Another fun indexing "feature" I experienced is uTorrent would stop downloading files at about 2-5% and complain that the files were in use by another application. When I turned off the indexing service this went away.

What about cutting out the hydraulic middle man and just have a coil of wire on the shock moving through a magnetic field?

DRM is there to stop casual piracy. Everyone knows that everything can be cracked. The software companies only hope to stop those not savvy enough to know what a .torrent is.

You certainly can activate your DSL over the phone, I know because the installer crashed half the time in Windows, and I had to call Verizon to activate. (I've done 100's of DSL installs)