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Applying Game Theory to Cyberattacks and Defenses

via Schneier on Security: Applying Game Theory to Cyberattacks and Defenses.

Count Of The Moon – menandtheirdogs: My husband was given Jolly as a….

Weird to find this (and see all of the positive attention)!

Finished up application #3 today, and got half-way through preparing to mail letters to professors at each of the schools I’m applying to. I’m tired.

Last night, my old design portfolio got taken down so I could put up a quick page for Gnosteo (Some background). Since it’s been awhile since I’ve seriously unrolled a major site project, the world has moved on from plain text, HTML tags and laying things out using tables. Then again, a symbolic start is still a start.

This is a great treatment of owning ideas and the difference in stakes held by those playing out the control over status, both as property and as legitimate.

The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper’s Magazine).

Models & Agents: Economists vs. Accountants: The Duel!.

Come, noble Whigs, disdain these sons
Of screech owls, monkeys and baboons.

Poem written by Madison while at Princeton, bashing a rival debate society.

The guy who does the “And Philosophy” series explaining how his books do something to fend off the disinterest in the field, instead of what others portray as cheapening its image. “The most neglected part of Plato’s celebrated allegory of the cave is the escaped prisoner’s return.”

(TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Fancy taking a pop?)

Before UCI, what I expected a BA in Philosophy to cover a lot of Plato, Aristotle, Hume and Kant. Someone even warned me that any department that doesn’t cover one of them was giving out dubious qualifications.

But what other divides are there?

Should continental be taught alongside analytic philosophy to show that divide? Should courses follow the history of ideas and sociology between thinkers who influenced or argued with one other? Or should put questions and issues to the forefront, and use philosophy as a source of proposed ways of resolving the conundra?

Should Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Logic be the four-corners, instead?

Why are perspectives from Eastern Philosophy and Asian religions still relatively new-comers? Why the absence of Indigenous thinkers, modern and historical?

“Aristotle,” the Russian begins,”he keeps talking about The Good. There is The Good. [points outstretched palms to floor] So why does he not also have The Bad?”

Professor is perplexed but recoils from it quickly.

“Ah, yes!” his candor taking cues from a carnival barker, “In Book One we are only prepared for answering what is The Good. But once Aristotle introduces the Virtues, then he will explain to us what the opposite of right action really is.