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Rebuilding Iraq's Internet
Anselm writes "According to this article at Wired.com, "The war has left Iraq's Internet infrastructure in shambles. Now, a British ISP hopes to fund the reconstruction through sales of domain names ending in .iq." While I have no use for an IQ domain, the article does make me wonder: Should geeks around the world take the lead in getting Iraq back online?"
I thought Halliburton had a lucrative contract to do this too?
evil adrian
Here's an idea:
How about we give them food, PC's, cars, etc. in exchange for oil.
This could be facilitated through an intermediate form of exchange we could call "money".
You're asking one of two questions:
Q) "I'm planning to do something to help rebuild Iraq's communications. Is that a good idea?"
A)That's great! Bless you!
Q) "Should "we" / "the community" / hackers / geeks do something to help rebuild Iraq's communications?"
A) Uhhh, sure. Go open a Sourceforge project.
Re: .iq domains -- I can see high.iq and low.iq going, and probably sex.iq. I suspect oil is going to continue to drive their economy, though.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Would make for great datacenters. Does any other place in the world have a higher density of nuclear resistant underground bunkers?
I am sure the US bunker buster bombs didn't get them all.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Well, from the pictures of the looting, a lot more than a couple days ago.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
no, first priority is hitting the saddam statue's head with a shoe. then breakfast. then getting on the net
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won
so you're saying we have roughly 3.5 million dead iraqi's, and the rest only have 1 leg?
Get paid to code OSS
From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):
"Republican guards have secured in Iraqi Internet services!"
More at 11.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
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the bush administration secretly bought a few .iq domain names:
weaponsofmassdestruction.iq
chemicalweapons.iq
nuclearweapons.iq
official cited the domain names as clear evidence of banned Iraqi weapons program. Mr Bush was overheard saying "I told you so." It was unclear as to whether Mr. Bush was commenting on the Iraqi weapons domain names or a domain name registered by Mr. Bush: my.iq
Correction: They'd have lived like kings if it wasn't for the asshat who stole the money and built 12 palaces while his people starved. Now that he is gone the PEOPLE of Iraq can reap the rewards of that beautiful black gold by selling it to their liberators (at a modest profit and less than the OPEC per-barrel price of course.. we DID risk our asses of there remember).
This site may be overloaded, but is has good quotes:s ter.com/
... they are
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationmini
Like:
"Iraq will not be defeated. Iraq has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities."
"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"
"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"
"I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!"
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
"surrender or be burned in their tanks."
"No I am not scared and neither should you be!"
"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any
place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion
trying to sell to the others an illusion."