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I think that the tax break the article is talking about is the fact that in the UK, if your 'main residence' is elsewhere, you only pay income tax on your UK earnings. That's diffe…

It's a straightforward way to tax people who have homes that are worth a lot of money. Not entirely the same as being rich. What if you live in one of the leafier parts of the east…

IMO, war is nowhere near as clinical as it would need to be for remote controlled tanks, helicopters and other vehicles to be effective. I've just finished reading Generation Kill …

This was my favourite Reader replacement. I suppose losing it serves me right for not donating earlier!

Problem with SNI is that you lose IE users on XP. In the UK at least, that means entire organisations with thousands of employees such as Lloyds bank and the NHS. According to our …

To be perfectly frank it was a throwaway comment - I was being facetious. I don't consider accusing someone of naivete to be particularly pejorative but if you are offended on his …

Scoble - enthusiastic about everything , always all-in, naive, friendly, innocent, perfect teeth, health obsessed self-publicist Paxman - cynical, jaded, sarcastic, hates politicia…

For those visiting London (or who live here), I highly recommend a visit to Greenwich. There are several museums, including one at the Royal Observatory, a planetarium, a brewery t…

I actually remember first using this by dialling 2580 about 10 years ago. At the time it felt truly magical.

Nottingham, United Kingdom - full time, on site See Tickets ( http://www.seetickets.com ) are a stable, profitable and technology focused online ticket retailer covering the entire…

Not to defend the indefensible, but why not make a couple of discussion points... If you have a huge application and a high staff turnover you want to minimise the amount of inform…

> well, you've been fired from the company you worked for for 5 years, but hey, at least you have fresh drinking water I'm not sure whether it's my brain, or 'me' that's saying it,…

Agreed. I love Tesla. I'm really excited by what they're doing, and have nothing but admiration for Elon Musk. However, Top Gear have made their reputation winding people up. He wa…

I haven't downvoted you, but I would hazard a guess that the reason for the downvotes as at least partially due to the combative nature of your tone. As to your point, I have no id…

Economist articles have no byline as editorial policy. Can't comment on the rest of your points.

Just wanted to add my thanks for a great product. We are a pro license holder where I work, I believe. Not sure if this was your point, but I assume that you are using a lot of MSI…

What's the point of having open, published standards if you only have one implementation? You might ask, what's the point of having more than one rendering engine implementation, b…

Difficult to disagree I must admit, but what do you think happens to their web stack in your future?

Yes I do, although in fairness my experience has been that Verisign and Thawte at least will ring the number you provide at some stage. I guess they also do a Companies House[0] lo…

I have been a paying GAFYD user for ~ two years and wasn't even aware there was an 'account PIN'! I fear for most people this simple solution may come with the benefit of hindsight…

> I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is (...) that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt I must say that this choice of words rather took me aback as wel…

In fairness, if the parent was referring to online services you are absolutely correct - Google are streets ahead with their data liberation work. Microsoft and Apple are worryingl…

The huge number of hooks that Windows provides to third party developers is both its blessing and its curse. I highly recommend Raymond Chen's blog for a (often hilarious) descript…

I've believed that building a payments platform is the road to riches for Facebook for a long time. They have such a headstart on the fraud and identity issue, and they have both t…