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Rebuilding Iraq's Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the other-side-of-war dept.

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?"

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  1. Huh? by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Halliburton had a lucrative contract to do this too?

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  2. Re:Why don't we... by missing000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

  3. Datacenter capital of the world? by peterdaly · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  4. Re:Come one by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
    how many iraq's have a computer

    Well, from the pictures of the looting, a lot more than a couple days ago.

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  5. Re:First things first by outsider007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, first priority is hitting the saddam statue's head with a shoe. then breakfast. then getting on the net

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