Unreal Security Hole

Screaming Lunatic writes "There seems to be a big security hole in the Unreal engine that has been around for about 5 years. It affects servers for a number of games and operating systems, including Linux (which accounts for about 40% of UT2003 servers). Epic has been working on a patch for about 3 months. Imagine the bad publicity games would receive if a worm on the scale of Slammer had been created." A Bugtraq post from Thor Larholm of Pivx, says that Marc Rein of Epic threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with this"; the TechTV article Larholm cites (the same one linked from this submission), however, contains no mention of legal action. Rein nonetheless apologized for "those completely unfortunate comments" in a followup message to Bugtraq.

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[goatasaur]

Bill Gates called a news conference at Microsoft HQ in Redmond Washington.

Gates had slated a news conference regarding Microsoft's long-awaited "Return of Clippy" office suite. Gates was reportedly wearing sunglasses and a t-shirt that had printed, on the front, "fuck you, I have enough friends". He was holding what appeared to be a forty-ounce bottle of Miller Genuine Draft. Pouring a small amount of his beverage on the ground, Gates quipped "fuck this, nigga gotta get laid," before laying a patch in his plum-purple '69 Impala.

Showing robust shareholder interest, Microsoft's stock rose ten points.

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[IvyMike]

Yes, the name of the website is a reference to Blue's Clues. Once again, taking someone else's joke and just making it painfully obvious gets modded up.

Yes, yes, mod me down, I'm offtopic, but it almost causes me physical pain to see someone get credit for a joke that was already made.

offtopic ?

[Billly Gates]

Any company that chooses .net over other alternatives will get what they deserve. That will be a high cost in the future in the form of never ending payments to Microsoft.

Microsoft has demonstrated time and again that the customer comes second to Microsoft revenue.

A company IT manager should be fired for even recommending a commital to .net without any knowledge of Microsoft's future pricing policies, commitment requirements and security policies.

These same companies will also be helping MS in their attempt to completly control internet standards. Control of standards by Microsoft will stifle competition and further ensure the company's future cost will be high.