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
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.
The job of the press is to report.
Why do people assume Wikipedia should be held to the same standards as a journalistic publication? Wikipedia is not meant to be a newspaper, and its editors are not members of the press.
"Little else matters than to write good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer