My work is still copyrighted, but I include a README file stating that people are free to redistribute my work for non-commercial purposes; anything else and they can contact me. So it's not just about downloading copyrighted work, it's about downloading copyrighted work that the distributor has not expressly permitted downloading.
It's not all about illegal downloading.
..or Vi, whatever floats your boat.
When William Gibson was disucssing Neuromancer, he mentioned that the major technology that he completely missed was...the cellphone.
On ubuntu (I've used 10.04 or later) magnet links 'just work', popping up a dialog in Firefox and opening them in transmission.
I just finished reading the book 'Artificial Life' by Steven Levy and it goes in depth about such ideas (can computer programs and virus' be considered 'alive'). A very interesting read and highly recommended.
So it seems that Slashdot has decided to remove the number of comments/threshold comments from stories on the front page. This used to be a good barometer of how popular the story was before clicking on it to go through to the comments. Now it seems that the clicks are more important than showing the popularity. This is probably a way to increase ad impressions and to even out the pageviews on the stories. We'll see if it sticks around.
And if you're scared of Haskell, try stumpwm, another tiling window manager written and configured in Common Lisp.
That's the first thing I did when I got my Nexus S. Wiped it, built Android and installed it. Then I was quite sure I had a clean phone.
We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves. -- Crazy Jimmy