Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow

Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow 389

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:17AM from the denuded dept.

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."

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Oh.nu! (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:19AM (#7950091)

What will happen to my expensive .nu domain?!

Quick, grab (Score:5, Funny)

by AEton ( 654737 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:20AM (#7950093)

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.

Maybe the first national free wireless gird... (Score:1, Funny)

by _Pinky_ ( 75643 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:20AM (#7950096)

But I seem to have plenty of free wireless points around here... Just drive around, your bound to find one... :)

Ahh... (Score:2, Funny)

by nametaken ( 610866 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:21AM (#7950100)

That would be a CIA weather generator at work.

Will the last to leave please turn off the lights? (Score:5, Funny)

by Sabu mark ( 205793 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:23AM (#7950117)

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.

Re:For some strange reason... (Score:3, Funny)

by danielrm26 ( 567852 ) * writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:24AM (#7950122) Homepage

...perhaps a good reason to seek professional help.

Not nu (Score:5, Funny)

by hashinclude ( 192717 ) writes: <slashdot@hashinclude . c om> on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:24AM (#7950123) Homepage

King Arthur: .. Ni!

Aide: Nu!

Arthur: Nono -- you're doing it wrong! n_I_

Aide: Ni!

Both together: Ni! Ni! Ni!

</sorry>

Re:Ahh... (Score:3, Funny)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes: <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:24AM (#7950124) Homepage Journal

That would be a CIA weather generator at work.

Yeah unfortunately it was the unintended output of giving Dubya sunshine on an early campaign stop. You know, a butterfly flaps its wings in whatever city in china's name is usually inserted here...

Please update your apt.sources files (Score:5, Funny)

by Debian Troll's Best ( 678194 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:25AM (#7950127) Journal

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

Re:Just a novelty...? (Score:2, Funny)

by danielrm26 ( 567852 ) * writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:26AM (#7950138) Homepage

"A tradgedy to be sure,..." ...although not quite as bad as my spelling of tragedy. :(

Greenhouse (Score:4, Funny)

by Doc Ruby ( 173196 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:28AM (#7950150) Homepage Journal

My gallows sense of global warming humor requires I ask: "So what else is .nu"?

Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)

by cascino ( 454769 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:35AM (#7950187) Homepage

Um... no .nu's is good news, right?
[ducks]

They should have listened to the CIA! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:40AM (#7950205)

It says right there in the CIA World Factbook [cia.gov] "Natural hazards: typhoons "

No more .nu TLD? (Score:2, Funny)

by Texas Rose on Lava L ( 712928 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:46AM (#7950228) Homepage Journal

In other news, Slashdot trolls hope and pray that the Christmas Islands never get hit with a similarly devastating typhoon.

Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

by spudthepotatofreak ( 649917 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:51AM (#7950251)

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...

Re:sounds familiar (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @02:54AM (#7950264)

Sounds like Quebec.

Umm.. (Score:5, Funny)

by jamesjw ( 213986 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @03:01AM (#7950286) Homepage

Who says theyre witout a wireless setup?

What ive seen theyre wireless, roofless, treeless, homeless.. :(

-- Jim.

What else is .nu? (Score:5, Funny)

by Doc Ruby ( 173196 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @03:10AM (#7950326) Homepage Journal

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.

Re:information on niue (Score:2, Funny)

by originalTMAN ( 694813 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @03:16AM (#7950343)

since you were actually modded up for that, I'd have to assume that some of the mods are your regular customers.

Re:Just where is personal responsibility? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @03:20AM (#7950358)

You SOB, you made me go to google to debunk that :)

In 74, Ford was President and unlikely to pick a Dem as ambassador.

Re:For some strange reason... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @03:22AM (#7950363)

For some strange reason... Whenever I think of .nu russian kiddie porn comes to mind.
Well, if you'd set your home page to something other than "www.preteenlolitas.nu", you might not have that problem...

Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)

by Loki_1929 ( 550940 ) * writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @04:31AM (#7950582) Journal

G.nu is Not Usable

".NU Search Results for "g.nu"
Your domain name, including ".nu", must contain between 6 and 65 characters. "

:-/

Re:French nit-picking (Score:2, Funny)

by netsharc ( 195805 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @04:33AM (#7950591)

pinko.com.my ? Oh it should be "mie" shouldn't it.

Re:Interesting Tidbit (Score:3, Funny)

by prockcore ( 543967 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @04:45AM (#7950626)

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!

Best TLD for pr0n... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @05:02AM (#7950663)

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

and then it hit me why they were so cheap... .co.ck for COmpanies

I'm really surprised that no-one has registerd
www.big.co.ck etc. :-)

Re:Interesting Tidbit (Score:2, Funny)

by MonkeyBoy ( 4760 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @06:56AM (#7951021)

So would Slashdot.nu in french qualify as an oxymoron?

Re:Hmm... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @06:59AM (#7951027)

So try to grab:

LinuxisntG.nu

Stallman might already have it.

Re:Tons of things you never cared to know about Ni (Score:3, Funny)

by fegu ( 66137 ) * writes: <Finn@ G u n d e rsen.net> on Monday January 12, 2004 @07:33AM (#7951121) Homepage

If there ever is a .dc, will someone please call be so I can buy ac.dc before it is taken :)

Re:Interesting Tidbit (Score:4, Funny)

by fuzzybunny ( 112938 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @08:58AM (#7951349) Homepage Journal

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.

:-)

Re:Silly Question (Score:5, Funny)

by dillon_rinker ( 17944 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @09:09AM (#7951402) Homepage

Peter Jackson and the ONE RING.

Amusing reference to hazard in CIA Fact Book (Score:2, Funny)

by Rommel ( 33210 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @10:15AM (#7951789)

The CIA Fact Book also includes this wonderful and, now topical, nugget about Niue.

Natural hazards: typhoons

Re:Tons of things you never cared to know about Ni (Score:3, Funny)

by djdavetrouble ( 442175 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @12:06PM (#7952736) Homepage

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)

Re:Tons of things you never cared to know about Ni (Score:2, Funny)

by jelle ( 14827 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @01:06PM (#7953466) Homepage

You can buy it from the same guy that is selling the brooklyn bridge and parts of the moon.

Re:Silly Question (Score:3, Funny)

by Stormie ( 708 ) writes: on Monday January 12, 2004 @05:58PM (#7956409) Homepage

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.

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Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow

Oh.nu! (Score:3, Funny)

Quick, grab (Score:5, Funny)

Maybe the first national free wireless gird... (Score:1, Funny)

Ahh... (Score:2, Funny)

Will the last to leave please turn off the lights? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:For some strange reason... (Score:3, Funny)

Not nu (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Ahh... (Score:3, Funny)

Please update your apt.sources files (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Just a novelty...? (Score:2, Funny)

Greenhouse (Score:4, Funny)

Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)

They should have listened to the CIA! (Score:2, Funny)

No more .nu TLD? (Score:2, Funny)

Next Week On Slashdot... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:sounds familiar (Score:1, Funny)

Umm.. (Score:5, Funny)

What else is .nu? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:information on niue (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Just where is personal responsibility? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:For some strange reason... (Score:1, Funny)

Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:French nit-picking (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Interesting Tidbit (Score:3, Funny)

Best TLD for pr0n... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Interesting Tidbit (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Hmm... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Tons of things you never cared to know about Ni (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Interesting Tidbit (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Silly Question (Score:5, Funny)

Amusing reference to hazard in CIA Fact Book (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Tons of things you never cared to know about Ni (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Tons of things you never cared to know about Ni (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Silly Question (Score:3, Funny)

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