Rusty Foster Isn't Dead

While he was vacationing with his wife, Kuro5hin founder Rusty Foster was killed — at least in the eyes of Facebook. NBC News details how it happened: a "pal" pranked both Foster and Facebook by notifying the social site of Foster's supposed death, providing as documentation the obituary of another, much older man by the same name. Getting the Facebook version of his life back took some doing; based on this article it seems much easier to convince Facebook that you're dead than that you're alive.

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Murder by Internet?

[toygeek]

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/049209/security-firm-predicts-murder-by-internet-connected-devices

Looks like they were mostly correct.

It was an understandable mixup

[Anonymous Coward]

While he's not dead, his site certainly is.

In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

Kuro5hin is still online.

Re:In other news

[Arno Stark]

I guess even trolls need a web site to hang out on that only supports ASCII text, no images, and a broken cancel button?

The worst part of it was

[Anonymous Coward]

Just as Rusty was getting his FB life back on track, Zygna shut down Petville and he lost his pets too.

A truly tragic story...

Re:Slow News Day

[feedayeen]

"Posted by timothy on Saturday January 05, @12:24AM"

posted a whole 24 min after the day started, tell me ... are you a natural fucktard, or a trained dipshit?

I don't think you have a comprehensive knowledge of either time zones or phrases in the English Language.

First point, in some places of the world, like Sydney, it's after 5PM, the workday is over. This is due to the Earth being round, a discovery made a few years ago and a bias by the majority of the population to being active when it's bright outside. Second point, the phrase, 'slow news day', is a figure of speech refering to publisher quotas and a demand to publish crud over nothing at all.

Re:Facebook still isn't obligatory.

[MichaelSmith]

As long as you don't need facebook to get a job

But what if this happens on LinkedIn?

Once upon a time...

[RKBA]

I wrote "Deceased" on a junk mail envelope hoping that they would stop sending junk to me, and put the envelope back into my mailbox. A day or two later I stopped getting any mail at all! The post office was returning ALL of my mail because they assumed I was actually dead. Convincing them otherwise cost a lot of time and trouble.

Re:Two Facebook articles in a row

[Kergan]

It looks like you forgot to tick the AC checkbox. Or if, consult a shrimp -- fast. :-)

Re:Shitfest of Kuro5hin

[DNS-and-BIND]

I always wondered whatever became of the low budget Filipina horror movie in DC.