Wow, their servers must suck if they can't handle page refreshes.

Really arcane DDOS attack.

That's really offensive. When he could have just installed RefreshEvery on all the browsers.

In other news: people actually draw pornography with a sequence of numbers and letters on their computer!

what is f5

He should just had a meta tag for auto refresh and told everyone to log in and sit back.

Save the repetative stress injury...

/Slacker kids
//stay off my lawn

"Stone is charged with a felony and could face jail time."

Who the hell is Stone?

brichter


what is f5

For the love of the FSM dont press f5 and find out, the admins will ban you for trying to crash the beer soaked servers.

He should have told everyone to hit Alt + F4

Mouse balls, eh? You're showing your age, bub. I'm pretty sure they're all optical mice now.

Its more embarrassing for the school than a crime by the senior.

Did anyone else wonder just how safe mode could possibly bring down a server?

fivenodes


He should have told everyone to hit Alt + F4

He should of had a purple gorilla ask everyone for their credit card numbers.

/Purple gorillas are credit card inspectors to prevent spyware from being installed on your computer

... anyone...?

my school switched to all optical cuz we'd steal the balls...

hehe... balls

That's a FELONY? Yeesh. I mean, we're not talking about a sophisticated Denial of Service attack.

I got suspended for a day in high school for taking a screen shot of the computer science teacher's desktop and setting it as her background before class began. She than proceeded to decide her computer was busted and call tech support, who told her I was the last one to use it and must have installed a virus.

Don't forget the ever popular "save someones desktop as a wallpaper with secret password" gag.

/also tape over the optical mouse trick works too

someone needs to put up an image of an F5 Fighter Jet

quintus

Mouse balls, eh? You're showing your age, bub. I'm pretty sure they're all optical mice now.


Schools are too cheap, no matter how inexpensive they get...

Damn you Wake!!!!! I really need Mavis Beacon.

farbekrieg
Purple gorillas are credit card inspectors to prevent spyware from being installed on your computer

Tell me about it! I haven't had any spyware since I gave that guy my CC!

oh jesus this is retarded.

Ah, the memories. One of my favourite high school computer lab pranks was to take the mice and keyboard from one computer (without unplugging them - they stretched pretty far) and switch them with the computer beside them. We also did the same thing with a monitor once I believe, and the only way they could've been able to tell something wasn't right was if they were trying to insert a disc. Good times, good times...

Police say the student, created a website which connected to the school's system.
Has anyone seen my comma? Who took my comma? I'll find my comma.

I almost got expelled in high school for switching a computer monitor with another...

/Wanted a 19" rather than a 17"
//This isn't a felony

nice one submitter

I remember the "mouse ball craze" at my school. They thrawted the thieves with superglue.

Wake 'n Bake and isamudyson, you guys have to make out now. It's a Fark rule.

flyboy47c: They thrawted the thieves

Nothing says "Justice" like thrawting thieves.

I'm glad computers are in schools. Now there's ways to severly punish students for trivial matters.

Caps lock on? That's a suspension.
Scroll lock on? We are calling the police and making trumped-up charges that you were trying to bomb the school.

Looks like a Mac box:

Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) mod_jk/1.2.6 DAV/1.0.3 mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7i PHP/4.3.11

Cyrus POP3 v2.2.12-OS X 10.4.0 server ready

/going to jail for possessing the terrorist tool known as "telnet"

If he was hardcore, he would have posted the school's web page to Fark with a "B00BIES" tag.

2006-01-05 11:38:29 PM Yossarian Lives!


Wake 'n Bake and isamudyson, you guys have to make out now. It's a Fark rule.


But I was too stoned to come up with the secret password idea. I just logged off, changed the screen alignment on the monitor and hid the log on box.

Just because the students make the computer illiterate faculty look like jackasses doesn't mean they have to freak out so badly.

That school has a kick-ass lunch menu.

Yossarian,

I don't think so. But Wake could take me along to a couple of keggers at his college. He has to be the wingman though.

I've never understood the thing about stealing the mouse balls. It seems to me like a cruel prank and my guess is that most highschoolers lack the requesite surgical skills to do it correctly.

Police say the student, created a website which connected to the school's system.

By connected, do they really mean hyperlinked?

From the school's main page, at the bottom:

This page has been viewed 890 times!

Sad...

Mayhem King, you doubt that high schoolers lack experience in grabbing their balls?

It would be one thing if the kid wrote a website that spawned thousands of connections to the other server, but I hardly think putting a link to a website and telling people to hit F5 is a crime. Stupid, maybe, but not hacking. If they want to prosecute him for some sort of conspiracy charge, that would be a different story, but it's not like the kid initiated a SYN flood using his own network.

It's only a felony because he incited others to do it. It's the intent, not the action.

If servers can be brought down by a few people constantly refreshing (I'm guessing it wasn't the server's ability to serve pages, but the DSL line it was probably hosted on from the school's cafeteria), that's really pretty sad.

It's a felony to pull stupid pranks?

If so, most submarine crews should be hauled to Leavenworth...

I wonder how many kids are losing their right to vote before they are old enough to vote.

"It's a crime and it is important we take this seriously ... especially for school officials ... it could have done a tremendous amount of damage," said Canton City Prosecutor Frank Fronchione.

Frank, you're a double dumbass!

and

This page has been viewed 894 times!

...and almost "died"?!

Lake High School, your server farkin' sucks!

His next trick is to make the pool on the roof spring a leak.

I think the school's new slogan should be "Nothing is more powerful than a good education...and that includes our internet connection."

Ahhh, to be back in the good old days. Back when that page had been viewed 854 times.

11:32:50 PM fivenodes
Tell me about it! I haven't had any spyware since I gave that guy my CC!

What's CC!? Is that an emoticon for tea-bagging?

When I was in school, we had a networked Mac lab. I used to send the teacher alerts that read "OK to delete hard drive now?"

The only option available was "OK".

It was great to watch them squirm in their seats, afraid to touch the keyboard or anything. Often they would just turn off the machine by holding in the power button.