[OMG] Gmail glitch erases emails from 150,000 accounts

Google working to restore all affected accounts in 12 hours' time.

WASHINGTON - Google was restoring service to Gmail users on Monday who had email messages deleted from their inboxes over the weekend.


"For those Gmail users reporting missing messages, our engineers are working to restore them as soon as possible," Google said on a webpage that provides updates on the status of its various products.

"Affected users will be temporarily unable to sign in while we repair their accounts," the Mountain View, California-based company said.

Google said less than 0.08 percent of the users of the free Web-based email service had been affected by the problem.

Google does not release official figures for the total number of Gmail users but they are estimated to number around 200 million.

Google said Monday it expects to fully restore the Gmail accounts of users who saw their emails deleted from their inboxes over the weekend.


"We hope to have everybody back by the end of the day," said Andrew Kovacs, a Google spokesman. "It is our expectation that we will restore all accounts."

Google said less than 0.02 percent of the users, or about 38,000 accounts, of the free Web-based email service had been affected by the problem, fewer than previously reported.

Google had said earlier the problem affected 0.08 percent of Gmail users.

It says everything should be resolved within 12 hours.

Gmail disruptions, while rare, are seen by some industry analysts as a setback to the Mountain View, California-based Google's efforts to promote Gmail and other Web-based services to businesses.

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[SHOCKING] Girl 13, no more Virgin But not RAPE

Woman, now 22, isn't the only one. Counsellors say more teens under age 16 are having sex.

SHE is a bright student from an average Singapore family.


She was never abused, even if she felt a little neglected at times. Yet, as a young teen, she was rebellious and defiant.

And she experimented with sex from a young age. She lost her virginity at the tender age of 13.

Lisa (not her real name) is now a 22-year-old university student and she said it was all because of curiosity.

She was a little troubled about what she had done, but for all of two weeks.

It was soon just another incident in her life.

Lisa is one of an apparently growing number of young girls who have no qualms about experimenting with sex at a young age, and do not seem to regret their actions.

More than 40 per cent of nearly 1,500 people who took part in a recent Internet poll said they had sex for the first time before they were 18.

The Today newspaper quoted police figures as showing that there were 198 cases of sexual penetration of girls under the age of 16 last year, 10 more than in 2009. It is against the law for anyone to have sex with those under the age of 16.

If a girl under the age of 14 is involved, the crime is treated as statutory rape.


The poll, conducted by the online forum Flowerpod, was not gender specific, but several of those who took part said they first had sex when they were as young as 13.

Dr Carol Balhetchet, the director of youth services at the Singapore Children’s Society, also said she knew of a girl who had sex when she was just 13 years old.

So it would appear that Lisa’s case is not so unusual.

Lisa told TheNewPaper that she grew up feeling the incident had made her who she is today – stronger and less naive.
It happened one night when she decided to go to her then-boyfriend’s house.

“One thing just led to another,” she said. Afterwards, she didn’t think of sex as a big deal any more. “It didn’t seem as magical as most people described their ‘first time’ to be,” she said.

She temporarily regretted that her first time wasn’t with someone she had genuine feelings for. “I didn’t love him at all,” she said. She remains convinced that sex is important in a long-term relationship. “It bonds two people together in a unique way,” she said.

Lisa said her parents still don’t know about the incident. “My parents were always working, so they didn’t know what was going on,” she said...

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[MONSTER DAD] Raping a mentally-challenged woman and gave birth

KOTA BARU - A father of seven was jailed for 15 years by the Sessions Court here after he was found guilty of raping a mentally-challenged woman who then gave birth to a baby boy.

Sessions judge Rofiah Mohamad passed the sentence, to run from yesterday, after Mokhtar Hassan, 53, a security guard, was found guilty of raping the then 18-year-old woman in a house at Kampung Berdang, Jeli, in April 2006.

She said Mokhtar was lucky to escape being whipped for the offence because the crime was committed before the laws under the Criminal Procedure Code for sexual offences were amended in 2007 to include whipping for those above 50.


Before the change, under the Section 376 of the Penal Code, anyone above the age of 50 found guilty of rape was exempted from caning but could be jailed a minimum of five years up to a maximum of 20.

"The crime you committed is very serious, to the extent that the victim gave birth to a baby and now she is unable to take care of her child because of her condition.

"You are very lucky that you committed the offence before the amendment was made. Otherwise, I would surely include the caning sentence," Rofiah said in her judgment.

Mokhtar's counsel Faizal Abd Rahman applied for a stay of execution pending appeal at the High Court.


According to the case facts, the victim's family lodged a police report after finding out that their daughter was pregnant.

Mokhtar was later arrested and the baby, who was born on Feb 12, 2007, was confirmed to be his child after a DNA test.

--The Star/Asia News Network

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