But we can even do better: a couple of years ago, with a colleague, I've written a paper to show how you can evaluate pretty precisely how much work attacks using probabilistic models need to break your passwords (http://www.eurecom.fr/~filippon/Publications/ccs15.pdf); since then, I've released the code online (https://github.com/matteodellamico/montecarlopwd). If anybody is interested in using it in the real world, please contact me!
It's very arguable that building nuclear plants is not progress. Before jumping to conclusions, please take into account some points from a person that voted against the government's nuclear plan. To make a long story short, Italy is very different from the US.
- Italy was already out of nuclear, the vote was on whether to re-enter. Investing on nuclear would mean spending a large amount of money now, to reap the benefits in, optimistically, 15 years (in Italy, times to build infrastructure are much longer than other countries). Can you be sure that nuclear power plants, with the uncertainties on the price of nuclear fuel, will not be obsolete in 15 years? - It's impossible, AFAIK, to estimate the true cost of nuclear energy: handling nuclear waste on the long term is basically an unsolved problem. - Italy doesn't have nuclear weapons: this raises costs with respect to countries that already have a big budget in nuclear military uses. - Each part of Italy has seismic risk: in general much lower than Japan, but this is still a deterrent - Italy is densely populated (one fifth the population of USA in one thirtieth of the area) and full of mountains: any place you build a nuclear plant -- or you place waste -- you'll be very close to a lot of people - Italy is a country with, unfortunately, very high corruption and low discipline: we're worried that a society which is not able to keep regular waste out of the roads of one of its main cities might do something very dangerous with nuclear waste -- remember, we have no desert far from everybody where to bury it. The huge investments needed for nuclear energy will raise the interest of mafias and corrupt politicians: we can't at all assume they're acting for the collective good. - Italy is a country with abundant possibilities in terms of hydroelectric, solar and geothermal power generation. It's weird that the rainy Germany has so much more solar than us! In addition, take into account that when sun is not working, we can still buy (at very low costs!) the excess energy from the French power plants. - Last but not least, the vote had the beneficial effect of being a huge blow for Berlusconi's government. The discussion on how much he damaged is country is, however, off topic. Three other topics were voted simultaneously, one of them canceling a law made "ad-hoc" to allow him to postpone his trials.
That's false. Berlusconi doesn't own neither "La Repubblica" nor "Il corriere della sera". Their editorial line is, most of the time, critic with the government. The part of the media where Berlusconi has very few critics is television, since 95% of audience is divided between Mediaset, which is his private property, and RAI, that's the state television (indirectly) controlled by the parliament. Maybe surprisingly, there is more censorship about critic to Berlusconi's operate in RAI, which has a long tradition of being controlled by political parties.
First: Italy has well more than two national newspapers! "La Repubblica" and "Il Corriere Della Sera" are just the two most important ones. We are not such a little country, after all!
Second: this law has been approved, but the proposer of the law (a member of Berlusconi's Forza Italia[1] party) seems to already have agreed to modify it for removing the criminal offence part for file-sharing users. Supposedly, only a fine of at most 1000 (some 1100-1200$) will remain.
Third: in Italy, we have an enormous record of unapplicated and unapplicable laws (and idiotic ones, of course, but in the computer part I think USA is by far ahead): this one is unapplicable (it's impossible just to think to process every single guy that shared an mp3 file online - that would mean, I guess, at least half of the people between 15 and 30:-)), but there are even worse ones... a few weeks ago a new law had been approved that mandated all content made publicly available on the net to be sent to a national library... how on the earth could it be made possible? We spent some time making fun of it, and then we'll probably just forget it.
Fourth: I don't know how is it in other countries, but we have so many ways to reduce the sentence and get into prescription that even Lionel Hutz couldn't have success in making a 18-year old guy be imprisoned for doing file sharing. It's not uncommon that people sentenced to "life" imprisonment get out after ~20 years[2]. Even our "beloved" prime minister got out of several processes with prescription.
-- Matteo [anglosaxon people sensibilization campaign - all the world makes the effort of learning your language: could you please do us the favor of stopping using your stupid medieval metrics when you are talking to us?]
[1] Oh, if you have already seen these words without relating to Berlusconi, you probably have seen them in a stadium: prior to Berlusconi's involvment in politics, "forza italia!" was the preferred incitement for the soccer national team... nowadays nobody uses it anymore.
[2] Yes, it's the maximum possible sentence. Anyway, with mafia and all, we still have very, very, very much less murders than the USA.
The Value Added Taxation is a tax on the consumer: if the VAT is 20%, the consumer has to pay 20% more for the product - this way, who sells the good gets back the money he already paid. What happened until is that, because USA companies didn't pay the VAT to EU tax offices, they could not charge the tax to the consumer. So, at the end, the european consumer didn't pay tax. Looks like unfair competition! If you want to enter the european market, you have to abide by the european rules!
Try Armagetron. It's a very nice 3d clone of Tron. Probably, it's best is when you play it in a fast network, but it's fun also when played against the AI.
The Open Source Definition isn't subjective. One of the most important reasons for creating the "opensource" term was to have a word that couldn't mean something different.
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Attackers use probabilistic models to break passwords, but the rules that we typically use to defend against them are typically quite bad.
So, there is a pretty good password strength checker that we can use: https://github.com/dropbox/zxc... .
But we can even do better: a couple of years ago, with a colleague, I've written a paper to show how you can evaluate pretty precisely how much work attacks using probabilistic models need to break your passwords (http://www.eurecom.fr/~filippon/Publications/ccs15.pdf); since then, I've released the code online (https://github.com/matteodellamico/montecarlopwd). If anybody is interested in using it in the real world, please contact me!
matteo
if the democracy can decide to have my stuff at any time?
I guess it's called "taxes".
It's very arguable that building nuclear plants is not progress. Before jumping to conclusions, please take into account some points from a person that voted against the government's nuclear plan. To make a long story short, Italy is very different from the US.
- Italy was already out of nuclear, the vote was on whether to re-enter. Investing on nuclear would mean spending a large amount of money now, to reap the benefits in, optimistically, 15 years (in Italy, times to build infrastructure are much longer than other countries). Can you be sure that nuclear power plants, with the uncertainties on the price of nuclear fuel, will not be obsolete in 15 years?
- It's impossible, AFAIK, to estimate the true cost of nuclear energy: handling nuclear waste on the long term is basically an unsolved problem.
- Italy doesn't have nuclear weapons: this raises costs with respect to countries that already have a big budget in nuclear military uses.
- Each part of Italy has seismic risk: in general much lower than Japan, but this is still a deterrent
- Italy is densely populated (one fifth the population of USA in one thirtieth of the area) and full of mountains: any place you build a nuclear plant -- or you place waste -- you'll be very close to a lot of people
- Italy is a country with, unfortunately, very high corruption and low discipline: we're worried that a society which is not able to keep regular waste out of the roads of one of its main cities might do something very dangerous with nuclear waste -- remember, we have no desert far from everybody where to bury it. The huge investments needed for nuclear energy will raise the interest of mafias and corrupt politicians: we can't at all assume they're acting for the collective good.
- Italy is a country with abundant possibilities in terms of hydroelectric, solar and geothermal power generation. It's weird that the rainy Germany has so much more solar than us! In addition, take into account that when sun is not working, we can still buy (at very low costs!) the excess energy from the French power plants.
- Last but not least, the vote had the beneficial effect of being a huge blow for Berlusconi's government. The discussion on how much he damaged is country is, however, off topic. Three other topics were voted simultaneously, one of them canceling a law made "ad-hoc" to allow him to postpone his trials.
Does the vote make more sense, now?
Well, ok. You understood me, Italian and spanish are similar languages, but they're still different. :-)
:-)
It's because fines are still normalized on liras, even if we have Euros now. Those numbers would be, respectively, 300000 and 2 million liras.
Given Italian legislation as it is, you'd never go to jail with such a felony. I think the real effects of a prosecution in the USA are still worse.
That's false. Berlusconi doesn't own neither "La Repubblica" nor "Il corriere della sera". Their editorial line is, most of the time, critic with the government.
The part of the media where Berlusconi has very few critics is television, since 95% of audience is divided between Mediaset, which is his private property, and RAI, that's the state television (indirectly) controlled by the parliament.
Maybe surprisingly, there is more censorship about critic to Berlusconi's operate in RAI, which has a long tradition of being controlled by political parties.
There's a nice flash cartoon about how we Italians behave: http://www.infonegocio.com/xeron/bruno/italy.ht ml</a>
We are not spanish! It's called "La gazzetta ufficiale" :-)
IANAL, but AFAIK copyright is almost the same in all countries.
First: Italy has well more than two national newspapers! "La Repubblica" and "Il Corriere Della Sera" are just the two most important ones. We are not such a little country, after all!
:-)), but there are even worse ones... a few weeks ago a new law had been approved that mandated all content made publicly available on the net to be sent to a national library... how on the earth could it be made possible? We spent some time making fun of it, and then we'll probably just forget it.
Second: this law has been approved, but the proposer of the law (a member of Berlusconi's Forza Italia[1] party) seems to already have agreed to modify it for removing the criminal offence part for file-sharing users. Supposedly, only a fine of at most 1000 (some 1100-1200$) will remain.
Third: in Italy, we have an enormous record of unapplicated and unapplicable laws (and idiotic ones, of course, but in the computer part I think USA is by far ahead): this one is unapplicable (it's impossible just to think to process every single guy that shared an mp3 file online - that would mean, I guess, at least half of the people between 15 and 30
Fourth: I don't know how is it in other countries, but we have so many ways to reduce the sentence and get into prescription that even Lionel Hutz couldn't have success in making a 18-year old guy be imprisoned for doing file sharing. It's not uncommon that people sentenced to "life" imprisonment get out after ~20 years[2]. Even our "beloved" prime minister got out of several processes with prescription.
--
Matteo
[anglosaxon people sensibilization campaign - all the world makes the effort of learning your language: could you please do us the favor of stopping using your stupid medieval metrics when you are talking to us?]
[1] Oh, if you have already seen these words without relating to Berlusconi, you probably have seen them in a stadium: prior to Berlusconi's involvment in politics, "forza italia!" was the preferred incitement for the soccer national team... nowadays nobody uses it anymore.
[2] Yes, it's the maximum possible sentence. Anyway, with mafia and all, we still have very, very, very much less murders than the USA.
Only a thing: in Italy, Andrea is a male name, so he's a boy and not a girl.
Matteo
Actually, looks like sliced bread has a patent number around #200. Probably, that could be the neatest thing *before* sliced bread.
I didnt ask the europeans to buy from me
And what's your problem exactly if you don't want to sell to Europeans?
The Value Added Taxation is a tax on the consumer: if the VAT is 20%, the consumer has to pay 20% more for the product - this way, who sells the good gets back the money he already paid.
What happened until is that, because USA companies didn't pay the VAT to EU tax offices, they could not charge the tax to the consumer. So, at the end, the european consumer didn't pay tax. Looks like unfair competition! If you want to enter the european market, you have to abide by the european rules!
Hope it's better then GLTron,the enemies keep getting themselves into death spirals
Definitely so, try the new alpha version!
Chromium BSU is a wonderful shoot-em-up game. It 's faster and more colorful than anything I've ever seen in the same genre.
Try Armagetron. It's a very nice 3d clone of Tron. Probably, it's best is when you play it in a fast network, but it's fun also when played against the AI.
The Open Source Definition isn't subjective. One of the most important reasons for creating the "opensource" term was to have a word that couldn't mean something different.