@michael2015
Uh duh? Companies use email and other free services to sell ads. Great point if I and every twelve year old on the planet didn't know this already. Don't start off with patronizing comments.
Kudos to Apple? Uh no. If they pulled a Yahoo and didn't tell anyone they were just going to hand over your emails, pics, SMS, contacts, files, they'd be crucified like Yahoo was for getting people thrown into prison.
Your icloud CRYPTOkey now resides with a Guizhou state run company. That a gigantic difference than when even your data might of been on a China server, but that key was in the hands of Cupertino Apple. Now pretty much any state or even local police anywhere in China can demand the Guizhou company to comply with a search warrant, and as the article made clear, police in China can issue the search warrant without asking anyone but themselves to issue one.
But I guess your right, for the 99.9% of the users who aren't human rights lawyers, political activists, journalists, environmental protesters, villagers involved in land disputes, this won't affect a thing, and yeah, your icloud may download faster, cheers!
Snapshot: Grand Canyon of the East
发布者I think you guys went back for the food! Man that last picture is making me hungry.
Getting Away: Vang Vieng
发布者Regarding the roads, my impression was the opposite. I left Vientiane for VV via bus and found the road ok. From VV to Luang Prabang the road was quite miserable.
Nothing better than floating down the river with some of your friends; however, avoid the bar with the giant concrete slide. A Swiss guy drowned last year after using the slide, and it's cause innumerable other injuries to party-goers. Also, the tube doesn't make up for not being a good swimmer.
Safety concerns plague national school lunch program
发布者Very happy that poor kids are getting a free meal at school...Very sad they are forced to eat spoiled food at times.
I think the children should be given 3rmb food vouchers to be spent with the local chefs and vendors outside the school. No more troubles for the schools to operate a kitchen, and the children can decide with their pocketbook (aka vouchers) which vendors food tastes best. If no food vendors can make decent food for 3rmb per child, then the gov't knows why the schools are forced to use rotten stuff at times.
First-hand account: Setting up a guesthouse in Xishuangbanna
发布者Has The Balcony Guesthouse opened for business? Would be very curious if there was an update to the article, which was excellent reading.