The Data Security Oath  [The "Hippocratic Database"]

Here's an interesting article on how database researchers are designing a database that maintains the privacy of information.  {Kantesh had sent me the link to this article}.

Vajpayee's reply to Pakistan

Vajpayee certainly gave a fitting reply to Musharraf in the UN.  What right did Pakistan have to talk about democracy ?  It was astonishing that Pakistan still tries to justify terrorism as a freedom struggle.  It would take a feat "logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents (in Jammu and Kashmir) is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression".  Furthermore Vajpayee also pointed out that Pakistan had been indulging in nuclear blackmail as the "new arrow in the quiver of state-sponsored terrorism".

After having been visited by Powell, Rumsfeld and Armitage a number of times, are we still waiting to hear what Bush says to Musharraf ?  Does it really matter to Musharraf ? to us ?  Let's put forward a resolution for the U.N. to adopt.

Also read "The tinpot looks for a kettle" by Shekhar Gupta.  "Who knows, once the US opens a new front in Iraq and its attention moves away from South Asia, it may suddenly discover it doesn’t need even this dictator so desperately after all".