Treasury Secretary prospect Jack Lew is said to be a revolving door K Streeter that worked for CityGroup with Robert Rubin earning a couple million dollars doing the sort of trading Democrats sought to ban as responsible for the financial collapse of 2008. It's the same old stuff one expects of the Clintonistas that constructed with deregulation the corruption of Wall Street banks and of course Jack  Lew was part of that too with 8 years working for President Bill including a stint running the Office of Management and Budget.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-jack-lew-from-k-street-to-wall-street-to-treasury/article/2518326

Democrats don't care about Wall Street corruption, Republicans profit from it. The unemployed need to worry about President Obama's efforts to add 15 million more revolving door Mexicans to the cheap labor force. With high unemployment and China moving into Cancun and more jobs going south it doesn't seem like work prospects the next four years are good.

It seems unconscionable to consider making illegal aliens legal; rather than asking them to go back through that revolving door to Mexico with U.S. unemployment about 8% and real underemployment about 20%. Mexico isn't a distant third world nation, it's a second world nation that is quite nice. It's illegal immigrants don't join a melting pot as might someone from Bangladesh who can't just go back home on the bus at the end of a work day to Juarez. Adding 15 million dual citizenship Mexicans to the work force would further degrade the job prospects for single passport Americans along the border and elsewhere about whom the Democrats who are 'a party of the middle class' seem to think they just need to slop with four years of unemployment checks and food stamps.

D.H.S. Warns of Java Vulnerability to Hackers-Oracle Patch 7u11 released

I didn't know that D.H.S. tests software for programming vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Evidently Java has one, and Sun Systems said they will fix it soon.

I guess D.H.S. has its own top-quality hackers to find ways to eye down the bad guys and gals. Its good they reported one they found.

The recommendation is to temporarily disable Java. If one has firefox its easy to disable Java; simply go to add-ons and select plug ins and click the disable Java button.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/01/dhs-warns-that-java-flaw-leaves-computers-vulnerable-to-hackers/

update- Oracle issued an emergency patch for Java, yet some experts say it will take two years to fix.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/82135

 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u11-relnotes-1896856.html

Quantum Apocalypse/Holograpahic Universe (video) and My Comments on Dynamic Subjectivism

Since John Dewey popularized the notion that reality and language are subjective various forms of non-realism reinforced with existential thought, even the General Theory of Relativity and more have developed the notion that 'nothing is real'. There are numerous popular videos on youtube on 'The Holographic Universe' and the new foundation in quantum mechanics. Here is one I enjoyed quite a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dpRPTwsKJs&list=PLB08DD52041319BEF&index=5

I agree that the perception and experience of reality is a phenomenon of mind existing in a quantum field that is interpreted by the brain. I think though that while reality is constructed through a subjective brain-mind channel, there is still something objective to interpret. If one brain-mind interprets Alaskan winters in a tent as cold, so would about anyone else in that circumstance. The quantum forces that produce the potential for cold to be experienced cohere within a steady state of quantum entanglement that determines the potential realm of experience of an observer.

The Holographic Universe videos present an artful and philosophical view of reality with some credibility. A human mind-brain interprets quantum data into a field image and sense data experience, yet the potential to make an image of reality is limited to the quantum material that exists. The brain-mind-observer may determine a particular point of view from all potential worldlines however I do not think the probability states of the quantum realm is anarchic or disordered. An observer may observe just those states that can exist amidst all the possible states. I believe that the probability entanglement status of the solid state Universe (1) is entirely subjective existentially and the possibilities of viewing it through observation are objective while the experience is subjective, so I have a somewhat different opinion of the topic of the videos.

I like the video. I can accept the Berkleyan position of pure ideaism with the theological perspective of a Christian as well as the notion of scientific subjectivism.

Alaska Salmon FIshery Management and-Better Tlingit Tech-knowledge

In days of yore the S.E. Alaska salmon fishery was managed by native Tlingits in such a way that a sustainable fishery existed. The region had permanent fish traps located at streams the salmon returned to spawn in negating the need for motorized quests in competition-with-others at sea. Harvest in fish traps allows a careful measure of salmon taken and precludes significant catch-cheating.

The fish trap caught salmon were taken in a sustainable quantity. After being gutted on-the-spot the fish eggs and then sperm were taken and put in the creek to assure a plentiful return. Fish caught by boats never place fertilized eggs in appropriate creek locations today. Instead fish hatcheries raise hatchlings in remote locations without growing naturally in Alaska rivers. The Yukon River should have such a method to restore the fishery to health.

image credit: N.O.A.A. fishwatch

If such a program was used today the at-sea harvesting by U.S.and foreign vessels ought to be halted to let a full recover of fish populations with right-of-return exist. Today the formerly 100 pound Chinook are increasingly of girlie-man size and number, where they exist at all.

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/01/obama_consolidation_plan_would.html

Will 2013 Be the Year For Accelerated Arctic Ice Pack Melting?

The year 2012 brought the warmest year on record in the U.S.A. as well as the smallest Arctic ice pack. At some point one might guess that progressive atmospheric warming, and warming of the Arctic Ocean will bring accelerated ice pack melting, as in ice covering a mud puddle that is slow to defreeze one day and increases it melting in time. Maybe it's this year, maybe next decade yet that increased melting rate may develop.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/ncdc-announces-warmest-year-record-contiguous-us

image credit : N.O.A.A.

image credit: N.A.S.A.

The American Broadcast Media is an Automatic Assault Weapon That Should Be Banned

The American broadcast media is an assault weapon dumbing-down the U.S. electorate-those are the people eligible to vote. It should be banned or carefully restricted through stoppage of federal sales of broadcast wavelengths to the public. Instead those finite wavelengths should be given over to individual citizen podcast rebroadcast use through public computer facilities akin to public highway facilities. Without the presence of individual broadcast entrepreneurs by the millions many of whom are graduates the development of good political sense is defeated a priori. The assault weapon of media ignorance and 'entertainment' continues to build an elite of corruption over the masses.

In days of yore the media was a respectful presenter of 'news'. After the development of cable and the Internet they morphed into some form of predatory wolfen men and women raving at the mooned public.

Select Dark Energy Theories Put to the Test and Found Wanting

Dark energy theories have developed to explain the fairly recently discovered accelerating expansion of the Universe. Many of those theories exploit dark energy (an unknown) for an explanation. Those theories often postulate that the proton to electron mass ratio, which is a fundamental constant, had a different value in the early Universe. Thompson used the new Hubble ultra-deep field photos to show that the proton to electron mass ratio hasn't changed.

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dark-energy-alternatives-einstein-room.html#ajTabs

Einstein initially developed a theory of a constant cosmological force that would cancel out the effects of gravity that should, if it were not neutralized, draw the mass of the Universe toward a collapse and crunch to a singularity like that hypothesized at the start of Universe (1). Dark energy is regarded as being that force offsetting and overcoming gravity at large scales yet theories about a particular form it might take appear incorrect.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_expansion.html

image credit: N.A.S.A./Ann Field

Einstein's cosmological constant was good while people believed the Universe was in something of a steady state. When Edwin Hubble observed that the Universe (1) is expanding Einstein decried his own cosmological constant saying that it was a booboo. For some reason it didn't occur to anyone back in the day that a cosmological constant was still needed to make the Universe (1) expand even more.

Rather than being a form of energy-another particle, the cosmological constant could have any of a zoo of theoretical causes from extra dimensions changing relationships or size to probability entanglement quantum structures without spacetime.