If you do believe that your industrial system is really complex, then...

Tricks You Can Do If Your Firewall Is a Bridge

Firewalls that forward packets like a bridge, rather than as a router, have many operational bene ts. By decoupling routing from ltering, the rewall becomes a pure lter, unburdened by routing table or interface con guration. The result is increased exibility. This paper explores some of the benets we have found. Most of the bene ts stem from the fact that a bridged rewall requires fewer transit...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

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Did Brouwer Really Believe That?

This article is a commentary on remarks made in a recent book [12] that perpetuate several myths about Brouwer and intuitionism. The footnote on page 279 of [12] is an unfortunate, historically and factually inaccurate, blemish on an otherwise remarkable book. In that footnote, in which Ok discusses Brouwer (who, incidentally, was normally known not as “Jan” but as “Bertus”, a shortening of his...

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