across the board on all of my (in production) Funtoo servers.
I run Funtoo Linux, a source based distribution. I compile Firefox without issue. Actually, I've had more problems with compiling Chromium than Firefox.
If you used IMAP, you could just nuke the client settings folder and reconfigure your mail client, it would then sync your emails back to your computer.
I get that some people don't like to put their email 'in the cloud', but it's certainly useful.
But then again, why didn't you have proper backups?
For the record I used KDE for about a month in the early 2000's while trying out a few different options before landing on XFCE. Haven't looked back since. I've also always used Thunderbird for my email, even back when I used Windows.
I agree. My DNS image is tailored specifically to my needs. Which is MariaDB Galera Cluster.. the dependencies that pulls in is quite a bit.
I'm sure I could trim a fair amount of stuff out, but its not worth my time to test to ensure that everything works perfect out of the box on deployment, when this works. After all, compressed with xz its under 1GB, and transfering data center to data center it's pretty quick.
I haven't used Windows Server, but my recent experience with Win10 is that it's a storage pig. Base install is like 11GB (for 64bit). After some updates and drivers (say AMD or Nvidia full driver package), you're quickly upto 15GB.
The one thing that I consider to be the biggest problem is the fact that simply repackaging a work is enough to consider it a new work, at least in the sense of licensing.
The second thing that seems to be the MPAA/RIAA don't care about customer convenience.
I've proposed it in the past, but was shot down by Slashdot because it would cost truck drivers their jerbs(!!!1!!).
What we need is a way to buy a license for a work that isn't attached to a specific physical or digital download. A "pirate license", per se, where it doesn't matter where or how you obtain the copy of the content, but are in the legal clear so long as you pay for the license.
Currently, even if I own a physical boxed set of a work, I still don't have the legal right to download it in a different format. Depending where you live, it's also illegal to rip or convert that boxed set into something usable.
Personally, I own a good collection of movies and tv shows, but I also downloaded them because it's more convenient than ripping and after my BluRay player crapped out I didn't bother buying a new one. Also, the people at YIFY are much more experienced than I at ripping.
Not sure where you are located, but some parts of the world allow you to get a credit card linked to your chequing account.
Here in Canada, with my local Credit Union, I have what is called a Global Payment MasterCard. I make purchases with it, and it immediately debits from my chequing account. I don't go into debt just from having to buy something with a credit card. It even has an optional Rewards Program that I earn 1 point for every dollar spent, that I can cash in for various things (flights, products, or a 'cash back' option).
I've seen other banks here offer a 'Visa Debit' card that works the same way.
On a regular basis... and when I try to actually explain what it is, and how it happens they just look at me like I'M the stupid one.
Its infuriating how poorly educated people are about this disease. It doesn't help that when drug companies advertise drugs in commercials, they just say "Diabetes", not specifying which one.
While I understand they are similar, they really ought to have two very different names to avoid confusion.
I'm Canadian. The last time I was in the US I bought a prepaid SIM from Roam Mobility.
Cost $5 (CAD) per day while in the US. You preload it by setting which days you expect to be in the US, and prepay for it prior to your trip.
Each day added 1GB of data to the "pool" of usable Data while traveling + unlimited calling and sms/mms.
I was in the US for 6 days, so it cost me $30 and gave me 6GB of Data. The area I was in had LTE, so it was actually quite useful.
It's not the cheapest, but one of the better deals available without too much hassle. My carrier offers the same thing as AT&T, but for Canadians travelling to the US. Cost is also $10/day. Activate it by sending a text message to a special number.
I suspect they prey on people who don't buy unlocked devices, or know how to unlock their devices, essentially forcing their clients to have to pay those prices.
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I'm self employed and work from my home office.
I set my own hours and basically do whatever I want so long as the clients are happy.
Generally my week days goes like so:
- 7:00am get up, shower, get myself ready
- 7:45am get the kids up, check sons blood-glucose, administer meal time insulin, feed kids breakfast, get them ready for school
- 8:40am take the kids to school
- 9:00am sit down at my desk, work or play on computer (depending on workload and mood)
- 11:30am go pick up my daughter, check my sons blood-glucose and administer lunch time insulin
- 12:00 noon lunch for myself and my daughter, my son stays at school
- 1:00pm-ish get back to my desk, my daughter will possibly bother me all afternoon. Some days she leaves me alone
- 3:30pm pick up my son from school, begin planning supper
- 5:00pm-6:00pm cook supper, check sons blood glucose, administer meal time insulin, feed kids
- 8:00pm check sons blood-glucose, administer basal insulin, bedtime for both kids
- 8:30pm after kids finally in bed, sleeping, go back to office and work some more, sometimes I'll sit in the living room and put on Netflix in the background and use the laptop to casually work on something, or muck about on the web.
- 2:00am-4:00am go to bed
My wife's work schedule is all over the place, but she's in there too depending if she works or not, or what shift she's stuck with. If she's home during the day I'll spend time with her in the morning instead of work if I can get away with it. I'll forward my office phone to my cell if we leave the house.
Weekends are a free for all. I'll squeeze in some work if it needs to get done.
Serious question:
Did he really believe he would be able to write stuff that people will /want/, and make a living at it?
That's the problem with creating anything. People have to want to buy it. Whether it be books, movies, tv shows, beer or basically anything else.
Personally I'm pretty picky about what I spend my money on. I pay for Netflix because it's convenient. I buy the odd movie here and there if I like it. Maybe twice a year if there is something really good in the theatre's I will take my wife or my family.
Never once have I paid for a book. Never once have I been compelled to buy a book. Never once have I pirated an book or ebook, as there is simply WAY TOO MUCH legal free content online that I enjoy reading.
Books are a dying medium, and believing you'll be able to put bread on a table by simply writing an ebook is asinine. Too much free and paid content around, he'll get lost in the ocean.
If his work is truely good, he'll partner up with a publisher and get a big fat advance and residual income from sales down the road.
One of my clients, and fairly good friends, is a writer. She writes for the Young Adult Genre (read: tween romance), and wrote a trilogy that has done quite well. She wrote the first one, and they gave her an advance to live on while she wrote the remaining two. The third one was just published last month, and she's already earning from the first two.
Self publishing in digital formats is not going to get you bread on the table unless you already have a following.
The alternative is write for the love of writing, and publish it for free. If it catches on, ask for donations and maybe you will be able to ask for money for later works some day.
Sorry, but this is the sad truth in the book business.
There are levies on certain devices, and recordable media (writable CDs), now-a-days dubbed as the "ipod tax".
It only covers personal use, technically. Sharing content while making a profit is still illegal (eg. File sharing site with ads on it), and punishable with hefty fines and possible jail time.
Sharing with friends and family is a grey area, and generally regarded as safe to do.
Basicslly as long you're only downloading for personal use, there is nothing the media corps can do about it. If you seed back into the torrent swarm, however, it gets a little muddier, as technically you are contributing to sharing the content.
Android based TV boxes that use illegal streams (usually from China) are rampant around here, though, as technically there is no uploading or contributing back to the "illegal" sharing of content, so they are generally accepted as legal by the public.
Lots of gotcha's but all in all generally regarded as legal, fair use of content.
There is no additional taxes or levies on internet connections that I am aware of.
... or use an e-mail client (desktop, mobile) instead of their web based mail client? I'm not sure if Outlook supports plain old IMAP and SMTP, though.
Back when I used Gmail for a brief period, that's what I did.
Now I pay for e-mail through a service provider... though I'm working towards putting together an e-mail cluster of my own.
No mention of how much storage space. Doesn't clarify if you have to pay the fee for each mailbox on a custom domain or if that yearly fee gives you all 5 mailboxes. No real information anywhere.
I did read in the comments below the article that if you buy a domain through them, Microsoft owns it and you can not transfer it out.
I would buy if I could. I am 28 years old, married, with two school aged children.
Here in Canada they keep making it more and more difficult for first time buyers. They took away 30 year mortgages, they raised interest rates, they increased the mortgage qualification bar for first time buyers.
I'm also self employed. Apparently that looks bad on an application, because I can't "guarantee" my income will continue at the level it's at. Despite providing financial records from the past 3 years that show a steady growth. It is an absolute bullshit excuse, because no job is ever guaranteed.
By being self employed, I have control over my future. I decide how much money I pay myself. I decide if my business continues, or if it fails in how I manage it. If I worked for someone else, my future would be in the hands of my employer. I've worked for 2 companies in the past that went under due to mismanagement. Businesses fail, whether they are mine or not.
So now here I am paying $1200/mo in rent for a house that if I could have qualified for the mortgage (this exact house was on the market when I was trying to buy), I'd be paying less than I am currently and building up my own equity. I pay all of my own utilities (power, heat, water/sewer, garbage/recycling collection), so its not like the landlord is doing me any favours.
We can clearly afford it, as we're not struggling in any way. The banks said no, but the guy that bought this house is a serial purchaser, turns around and rents out to make a profit and builds up his equity on my dollar.
It's a messed up system. Because those who buy to rent out make a profit, and the young families miss out on opportunities, and are forced to pay more by renting.
On the other hand, we already decided we're going to move across the country when the lease is up. Mostly because we've lived here most of our lives and are ready to experience somewhere new, but also because we're not tied down, and some other unrelated reasons.
If you have an online presence and sell products/services I highly recommend Stripe.
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These aren't the 'cheap' hosts either. Some accounts were costing upwards of $25USD per month for less than 1GB of storage. I'm not sure if any of them are still around.
> That's great that you have proper offsite backup which you test on a regular basis, and retain several copies of backups from different times, so you can restore to a copy that was made *before* the malware was added, the site deleted, etc.
Indeed. I do. Like I said, I'm not new to this.
> Since you have that, you may be able to fairly easily have the backup process report which files changed, filtering out the files that are supposed to change regularly. That way you won't be serving up malware for more than a day without knowing about it.
Even one better, the system scans hourly for common malware directly on the files. It also continually monitors tmp directories and sends me notices as soon as something seems out of place. I've had a few false positives when clients update their CMS.
I've been running web-facing servers almost as long as you have (since 2002), and only ever had to restore a site from backup once. Granted up until 2008 they were only my own sites/projects, while I outsourced clients hosting to other service providers. One of the reasons I decided to start hosting clients projects directly is because every other host I tried were incompetent, would have various issues while they tried to cram 900 websites onto a server with 1GB of RAM, or would get bought up by someone else and support would get even worse. These aren't the 'cheap' hosts, either, s
I think you seem to believe that having all user accounts readable by the apache process is a better security model.
Personally, I don't want all of the users able to snoop on each others files.
I would rather have a site be able to nuke its own files, but stay isolated to that uid/gid, than be able to read files in other accounts.
Proper offsite backups make this a non issue for my situation.
Adding a password doesn't inheritly make it any more secure.
We're talking about protocols and internet facing applications.
The daemons accept connections as a root user, then forks off another process and setuid/setgid the process before handling the request. In the specific cases of FTP and SSH, the authentication still done by the root user. If there is an exploit at this level, authentication does absolutely nothing.
With MPM-ITK, all it does at the root user level is accept the connection, then hands the rest off to the process that that is setuid/setgid to the user that needs access to the files to serve the requests. It does not handle the requests itself.
You've yet to mention a solution better than ITK for multi-tenant web servers.
All you've done is complain about how the default setup is insecure. You've made your point on that. The rest of what you're saying is simply not true to MPM-ITK.
I'm not certain you understand how MPM ITK works.
For each request, MPM-ITK will accept the incoming request, check the headers and determine which VirtualHost it belongs to. From there it will fork off a process and setuid/setgid's the process to the VirtualHost's defined uid/gid before handling the request. It's important to note that it uses setuid and setgid, NOT seteuid and setegid. Once that process is forked off, it's permissions are permanently set to the defined UID/GID.
It's important to note that all SSH, and FTP daemons work in a very similar way. Even the Apache Event MPM works this way in order to utilize the linux kernel's Epoll API.
Any scripts run either through CGI or PHP's mod_php will inherit the permissions of the process that executes them. If your permissions are set correctly, the processes handling these scripts will not be able to access files outside of the ones they have permission to access. They can't setuid back to root or another user.
Now, that's not to say there isn't any possible way to exploit it and gain root access, but that is a risk with any internet facing application/protocol. The past has shown there are privilege escalation exploits out there even for simple programs that are not run as root. MPM-ITK has been fairly extensively tested and has proven to be "good enough" security. If you cannot accept that, that's fine.
Thanks for the advice.
The purpose of KernelCare is that they splice security patches into the kernel while it's running. That is what I was referring to in regards to not having to worry about security patches, and to further explain, I meant I don't have to worry about rebooting (and thus causing down time) after applying kernel security patches.
I'm well aware of the problems with suExec and suPHP (and suHosin, etc).
I used mod_ruid2 up until they finally incorporated support for ITK. This specific server only handles about 20 clients. This allows each account to have permissions of 0600, and with suexec and friends never having been enabled this is about as tight as you can get in terms of filesystem permissions.
Everyone else is in their own KVM virtual server, set up specifically for their requirements, based on Funtoo.
I'm not new to this, and resisted cPanel for a long time. This specific server was only set up in 2014.
Cheers.
I just set up a new server running CentOS 7, kernel 3.10. Good to know it will be well supported into the future. I also pay for KernelCare, so I don't have to think about security patches.
I still have a CentOS 6 server running 2.6.32 in a KVM virtual machine. It's thoroughly embedded with cPanel/WHM so upgrading it will be a pain in the butt.
I use Funtoo Linux everywhere else, and have recently deployed 4.9 across the board on all of my (in production) Funtoo servers.
I run Funtoo Linux, a source based distribution. I compile Firefox without issue. Actually, I've had more problems with compiling Chromium than Firefox.
Farnsworth: And what makes my engines truly remarkable is the afterburner, which delivers 200% fuel efficiency.
Cubert: That's especially impossible.
Farnsworth: Not at all. It's very simple.
Cubert: Then explain it.
Farnsworth: Now that's impossible! It came to me in a dream and I forgot it in another dream.
If you used IMAP, you could just nuke the client settings folder and reconfigure your mail client, it would then sync your emails back to your computer.
I get that some people don't like to put their email 'in the cloud', but it's certainly useful.
But then again, why didn't you have proper backups?
For the record I used KDE for about a month in the early 2000's while trying out a few different options before landing on XFCE. Haven't looked back since. I've also always used Thunderbird for my email, even back when I used Windows.
I agree. My DNS image is tailored specifically to my needs. Which is MariaDB Galera Cluster.. the dependencies that pulls in is quite a bit.
I'm sure I could trim a fair amount of stuff out, but its not worth my time to test to ensure that everything works perfect out of the box on deployment, when this works. After all, compressed with xz its under 1GB, and transfering data center to data center it's pretty quick.
I haven't used Windows Server, but my recent experience with Win10 is that it's a storage pig. Base install is like 11GB (for 64bit). After some updates and drivers (say AMD or Nvidia full driver package), you're quickly upto 15GB.
The one thing that I consider to be the biggest problem is the fact that simply repackaging a work is enough to consider it a new work, at least in the sense of licensing.
The second thing that seems to be the MPAA/RIAA don't care about customer convenience.
I've proposed it in the past, but was shot down by Slashdot because it would cost truck drivers their jerbs(!!!1!!).
What we need is a way to buy a license for a work that isn't attached to a specific physical or digital download. A "pirate license", per se, where it doesn't matter where or how you obtain the copy of the content, but are in the legal clear so long as you pay for the license.
Currently, even if I own a physical boxed set of a work, I still don't have the legal right to download it in a different format. Depending where you live, it's also illegal to rip or convert that boxed set into something usable.
Personally, I own a good collection of movies and tv shows, but I also downloaded them because it's more convenient than ripping and after my BluRay player crapped out I didn't bother buying a new one. Also, the people at YIFY are much more experienced than I at ripping.
Not sure where you are located, but some parts of the world allow you to get a credit card linked to your chequing account.
Here in Canada, with my local Credit Union, I have what is called a Global Payment MasterCard. I make purchases with it, and it immediately debits from my chequing account. I don't go into debt just from having to buy something with a credit card. It even has an optional Rewards Program that I earn 1 point for every dollar spent, that I can cash in for various things (flights, products, or a 'cash back' option).
I've seen other banks here offer a 'Visa Debit' card that works the same way.
I'm a Linux guy. I use Funtoo/Gentoo pretty much everywhere.
This honestly piqued my interest.
I maintain a custer of DNS servers based on PowerDNS and MariaDB Galera. The deployment image I use is only a few GB uncompressed.
If MS can bring Windows Server down to 2-3GB (uncompressed) I'm sure people will find a use for it.
Undoubtedly the licensing will get in the way, like it always does.
On a regular basis... and when I try to actually explain what it is, and how it happens they just look at me like I'M the stupid one.
Its infuriating how poorly educated people are about this disease. It doesn't help that when drug companies advertise drugs in commercials, they just say "Diabetes", not specifying which one.
While I understand they are similar, they really ought to have two very different names to avoid confusion.
My 7 year old son was diagnosed T1D about a year and a half ago.
Seeing things like this kind of make me angry for the reasons you mentioned. In my research it seems we're always "10 years away from a cure".
So far the islet implants are looking the most promising, but I guess we'll see.
I'm Canadian. The last time I was in the US I bought a prepaid SIM from Roam Mobility.
Cost $5 (CAD) per day while in the US. You preload it by setting which days you expect to be in the US, and prepay for it prior to your trip.
Each day added 1GB of data to the "pool" of usable Data while traveling + unlimited calling and sms/mms.
I was in the US for 6 days, so it cost me $30 and gave me 6GB of Data. The area I was in had LTE, so it was actually quite useful.
It's not the cheapest, but one of the better deals available without too much hassle. My carrier offers the same thing as AT&T, but for Canadians travelling to the US. Cost is also $10/day. Activate it by sending a text message to a special number.
I suspect they prey on people who don't buy unlocked devices, or know how to unlock their devices, essentially forcing their clients to have to pay those prices.
And nothing of value was lost...