That's not an advantage of NAT. That's an advantage of a stateful firewall that disallows inbound connections. NAT is not required to get the same benefit.
All of the machines in my home have public IPv6 addresses, but I have a firewall that blocks inbound connections to all of them. Same security result. No address translation.
That's great - your network is properly configured. Most aren't.
At the risk of being repetitive: NAT isn't required, it just makes up for poor administration.
Why, then, do these religious nutcases claim that it is a criminal act to claim the aformentioned?
The only possible explanation is that they are not sure at all that this deity they proclaim to believe in actually exists.
Why do you dismiss, "because such claims may cause other 'believers' to question their assumptions and that threatens the power base of the self-appointed religious elite"?
"I want the Jack Nickolaus artificial knee." They just have no freakin idea why they want it, or what about it makes it appropriate, or inappropriate for some people.
And they received no better information on artificial knees before coming to that half-baked conclusion.
We could afford to send MANY more unmanned missions (not to rescue other unmanned missions...yet) if we weren't spending a disproportionate amount of money on the romantic adventure of sending meat tourists into space.
The only engineering reason for space exploration beyond Earth's orbit is to get people off this rock and propagate the species. So, we have to know how they react in space to make this possible.
The rest is academically curious, but ultimately not important if it doesn't help us build settlements.
Of course there is - it allows all manner of insecure and misconfigured gear to avoid being probed from the other side of the planet?
What you say can be true, but only where everybody's gear is perfectly configured and they're all running updated OpenBSD. I'm not likely to give a 10-year-old JetDirect card a public IP any time soon...
Maybe the lights need to take on a new form? What kind of problems would arise from coating each LED's sides with black paint (to replicate the duty of the indirect sun shades) and spacing the LEDs out so snow can pass through them? Or possibly shaping the LED or a cover as a cone shape so that it's harder to cover with snow?
You can vapor deposit some metal onto the lens and then run a very small electric current through the surface of the lens and ice won't stick to it. Cheaper than heating with incandescent and the hookups are already there.
That's what's right-wing about it: it's old and safe. I would give an example of left-wing dissing, but I can't think of any groups that haven't been dissed.
In these parts it's the people who call themselves 'left' who are very much into trying to achieve perfect safety.
The Discover article is a bunch of garbage. the idea that this was some sort of homonid species has been debuniked over 50 years ago.
I know Richard casually, from his role as head of the Dartmouth Cognitive Neuroscience institute, and he's quite the smart cookie and seeming intellectually rigorous. His CV is impressive as well, and it seems unlikely that he was simply snowed by ancient research. He's had a tough couple years recently, but it doesn't seem likely that he's trying to perpetrate a massive fraud on the scientific community. Unless it's a grand experiment.
Actually, that makes more sense than that he's simply confused. Either way a Discover article is too thin to really tell.
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
- Richard Feynman
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...."
- Isaac Asimov
Even if Apophis has no chance of hitting Earth, attempting to divert the asteroid farther from Earth may have value as a test of our ability to do so. I would however, prefer that they did such a test on an asteroid that is not due to pass so close to Earth any time soon.
How fast does this approaching Earth? Can we park it in geosync for an elevator? We should have the nanoropes by then.
This is why my thinking that the end game of airport security is this - full body scans, mandatory ID to board planes.
Scans will always be defeatable and every terrorist so far has used his real name when boarding - ID wouldn't help at all.
What has worked in every case since 1 hour past when the World Trade Center was hit, are passengers beating the living hell out of somebody who tries to harm the aircraft.
Hardened cockpit doors were a good idea, but separate pilot entrances are still needed.
Once nice thing about your poor salary is that you can probably go on your own for about the same even if you're not very good at running the business.
If you're already pulling down $95 it's much harder to jump.
That's not a good definition of fascism. Mussolini certainly championed fascism before he achieved dictatorial powers. You can have dictatorial fascism but it's not a given.
Everybody know that it's a sweetheart deal for large Corporations, to help them compete even more strongly against small businesses (who don't have the machinery to hire H1B's). Needless to say those corporations don't advertise the fact too heavily.
This is the first concrete evidence that the government itself is working to suppress this information to the benefit of those Corporations.
I had a similar problem with 1&1 a few years ago, though 'only' about 5 days. I told them to cancel my account but they didn't and sent the account to collections instead (for continued billing after I cancelled).
I wound up buying hardware and co-lo'ing it. That worked out very well.
Today I'd bring it in-house on a cable modem or go with a Rackspace Cloud instance instead, depending on requirements.
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An improperly configured NAT gateway may also allow outsiders access to the internal, private network.
I can't think of any that are this way by default.
Improperly configured network devices are always a security risk. NAT does not help here.
Sure it does, they're not reachable from the Internet. How is that not helpful?
Your JetDirect card would presumably be behind a firewall, so even with a public IP, it would not be accessible to those on the general internet.
Yes, mine would be, but most people don't properly secure their networks. NAT buys them some security despite their misconfiguration.
That's not an advantage of NAT. That's an advantage of a stateful firewall that disallows inbound connections. NAT is not required to get the same benefit.
All of the machines in my home have public IPv6 addresses, but I have a firewall that blocks inbound connections to all of them. Same security result. No address translation.
That's great - your network is properly configured. Most aren't.
At the risk of being repetitive: NAT isn't required, it just makes up for poor administration.
Unfortunately, the BBC's tech section doesn't provide anything like the quality of the rest of BBC news.
Let me guess, you're a tech expert and not an expert in the other areas, right?
Why, then, do these religious nutcases claim that it is a criminal act to claim the aformentioned?
The only possible explanation is that they are not sure at all that this deity they proclaim to believe in actually exists.
Why do you dismiss, "because such claims may cause other 'believers' to question their assumptions and that threatens the power base of the self-appointed religious elite"?
Except, of course, that it's not. Atheism is ATHEISM, not ATHEISM. There's a huge difference.
But that's the problem, it's ATHEISM, not "Beers and Wings Eating Club".
Heh heh... Sorry. I guess I shouldn't have said "ribonucleotide" in a science thread?
It's OK, the GP has been flogged by the Slashdot idiot detector.
"I want the Jack Nickolaus artificial knee." They just have no freakin idea why they want it, or what about it makes it appropriate, or inappropriate for some people.
And they received no better information on artificial knees before coming to that half-baked conclusion.
We could afford to send MANY more unmanned missions (not to rescue other unmanned missions...yet) if we weren't spending a disproportionate amount of money on the romantic adventure of sending meat tourists into space.
The only engineering reason for space exploration beyond Earth's orbit is to get people off this rock and propagate the species. So, we have to know how they react in space to make this possible.
The rest is academically curious, but ultimately not important if it doesn't help us build settlements.
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Consider moving many of your comments into exception error text. It's good for users and doesn't get refactored out of scope.
There's no security value to NAT
Of course there is - it allows all manner of insecure and misconfigured gear to avoid being probed from the other side of the planet?
What you say can be true, but only where everybody's gear is perfectly configured and they're all running updated OpenBSD. I'm not likely to give a 10-year-old JetDirect card a public IP any time soon...
Orrin Hatch did something to *increase* freedom? Unbelievable!
You can vapor deposit some metal onto the lens and then run a very small electric current through the surface of the lens and ice won't stick to it. Cheaper than heating with incandescent and the hookups are already there.
Hi, USPOTO, this post was made in 2009.
In these parts it's the people who call themselves 'left' who are very much into trying to achieve perfect safety.
The Discover article is a bunch of garbage. the idea that this was some sort of homonid species has been debuniked over 50 years ago.
I know Richard casually, from his role as head of the Dartmouth Cognitive Neuroscience institute, and he's quite the smart cookie and seeming intellectually rigorous. His CV is impressive as well, and it seems unlikely that he was simply snowed by ancient research. He's had a tough couple years recently, but it doesn't seem likely that he's trying to perpetrate a massive fraud on the scientific community. Unless it's a grand experiment.
Actually, that makes more sense than that he's simply confused. Either way a Discover article is too thin to really tell.
Am I the only one surprised to learn that he's *not* gay?
Probably not, but it's OK if you are. Stewart was named the "sexiest man alive" at one point, so wishful thinking can be forgiven.
He did play a gay man in a bad movie once.
I am perfectly unbiased. I make just as much fun of everyone and everything. ;)
And a damn fine job of that you just did.
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
- Richard Feynman
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...."
- Isaac Asimov
Those are the most important ones. We only hear about successful terrorists.
How fast does this approaching Earth? Can we park it in geosync for an elevator? We should have the nanoropes by then.
This is why my thinking that the end game of airport security is this - full body scans, mandatory ID to board planes.
Scans will always be defeatable and every terrorist so far has used his real name when boarding - ID wouldn't help at all.
What has worked in every case since 1 hour past when the World Trade Center was hit, are passengers beating the living hell out of somebody who tries to harm the aircraft.
Hardened cockpit doors were a good idea, but separate pilot entrances are still needed.
Once nice thing about your poor salary is that you can probably go on your own for about the same even if you're not very good at running the business.
If you're already pulling down $95 it's much harder to jump.
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That's not a good definition of fascism. Mussolini certainly championed fascism before he achieved dictatorial powers. You can have dictatorial fascism but it's not a given.
Everybody know that it's a sweetheart deal for large Corporations, to help them compete even more strongly against small businesses (who don't have the machinery to hire H1B's). Needless to say those corporations don't advertise the fact too heavily.
This is the first concrete evidence that the government itself is working to suppress this information to the benefit of those Corporations.
I had a similar problem with 1&1 a few years ago, though 'only' about 5 days. I told them to cancel my account but they didn't and sent the account to collections instead (for continued billing after I cancelled).
I wound up buying hardware and co-lo'ing it. That worked out very well.
Today I'd bring it in-house on a cable modem or go with a Rackspace Cloud instance instead, depending on requirements.
Wow, an AC criticizing somebody for not standing proud for his beliefs.
Bwahahaha!