Several come to mind: 1) Servers (ssh to your phone) 2) True IPSEC (IPSEC uses signed headers and therefore cannot be translated since the router would need the private key to do so) 3) Not bog down routers doing translation. Translation is substantially slower than routing. There are more these are just right off the top of my head.

What he doesn't realize is that if he uses NAT only, then right now, any of his neighbors using the same ISP just need to add a route to for 10.0.0.* (or whatever block he uses) to route through his public IP. Firewalls protect networks.....not NAT.... NAT is security through obscurity.....

If someone doesn't like the service my company provides they don't have to do business with us. It's as simple as that. It's amazing how many people will stomp out freedom because 1) they think they're idea of the world is the best and 2) they think they can make their idea become a reality.

It's because of of over regulation. Scientists and Engineers don't make the big bucks because over regulation pushed those jobs to China and India. Why would a company choose to be in America to pay 40% taxes instead of elsewhere where they can pay 10%? On top of that, why would they want to spend the large amount of money needed to hire lawyers to interpret regulation and then spend large amounts of money complying with those regulations? These costs make them uncompetitive with companies from other nations. The only solution is to pick up and go to India. If the cost of govt was dropped by 90% and the regulations taken off the books, then inventive engineers would be successful in the good ol' USA. Right now, engineers like me go work for banks because theres money to be made and I'd like to stay employed :-D

Hey... it's Slashdot, what'd you expect? They hate greed and target those who help them and the world in which we live. Greed never hurt anyone in this country, only the government regulators who allow greedy humans (which all of us are) to have control over others. If the government protected our freedom of choice, greedy humans (again, which we all are) would not be able to forcefully effect any others.

Hardly. The gov't sets interest rates (ala Federal Reserve). This is not the free market. No private company would set interest rates so low because of the risk of default, except when the gov't comes in and says we'll loan you the money cheap and we'll back the mortgage (fannie may, freddie mac). You have zero understanding of the situation. Free market would have solved the problem, but we didn't have it.

GCC's libstdc++6-4.3 std::vector size() is computed by subtracting the end-begin ptrs. There is no size field! Vector should be no slower than array, if it is, you are probably using it wrong. The only exception is if you constantly create arrays on the stack, those would be faster on most platforms than vector because constantly allocating vectors cause heap allocations. However, a pre-allocated vector and pre-allocated array are equal.

FYI http://libertariannation.org/a/f31l1.html