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Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:01AM (#21496990)
That's pretty clever, I didn't even consider this as an option. How do you block landlines?

I currently have 'do not disturb' on and whitelist my contacts but it's not ideal.

Re:Australian regulator investigates Google data harvesting from Andro... on Monday May 14, 2018 @09:31AM (#17065306)
Someone conducted a simple experiment to see if the facebook app was listening to their conversations. Spoiler: it's listening to your every word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SOxb_Lfps

Re:Equation Group Cyber Weapons Auction on Monday August 15, 2016 @03:58PM (#12292959)
A private transaction of BTC wouldn't effect the market value of BTC. It is correct to say 1M BTC = 565M USD; the market price of BTC/USD is only effected when the BTC is sold on an exchange.