Slashdot reports about the penalty for a man who sent an intern home with a data tape, which was subsequently stolen:

“The missing tape, stolen from an intern’s car, contained data on all 64,467 state employees, 19,388 former employees and 47,245 Ohio taxpayers. The state believes the incident will cost them $3 million. So after four months of deliberation, the Ohio Department of Administrative Services announced today that they decided to take a week’s vacation away from Jerry Miller, their payroll team leader and the guy in charge of the missing data.”

So, taking advantage of this opportunity to reprimand a foolish decision and set an example, they only make him work even more. That makes sense. Give the guy more days of work and increase the likelihood of him making another severely impaired decision regarding the private data of tens of thousands of people. Good job Ohio.

In other news, Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been delayed until February 10, 2008. Fine by me, as by my reasoning they are only taking that time to make it even better!