I would imagine they decay into something else in like 10e-15 seconds.

It also coincides with an improved definition of Alzheimer's, and more effective detection and diagnosis.

Or perhaps the way they controlled for that was inadequate. If even ONE PERCENT of the deaths attributed to other causes was actually due to Alzheimers, that would swamp the observed effect. Can they say for sure that their method of controlling for other effects is better than 99% effective?

It's a good question.

Not enough information here. Alzheimer's disease starts slow, and progresses incrementally for years. My first hypothesis would be that taxi drivers in the early stages of Alzheimer's become unable to drive effectively, and hence leave the profession years before they are diagnosed with Alzheimer's; hence their death certificates don't list "taxi driver" as their occupation.

But the observation that taxi drivers die an average of ten years earlier than other occupations also makes the explanation that their protocol for removal of confounding effects may be inadequate. That's a huge effect to compensate out.

I'm sorry, when I read your earlier post I was so focused on your ignorance of millimeter waves that I somehow completely overlooked the part showing that you are a conspiracy nut who believes thinks like " 90% of hijackings, including Lockerbee and 9/11, were government intelligent funded psychological operations".

I apologize for wasting both of our time by interacting with you. Please carry on (preferably somewhere else).

Interesting comment, but in fact, millimeter wave machines are well understood to be harmless (millimeter waves are non-ionizing), and while they may have false positives, the response to a positive in airport screening is not to arrest people, but to do search to see what caused the positive. Eliminating mm scanners would mean more, not less, intrusive scanning.

It's slightly more complicated than that. The problem is, "the people" are afraid of crime, and what they want is the police to have the tools to track down and arrest criminals. So the message the politicians get is a contradictory one: "give the police the tools to make our neighborhoods safe from crime! Whatever it takes!" and simultaneously "we don't want government surveillance!"

If you don't like it, you will need to convince people that civil liberties are more important than stopping crime.

Can we finally know whether or not there is beer on the sun?!

I have such fond memories of EA from the '80s, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a completely different and unrelated entity.

AI isn't going to make a profit, so they are probably looking for something that will.

Since the scanning technique is to slice off the binding, remove the cover, and then auto-feed the pages through a high-speed scanner, it destroys the books anyway, regardless of the "stupid law".

That mentality never left Microsoft. They just to have work harder to maintain plausible deniability. Plausible, that is, to the anti-trust courts and politicians, none of whom know anything about technology.

I don't think that's likely. GOG has been around for almost 20 years. If they were to renege on providing offline installers, what could that possibly gain them? That only makes sense if they are planning to reimplement DRM, and that would immediately kill the company.

Another win for Betteridge's law of headlines.

If the question were answered, the headline wouldn't have been in the form of a question.

The information buried way down in the article is that the atmospheric gas detected is helium.

Really not as exciting a discovery as the article makes it seem. Nobody doubts that planets can have helium in their atmosphere. In our solar system this is characteristic of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn) and the ice giants (Uranus, Neptune).