Here is a novel idea.  Why not pay Pakistan to take out the Taliban and bin Laden.  Literally, pay them to take over the country, set-up a democracy (or some semblance thereof) and then pay them to rebuild?  How much would that cost? $30 b (all of Pakistans current debt)?  It would be worth it. … Continue reading Here is a novel idea.  Why not pay Pakistan to take out the Taliban and bin Laden.  Literally, pay them to take over the country, set-up a democracy (or some semblance thereof) and then pay them to rebuild?  How much would that cost? $30 b (all of Pakistans current debt)?  It would be worth it.  Regardless, there are nations all around the world that would pitch in. 

These cesspools of civilization have to go.  The Taliban is a vicious dictatorship that kills innocents freely.  I harbors terrorists.  It hates.   If we can't go in because we aren't muslim, why not find friends that are and fund them to take care of the problem.   Can we do the same with Egypt in regards to the Sudan and Turkey in regards to Lebanon?  Yes.  It may ruffle a few feathers, but the $100 b it costs to do it will be wisely spent.

Dave

PHP Weblog Means Easy News. Linux Magazine Sep 20 2001 10:04PM ET [XML and metadata news]

Search Engine Friendly SSI Image Gallery. Morbus: Search Engine Friendly SSI Image Gallery “Well, that's certainly a mouthful, eh? In this article, I'll show you how I created a search engine friendly dynamic image gallery, using only the features built into a core distribution of the Apache web server. This image gallery will support supplementary… Continue reading Search Engine Friendly SSI Image Gallery

Forbes ASAP: Why Is Broadband So Narrow? That is why Lyne and a growing number of other business leaders in Chicago believe this financial bottleneck can best be removed by leveraging the spending power of government. Mayor Daley is the moving force behind a broadband-to-the-neighborhoods effort called CivicNet. [Tomalak's Realm]

Steve Watkins: Why OS X Matters. “Our iMac installation of OS X is over four months old and has not crashed — not once… My installation on the accelerated Power Mac 8500 is about three months old and has only destabilized once. It did not 'crash' per se. I was able to successfully reboot using the… Continue reading Steve Watkins: Why OS X Matters

News.com  Palm makes a mess of its brand and its support sites.  Another clueless train fiasco. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

BBC.  Senior clerics in Afghanistan have called on Osama Bin Laden – the Saudi-born militant named as the key suspect behind the suicide attacks on New York and Washington – to leave the country voluntarily.  A glimmer of sanity. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

David Coursey: “Microsoft says it wants Passport and Hailstorm, its foundation services for Web-based applications, to play well with others. So in a shocking move, the company is announcing today that Passport will be changed to use an Internet-standard security model and Hailstorm won't be the only place for users to store their personal information.”… Continue reading David Coursey

Mapquest aerial picture of the WTC site. [Scripting News]

Identity-Based Encryption. Stanford University – Identity-Based Encryption. With IBE, if Alice wants to send Bob an encrypted message, she simply encrypts using Bob's email address. Thus Bob's email address is his public key; there is no need for Bob to use cryptography software to generate a public key, nor does Alice have to retrieve a… Continue reading Identity-Based Encryption