It is al completely blown out of proportion. As Facebook is used for various purposes by parents it is assumed that children use it for similar purposes, when in fact children rarely use facebook at all. When they do use facebook it is really just for instagramish stuff. Kids message their friends to plan activities relative to the activities their parents plan. If mom sets up a birthday party, kids use social media to plan activities within the party. In China facebook is banned and they use wechat. In countries where facebook is not banned it is merely because facebook is used just like wechat and authorities understand this, The plague of pics of your food etc that people complain about with facebook is merely - can you prepare for the shock? - kids literally taking pictures of their food. More than 99% of facebook users are using it for this purpose. Ascribing nefarious activity to social media use among children (yes there are ads and the kids generally have no idea what the ads are for) is just dumb. Kids like to play with their friends and social media is just an extension of the landline they used to use to call friends. Of concern is when outside actors attempt to contact your children through social media so parents should monitor but not interfere unless they see a real or potential threat from an outsider. Parents are not stupid and are aware of who exactly is an outsider and who is a friend or a friends parent etc. Reducing screen time near bedtime is important, if only to help the brain wind down. And don't forget that a kids' social media post is just that - mostly harmless and meaningless words outside of the narrow context of trying to communicate innocently with their friends - ascribing some sort of heavy meaning is incorrect. Yes, kids meet future girlfriends and boyfriends on social media including wechat. Yes, kids follow their teachers on social media because teachers literally broadcast notes about the next test or homework assignment. Yes, kids message teachers individually and teachers are wise enough to message back, copying their parents etc. Yes, kids look for summer jobs and ways to spend their allowances by following local businesses. It is all just silly. Let kids be kids, let teenagers be teenagers, let parents be parents. Enough with the looking at every little thing like it has to be controlled or it is so risky.

I'm familiar with this problem because I've dealt with it before where you get these crazy big spikes all at one time. The math is what they use to solve it, often with custom web engines. The math underneath the math is what matters. If you set it up right, do some calculations, discuss with experts, and then cross your fingers it can work, but only for the best and bravest internet firms. One thing not to forget is that as the HNY messages slam the network over the course of three hours in the US, there will be a whole hell of a lot of ads. It would be a lot smarter for them to test this tonight and tomorrow night, but I imagine their vendors are not as sophisticated as they are about testing and verifying etc.

I like some surprise facebook requests, otherwise its all real life for me

Fantastic. Thought police in every public school. I take back nothing I ever said, including the fact that half these teachers you are so underpaid they should be moonlighting as waitstaff.

Only problem with JDK and PHP is that they confusingly update the installation package and the environment variables every time its upgraded. If this holds you back, it does not mean the languages are the problem.

If cancer is wrong, then I guess I don't want to be right!

Like which ones? Clinton and Bush? Weren't they the first and second black presidents? Or was that some kind of hippie humor my friends and I don't get?

QA is for wussies :)

I liked disobedience and forever my girl

In DC, since they have no local government to speak of, they often have to choose between automating part of a process for some tangible improvement and changing nothing. Of course, they also have such a small population that in the past they simply did away with any paperwork or services that were not needed. I think various agencies would complain when they didn't get the data they needed, and this really is what drove their decisions on automation. A pull not a push.

Why would you need chrome to run linux? The whole point of linux is that you can run it without some other software getting in the way.

Then read comic books - POW! KRAK! BOOM! BANG! Is that more your speed jk ;)

I don't know the first thing about crypto, or bitcoin, or blockchain or speculation. I sure like software though. Software is definitely no laughing matter.

Why would I care about their study? I am not going to waste money on studies that tell me how to do what? Manipulate people?

Of course you are correct. Such a study would obviously have been performed by the finest minds in starched pants, not cutting any corners. So odd.