Correlation is not causation? People who are likely to commit domestic violence, rape, and with childhood traumas may be more drawn to the endorphin rush of pornography. That doesn't mean the porn actually causes those behaviors.

Solution: date technically inept people.

They usually smell better anyway.

Whatever happened to doing things because they're fun or cool? I don't understand...he does something that is, by all accounts, really neat, and people ask him "Why? What's the practical purpose?"

He did it for the "Can-I-really-do-this?" factor. Isn't that enough?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Noone

Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits. I must say, he's a very nice person. Whenever I talk to my friends about an issue that's important to me, they tell me "Noone cares" and "Noone likes you." He must be a very kind and outgoing person. I guess he hates beer though.

....so?

The act itself does not constitute a violation of copyright. Sure, maybe he enabled a few folks to violate copyright; however, unless he was placing copyrighted code onto their modded consoles, he only made some software and hardware modifications on boxes that had been legally purchased with the owner's consent.

Services like Tor can be used to mask the identity of a child pornographer; however, the use of a service like Tor is not equivalent to downloading or sharing child pornography until the actual crime is committed. I'm for a reasonable enforcement of copyright, but only when an actual crime is committed.

How, exactly, is it a knockoff? Powershell uses an object model for pipes rather than text, allows access to .NET classes within the shell itself, and provides an API through which you can write custom providers (i.e. browse a database, the registry, or SVN repository as if it were a filesystem). Call it what you will, but I really can't think of any existing *nix tools that come with all that gravy. When you look at their internals and the way they're designed, really, Powershell is nothing like bash (other than the fact that both are powerful, usable command shells/scripting languages).

Or maybe he's astroturfing.

Where the hell do I get an astroturfing job? My employer's paying me to sit at my desk and troll Slashdot anyway...I might as well make it official.