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Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors?
smee2 writes "In the past, when a family member died, you could look through their files and address books to find all the people and businesses that should be notified that the person is deceased. Now the hard-copy address book is becoming a thing of the past. I keep some contact information in a spreadsheet, but I have many online friends that I only have contact with through web sites such as Flickr. My email accounts have many more people listed than my address book spreadsheet. I have no interest in collecting real world info from all my online contacts. The sites where I have social contact with people from around the world (obviously) require user names and passwords. Two questions: 1. How do you intend to let the executors of your estate or family members know which online sites/people you'd like them to notify of your demise? 2. How are you going to give access to the passwords, etc. needed to access those sites in a way that doesn't cause a security concern while you're still alive?"
I've notified all of my Myspace friends that if they don't hear from me for a 48 hour period, it is likely that I am dead and they should just assume that is the case.
I don't plan on leaving any survivors. I plan on taking everyone out in one fell swoop.
It will be like an Easter Egg chase only everyone will be sad and miserable...
Redundant much?
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Kill yourself in such a spectacular fashion that it will make the rounds on the net. Then anyone you would have wanted to inform about your demise would see the video, say "Oh, that's so you," and thus be informed.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Hi everyone. This is CmdrTaco's mom. I found him in the basement all dead. He said I should post it here.
By the way, what is this 'Goatse' thing I see referenced all over Taco's computer? Should I open it?
He's lucky. My dad left me a smirky painting in the Louvre and a series of clues in ancient Parisian churches that I had to hunt down.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Okay, so here's what you do. You keep a padded, heat-resistant safe in an upstairs room of the house. Mount wheels on it, and place it on an inclined track, facing toward a pre-scored section of thinner wall. Rest it against a swing gate or chock held shut by a locking device made of lead. If your house starts on fire, the heat will melt the lead, the gate will open, and the safe will roll down the incline, bursting through the wall and landing safely in the yard, outside the major heat zone.
Of course, you have the problem of your house becoming a flaming safe-launcher as well as being on fire... I'm sure that can all be worked out in the implementation.
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
And apparently the "Post Anonymously" checkbox doesn't work....
Did you try "Posthumously"?
Tyranny isn't the worst enemy of a democracy. Cynicism is.
my kids can find their own damned pr0n
Facebook should introduce a "Dead" status.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"