Not everyone has a good internet connection. You'll also find people doing the same thing across Central America, regardless of whether there is a great firewall or not.

Why does this phone get produced but the Ubuntu Edge doesn't?

The troubles in Ireland were and still are mostly Northern Irish against Northern Irish, with the exception of a few blunders by the British Army. A vast majority of the bombings, shootings, kidnappings, robberies and beatings were carried out by gangsters from the protestant and catholic communities there. The British army were mostly there defusing bombs, disarming terrorists and keeping the two sides apart. There were a few mistakes, most notably Blood Sunday, but most of the time they were actually there to stop oppression being carried out by the IRA and various loyalist terror groups who had a stranglehold on their local communities. The police were mostly Northern Irish.

Sometimes the "Good Cops" get accused of bad stuff too... Nobody likes to be arrested or questioned and it's very easy to say the cop did this or that.

In the company I work for we track about 40 Android phones. This has been useful on a number of occasions. When people have needed assistence we have been able to send people out their exact location quickly without relying on crappy panicked directions. We're in a pretty dangerous country, so it's good to know that people know where you are. If you bhave responsibly you have nothing to worry about.

The guy is obviously lacking in basic social skills. Sadly the Ubuntu developers and forum admins are alienating themselves rather than doing anything useful for Linux.

You're planning to use an operating system with no security patches? Good luck with that.

This must be the Apple build quality that people keep telling me about.

Yes, but only retards bought them fucktards

Nearly every phone app uses Java, apart from apple dumb phones.

grumpy much?

The tree has already been cut down. All they can do is arrest the guy who is transporting the tree (low down in the business probably). All the bosses of the illegal tree fellers need to to is restructure their business a little, or probably buy a metal detector.

An obvious attempt by Murdoch inc to get people to take a side. (probably the wrong one)

I think the reporter has seen too many B movies.

They are just trying to scare people. They love making out that Fox are only trustworthy source of information. It keeps their cult-like following cult-like.