Financial crisis? What financial crisis?
Senior staff at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have been taking some downtime from the financial crisis, with a little pr0n-fuelled R 'n' R.
One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn, according to the report, which has yet to be released. When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices. An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive. Another SEC accountant used his SEC-issued computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto porn websites he joined. And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.
Jonathan Karl, ABC News via Good Morning America
Sixteen thousand times, in one month? The SEC must be bloody slave-drivers. For an average working month of 20 days, that would equate to 800 times each day. Assuming an average 8 hour wanking working day, that's one attempt every thirty six seconds! Which seems a tad excessive, even to me.
Of course, this depends on how access
is measured. If it's based on HTTP header requests, then the actual rate of page access attempts is much lower, since several HTTP requests are typically made for each page. For heavily ad-driven or multimedia-laden sites, such as those being accessed by the SEC's senior stiffies staffers, substitute several
with multitudinous
.