Their system must be pants...

how did your operative get in carrying a camera.

Any sites I have worked in has been, no mp3 players, mobile phones, cameras, CDs or USB devices

I know IT's important but I'm sure you bulked it up after the palm scanners.

I'm not even sure about the palm scanners. Too much Christmas spirit too early Lester?

... a lot of cloth for a pair of knickers the celebutards are wearing (presumably, since I've never met them, neither the celebutards, nor the knickers...)

You should ask Santa for a betters sense of humour.

Why is the close-up rotated from the main picture?

We should know - is there some conspiracy here?

Where does the photo come from?

Freedom of Information now! Set the information free!

Free the Knickers!

Don't let them go back to Ms Hilton - she'll just get gold paint on them!

I'd like to know before you reveal how to apply for a job at said data centre. I thought most data centres suffered from cooling problems ... is this a suitable environment for this kind of behaviour?

Sorry to be a party pooper, but as a wannabe geek who actually managed to pull off the feat of having some knowledge of persons of the female gender... nay... actually *married* one... this is easily explained. During "the wash", ladies' undergarments frequently end up getting inside trouser legs, and are not always immediately apparent until later in the day, when they either fall loose, or are surreptitiously shaken loose, whilst looking straight ahead hoping nobody notices.

Hmmm... well if that there's a 19" rack then the floor tiles are probably the 60cm square ones. The knickers look to be a 'bout a quarter or so across one of them and so are roughly 30cm in circumference which is about 12" but then you have to allow for elastic expansion so add on about the same again and you'd get a size 6 I'd say. Pretty small I think.

Oh yeah, right! Surreptitiously shake the granny pants out of trouser leg WHILST STOOD IN SERVER ROOM.

As for the cleaning cloth theory: the newer the pants the better; old pants generate too much lint.

The real explanation is clearly extra-terrestrial

"......miniature helicopter gunship packing intruder-frying microwave weaponry."

So the intruder was all tin-foil hat and no knickers?

/+coat -smalls

... we're talking about nerds and geeks here! Just because they're pink, you assume they're a woman's knickers (and even if they are a woman's, where does a nerd get a woman from to have worn them)? More likely they're the nerd/geek's own, or stolen from somewhere when 'she' wasn't looking. Tut tut.

a virus infection called 'Chlamydia'

Most of the commercial London DCs I've been in have SIGNS saying no cameras, mobile phones etc. I have yet to be in one where they even mention the rule, let alone attempt to enforce it. Particularly the one about mobile phones! Although in a lot of them the cages themselves create enough of a Faraday effect to render mobiles mostly useless in most of the building anyway.

Reminds me of the Larry The Cable Guy sequence where he was talking about edible underwear, and how the pair he was eating was large enough to fill him up. He's a big guy...

..."Rack Mount".

One of Sheriff Arpaio's ex inmates.

Taxi...

A perfect combination of IT and Paris Hilton angles.

Just what were they expecting to find?

Yeuch!

Unlikely to have been LiLo, Paris, et al - from all reports, they leave em at home anyway, so wouldnt have had a pair to lose.......?

I once became lost in a large data center near a train station in London. I spent about 1 hour wandering around looking in rooms trying to find my collegues. In my bag there 2 phones, a camera, an ipaq, (no ipods then)a ibm 240x, and a flip disk (great device) plus lots of leads and screwdriversn stuff. When I entererd the building one rent a cop was out side smoking, one was reading )?) the daily sport and buzzed me in with out looking up i never signed in, and never met anyone other then a cleaner. I eventually found my rack space and my unix loving chums playing age of empires on the floor.

arent there often webcams in the room?

perhaps they came from a female................................ Has anyone seen one in a data centre? My point is im sure its possible to loose your self for so long in those crazy places that you made need to discard underware.................

anyone remember the vibrations of a eds80, I know of one lucky girl who got a little wet 'testing' for them........

They're now building computers so sexy that they can snap knicker elastic at range.

Upgrade time!

... shouldln't it be "19 inch rack mount"?

don't call a taxi for me. there are plenty driving past this time of day.

It may be from the cleaners. May have been the cause of too much static so decided to get rid of the silky stuff.

Someone probably named one of the servers knickers (I once named one pants).

then said "knickers down" meaning the servers crashed. The poor girl misunderstood.

How many "Hiltons" was the server room at when the offending (sic) items were found?

Clearly the size of the "item" in nanoWales could provide a clue....

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[much too much nog for breakfast today.....................I need to clear my mind]