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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."
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.
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.
Charisma is the measure of someone's ability to lie with a straight face.
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 ;)