So, if it was like the scenario at my workplace, at that same time period we were stuck with an obscenely low (50MB) MS Exchange inbox limit (since bumped to a "whopping" 100MB), which forces you to sort everything to local PST files (which default to encrypted-format), then had lowest-bidder full disk encryption on top of that (quite possibly GuardianEdge). The version of GuardianEdge in use at the time had a nasty tendency to crash harddrives... of my office of 28 persons, all 28 had an unrecoverable harddrive crash during that same time period. To compound things, GuardianEdge would also encrypt external USB drives, but the encryption key was stored on the internal drive. Personnal network partitions were also too small at the time to back anything up to the network.

But, in spite of all this, it's still way too "convenient" that these emails were lost.

I was hoping for +1 Funny.

I don't have time to do it myself, but with the information provided in the court case (without possessing this "Schedule A" that I presume is sealed by the court), simply that the defendants are "Morgan Jack, Datalink 4 and Datalink 7", I think a motivated Slashdotter could effectively rebuild and repost the URL list before Google (maybe) de-lists them.

At least around my area, I'd say we are buying Mustangs, Cameros, Corvettes, Challengers, and Chargers. (yes, I phrased that "we" for a reason) Other people are buying F150s, Silverados, Rams, and Titans.

I pretty sure this just means Microsoft ran out of IPv4 addresses that they bought for the specific purpose of their Azure service, so they are now "borrowing" addresses from their other address pools. This also means their Azure services are no longer one continuous block of addresses.

Find a bunch of teenagers to spend 90% of your waking hours and 25% of your sleeping hours texting with. That's how they get fast, anyway... 500 text messages per day!

Let's see, meteor generates a plasma trail... that would be moving charged particles (both positive and negative). Moving charge means a changing electric field. A changing electric field causes a changing magnetic field, so we have a changing electro-magnetic field... i.e. radiowaves. The ions in the plasma trail don't stay that way, the electrons get recaptured at some point, which means a photon will be discharged, i.e. a radio wave-packet. As to frequency, just put a couple grad students to write a program to calculate photon emission frequencies of a couple million different ion configurations, and they'll probably find the correct correspondence somewhere in there.

Or just do what most municipalities do and paint the curb or apparent parking space red.

I'm pretty sure they higher eastern Europeans under H1Bs for dirt cheap labor, too. And I'm pretty sure those same eastern Europeans qualify as "white" (with rare exceptions).

Oddly, race/ethnicity is the one piece of personal information Facebook does not ask (and nag) you for when you create an account.

This has happened to me before: you probably have some app with a memory leak running in the background (or possibly some malware). One common warning sign is when a free app started out good, but after some patch, started serving up a whole bunch of advertisement. Start with uninstalling any rarely-used free applications and see if the problem goes away, then update your other apps.

Everett, Tacoma-Lakewood-Puyallup, and Kitsap County have massive military populations (figure around 80-90% male for the military subpopulation). There's a tendency for the junior enlisted men to marry the local girls right out of high school, then they move away with their young wives on their next assignment. (These women often divorce their husbands when they find a place they like better than their hometown). ...And around 50% of the women left behind aren't worth dating.

I seem to recall seeing a special (can't remember if it was Discovery, National Geographic, or the Science Channel) on that same great white that was kept captive for 44 days. It wasn't so much that the white shark couldn't be kept alive, it was the fact that --despite being theorectically well-fed-- it ate two of the other sharks in the tank (both large species). After it ate the second shark, they decided to release it for the good of the rest of the aquarium.

I'm pretty sure CDs last longer if you don't scratch them. My collection is about 150 factory-pressed discs worth, and maybe another 25 CD-Rs from various local bands. Every last one still plays, including the ones I've found in the $0.99 bin at the local music store (yes, they still exist!). I'm a bit concerned about the CD-Rs, but I have all those ripped to 320kbps mp3 (good enough, considering the recording source on most of those).

You're assuming you can teach a machine to learn tax code, which is filled with loopholes, circular reasoning, contradictions, and logical fallacies.