"We use locks on our doors to keep criminals out not because they are perfect, but because they are both convenient and effective enough to meet most traditional threats."

There is a third reason that such locks are practical, and it is something that cannot be satisfied by any kind of biometric authentication.

Failure of the security system provided by locks, however infrequent, can still be mitigated enough to carry on with no less effectiveness to meet security threats in the future as you had before the failure. IE, you can go ahread and change a lock

Only if that included industrialized nations, which are the greatest contributors. The continent of Africa contains something like 70% of the least industrialized nations in the world. If half the population of Africa were wiped out, it would be unlikely to make any statistically significant difference to global warming.

There's nothing wrong with pay services in general... but I'd argue that there's also nothing wrong with certain services also being paid for entirely by the general population's tax dollars. Would you really want to have to pay the police to find your stolen car or arrest somebody who assaulted you, for instance? Or do you think police work for free?

Would you care to explain the logic behind that kind of conclusion? Or were you just overcome with some sort of compulsion to say something completely random, with no logical basis at all?

Part of my gross income goes to it, but any difference between that and my net income is money that never comes ino my possession in the first place, so while it may be part of my gross income, it never feels like part of my actual income, and anything paid for by the difference, when I am not having to shell out money that I've actually brought home, is basically free.

There's no such thing as free school or free health care. Someone is paying for it.

Yeah.... it's called taxes... and it feels free because you usually don't even see the money in the first place.

Ask Canadian TV broadcasters that question, who insist on verifying that you are a Canadian cable TV subscriber before they will let you watch their shows online. I suspect that Netflix may be expected to adopt the same behavior, or else not be permitted to show TV shows in Canada which may also happen to be aired on a Canadian network, regardless of where the show was made.

The CRTC had no jurisdiction over video rental stores because you couldn't go into a video store and legally rent a copy of yesterday's episode of a TV show.

Netflix could also resolve this by simply not serving any tv shows to Canada.... or perhaps being more fine grained, only serve tv shows to subsribers who have verified they have a Canadian cable tv subscription, much like how Canadiian broadcaster websites currently do.

Certainly your solution would work, but there are far less drastic solutions, albeit ones that may pose greater technical challenges to implement.

A lot of people died just trying to cross the Atlantic ocean for the first time... and that's in an environment that is actually hospitable to life.

I suspect that making the months-long trip to mars to be just as fatal for many before we succeed.

It is generally the case up here that in order to watch many shows online, you generally have to verify that you have a cable subscription, This is often done through a sort of google+-ish login on each individual broadcaster's website that verifies your cable account with the cable provider that you claim to use.

Now this isn't true for all shows, but certainly true for many... and by my own observation, seems to be particularly applicable for shows that happen to be US-made, and where (obviously) a local broadcaster has paid for the rights to air that program in Canada.

I suspect that if Netflix required such verification, they would not likely be having this problem. It would also not be a problem if the person was watching something that was not a show being aired on a Canadian network (eg, a movie, or else an old tv show that is no longer on the air).

That makes sense... but with tenure can the reason for dismissal be as flimsy as "I saw some bad stuff about you on the Internet"?

"I don't like you anymore" and "I want to hire somebody else to do the job you have been doing, but who will accept less money for it" are reasons too.... but I don't think they are acceptable reasons to dismiss someone from a tenured position.

Yeah, but this isn't just an ordinary NDA.... it's one with the FBI.

My point being that for something like this, you wouldn't necessarily have any way to know who broke the NDA if it happened to get violated.

Who goes to jail? Everyone who signed the NDA?

Things I'd put such an rfid on include my phone (when its run out of power and I can't just call it), my car keys, the remote control, my reading glasses (as long as it's small enough to unobtrusively attach to the temple part of the glasses frame), and my cat.