Spoken like a person who has little practical experience with CONSUMER GRADE small gas engines. Most of these generators have extremely poor oil control, and aren't designed with such long continuous operation in mind. After these gennies have clocked a couple hundred hours, they WILL burn oil, and quite a bit of it. Read your owners manual, and it will probably warn you to check the oil every few hours of operation - this isn't just CYA put in by the lawyers, it's because it will begin burning oil very early in its lifespan.

The little 2 stroke generators, you never have to check the oil on. Premix, and you never have to worry about oil levels.

The biggest problem, beyond attempting to power everyone else who is on the same gang of transformers, is that when the power comes back on, it will be out of phase with your generator.

Because your generator's governor is nowhere near precise enough to hold a steady 60hz, even if you're lucky enough to be in phase the instant it switches back on, you're almost guaranteed to be 180 degrees out of phase in seconds.

Hilarity ensues.

Typically this is done via a vulnerable webapp, rather than an exploit of the underlying webserver.

Old versions of various blogging programs are particularly vulnerable - old Greymatter and MovableType versions come to mind immediately. But I imagine there are many other, smaller, niche products that are just as vulnerable but don't get the same kind of attention, so exploits can fly under the radar.

IE does NOT completely stop driveby downloads yet. Holes that allow them are being patched regularly, but they are by no means dead. Most of the zero-day exploits found in the wild these days are driveby type holes - all a user has to do is browse a legitimate website with a sketchy ad network, or better yet, a legitimate website that's been compromised to include a hidden iframe. Something is installed silently, typically avoiding UAC through a privilege escalation exploit. Not that anyone has UAC turned on, anyway. And most home machines are so sloppily patched that exploits from 2 months ago will still work. Assuming the autoupdater isn't still stuck prompting the user for SP1, in which case... they're already hosed.

Honda, however, used a ridiculously small number of key cuts through the late 90's.

I had a '94 Acura Integra, which had those wonderful Honda locks. When it was totaled, I bought another Integra (a '96). My old keys were a perfect match for the new car, and also for my roommate's Accord, and with a little jiggling would work on the Prelude that replaced it. That Prelude is broken into nearly every night - not even a case of motor oil is safe in the trunk.

lolno. In soviet 4chan, /b/ trolls you.

Here in Washington State, automated tickets don't go on your driving record at all.

Of course, we don't have speeding cameras here yet, only red-light cameras.

Well, there's three reasons I can see.

This company probably didn't have an international calling plan of any sort, so they were stuck paying whatever obscene rate the local phone company charges for international calls, a la carte.

Also, the phreakers probably had multiple lines in action at any given time, so it wouldn't have taken too terribly long to rack up a large number of minutes.

Lastly, HUB probably didn't notice that anything was going on, until they got the paper bill in the postal mail. With a monthly billing cycle, plus an extra two or three weeks to receive the bill after the end of the cycle (and then a few weeks past that for the accounts payable clerk to bring it to the attention of the owner), I can imagine that this slipped by unnoticed for a long time.

I am good at my job. However, I am not a good bargainer. I am not a good negotiator. I am not good at groveling and begging my boss for a raise/better benefits/better hours.

I would much rather pay union dues to have someone else bargain for me, someone who is good at that sort of thing.

Actually, back in those days, it would be trivial to split the video signal coming out of the VCR and run cables across the house to the second TV(or lazier/cheaper yet, use the RF output for 1 tv, and the composite output for the second TV). I know many people who did just this to avoid buying a second VCR, back when they were still expensive enough for it to matter. The major difficulty was that you couldn't control the VCR from the other room, but the FBI warning and previews gave you plenty of time to press play and walk across the house, get some popcorn, etc.

Now, with modern consumer electronics, it is equally trivially possible to copy your entire movie library onto some networked storage, and play them back from a device anywhere on the network, thus only needing 1 Bluray drive for the house. The only thing in the way are the artificial limitations imposed by DRM.

I guess my point is that how we view these things has not truly changed. There is no "changed mindset that came with going digital"; what can be trivially done with inexpensive consumer electronics is all that has changed.