dave3499 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:NAT is good (Score 2, Informative) 583

by dave3499 on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @10:14PM (#33803172) Attached to: Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4?

Your ISP could still issue you a router with a firewall that's locked down pretty tight by default. Just because you have a globally routable IPv6 address doesn't mean your router has to let every packet through. What exactly are you worried about losing?

Submission + - Open Source Mathematical Software

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17, 2007 @05:42PM

An anonymous reader writes: The American Mathematical society has an opinion piece about open source software vs propietary software used in mathematics. From the article : "Increasingly, proprietary software and the algorithms used are an essential part of mathematical proofs. To quote J. Neubüser, 'with this situation two of the most basic rules of conduct in mathematics are violated: In mathematics information is passed on free of charge and everything is laid open for checking.'"

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