It does stuff. With dollar signs. I get dollars from it. Your fragile ego gets a wee boost. Win, win, win.

I generally avoid doing stuff like that on mission-critical (e.g. L4D) systems. Usually if there's much doubt or risk I'll test it out in a VM first.

Installing node.js (I think) the other day on a Pi and I curl'd a script to do all the installing. Didn't even look at the script first. Figured it'd be OK, cos after all I haven't even changed the default user/pass on the pi yet  :-O~~~  :-O~~~  :-O~~~  T_T