Never mind the treatment of Bradley Manning, these punishments are tame even when you compare them to the 50 years faced by Aaron Swartz.

Ignore the above, I wasn't aware that eBay Bucks is a reward program.

In the UK at least, unless you are an eBay seller by trade the transaction would fall under capital gains rules.

That actually reads pretty well, we should pass Timothy's posts through Google Translate in future.

It's pretty trivial to spoof a MAC address, should be easy to fool users if it's a simple list of MACs and coordinates?

In the UK food served in company cafeterias is generally tax exempt, as long as the cafeteria is open to all employees. It's usually where management get their own "premium" menu that their benefit would be considered taxable.

As far as food in general, anything considered non-essential is usually subject to VAT (Value Added Tax) which is our equivalent of US Sales Tax. This leads to arguments as to what is or isn't essential, with the recent Pasty tax being a good example.

Commissions are very common in the art world.

I should have qualified that by saying that the accounting calculation of depreciation is usually very different from the tax figure.

In the UK at least no depreciation is allowable, instead capital allowances are given, sometimes a 100% deduction in the first year to encourage investment.

Not every expense is recognised by the tax authorities, the classic example being depreciation.

This does seem deductible though, unless something else complicates matters like the companies being related parties etc.

Nice try, it's either 3652 or 3653 days with leap years.

Might the costs of securing employees green cards etc. be treated as a benefit or part of the first year's salary?

The study also notes that 34% of financial analysts and 71% of lawyers hired from abroad earn over the $100,000 mark, when you consider all professions the figure is 21%.

I imagine that where the material is deemed unsavoury a John Doe approach might have better success.

If being publicly accused of downloading pornography is enough to cause embarrassment people might be more likely to settle out of court, regardless of whether they think the case has merit.

Don't be so hard on tinothy, he got 60% of the words right!

We've moved from Dell to Lenovo, all new desktops and laptops now come through them. The people using the systems haven't really noticed, so I suppose that's a good sign?

The article suggests Appcake on Cydia is a viable alternative.