One hand taketh, another hand giveth.
http://www.bart.gov/developers/
It appears that BART has said to the scrapers; "Here is the data you need in raw form along with some suggested tools you can integrate our schedules into your applications."
On the whole, it looks like BART has embraced these applications rather than raise a stink on them.

You are probably looking for the electromechanical tele-printers ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#Teletype for one example. )

These devices used a keyboard (if present) for input and the output was mechanically printed onto roll-fed paper. Usually they were used on-line to either a computer (or computerized piece of manufacturing equipment) or in "local mode".

When in "local mode" these machines would often include a (paper) tape reader and tape punch. Often the resultant punch tape was hand carried and fed into another piece of computerized hardware.

Perhaps this university should offer some pro-bono legal representation to gonorthwest.com

I Can just see how absurd the argument when the tile page of the lawsuits read:
 

Northwest Airlines: Plantiff
Dorsey & Whitney LLP: Attorney for Plaintiff

gonorthwest.com: Defendant
Northwestern University - School of Law: Attorney for Defendant
Black, Lowe, and Graham: Attorney for Defendant

I like your thinking, but I prefer the L21-30 to insure that the wiring from breaker box to outlet is of sufficiently large capacity. The device (or PDU) is free to establish its own current limits.
 
For the breakout PDUs, having this excess headroom is handy for when the power factor of the devices is not unity (covering startup surge of devices.)

I second this motion.

He has the gumption to challenge security by (proprietary) obscurity.

With his hands-on experience with DARPA, he knows how it is broken and what needs fixing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt#DARPA_funding_cancellation

My favorite (and "humane" way of killing these California spiny lobsters is to drown 'em in a bucket of fresh water.)

Two things happen:

1) As the lobster consumes the remaining oxygen from the water, it gently suffocates as it encounters hypoxia but since it is in its "natural" environment, it doesn't know that it is doomed. (This is very similar to how a human reacts when breathing 100% nitrogen, O2 levels deplete but the CO2 levels are "normal" so there is no 'alarming urge to breathe', it's just simply 'lights out'.)

2) Thanks to osmosis (the absorption of excess water into its cells, the tail of the "bloated" lobster expands and gently "pops out" to give easy access removing the tail and pre-shelling the lobster for culinary preparation on the BBQ grill.

After doing this, (10 minutes tops) be sure to prepare the lobster for cooking or storage as they can quickly spoil when they are dead.

Currently we have 116 channels of mind-numbing NTSC channels.

After the switchover we will have several hundred more mind-numbing ATSC channels.

For the cable companies, this means that they will have more (apparent) capacity on their head-end equipment. Unfortunately they have decided it is more important to hand out executive bonuses rather than do the inevitable infrastructure upgrades necessary for the public to notice a difference in digital quality. (The cable companies have the luxury to choose when the switchover happens for their customers that are using the cable box or non-ATSC television (tuner). The rest of the CATV audience with an analog CATV ready TV can be allocated a smaller and smaller analog channel lineup to persuade them to either get a cable box or a new TV.)

For the OTA audience, let them visit the "TV repair shops" for an expensive lesson in Digital Broadcast Transmission.