Dead Mans Switch

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Munkey-

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I was just reading about some chap who had installed a dead mans switch for his website that basicly runs so that if time=$something is passed it will send out a few emails and attempts to update his website to alert the general public of his untimley demise, as he dubbed it the "hit by a bus" syndrome".


So basicly what if you died tomorrow? What would be the most important thing you could say should that ever happen? All the things you left unsaid towards friends and enemys alike, or perhaps instructions to people concerning what should be done with your items (techno version of a will :p )

Personally I would make a vow to return as a ghost and annoy people even when I'm dead whilst donating all my stuff to my fiends. The siamese warrior paperweight, my music stands, music, pens etc. each with a little note detailing exactly why they got it.
 
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Testin da Cable

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hmm. I somehow get the idea that my friends will notice I've died before someone reads it on my webby
 
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Munkey-

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exactly. are we perhaps becoming a bit too cyber obsessive within todays society
 
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Testin da Cable

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perhaps so. still, it is so that people in cyberspace have a tendancy to 'disappear'. I can imagine that were something to happen to me, I'd like my online friends to know about it.
 
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~Lazarus~

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Personally, I would like to go round work and slap all the assholes I've had to work with upside the head.
 
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]SK[

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Always thought what happens to online friends if I was to pop my clogs. Theres someone who helps with the BWTFCL but seems to have gone AWOL and never been or heard from since. Makes you worried when these kind of things happen.
 
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Sir Frizz

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The only way we would know of someones *cough*death*cough* is if one of their friends come's on here and tells everyone about it. But that's probably unlikely seeing as though they would consider it disrespectful gossiping about someone's death...or maybe that's just me.
 
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caLLous

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Originally posted by Munkey-
exactly. are we perhaps becoming a bit too cyber obsessive within todays society
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You tell me, you started this thread.
 
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Wij

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Trebz will shut down the forum for the day I assume :)
 
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Summo

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Maybe an hour.

This evening I shall ask my brother to set up an account on here and tell you all, in the event of my death.

You may then grieve in any way you see fit.




/edit: Buy Nestle Double Cream chocolate bar! It rocks!
 
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caLLous

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Originally posted by Summo
/edit: Buy Nestle Double Cream chocolate bar! It rocks!
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Was that just a sidenote or is it how you wish us to celebrate your life? :D
 
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caLLous

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Lucrative, I should imagine. :)

"A lif...deathtime supply of chocolate!"
 
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Wij

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Woot. I know some people who work at Nestle. In their corporate interest they may wish to kill you. I'll send them your address.
 
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dysfunction

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You are not able to worry about who knows that you are dead. You are dead and thats it. You can worry about it while you are alive but it doesnt matter one iota once you are dead.

All that really matters is that you make sure your family are well taken care of.
 
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Shocko

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All that matters is that i'm prewarned of my death so i may go bunjee jumping somewhere good before i die :) Somewhere good means off a bridge into a canyon or something. IE, not off some shit crane in the middle of a field ;)
 
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Miles_Binck

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death holds no fear for me.

I embrace it with open arms
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Munkey-

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i think we are starting too a tad too much. After noticing the invention of the fridges taht automatcially order you food I'm beginning to feel that perhaps humanity is becoming far too lazy for its own good. With this dead mans switch it tells our online friends/fiends about our untimley demise. but is that really neccesary? the switch could accidently go off by the users forgetting to reset the counter or perhaps a glitch within the programming which could lead to rather unneccesary actions on behalf of the people who read the message that the user had decided to leave behind. Indeed, I remember a case on the kingpin forums where somebody set up two accounts. one massquerading to be himself, the other to be his sister. After a while of posting on both accounts. He suddenly announced on his own account that his sister had recently been hit by a car and had passed away recently at his local hospital.
needless to say this caused a bit of conscertation amongs the users of the forums who expressed their condolencses and enquired about if they could attend the funeral and set-up a collection in support of her memory. Indeed, they began to get suspcious when no reply was forthcoming and a user noticed that both accounts used the same I.P. addy. After a bit of snooping he discovered that there was no existance of the sister and that no record of an accident of that kind had been reported at the hospital.

we sometimes have to wonder how far it will go before we decide enough is enough and put a stop to intergrating the real world with the cyber world.
 
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Miles_Binck

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Originally posted by ItchyTrigaFinga
Bloody goths...;)
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im afraid that is an incorrect assumption.

I am a devout atheist (a huge oxymoron)

i am more afraid of the word oblongata than of dying
 
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Will

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Only teasing. I was a goth once upon a time myself. It's something that you can never shake, though it does slowly fade in the wash.
 
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wolfeeh

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hmmmm

thing is though, many of us do have online friends we would like to know where we went...

u mention that guy masquerading as two people on forums and stuff, and people were sympathetic when his sister "died"...

but in my old cs clan, someone actually put a suicide note on their webby and went to gas themselves in their car.... someone called the cops and they got to him in time.... true story.

anyway, this nestle choccy shit? what's so special about it? any cop compared to say lindt, dolfin, lir, ducdo or suchards?
 
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