The word chav is believed to have been used as far back as the 1860's...long before council housing was even a thing.

You still have the lock screen, it's just not pin/swipe protected. You'd have to be doing some serious moves to swipe the lock screen away while it's in your pocket

I don't know about in Pakistan, but when I was working in India is was virtually impossible for me to get a local sim working, even having a letter of authority from my employer which I faxed to the mobile operator. The market is completely different to how it works in the West. I'm sure however that as a non-local I was unaware of all the loopholes, and as usual these rules only make things harder for people that actually try and follow the law.

How did you manage to get so many things wrong in one sentence?

Maybe he (she?) doesn't have an account.

But he (she?) definitely doesn't know anything about depression if that's truly what (s)he thinks.

A bit like you posting this as AC

Am I the only person who read that as "encapsulated in rice"?

The developer of AWN actually works for Canonical in "Desktop Experience" http://njpatel.blogspot.com/

There are always some reports of disturbances in Cardiff

LiveCD?

If by "we'll ship it when it's ready" you mean, "we'll ship something immediately and keep it in beta for 5 years" then yes, I agree

...of an article about privacy that requires you to register to read it

A bit like Skype https://extras.skype.com/577/view