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Subject:    [cap-talk] Chatter (was: Re:  Any hope in RSA 2008?)
From:       Jed Donnelley <capability () webstart ! com>
Date:       2008-04-14 5:55:17
Message-ID: 200804140559.m3E5xeJC015866 () www ! eros-os ! com
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At 09:27 PM 4/13/2008, Baldur Johannsson wrote:
>If this mail is too much of chatter then please let me know.

I'll mention that I found your message both informative and delightful.
Definitely not "too much chatter" for me - but of course then I'm known
to be a bit chatty myself and may not be the most representative judge.

<the rest is historical only>

>Şann 13. apríl 2008 ritaği Karp, Alan H <alan.karp@hp.com>:
> > I just returned from RSA 2008 and can answer 
> that question with with a resounding "Sort of".
>
>So, an definite maybe then?
>
> >  There was still the usual nonsense.  "User 
> identity needs to flow freely between services.", is only one example of many.
>
>Reminds me of the situation of the Zebra Copy copier knowing who were
>employed by HP....
>-snip-
>...
> >  Speaking of my talk, it went well.  They 
> kept me around for 30+ minutes asking a bunch 
> of questions.  Some were skeptical.  I ran into 
> one guy the next day who said, "I left your 
> talk thinking this is fecockteh (Yiddish for 
> screwed up).  Walking in this morning I stopped 
> on the sidewalk, slapped my head, and realized 
> that of course it's right."  That's a typical reaction.
> >
>Glad to hear it.
>Best dialogues are with skeptics that question even their own skepticism.
>(Something might be lost in translation so here is also the original
>in Icelandic:
>   Bestu rökræğurnar eru viğ efamenn sem efast jafnvel um sínar eigin
>efasemdir)
>And I take the fecockteh-turn-around as an further good sign.
>
><rest of quoted text omitted>
>
>-Baldur Jóhannsson
>
>* slang used to mean an unspecified group of people why sounding specific.
>** Buxton Index is how long into the future the entity in question
>(can be an individual, committee, company and so on) plans.

--Jed  http://www.webstart.com/jed-signature.html 

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