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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.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/01/03/049209/security-firm-predicts-murder-by-internet-connected-devices
Looks like they were mostly correct.
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While he's not dead, his site certainly is.
received bad karma for it. Looks like the repost made it to the front page. I contacted Rusty on Twitter after it was found out to be a hoax, but he blocked my account. Before he blocked me, he admitted he knew Josh did it. I think it was done on purpose for free publicity for Kuro5hin and Rusty Foster to breath life into their dying web site.
Kuro5hin is still online.
"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.
I stopped over at Kuro5hin a couple years ago. Curious as to how things had come along, since I last was there. It used to be a decent mix of deep content, generated by its users. Usually heavily tech oriented and definitely geek oriented, otherwise.
HOLY SHIT WHAT HAS IT BECOME?!
When I last looked, it was just article after article about the most vile shit that makes the comments on articles that drudgereport links to look intelligent. It was just a bunch of crap by anti-abortion nuts, anti-gay nuts, and shit about Sandra Fluke being a slutty cunt. I am completely baffled as to what happened. It used to be on par with slashdot. Maybe even better, in some ways. Now it looks like it's just a place of navel-gazing propoganda for hate-filled truthers, birthers, anti-everything idiots. I thought it had been attacked, actually, and returned a couple weeks later to see if they had fixed their website. Then I googled a bit and found that it had been in this disgusting state of ruin for *years* and nobody really knew why.