Upvote please the guy immediately above who knows a bit about Windows. It's hard, but do-able.

How exactly hard would a have been for the government to anticipate this notification, and dump the traffic outta Twitter's mail servers, and run a quick search for "Oh, by the way, we're just warning you the government is after you", and then cross check the emails to mine personal identifiers?

Not hard, methinks.

When i had to switch in the UK from analog, there was no charge made on SMS.

I was truly shocked when, a few years later, texting took off.

It was like the X.25 channel on ISDN. There, known to a few, but of little use.

Oh, silly me, i bought a phone, to be, err, a phone.

Now, if you suddenly find a way to charge good money for something which is a byproduct waste in your system, why the heck not charge as much as you can?

All you're doing is taxing cowardice. Which is a plentiful thing. Don't tell me you never "hid" behind a text message for convenience sake?

As for Android messing with SMS addressing, is this not a GSM certification spec?

Wish i had mod points.

I read like a dozen news pieces on this case, and you're the first to actually explain it. Nice work.

Now i get it. TomorrowNow was basically set up to skim and scam from the start. No wonder the FBI are interested. Interstate Wire Fraud. Hundreds of thousands of counts.

Property prices in London are mental. that, matey, is because 60% of the housing stock isn't on the market, because of subsidised housing.

You mean bricking up windows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax ? Neatly followed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_tax

Nope, easy to get one of these: http://www.eizo.com/global/products/atc/sq2801/index.html i just would be amazed if they cost less than $10K plus $100K "procurement fee" but seriously, if someone dared to mass produce a spec even close to that, even for several grand, i'm pretty sure they'd sell fairly briskly.

Also check out KDB Radio at kdb.com. Monthly advance listings are where to look. Pretty good signal for internet radio. Annoying plugin, but i beleive that's an acceptable trade, see this next bit:

Here you go: http://kdb.com/musicsched.htm

sure, it's "programmed music" i.e. to fit their day plan / style, but i've never heard an interruption to any piece.

This is /., so that static page & those track play timings listed in the last 5chars following a parens without a space, and those schedule separators (" Eine Kleine Morgenmusik 6 to 9am", "Rhapsody 9am to Noon" etc.) can be usesul, right? :-)

You mean:
Beyond Pollution
oh, and change their splodgy yellow/green logo to yellow/brown. Yup, this is a branding shop's dream. "100 mil to redesign your logo sir? But really, it cost you 20 billion to make it that way . . . i think you're lowballing us . . "

Giving benefit of doubt, you're being sarcastic i hope. Here's the classic reference, from 1955: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entores_Ltd_v_Miles_Far_East_Corporation Which actual findings are admirably geeky, relying as they do in "implied ACKs" (my phrase, which i think fits nicely, if you read the case) Which same also neatly renders silly your phrase: "presence in . . country by virtue of". Quite apart from personally disliking teleportation, the point fo the matter is the communication, not "presence". Lawyers, IMNSHO, the really good ones at least, i believe pioneered concepts of AI, way before Stanford got into it :-)