[farothel]

>>>>>[ This going to be so confusing.  We have Kitty, Jesskitten and myself.  And Black panther, which is also some sort of cat.  What's with the cat nicknames? ]<<<<<
          -- Kitten (07:45:21/05-15-2076)

[SlowDeck]

>>>>>[If they get close to practical applications on that cure, could you let me know? I may know of a volunteer for testing it once it hits stability...]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (01:04:58/05-15-2076)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ It isn't a matter of stability, it's a matter of abuse. Never let a government or a corporation possess something that can change your mind to how they want you to think.  To boot, the brain is the most complex thing we've ever encountered, and one of the most powerful AIs that's existed required literally yottapulses of processing power and months of experimentation to determine how to reprogram metahuman brains enough to create what amounted to a distributed biocomputer, but not so much that the individual was completely wiped out - and even then, the Network nodes were frickin' wacko.
          If the Arcology shutdown and Deus' experimentations are too 'like, totally yesterday, omigawd!!' for you, though, consider what we know of the effects of the so-called 'Sybil virus' - selective overwriting of synaptic patterns, memory revisions, etc.  You could have your autistic friend/family cured, sure - but that's a deal with the devil of which you sure as hell won't like the results.]<<<<<
          -- The Wyrm Ouroboros (00:00:00/01-23-5567)

[farothel]

>>>>>[ Hey Wyrm, is your calendar off?  Or are you really from the future?  ]<<<<<
          -- Black Panther (08:59:09/05-15-2076)

[Orbweaver]

>>>>>[Well, then, Kitten, maybe we should get a spider in here, hmm? (: Maybe I can scare away the bug nightmares.
...
My boyfriend wants me to apologise for my lame sense of humour. Fine. "Sorry".

And, answer.me.this, everyone is a hacking god in comparison to you if you can be outmaneuvered by rich-miss spoiled princess "sigma". You're 10 years older than her, man, step it up a little why don't you.]<<<<<
     -- Orbweaver (02:07:58/05-15-2076)

>>>>>[Orb, I know where you live.]<<<<<
     -- sigma (02:09:45/05-15-2076)

[SlowDeck]

>>>>>[I know far too well the deal Faust cut. And there are 18 graves that speak to my knowledge of Sybil.

I understand your worries about abuse. But trust me; a complete rewrite of the mind would not make things worse for this person. Sadly, they reject cybernetics. Otherwise, they'd have become someone else years ago.

Thank you, though, for the talk. I shall not press you for information, or expect it to come. I have other avenues to search anyway.]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (02:34:01/05-15-2076)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ What??
          <<BREAK>>
          <<RESUME>>
          Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick.  See, kiddies, this is what happens when you write autohack programs - they screw up.  Or you screw up the placement of a couple of alteration routines, mishandle a floating point or two ...
          Always hack it yourself. Geez ... ]<<<<<
          -- The Wyrm Ouroboros (03:45:00/05-15-2076)

[Nightmare]

>>>[Urgh...hate tracking all night in the desert to move camp and then recalibrate our link.  Bloody fragging annoying.  Good thing I didn't have to run the Matrix for the setup, cause I'm a piece of drek in VR.  At least from the chatter we're picking up, my little squad is doing a wonderful job of furbarring the opposing units' plans which will probably equal more biz when we're done with Desert Wars.  Might have to give up shadowrunning for awhile if that happens, though.

Hoi Black Panther, looks like your friend will probably be ending with the Banshee's info once he forwards the nuyen to our account.  Originally we had a smuggler we know who was going to barter the info for some equipment but that fell through when she ended up offering us drek we had no use for.  I mean, no merc squad needs four Excalibur cyberdecks, two crates of Ares Predators and other drek like such.  So if I was you BP, I'd get ready to spend some more time practicing radio silence and maybe pick up some desert gear cause if all goes well, you could be heading to the Sahara.

And what's this about Dues and the military you raving on about, Slowdeck?  You having problems getting to the top levels of the Arc?  Hmmm, I might know someone with a little pull in the JSTF, but it'll cost you plus it's not a for sure thing either.  Contact me offline and we'll talk, if you're interested.]<<<<

--Nightmare  (09:12:10/05-15-2076)

[Leevizer]

>>>>>[Kitty, they lived in a grave and were eating the remains of a jogger.]<<<<<
          -- Shade (18:55:11/15-05-2067)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ What the frag is it with you people and saying the name 'Deus' properly?  'Deus', not 'Dues'.  Or did it leave a subliminal psychotropic program running around to modify how y'all think of him??? ]<<<<<
          -- The Wyrm Ouroboros (12:15:00/05-15-2076)

[SlowDeck]

>>>>>[Who told you about the psychotropic IC? I thought Dues was very discrete with it.]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (11:24:17/05-15-2076)

[Jesskitten]

>>>>>[ Chillout grandpa, spelling mistakes happen we all know who he meant. The big scary, kill the world AI. I would be kinda interested in hearing more about people experiences with the Arco, cause Ive heard Matrix 1.0 AI's were lots different to the ones around now, one who lives in my central node. I guess be interesting to learn more about it and well ok its cool but its name does worry a little, Ex. I wonder if there is a Machina out there just waiting behind the scenes ]<<<<<
     -- Jesskitten (5:52:17/05-16-2076)

[Celtibero]

>>>>>[おはよう。Jesskitten-san, i neither confirm nor disclaim (did I not just sound really professional? Hehe) those events, but i tell you one thing, they had it coming.

well, and Ouroboros-sama, that's really easy for you to discard isn't it? you call it a deal with the devil but its not you that has to take care of a friend that got scorched so badly that she is nearly a vegetable even when she has "lucid" moments, is it?]<<<<<
           -- Kitty (05:57:31/05-16-2076)

[Orbweaver]

>>>>>[I know where you're coming from Wyrm but you're sounding an awful lot like my aunt. Seriously, one little spelling mistake in Sioux, and she goes on a tangent on how I'm a stain on the community and it's bad enough my father's white and it always devolves into telling me I'm a race traitor for having an ork boyfriend.

And then she wonders why I never talk to her unless I have to.

On the topic of brains and the potentially rewriting thereof, I can't say I wouldn't like to fix mine, SOS is a bitch and a half I can tell you. But I agree on erring on the side of not trusting corporations. Better a friend who's a vegetable than a stranger wearing your friend's face. And trying to kill you.]<<<<<
           -- Orbweaver (19:37:30/05-15-2076)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>>[ Been hacking, and watching people hack, for forty-seven years.  I watched the most brilliant minds of my generation, hackers that make me look slow and stupid, get slagged down in twenty seconds' worth of cybercombat. I had to try to put them back together again - and I had to fail, again and again and again.  So yeah, I actually have had to take care of just the sort of person you're talking about.  And if there were a safety on this stuff, a limit, I might be willing to try to persuade my compadres to look at analysis, and modification, and distribution.
          There isn't.  So I won't.  But don't kid yourself into thinking someone who's been hacking for more than five years hasn't seen it happen, and had to take care of someone like that for at least a while, Kitty. ]<<<<<
          -- The Wyrm Ouroboros (22:45:00/05-15-2076)