I once tried to take first shift sleeping and last shift driving home from New Orleans to Richmond. Unfortunately, I wasn't actually able to sleep when it was my turn - my feet were raw from walking around for hours in the rain. My brother got ticked when I woke him back up after only about 100 miles, until I explained that when we came up on green signs hanging off an overpass, I had thought I was driving on a 30-foot leprechaun. I probably would have gotten us all killed except I figured out that this thing that didn't make sense (at least, not after a second of "Hey cool. I didn't know leprechauns were highways") was probably related to this "spasming" feeling in my eyes and squinted really hard.

How convenient that ESET, the author of the report, offers a product to protect against that.

Yes, fortunate indeed. I would have thought that if you were going to go to the trouble of stealing account credentials, you'd engage in item theft or swindling money from a person's contacts like earlier posters mentioned. Fortunately, we had someone with a vested financial interest in setting them straight. The most valuable asset you accumulate in a MMORPG is the credibility with which you can display a hyperlink. I mean it's not like people will click on suspicious links from strangers.

Games have frequently been crap for the first release for a decade or more.

More, much more. Over twenty years ago, the first release of Pools of Radiance crashed if you entered any of several dungeons. Pretty ballsy when you had to call a telephone number to have someone snail mail you a stack of floppy disks.

I used to try and use that spare time towards improving our existing systems. My boss is very quick to put a stop to that kind of non-sense, but then has me wait for weeks on end before giving me a project he deems worth my time.

So why not just ignore him and get on with the job? If he complains then ask what else to do.

Yes, you tell your boss what for. You tell him you know what you need to do and he can like it or leave it. When you get fired, tell me where you used to work. I'd try to hook you up with the job I've got now, but every time someone leaves, they say "Hurray! The budget shrank. Oh by the way, we're bringing three new clients on board."