Ever get a text message from an unknown number that asked if you were interested in a certain service?

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Even if you get a message claiming to be a report from cnn.com, don't believe it until you have checked that website for the actual text.

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He sent a text message to a friend in Nairobi, asking her to get help from aid agencies.

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And they get to hold the jitter and latency very low while increasing their message rate from a few hundred thousand messages per second to 3 million.

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What's more you can set it to start cooking at a certain time - and then send a message from your smartphone to delay it turning itself on if you get stuck at work.

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Freedom of speech is more than shouting your ideas from a soapbox on the corner, and it frequently involves spending money to get the message out.

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Indeed, one of the little-noticed reasons that Kerry did not get a bigger bounce from the DNC was that day after day and night after night, Republicans got out their message into both national and local media: that he was avoiding a liberal Senate record and is a waffler.

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