The shifting of language is a large part of the design process. The textual portions include instructions (and leave space on the large tablets) to add new languages to the tablets, so they can be a form of "Rosetta Stone" for future generations to understand the messages.

https://wipp.energy.gov/librar...

My thinking too... the fact that current storage media is short-lived doesn't seem to me to be a big provide since the ability to read said media is also short-lived. Data needs to be kept "fresh" by migrating it to current storage means. Otherwise you end up with stories like NASA finding some thought-lost Apollo data tapes but lacking any means to read them.

If the data is important enough that it needs to be kept for centuries, then it's important enough to migrate to current data storage formats as the technology advances.

An exception that comes to mind is the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (https://www.wipp.energy.gov/ )that had the design goal of storing radioactive waste deep underground and marking the site such that the site's warnings would be understandable and readable 10,000 years into the future. Since the message was sent going to be transferred to new formats and had to last so long, it had to be readable with no aid of technology.

I was just thinking the same thing. How do you implement them though? How would an AI agent know if something is harmful? Maybe it would come up with some sort of workaround?

Why does it seem like we are driving society towards self-isolation with less and less human interaction?

Online shopping..."social" media (I don't find it particularly social)...leave-at-door food delivery...all replacing human interaction with a screen and keyboard. Robot teachers? I think not.

It feels like we as a society are slowly trading human interaction for convenience. Is pushing a few buttons and getting what we need delivered within a few hours worth the lack of human interaction? Are we encouraging societal short attention spans with "news" and media in 140 character and 90 second snippets?

Sometimes the most efficient way of getting things done isn't worth what is trimmed out in favor of efficiency.

Oh yes it does reflect your values or how you operate, because the talk matched the walk. Not all "values" are set in corporate mission statements, some are just simple common sense and respect. This was an officer of the company, thus he represents the company's values. If not, then his ass would have been fired.

To say otherwise is just boilerplate attempts at PR damage control.

Are some people so lazy that they don't even want to doomscoll social media themselves and want AI to do it for them?

I must be getting old because I see zero use for this.

Some may ask, why would The Document Foundation do this when Collabra already exists. Maybe because...they want to?

Why are there multiple Linux distros? Shouldn't one be enough and put all the development resources into that one? Because different developers and programmers wanted to!

Isn't that one of the reasons OSS exists, because users or programmers want to scratch an itch?

So what if TDF wants to resume an online collaboration environment. Isn't "because we want to" sufficient reason?

This may not really apply to the current discussion but your statements about precedent and norms caught my attention.

Relying on SCOTUS precedent and historical norms, as has been seen the last several years, is a weak and ambiguous way to govern. The only way something should be expected to be legislated long-term is to write a law explicitly addressing the issue.

Abortion: It was supported by Roe v. Wade. Well SCOTUS revisited the ruling and look what happened. If the political left wanted abortion to be solidly legal, it should have been codified into law.

The penalty for not having insurance under the Affordable Care Act was judged to be a "tax" and legal. If the political right wanted it struck down, then write clear and precise legislation to do so. (I don't know if this requirement is still around, I'm using what I remember as an example).

I'm not saying court rulings are useless; they are very useful in seeing how the courts will interpret a law. If the legislators find that the courts rule that a law says "x" when it's intended to say "y," then rewrite the law so it clearly says "y."

Minister Larry T. Cableguy will be along shortly to git'r done!

I was wondering why including a kernel that would have support until 2023 was noteworthy...I thought it was a typo until I read the comments.

This sort of thing used to be done very subtly...it's generally not good practice to let your adversaries know you're actively recruiting fired subordinates, lest those subordinates "commit suicide."

I don't know about a law passed by a local government, but almost every spot I've seen was posted by the parking lot owners as EV charging only.

It's also a matter of respect and civil behavior. ICE drivers wouldn't want a EV parking in front of a gas pump at a busy convenience store, so why would it be OK for an ICE-powered vehicle to par in an EV stall?

Completely off topic so moderate this post nothingness but I'm saying it anyway.

CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO SUMMARIZING the story instead of copying the majority of it?? Editors, show a little g--d--- EFFORT and summarize! More posts fit the front page and a shorter "summary" will encourage readers to read the original story* before commenting.

*Yes I know that reading the story before posting goes against the Slashdot grain but I'm still an optimist.

Or South Korea. EVs from Hyundai and Kia IMHO are quite good; I prefer the Kia Niro over the Tesla Model 3 in damn near every way (except for the in-car nav), even more so now that I can charge the Kia at Superchargers.

"Depending on many they build and such, of course. I hope they DON'T put them right next to the shopping center though....they honestly should be clustered along the edges or maybe down the middle so as to avoid traffic sitting for long periods of time in one section of the lot (while charging)."

How is the addition of chargers going to change the idea of "traffic sitting for long periods of time in one section"? Cars charging aren't sitting in traffic lanes, they are on parking stalls.

I'd prefer them a bit of distance out, or off to the side, for a different reason. Putting them close-in and taking up more popular slots tends to result in ICE-powered cars taking up the charging spots; "why should EVs get better parking than me? Screw'em! I'll park where I damn well please."