My thoughts exactly.

Right, sure, uh huh.

My thoughts exactly too bad this story is more unbelievable than others.

banking?

Too bad this is unlikely.

With the influx of web cams it does seem reasonable to have the ability to control my web browsing with facial expressions.

LOL

Could it possibly be that FOX does want to kill the shows?

I cite StarTrek Enterprise as my example. I was a loyal follower while the show was on in the middle of the week, but when it went to Friday I had to resort to the old VCR trick to watch, and it was only shortly after moving it to the Friday nights that OMG they terminated the show.

Now did they take into consideration the save the show efforts of the StarTrek fans? Maybe, but ultimately the studio did not want the show on the air any longer regardless of what the fans thought.

Ah yes the 80's to early/mid 90's for me. The local computer monthly papers would have a BBS list that listed all the local dial BBSes.

I used to dial around and enjoy all the good freeware, shareware, live chats, message boards and door games.

I was a Sysop for about 7 years running my own 'Local BBS'. But it never occurred to me to not allow long distance callers to access my BBS. Heck that is what made running a BBS so much fun, was when people would actually call from GOD knows where and actually be active on your 'Local BBS'. Why would I want to discourage someone from using my BBS? Why would I punish him or her for spending their own money to call my BBS on their dime?

Now the real point. What if the person is an ex-patriot? Also known as someone who had lived locally for most of their life, but circumstances have had them move away. What about the people in your country's military who are using your site from abroad, are you going to block them because their IP is 'out of scope'?

Blocking by any method other than actually having to register and get approved for an account, is just plain crazy. Your potential users should be given a chance to explain the need to access your service. What if the so called non-local visitor is going to be exactly that? Visiting your town, city, state/provence? They may need to know about these locally relevant services. Maybe they are thinking about moving to your 'locale' and your site is what seals the deal for them!

My parting thoughts:
1) As an avid BBS user, I loved looking up so called 'Local BBS' numbers in other cities. This broadened the access I had to new sources of freeware and shareware. It even often gave access to BBS door games that no one in town had yet. Also it allowed me to communicate with friends who had moved away, prior to both of us getting on the internet.

2) You failed to explain the nature of your 'locals only please' service.

It's not just the poor Windows users that should be infected with viruses. Viruses should infect Mac OS and Linux and other operating systems so that their users get to have infected operating systems too.

One caveat though, is that any of the Encyclopedia Britannica links you click on cause the pop-up to occur on the next page loaded. So repeating the 'Save Page As' process is necessary. Inconvenient but workable.

So I don't think until this day I actually used any Encyclopedia Britannica content from the Google search results. Any website that requires a subscription for content should not complain that Google doesn't link to their site enough.

Interesting thing though, while I looked up a couple of terms of interest on Encyclopedia Britannica (specifically 'astronaut' and 'space shuttle'), there was a pop-up every so often telling me I was viewing premium content and to get full access (no annoying pop-up) I should try their free trial of the premium service. I could just click the x and close that pop-up for another 20-30 seconds. What I liked most was when I told Firefox to 'Save Page As' and saved the page then opened it from the downloads window, that annoying pop-up no longer plagued me while I continued to read the full article.

So is it just me or does this seem to be the equivalent of smoking on the battle field? You know like from in the movies, a soldier lights up a cigarette giving away their position and likely getting shot in the process. Now instead you get your rifle mounted iPod to shine it's back lighting on your face / body to do the same. Seems this wasn't quite thought through.

Cool rifle accessory though.

In my place of work we have some labor board variances that allowed me to work flexible hours. A couple of years back I was working 4 days per week at 10hours per day excluding lunch break. This allowed me to have every Friday off. During the summer months, I was able to head out to go camping a full day earlier than most and get prime camping spots.

I would rather go back to the 4 day week even now. So given an option to cram 80 work hours into less days in a two week period, I would jump at the idea given 10 hour days, if the solution was more than 10 hours per day I would still entertain the idea because of the extra full days off that would occur.