I started with Amazon fresh, too expensive. Switched to safeway, much better, I am downtown Seattle central, btw.
Finally, going to Safeway was far cheaper than delivery, so, even though I am handicapped, can barely walk, I still go to the store because of the price difference.
Everything else I do get from Amazon though. They just installed a locker in my apartment building because of the volume. But groceries... no, not even close yet.
Just wow. Mod my post a troll because you do not like what I say, but the fact is there is no privacy, and you can not do anything the authority, err US government does not like.
The US owns this planet, and will reach into whatever security they want, like a hot knife in butter. With an army 10 times the size of the next 12 countries combined, the US does WTF it wants.
I'm not taking a position about it being right or wrong, simply stating the facts.
There is no privacy, nor is there any reason to believe anything you can do can remain private, if the US wants to know about it. They got bin laden didn't they? You think any privacy measure you can come up with are better than what he had?
So if 'rights and freedoms' are illusions to begin with, are they giving anything up?
There was nothing Snowden told the world that was not pretty obvious to begin with. This concept that you ever had privacy in the first place is the actual BS.
And here is another clue; the protection offered by encryption you know of (unless you have security clearances) provides about exactly the same protection as the paper envelope you used to send your snail mail in, breakable by anyone with a pair of scissors. But, I bet you think encryption is secure, right?
The public is not "willing to give up its rights", it is smart enough to know it didn't have them to begin with.
It was required when I had the Apple. Maybe it has changed. That would be for good reason if it did. The Apple tablet could not even be turned on until I installed iTiunes on windows and gave Apple my credit card #.
Apple locks you in - you do what Apple allows and forces, including some of the crappiest written software ever imagined (iTunes). That also forces you to pollute your desktop PC with more crap (iTunes).
Android & Apple hideous development environments. Seriously, yes they can do anything, so can machine language code written in hex, that is not the point. The point is Apple runs this proprietary disgusting mix of object oriented and non-object oriented legacy crap. Android uses a semi decent language (potentially) but surrounds it with a hideous never considered anything but command line crap they call a UI. It depends on a buggy, poorly designed open source IDE
Microsoft has a decent language, the best UI in existence, and arguably the best IDE, but you cant run anything but Internet explorer, you cant deploy it conveniently to your own machine, and certainly not to anyone else's. It's a 'me too' clone with all the bad parts and none of the good parts.
They let the people worried about money get in the way of making a good product, and the result is failure (serves them right).
Gates made MS at a time when he ignored the bean counters and made Windows despite OS/2, to be better, not more profitable. The profit comes automatically. When you force profit in over being a good product, the surface is what you end up with. R.I.P. MS, the good you will be missed.
Talk about making shit up as you go; wtf does 5 million members have to do with 5 million manufacturers? I will admit the logic of that totally missed me. Yes I am refering to the NRA. The NRA dictate how congress act. you did notice the failure to pass a 90% approved by public gun background check, at the demand of the NRA didn't you? let's see your facts - $$$ contributed to the NRA, manufacturers versus non manufacturers.
You can never regulate it - as you point out, it will not in any way stop criminals.
There are ALREADY laws against owning undetectable guns. We do not need stupid regulations adding nothing.
The republicans are in a pickle. If they support 3D gun printing, they hurt gun manufacturers, which is what they really are supporting ($$$$).
The democrats are in a pickle. If they support banning 3D printing, they are making the case that they are indeed the big government control all party.
How this plays out will be, at worst, hilarious to watch, all the while knowing that nothing can ever really happen, just like DRM.
That, and how do you define a surveillance drone? A balloon with a camera? A kite with a camera. Why not a passenger with a camera, maybe a cell phone, aboard a commercial aircraft? A space telescope? The problem is there is no definitive definition.
So I agree with the previous post - invasion of privacy is already outlawed. We do NOT need new vague rules to mis-define what might invade privacy.
I didn't ask if you considered it secure. I asked if you are insinuating it is not secure. Forget it, the fact that you got modded insightful is an indication the people who read and mod here are clueless, including yourself. If you think you can keep anything from the us government you are seriously delusional. If you ever by accident do, they will pay you a visit the next day, I promise. I spent a career worrying about if the navy could spy on the army could spy on the marines. Whether or not any one of those could spy on the public wasn't even a lunch time conversation - it was a no brainer. But you and the moderators just go ahead and have your fantasies, they depend on it.
Ummm, expensive? no, not at all. I fly FPV RC aircraft. Those are the planes that are flown via goggles and an onboard camera. I have three ready to fly aircraft sitting next to me. The video portion for all 3 has a total cost of maybe $600, and that includes a $350 pair of nice goggles, something I would not need if I wanted to record the public.
The public is all ape shit over this privacy thing. How dumb are they to realize there have been security cameras installed in half the transformers on telephone poles for 20+ years. I can stand on a street corner near my house, and count 20+ security cameras capable of watching me. Wake up sheeple, you already have no privacy. Banning Googlge glasses will improve your privacy score from 0 to 0.
But anyhow, I'm not even sure what point you were trying to make. My comment was about trying to ban any technology. We've seen how great that has worked for the movie industry, as your example.
I mean not that I any way believe in any of the ID stuff (flying spaghetti monsters is my bumper sticker), but, even if you do, what do you teach?
"Some super brain/being designed it all. End of story".
This is so wrong on so many levels. The dumbing down of children for fanaticals has to stop, one way or another. People like Rick Sanatorium are destroying this country and need to be run out.
Seriously? Don't you know you were forced to sign an agreement to not sue them, especially in a class action suite when you were born, err I mean started using their service. You agreed to arbitration, which in short means they always win, no matter what.
But you will never win. There is now a corporate department tasked with finding out how far the company can rip off consumers and get away with it. It is part of the new profit centered business model.
Just pick the best car, and use whatever computer it has in it.
Seriously, there is no BEST.
Arduino has a ton of examples, and a ton of vendors making parts to work with it. Everything else, not so much. I've yet to see any purpose for a Pi. Very limited software support, mostly just Linux fan boys thrilled to run on a cheap computer.
For pure robotic experiments, go LEGO. They even have a newer version coming out mid year that is Linux based. But that is more for learning what to do with working electronics, not how to actually make them.
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Bingo!
... no, not even close yet.
I started with Amazon fresh, too expensive. Switched to safeway, much better, I am downtown Seattle central, btw.
Finally, going to Safeway was far cheaper than delivery, so, even though I am handicapped, can barely walk, I still go to the store because of the price difference.
Everything else I do get from Amazon though. They just installed a locker in my apartment building because of the volume. But groceries
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/lavabit-edward-snowden-email_n_3728005.html
Just wow. Mod my post a troll because you do not like what I say, but the fact is there is no privacy, and you can not do anything the authority, err US government does not like.
The US owns this planet, and will reach into whatever security they want, like a hot knife in butter. With an army 10 times the size of the next 12 countries combined, the US does WTF it wants.
I'm not taking a position about it being right or wrong, simply stating the facts.
There is no privacy, nor is there any reason to believe anything you can do can remain private, if the US wants to know about it. They got bin laden didn't they? You think any privacy measure you can come up with are better than what he had?
So if 'rights and freedoms' are illusions to begin with, are they giving anything up?
There was nothing Snowden told the world that was not pretty obvious to begin with. This concept that you ever had privacy in the first place is the actual BS.
And here is another clue; the protection offered by encryption you know of (unless you have security clearances) provides about exactly the same protection as the paper envelope you used to send your snail mail in, breakable by anyone with a pair of scissors. But, I bet you think encryption is secure, right?
The public is not "willing to give up its rights", it is smart enough to know it didn't have them to begin with.
It was required when I had the Apple. Maybe it has changed. That would be for good reason if it did. The Apple tablet could not even be turned on until I installed iTiunes on windows and gave Apple my credit card #.
OMG, you are hilarious.
Mod parent up, clueless; funny!
I will, just because you said not to.
What is even in the ballpark, nay, same planet as XAML/WPF/Silverlight?
Why are there so many questions on stack overflow asking if there is anything similar for iOS and Android?
Newbs that are clueless to application design patterns need not reply.
And they all 100% suck.
Apple locks you in - you do what Apple allows and forces, including some of the crappiest written software ever imagined (iTunes). That also forces you to pollute your desktop PC with more crap (iTunes).
Android & Apple hideous development environments. Seriously, yes they can do anything, so can machine language code written in hex, that is not the point. The point is Apple runs this proprietary disgusting mix of object oriented and non-object oriented legacy crap. Android uses a semi decent language (potentially) but surrounds it with a hideous never considered anything but command line crap they call a UI. It depends on a buggy, poorly designed open source IDE
Microsoft has a decent language, the best UI in existence, and arguably the best IDE, but you cant run anything but Internet explorer, you cant deploy it conveniently to your own machine, and certainly not to anyone else's. It's a 'me too' clone with all the bad parts and none of the good parts.
They let the people worried about money get in the way of making a good product, and the result is failure (serves them right).
Gates made MS at a time when he ignored the bean counters and made Windows despite OS/2, to be better, not more profitable. The profit comes automatically. When you force profit in over being a good product, the surface is what you end up with. R.I.P. MS, the good you will be missed.
eh. Microsoft is on it's way out no matter who is in charge. The question is is Balmer any better or worse than the next guy?
Really why bother putting a good competent captain in charge of a sinking ship? You think he is magically going to make it float again?
I know right?
That had to be the worst choreographed commercials of all time. Did anyone at Microsoft look at that and go "good job"?
If they did, they seriously need to be fired, as well as find another PR company.
But I but there are people at MS who think it was great. And those are the problem, clueless people running the company.
I will admit that is how people around MS act, like everyone is on Glee, but that is the only place in the country (maybe world?).
Sigh, I almost sold my surface, I am so afraid of people thinking I am like that.
oh yeah, that has worked so well in the past. I dont know how I missed that brilliant point.
Talk about making shit up as you go; wtf does 5 million members have to do with 5 million manufacturers? I will admit the logic of that totally missed me. Yes I am refering to the NRA. The NRA dictate how congress act. you did notice the failure to pass a 90% approved by public gun background check, at the demand of the NRA didn't you? let's see your facts - $$$ contributed to the NRA, manufacturers versus non manufacturers.
Go away troll.
pfffft. What bullshit. Ever hear a lobby group named NRA? At the moment, gun manufacturers are second only to banks as far as who runs the US.
It is retarded.
You can never regulate it - as you point out, it will not in any way stop criminals.
There are ALREADY laws against owning undetectable guns. We do not need stupid regulations adding nothing.
The republicans are in a pickle. If they support 3D gun printing, they hurt gun manufacturers, which is what they really are supporting ($$$$).
The democrats are in a pickle. If they support banning 3D printing, they are making the case that they are indeed the big government control all party.
How this plays out will be, at worst, hilarious to watch, all the while knowing that nothing can ever really happen, just like DRM.
That, and how do you define a surveillance drone? A balloon with a camera? A kite with a camera. Why not a passenger with a camera, maybe a cell phone, aboard a commercial aircraft? A space telescope? The problem is there is no definitive definition.
So I agree with the previous post - invasion of privacy is already outlawed. We do NOT need new vague rules to mis-define what might invade privacy.
So, you really have no idea about what we are talking about here I take it?
I didn't ask if you considered it secure. I asked if you are insinuating it is not secure. Forget it, the fact that you got modded insightful is an indication the people who read and mod here are clueless, including yourself. If you think you can keep anything from the us government you are seriously delusional. If you ever by accident do, they will pay you a visit the next day, I promise. I spent a career worrying about if the navy could spy on the army could spy on the marines. Whether or not any one of those could spy on the public wasn't even a lunch time conversation - it was a no brainer. But you and the moderators just go ahead and have your fantasies, they depend on it.
So by that argument, closed classified encryption, used for DoD communication, is not secure?
When I said that I got modded a troll.
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When schnieder says it, it is brilliant
Ummm, expensive? no, not at all. I fly FPV RC aircraft. Those are the planes that are flown via goggles and an onboard camera. I have three ready to fly aircraft sitting next to me. The video portion for all 3 has a total cost of maybe $600, and that includes a $350 pair of nice goggles, something I would not need if I wanted to record the public.
The public is all ape shit over this privacy thing. How dumb are they to realize there have been security cameras installed in half the transformers on telephone poles for 20+ years. I can stand on a street corner near my house, and count 20+ security cameras capable of watching me. Wake up sheeple, you already have no privacy. Banning Googlge glasses will improve your privacy score from 0 to 0.
But anyhow, I'm not even sure what point you were trying to make. My comment was about trying to ban any technology. We've seen how great that has worked for the movie industry, as your example.
So, I just came from the Meca in Seattle; http://mecca-cafe.com/
how is it two restaurants coined the exact same phrase "alcoholics serving alcoholics since 1929" ?
Anyhow, WTF? banning tech glasses? Why don't they ban iPhones, see how well that will do. Obvious publicity stunt, and will probably backfire.
I mean not that I any way believe in any of the ID stuff (flying spaghetti monsters is my bumper sticker), but, even if you do, what do you teach?
"Some super brain/being designed it all. End of story".
This is so wrong on so many levels. The dumbing down of children for fanaticals has to stop, one way or another. People like Rick Sanatorium are destroying this country and need to be run out.
No you don't and no they aren't. shut the fuck up AC
Seriously? Don't you know you were forced to sign an agreement to not sue them, especially in a class action suite when you were born, err I mean started using their service. You agreed to arbitration, which in short means they always win, no matter what.
But you will never win. There is now a corporate department tasked with finding out how far the company can rip off consumers and get away with it. It is part of the new profit centered business model.
Just pick the best car, and use whatever computer it has in it.
Seriously, there is no BEST.
Arduino has a ton of examples, and a ton of vendors making parts to work with it. Everything else, not so much. I've yet to see any purpose for a Pi. Very limited software support, mostly just Linux fan boys thrilled to run on a cheap computer.
For pure robotic experiments, go LEGO. They even have a newer version coming out mid year that is Linux based. But that is more for learning what to do with working electronics, not how to actually make them.
For electronics tinkering - Sparkfun Arduino https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11236