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posted by martyb on Sunday September 24 2017, @01:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-your-fridge-"clean"? dept.

Walmart wants to test "in-fridge delivery" for Silicon Valley customers with August Home "smart locks":

Here's how the test will work: I place an order on Walmart.com for several items, even groceries. When my order is ready, a Deliv driver will retrieve my items and bring them to my home. If no one answers the doorbell, he or she will have a one-time passcode that I've pre-authorized which will open my home's smart lock. As the homeowner, I'm in control of the experience the entire time – the moment the Deliv driver rings my doorbell, I receive a smartphone notification that the delivery is occurring and, if I choose, I can watch the delivery take place in real-time. The Deliv associate will drop off my packages in my foyer and then carry my groceries to the kitchen, unload them in my fridge and leave. I'm watching the entire process from start to finish from my home security cameras through the August app. As I watch the Deliv associate exit my front door, I even receive confirmation that my door has automatically been locked.

While some may find the idea creepy, others have downplayed the creepiness factor:

"Five years ago consumers wouldn't have assumed they'd let a stranger drive them from the airport, much less stay in their house," said Forrest Collier, the CEO of eMeals, a platform that offers shopping lists based on recipes and loads the items into online shopping carts at Walmart and Kroger (KR) . "Now both Uber and Airbnb are billion-dollar companies."

For now, the fridge restocking service will only be available to Silicon Valley users of August Home. Customers will get a notification through their August Home app every time a delivery person drops off their food.

[...] Even though this Walmart service sounds "creepy on the front end," said Collier of eMeals, "it's really not as creepy as letting a stranger sleep in your bedroom."

Also at LA Times, Reuters, SiliconBeat, and CNET.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:07PM (40 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:07PM (#572324)

    you're doing it wrong. the cameras are for you to be able to find the thief, not for the damn police to find the thief with. once you kill one of the thieves no one else will break into your house. also, the cameras do work as a deterrent for a certain class of thief, just not the most hardened. Sounds like your thief knew the cops don't do shit in your town. instead of blaming the cameras why don't you blame those useless pigs you love so much that are too busy out committing strong armed robberies themselves to find your shit.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:15PM (#572329)

    Edgy response. Maybe they will be in and out before you can get home and shoot em up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:27PM (38 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:27PM (#572335)

    > once you kill one of the thieves no one else will break into your house.

    Someone played a few games too many with a Thieves Guild.

    In reality, most thieves don't participate in a hidden crime network where they can share information about potential targets.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:57PM (37 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 24 2017, @03:57PM (#572350) Journal

      Newspapers, television news, radio news, word of mouth - the word gets out. "Seen Rufus around? Is he in the pen again, or what?" "No, you haven't heard? He broke into a place on the east side of town, the owner came home, and shot him dead." "No shit? Rufus is dead?" "I'd have gone to his funeral, but I was in the county jail at the time." "DAYUM! Rufus dead. We've run together since we were little kids." "Yeah, well, you want to be careful on the east side. The city, the county, not even the state are filing charges against the owner. Word has it, a lot of those uppity east siders are buying firearms." "Well, shit man!! We oughtta go over the east side and lift some guns of our own!" "You can count me out of that one, boy. You never were very bright, were you? You'll be shot just like Rufus!"

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @04:48PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @04:48PM (#572365)

        ...starring Clint Eastwood.

        • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @12:49AM (4 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @12:49AM (#572497) Journal

          ...but Runaway wishes it starred Runaway. Note the subtle anti-black references in there ("we run together since we was kids" etc). This is a man who wants to shoot someone, preferably in a heroic manner, but I have a feeling anyone "disposable" will do. Fuck me, every time this guy posts he comes more and more unhinged.

          Does he think we don't notice it? Is he crying for help, or actually hoping that someone here will read his brain-vomit and think he's impressive and manly and alpha and in no way scarred for life by daddy beating his ass raw?

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          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:29AM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:29AM (#572951)

            Save the attempt at mind reading for the magic show, Blaine.

            • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:30AM (2 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:30AM (#572967) Journal

              That's hardly mind reading. It's a picture book with what little text it contains in very large, wobbly print, written in what i will charitably assume is brown crayon.

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              I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:13AM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:13AM (#572998)

                Your continued claim at mental divining has not gone (laughably) unnoticed.

                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:19PM

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @08:19PM (#573467) Journal

                  It doesn't take a telepath to figure out what's going on here, pal. Cry some more for me, your tears are delicious and salty. But kind of buttery. You should cut down on the saturated fat a bit.

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                  I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @06:22PM (30 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @06:22PM (#572394)

        Murdering a person because they stole something (or only tried too) seems somewhat harsh, but then again I'm just a simple commie socialist liberal pussy European, so what do I know about liberty and justice.

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 24 2017, @06:34PM (27 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 24 2017, @06:34PM (#572398) Journal

          It's only murder if a jury of your peers decides that it is murder. You gotta remember that "dead men tell no tales". The defendant only has to suggest that the burglar attacked him, so he shot in self defense. "Not guilty, your honor!"

          • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @07:47PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @07:47PM (#572429)

            Runaway's true quality comes out, a murderous psychopath with just enough inhibition to attempt getting around legal loopholes. You sir are an asshole.

            • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @08:11PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @08:11PM (#572439)

              And, racist!

              • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @01:45AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @01:45AM (#572507)

                Bad Skippy. You left out Fascist, Nazi, homophobe, misogynist, xenophobe, and bigot.

                Boring buzzword echo chamber fails.

                Try again.

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @08:56PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @08:56PM (#572447)

            That's a textbook definition of a sociopath :/

          • (Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Sunday September 24 2017, @11:42PM

            by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 24 2017, @11:42PM (#572483) Journal

            It's only murder if a jury of your peers decides that it is murder.

            In states like Texas, the castle doctrine [davidbreston.com] laws don't even go that far... If someone enters your home by force and inconveniences you, you can just shoot them and call the cops to come take away the garbage. It's the Law. The More You Know(tm).

          • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @12:42AM (14 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @12:42AM (#572495) Journal

            Jesus. With every post you become more and more unhinged. Seek help; this is not normal. This has gone well beyond Internet-Tough-Guy and is into murderous rage territory.

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            I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
            • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @01:52AM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @01:52AM (#572508)

              Not really. Those of us who choose not to be victimized by scumbags have a perfect moral right to do so.

              Tell you what, if you're ever carjacked at 3 AM or Deshuan decides to bust your door down while you're watching MSNBC, just offer them a nice cup of Chi and see how far that gets you.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @02:03AM (3 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @02:03AM (#572515) Journal

                You...*do* know I come from, at various times, the Bronx, Harlem, and southern Queens, don't you? You're not talking to some latte-swilling limo liberal here. Check your assumptions before you dump a stinking load on the floor like that, please.

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                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 25 2017, @02:11AM

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @02:11AM (#572523) Journal

                  "southern Queens"

                  OMG, a genuine Southern Liberal!!

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @06:19AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @06:19AM (#572557)

                  Clearly, she meant to say "chai" not "Chi." The assumption is that you're a tea-sipping liberal, not a coffee-drinking one.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @10:11AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @10:11AM (#572608)

                  So whatcha gonna do? Confront an assailant with an Al Pacino impression? That'll stop 'em!

            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 25 2017, @02:09AM (8 children)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @02:09AM (#572522) Journal

              Azuma. My name is NOT Jesus. I do not walk on water. I have no stigmata. I haven't been raised from the dead. Please don't call me Jesus. If you need to talk to him, I can give him your name though. I'll see him at work again tomorrow night, operating one of the presses.

              • (Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @07:24AM (7 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @07:24AM (#572576) Journal

                So this is what you've sunk to? Runaway, you have my pity. I don't know what's happened to you recently, if it's some sudden shock or if you just ran out of plain old humanity, but if you don't step off this path you're on it's going to end in suicide or worse. You're not fooling anyone with this forced flippancy. Something's eating you.

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                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 25 2017, @11:01AM (4 children)

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @11:01AM (#572614) Journal

                  Holy shit, Zumi!

                  YOU are the one who has admitted to being "broken" by life. Stop projecting. Have you ever heard that "what don't kill you makes you stronger"? Life hasn't broken me, it's made me strong. Would you consider an exercise regimen?

                  And, you would enjoy a good deal more credibility if you stop pretending to be a psychiatrist, or whatever brand of charlatan comes up with your kind of silly predictions. Suicide? Yeah, it's remotely possible. Like, I'm terminally ill, and in severe pain, and I know that I have months or years of excruciating suffering ahead. WTF do you think I'm "suffering" from, exactly? I've got a severe case of "contempt for the progressive left" just about sums it up. Maybe you'll feel better if you understand that I have an equal "contempt of the neo-conservative right" which Georgie Boy Bush imposed on this country for eight years.

                  Suicide, you say? You're far more likely to suicide than I am. That special other person that you're caring for may or may not pass away soon - you make it sound bad for her. When she's gone, WTF do you have to live for? You won't be needed anymore, and you probably won't find a good reason to go on living.

                  Me? I'm safe. I get a great deal of satifaction from life. If/when all else fails, I can come here and yank your progressive chain, and listen to you make up batshit crazy stuff. If I run out of reasons to live, I can become an internet troll, spending 20 hours per day "triggering" people like yourself. Meanwhile, I have some modifications to make on my truck. Few more minutes here, and I've got cool shit to do!!

                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @06:47PM (1 child)

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @06:47PM (#572746) Journal

                    That's even less convincing. I think you've also confused Eliza with J; Eliza is my girlfriend, J is the person *both* of us are attempting to help. Thanks for admitting you have nothing in your life but trolling and the occasional bit of automotive maintenance though :) With every post you make yourself look worse and worse, and you're too far-gone to see it. Oh well...

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                    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 25 2017, @07:05PM

                      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @07:05PM (#572751) Journal

                      "nothing in your life but trolling and the occasional bit of automotive maintenance"

                      Now, see, that's funny. But, it's the kind of thing that would hurt if it were true, and you knew that. You're the kind of woman who goes for blood, aren't you? Well, you're gonna have to get a helluva lot smarter if you want to draw blood from me. First up - stop projecting YOUR problems onto me.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @07:40PM (1 child)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @07:40PM (#572763)

                    Runway, you're weird and crazy but... what you get up to shitpost on soylent every day? You're broken by life at least as much as our weeb ladyboy if not more.

                    In 10 years you're going to troon out like the best of them and it's gonna be gross. At least Zumi jumped on the bandwagon while she had some hope of being cute.

                    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @08:07PM

                      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @08:07PM (#572774) Journal

                      Where in the hell are you getting "ladyboy" from? I'm not Thai, or male, or trans. "Ladyboy" doesn't mean "lesbian," you know? Not even butch ones. And if we're being technical the word for actual ladyboys is "kathoey," something like the Thai version of "Hijra."

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                      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @03:37PM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @03:37PM (#572688)

                  Azuma Hazuki and Ass Hole have the same initials. And they even smell the same!

                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @07:44PM

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @07:44PM (#572764) Journal

                    So you found someone who shits Dr. Bronner's castille soap, peppermint flavor? Or that particular off-brand coconut/cherry conditioner I use? Impressive.

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                    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday September 25 2017, @12:18PM (6 children)

            by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday September 25 2017, @12:18PM (#572622) Journal

            Were you going for sarcasm or dark humor when posting this and people shit the bed? Good job.

            • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 25 2017, @02:15PM (5 children)

              by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 25 2017, @02:15PM (#572658) Journal

              A bit of humor, maybe, but no sarcasm. Homicides happen every day, for which no one is punished. There are pleas of self defense, charges are often reduced to negligent homicide, accidental homicide, death by misadventure, manslaughter, and possibly other things that I haven't heard of. "Murder" is a pretty specific crime, in which the defendant most definitely intended to kill the victim. Murders are further broken down into three categories - but that's really beside the point. You aren't guilty of murder, unless and until a court actually convicts you of murder. And, even then, there are myriad appeals to be appealed - just because a jury of my peers finds me guilty of murder in the third degree doesn't mean the conviction will stick.

              Add to all of that - the Bible recognizes the difference between "killing" and "murder". The commandment in the original Jewish scripts read, "Thou shall do no murder". It most definitely does not say, "Thou shalt not kill." Killing was often justified in the Bible, but murder was never justified. I dare say that other Holy books recognize that not-very-subtle difference.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 25 2017, @07:34PM (4 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday September 25 2017, @07:34PM (#572761) Journal

                Why do you put any stock by what the Bible says? This is the same book that says kill a kid if he curses his parents, or anyone who picks up sticks on Saturday (yes, Saturday, not Sunday; Sunday sabbath is a pagan Roman invention).

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                I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @01:28AM (3 children)

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 26 2017, @01:28AM (#572870) Journal

                  Stock in the Bible - because Christianity influenced almost all of the English Common Law, upon which our own laws are based. Think about it.

                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:25AM (2 children)

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:25AM (#572898) Journal

                    Have you read the Bill of Rights recently? Compare that with the 10 Commandments and get back to me.

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                    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
                    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:27AM (1 child)

                      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 26 2017, @02:27AM (#572901) Journal

                      Yeah, I've read the bill of rights a time or more. Now, try acting like you're fucking LITERATE. I said that Christianity INFLUENCED our laws.

                      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:26AM

                        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @03:26AM (#572920) Journal

                        Indeed, and it's still trying to do so today, much to our detriment.

                        You are, once again, missing the point, and I suspect deliberately too. The US owes more to Enlightenment thought for its laws than Christianity; in particular, the First Amendment runs entirely counter to the very heart of Christianity (and Judaism and Islam). Slavery, monarchy, and warfare are the Abrahamic God's stock in trade. He is said to be fighting a war with the forces of evil...how, precisely, does an omniscient, omnipotent, *absolutely sovereign* being have enemies, much less enemies who can apparently put up a respectable struggle?

                        Face it, you're another one who doesn't know the first thing the Bible says while trying to use it as some sort of anchor point for modern Western civilization, when our freedoms arose *in spite* of our Christian background, *not* because of it. You really suck at this. Go play with your car or something, will you?

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                        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
        • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 24 2017, @07:37PM

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday September 24 2017, @07:37PM (#572421) Journal

          I'm just a simple commie socialist liberal pussy European, so what do I know about liberty and justice.

          How about if we force them to conduct a self-criticism on their departure from pure Mao thought *before* we liquidate them for consorting with capitalist wreckers and committing crimes against the proletariat?

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          Washington DC delenda est.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @10:12PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @10:12PM (#572469)

          Well, if someone is in the middle of breaking into your house while you're there, their life is forfeit as far as I'm concerned. You really don't know what their intentions are, and frankly, you should be able to protect your property from thugs. If someone doesn't want that, then don't break into people's houses.