“Reality is in your mind.”

Keynes appears and makes everyone rich by printing up some money.

Mises' "Human Action" in action?

It all depends on the type of data.

If you have data that converges nicely to a value when you calculate the mean, you are home free. This applies to physical experiments, which are repeatable, can be studied in isolation and where you have a model to check against.

If you have data that is all over the place and strongly depends on intelligent agents and/or random fluctuations you are looking for trouble. It gets worse if you don't even have a model or a clue what to look for. Statistics-using economists and "traders" (basically, swimming-pool attendants in charge of your money) are dead stinking fish once the party is over (that's you, Krugman) - they never knew what to look for in the first place. Same goes for politicians fantasizing about cakewalks in foreign lands and generals pouring about the latest metrics about how the war is going before they are shipped back to D.C. Your social dreckwork cannot be far behind.

A good job done in a bad cause.

I'm ambivalent on all of this.

At least it's not the Tony Blair Medal of Truth and Freedom.

"I don't know. Fanwank something!"

"Star Wars 1313 dives into a part of the Star Wars mythos that we've always known existed, but never had a chance to visit"

I hate this kind of marketroid talk. It's not as if "Star Wars Universe" had some independent existence or (like mathematics or an actual world) had "areas to uncover/visit" because there is no requirement to be consistent in anything.

They should just admit that "We made random stuff up so we could sell you something. Enjoy!"

Junkie unwell? Great Doctor Keynes orders more Heroin!

"Factory output is slowing in China. Europe is still struggling with debts in Greece, Spain, and Ireland. And now the United States is adding a lot fewer jobs than needed."

And most of these are government-sponsored. Oh woe.

Meanwhile, if you think it's over or looking up, the junkie economy is currently so junked up that its head is bound to explode like a pez dispenser any minute now:

"http://mises.org/daily/6054/The-Bernanke-Bust"

"We are looking at another economic bust but, given the size of this building monetary boom, a bust with a real possibility of surpassing anything we have seen in the recent past. Yes, even the housing boom turned bust turned Great Recession."

Great job!

Sociopath in power admits to lesser wrongdoings, while continuing malfeasance.

Pope catholic, Holocaust actually happened etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimivirus

"Mimivirus, short for "mimicking microbe", is so called to reflect its large size. Mimivirus possesses many characteristics which place it at the boundary of living and non-living."

Similarly, Flame possesses many characteristics which place it into the genus of bloatware, media players and nagware.

"the photons have to be indistinguishable so as to maximize their interaction"

I would says the photons [two quantae in the photon field, really] have to be indistinguishable so as to be able to interfere.

If they are distinguishable, you are back in the classical case. This quantum can be labeled #1, and this one #2. The cat is either dead. Or not.

In a vague sense, the universe's datastructure indexes stuff by the system's state, then history. If particles have the same state and exchanging their history does not allow you to distinguish them, they go into the same bin. This applies even to complex systems such as alpha particles.

Really?

Do we really need a "copyright violation is theft and straving artists" angle on this kind of stark incompetence by the BBC which seems to be designed to push for another "NATO humanitarian intervention by DU distribution" in a country no-one knows anything about?

I don't think so.

"Thanks to technology lowering the costs of production and distribution, we are all creators now, and we need our rights protecting against their unauthorised, unpaid use by media giants - who want to use our work for no cost and at no risk."

I detest the concept of "creator" and the idea that one should have pennies shoved into one's bank account for every crap one comes up with. Because of "rights". Sod that.

"sexual harassment and rape" ... "the UK Supreme Court rule"

Ah yes. Smear, entrap, then find some gimp to act on it.

Well, President Obomba has not yet personally (but oh so very morally and with the gravitas required of decisions pertaining to state terror) okayed a Death Note on Julian yet, so we should be grateful.

I just managed to install F16, WTF!!

Netherlands off the Fail Train?

Finally some *good* news today.

The Terminal Beach

We read (with suitable correction to unit naming ... FFS EL REG!!)

"µSievert/h suggests that the detector is a dosimeter measuring radiation dose from all sources as opposed to an actual Caesium-137 detector which would be expected to read in Becquerel."

Why? A debimeter might be expected to read in Becquerel (decay events / second... basically Hertz) but that unit is not going to help you know about Cs-137 around you. It would also be meaningless to the civilian. Sievert, with a suitably (magically?) calibrated detector to be able to somewhat meaningfully extrapolate to the effects of the hunk of meat holding said detector, are at least somewhat usable (still a difference whether the Cs is on your skin or in your gut though.)

And how do you determine the distribution of Cs-137 or any other radioactive material in trace amounts anyway? Do you look for beta decay at precise energies? I suppose not. I suppose one grabs dirt, chemically binds any Cs, then measures the activity of the extract, preferably over a few minutes to get good numbers.

Now, can we know more about how the chip magic in this phonedosimeter works? Does it use a camera to look for luminescence? Does it look for bit pattern errors in vulnerable memory cells? What? My dosimeter still has a tube and it's not cheap even though it's clearly a mass-produced piece of plastic-encased use-once electronics, with integrated irreplaceable battery.

zlib and SQLlite, huh?

They didn't use any software under the GNU license, so no obligation to share code. Well done.

What no Zeon?

Damn. I was hoping for a real Space Nazi Flag. Oh well, guess the olde german red-white-black design of the Principality of Zeon might be too obviously evil. Baby blue, that's what it should be.

As for Syria. Hmmm, they may have trouble with Qaeda types (good) but are not on the side of Israel (bad). They are not _Our_ Bad Guys (bad). They are also Shia in there (bad) allied with Iran (double plus bad). They also torture children (bad).

They can be bombed to smithereens by the North Atlantic Jerkoff Club (good) but Russia is their ally because of that Mediterranean port (BLOCKER ALERT)!

On the other hand, we have Bahrain ... quick, look over there, someone is exploiting Miss Lohan again!

And a voice rose in the desert, claiming "Developers, Developers, Developers"

Who is in charge over there? I think father Enoch Root needs to kick in some doors!

It begins!

Sunshine? They would say that!

Nein, Nein, Nein!!

1) We have a typo, commander! It's "Einstein", not "Einsten".

2) "to transmit information instantaneously"

Not so. Information is always transmitted at "c" in the best of cases. Correlation in the measurement of a shared state does, however, not need information transmission. Consider a black card and a red card. If Alice and Bob each have one, and Alice checks the color of her card, how much time did it take for Bob's card to take on the other color? Exactly. If quantum, the colors are not even fixed before at least one side is measured (which makes things interesting as either Alice or Bob can measure first depending on the reference frame) but you get the idea.

Still, this is good engineering stuff.

People living off the IP fantasm organize an IP exhibition - Shocker.

I wonder whether The Wrong Trousers were patented before Wallace "invented" them? Did he check with the patent office? That's going to be expensive♫

I it doesn't work, just ask for more money.

"Now if you're a private business, then the worse that happens is that you lose some of your revenue that day. But if you are offering services to UK citizens and you are introducing something which denies them access because it does not work properly, there are all sorts of issues for government, local authorities or even NHS websites, that a retailer would not face."

The wholesome aire in the velvet-clad king's seat upon the civil servant mountain must be rarefied indeed, sire!! God bless!