I agree to some extent, however, in reality, with credit cards offering cashback and other rewards, it works out costing me less to use a credit card than it would to use cash. I hate that Visa and MC are getting rich from this but by protesting and stopping use of my card while everyone else carries on, I end up subsidising their discounts. The only way I can see to get around this would be for everyone to protest together or for all merchants to implement credit card surcharges.

Surely this will be the year of Linux on the tablet.

The link you provided quotes £33.87 paid per gram of scrap gold. Current market rate is around £34.75 so it's not that bad at all.

No, they were thinking outside of the x box

This whole Microsoft / Secure Boot situation is outrageous, it should never be allowed to be implemented, linux distro's should not be having to get anything signed by Microsoft. Hopefully some judge someday will see sense and kill it and also force Microsoft to carry positive mentions of other OS's in their advertisements in a similar fashion as the Apple / Samsung tablet ruling.

Not the other way around as stated in the summary.

TFA mentions that the ads are only for audio calls, not video calls. So not all that intrusive. In audio calls you can minimise the skype window or have a different window in the foreground on top of it.

Good point. It makes me think that this will make congestion at the stations a lot worse with people staying on platforms longer to browse and upload photos etc.

When security measures involve trying to keep people quiet about its flaws, I think it's time to accept the security is broken! Also, this paragraph of the UK Card Associations complaint letter attempts to downplay the effectiveness of the hack, looks to me like it's just there to deter anyone considering trying it.

Yeah right!