SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the whatever-happened-to-honor-among-thieves? dept.
An IT contractor for a US government fraud and abuse watchdog pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing 16 US government computers.
According to prosecutors, Andrew Cheveers, 31, served as a techie for the State Department's Office of Inspector General (State OIG), where he held a security clearance and set up PCs for government employees.
The State OIG helps assess and mitigate risks to State Department personnel and facilities abroad. It also oversees contracts, grants, and foreign assistance programs; and it advises the State Department on IT security and management.
Justice Department prosecutors say Cheveers, between July 2016 and February 2017, stole as many as 16 Microsoft Surface Pro laptops belonging to Uncle Sam, and sold them online at sites like Craigslist and eBay.
They do say the biggest security threats are internal.
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:39AM (8 children)
Why does no one use the perfectly cromulent perfect tense for this any more? "Plea, pleaded, pled, will have pled", the last being the future perfect. Is it that English is becoming too hard, or are Americans actually getting more stupid?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:15AM (1 child)
Same reason we don't use Blee, bleeded, bled, will have bled. Language is evolving, English in particular. There is no central authority on the English language and I understood clearly what was meant as did you, which is the reason why I ain't worried about pedantry.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 09 2019, @10:46AM
Intriguingly, the otherwise free-lovin' Francophones _do_ have a Central Linquistic Authority. While I cannot be bothered to lift a finger to DuckDuckGo, I can tell you it's a respectable academic institute in Paris that in addition to ensuring that the existing French Language does _not_ evolve, proposes Francophonic translations of such English words as...
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:26AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:30PM
yes.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Whoever on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:58PM (3 children)
Hah! The one I find most funny is the American word "burglarized".
What's wrong with the perfectly good word "burgled"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @04:54PM
"Burgled" sounds like something two fags would do when they meet up at the gloryhole.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday March 09 2019, @06:35PM
Too easily confused with "bugled," "bungled," and "gargled."
You're welcome. :-)
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @08:51PM
Difference between the active (what burglars do) and the passive perfect (what happens to places that have been burgled). It is the latter, aristarchus!