There's no reason to think he killed anybody. That's also why you or I aren't involved in a murder investigation right now. The police can't know for sure we didn't kill anyone. That doesn't mean they don't care. You think what he wrote is a reason to think he killed somebody; I don't.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume the student hasn't actually killed anyone or anything. If the student later is involved in an investigation as a potential suspect, then you can bring something like this up.

I agree on teaching students how to deal with the police, ie. not to say anything. The situation was probably quite scary to the kid, so I do understand his behavior although I don't condone it.

Why change the data and join a group if the profile just gets deleted afterwards? I'm not sure if you're kidding or not :-)

Besides, wouldn't this also require that all actions work through GET requests instead of POSTs?

We probably visit wildly different kinds of web pages, as I can't remember when I last had any trouble because of Ablock+. Some pages have notices asking you to whitelist, but the main content isn't hidden.

FWIW, I subscribe to EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Fanboy's Social Blocking List and Adblock Warning Removal List.

Hearing other viewpoints I consider very valuable. Sharing my view with others on the other hand seems quite pointless. It can feel good to have someone across the world agree with me, but that's about it. Of course it's good that not everyone thinks like I do, because there wouldn't be much to read or listen in that case.

As it happens, I generally listen and read a lot more than I speak or write.

It's likely that security isn't the OP's main concern. It rarely is.

There are no maturity requirements to run a company.

I'm not as optimistic as you are about his predictions. Just about every company seems to use Facebook nowadays, brick-and-mortar shops have images of Facebook's Like button on their windows, and plenty of job postings include Facebook links. Smaller companies don't even have their own web pages, they just use Facebook. I also wouldn't be sure that everybody even knows Facebook's internal messaging systems and e-mail are completely different animals. Messenger and ICQ were tiny compared to Facebook today. I don't use it myself, and don't want to sign up in order to apply for a job, but I'm afraid it's not implausible.

I disagree; if all ads were as small and inconspicuous as these are, I would even consider getting rid of Adblock altogether to support the content providers. I prefer these instead of banners, even if the links do break up the flow somewhat.

This is a US-centric website, so the answer is yes.

I don't see how the parent post is any proof that the poster is working for any government, party or similar political group. Bashing the US is fun for many trolls, and people don't generally need compensation to do something they have fun doing.

Aren't they already trivially bypassable with money?

Isn't that just what this dad is doing? You just stated the same goal without telling how you would do it.

I guess it feels that way because smartphone operating systems are only supported for a short time. If Microsoft released new versions of Windows annually and ended support for old releases in a year or two, Windows 7 would be considered old too.

I wonder if smartphone operating systems will reach the "Windows XP spot" anytime soon. The devices themselves probably won't last ten years except for the most careful owners.

But the computers only do precisely what humans tell them to do. Maybe Skynet will fix this.

If this is true, where does the widespread notion that nobody reads the documentation come from? Do customers demand documentation for the sake of having it? Or maybe I'm not the only one who reads documentation after all. (Well, I do read it more often than not :-))