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WCDT 8-13 December 2014 (Strips 2850-2854)
Stoon:
Yes, that's something that would happen to Emily all right.
As for EMP, maybe that's just slang for magnetic degaussing. We use powerful electromagnets in electronics and when I was in the army for clearing the data off of certain secure mediums...
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Indicible on 10 Dec 2014, 22:18 ---The colour out of space is indeed more likely...
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One must be careful when using Cthubuntu, lest these things happen.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Zandin on 10 Dec 2014, 22:50 ---
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Dec 2014, 22:39 ---I was wondering what "NRO" could be. (Obviously not "National Review Online.") Given Clinton's involvement with robotics (his hand, and his part in AnthroPC research), it could be "National Robotics Office." As to "EMPing" her project, if it's supposed to mean "electromagnetic pulse," that seems a pretty blunt instrument to use if you just want to bork a student's project. It would likely destroy lots of surrounding electronics and call attention to itself. Further, it wouldn't do something amusing like replace text with eldritch runes; it'd fry her logic board and wipe her hard drive. Instead, I'm guessing EMP is some sort of targeted virus.
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I'm almost positive NRO means National Reconnaissance Office, one of the USA's intelligence divisions. As for the EMP, I think the runes were BEFORE they EMP'ed her. She created a dangerous AI and they fried it in response. Since Clinton knows about it, it obviously was not meant to be secretive. Which begs the question of how Emily created something so dangerous the US government decided it necessary to launch a very public, very messy attack on it?
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From the National Reconnaissance Office website: "The NRO is the U.S. Government agency in charge of designing, building, launching, and maintaining America’s intelligence satellites. " This is not an agency that would launch an open enforcement action inside U.S. borders. For that you would see the FBI.
BenRG:
Y'know, I really want to know what that final project was that it was classified as an immediate threat to national security! It looks to me that the forum member that called Emily an idiot-savant was right. She's quite possibly a genius but without common sense!
This fits into an idea that I had yesterday: I think that, tomorrow, Marten will persuade Clinton to at least talk to Emily. Next week will be entirely this otherworldly dialogue between them. At the end of this, Clinton will realise what the rest of us already know - that Emily is weird but nice. It isn't guaranteed that they'll immediately get together but they will become friends.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Zandin on 10 Dec 2014, 23:07 ---
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 10 Dec 2014, 22:59 ---Good luck employing an EMP to take out a single computer... I guess the whole class lost their data that day. At the very least.
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Assuming they hit the whole class. It could also have been a tactical hit. Bust in the doors, grab the laptop, put a dome over it and *zap*. Given the technology seen in QC, a small EMP device, maybe a grenade, with a few feet of range is totally plausible as well.
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Why in the world would they do that? In the U.S. you'd need a warrant at the very least, and afterwards they'd need to arrest Emily to justify the break-in. Much more likely you'd send a worm to quietly corrupt the project data. This would stop it from compiling and show junk data if you opened the project.
Of course the fictional "National Robotics Office" might not even be part of the U.S. government. If they're hiring the likes of Clinton, they're probably not.
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