So someone else noticed, too.  Typical stuff.

It reminds me that the reason I still enjoy working with computers, mostly, is because when there is "nothing to do", I still have plenty I can do and explore. 

Right now I'm exploring Wireshark and seeing if I can prove to my co-worker that IM'ing is totally not private :)

I think plenty of people have noticed.

The question is how well positioned you are to do something about it, and how much you care about doing something about it.

What is kind of rough is that there are more of these places than not so you can't just hop till you find the right one because all the jumping around will make you hard to hire.

"What is kind of rough is that there are more of these places than not so you can't just hop till you find the right one because all the jumping around will make you hard to hire."

My attitude has always been that if there isn't work to do, I can always find something to do to treat my boredom. If there  is work to do, good.

What I would hate is to be somewhere I didn't have the tools I need...fat internet connection, multiple computers and monitors, no big brother shit.  I think this is why even though I'm not as good as some of you technically, I've always had a curiosity streak that makes me find out things before others think of them, and a knack for knowing the useful thing just in time.  My bosses have enjoyed that about me--makes me enthusiastic and good to work with when I'm not bitching at my idiot co-workers. :)

"Solitaire. Solitaire. Solitaire. Porn.  Solitaire. Solitaire. Solitaire. Porn."

This would make me want to shoot myself in the head.

Also why staying in the military was not an option. Oh man, they got working-dead-itis in the military, real bad.

He seems to think jobs are either working-dead types or creative types. Oh, if only that were true.

It's actually working-dead, or make-work.
Fucking around pretending to work is better than some make work task that nobody really cares about.

If you bitch too much about having nothing to do, that's what you'll get.  Or the boot.

I believe this is related to the 'superstar' meme. I'm considered a superstar and yet I work VERY slowly. But I work rather than play solitaire or talk on the cell. And so this old tortoise overtakes the fast young hare.

Being a superstar has nothing to do with extreme IQ or mad skills. It's simply a matter of sitting down and working.

Fast working dead zombies, or slow (Romero style) working dead zombies?

it makes sense to have working dead in the military.  you don't want your guys being responsible for too much if the likelihood of them becoming non-walking dead is high.

wireshark is nice. try rtptools though. With that baby you can capture bits of people's porn and play it back at them when later on ...

>Right now I'm exploring Wireshark and seeing if I can prove
>to my co-worker that IM'ing is totally not private :)

Skype is.

Braiiiiiiiinnnnzz!

So is IM'ing if you generate a PGP key pair and encode/decipher all the messages you send and receive.