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There *is* some justice in the world
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Is this a good place for an argument?
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Look at the image with that article... isn't that a Mac?
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What the nerd community most often fail to realize is that all features aren't equal. A well implemented and well integrated feature in a convenient interface is worth way more than the same feature implemented crappy, or accessed through a annoying interface.
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And we get another winning photo of Billy boy:
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Originally posted by Amorya:
Look at the image with that article... isn't that a Mac?
From the menu bar, it sure looks like it. 
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Is this a good place for an argument?
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What I want to know is how the hell are there so many database servers with publically addressable ports?????
I've read about Banks, hospitals, airports, etc all being affected by SQLslammer. How is this possible? Are there really so many CTO/CIO's out there that don't know what a firewall or VPN are? What possible reason could there be for exposing a mission critical DB server to a public network??
Baffling. Simply Baffling.
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"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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It's not mission critical database servers that are exposed, necessarily. If any SQL Server on your network is exposed to the internet, it can spread the problem amongst the machines in your internal network. At least, that's what I understand of it so far. Microsoft say that, for example, they had some lab machines available on the internet and when they got hit by the attack, it caused traffic on their entire corporate network to swell and eventually took down some services like XP Activation.
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