Temporary storage of an IP address, purely for preventing cyber attacks, not linked to any other data, does not require GDPR consent.

All browsers should switch to discarding all site data by default, unless the user specifically indicates that they want to keep it. That could be by logging in, or it could be a manual confirmation.

I use CookieAutoDelete to enforce that on Firefox. All site data, including cookies, gets deleted after I leave the site, unless I specifically tell it that I want to retain it.

It was the studio. It's also something that has been going on for years. Cuts and edits are often made to suit local laws, e.g. the UK release of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones was censored in the UK to remove a head butt, which would have bumped its classification up from PG and limited its audience.

Japan is another market where it happens frequently. As well as laws around censorship of genitals, there are some about showing drug use. Sometimes movies just don't get released or are heavily delayed while the hype dies down and then come out on DVD, like Oppenheimer.

No refund?

You crawl before you can run. Why try for a movie when you can make a small scene? Here's why I think it's BS! We started with shitty weird computers then got decent, but expensive, calculators, then when I was a kid they were dirt cheap...we got to complex physics simulations by mastering basic arithmetic, then complex calculations. If I were an AI optimist, I wouldn't expect an LLM to be able to produce a full movie, but maybe a 30 second scene, of limited scope....master that, then move on to 60s, 5m, etc.

As an LLM skeptic, I think it's telling that they're not showing demos of limited scenes, rendered perfectly...like a car chase...or a sports scene. For example, there must be a FUCKTON of footage of people hitting home runs...between movies and billions of hours of broadcast baseball...why not show me AI generate Marilyn Monroe or John Cena hitting a home run?...then in a few years AI that can digitally insert me, convincingly, into an action scene or a car chase scene?...then in a few years do original rehashes of popular formulas?....going from nothing to full length movies is like going from a baby being able to crawl to expect them to do professional-grade ballet...not realistic...and showing you're clueless about pretty much everything.

With the usual crap desktop and lack of keyboard navigation? Just asking. Also with the usual 100% project ownership and lack of interest in user feedback? Thanks, but no thanks.

Or possibly what it means is that the segment of people who want that capability is small. (I would have been part of that segment a decade ago, when my eyes were better. These days Txt message on the phone are too small to read.)

Your valid point is that it's no longer adaptive. But it *was*, and social customs tend to persist long after their utility. I'm sure you can think of a few currently being stressed in the US.

It's not worth it. For every time it costs you money to replace the whole unit, another 9 times you saved money.

Especially in cars where electronics need to be highly resistant to vibration and moisture. You don't want sockets or rework on the boards.

I estimate no more than 5 seconds from launch to the first complaint that Copilot showed someone's kid porn.

It's only 5 seconds because Microsoft's bloated code won't be able to do it any faster than that.

The idea of relying on commercial providers to develop this stuff at their own expense is okay if you aren't in any hurry to get back to the moon, but if you are... Their commercial timelines are probably not going to line up with your political ones.

Still, it would be interesting if Chinese and Americans could meet up on the moon in the next decade, Apollo-Soyuz style.

Well the keyless entry can be useful. For example my car lets you open the boot by kicking under the bumper, if you have the key on you. Useful when your hands are full.

Anything less than 100% security negates that occasional benefit though.

It's not moronic, but it only makes sense within a proper context. It's more of a society optimizing thing than a physical efficiency optimizing thing. It makes more sense when transportation and communication are slow, and laws aren't strongly enforced, so social customs depend strongly on trust.

That joke is a story based on a really early attempt at machine translation. There were several similar goofs. E.g. "out of sight, out of mind" into "unseen moron", "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" is the one you selected, but it was only one of several. Not a huge number. Computer time was expensive! I probably heard of around 30. And translating to and from different languages yielded different results. "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" into Russian and back yielded "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.".