It is the difference between being controlled by a single all persuasive religion where people fear to step out-of-line in Pakistan and a multi-faith community like india where people have the freedom to think for themselves and choose any religion they want.

How can you seriously conduct business on a Cell phone ? The quality is awful, h_lf t__ time you o_ly get half the sent__e and have to either guess what was said or ask people to repeat themselves. Having a clear line is much more comfortable when using the phone all day and gives a much better impression. If I get a call from a company using a poor quality mobile I think to myself are they so cheap that they can't afford a proper phone ?

This is kind of missing the point that Chocolate is supposed to melt at body temperature, it is this feature of Chocolate that makes it unique.

And there you have it, tax benefits should only be given to organisations that benefit others, so genuine charities like the red cross that help others and don't act a social club for its members are deserving of tax incentives.

There are plenty of non-religious charitable groups helping the community without the obligatory preaching that goes with it. Churches are out to gain members and what better way to do that than to target vulnerable people with their marketing message in a time of need. It is no different to how any business works in identifying a target group and promoting themselves. This blatant self promotion should not be given tax privileges. This is not to say that the individual people who volunteer to help with these things have anything but a desire to help people in need, the church on the other hand knows full well what they are doing.

How about withdrawing tax benefits given to religious groups and instead tax Churches like any other business and use the money to fund tax breaks for science. As far as I can see science has done many things to make our lives better in recent years where as religion has just stood in the way of the progress of science.

WRONG, A trademark is registered in a classification, other people can register the same term in different categories. So you may register 'codfather' as fish restaurant, but someone else can register that same term as movie character or as fishing vacation organizer.

The security part of this idea is dead before it was even thought of, how do you verify a UK address, oh send a letter in the post. Urrmm, never heard of mail forwarding services ? So lets make it more difficult for genuine people when letters go missing in the mail but make it blindingly easy for someone to abuse the system.

So now the general public will have a false sense of security with sites labeled as secure just because they have been scanned for 'known' malware. And what happens when their scanning technology generates false positives, who is going to take responsibility for lost business and reputation from having your site flagged as a security risk to visitors ? It is not nominets place to police the internet.

It does not matter if you are located in the UK or not, we live in a global economy and many corporations operate in many countries without a physical presence in that country, having a site customised for each region. What is important is protecting the domain system from cybersquatter's and domain hoarders that mess up the domain system for genuine users. The increased price is welcome as it goes some way towards making the domain prospecting business model unsustainable. But it needs to go further making it harder for cybersquatter's to register names that are trademarked.

An interesting idea but surely this is kind of backwards ? During busy times there are lots of vehicles on the road with their lights on so it is easy to see other road users and it is less likely that you will find unexpected obstacles in the road such as animals and people straying into the road. However during quiet times only your lights are illuminating the road and you are far more likely to encounter unseen obstacles.

Yes that one is really stupid, can you not see the L in solder ? Sodder sounds like something gay men should be doing.

Simple, copyright the keys and deny permission for any MAFIAA employe to use or share the keys. Then any attempt by them to start a legal case would require them to admit to having infringed the key copyright in order to obtain their information.

Surely God will have the answer not a bunch of heathen nerds on slashdot ? Perhaps you need to pray harder for the answer.

Well in the UK at least there are no charges for medical treatment and people who are retired or unemployed get free drugs where as the rest pay a flat fee for a prescription that could be $1000's worth of drugs for the equivalent of $10.

Arrgh, what is it with slashdot posters, there is no such thing as Logo's, just like you don't say multiple USB's, you say multiple USB Ports. Lego is the brand name for the construction system and the components are called bricks or components, so the correct way to say this would be 'multiple Lego bricks' or 'multiple Lego components'.

Apple have for a long time now been heading down the mass market road, professional tools where people use a computer for serious work with complex applications is not what Apple is interested in any more. Such markets require a lot of investment to provide features for a relatively small market, many of the features missing from final cut pro X for example are probably only really used by a few thousand serious professionals worldwide. Apple has clearly decided that selling to a wider audience is more profitable. The more mass market tools they can get on their platforms the more hardware they will sell. So if Final Cut X is seen as an almost professional video editing system for a cheap price they could sell a million more macs, where as the perfect pro suite might net them a few thousand top end systems. A million more consumer level mac sales are far more valuable to them as their economies of scale go up, they can push the component prices down and make higher profits on every mac sold. OSX Lion has been dumbing down with features like versions and local snapshots that can't be turned off, I have stayed with snow leopard because Lion spends to much time trying to force me to do something its way rather then letting me choose how I want to work. Finally Apple stumbled across the app store model after the release of the iPhone, consumers pushed to install their own apps on the device and Apple reluctantly created the walled garden that requires you to pay to play and takes a cut from every app sold. What use is selling 1000 copies of Autocad via the app store even with a $300 commission when you can push out 5 million copies of some silly game that will get forgotten about in 6 months time and the next craze comes along and sells another 5 million copies. Apple is all about increasing market share, get as much hardware out here as possible to fuel the app store model and get as many mass market titles in the app store as they can to further extend the captive market for even more apps from the app store.

Apart from their core search Google are beginning to loose face, far to many projects started and thrown out. Who is going to invest time and effort using a google service when there is a good chance that it is going to be pulled? Unlike software installed on a computer you are forced to migrate when google decides to shut things down. It's not as though you can just carry on using the service until it no longer meets your needs. Not just a google problem but a wider problem for the whole software as a service concept.