Interestingly, the most empirically successful strategy in iterated prisoner's dilemma games is "tit for tat with forgiveness". If you're playing with someone who isn't as altruistic as you are, total welfare in the long run can be higher by punishing betrayal than by unconditional cooperation.
In real life, you also have to consider reputation effects: if future partners will be aware of and punish you for your history of betrayal, the most successful strategy is to cooperate, even if you're playing selfishly.
Hofstadter's superrationality (see link) is a nice idea, but I'm not convinced it's the best explanation for observed cooperative societies.
Agreed. I saw Thomas Friedman give a speech and was disgusted hearing him refer to "climate change skeptics and deniers" in the same tone of voice people usually use referring to Holocaust revisionists. Skeptic should not be a derogatory term.
And, while this is the wrong crowd, there are lots of non-free older games that are trivially cheap. A few copies of Age of Empires II, for example, could provide a lot of entertainment at a low price, and it's even quasi-educational.
You should check out Google Charts. Pretty easy to use and very visually appealing. Feel free to drop me a line (bluej100 gmail) if you'd like to see how I've used it.
Lifetime wages are fairly close to parity for men and women with no college education. The major gap is between men and women with college education after about 25, and empirically, it largely appears to be a result of women being more likely to drop out of the labor force and working fewer hours. There is room for discrimination in the wage gap, but it's not the major cause--if there's a conspiracy here, it's the one that decided children and housework are primarily women's responsibilities.
The point is that you aren't seeing the trusted site, aside from one input element. It sounds like the attack is basically opening an iframe to "http://mybank.example/transfer?to=haxors&amount=99999" and covering everything other than the "Confirm" button with "Click okay to win a FREE XBox 360!"
If I'm predicting the attack correctly, effective protection is either 1) using different browsers for trusted and untrusted sites or 2) only being logged into one site at a time. (Key phrase: to which the user is currently authenticated with cookies.)
I suppose, though, that as an extension of this attack, they could perhaps present the login form for another site as a registration form and hope to catch people using the same credentials for everything.
Hopefully someone else will find this useful: the package you need for popularity sorting under Kubuntu Hardy is gnome-app-install. It's much better than adept, IMHO.
No kidding. I can't wait to be able to refer Windows-using friends to FOSS apps like Amarok. 2008 may well be the year of FOSS on the Windows desktop, at least. And once we've taken the beach....
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Interestingly, the most empirically successful strategy in iterated prisoner's dilemma games is "tit for tat with forgiveness". If you're playing with someone who isn't as altruistic as you are, total welfare in the long run can be higher by punishing betrayal than by unconditional cooperation.
In real life, you also have to consider reputation effects: if future partners will be aware of and punish you for your history of betrayal, the most successful strategy is to cooperate, even if you're playing selfishly.
Hofstadter's superrationality (see link) is a nice idea, but I'm not convinced it's the best explanation for observed cooperative societies.
Agreed. I saw Thomas Friedman give a speech and was disgusted hearing him refer to "climate change skeptics and deniers" in the same tone of voice people usually use referring to Holocaust revisionists. Skeptic should not be a derogatory term.
Perl has typed sigils.
It does mean that, unless it's significantly subsidized, it takes as much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as its use puts back in.
Way to ruin a Pigovian tax, guys.
And, while this is the wrong crowd, there are lots of non-free older games that are trivially cheap. A few copies of Age of Empires II, for example, could provide a lot of entertainment at a low price, and it's even quasi-educational.
KTron is an enjoyable 2D version of the same game concept.
You should check out Google Charts. Pretty easy to use and very visually appealing. Feel free to drop me a line (bluej100 gmail) if you'd like to see how I've used it.
And yes, jQuery turns piss to wine.
Lifetime wages are fairly close to parity for men and women with no college education. The major gap is between men and women with college education after about 25, and empirically, it largely appears to be a result of women being more likely to drop out of the labor force and working fewer hours. There is room for discrimination in the wage gap, but it's not the major cause--if there's a conspiracy here, it's the one that decided children and housework are primarily women's responsibilities.
Took me a while to find this.
Polite sneezing is into your shoulder.
Great post. FYI, this is termed the Post/Redirect/Get pattern.
The point is that you aren't seeing the trusted site, aside from one input element. It sounds like the attack is basically opening an iframe to "http://mybank.example/transfer?to=haxors&amount=99999" and covering everything other than the "Confirm" button with "Click okay to win a FREE XBox 360!"
If I'm predicting the attack correctly, effective protection is either 1) using different browsers for trusted and untrusted sites or 2) only being logged into one site at a time. (Key phrase: to which the user is currently authenticated with cookies.)
I suppose, though, that as an extension of this attack, they could perhaps present the login form for another site as a registration form and hope to catch people using the same credentials for everything.
MySQL's search is pretty bad, though. Make a Firefox quick search for "ml" to "http://www.google.com/search?btnI=&q=site%3Adev.mysql.com+%s".
SQLZoo.net is a good set of tutorials.
Beyond that, as established in Bryan Caplan's The Myth of the Rational Voter , voter self-interest correlates very poorly with voting behavior among the general public.
also scrolls much faster on graphical/data-intensive pages
Well, the lack of smooth scroll helps out there. Likewise the ridiculous scroll sensitivity on trackpads. But yes, load times are great.
Google Earth already has a flight simulator. It's nothing polished, certainly, but I thought it was a funny coincidence that the article would suggest one.
Accidentally modded you "troll" instead of "interesting." Sorry.
Bravo. Wish I had mod points.
Hopefully someone else will find this useful: the package you need for popularity sorting under Kubuntu Hardy is gnome-app-install. It's much better than adept, IMHO.
A logarithmic vote count->score scale seems reasonable.
Not a Bitstream Vera fan? I think its monospace is superb.
That story is almost word-for-word the same as an Alexa deleted my pages rant on a previous anti-Alexa Slashdot article. Apparently whoever compiled this article didn't read the reply to that post.
No kidding. I can't wait to be able to refer Windows-using friends to FOSS apps like Amarok. 2008 may well be the year of FOSS on the Windows desktop, at least. And once we've taken the beach....
I figured it was a sports metaphor, comparing them to mediocre teams. Must've forgotten where I was.
(Also forgotten that it's the Rays, and they play baseball.)