London to "avtodoroga Kolyma, Magadanskaya oblast', Russia" (which is the furthest East I could get google to give me driving directions to from London) is just shy of 8000 miles.

Fairbanks AK, (furthest West google would recognize) to NYC is just over 4000 miles.

I was able to estimate the distance between Fairbanks and that Russian location at 2000 miles.

So, 8000+4000+2000 = 14,000 miles.

I'm on Debian 7 Wheezy, running Google Chrome 40.something

Is that supposed to not work?

Uhm.. Only if they specifically identify themselves as such.

And since they would be dual-citizenship, if some terrorist demands their passport, they could provide their other passport and be Belgian or Swedish, etc.

would completely cut off an entire region as large as that, shows that whoever is in charge of engineering this stuff simply doesn't understand how the Internet is supposed to work, and has no motivation to ensure it keeps working.

Any pipe carrying traffic for that large an area, should have had multiple alternate/redundant paths - miles away, in different pipes, connecting via different peering points. The Internet is not meant to be a hierarchy or a pyramid - its supposed to be a spiderweb.

.. unless it comes fully rom-unlocked and you can trivially replace the factor MS crap with a AOSP load or something.

I wonder how much MS had to offer to PAY samsung to do this. (I'm sure they've agreed to strict confidentiality on that)

I'd get a raspberry pi, and write some code to use one of its GPIO pins as an input. (which would then send your chat/text/email message, etc)

  Then you can connect whatever kind of button or switch to it that you find most appropriate for your toddler to puch.

It sounds like the OP here *already* has video monitoring set up, he's just looking for some way to getting an alert that he should look at it.

Perhaps your wife could wear some sort of device (bracelet, etc) that itself would be capable of detecting that she was having a seizure, that could be setup to trigger whatever notifications were desired. Here are a few things I found alone these lines:

http://www.epdetect.com/
http://www.healthline.com/heal...
http://www.gizmag.com/embrace-...

I have a somewhat related issue.

Google has my cell number anyway (they forward google voice calls to it), but they INSIST that the initial verification to setup 2factor be by SMS/text, which I have blocked on the cell itself. Maybe that is to verify its a cell, and not a landline.

And aside from my other reply, what if you don't HAVE a cellphone?

There is a disturbing trend toward providing a cellphone number being a requirement to obtain various kinds of goods or services, especially in various online forms, without any allowance for an individual to specify that they do not own a cellphone (or perhaps any phone) and therefore do not have a number to provide. The form designers seem ignorant of the fact that sometimes the 100% accurate and valid answer to "What is your cell phone number?" is "I do not have one" and design the forms to be incapable of accepting and processing that answer.

Even in cases where someone DOES have a phone, sometimes the 100% accurate and valid answer to "what is your number?" is "none of your damn business, its private, you don't need to call me and even if you think you do I don't authorize or enable you to do so".

Yeah? And what if the reason you lost both your phone and computer is because they were in your house which burned down, as did your printed out pre-generated codes?

How do you log back in after that?

Can't work for me.

I have a celI rarely use text, so paying $15 for a chunk of texts I'll never use is stupid.
I'd allow pay-per-text, but only if I only had to pay to SEND - I refuse to pay per-message for someone ELSE (perhaps spammers) sending to me.
As a result, I have texts/SMS through my cell carrier BLOCKED.
Instead, I use google voice for the one or two people I *occasionally* have to send or receive a text from.

Heck, I don't even use my direct cell number for calls - I consider the number disposable, and use the google voice number instead. If I have to switch cell carriers, no mess giving people a new number - only one or two direct family members, for use in the very rare instance where there was an emergency AND google voice was down.

So this is completely useless to me - trying to use the GV number for the 2-factor would be problematic since I have to have access to my google account to be able to see those text anyway.

Something which helps protect against someone else accessing my account is great, but it absolutely has to first have an absolutely failsafe way of ensuring that *I* never lose access to it. Printed-out codes can be lost, as can cellphones and dongles.

Right now my solution is to have a very good password which I absolutely remember. I suppose if I were to ever lose my memory that could be an issue too.

I don't know what the solution is. Clearly neither does google or anyone else.

Oddly, while it still does not find any security keys, that same search now gives me two results - one for a pet door, and another for a pet carrier. I doubt either of those is compatible with google's authentication system.

If something is ONLY available through amazon, its not available.

Your search left off the necessary -"amazon.com".

Amazon's order process is broken in a manner which precludes me from ordering anything from them.

I'd venture a guess that a SECURITY KEY is not vulnerable to such a thing.