* Child meets someone online.
* Child gets on with person.
* Child agrees to meet up with person.
* Child meets up with person.
* Bad things happen.

How would having a big "Click here to report this person" button help? If they're willing to meet up, then they're obviously not suspicious about the person's intentions. Even a big flashing "Are you sure this person isn't going to try and do nasty things to you?" banner on screen would quickly be ignored and forgotten about

"EyeToy" was the PS2 camera. PS2/Move use the "Playstation Eye"

That's a good point - I guess you wouldn't replace your main locks with central locking, but you *would* replace the secondary dead bolts with them. That way you know you can press a single button and have every window/door bolted (or something will beep to tell you it can't lock one of them) but you can also still lock the doors in a regular manner too, for added security.

I often wonder why central locking hasn't caught on for houses yet. Especially if you could set it to beep at you when you've leaving but you've left a door/window open elsewhere.

phew... I was wondering if I was in a timewarp there for a second...

This is what I do with email. Sadly you'll eventually get spam to the private address when someone visits a "scan my email address book for friends" type thing

Ahh, you right - the few I tried all seemed to be alphabetic only, which would've rather limited the pool

Considering that the activation code has 5 alphabetic characters, I'd guess the process works something like:

Frame requests a page based on its MAC
Server has no record, so it generates a new feed, creates a (random?) activation code, and logs this in its database
User sees the message, enters the activation code online, which is retrieved from the db.

5 digits doesn't give many options. What happens if they all get used up when people start scanning and generating fake IDs? Will the database just fall over, and be unable to activate new frames at all?

Ok, now it's nasty - until now you could randomly initialise an inactive (possibly never real in the first place) account. Now it seems to can find the real accounts, and reset them into nastyness.

Massive product recall ahoy

It seems you get an RSS feed with an activation code no matter what you enter for the frameid (it doesn't even seem to have to be a valid MAC address) so it seems they're not filtering on the server for addresses that actually belong to frames

He slashdotted himself...

using VS2005, that fails miserably in debug, but works fine in release.

Nooo! You just brought back the memories of OCP Art Studio on the speccy that I'd somehow managed to block!

Thankfully my parents took pity on me and bought me a copy of The Artist II on floppy (+3 baby!) which made my mouse adaptor birthday present actually useful!