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Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow
gxc writes "The world's first free national wireless grid is no longer with us, after waves from
Cyclone Heta swept over Niue's thirty metre cliffs, destroying
everything. Although only one person died, the damage is so bad that
there is talk of winding up the country , meaning their fortuitous ccTLD could go the way of .su. Perhaps the easiest way
for Slashdotters to help Niue would be to choose a .nu domain over the dull alternatives."
What will happen to my expensive .nu domain?!
www.slashdot.nu is still available! Only 60euro/2 years! Think of the fun we could have. Uh, we could make, um. hm. A fresh nu slashdot. That'd be fun.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
But I seem to have plenty of free wireless points around here... Just drive around, your bound to find one... :)
That would be a CIA weather generator at work.
Isn't that something? The country can just close up shop. They just give two weeks' notice to the UN and start planning the retirement party. Will attending nations please contribute five dollars for drinks and a small gift.
What Would Jesus Do
(for a Klondike bar)?
...perhaps a good reason to seek professional help.
dmiessler.com -- grep understanding knowledge
King Arthur: .. Ni!
Aide: Nu!
Arthur: Nono -- you're doing it wrong! n_I_
Aide: Ni!
Both together: Ni! Ni! Ni!
</sorry>
US is now divided as the "Red" and "blue" states. Red States = communist countries. Coincidence? I think not
Just a reminder to those Debian users in Niue, the mirror.debian.nu apt-get server will be down until further notice. It seems we were prepare for the Slashdot effect, but not a big fucking cyclone effect. Thank you, Local Debian Mirror Administrator
"A tradgedy to be sure,..." ...although not quite as bad as my spelling of tragedy. :(
dmiessler.com -- grep understanding knowledge
My gallows sense of global warming humor requires I ask: "So what else is .nu"?
--
make install -not war
Um... no .nu's is good news, right?
[ducks]
It says right there in the CIA World Factbook "Natural hazards: typhoons "
In other news, Slashdot trolls hope and pray that the Christmas Islands never get hit with a similarly devastating typhoon.
Rank Presidents by th
The island of Niue recently showed up on ebay, and the bids are expected to be in excess of $100 usd... and as a bonus for being the winning bidder you also receive the entire island's population as your own personal servants...
Sounds like Quebec.
Who says theyre witout a wireless setup?
What ive seen theyre wireless, roofless, treeless, homeless..
-- Jim.
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
Consider a comparable situation. Japanese insurance companies run their spreadsheets in the Earth Simulator supercomputer and preemptively wind up the USA, rather than go through all that tedious Greenhouse/cleanup business.
--
make install -not war
since you were actually modded up for that, I'd have to assume that some of the mods are your regular customers.
You SOB, you made me go to google to debunk that :)
In 74, Ford was President and unlikely to pick a Dem as ambassador.
G.nu is Not Usable
:-/
".NU Search Results for "g.nu"
Your domain name, including ".nu", must contain between 6 and 65 characters. "
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
pinko.com.my ? Oh it should be "mie" shouldn't it.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
The word "nu" (depending on the nuance) in Mandarin Chinese (ie: that spoken in Mainland China and Taiwan, ROC) is "woman" (or, more generally, Female).
Cool, it also means "naked" in french, and "now" in swedish.
Nu = naked woman, now!
I couple of years ago I was hunting around for a cheap place to register my domain...I had a poke around the local area (I'm in Australia) and consider Christmas Island, Heard and McDonald Island, and then noticed the Cook Islands was _really_ cheap and thought hey that's neat...turns out the Cook Islands follow the same naming convention as New Zeland and the UK: .ac.ck for ACademic institutions .net.ck for NETwork types
.co.ck for COmpanies
:-)
and then it hit me why they were so cheap...
I'm really surprised that no-one has registerd
www.big.co.ck etc.
So would Slashdot.nu in french qualify as an oxymoron?
Moof!
If there ever is a .dc, will someone please call be so I can buy ac.dc before it is taken :)
"There is no substitute for thinking" - Bjarne Stroustrup
Yes, and in an interesting linguistic twist, it would be the world's first trilingual oxymoron.
:-)
No nudity, no women, and not-exactly up to date stories either.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
Peter Jackson and the ONE RING.
The CIA Fact Book also includes this wonderful and, now topical, nugget about Niue.
Natural hazards: typhoons
Did anyone notice that the former name of this Island was Savage Island. This seems like a good time for a futurama and simpsons reference about places with f*dup names.
Up first, Futurama:
Leela: Uh, Professor are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?
Farnsworth: Why of course! Its just a name! Like the Death Zone or The Zone Of No Return. All the zones have names like that in The Galaxy Of Terror!
Leela: Uh, Professor...
Farnsworth: Off you go, pleasant trip!
And now, the Simpsons:
Left FBI Agent: We have places were your family can hide in peace and security, Cape Feare, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville...
Homer: Oooh, Icecreamville!
L FBI Agent: No, screamville. (Homer screams)
music lover since 1969
You can buy it from the same guy that is selling the brooklyn bridge and parts of the moon.
--- Hindsight is 20/20, but walking backwards is not the answer.
Alright. So... um... who maintains New Zealand's defense?
"God Defend New Zealand" isn't just the national anthem, it's also the defence policy.