Last week, following a lengthy forensic investigation, Interpol announced that computers and hard-drives retrieved from a Farc guerilla camp by Colombian security forces were authentic, and had not been tampered with since their capture.
Police then conducted around-the-clock surveillance of Mr. Franklin, following him as he walked or went on drives, and retrieved a plate and napkin he had thrown away after eating pizza, which provided the DNA match.
From the recesses of her hard drive, they retrieved e-mail messages that she had tried unsuccessfully to delete, along with the love letters she had drafted -- but never sent -- to the president.
A managing editor even drove to retrieve a portable generator from his house, leaving his family in the dark.
There the network falls silent, due to a small pattern in the sequence that no longer generated the required synaptic drive to retrieve the following pattern in the sequence.
I am sure my evening drive to retrieve the forgotten patrol belt will not be my last.
It is technically equipped to do the job: coins saved in an encrypted wallet on a hard drive can be retrieved for later use in purchases.
More and more, though, movies are either partly or entirely digital constructions that are created with computers and eventually retrieved from drives at your local multiplex or streamed to the large and small screens of your choice.
What this means is that today's "security" systems are mostly just a vast network of evidence collection devices, constantly recording and dumping data into hard drives, only to be retrieved after something regrettable has happened.
The car retrieved, he drove to Sirtris's headquarters in Cambridge, where he shares an office with Christoph Westphal, the company's chief executive.
But not, he says, before he drives Kalmen crazy, retrieves the ring and gets him to pay for the wedding.
