Teen Cancels Party After 200,000 RSVP On Facebook

autospa writes "An Australian teen who had to shut down an event page on Facebook after more than 200,000 people RSVP'd for her sweet 16 party now has more than 70,000 people signed up to attend her new party. The girl named Jess called police Monday to say her Facebook account had been hijacked after thousands said they'd attend her birthday party in Chatswood March 26."

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News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

What the fuck has happened to this site? Yet another inane story that happens on Facebook is "stuff that matters"???

This place has really gone the tubes. It was once sort of cutting edge and look how far it has fallen.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

You missed the point. The 'news for nerds' isn't the Facebook hijinks, it's the party at a 16 year-old girls house.

C'mon, ya neckbeards! JB ahoy!

Re:News For Nerds

[MrEricSir]

This place has really gone the tubes.

Has it gone a series of tubes, perhaps?

Re:News For Nerds

[religious freak]

Yeah, it's not the most interesting story, but I do find it vaguely interesting that anonymous (i.e. a random group of dudes not getting laid) would do this. Was this just a prank or perhaps trying to prove some kind of point. I think this would actually be a pretty interesting study of how the event would propagate to so many people.

At what point did this party reach the threshold between "why would I want to RSVP to this stupid thing" to "haha - it'll be funny if I say I'm going".

I would imagine the first five to ten thousand would be difficult. Even stupid groups like "I think this pickle is better than Nickleback" group had some unifying message/intention. I think pulling this off was something a bit different.

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[sarysa]

As a nerd I think there's plenty of angles to this story...4chan's alleged "hijacking" of the event, the way the internet changes the dynamics of an open invitation event, but most importantly the way that the Aussie government is handling what most of us would consider a prank. It's also amusing to see how misinterpreted the notion of one's account h(ij)acked is by less seasoned users.

Also, it's very, very funny.

Re:News For Nerds

[MachDelta]

16? Eh, that's really more of a 4chan thing.

Now if it was a LAN party... well! This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!

Re:News For Nerds

[kyuubiunl]

This place has really gone the tubes.

Oh, you mean, This place has really gone down the tubes. Well to pay some homage to Mr. Carlin, 'It would seem to me, one country, one tube. But is every state all of a sudden have to have its own tube now? One tube is all you need. But a tube that big? Somebody would have seen it by now. "Hey Joey! Get a load of these *****' tubes!" '

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!

two words.....token ring

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

You missed the point. The 'news for nerds' isn't the Facebook hijinks, it's the party at a 16 year-old girls house.

No, you missed the point: it's the party at an Australian girl's house.

Re:News For Nerds

[pirateRob]

You guys are just jealous cause I got invited and you didn't. (also I am 15 minutes from her house I could have actually gone).

Now if that girl could get on TV and say our standard party host line: "I'll say sorry, but I wont take off my glasses", then we'd really have an internet sensation.

Seems like it's more of an event than the state election which will also be on that day.

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[Americium]

It's more so that we all missed the invitation, because of the lack of a Facebook presence we have. Missing parties is what nerds are very good at, and this time a quarter million people knew about it before the nerds at slashdot did. At least now we can all complain about it and feel important once again.

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[mysidia]

Makes you wonder how many RSVPs there woulda been, had a link to the party been featured on Slashdot.... oh, hmm, I guess Facebook would have gone down, due to the Slashdot effect, before it broke 5 million RSVPs

Re:News For Nerds

[Architect_sasyr]

From what I saw over the past week, there have been a lot of status updates from random people I know (oddly, around the 20-25 mark and female mostly) going "who the fuck is jess, lol, well i'm going to her party". I doubt she was "hacked" at all, more like some people jumped on it.

Still can't believe this made it to slashdot, it was bad enough seeing it on my morning news.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't get why everyone calls the police at what happens online. Just let your party happen. If nothing else, you can have a block party... Geesh.

Re:News For Nerds

[ynp7]

It accidentally the whole tubes!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Yep. Every non-event to occur in Oz inevitably winds up on /. now. It's like there are two countries in the world as far as /. is concerned --- USA and Australia. That's hilarious considering what a pissant place Aussie is, yet grab a few Aussie-lurvin' "editors" and next thing you know they're grabbing half your website. FFS, and RIP the sadly departed worthwhile Slashdot.

Re:News For Nerds

[grim4593]

The quote at the bottom of this site:
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Re:News For Nerds

[ncgnu08]

The story should be more about how these people have no idea when it comes to technology. I mean, what did she expect to happen? More likely, she never even thought about the obvious outcome, then goes crying when the obvious happens. If one wants to control how many people get invited to your party, maybe try sending paper invitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_invitation . I reference this link as proof they exist, which some might need to believe me. If ever there was a story for my "society" (see sig), this is it....

Re:News For Nerds

[Ant P.]

This is just the latest in a series of tubes.

Re:News For Nerds

[dragonhunter21]

Tubular, man.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Also, it's very, very funny.

Sort of like watching a train full of nuns plow into a truck full of penguins, yes.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you missed the point. Most of the stories here are now old news, badly referenced news, or stuff like this. Totally not worth reading anymore.

Re:News For Nerds

[crovira]

She had a golden opportunity to hold it at an outdoor arena, charge $20 a head, control, (viz: soak the idiots who'd show up,) the flow of liquor and beer (after all this IS Australia,) and she DIDN'T BLOODY DO IT?

I'd call the mental ward and tell them to make a pickup.

Re:News For Nerds

[vlueboy]

Aah, thought experiments: How deep would the router tree be? Let's raffle it so "every nth guest brings a 4 port router". For a base four tree we have about 8.30 levels of depth, so 4 ^8.30 approaches 100,000. (4 port routers, mean binary-like trees but with branches of four at each node)

If using 16-port routers, the tree would be slightly over 4.15 levels . Those routers are expensive, but we'll save on cabling, admin time and power costs. This way we can get to the actual gameplay quickly... instead of troubleshooting what slightly drunk slashdotter inevitably misrouted a few of the runs at the last minute)

I'm leaving to someone else the hard work of figuring out what is the number of routers to be purchased. I, um, forgot how to work that out. It goes without saying that in the real world the routers would need to be switches, and DHCP overheads, collisions, broadcasts, factoring in wireless routers, bridges and whether we'll allow them and their own interference/collisions ... and all that jazz would make this current topology prohibitive, but it's still fun to think about. After all, we always talk about infinite monkeys writing Shakespeare or valid OSs randomly. But SOMEONE has practice designing their LAN unless you'd rather "sneakernet" to each screen and find who's actually got the winning file!

Oh, and... parent poster told me he's bringing all the cat 5 and power strips, even if it's just monkeys there ;)

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[vlueboy]

I'm thinking Wikileaks blackpage faxes as I write this.
The FBI can't exactly raid all 200,000+ homes worldwide, even though virtually every FB account has public names* had lots more raidable than 4chan. Funny, Anonymous won because it wasn't so Anonymous --it's because it's obvious that something now has to be done with thousands of prankers.

* Plus addresses, GPS data from phone users and other random leads that with statistical certainty some thousands of those kids forgot to hide prior to the party raid prank.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

The age of consent in Australia is 16. They're legal.

Re:News For Nerds

[froggymana]

Don't we already have some sort of huge network that allows other computers throughout the world to communicate to each other? Now it only we had a name for it.... I know we can call it the interweb!

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're going to take a joke like that to the extreme, do it right. A four-port switch has one uplink and three downlinks, so you end up with a trinary tree. Switches don't have MAC tables large enough for 100000 clients (8000 typically), so they're going to fall back to being hubs. You're going to need at least one router. If you split the net into 32 subnets, then each net can be built with 15^0+15^1+15^2=241 16-port switches. You need routers with a total of 32 downlink ports and 7712 16-port switches. It will still end up not working due to broadcast storms.

Re:News For Nerds

[chucklebutte]

This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!

two words.....token ring

ROFLCOPTER

Re:News For Nerds

[Totenglocke]

16? Eh, that's really more of a 4chan thing.

No, 12 is more 4chan's preferred age group.

Re:News For Nerds

[Seumas]

Slashdot is the new Engadget, Mashables, and BoingBoing.

Re:News For Nerds

[syousef]

You missed the point. The 'news for nerds' isn't the Facebook hijinks, it's the party at a 16 year-old girls house.

It's not the party at all. The news is there's a girl.

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[syousef]

As a nerd I think there's plenty of angles to this story...4chan's alleged "hijacking" of the event, the way the internet changes the dynamics of an open invitation event, but most importantly the way that the Aussie government is handling what most of us would consider a prank. It's also amusing to see how misinterpreted the notion of one's account h(ij)acked is by less seasoned users.

Also, it's very, very funny.

You have to understand it in context. It's funny to think about, but a 200,000 person event in a suburban back yard results in a very large price tag in damage for the family, and a very unsafe event for anyone silly enough to show up. Just Google: facebook party trashed house

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

uh, if you know them, they're not random. back to statistics class for you ;)

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

you can't crash a party that has an open invitation.

the news media gets dumber by the day

Re:News For Nerds

[pinkushun]

Well said! It's about reading between the lines.

I find it annoying how so many claim their accounts have been 'hijacked' or 'hacked', while they obviously meant 'password-post-it-on-my-monitor' or a 'ID-10-T' error.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Random does not mean arbitrary.

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[RooftopActivity]

Off-topic, yes, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Mc7bTG3-c

Re:News For Nerds

[RooftopActivity]

Yes, this is a brilliant example of how to take "viral marketing" for lack of a better term, into real life. The only problem is, realistically, she would need to have planned the logistics, security, catering and facilities in advance.

Re:News For Nerds

[adolf]

16 looks legal in, at least, some parts of .au.

IIRC, it was rather lower (14?) not too many years ago. (Someone will correct me on this whether I am wrong or not.)

Re:News For Nerds

[aix tom]

That's to complicated, man. Let's just do a simple WLAN, dude.

*Runs and hides from the pitch-fork and torches mob*

Re:News For Nerds

[buchner.johannes]

How would WLAN do under these circumstances? ... assuming you can cram these people in a hall.

Re:News For Nerds

[Carewolf]

Yes, but that's because everybody on 4chan is a 16 year old girl

Re:News For Nerds

[N1AK]

Calling the police was easily the smartest thing she did. 99.9% of Facebook events work perfectly well, it's the rare exceptions that some group of 'tards decide to crash. Given the number of people who said they were coming, even if she 'cancels' the event there's a good chance a lot of univited people are going to turn up at her door. Making the police aware in advance makes it easier for them to respond should anything happen, and ensures she isn't suspected of encouraging it if it does.

Re:News For Nerds

[L4t3r4lu5]

Poorly. You'd need the APs distributed sufficiently to prevent overlap. You'd be better having everybody paying $15 to join and buying managed switches and hiring cable monkeys to wire it all up.

$60 routers between 4 will be horrible, but $1.5m of enterprise networking gear?

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

You have a dirty mind, Sir.

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[gravis777]

What, you mean that 700,000 people with their iPhones can't access a single 802.11g connection hooked up to a DSL line? I thought wireless gave you 54Mbps of bandwidth!

Re:News For Nerds

[gravis777]

Wait, did you just post Bing search results on a Microsoft-bashing site? If I had mod points....

Re:News For Nerds

[witherstaff]

Seems like a less stylish way to requote Napoleon : Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

No, this place has more like a dumptruck.

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[Anonymous Coward]

At what point did this party reach the threshold between "why would I want to RSVP to this stupid thing" to "haha - it'll be funny if I say I'm going".

At the point where the URL was posted on 4chan.

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[hesaigo999ca]

Yeah, too bad i dont have point, i would have given you all 5 as underrated...
I gotta say to cmdtaco, your site sucks now because too many inane people are deciding on what stories should be viewed and you are losing your focus as to what this site meant for all its main users....you get one lone columnist who thinks he will be clever and talk about facebook yet again to get the page ranking up for slashdot.....hey wait, i guess that must be it, the more they write about slashdot, the better the ranking on google, the more people they can reach, the more they water down the techies and geeks with stop by perusers.

I have been a member since about 2000 or so....and i got to say the level of tech stuff has wained compared to when i was just hitting this site....i remember one story that floored me and won me over to stay loyal to this site, it was that guy that developed a color data scheme to be able to print 50gb of data on one sheet of 8x11 paper....the technology was bought and never heard from again, but it was cool back in the day to hear about that stuff, eInk also had just come out.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

RFC 2795 covers the infinite monkeys writing problem.

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[Anonymous Coward]

You missed the point. The 'news for nerds' isn't the Facebook hijinks, it's the party at a 16 year-old girls house.

It's not the party at all. The news is there's a girl.

That and the fact that she's now legal in most parts of Australia.

Incidentally, in 4chan's case, the attention is probably because the above cut-off point where they lose interest is fast approaching. ;-)

Re:News For Nerds

[flosofl]

For 100,000 wireless clients? In a relatively small area? Even requiring them to use 5GHz 802.11n would be a nightmare to set up. You'd need a centralized RF switch(es) to manage all of the APs. You'd have to use fairly beefy APs so you can leave a lot of the VLAN work on the edge devices. Then you'd have to do a client density analysis to determine how many APs need to be deployed and where for the most efficient coverage. Tuning the antenna gain, making sure adjacent and overlapping RF fields are far apart frequency-wise. Of course none of the careful design will matter since in a crowd that size, there will be a small but significant number of clients with a malfunctioning or wonky fast-roaming algorithm fucking everything up.

Re:News For Nerds

[Creepy]

Speak for yourself - I went to every party I was invited to. Both of them.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

16? Eh, that's really more of a 4chan thing.

Now if it was a LAN party... well! This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!

Wait! Where's the LAN party?

We need to get this setup.

Re:News For Nerds

[0x15e]

IMO, anyone that finds it interesting / odd / unusual that anonymous would do anything probably doesn't understand anonymous.

Re:News For Nerds

[Minwee]

It's a variation of Occam's Razor, and he "requoted" it four hundred years before Napoleon was born.

Personally I'm fond of Heinlein's version: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. But don't rule out malice."

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

Its not just the article. The readership has gone to complete shit. Most of the people who post are complete idiots who can't critically think their way out of a wet paper bag. Time and time again they prove through both posts and moderation they have absolutely no fucking clue how the world works, why it might work the way it does, or be willing to see anything other than their extremely narrow, extremely nieve, and uneducated view of the world. Its pathetic. Worse, almost without fail, these people are so dumb, they don't even realize almost everything they say is extremely hypocritical. Even more pathetic, when you point out their hypocrisy using facts and their own statements, you're suddenly troll moderated because it offends the like-minded mass's ignorant sensibilities.

The majority of the posts are either "me too" posts, trolls, or uneducated posts which all too often are get moderated up because it just happens to be popular ignorance. Seems moderating up incorrect information just because its widely believed makes the ignorance and quite likely stupid masses feel smart. The signal to noise ratio is extremely low these days. Worse, time and time again, posts which are actually funny or informative get moderated down because the stupid masses don't want to learn, rather they want their stupidity to be rewarded in a circle jerk with other ignorant peers.

And made worse, seemingly, the majority of users no long have any fucking clue what the difference is between a troll, flamebait, and simply disagreeing. Their far too stupid to realize that while they love to bitch about censorship, they are themselves guilty of massive stupidity and willful censorship. Which in turn, underlines their stupidity. Here's a fucking clue; if you disagree, it absolutely does not mean its an invalid point of view. The fact this must be stressed underscores the general stupidity of the masses these days. Pathetic.

Holy shit, slashdot fallen...

Re:News For Nerds

[Amouth]

i bet you could do it for around 200k in used enterprise gear..

Re:News For Nerds

[vegiVamp]

+1 Balls of Steel

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

you really have no idea what you're talking about. this was embarrassing to read.

Re:News For Nerds

[fermat1313]

Seriously, I'm getting very tired of people complaining about an article with the "idle" tag. If you don't like this type of story, just exclude idle. If you can't figure it out, you don't belong here, and if you can figure it out and just like to bitch, please STFU. Thank you.

Re:News For Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

Token ring. The mellowest of all networks

Who's responsible...

[Tigger's Pet]

It says, in TFA, that "A 17-year-old boy was charged today for hijacking the invitation". I wonder what he has actually been charged with? Hijacking of an on-line invite seems a little over-exuberant by the Aussie police.

Re:Who's responsible...

[ron_ivi]

If you read TFA, they also suggest that the hacker group anonymous is behind it.

Perhaps they hired HB Gary to do their research for them.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Tigger's Pet]

And, to make it worse, TFA seem to indicate that she shut the event down on FB after more than 200k people RSVPed, then created a new event which more than 70k people have replied to. Don't people ever learn? This is why evolution should dictate that she can't breed.

Re:Who's responsible...

[MightyMartian]

Ah, Anonymous. Self-righteous destructive fucktards of the world unite! "We'll piss in your pool to save you!"

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Really? It's been a while since I watched Mad Max, but it sounds like the sort of thing Main Force Patrol would do.

Re:Who's responsible...

[JimboG]

He was charged with using a carriage service to harass - same as if he had called her up and abuse her. Fair enough I think.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Pool's closed.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Stregano]

You guys sure that she just wasn't dumb and left the invitation open to the public and this dude just put it up on a blog or something? That sounds pretty damn reasonable.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Due to AIDS.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

I may or may not have been aware of this was about to go down...

Anyway, no hacking involved. It was an open invite event that literally anyone could RSVP.

Re:Who's responsible...

[mangu]

I wonder what he has actually been charged with?

Bringing Goatse candy to the party.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

It wasn't actually the Girl's event that went viral. The boy created a fake profile, copied the event info and posted it in /b/. It's a slow news day.

Re:Who's responsible...

[cheekyjohnson]

Yeah. A weak-minded person's feelings might get hurt. Can't have that!

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed. David Thorne of 27b/6 pulled the exact same stunt a while back:

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/04/27/the-internet-invites-itself-to-kates-party/

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

The kid is facing jail time for harassment using a carrier service

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/facebook-party-invite-mayhem-youth-could-face-jail-20110316-1bwi3.html

He was later charged with using a carriage service (the internet) to harass/offend contrary to the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act, NSW Police said.

Under the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act, if a person is found guilty of the alleged offence the penalty is imprisonment for a maximum of three years.

Re:Who's responsible...

[MooseMuffin]

Good to see that after all the high profile stuff Anonymous has been linked to lately, they haven't forgotten to continue doing petty, immature stuff for the lulz.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Brad1138]

Ah, Anonymous. Self-righteous destructive fucktards of the world unite! "We'll piss in your pool to save you!"

And that was the last we ever heard of MightyMartian.....

I have wondered how many members of Anonymous are Slashdotters?

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous wouldn't piss in a pool. Infect it with AIDS, maybe.

Re:Who's responsible...

[visualight]

WTF. Now whenever anyone signs off with 'anonymous' it means they're part of some mythical group invented by the media.

Re:Who's responsible...

[mug funky]

4chan's ocean of piss would be quite useful in Fukushima right about now.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Hecatonchires]

He cloned the invite page and reupped it after she closed hers. Along with home address, phone etc.

From The Australian Newspaper

A police statement released to Associated Press today said a 17-year-old boy had been charged with using a telecommunications carrier to harass or offend someone.

He is due in court in April.

Re:Who's responsible...

[ynp7]

Pretty sure they piss in your pool for the lulz.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder how you define "member of Anonymous".

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous in your Slashdot?, more likely that you think.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why the fuck would they come to this irrelevant site? Not even the GNAA post here anymore. :(

Re:Who's responsible...

[Brad1138]

I wonder how you define "member of Anonymous".

I assumed there is a member "list", so to speak, but that probably isn't the case at all. I guess anyone that knows what to do and how to do it and has participated in one of "their" causes would be a member.

Re:Who's responsible...

[mr_mischief]

"We are legion. We are everyone. We are noone. We are not your personal army."

That doesn't sound much like a card-issuing chartered club to me.

Re:Who's responsible...

[mr_mischief]

"or offend"... wow. Freedom of fucking speech got raped right there in every orifice. Australia, land of the whipped and home of the chained decides you're not allowed to offend? Fuck those pussies. I have the right to offend anyone I scatting well please, praise be to the NRA and the ACLU.

There, do you think they'll try to extradite me? I think that little tirade is offensive myself, but it had to be done for demonstrative purposes. If I didn't do it, it might not have been done.

Re:Who's responsible...

[cynyr]

idk, it's not like she lost the use of her facebook account, or phone during those signups. It is mildly harrassing, but isn't there a way to make an event invite only on facebook?

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not even the GNAA post here anymore.

*weeps quietly*

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Lol. You made me picture a hole in the wall from the inside and few heroic Guy Fawkes' mask-wearing Anonymous doing it for the LULZ, with nothing but their white smirking masks and their useless radioactively-permitting black nylon suits.

Then, more getting steadily chopper-dropped to maintain hull pressure while the older "black-up" givers die on their feet.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a member. Look at my username, it even says that I'm a coward.

Re:Who's responsible...

[thegarbz]

Thankyou for your insightful comment. But not every country is the USA. Australia does NOT have freedom of speech, only protected speech such as the right to criticize the government, anti discrimination laws, and similar things. On the flip side we also have laws covering harassment which are so dearly lacking in the USA, and a sentence like "fuck those pussies" can actually land you in court here if someone is backwards enough to be offended by it.

Also note that this is only what the police have charged him with. What the courts decide may be completely different, in the same way I could sue you for hurting my feelings, and I'm sure I'd get absolutely nowhere with that claim.

Re:Who's responsible...

[JimboG]

Yes, she should have made the event private. But 16 year olds do stupid things. I really don't think the NSW police will take the 17 year old to court over this. He'll get a slap on the wrist. The cops in NSW are the 'look like they are doing something without actually doing anything' type. As long as people can read the papers and see there is something being done it all seems to be good enough. Nothing will come from this, except a chuckle.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Seumas]

Stupid people victim of their own stupidity. SHOCK.

Re:Who's responsible...

[HJED]

The original event was posted by the girl, but when she took it down he created a fake account and recreated the invite. The original invite got 2,000 or somthing rsvps but the fake event got about 300,000.

Re:Who's responsible...

[andre1s]

Cool I am offended by uglies let's through em all in jails

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that would be pretty awesome. Imagine the media shit storm if a horde of naked Guy Fawkes mask-wearing anons appeared with the most random assortment of gear and contained the nuclear disaster.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

Good to see that after all the high profile stuff Anonymous has been linked to lately, they haven't forgotten to continue doing petty, immature stuff for the lulz.

Although they are anonymous, I'm pretty sure they are not exactly the same group of people.

Re:Who's responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

pools closed

Re:Who's responsible...

[mjwx]

"or offend"... wow.

You see, unlike the US our judges are meant to be able to think for themselves and decide what is and isn't harassment.

This law is targeting prank callers (which is what the youth in question did, albeit in a different way). Our judges simply dont do whatever the previous judge before them did (precedent based). They are expected to be able to understand a case and make judgements based on that situation instead.

Secondly, it takes a lot more to offend an Aussie. We dont run screaming from the room when some middle aged washed up pop star accidentally shows a naked breast.

There, do you think they'll try to extradite me?

Also, unlike the US we realise and understand that our laws stop at our borders.

Re:Who's responsible...

[migla]

>I assumed there is a member "list", so to speak, but that probably isn't the case at all.

I hereby will courageously leak a beginning snippet of said list in the interest of openness. Members of Anonymous are:
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
-Anonymous
-Anonymous ...

Re:Who's responsible...

[thegarbz]

Same. Shame it's a civil matter though and not a criminal matter.

Re:Who's responsible...

[MysteriousPreacher]

Also, unlike the US we realise and understand that our laws stop at our borders.

Yeah, sure.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/sickipedia-bid-to-shut-offensive-encyclopedia-dramatica-20100317-qdv7.html

Australia could have added ED to their long list of sites being blocked to protect the sensibilities of their citizens. They instead chose to contact a US based site to warn/threaten them. Australia didn't have to call for extradition for their intended results to be made quite clear. It's not enough to for Australia to block this content; they want someone in a different country to abide by Australian law. How is this not a case of Australia applying its laws outside of its borders?

Fine if both countries have equivalent laws, in which case the Australians could ask the U.S. to prosecute their own laws. In this case though it'd be like Germany asking that a random Spanish guy take down a holocaust denial site that he never specifically intended to be accessed within German borders. It would be different if our Spanish friend was running a business selling his junk to Germans, in which case he either needs to abide by German law, or stop specifically targeting German users. Even then it's kind of shaky. It'd seem more sensible to prosecute Germans who break the law by buying his stuff.

Re:Who's responsible...

[DQKennard]

Cool I am offended by uglies let's through em all in jails

Defense must point out that while plaintiff complains of being "offended by uglies" to the point of pressing charges, he does in fact have mirrors in his house, putting the lie to his claims of such generalized offence.

Re:Who's responsible...

[mr_mischief]

So you take offense to someone making a public document more public? That's what the kid did. He took a public document and made it more public. Kind of like Slashdot does, or your local newspaper. Fuck anyone who calls that illegal. Did he do it with the intention of harassing her? Is there a pattern of harassment? Those are questions for the court, maybe, but not for Slashdot to answer.

I call BS

[theillien]

Her account wasn't hijacked. Her parents found out about the party and put the kibosh on it.

Aussie Aussie Aussie

[spyder-implee]

We have the fucking best parties!

Re:Aussie Aussie Aussie

[Anonymous Coward]

It's "We have the best fucking parties." It's the parties that are fucking, not the best that are fucking.

Re:Aussie Aussie Aussie

[mr_mischief]

No, at a "fucking party" it's the guests who are fucking. That's why when you're using "fucking" as a superlative for "best", it gets attached to "best" and not "party", where it'd be an adjective instead. I fucking know these fucking words fucking used as fucking multiple different fucking parts of speech can be fucking confusing, so I'm fucking happy to fucking help you out in this fucking matter.

Re:Aussie Aussie Aussie

[Locke2005]

That word has GOT to be the world's most versatile fucking adjective!

Re:Aussie Aussie Aussie

[aiht]

That word has GOT to be the world's most versatile fucking adjective!

Surely you mean "most fucking versatile adjective"?

Re:Aussie Aussie Aussie

[tophermeyer]

Surely you mean "most fucking versatile adjective"?

Unless he fucking literally meant that it fucking is the most fucking versatile adjective relating to sex acts.

Who cares?

[aBaldrich]

1) Not news for nerds, and definitely not something that matters.
2) Solved simply by not allowing strangers; make a list of allowed people and anyone not on the list stays on the street.

Re:Who cares?

[HotfireXG]

I would say that it IS worthless. But you can't say it's not mildly entertaining to hear about (or tell someone else about).

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

Then why you bother reading it , replying to it, and even geeking it out by writing point number 2?

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Showered]

And 3) No booze since it's an underage party. Why bother at all?

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Psychopath]

1) Not news for nerds, and definitely not something that matters.

2) Solved simply by not allowing strangers; make a list of allowed people and anyone not on the list stays on the street.

She claims her account was hacked. The article says it may have been done by Anonymous, and 270,000 people you don't know with a 16-year-old girl's home address is a Bad Thing. It has some level of relevance to the /. audience as we all have an opinion about Anonymous, and we all have an opinion about privacy.

Re:Who cares?

[JaredOfEuropa]

This is in Australia... what are the rules for underage drinking there? Oddly, in the USA they let you drive a car and buy a gun years before you are to be trusted with alcohol, but many European countries allow alcohol at 18 or even 16 (here in NL it's 16 for beers and alcopop, 18 for hard liquor). Then again, we can't get guns. Perhaps it's an either-or thing...

Re:Who cares?

[cheekyjohnson]

It sounds like she left the invitation open (the first one). That isn't their fault. Also, police intervention for an account being hijacked on the internet? Really?

Re:Who cares?

[Microlith]

She claims her account was hacked.

Rather, she's looking for an excuse OR someone knows/guessed her extremely insecure password.

The article says it may have been done by Anonymous

OH NO, NOT ANONYMOUS.

and 270,000 people you don't know with a 16-year-old girl's home address is a Bad Thing.

More like, the vast majority of people don't give a shit and thought the huge number was amusing. Oh and I suggest taking your number out of the phone book, if people you don't know having your address is a bad thing.

It has some level of relevance to the /. audience as we all have an opinion about Anonymous, and we all have an opinion about privacy.

It's a garbage post of something that's happened quite a few times before. Someone creates an event, and shockingly their account security is at the default "everyone can see everything I do and post" resulting in the RSVP being visible to everyone on the fucking site. Some twit in the UK did it and ended up with 20K people RSVPing to a party. Not interesting.

Re:Who cares?

[Pharmboy]

To be fair, you really should have a few years experience handling a weapon before you try to do it drunk.

Re:Who cares?

[isorox]

This is in Australia... what are the rules for underage drinking there? Oddly, in the USA they let you drive a car and buy a gun years before you are to be trusted with alcohol, but many European countries allow alcohol at 18 or even 16 (here in NL it's 16 for beers and alcopop, 18 for hard liquor). Then again, we can't get guns. Perhaps it's an either-or thing...

Ahh America, you can get married, you can serve and die in foreign wars for your country, you can buy an assault rifle, but you can't have a beer.

Re:Who cares?

[icebraining]

We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

18 is when you can legally drink in Australia, get a full drivers license and arrange for a firearms license** and start the ball rolling to own a gun - All on the same day!

**If you under 18 you can have a firearms license but cannot have a gun registered in your name.

Re:Who cares?

[masterwit]

Yes. The Southpark episode was much better even...at least that had a Tron reference!

Not news for nerds, geeks, or even someone outside of Australia. I mean what am I going to do...get a plane ticket to attend that party?!?! Let's be real here...

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

Rather, she's looking for an excuse OR someone knows/guessed her extremely insecure password.

Insecure... you mean like 'MYTITZARETHELARGESTBESTESTMOSTAWESOMEINTHEWORLDZZ!!!!'?

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

"No booze since it's an underage party."
hahahahahahahaha.

I'm from Australia and everyone I know has been drinking since 15 (at the latest)
Some people have older siblings who buy them alcohol. Personally, my parents provided most of mine.

We're allowed to drink in our own homes, and the cops can't do anything about it.

Re:Who cares?

[Locke2005]

What, you mean the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives" isn't a one-stop party supply store?!?

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

The last few parties that went down this path ended in the riot squad, dog squad and helicopters gate crashing the party. We take it pretty seriously down here now. :p

Re:Who cares?

[HotfireXG]

I guess I responded for the same exact reason you did. (I mean...why did you make a response to my response)? Unless you are out there making money, anything is technically a waste of time.

Obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

http://xkcd.com/591/

Doesn't anyone remember Kate's party?

[Anonymous Coward]

It was less than spectacular.

Re:Doesn't anyone remember Kate's party?

[IANAAC]

Damn, that was a difficult page to read. Because I don't have ADHD, I guess.

Re:Doesn't anyone remember Kate's party?

[mr_mischief]

Not at all. I have ADHD and that page is annoying like people bitching about mosquitoes around their kids' stagnant wading pool. Life's full of hard problems. People need to fix the easy ones rather than bitch about them. Easy problems involve having a shit web page that annoys the hell out of people, and inviting the general public to a party. Fix the page and, revoke the public invitation or charge a nice hefty cover.

Unfortunately one of the hard problems in life is that there are people who think pages like that don't need fixing. Now that's a difficult one to change, short of licensing the use of web hosting or mass forced sterilization or something. Those just bring more problems with them, though. Someone stupid enough to invite world plus dog to a party probably think that page is slick and stylish, so it's going to remain annoying.

Re:Hm

[mangu]

Slow news day, uh?

I bet SHE is quite busy today!

What the Hell!?

[Anonymous Coward]

The party is cancelled!? I already bought plane tickets and a present!

Oblig. XKCD

[Anonymous Coward]

http://xkcd.com/242/

I'm glad she can, indeed.

Dear Moron Parents,

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell your ditzy daughter she is allowed to invite 20 people. No more, no less. She must make (herself) a printed list of the names. And she is not allowed to post any information about the party anywhere on the internet.

And she must (immediately) make her facebook account "private" so random people stop snooping on it.

SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[Nyder]

Do we really need news about facebook every day?

I took a break from slashdot for a few years, came back a year ago, and seriously, this site is sucking even more now.

facebook is anything but nerd like. It's way too fucking popular. it's programed in a style most of us would never do, and honestly, the site probably offends most of us.

Unless the story is facebook crashes and burns and someone forgot to make backups, please spare us.

Seriously, fuck facebook and it's stupid news stories that shouldn't be on this site.

No, Fuck YOU SLASHDOT for being a lame fucking site these days.

News for nerds? You even know what a fucking nerd is?

Do you even know what NEWS is?

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[Anonymous Coward]

its idle?

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[dhall]

This is the second ispyce article I've seen show up on Slashdot in the last few days.
I didn't think it was possible for an editor to be worse than kdawson...
The site is a known link spammer and the editors here should known better than to send them any traffic.

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[Anonymous Coward]

/. was never good

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[Anonymous Coward]

News for nerds? You even know what a fucking nerd is?

Is there such a thing as a fucking nerd?

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[stimpleton]

sez the parent with the 8 digit /. ID

, by "lame", I presume you mean the standards of Slashdots "old days" - 2009.

Lawn...get off of.

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[Tim C]

It's simple - the slashdot hive mind* hates Facebook.

This story is evidence of Facebook being bad.

Therefore, it gets posted, in the hopes of lots of "zomg lol Facebook is teh l4m3!!!" comments. Simple.

(* Oh yes there is one, in so far as certain opinions are in the overwhelming majority here amongst posters and moderators alike; yes, there are always dissenting opinions, but they are in the minority)

Re:SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look

[datavirtue]

Wow, aren't you wearing an ass hat today. Slashdot is the funniest, most informative and unique site I have ever seen. I read Slashdot everyday and always learn something new of real value. I can't even say that for the Wall Street Journal(sllthough I DO pay for that). It is an excellent clearing house for news and technology information. The facebook stories alone are worth the read! They are funny as hell. Why don't you read the comments at Ars Technica and compare them to the intelligence and humor that peeks through at Slashdot. It is really no comparison. I really don't get some people's anger at Slashdot. Maybe someone should do a study. -- Slashdot Fanboy

Time to find some alternatives

[Anonymous Coward]

for /.

Re:Time to find some alternatives

[Anonymous Coward]

Preferably a place where you get banned for life if you use the title of your post as the first line of your argument.

slashdot: news for birds, stuff that splatters

[PJ6]

these times, they are a changin'

Ok. Where do i sign up.

[unity100]

This seems to be one of the rare hilarious events that may happen on facebook.

if anonymous was behind this, they just got a few more approval points in my book. its downright hilarious.

Life lesson

[Anonymous Coward]

A lesson learned at a young age - the Internet turns people into dicks. I'm sitting here wondering why 70,000 people would go along with such an irritatingly feeble prank, which basically amounts to filling in a form incorrectly, resulting in an administrative annoyance. Anonymous wins again. LOL.

I know!

[blair1q]

Let's slashdot it!

Some actual news stories about this

[thehossman]

If a random blogger is going to submission spam slashdot with all of his two paragraph blogs plagiarizing news articles, the least he could do is actually LINK to some genuinely useful coverage of the story on a reputable sites...

• www.heraldsun.com.au
• www.dailytelegraph.com.au
• au.news.yahoo.com/
• www.torontosun.com
• www.nydailynews.com

Re:Some actual news stories about this

[Jstlook]

Well that's the point though, isn't it? Some click-farm needs to boost its' credibility, so they grab real news and post it on their site, then submit those links to every website that might possibly link to their less-than-genuine-rendition of the real article?
It'd be nice if the editors stopped reposting these, but at some point of the heuristics suggest it's worth reposting (maybe they count how many responses each submitter receives?), maybe it's the heuristics that need to change.

Re:Some actual news stories about this

[Chuq]

What? Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph are reputable sites now? :-O

Re:Some actual news stories about this

[Anonymous Coward]

I wasn't aware "it" had a plural, much less a posessive one.

Oh, my bad. I didn't notice that you're a fucking retard.

Re:Some actual news stories about this

[Anonymous Coward]

What? Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph are reputable sites now? :-O

Compared to a random blogger? Yes!

Re:Hm

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a story involving Australia.

That guarantees it makes Slashdot these days.

Welcome to www.slashdot.org.au...

Attention seeking whores...

[Anonymous Coward]

My girlfriend knows the girl, apparently she's an attention seeking whore. But every girl she knows is an attention seeking whore

She missed out

[CrazyJim1]

She should have said,"Bring your own food, and bring me a present if you can afford it." 200,000 presents could be interesting.

Re:She missed out

[Anonymous Coward]

I woulda said $10 "recommnded gift" and set up a Paypal account for payments.

Re:She missed out

[DQKennard]

She should have said,"Bring your own food, and bring me a present if you can afford it." 200,000 presents could be interesting.

Maybe she did and *that's* when the parents shut it down.

Re:Hm

[Anonymous Coward]

Not likely, Slashdot is a business not a charity; and therefore cannot have a .org.au domain
Australian domains are actually fairly well protected in this regard.

:D

[Anonymous Coward]

:D

Sometimes I wish /. had some sort of "turn this into a cosy joke exchange with that other fellow" button.

Anyway, consider this a ":D" from another Dutch guy!

OMG, BECKY! PONIES!

[TiggertheMad]

She is the stupidest person ever for getting upset and canceling the party....I mean, Jesus, think of how many presents she would have gotten...

Re:OMG, BECKY! PONIES!

[Anonymous Coward]

No shit "i have moved the part to xyz and it is now 50 bucks a head unless I give you a ticket personally, OH and no present no entry"

FB Event Invite Security?

[beerdini]

I quit Facebook a few months ago so don't really know if it is still the case, but back then I noticed that if someone you were friends with responded to an invite, even if that invite wasn't originally to "me" I could everyone who was invited and their comments to the event. It happened to be one of those "I forgot my phone number" events and I couldn't believe how many people just posted their phone numbers for anyone in the world to see. Let the friends that I actually knew know that their info was publicly viewable and they immediately removed it. Yet another case of people not knowing how little FB cares about your personal information.

Re:FB Event Invite Security?

[Toam]

This happens if it is a "public event". I share your amazement re: phone number "events".

If I had a chance..

[Anonymous Coward]

If I had a chance for one day in my life, to have a party where 200000 people showed up in the name of getting shitty and having an awesome party for MY birthday.....

13, 16, 27 or not. I'd do it. Regardless of the consequences, it would be worth it. Just for sake of being able to say for the rest of my life that it happened. Its a story to tell, and life is only but a collection a memories. So make them worth telling stories about right?

Re:Hm

[mug funky]

could be that it's australian work hours at the moment?

you'll get your turn.

Re:Hm

[Miseph]

Perhaps acting as though news happens in Australia is considered charitable?

I know her

[Righey]

I know this girl IRL lol Whole school is talking about her ahahahah

lol

[thatskinnyguy]

I think you got some Idle on your front page.

Extremely old

[mr100percent]

This was a meme in 2010. The new 'party' is a repeat

What the...

[fuzza]

I'm not complaining about the news / not news content of this, but it's at least 3 days old (for us here in Oz, even on the other side like I am). What's happened to /.'s timeliness?

Re:What the...

[Ash-Fox]

I'm not complaining about the news / not news content of this, but it's at least 3 days old (for us here in Oz, even on the other side like I am). What's happened to /.'s timeliness?

You must be new here...

Re:News For Anons - Stuff that's Random

[VortexCortex]

16? Eh, that's really more of a 4chan thing.

Actually, you're very correct.

It was on 4chan... I saw this thread float to the top a few times (I'm testing out my "mAny-Feed" project that gives you an RSS feed for any site even if they don't have one; 4chan == good stress test for article deduplication code). That's in-part how she got so many followers. I'm sure it wasn't "just" 4chan, but probably threads posted on multiple online forums specifically to troll the Facebook event -- although, I wouldn't underestimate the number of trolls 4chan can generate.

IIRC, the OP(s) said: "My friend is having a 16th birthday party, says I can invite some friends. Does /b/ want to come?" followed by the event subscribe URL & including a (possibly unrelated) pic of a 15ish girl.

The thread ended when the Facebook event was over-flooded and taken down.

All that is missing is the "We are Anannymoose, we are leejun!" manifesto.

Son of a fuck

[Anonymous Coward]

Enough with the Facebook stories.

Re:Hm

[Anonymous Coward]

G'day, the Dingo ate my baby.

Over-reacting

[Cant use a slash wtf]

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/facebook-party-invite-mayhem-youth-could-face-jail-20110316-1bwi3.html (I suck at linking) >Underage male charged and faces 3 years imprisonment for copy/pasting an already public announcement on facebook. >Police threaten to deal "severely" with anyone who, having a laugh, show up to the address in question. Yes, this is what we are stuck with in Australia.

eh

[Anonymous Coward]

I have been reading slashdot on a daily basis for years. It is no longer the place to be. News for nerds? Hardly.

Oh come on...

[Syberz]

The girl made an open invitation to her school, said that people were free to invite others and now that the thing went viral (well d'uh) she's saying that it was hijacked? Then what does she do? She cancels the Facebook event and opens another one and did the same thing, now she's surprised that it's happening again.

Your invite wasn't hijacked you moron, you made it open!

Re:Oh come on...

[ATMosby]

So... what's the link to her new party? :-)

200,000 RSVP Sweet 16 Party Australia - How ?

[Transaction7]

I post only very, very little of what I post on the Net on Facebook, but the interesting computer angle here sweems to me, to be how any normal teenager's Facebook page would have come to the attention of more than 2o00,000 people? I could get rich if I could attract that many to a Web site. 70,000 for theWhat kind of settings did she use? Nobody has that many even FB friends new party? How many of these were real and how many virtual fakes? Nobody has that many even FB "friends."