How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch

The parents consented and the majority of states in the United States consider children property of the parents before they turn 18. It's sad, but normal.

Driving a car that hasn't passed minimal safety and status checks in many European countries is forbidden, why not forbid the use of stupid package managers?

Not the developer, the company willing to ask money for software they sell with their products. If you ask for money then you should take the responsibility.

> Is using C "negligent"?

Yes unless you audit the software you're selling and it proves you have taken precautions.

> How about not having test cases?

Yes. If that's the only thing stopping you from endangering people.

> Governments move slow. They declare everything must be encrypted with TLS 1.3 -- but now TLS 1.4 is out. How long until they change the standards? What happens when they start to try and influence the standards?

Whats your point? That we should let shit software that doesn't take basic precautions just exist because the government is too slow?

We can't make airplanes crash-proof either but certain security additions and safety measures have been made mandatory. Why can't we force the same for software? The fact that a thing hasn't been doesn't mean it can't be done. GDPR isn't the best example but it the very least has some legal recourse to blatant violations of privacy, why not make a law that punishes for blatant violations of security.

For what its worth, I agree that parents are overprotective to the point that it hurts children's development. I let my kids roam more than most (from what I can gather) but I do live in a fairly safe area.

Lifestock you can typically afford to lose a couple of.

For livestock to be a viable market, the monthly subscription would have to go down substantially. In the US, your large market segments are poultry, pork, and cattle. Chickens just aren't worth enough. Hogs are $75-150 live (with thin profit margins) and are a pain to catch, though I'm not familiar with escape rates in commercial operations. Cattle are worth 10x that and do escape occasionally, but they're not terribly difficult to find nor catch.

Perhaps there's a market for tracking hogs for small farms and cattle for commercial grazing operations, but I'd be surprised if tech could do much to disrupt the existing low-cost solution: ear tagging and a phone call when your neighbors/police find a cow on the road.

Whether such services would be perverted by the Chinese government is a whole other discussion of course.

However, I don't think anyone but the most rabid sinophobe would accuse the Chinese government of wanting to abduct our children.

Nothing you can do really, the platform (Android) should be responsible for protecting the individual to be honest.

Consumers have no way of knowing if an over-the-counter drug they are buying will complicate their health further: they trust the manufacturer and the FDA to do those checks for them.

Why not have a similar structure for technology? What prevents risky / dangerous over-the-counter medication from being sold, and can we apply those same measures to IoT devices?

Tried to explain this to my 8-year-old last night as she was fuming about not being allowed to have my old AW. So many reasons, none of them at all valid to a child that age :)

No need to keep a permanent record of every movement.

(My youngest turns 4 tomorrow and we've visited IKEAs and theme parks many times without trackers)

kzzzt can the parents of the missing child please report to customer service to pick up their child kzzzt

Imagine you're 5 and you get lost in ikea and get scared to death. Nothing bad will happen because it's ikea, but you'll learn that getting lost is terrifying and you will be a lot less likely to do it again.

Kids need to be safely challenged, or else they won't know how to respond to it when it happens for real. Not having challenges makes kids narcissistic and lowers their empathy. Helicopter parenting is turning our kids into the worse kinds of people.

[0] I actually have no kids.

Most parents grant them that autonomy you're talking about way, WAY too slowly. Would you let a 5 year old walk a couple of blocks down to the corner store to buy milk alone? If your answer is no, you're on the "too slow" side of the spectrum in my opinion.

Working with "problematic" kids I came to a few conclusions, all of which I obviously can't know to be correct, but still. The first and foremost was approximately this: One should almost never assume what children can, and can't do. The individual differences seem to be wider than the oceans, and the only way to really know is to teach, trust, and fearless observation.

Most kids will know if you don't trust them, I've seen some 6 years old be "mortally" afraid on an adventure course for kids, as long as their parents were in view. When they could no longer see their parents, their courage grew by the second, and they did their small zipline with the proudest smile one can imagine.

It's quite scary, as a parent, to observe the power we wield. That our fears can directly create fear in our children, even if we try to hide them. These parents were supportive and encouraging, but they had their own fears, fears which they couldn't hide well enough, and the kids knew instantly, and instinctively.

That some parents make terrible choices is on them, not on society, IMO.

And who said humans are logical? But even setting aside the delusional, the superior, and the illogical, the largest group are ignorant or apathetic.