I was just reading about that today. Since issuing loans with fractional reserve is more or less a zero-cost for the bank (apart from a minor admin overhead unrelated to the size of the loan), interest isn't really deserved. So what would happen if interest wasn't payable on loans with no reserve behind them, or perhaps fractionally according to the fraction of reserve? Obviously it would make the loans far less attractive to the banks, but would it also undermine the markets built on the virtual money printing operation they represent (which isn't much to do with the interest)?

Please don't post links to sys-con - they probably stole the content.

Dual G4/867. I've not tried Camino on my old iMac G3/400, but 10.4.5/Safari works just great on there. It's true that Safari did get a lot faster in more recent versions, but I think the biggest speed improvements did also appear in 1.3. For rough timings, the digg.com home page loads in about 2 sec for me in Safari, vs about 6 in Camino. You should try the Schubert IT PDF plugin on 10.3. The built-in version in 10.4/2.0 is the same as in preview anyway, though I do use the Adobe one for slightly better compatibility. Either way, it's trivial to configure PDFs to load in an external helper.