*sigh* And yet again...

Attackers could take complete control of machines running versions of Microsoft Office, the software giant warned Tuesday.

You know ... I keep dreaming that one day, Microsoft will discover (and release a patch for) a bug that does NOT allow an attacker to completely own your box and make it his bitch.  Sometimes I wonder whether there's an undocumented sys0wnz0rThisB0xx0r() API.

And in other "You can't make this shit up" news:

Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence.

... I got nothin'.  That one's its own punchline.