AM is only used in a few areas in central Europe like Germany and France, but it's a dead end in Europe.

That search engine will be hunted down and convicted of breaking the DMCA.

That's an interesting idea, and then we can get rid of all those useless "experts-exchange" links and similar.

What I also would like to have as a feature is the ability to search also for "special" characters. Google today seems to see "+" and a lot of other characters as spacing characters, but sometimes I really want to search for "a+b" as a term.

Since I'm working in a large organization I have come to realize that the amount of documentation in many projects is huge - often so large that essential key information is masked away, or right out FUBARed.

It's also not uncommon that the customer requirements are "interpreted" by people with no technical knowledge whatsoever and they have a tendency to eradicate information that they think is "too technical", or information that they think drives unnecessary cost. Some people also have a tendency to rename things to a semantic that is to common people fuzzy. Even obfuscation occurs. At the same time documents are filled with a large number of pages listing old or discarded alternatives.

It's easier that way - no need to be concerned with rights management. You can also get performance benefits from having it as a kernel driver.

But we also see the disadvantages - security holes.

I suspect that this also influences Windows XP, and it's quite interesting that a lot of ATMs and other embedded systems still uses XP.

Just make the religious institutions choose - tax exemption or copyright on their texts. You can't have both, you have to pick one.

I think that would solve most problems.

So will it be OK to play religious music - or if a station is predominantly religious to play some pop music? Giant loophole.

Well - in other parts of the world royalties are already paid for played music, and music is still played on the radios so it won't kill radio.

Just waiting for the sandworms to show up first.