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I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I look forward to the testing procedure. "Hurrah, I'm a programming god! All my useful but incriminating files are irretrievably deleted!" . . . . "Oh, wait..." Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww). If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), or need cotract work done, give me a job! http://cv.imcsoft.co.uk/[^]
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
What an utterly meaningless statistic. No surprise it came from the US CIA. Fits in nicely with the stereotype image of Americans having no notion of anything outside their own borders. So just to clarify, the 'world' (that bit on the globe to either side of the USA) consists of seperate places called 'countries' They each have different climates, cultures and birth/death rates. To simply lump the rates for different countries together into one statistic is totally stupid.
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I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Don't forget to post it back in CP for other CP iet's Reference as a 'Must Have'. :)
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I died and no one noticed here. :((
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
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I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed.
Sounds like an article to me ;)
Simon
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
If you die and no one notices, does that mean you're not really dead? If that's the case, I'll live forever. :cool:
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You cannot break statistics down like that. I, for example, have a 99% chance of NOT making 40. And, to make things worse, I have less than 50% chance of making it another year, thanks to the big C. I am already cheating the big fellow with the scythe. Think about it: for males, from (for example) 16 to 25, it probably is more like ~15 / 1000. The same is true as we get older. So, most people here are in the prime of their life. I'd say: more like 5 / 1000 here. Or even less. However, if I don't show up for a few months, you're invited to ask for my current state.
You mean that I'm the only old fart on here?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Roger Wright wrote:
Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed.
Sounds like an article to me ;)
Simon
Perhaps posting the article on how to make said scripts should be part of the script.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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I have a service on my development machine that pings my brain once a minute. If five minutes goes by without a response, it e-mails the cafeteria with a coffee order. If my brain fails to reply within an hour, I'm automatically declared dead and the GC thread runs.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
the GCCG thread runs
FTFY. I assume that thread attempts to automatically post on the forums until you've outdone even Chris.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
You'd have to account for expected/unexpected deaths. After all, if you know your death is looming, you might just make a post about it to say farewell (now I'd like to see a few of those from the archive). Then again, if you are expecting to die, I doubt many individuals are tied close enough to CodeProject that posting a farewell would be at the top of their list of last things to do.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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I look forward to the testing procedure. "Hurrah, I'm a programming god! All my useful but incriminating files are irretrievably deleted!" . . . . "Oh, wait..." Iain.
I have now moved to Sweden for love (awwww). If you're in Scandinavia and want an MVP on the payroll (or happy with a remote worker), or need cotract work done, give me a job! http://cv.imcsoft.co.uk/[^]
Sorry, I do not have a job for you but I do have a question. I have a master’s degree in CS but my BS is in economics and I am fascinated with that topic more or less as a hobby. I am an advocate of free markets and free trade and have had many debates with liberals / socialists that hold up Sweden as a socialist panacea where all is wonderful. I find it difficult to believe since my philosophy does not support this possibility. Can you give me any of your insights to either support or disprove my thesis? Thanks, Don
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You haven't noticed that I died 2 years ago have you?
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
If I was dead I wouldn't be alive to care if anyone noticed I'm dead.
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I used to have a program installed called DeadManSwitch which, if I failed to click on it once in a while, would execute a script to carry out my last wishes. It was quite a good program for its day, but I deleted it after a while. I wrote the script to print out my accounts and passwords for various banking accounts to a file for my executor to read, delete things I felt were too private to share, and of course, post a farewell to my friends at CodeProject. It was a very capable program! But I'm glad to be rid of it - just too dangerous! If I'd had it running when I went to the hospital 18 months ago, it would have fired while they unexpectedly kept me there for 5 days. I would have returned to a life in shambles. Now I have a printed list of key usernames and passwords kept in my safe. The combination to the safe is in a file of old warrantees - I don't remember it. There is a letter to my executor in the desk drawer that someone will find and give to her, and it tells her to look in the warranty file. With the passwords in the safe, she can log into the computers here, and her logon will display all my financial info to distract her while the really private stuff is being deleted. Especially the stuff about her... Unfortunately, the above is what I'm creating - the scripts don't work quite right yet. Hopefully I'll last long enough to finish them before they're needed. The rest of the process is in place, though. One day...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Sorry, I do not have a job for you but I do have a question. I have a master’s degree in CS but my BS is in economics and I am fascinated with that topic more or less as a hobby. I am an advocate of free markets and free trade and have had many debates with liberals / socialists that hold up Sweden as a socialist panacea where all is wonderful. I find it difficult to believe since my philosophy does not support this possibility. Can you give me any of your insights to either support or disprove my thesis? Thanks, Don
Well, I've not been here all that long, and my work has been for companies outside Sweden (the wonders of phone roaming, and email), so I'm not fully qualified to comment. I think the days of "socialist paradise" are past though, if they every fully existed. If they did, it was for a (historically brief) period in the 50s to 80s. I've spent some time up in the north, and you read a lot about employee exploitation, people being paid in whisky, etc. So 100 years ago was hardly a paradise. I don't know about the previous government (I've only been here a few months), but the current one seems pretty receptive to the needs of business, without bending over backwards to prop up dead ducks unlike some countries (cough, they begin with U) that I could mention. On a selfish perspective, I think it's easier here to make a solo business go. Whether that's true when you start adding employees, I doubt. I understand the Engineer's union have managed to outlaw trial periods for new employees. If you manage to get employed, that's great news for the individual. But I think that makes any individual much less likely to be hired. The consequences of a mistake for the employer are greater, so they're going to be less likely to take a chance on someone. I would, in their position. I hear about other similar policies - reductions in personnel seem to be "last in, first out". Hmm, I wonder if the union people who negotiate that have been in their current positions for a while... I'm also often irritated by the extreme paternalistic attitude embodied by the state owned monoploy on alcohol sales about (I think) 4%. Just before a holiday weekend, I've seen long cues and bouncers just to get into an off license! There are many things to love about the country too. The people have been nothing but friendly and welcoming. They speak the second best english in the world, only bettered by The Netherlands. They're better at english than both Brits and Yanks, who're lazy, sloppy, and often harder to understand. You'd think London had a jihad against ending words with T... (yes, I'm a snob) I was pulled over by the police as part of a roadblock to check documents / alcohol level of drivers. Other than brief confusion when the policeman tried to get my passenger to take the test (I brought my car with me from the UK) he was charm and politeness personified. In an opposite move to big-brother-britain, spy cameras are all but illegal. If you have one in your shop, you can't record the feed - so they're fancy mirrors. The
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So the crude death rate globally is ~8.23 per 1000 per year[^]. We have 6,482,858 members on CP. Which gives us a total of 53354 deaths of CP members per year. That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes. Do you ever wonder if anyone on CP will actually notice if you die. I'm pretty sure no one I know would think to tell anyone here.
Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
That's ~6 deaths per hour, or 1 every 10 minutes.
I don't know, every 10 minutes. That seems a -- Hi, I found this post open on Mike's desk so I finished it for him. How ironic that he dropped over while posting about death rates. :zzz:
Mike Devenney