Autopsies are rare unless there is already strong suspicion of a crime, and most coroners aren't competent to diagnose the workings of a pace maker or defibrillator. Additionally, if the defibrillator kept trying to restart the heart until it's battery died, it would fail to respond without replacing the battery. Not a minor endeavor.
People who are competent to diagnose defibrillators are rare, especially if they are expected to work on devices made by an arbitrary manufacturer rather than just a couple of them. People who can repair them (more than just changing the battery...itself no minor operation) usually work for the company that made them.
So unless there is already a presumption of murder I don't think this would be likely to be detected.
Except that games are designed to hold attention more firmly than is, e.g., text message reading. Since they are more immersive, it actually *is* a different phenomenon, if only by degree. I'll agree that this isn't unique to Pokemon Go, but it's more like playing pachinko while driving than texting while driving.
There have been other stories attributing death or injury (possibly there weren't any deaths) to Pokemon Go...the difference is this time the player was the one who did the killing. The other times people playing it just wandered into dangerous areas and either injured themselves or were assaulted.
Separate your wife's professional computers from the Internet. Seriously, don't go half way. If you are refusing security patches you are risking even more than if you aren't. Ferry data between computers on usb sticks or CDs. There are a few pieces of malware that can hide in photo files, but they aren't common, and if they can't connect out they will often just hide. DON"T transfer zip archives. You don't know what is in them.
Now that you have your MSWindows needs isolated, install Linux on the machine that connects to the Internet. This has the additional advantage that malware that targets Linux often can't run on MSWindows. Avoid flash as much as possible. (I won't have it installed, but perhaps you need it.)
If you set things up right this isn't much more work than just running two computers, and if you use CDs or DVDs as your transfer medium, you get good backups of all your work. Usb sticks are more convenient, but are also more expensive and not good for long term storage. (Even CDs die over the decades, though.)
Sorry, but the the US and either Russia or China get into a serious war, humanity will end up deindustrialized, starving, and with probably less than 1% of the current population. There won't be any countries. Or cities. Or towns.
I wouldn't expect a true "On The Beach" scenario, but it wouldn't be far from that.
An interesting question is "What if India and one of it's neighbors gets into a nuclear exchange?". The best prediction includes massive world wide starvation due to a few "year without a summer"s, but nobody's really sure. (The "year without a summer" was caused by one volcano...but ash from firestorms lofted by an atomic bomb aren't the same.)
Sorry, but the Emperor was definitely "touched". He wasn't replaced, but severe constraints were placed upon what he could say or do for over a decade. This wasn't totally just, as he had been largely the figurehead of a militarist group, and was only a teenager when things started happening, but in another sense it was necessary. He had been demonized during the war, and had to appear (to the US public) to have been punished. The actual restraints were quite minor as they weren't really needed. He wasn't actually pro-militarist, but had only been the figurehead of a militarist clique. But I remember even during the 1950's growing up seeing some old propaganda pictures. I don't really understand how vilified anything Japanese was during the war, but it was enough that there was plenty of sentiment left over during the early 1950's. During much of the war Japan was more vilified than was Germany. In both cases the people in charge really deserved to be vilified, but most people in the countries didn't.
It's all very well to say you should be independent and not moved by group think, but nobody really is. Some people are contrarians, and tend to swim against the current, most people have basic beliefs that are only shifted by the group think, but everyone is affected, and most people end up being driven considerably in a direction that they would not otherwise move. As an example, how do you feel about the divine right of kings? A few centuries ago you'd probably be not only accepting, but passively in favor of it. The relict of it is in how we in the US feel about the President. Note that many dislike him, but most would consider his person to be "sacred". If they don't think he should be president, they try to come up with a flaw that shows him to be an usurper...and will believe palpable lies if it makes that easier to believe.
Additionally, when the methane is removed from the atmosphere it is commonly by converting it into CO2. So in addition to being a worse short term problem, it's also a long term problem.
The best apparent answer is to convert forests into peat bogs. Unfortunately, the existing peat bogs are drying out and threaten to catch on fire, returning their load of Carbon to the atmosphere.
Worse, the old peat bogs have turned into coal, which is also being returned to the atmosphere. Whoops!
My thought as well. Even in very clean environments having a catheter inserted through one's skin is quite likely to lead to a life threatening infection. And that doesn't describe any barn or pasture I've ever seen.
Read the article instead of just the headline. As I skimmed it I found *NO* assertion that our ancestors were vegetarian. Not any of them. Instead the assertion was that many of them ate more vegetables that had been previously presumed. This is a quite different assertion.
There's also nothing outdated about assuming that in increase in the amount of meat eaten "was a very important step in the Ascent of Man". There's some argument about how much of that was fish or shell-fish, with some arguing that it was the shell-fish and similar dense calorie and protein resources that fostered tribal defense of territory...AFAIK the evidence for that is quite minimal, but the argument is reasonable.
Please note that meat eating became less important once cooking was developed. Cooking made vegetable calories much more digestible. But cooking was a relatively late accomplishment. (It also had other effects, e.g. it made meat much less likely to harbor parasites.)
That said, there is little reason to doubt that hunter-gatherers got most of their calories from vegetables, but ate as much meat as they could. (Well, not literally. People might eat, e.g., enough hippo to get sick, but they wouldn't really try to eat the whole thing.)
Gimp is a separate package. Have you tried it with QEmu? juk?
I use several packages that require reasonably current kde libraries, and using them with Trinity just didn't work...and my guess is that they also wouldn't work with the wrong version of KDE, even though they work quite will with xfce.
I don't like fighting city hall. If a distro wants it's KDE to be KDE5, it's easier to just switch back to a distro that is happy with KDE4. Possibly when KDE5 becomes default they'll have a decent theme version with it or easily available.
OTOH, a part of the design of KDE5 was explicitly breaking it up into smaller pieces, so it may be that they've killed it, but it's my guess that it was just an incompetent configuration by the ubuntu installer that I didn't want to bother fighting with.
FWIW, even though I use KDE, I normally use geany as my text editor rather than kate. There are a couple of applications where kate handles execution in the text window better, where in geany I need to use a separate text window rather than the included one.
KDE3 was the gold standard for my use. KDE4 never seemed as "solid". I preferred Gnome2. When I saw KDE5 on Ubuntu I immediately reinstalled Debian.
XFCE is pretty good, so is LXDE. The last time I tried Mate I wasn't really impressed, but that's 6 months ago. Cinnamon seemed to have caught some sort of disease from Gnome3 when dealing with panels. Trinity doesn't seems to work well with the current series of applications.
But currently what I use is KDE4. I like it, it's just never felt as solid as KDE3 did....but I preferred Gnome2 to KDE4, so I'm not sure why Mate hasn't felt like a reasonable choice.
Think about that decision a bit more. It *did* fuck the tech community big time. Google was just able to claim fair use, which is a defense that's always problematical, and requires lots of expensive lawyers to hope to use. The idiot, or corrupt, judge ruled that APIs were copyrightable, even though they are functional.
It was a copyright infringement claim, but I thought it was over the documentation...which wasn't covered by the GPL, but which I thought was automatically generated from the covered material, which should have made it "non-creative", and therefore not copyrightable.
Well, I never liked it, but I once worked with someone who thought very highly of their database. At the time my only comparisons were with FoxBase, which had been ruined by MS, and MSAccess...which I caught making arithmetic errors...so I wasn't in any position to challenge him, even though it seemed like horrendous overkill to me. (I knew there were other databases out there, but I wasn't familiar with them.)
Google collects lots of data about you. This is threatening, but not inherently evil. Their business model is to sell advertisers access to a particular demographic, so they've got good reason to keep that data to themselves.
Unfortunately, there are governments who have the power to extort access to that data from Google, so just by collecting that data Google automatically makes you vulnerable. If the governments all always act honorably and legally you can still say this isn't a problem, but my suspension of disbelief won't stretch that far.
Additionally there are those who love to crack into systems for wealth or fame. Some will carelessly publish everything they find on the net. Others will use it with malicious intent. And no system that's on the net is really secure.
Then there are those who break into something else, say Linked-In, and release the data pretending that it came from Google. Whoops!
The whole mess is murky, and full of characters with malign intent. And this is enabled by, among others, Google.
I liked it better when it was just a search engine, but I can't really say that Google has been particularly evil. Point me at a particular thing and I may say "yes, they were evil there", but I can look back at my own life and there are places where I can say "when I think about it, my ethics slipped a little there". Nobody's perfect. Google appears to try to do a good job. Oracle appears to have evil as a goal.
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Autopsies are rare unless there is already strong suspicion of a crime, and most coroners aren't competent to diagnose the workings of a pace maker or defibrillator. Additionally, if the defibrillator kept trying to restart the heart until it's battery died, it would fail to respond without replacing the battery. Not a minor endeavor.
People who are competent to diagnose defibrillators are rare, especially if they are expected to work on devices made by an arbitrary manufacturer rather than just a couple of them. People who can repair them (more than just changing the battery...itself no minor operation) usually work for the company that made them.
So unless there is already a presumption of murder I don't think this would be likely to be detected.
How would you prove it? Would it require assistance from the company to show that that was what happened?
Reading problem? Many people have reported in earlier posts that this had worked fine with their systems before the update.
Others have reported that this happened for awhile, then they got another "Windows 10" update, and then it stopped happening.
So clearly the problem was a defect with Microsoft Windows 10 which they have since fixed.
Except that games are designed to hold attention more firmly than is, e.g., text message reading. Since they are more immersive, it actually *is* a different phenomenon, if only by degree. I'll agree that this isn't unique to Pokemon Go, but it's more like playing pachinko while driving than texting while driving.
There have been other stories attributing death or injury (possibly there weren't any deaths) to Pokemon Go...the difference is this time the player was the one who did the killing. The other times people playing it just wandered into dangerous areas and either injured themselves or were assaulted.
Well, but you should ALSO find them and remove their license. With prejudice. People sent to jail usually get out eventually.
Separate your wife's professional computers from the Internet. Seriously, don't go half way. If you are refusing security patches you are risking even more than if you aren't. Ferry data between computers on usb sticks or CDs. There are a few pieces of malware that can hide in photo files, but they aren't common, and if they can't connect out they will often just hide. DON"T transfer zip archives. You don't know what is in them.
Now that you have your MSWindows needs isolated, install Linux on the machine that connects to the Internet. This has the additional advantage that malware that targets Linux often can't run on MSWindows. Avoid flash as much as possible. (I won't have it installed, but perhaps you need it.)
If you set things up right this isn't much more work than just running two computers, and if you use CDs or DVDs as your transfer medium, you get good backups of all your work. Usb sticks are more convenient, but are also more expensive and not good for long term storage. (Even CDs die over the decades, though.)
Remember the boy scout motto, and "be prepared". That means trying it out and ensuring that everything you need to do can be easily done.
I did that about 1998, and soon switched to Linux. At that time the word processors on Linux were horrible to non-existent, but I switched anyway.
My question is "How do you prevent them being jammed?" Are they going to have a built-in AI? What could possibly go wrong with that?
That's the basic approach that is the only feasible one. Make it something deniable.
That said, I sure hope the current work on hypersonic missiles is just chest thumping. Several countries can already manage a "doomsday machine".
Sorry, but the the US and either Russia or China get into a serious war, humanity will end up deindustrialized, starving, and with probably less than 1% of the current population. There won't be any countries. Or cities. Or towns.
I wouldn't expect a true "On The Beach" scenario, but it wouldn't be far from that.
An interesting question is "What if India and one of it's neighbors gets into a nuclear exchange?". The best prediction includes massive world wide starvation due to a few "year without a summer"s, but nobody's really sure. (The "year without a summer" was caused by one volcano...but ash from firestorms lofted by an atomic bomb aren't the same.)
I still don't think we should ever have been there. We had no call to sabotage the Geneva accords.
Sorry, but the Emperor was definitely "touched". He wasn't replaced, but severe constraints were placed upon what he could say or do for over a decade. This wasn't totally just, as he had been largely the figurehead of a militarist group, and was only a teenager when things started happening, but in another sense it was necessary. He had been demonized during the war, and had to appear (to the US public) to have been punished. The actual restraints were quite minor as they weren't really needed. He wasn't actually pro-militarist, but had only been the figurehead of a militarist clique. But I remember even during the 1950's growing up seeing some old propaganda pictures. I don't really understand how vilified anything Japanese was during the war, but it was enough that there was plenty of sentiment left over during the early 1950's. During much of the war Japan was more vilified than was Germany. In both cases the people in charge really deserved to be vilified, but most people in the countries didn't.
It's all very well to say you should be independent and not moved by group think, but nobody really is. Some people are contrarians, and tend to swim against the current, most people have basic beliefs that are only shifted by the group think, but everyone is affected, and most people end up being driven considerably in a direction that they would not otherwise move. As an example, how do you feel about the divine right of kings? A few centuries ago you'd probably be not only accepting, but passively in favor of it. The relict of it is in how we in the US feel about the President. Note that many dislike him, but most would consider his person to be "sacred". If they don't think he should be president, they try to come up with a flaw that shows him to be an usurper...and will believe palpable lies if it makes that easier to believe.
Maybe they could fly in the solar powered airplanes.
Additionally, when the methane is removed from the atmosphere it is commonly by converting it into CO2. So in addition to being a worse short term problem, it's also a long term problem.
The best apparent answer is to convert forests into peat bogs. Unfortunately, the existing peat bogs are drying out and threaten to catch on fire, returning their load of Carbon to the atmosphere.
Worse, the old peat bogs have turned into coal, which is also being returned to the atmosphere. Whoops!
My thought as well. Even in very clean environments having a catheter inserted through one's skin is quite likely to lead to a life threatening infection. And that doesn't describe any barn or pasture I've ever seen.
Read the article instead of just the headline. As I skimmed it I found *NO* assertion that our ancestors were vegetarian. Not any of them. Instead the assertion was that many of them ate more vegetables that had been previously presumed. This is a quite different assertion.
There's also nothing outdated about assuming that in increase in the amount of meat eaten "was a very important step in the Ascent of Man". There's some argument about how much of that was fish or shell-fish, with some arguing that it was the shell-fish and similar dense calorie and protein resources that fostered tribal defense of territory...AFAIK the evidence for that is quite minimal, but the argument is reasonable.
Please note that meat eating became less important once cooking was developed. Cooking made vegetable calories much more digestible. But cooking was a relatively late accomplishment. (It also had other effects, e.g. it made meat much less likely to harbor parasites.)
That said, there is little reason to doubt that hunter-gatherers got most of their calories from vegetables, but ate as much meat as they could. (Well, not literally. People might eat, e.g., enough hippo to get sick, but they wouldn't really try to eat the whole thing.)
Gimp is a separate package. Have you tried it with QEmu? juk?
I use several packages that require reasonably current kde libraries, and using them with Trinity just didn't work...and my guess is that they also wouldn't work with the wrong version of KDE, even though they work quite will with xfce.
I don't like fighting city hall. If a distro wants it's KDE to be KDE5, it's easier to just switch back to a distro that is happy with KDE4. Possibly when KDE5 becomes default they'll have a decent theme version with it or easily available.
OTOH, a part of the design of KDE5 was explicitly breaking it up into smaller pieces, so it may be that they've killed it, but it's my guess that it was just an incompetent configuration by the ubuntu installer that I didn't want to bother fighting with.
FWIW, even though I use KDE, I normally use geany as my text editor rather than kate. There are a couple of applications where kate handles execution in the text window better, where in geany I need to use a separate text window rather than the included one.
KDE3 was the gold standard for my use. KDE4 never seemed as "solid". I preferred Gnome2. When I saw KDE5 on Ubuntu I immediately reinstalled Debian.
XFCE is pretty good, so is LXDE. The last time I tried Mate I wasn't really impressed, but that's 6 months ago. Cinnamon seemed to have caught some sort of disease from Gnome3 when dealing with panels. Trinity doesn't seems to work well with the current series of applications.
But currently what I use is KDE4. I like it, it's just never felt as solid as KDE3 did....but I preferred Gnome2 to KDE4, so I'm not sure why Mate hasn't felt like a reasonable choice.
Think about that decision a bit more. It *did* fuck the tech community big time. Google was just able to claim fair use, which is a defense that's always problematical, and requires lots of expensive lawyers to hope to use. The idiot, or corrupt, judge ruled that APIs were copyrightable, even though they are functional.
It was a copyright infringement claim, but I thought it was over the documentation...which wasn't covered by the GPL, but which I thought was automatically generated from the covered material, which should have made it "non-creative", and therefore not copyrightable.
Well, I never liked it, but I once worked with someone who thought very highly of their database. At the time my only comparisons were with FoxBase, which had been ruined by MS, and MSAccess...which I caught making arithmetic errors...so I wasn't in any position to challenge him, even though it seemed like horrendous overkill to me. (I knew there were other databases out there, but I wasn't familiar with them.)
There's more than one thing involved here.
Google collects lots of data about you. This is threatening, but not inherently evil. Their business model is to sell advertisers access to a particular demographic, so they've got good reason to keep that data to themselves.
Unfortunately, there are governments who have the power to extort access to that data from Google, so just by collecting that data Google automatically makes you vulnerable. If the governments all always act honorably and legally you can still say this isn't a problem, but my suspension of disbelief won't stretch that far.
Additionally there are those who love to crack into systems for wealth or fame. Some will carelessly publish everything they find on the net. Others will use it with malicious intent. And no system that's on the net is really secure.
Then there are those who break into something else, say Linked-In, and release the data pretending that it came from Google. Whoops!
The whole mess is murky, and full of characters with malign intent. And this is enabled by, among others, Google.
I liked it better when it was just a search engine, but I can't really say that Google has been particularly evil. Point me at a particular thing and I may say "yes, they were evil there", but I can look back at my own life and there are places where I can say "when I think about it, my ethics slipped a little there". Nobody's perfect. Google appears to try to do a good job. Oracle appears to have evil as a goal.