dead-man

I'd like to see a "dead-man switch" feature: If I'm NOT holding down the 'O' and 'K' keys down (or other configurable keys) on startup, THEN connect and send info.

Prey Phones Home To Help You Recover Your Stolen Laptop | Lifehacker Australia 2009

For the next two months after that terrible medical result, I have felt like I am a dead-man walking because I opted to continue working and live my life normally as if nothing happened.

Global Voices in English » Philippines: Living with HIV 2009

Makes me want to rig up a "dead-man switch" on the food locker.

True Story: Pugs Eat Owner, Now Up For Adoption 2009

That could have been done either by the rig's dead-man switch, which is meant to automatically trigger the shears when the rig loses its connection to the blowout preventer, or it could have triggered two days later when remote-controlled robots arrived on the scene.

Device's Design Flaw Let Oil Spill Freely Ben Casselman 2011

It wasn't till much later that I discovered that his dead-man's-float demeanor was purely for show; a lot more was going on in there than I knew.

Q and A with Andy Ferguson about his bestseller Crazy U 2011

Makes me want to rig up a "dead-man switch" on the food locker.

True Story: Pugs Eat Owner, Now Up For Adoption 2009

Brown is a dead-man walking, at the minute our biggest liability.

What we need to learn from the Fall of Glasgow East O'Neill 2008

If the bombers were walking around buttoned down with a dead-man switch, the minute they released their trigger their device would explode.

Foreign Influence Brad Thor 2010

What is honest respect and what is merely making money off a dead-man.

Gene Odom in Toronto, Canada. May 2008 » Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2008

By 9: 00 a.m., the vehicle enters the densely populated area, where the passenger arms the dead-man switch on the detonator.

Slaughterhouse SW1 amuchmoreexotic 2007