[cap-talk] Any hope in RSA 2008?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:35 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote:
> >  In short, they were compartments designed by marketing.
> >  I'm sure that if I hum a few bars of that tune, it will seem very familiar..
> 
> right you are. i guess i was thinking that the connotations of
> something can be strong. if one wants to advertise The Power of POLA,
> it might be good to either avoid the Titanic, or make use of it to
> point out that it wasn't sufficiently POLA.

Yes.

> perhaps the Titanic might also help as a story which says "even those
> people who live and breathe POLA are going to find new issues which
> have to be resolved; nothing is perfect...

I guess I don't think so. Titanic was the *appearance* of POLA, not the
reality.