My autistic son would happily play in the park. Just once every few months he would decide that “now is the time to run” and just take off as fast as he could in a straight line. How would that play out in a busy street.
People can’t imagine that: so much of the time things are calm, straightforward to handle, but if EVER you let your guard down for a second at the wrong time, you’ll end up on the news as a “tragic story of grieving negligent parent.”
Oh, many years ago I had a baby monitor that included a pressure mat. If it detected no movement for a while (it was sensitive enough to detect breathing) it set off an alarm.
Although if such a thing exists today, it probably requires an app and a subscription. Enshitification.
Looks like the pixel watch 3 can do something like this, but it only calls emergency services (and plant l only in some regions!)
“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the- World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH, the paint would’t even have time to dry.”
Lithobraking.
Except for the Doofenshmirtz “2 nickels” one, I see that everywhere.
“It’s too late for me. But you can still save yourself.”
Well, I used to. They don’t let me talk to the interns any more.
A private key would be built in to the camera. It would be stored in a way that’s hard to get at, physically or in software (like the secure enclaves in phones).
The pics or videos are signed using the private key (again, this process needs to happen in a secure way without revealing the secret key).
The camera manufacturer publishes the matching public key. Anyone can use it to verify that the file matches the signature. But no one can sign a fake image unless they can get at the private key.
This would work even if the camera manufacturer no longer existed. The camera does need to ever be online.
The public/private key pairs are also part of what makes blockchains work, but for this process blockchains would add nothing.
Blimey can be British.
This would be right up Patrick Stewart’s street.
Seriously. It’s something about shampoo, hair conditioner, laundry detergent and laundry conditioner especially. The product type is printed as small as the dosage on med bottles.
Stop this Madness!
I have seen a gas pump have a “press cancel to skip PIN entry” message…
Edit: here it is https://imgur.com/bypass-pin-veorkyV
Usually they ask for the zip code of the billing address, and if you found a card, there’s a good chance you’d be in that zip code.
I see some end in a thin pin or are short. I was thinking of the ones that are the full size of a plug, of course.
Try “3.5mm dust plug”.
They should disconnect the speaker if the socket is the type when the plug physically pushes a connection apart.
I think that phones may handle it all electronically.
Technology Connections has covered how they work.
With a mesh screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_lamp