This is not a technical issue or a matter of service agreements.
They totally knew that this would never be accepted by users, and that is precisely why they resorted to obfuscation and steganography to exfiltrate the data. This was quietly added in an update, and would have been removed in a later one had it gone unnoticed.
How is this any different from hiding a drug in food and randomly feeding it to a homeless person as a human trial? Even if that homeless person is an undocumented immigrant, does that make that acceptable?
Simple, just follow the international rules. If you haven't registered your patent in a country, you don't have any patent rights there. If a company uses your patent and only sells its products within that country, you have no legal standing whatsoever, regardless of whether that country is China, Japan, South Korea, or even a European country. The same rule applies everywhere.
Yes, for most projects, my path is SQLite -> PostgreSQL. For monolithic applications, SQLite is usually good enough. I've used OLTP + OLAP database setups before(SQL+ELK), but both data synchronization and operational overhead were very high. Before adopting such a solution, you really need to ask yourself: do you actually have that many users?
Those BEV trucks come in both swappable battery and fast-charging models. Most support dual chargers for simultaneous charging. A 600kWh battery can be fully charged in about an hour with two 350kW chargers. Two more common 180kW charger takes around two hours. Some trucks even support four chargers at once. But for the small and cheap trucks used in city, they may take 4 hours for charging to run 200km.
I've also know some trucks used in mines that don't even need charging. The electricity generated when descending with a full load is enough to power the empty truck back uphill.
In China, most of buses in first-tier cities are connected to the internet to report their location and status. This allows you to check the approximate location of the next bus and a relatively accurate arrival time on a map app. It's especially useful in bad weather or traffic congestion , as you don't have to wait in heavy rain or strong winds for a bus with an uncertain arrival time.
In China, WPS has a longer history than Office. The first release of WPS, as a Chinese word processing software, was released in 1989. It wasn't until 1996 when Microsoft reached a format-sharing agreement with Kingsoft that Office entered the Chinese market. After Microsoft tolerated piracy, Office's usage surpassed WPS.
Yes. As for AWS, some of the services are not available in CN. But the APIs are the same for the services that are available.
For some MS software, you need to sign an additional agreement consenting to cross-border transfer of personal data before use. But the features are the same.
> This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China.
The two systems are fundamentally different. In the ancient Chinese tributary system, based on the principle of "厚往薄来" China's reciprocation had to exceed the value of the tribute, thereby providing tangible benefits to the tributary states. This practice even led to later restrictions on the frequency of tribute missions from certain countries
China's already selling waste incineration power plant tech to other countries. They can build their own plants to handle their waste.
In China, these power plants are part of the urban waste management system, they are built to process trash, not to generate profit. As a waste disposal measure, their capacity must exceed the city’s waste production rate; otherwise, garbage would pile up.
> But sadly it's way easier to avoid Russian services, than US services.
Yes, that's the key.
US has already rooted deeply in global economy so no one could sanction it.
And Russia is sanctioned for a very long time so it takes this dangerous move to avoid the upcoming death.
It's all about money.