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How lame

To get caught for such low-level thievery. Tarnishes the good names of Enron and Halliburton, it does.
He should have been nicking entire server racks instead of a few piddling floppies.
Serves him right.
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posted by : Pascal Monett, 03 October 2008 Complain about this comment
we need to bring back cutting peoples hands off.

We really should. I despise thieves and think they are complete dicks.

posted by : viscountalpha, 03 October 2008 Complain about this comment
Impressive

Is this the wrong place to talk about BOFHs?

posted by : Lindsay, 03 October 2008 Complain about this comment
ha

They must have had the same auditors as Enron...

posted by : Nick, 03 October 2008 Complain about this comment
Hey buddy,

Those reams of paper contain 500 sheets *each*.

posted by : Guy Gordon, 02 October 2008 Complain about this comment
2 Years??

Does anyone else think that two years is a little too short of a punishment? I don't know, but it just sounds low to me. Especially because there was personal data involved and it was a federal institution.

posted by : Coma, 02 October 2008 Complain about this comment
Bit of an exaggeration problem?

Come on now, 19,709 is substantially less than "nearly 20,000". Give us a break Enq!

posted by : Grunchy, 02 October 2008 Complain about this comment
I can see it now...

...His defense is that the aroma from the Blue Plains sewage treatment facility next door made him do it.

posted by : CapitalW, 02 October 2008 Complain about this comment
$6 average value?

How many floppy discs and ethernet cables figure in the total?

posted by : j21064, 02 October 2008 Complain about this comment

Sysadmin nicked nearly 20,000 pieces of kit

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