------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 01:04:12 +1200 To: snetnews@world.std.com From: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds@airnet.net> (by way of jeremy.compton@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)) Subject: SNET: [FP] FW: Clinton "Useless" w/o Pen: Uses SmartCard Encrption - -> SNETNEWS Mailing List [Forwarded message] Clinton "Useless" w/o Pen: Uses SmartCard Encrption Source: Fox News - AP http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/ WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Clinton feels 'utterly useless' without his pen 6.33 p.m. ET (2233 GMT) September 4, 1998 By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) What's the point of being president if you can't use your pen? Seated at matching laptops, President Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern used "smart cards,'' personalized codes and digital readers Friday to electronically affix their signatures to an electronic commerce agreement. Clinton joked that he missed the old-fashioned way of approving deals. "Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if I can't do that anymore,'' he said. He also offered this insight on being president: "You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You just sign your name. "You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything. You know, just stick a little card in and get the predictable response.'' <snip part about Clinton's golf game> © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml - ----------------------- - -----Original Message----- From: believer@telepath.com [mailto:believer@telepath.com] Sent: Saturday, September 05, 1998 6:09 PM To: believer@telepath.com Subject: Clinton "Useless" w/o Pen: Uses SmartCard Encrption - -> Send "subscribe snetnews " to majordomo@world.std.com - -> Posted by: "ScanThisNews" <mcdonalds@airnet.net> (by way of jeremy.compton@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jeremy Compton)) ------- End of Forwarded Message