DBlume says Jan 15, 2010 04:33PM The TWiT crew loved it. Do any of you have Dead man's switches for your online personas / accounts?
DBlume says Jan 15, 2010 04:34PM You know I've got the code, just haven't worked out behavior and failsafes yet. Dead man's switch for the daemon's server, too, you know.
thatkidwho says Jan 15, 2010 06:09PM I was just looking into that book too, well actually I've been looking at for a while now. It always catches my eye when I'm in the book
thatkidwho Jan 15, 2010 06:11PM and i really do like the idea of a Dead man's switch but trigger it might be difficult cause you know... your dead. Unless I always wore
thatkidwho Jan 15, 2010 06:12PM some kind of pulse or heart monitor which I think Garmin could provide but now we need a way transmit the signal to the interwebz.
DBlume says Jan 15, 2010 10:03PM Doesn't have to be so quick to respond. Have it watch your lifestream, credit card history, and monitor local death notices.
DBlume says Jan 15, 2010 10:04PM First thing it'll do is broadcast to all your social networks something like, thatkidwho hasn't been around. Is he OK?
DBlume says Jan 15, 2010 10:05PM Heh, you can already tell how I'm designing mine. I'm writing mine to let my online friends know that I may need help or worse.
sjonsvenson says Jan 15, 2010 10:24PM I had one and turned it off. When I had my accident it almost triggered a "Sjon died" message.
DBlume says Jan 15, 2010 10:40PM Yeah, this takes some thought. Can you tell me more about the changes you'd make if you turned yours back on?
sjonsvenson says Jan 15, 2010 10:57PM It was a kind of timer-job on my old OS/2 system. I didn't turn it on again. It was part of the old IBM antivirus suite designed to dial in
sjonsvenson says Jan 15, 2010 10:59PM to IBM for updates but you could attach messages to the dial-out event.
