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The Most Remote Island in the World is Home to Seals, Seabirds, and an Internet Top-Level Domain (ieee.org)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Bouvet Island has little to offer. The most remote island in the world is fewer than 20 square miles in size, and it's almost entirely covered by a glacier. Long ago, it was an active volcano, but those fiery days have long since passed. Now, it's home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds, a Norwegian research station, and its own top-level internet domain.

Top-level domains serve as part of the Internet's architecture. Aside from generic domains like .com and .edu, every country has a specific two-letter domain assigned to it. The United Kingdom, for example, uses .uk; Japan uses .jp. The United States has .us, though it's not widely used. The original idea was that each country could manage the websites registered by individuals and organizations within its borders by issuing them websites that use their country-specific domain.

But here's the weird thing about Bouvet Island having its own top-level domain: It's uninhabited. It's always been uninhabited. Located in the southern Atlantic, the closest land to Bouvet Island is the coast of Antarctica, 1,100 miles to the south. The closest inhabited land is the island Tristan da Cunha, a British overseas territory located 1,400 miles to the north (Interestingly enough, Tristan da Cunha does not have its own top-level domain).

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  1. Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Most Remote Island in the World is Home to Seals, Seabirds, and an Internet Top-Level Domain
    Bouvet Island's most valuable resource might be its untapped .bv country code
    By Michael Koziol
    2013 NASA Earth Observatory image showing Bouvet Island, and the ice that covers about 94 percent of the island year round.
    Image: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory
    Ice covers about 94 percent of Bouvet Island year-round.
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    Bouvet Island has little to offer. The most remote island in the world is fewer than 20 square miles in size, and it’s almost entirely covered by a glacier. Long ago, it was an active volcano, but those fiery days have long since passed. Now, it’s home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds, a Norwegian research station, and its own top-level internet domain.

    Top-level domains serve as part of the Internet’s architecture. Aside from generic domains like .com and .edu, every country has a specific two-letter domain assigned to it. The United Kingdom, for example, uses .uk; Japan uses .jp. The United States has .us, though it’s not widely used. The original idea was that each country could manage the websites registered by individuals and organizations within its borders by issuing them websites that use their country-specific domain.

    An animated gif zooming out on Bouvet Island to give a sense of it's location in the world.
    Gif: Google Maps/Google Earth/IEEE Spectrum
    Where in the world is Bouvet Island?
    But here’s the weird thing about Bouvet Island having its own top-level domain: It’s uninhabited. It’s always been uninhabited. Located in the southern Atlantic, the closest land to Bouvet Island is the coast of Antarctica, 1,100 miles to the south. The closest inhabited land is the island Tristan da Cunha, a British overseas territory located 1,400 miles to the north (Interestingly enough, Tristan da Cunha does not have its own top-level domain).

    So how did Bouvet Island end up with the .bv domain—a domain which is not in use and not open to registration?

    It starts with the United Nations. The UN’s Statistics Division maintains a publication called the Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use. Published since 1970 and also known as the M49 standard, the UN’s primary intention is to use its three-digit codes to group nations and geographic regions for statistical analysis.

    Since 1974, the International Organization for Standardization, an international standards body just as unaffiliated with management of the Internet as the UN, has used the M49 standard to develop its own standard, ISO 3166. There are several lists, but the important one for now is ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a very alphanumerical way of naming what is essentially a list of two-letter codes to represent “countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest,” according to ISO. Does “two-letter codes” sound familiar?

    We’re almost through the briar-patch of organizations and lists that resulted in the current set of country-specific domains. Since 1988, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has managed the web’s Domain Name System—basically the system that converts our plaintext addresses like spectrum.ieee.org into the actual numerical IP addresses that computers use to navigate to specific sites. As such, IANA is also responsible for managing top-level domains. For countries, IANA pulled from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, in order to avoid the messy business of being an Intern

    1. Re:Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Thanks, this is the entire reason I came here. You would think Msmash could have managed to work those three characters into the summary somewhere.

    2. Re:Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 2

      >> You would think (Slashdot editor) could have managed to (do the job good editors do)

      Nah, this is obvious clickbait. In Slashdot's quest to become "Yahoo News for Nerds" you're supposed to click into a crappy paywalled site (who actually subscribes to any of these? please stop) and then either buy something or enter your contact information before you can actually read the article.

      You're welcome though.

    3. Re:Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by PPH · · Score: 1

      NKOM's decision has guaranteed that for now, .bv will remain an unused resource.

      Damn! I was all set to register starkweather-moore.bv

      --
      Have gnu, will travel.
    4. Re:Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What do you mean, ’? Can't you say â(TM) like everybody else?

    5. Re:Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 1

      The .bv domains cannot be reserved it seems, anyway.

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      Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
    6. Re:Paywall Free Article (and the domain is ".bv") by CanEHdian · · Score: 1

      "as far as Norid was concerned, because .bv was being opened up for Dutch users, its use should be dictated by Dutch law" = non-Rocket Scientists at work. No, just let's raise taxes instead to generate revenue! Great thinking! Simple solution: just operate the domain under Norwegian law, open it up for *all* users, domestic and foreign, and use WIPO/UDRP to resolve conflicts. And don't give the domain registrations away "on the cheap", just charge 1,000 euros a year for regular domains, 10,000 euros for premium domains (4 and 5 letter) domains and 25,000 euros a year for super-premium domains (3 letter). Then leave 2-letter domains open for one-on-one contract discussions (may end up costing north of 50,000 euros a year). As well, registering and paying for 5-year or 10-year contracts will give you a nice discount, you can put in a guarantee prices will not go up by more that x % etc. which will give registrants some sureties they won't be looking at huge increases to keep their domain (a/k/a/ extortion), etc.

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  2. And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now that concepts can have their own TLD, how is this news? Heck, before long ICANN will be letting people buy their own TLDs. Get ready for www.website.bobsmith

    1. Re:And? by HiThere · · Score: 1

      But what about all the other bobsmiths?

      --

      I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
    2. Re:And? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now that concepts can have their own TLD, how is this news? Heck, before long ICANN will be letting people buy their own TLDs. Get ready for www.website.bobsmith

      Technically ICANN is already letting people buy their own TLD.
      They started that back in 2013 with the oh-so creatively named "New gTLD Program"

      At least so long as "people" is satisfied by "can pay $185,000 USD"
      Although under that definition I'm not a people :P

  3. Missed something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It would be nice to include what that TLD is on the post, instead of making me click to find out. What is this, buzzfeed?

    1. Re: Missed something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Haha, you fell for my clickbait!

      Thanks. Sincerely yours, /. msmash

  4. Soon to be a resort destination by theCat · · Score: 1

    Give global warming another decade and .bv will have a deep water port, resort hotel, quaint craftsman's village, and trendy indoor mall.

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    =^..^= all your rodent are belong to us
    1. Re:Soon to be a resort destination by mysidia · · Score: 1

      There is not even the slightest chance of this island getting a resort hotel; the mean temperature is below freezing, and the weather there is not conducive to human survival --- global warming isn't going to change that. It's a Volcanic island that is highly mountainous and almost completely covered by glaciers -- the geography is extremely treacherous, and it's said to be almost impossible for a boat to land people there or retrieve people most of the time -- there's basically one small point of potential access with an extremely steep coast.

  5. ...so what is the TLD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    > The United Kingdom, for example, uses .uk; Japan uses .jp. The United States has .us,

    But fuck telling us what Bouvet Island's TLD is.

    FIRE ALL SLASHDOT EDITORS AND HIRE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPETENT.

    1. Re: ...so what is the TLD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's funny you think they get paid...
      Can you imagine? They work about 10 minutes a day, do not pay them.

    2. Re:...so what is the TLD? by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      Won't help. They've got some sort of brain infection, no matter how many times /. editors are replaced, it's the same shit.

      --
      John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
    3. Re:...so what is the TLD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pretty sure that's intentional to increase "engagement" and page impressions by making people go to the comments.

    4. Re: ...so what is the TLD? by HornWumpus · · Score: 0

      Politics is the art of the possible.

      There were two choices, Trump was the least bad option.

      Clinton was _openly_ selling influence. Her supporters didn't/don't care, that line should not be crossed. Those that were ready to give her a pass, need it tattooed on their faces.

      --
      John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
    5. Re: ...so what is the TLD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Five actually. You could have voted for Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, or Gary Johnson.

    6. Re: ...so what is the TLD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Part of me wished Hillary won.

      The trolls are the ones she would have sent to Stalingrad

    7. Re: ...so what is the TLD? by boundandgaggedwomen · · Score: 1

      Five actually. You could have voted for Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, or Gary Johnson.

      Yea, like they had ANY chance of winning.

    8. Re: ...so what is the TLD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They all sell influence openly but you somehow never noticed until someone needed you to vote for the lesser of two evils.
      It's way worse than even that. If I lived in your happy go lucky world for so long and someone gave me a tiny peek of reality I suppose I'd become gullible and irrational as well. It must be quite a bummer :(
      So how is it you didn't already know about it?
      I can tell you all kinds of other dirt on hillary that's not even in the news!!! Because I know that it would be unusual for anyone in her position to not have done these things.

  6. Bouvet is home to many endangered species... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...like radio amateurs.

  7. Ah, so that's where by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tardchris was hatched!

  8. sure, why not? by Thud457 · · Score: 1

    hey, Christmas Island gets it's own top level domain, why not this little flyspec too?

    --

    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    1. Re:sure, why not? by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      You forgot to click the "Anonymous Coward" button.

  9. Research stations don't count? by King_TJ · · Score: 1

    The island may be uninhabited, but the fact it has a Norwegian research station on it should count for something? Wouldn't they possibly want some kind of Internet connectivity there?

    There are a number of islands that got their own domain, despite not really doing much with them. I would think you could still run a server farm on a remote island like this, where the cold weather and ice helps eliminate your typical cooling challenges -- as long as you paid the initial expenses of getting it connected up to the rest of the Internet.

    1. Re:Research stations don't count? by null+etc. · · Score: 2

      There are a number of islands that got their own domain, despite not really doing much with them.

      And some TLDs are managed in a quite hilarious fashion, such as that for the Kingdom of Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago of islands whose TLD is managed from California. From the official FAQ: "San Quentin!? Isn't that a California prison?"

    2. Re:Research stations don't count? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2

      Wouldn't they possibly want some kind of Internet connectivity there?

      I have internet connectivity at my house, and it's continuously occupied (unlike that station). Why don't I get to have my own TLD?

    3. Re:Research stations don't count? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No.

      A Norwegian research station in the South Atlantic is the dumbest idea yet.

      The place to research Norwegians is Norway.

    4. Re:Research stations don't count? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think this relates to the story of diminishing IQ...

    5. Re:Research stations don't count? by King_TJ · · Score: 1

      Don't worry, Mr. President.... We don't fund anything on that island anyway!

  10. Why didnt they test the H bomb there by coolmoe2 · · Score: 1

    Rather then at bikini atoll which was a nice tropical island once upon a time. Plus it had the advantage of being unhabited as well.

    1. Re:Why didnt they test the H bomb there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bouvet Island was annexed by Norway while Micronesia came under US administration post WWII as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1947-1986).

      BUT I suspect there were additional factors considered for the first Bikini Atoll tests including towing of craft for Operation Crossroads.

      When Operation Castle came along later to test different yields / bomb types the area was already a test site with infrastructure so why irradiate another, harder to get to location owned by Norway?

      Operation Castle was fairly irresponsible, the yields were significantly underestimated and at least one fishing boat was caught in the Castle Bravo test (the Daigo Fukuryu Maru) this plus many other tests at the time lead to the end of atmospheric nuclear weapon testing.

    2. Re:Why didnt they test the H bomb there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stop the US bashing. Unknown yield measurement was part of what was to be discovered. The fate of the Daigo Fukury Maru was entirely the navigator's fault.

      Not knowing the future is never irresponsible. Issuing a warning notice was the right thing to do.

    3. Re:Why didnt they test the H bomb there by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 1

      Maybe because most of the shoreline is sheer cliffs?

    4. Re:Why didnt they test the H bomb there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stop the US bashing.

      Yeah, how dare you ever question the actions of a nation's government.
      If there's one thing I've learnt in my life, it's that the governments of the world should never be criticized. Always make sure you blindly support them and defend their decisions from attack, because that's what makes them improve over time.
      Blind patriotism is the best thing for a government and it's citizens. You can be sure that things will just keep getting better and better until eventually you'll find yourself living in a fucking utopia!

    5. Re:Why didnt they test the H bomb there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      US bashing?? OK? Raw nerve today?

      Atmospheric testing was more about Cold War saber rattling than actual science on ALL sides. It was a considerably wiser US public back then that helped press for change. But Get Mad(tm) if you want.

      I mean I'm sure some people love the great taste of Strontium 90 in their teeth. I'd ask The Duke what he thinks but, y'know...

  11. Gough Island is closer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This looks like another publiek skool, no child left behind, geography failure.

    Gough island is 400 km closer to Bouvet island and it has people on it.

  12. Re: IMPERSONATING ME again: Unbelievable... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Have fun spending your weekend posting about bump stocks and Vatican conspiracies. No wonder you haven't completed the BSD version of your inferior hosts file downloader and sorter.

  13. Re: IMPERSONATING ME again: Unbelievable... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Know why I impersonate you? It's because you've been spamming Slashdot for almost two decades and making threats toward people. You need to see how vile your posts are, so perhaps you'll stop. Also, your hosts file engine is shit.

    gweihir

  14. My program's multiplatform best of breed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: What've YOU done BETTER?Zero as you are nothing but a "ne'er-do-well" DO-NOTHING unidentifiable ac troll. BSD version's in testing now & I'll release it same time as I do the MacOS X port (once done).

    * NO other hosts program does hardcoded favs where you spend MOST TIME online (so they resolve faster & are PROOF vs. DNS security redirect issues + tracking logs) & no other does checks of the TLD/gTLD being valid (room for bloating it needlessly to slow its performance) & NONE ARE IN GUI ON LINUX (instead they're SHITTY tty term "scriptkiddie scryptz" NOBODY wants to use (or why does X/Wayland, KDE, GNome, xfce & their GUI apps exist)) - period (afaik).

    APK

    P.S.=> The only thing "Inferior" are "your kind" - Not-Men "InFeRiOr OnEz" - HOWEVER: I give you the fair opportunity to PROVE different, answer the question in BOLD above (you never do - you're a "ne'er-do-well" LAZY DUNCE)... apk

    1. Re: My program's multiplatform best of breed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I spoke to your mother. She said she is embarrassed by the way you act online. She wishes that abortion was legal when you were born, so that she could have aborted you.

    2. Re: My program's multiplatform best of breed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yet you run from a simple fair question asked of you Forrest https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12238544&cid=56791262/ and now you projecting truth of yourself too.

    3. Re: My program's multiplatform best of breed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The above post was totally not from APK but was posted from the retarded loser AlecStaar from arstechnica

  15. Still volcano active by jonfr · · Score: 2

    This island is a active volcano. Last eruption happened in 50 BCE according to research (that might change if better research is done in the future). That just means its fire and eruption days are not over. The volcano is just dormant at the moment and how long that is going to last is impossible to know.

    I don't think many people are going to notice if an eruption is going to happen. The Bouvet Island is so remote that nobody is going to notice an eruption on the Island, not even a large eruption since there are no major flight routes passing over the island.

    Volcano related information, https://volcano.si.edu/volcano...

    Since the Bouvet island doesn't contain anything or anyone I don't have anything else to say about it. There is also close to 100% radio silence on the island since next ground based transmitter is far away. The only radio signals that can be detected might be either SW or up in the Ku band (maybe not). I am not sure about C band coverage in this part of the world.

    1. Re:Still volcano active by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      I thought the BCE/CE movement died out decades ago. Interesting to know it's still ongoing.

    2. Re:Still volcano active by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      It is an american thing ...

      --
      Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
    3. Re:Still volcano active by Bearhouse · · Score: 1

      Satellite communications will work just fine

    4. Re:Still volcano active by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It must be a slow news day, Heard island is another remote island with the .hm TLD, active volcanoes and penguins but no humans live on it. Perhaps more interestingly the Cocos Keeling islands have the .cc domain and people actually live there and have sold the use of their .cc addresses to anyone that wants to pay for it, such as spammers.

      What is your point?

    5. Re:Still volcano active by JackieBrown · · Score: 1

      Which part? It died in America or it's used by America?

  16. Re: Bullshit - I threaten stalkers like you... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    U mad bro?

  17. LOL! Not @ all & why... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: After all, I hit you RIGHT on the head here in my last reply to you & you KNOW it https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12238544&cid=56791308/ - I actually PITY you because of what you are: A waste of life & time (yours more than mine - you do me the honor of allowing ME to EXPOSE YOU for what you are exactly).

    * Nope - sitting here having a Miller "HighLife" (my fav) in the SUN - Bills are all paid & I'm in good graces ALL the way around & it's SUMMERTIME baby!

    APK

    P.S.=> A song by the GUESS WHO (No time left for you) I'm tuning into that describes exactly what I'm saying to YOU now: I've got NO TIME LEFT FOR YOU (or "your kind", wastes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPX48NpSRvo/ ... apk

  18. LOL! Downmod HID this did ya? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: Threatening you as you stalk/harass me by your UNIDENTIFIABLE ac = "threatening" NOBODY (which is all you are proving it https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12238544&cid=56791262/ )

    * I know WHAT you are: AFRAID of what my program represents - a threat to your INFERIOR competing "so-called 'solution'" that's BUGGY (AntiVir/DNS) + overly complex creating the room for those BUGS & slowing users (vs. speeding them up 2 ways as I do in hosts via hardcoded favs folks spend most time @ online + adblocking) & BLOAT (filtering drivers/too many "moving parts" with overheads in messagepassing too (addons)) + INEFFICIENCY via a STUPID "ILLOGIC-LOGIC" use of "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" vs. using NATIVE speed + proven efficiency of the IP stack itself & FAR less complexity doing MORE for FAR less as hosts do...

    THAT OR YOU'RE A WEBMASTER or ADVERTISER LOSING YOUR BOGUS MONEY (you slow'track/infect us, so FUCK you).

    APK

    P.S.=> You FEAR me... apk

    1. Re:LOL! Downmod HID this did ya? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No one fears you and you probably cost all advertisers $0.13 a year so no big deal. Your program doesn't represent a threat to anything but instead it is a direct affront to proper computer security. A program that sorts a list of string is nothing to be proud of as it is something that they teach young children to do that.

  19. Thanks for the dumbing down by captbollocks · · Score: 1

    I really didn't know that .jp was for japan and .uk was for the UK.

    Is there really anyone on /. who doesn't have at least a basic idea of how the TLD system works?

  20. Warning, don't click! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not cool, man. Who would think that archive.org would want to archive that.

    1. Re:Warning, don't click! by Pfhorrest · · Score: 1

      Who clicks a link without hovering first, and who doesn't recognize goatse from the URL?

      --
      -Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
      "I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam."
  21. Registered /.ers opinions of the Win64 model by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

    (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016

    his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

    I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

    I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017

    I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

    * See subject: Best part is this Linux 64-bit model is faster & more efficient (does 2x the work in 1/2 the time, literally)

    APK

    P.S.=> LASTLY - what's that you said about being "shitty" & "inferior"? You're PROJECTING what YOU are, "ne'er-do-well" LAZY & STUPID.. apk

  22. How many words end with BV ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not like .gl, e.g. for goo.gl. Or .us, e.g. for platyp.us or .es, e.g. for spac.es.

    So why exactly does anyone care that there's a .BV TLD? Nobody can use it, not even in clever ways.

    1. Re:How many words end with BV ? by guruevi · · Score: 1

      In Dutch a BV is a private limited liability company (similar to Ltd in English)

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  23. Does the sysadmin live in Buenos Aires? by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

    If he gets an automated text from a server that one of the RAID volumes has failed, how long does he need to get over to Bouvet and change it out? Does he have to row a Zodiac boat from a seaplane?

    1. Re:Does the sysadmin live in Buenos Aires? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Re:Does the sysadmin live in Buenos Aires?

      No, you moron. This is Brazil's playground. one day we'll boot you to hell, sons of bitches. We'll nuke your arses like there's no tomorrow. Believe me.

  24. Re:PRISON TIME, BYE NOW! by boundandgaggedwomen · · Score: 0

    Hi, I'm Donald Feckless Cunt Trump. I won the Presidency because I was the slightly less hated, but I've squandered that "victory" by colluding with Vladimir Putin to suck dicks up and down the Crimean peninsula. Prison time, bye!

    Are you a retard or just pretending?

  25. Re:Exile Trump to Bouvet Island? by Tulsa_Time · · Score: 1

    Thanks again Vladimir...

    --
    5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette & 6 out of 7 Dwarfs are not Happy
  26. ITS GOT A WEATHER STATION WHY IS THAT NOT ONLINE ? by johnjones · · Score: 1

    so the ieee are incredible...

    it's got a automated weather station so why can't you see the data from weather.bv ?
    (or a webcam)

       

  27. YOU most certainly do FEAR me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject: It's why YOU stalk & harass me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts "courageous" (NOT) 'not-man' "ne'er-do-well" you are Mr. DO-NOTHING (lol, anything) good you can show for yourself (let alone have others speak WELL of it as they do my work).

    APK

    P.S.=> Hilarious a FOOL like you (see above) tries to "cut down" my work when YOU HAVE NOT A DAMN THING TO SHOW FOR YOURSELF, lol... apk

  28. The post above mine is from "Forrest", lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & SEE Forrest "RUN" from a FAIR question put to his do-nothing LAZY "ne'er-do-well" ass lol https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12238544&cid=56791262/

    APK

    P.S.=> "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!"... apk

  29. Re:ITS GOT A WEATHER STATION WHY IS THAT NOT ONLIN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ITS GOT A WEATHER STATION WHY IS THAT NOT ONLINE?

    Out of WiFi range and no Ethernet cable is long enough?

  30. .bv is the country code for Bouvet Island by BobSteinVisiBone · · Score: 1

    And Tristan De Cunha is part of four groups of island under .sh (Saint Helena is bigger.)

    I made a list: http://visibone.com/countrycod...

    --
    Bob Stein, http://bobste.in
  31. How much do you get paid to post here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Really you should have a Q&A thread where you tell us all about it. We'd be interested

  32. You're NOT gweihir you SHITBAG punk... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You're NOT gweihir you SHITBAG punk & he said so himself so I shot your stupid "pussy plan" to SHIT seeing thru it & you https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12241254&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=56799762/ easily as always, you pitiful FUCKING scumbag bitch, lol...

    * You must think everyone's as STUPID as you... clue - We're not. I saw right thru your pitiful shit & now get to shoot you to pieces for it publicly (not that "your kind" cares, SLINKING in the shadows since you HAVE to scumbag).

    APK

    P.S.=> Seeing as you're relegated to loserdom & playing "bitch games" of trying to stir up 2 guys that've done pretty well in the art & science of computing against one another? I pity you, you little f'd up creep... apk