Slashdot Mirror
Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A fake event announcement on Facebook has now launched "a long string of viral jokes featuring fake concert events for music acts at oddly appropriate venues," according to CNET -- for example, a Radiohead concert at Radio Shack or a Sunday Brunch with Insane Clown Posse. It began with a fake announcement touting an upcoming concert with Limp Bizkit on April 20 at a Sunoco gas station. "The event got so much viral attention and local and national news coverage that the Dayton Police Department had to issue a statement to the local press and on its Twitter page on April 19 that there would be no Limp Bizkit concert..." CNET reports.
"That still didn't stop a crowd of 100 Limp Bizkit fans from going to the Sunoco and chanting 'Fred! Fred! Fred!' in front of the station. The station had to close up for the night and police were called to the scene to disperse the crowd. Since then, other Facebook users decided to try their luck at tricking the more gullible people on the Internet into going to concerts that don't exist." In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.
"That still didn't stop a crowd of 100 Limp Bizkit fans from going to the Sunoco and chanting 'Fred! Fred! Fred!' in front of the station. The station had to close up for the night and police were called to the scene to disperse the crowd. Since then, other Facebook users decided to try their luck at tricking the more gullible people on the Internet into going to concerts that don't exist." In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.
These Facebook kids should go to prison for this. They are criminals and deserve to be locked up.
next on America's Dumbest Crooks
The most impressive part of this Slashdot story is the little throwaway at the bottom:
Whoever "EditorDavid" is, I salute him. Little details like this might make me start reading more than just the headlines again.
My admiration for the new regime of editors increases.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman, who said this might have been the first incident of its kind in his 35-year tenure, was concerned there might be a problem with the elevator's design and that, if so, other elevators might be affected. The elevator at issue has been in use since at least March 2015, when the building opened.
"We would usually do an elevator rescue in older buildings with antiquated ... elevators," Schapelhouman told The Daily News. "Especially, when this is a brand-new, state-of-the-art building ... that's not good that something's not releasing on the elevator. Is that a one-off or is it a flaw of the elevator?"
sounds like they found a bug in their fancypants system with mediocre QA.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Comment removed based on user account deletion
I refuse to believe Limp Bizkit still has that many fans today.
The Fox news crowd had to send a bunch of shills here to try to shift opinions of the tech crowd who are unswervingly democratic.
The following scene takes place in one of those Fox News board rooms.
The room is tense, as everyone waits for Bill and Megyn, who always do their best to let the other one arrive first at meetings. Most people in the room have already moved their pens, mistakenly positioned to the left the of notebooks by the intern who prepared the room for the meeting. There's a dripping pitcher of ice cold water in the middle of the table, as well as an uninspiring selection of juices. Nobody will drink juice during the meeting; the catering service has recently switched to those depressing plastic cups with a sticky foil cover, a type of container that nobody in the room knew still existed outside of hospital cafeterias. Another small brick in the wall of mediocrity that Anita in Facilities Management has started to build since she took over last October.
The meeting mediator is fiddling with the whiteboard markers. She checks each one over and over to make sure that no permanent marker has found its way in the lot; she doesn't want some stupid thing to get written permanently on the whiteboard on her watch, like it happened in the Dasher room. The Dasher room... She almost shakes her head in disgust. Who picked the theme for naming the meeting rooms? It's already annoying to book meetings with the broken search wizard in Lotus Notes, it doesn't help to have meeting room names that don't convey their size. As far as she knows all the Santa Claus reindeers were the same size. It was so much better back at Rubbermaid; you knew immediately that for a crowded meeting it would be best to book the Texas or California room, not Rhode Island, which didn't even had windows.
A guy with a 9-11 pin on his lapel - he never lets people forget that he was there that day - clears his throat. Everyone knows what's about to happen; he'll make a potentially controversial suggestion while the meeting hasn't started yet so he can feel the room's reaction without going on the official record. If the reaction is bad, he'll add something ludicrous to make it look like he was joking. Brainstorm meetings are supposed to be a safe place, but creativity has gone down drastically since those drones from Legal insisted that detailed minutes be kept of every meeting. The pre-meeting loophole is often the only way to bring up fresh ideas.
"My son spends a lot of time on that Slashdot website," he says. "That's where the Geek Squad kind of people hang out to talk about iPhones."
A few people nod. They, too, have awkward children with no social skills who spend their days arguing about iPhones and Linuxes (or is it Lunixes?) on internet forums. Those people know that their kids are very low on the totem pole, but at least not as low as the youngest boy of Anita in Facilities Management, who was arrested by the FBI for posting naked pictures of semi-celebrities on that ChannelFour website (or something).
"Maybe we could hire a few internet experts to go on Slashdot and promote a healthy, God-fearing perspective on life," continues the Lapel Pin Guy.
That's how the moderator refers to him when she talks with the girls in the yoga center locker room. Not Tom, not the 9-11 guy, not even Giuliani Junior like most people call him in Sametime chats. She calls him Lapel Pin Guy. She wishes he would move on. She won't admit it but there's a part of her that wouldn't mind taking him up on his offer to go share an order of pancake puppies at Denny's one of those nights. If he could just give the 9-11 thing a rest.
"Wouldn't the regular users of Slashdot notice if marketing experts suddenly started to open accounts on that website?" asks a guy with no chin. He has a gigantic lump just above his right eyebrow, which is the real reason why he's never getting promotions, but he seems unaware of it. The thing is like a shiny, sometimes pulsating mound of flesh; it looks
lucm, indeed.
In an unrelated development, 12 Facebook employees and their guests were stuck in an elevator at Facebook's California headquarters for more than two hours on Friday, until being rescued by local firefighters using the Jaws of Life.
This incident reveled another little known program in the Facebook organization. The trapped people, preoccupied with the trivial (i.e. trivial to Facebook) matter of getting out the elevator car, neglected to update their status for more than 15 minutes. That triggered a red alert in the monitoring the frequency of status update. Unnamed sources reveal a blue alert is issued after 5 minutes, orange after 10 and red after 15 minutes. The company's stock valuation depends on exponential growth of active status update and very low mean-time-between-update. Two years ago red alert was at 120 minutes, for this quarter the target is 15 minutes. They think two years from now the target is likely to be 15 micro seconds. Once red alert is triggered, fake postings of concern, and requests for status update were posted by robotic agents. Since they got no updates for many robotic proddings with increasing urgency, desperation and frequency, actual human beings looked at the accounts, and traced the last status update to "entering the elevator at FB HQ, OMG! Its so cool". That is how it was revealed they were trapped in the elevator.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact