Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks out in Jason DeFilippo.

And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

Little follow up on the whole foods, uh, Palm scanner thing.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, I just went this morning to go pick up a couple breakfast burritos before we did the show,

which turned out to be a terrible idea because they're bacon sucks and it was stuck in my teeth.

But I did see when I was leaving the store, I would have completely missed this,

except I was a very short Asian man with a very tall poodle standing, staring at the wall.

And I'm like, what the fuck is that guy doing?

And I look over and he's staring at the Amazon one Palm scanner.

Uh, so they have scanners in the stores now where you can actually scan your hand for the,

you know, the touch list checkout, which I did when I bought my breakfast burritos and waved my card at the

machine and it said go now.

That's what I did.

Um, I didn't have to stand and scan my palm.

I just took the piece of plastic out that Amazon gave me and I waved it at them and they said, go with God or

be so scan a solution in search of a problem.

Exactly.

Um, and I did see one theory that they're really just working on it so they can sell the

technology to their, uh, corporate clients, you know, for exit and entry for, you know, locations and

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