Wired News: History's Worst Software Bugs

Wired News: History's Worst Software Bugs You gotta love this. Besides the historical footnote of where software bugs come from, just the fact that they continue to cause real, financial problems for the dumb-ass project managers (and the companies they work for) who allow them to go out the door as a product that some poor schlub has to pay for... The company I currently work for has a policy of having each employee's quarterly goals (and thus, bonus) include a "100% accuracy in changes" goal that, if you arent careful might actually affect your own bottom line. That is probably a good way to push that cost down onto the person that made the actual mistake.
And, who doesn't remember the infamous Pentium floating point divide error? Ha! Suckers! OK, anyway, funny stuff for us nerd-types...
FYI - The one about the RTM Worm in 1988 (1988 -- Buffer overflow in Berkeley Unix finger daemon) is a little misleading - Yes, the 'gets' function still exists in the standard libc functions "even today", but has been long since fixed in any but the most horrbly un-patched codebase (as in, who is still running code circa 1989?)... Just so you know.