Rusty Foster Isn't Dead

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Posted by timothy on Friday January 4, 2013 @05:24PM from the pass-it-on dept.

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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So he lost his Facebook account by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-04 17:29 · Score: -1, Troll

Nothing of value was lost.
Re:Slow News Day by Osgeld · 2013-01-04 18:04 · Score: -1, Troll

"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?
Re:Two Facebook articles in a row by Psychotria · 2013-01-04 20:59 · Score: -1, Troll

Is this what /. has become? I swear that this site is worse than a tabloid some days.
Psychotria, SHUT THE FUCK UP. I'm angry. I'm really angry. To make matters worse, there are mainstream competitions where Geek of the Year goes to someone because they're a gamer. This is the way the fucking world is now. A NERD is a person who watches mangos (or whatever the stupid term is). This is the new News for Nerds.
Shut up, Psychotria. And I don't _ever_ hear garbage comments like this again on slashdot. Seriously.
I'd wait for Psychotria response to come through but I don't trust you to listen to his advice. So I am giving it to myself.
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