Australis13

Perhaps, but in this case my privacy is more important and I can already warn IT people in my local community. If this were a business with multiple stores, then my answer would be different.

Sorry, I'd prefer not to since they are a local retailer and this was in 2012, so maybe, just maybe, they've upped their game by now.

I think it's one of the easiest ways they can "stick it to the man".

Good analogy, actually, since masks both reduce the risk to the wearer and reduce the risk of the wearer spreading whatever they're carrying to those around them.

Unfortunately raw milk can be a vector for avian flu and if (when) it achieves human-to-human transmission, these people will be vectors.

I understand where you're coming from, but then they just become a vector for nasties (e.g. avian flu when it finally overcomes the human-to-human transmission barrier, and you can be sure they won't take adequate precautions to avoid spreading it) as well as risking the health of their children.

The big win I see here is the amount of optimisation they achieved by moving from the high-level CUDA to lower-level PTX. This suggests that developing these models going forward can be made a lot more energy-efficient, something I hope can be extended to their execution as well. As it stands currently, "AI" (read: LLMs and image generation models) consumes way too many resources to be sustainable.

I contacted VCAT at the time, but it was going to cost me roughly half what the product (a HDD) was worth to open a case. The retailer in question would only give me a replacement, not a refund (I sourced an alternative elsewhere, so wanted a refund).

Because of the cost involved with chasing the issue, I ended up just getting the replacement and selling it to a colleague (including the receipt so they could follow up warranty if needed, although I did warn them about the retailer's behaviour). I've told everyone I know to avoid that retailer ever since.

When a product has a major problem, consumers can choose between a refund or replacement.

Try telling that to a few retailers I've dealt with. When I said I wanted a refund because the product did not work at all, they basically pointed me to their lawyer.

What?!

Is this really as dystopian as my inner cynic thinks? That this is to keep people from understanding how technology works?

Actually, I'm unclear on that point - do foreign companies actually have to comply, or is it just limited to government communications and government-published maps (e.g. the USGS, etc.)?

Pathetic. Hopefully the rest of the world doesn't follow suit. Renaming it just for one of Trump's ego trips is not a good reason.

I'm not a huge fan of tinkering with things like this, but if they're going to edit it for release, at least use streaming branching on the disc so the viewer can choose whether to watch it as originally presented or with the edits.