September 2000 - cypherpunks-legacy

CDR: reputation required for evolution of cooperation in _Science_
by David Honig 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

Science V 289 8 Sept 2000 p 1773-1775 "Fairness vs Reason in the Ultimatum Game" Nowak, Page, Sigmund (from the abstract) "The rational solution, suggested by game theory, is for the proposer to offer the smallest possible share and for teh responder to accept it. If humans play the game, however, the most frequent outcome is a fair share. In this paper, we develop an evolutionary approach to the Ultimatum Game. We show that fairness will evolve if the proposer can obtain some information on what deals the responder has accepted in the past. Hence, the evolution of fairness, similarly to the evolution of cooperation, is linked to reputation" In the ultimatum game, two players are offered a chance to win a certain sum of money. All they must do is divide it. ...if the responder rejects the deal, both get nothing.

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CDR: RE: More from RISKS
by Minow, Martin 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

Sorry, it wasn't a "private solution" but relied on the existing legal protections under Federal Law. If I was asking for more laws, I'd ask for the Swedish credit disclosure law that says that whenever a company writes a credit report it must provide the individual with a true and accurate copy (without any action on the individual's part). Martin Minow minow(a)pobox.com -----Original Message----- X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Marcel Popescu [mailto:marcel@aiurea.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: More from RISKS A private solution to the problem that one Carl wanted more laws to solve:

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by Nasser Mahmoudi 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

HELLO I AM GLAD OF YUR SEXY SITE. THNKS . NASSER.

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CDR: Re: Lions and Tigers and Backdoors, oh, my...
by Matt Curtin 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Furlong <sfurlong(a)acmenet.net> writes: Steve> The only thing that might be the "help" field is "X-UIDL", Steve> which has a value of random-seeming characters. UIDL is Unique ID Listing, described in section 7 of RFC 1725, "Post Office Protocol - Version 3". Steve> I, too, am skeptical about the help field claim. I'd be very Steve> interested in details. \begin{aol} MEEEE TOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!! \end{aol} -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin(a)interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/

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CDR: intox
by A. Melon 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

>You know, I hope it passes. No, I havent taken leave of my senses. >Ive just had it up to here with gradualism. Im really reaching the >point of morbid curiosity to see exactly what the sheeple will tolerate. > >The United States is sick. Intoxicated on its own power, it has a >serious case of the the bed spins. Sometimes when you are that drunk >the quickest way to solve the problem is to stick your fingers down >your throat and heave. Alas, the only way the US will face its military addiction is when some soldiers are dragged in their underwear. Taking out infrastructure will just strengthen the monster at home and abroad. Not that you can blame them. -Asymmetrix

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CDR: ip: The secret files of Ron Brown by Charles Smith
by R. A. Hettinga 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

--- begin forwarded text

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CDR: Re: police IR searches to Supremes
by David Honig 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

At 06:52 AM 9/27/00 -0400, Sampo A Syreeni wrote: >Well, I think that as long as a conventional photograph is taken from a >public place, it does not constitute a punishable breach of privacy. What's >so very different about doing the same thing with IR? So if you use a different wavelength you can image people through walls. That should be useful for determining who is committing illegal sexual acts under cover of optically opaque walls. Its just a different wavelength, after all.

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CDR: Fw: Bill Clinton convicted of war crimes
by Marcel Popescu 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

> From: "Dave Kuehne" <dkuehne(a)erols.com> > To: "Dave" <dkuehne(a)erols.com> > Subject: Bill Clinton convicted of war crimes > Date: Sunday, September 24, 2000 1:27 AM > > Source: > Virtual New York > http://www.vny.com/ > > Belgrade gives Clinton, others 20 years in jail > http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=120278 > > Thursday, 21 September 2000 13:19 (ET) > > By STEFAN RACIN BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The district court > in Belgrade Thursday sentenced President Clinton, Secretary of State > Madeleine Albright and 13 other top Western and NATO leaders to a maximum > 20 years in prison for the use of weapons prohibited under international > law and crimes against the civilian population during last year's NATO air > campaign against Yugoslavia. > > Veroljub Raketic, the presiding judge, said the arrest warrants would be > issued for the convicted leaders and their sentences would start as soon as > they are arrested. > > During the four-day trial in the biggest courtroom in the Palace of > Justice, in which 14 seats labeled with the names of the accused were left > vacant, the officially appointed lawyer defending Clinton told the court he > could cite as an extenuating circumstances that Clinton came from "an > incomplete family and lived with a step-father which probably left a mark > on his overall behavior." > > Another court-appointed lawyer defending Albright asked the court to take > into account her repressed psychological state as a woman subordinated to > the U.S. president and the fact that she had never before been sentenced > for war crimes. > > Apart from Clinton and Albright the convicted included Defense Secretary > William Cohen; British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary > Robin Cook; French President Jacques Chirac, Foreign Minister Hubert > Vedrine and Defense Minister Alain Richard; German Chancellor Gerhard > Schroeder, Foreign Minister Joschka Fisher and Defense Minister Rudolf > Scharping; the former and present NATO Secretaries General Javier Solana > and Lord George Robertson; and the former NATO Supreme Commander in Europe, > Gen. Wesley Clark. > > They were ordered to pay legal costs within 15 days of the sentences taking > effect under pain of enforcement. > > The indictments said that the accused were responsible for NATO forces > using 31,000 shells each with 300 grams of depleted uranium at eight > locations in Serbia and Montenegro and that 10 tons of this kind of > ammunition were dropped on Kosovo. This specifically polluted the > environments of villages in the vicinity of Vranje, Bujanovac and Presevo > in southern Serbia causing various types of cancer and death, according to > the indictments, the court said. > > NATO also dropped a huge quantity of cluster bombs in the areas of Nis, > Sombor, Kurumlija, Podujevo, Kraljevo, Novi Sad, Mount Kopaonik and other > places, killing 34 people including an 8-month pregnant woman and leaving > many other people seriously or slightly injured, the indictment said. > > -- Copyright 2000 by United Press International. > All rights reserved.

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CDR: Not-Quite-Zero-Knowledge..
by R. A. Hettinga 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

Probably not-quite-Community-Connection, either... <http://www.myprivateplanet.com/> I saw it on http://www.kuro5hin.org this morning. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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CDR: More from RISKS
by Marcel Popescu 27 Sep '00

27 Sep '00

A private solution to the problem that one Carl wanted more laws to solve:

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