Two things, if the police catch an active criminal, it stops them from committing more crimes in the future. Secondly, people are less likely to commit crimes if they think there is a good chance they will be caught.

It does support adblock. Don't know about the other things as I hardly ever use it.

If the collect payments for the service using the Chinese banking system, then the Chinese government can use their normal legal channels to get the data they want.

The GPL guarantees that you have those freedoms, public domain does not.

Vodafone certainly did, and when I sent those recordings to the Telecommunication Ombudsman, they ruled in my favour.

Public domain gives you Freedom 0 (the right to run the software), and Freedom 2 (the right to copy and distribute it), but not Freedom 1 (the right to study how the software works) or Freedom 3 (the right to modify it).

Yes it would. RMS invented the GPL because of copyright issues, and before software patents became a problem.

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If you turn off some of the animation stuff that has been added in iOS 7, it is fine.

What I find with my iPad 2 is that some websites have a lot more Javascript than they used to, and the iPad 2 isn't really fast enough to cope with them. Previously, those websites would have used flash, which didn't work at all, but generally you could still use the website without the flash plugins.

Suppose I did a search for "ReekRend", and found an article that said you had been arrested for a suspected child porn offence. That might hypothetically be true, but what that article doesn't say, because it happened a bit later, is that the police dropped all charges after they found that someone else had stolen your credit card and used it to buy child porn. You probably wouldn't want the original article appearing every time someone searched for your name.

You could also use this directive to get the source removed, but only if the publisher is based in the EU or in another country that has similar laws.

You are entitled to get incorrect information removed. That is not new and not controversial, that is why it isn't considered newsworthy.

The adverts I see on google.com are exactly the same as the adverts I see on google.co.uk. They tend to be for British companies or companies that sell to people in the UK.

The Eurostar between London and Paris / Brussels does 300km/h (186 mph), and that is a normal scheduled service. It isn't even the fastest scheduled service in France.