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Comment Re:"Meta" is short for "Metastasize" (Score 1) 21

None of that matters- the default SMS app is just a UI. They don't need to make a single web call to build one. You can do it in a few hours without a server. They may have decided to send all those texts to their servers for analysis in the advertising, but that's because they saw value in it. But the default SMS app has nothing to do with webservers, SMS transport, cloudflare, or anything like that. It's a GUI and that's it. You can find dozens of tutorials on how to make a simple one, they don't actually have anything to do with sending an SMS other than hosting the textbox you type into

Comment Re:Was anyone using the SMS Feature? (Score 1) 21

That's not what the default SMS app does. It doesn't send to a gateway, the OS does that. The default SMS app allows you to replace the UI for the messaging app and allows you total access to the SMS database on the device. Basically it allows you to fully replace the built in app. It was valuable to FB because of the "full access to SMS database" part. But they would never have had to pay for an SMS, that's just done by calling SmsManager.sendTextMessage at the OS level

Comment Re:Hyperloop ... (Score 3, Informative) 142

Maintenance on trains is a fraction of the cost of the cars. They also move far more people per unit time than a series of cars do. The reason this is cars is because Musk hyped up on an idea that wasn't technically feasible (and never will be), then decided that he could turn it into an even bigger grift by self dealing to his own company to boost it's revenue and make people think self driving is a thing (it isn't, they have drivers even in the Vegas tunnel) that will actually happen this decade (it won't even come close).

Comment Re:Sell off the space (Score 1) 52

With those two agencies it's probably a good thing. Do you want the prosecution to have unregulated access to a judge's chambers and documents? They shouldn't even be in the same building, too high a risk of influence.

Now if we were talking say the FBI and the FDA, yeah that's crazy. But those two it makes sense to keep a barrier between.

Comment Re:Sell off the space (Score 1) 52

Unless you have an entire empty office building, it may be more difficult than it's worth. You could consolidate, but if the orgs consolidating are too far apart they'd come from different congressionally regulated budgets and that would be hard to reconcile. Long term it's a solution, but its not something you can snap your fingers and do.

Comment Re:All cryptos are ponzis (Score 1) 9

Yes, they have the political value "Let's scam people out of money", th t3echnical value of an extremely inefficient method of storing data that's could be done more easily and with less resource usage at least a thousand ways, and the philosophy of a 12 year old edgelord who was just given a copy of Atlas Shrugged. There is no value in any of it.

Comment Re:I have occasionally used Venmo and CashApp (Score 2) 62

The reporting requirement is 10K, not 4K. So either you're lying, or you made a smart ass answer and pissed the teller off.

And if you think that PayPal etc wouldn't tell the feds everything they wanted to know, you're kidding yourself. They're even more likely to, as they don't have privacy protections written into law.

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