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Not Life After Death -- Email After Death
Rick Zeman writes "Wanna send that one last email after you're dead and gone? CNN has an article about a service that will give the 21st century equivalent to a old-fashioned note in a drawer except that this could be more targeted '...by offering people the chance to write one last e-mail, complete with video clip or photo attachments, and send it to loved ones, friends or even enemies after the person who wrote it is dead.'"
It has GOT to suck when you miss one of these because it got sent to the spam folder and deleted.
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
Who is going to guarantee that the company in question won't go belly-up before you do?
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Personally, I'd rather leave an instruction with a lawyer to send that 'last email' (if I were so inclined). This .dom is likely to pass well before I do.
Somehow I think it'd be much more touching to leave behind CDs or DVDs of video clips, audio, or whatever message is to be given to someone digitally, as the recipient can store it in The Real World as opposed to on some hotmail account somewhere. It just seems tacky to send e-mail this way. One would even be assured of having enough storage space on the medium for the contents, and not being filtered out by a broken e-mail server.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Are you going to be dictating it?
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
Dead Man's Switch
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We use our computers for almost every aspect of our lives; shouldn't they help smooth our passing as well? Dead Man's Switch can protect or pass on your data and inform key persons of your untimely demise. You can set Dead Man's Switch to perform a number of tasks if you don't log on to your computer for a specified period of time. It can send out e-mail, encrypt or delete files, and post to web sites.
Remember to reset the time allowed on the switch before you leave on vacation. You don't want to scare anybody
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description
Personally I know a number of people who dont send out worms/viruses simply becauses of the consequences, but if your dead whats going to happen to you?
Check out Dead Man's Switch. If you die, it can send out e-mails to those of concern and delete all of your hardcore porn so not as to destroy your family's last image of you.
"All art is quite useless." -- Oscar Wilde
First off, cryonics is not a scam. Period. No one has ever made a damn off of cryonics, although it is filled with libertarians who all used to think it would be quite lucrative someday. And it probably will be, although it is nowhere near that now. Instead, it has bankrupted a few people. You need to understand that cryonics companies are not nonprofits with the monies in a trust. Cryonics members are heavily involved in the operation of these companies themselves. It is quite a political thing....trust me!
As for the chances of success: yes, I think it somewhat likely that I will be revived someday in some form via some type of futuristic neuroarchaeology.
As far as I can tell, all of what humans are is in the brain, stored as some sort of information. Whatever you know or remember or think or feel, it all comes from your brain, or nearly all of it.
So, if you lose one brain cell tonight when you sleep, are you not the same person tomorrow? What if you lose 1000 cells? A million? Where is the threshold? IF you lose the memory of your first football game, as you no longer the same person?
So, if what you are as a person is stored as information, and not all of that information is needed to be the same person, can enough of that information someday be recovered through neuroarcheaology in the distant future?
Surely not tomorrow! 10 years from now? 100? 1000? 10,000 years? Once you get into the Liquid nitrogen, chemical processes for all practical purposes stop. You can last for thousands of years unchanged.
So, if the technology to recover your "information" is not available in N years, then wait K years, and try again. Increment time interval and repeat until done.
Anyway, at least it does ease the sting of death. When I breath my last, I will go knowing that there is a chance I will wake up in a future where people live thousands or even millions of years. And why not billions of years? Who knows what fate awaits the universe? We do not even yet understand what the universe really is....
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hidden cron file at your hosting company.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
It could be set up where you leave the password in your will and then a lawyer enters the password in the site and sends the emails. The "Web site" then never does have access to the emails. Just a suggestion...