| From: | "Wow, Reality. That's a switch" <MHILLIARD@****.ALBION.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Drake and Skirvin |
| Date: | Tue, 11 Oct 1994 19:55:38 -0500 |
I got the description. Is he some kind of metahuman, or did you lift
exotic bodysculping from Cyberpunk 2020?
Just curious.
Tom: Geez, all we're asking for is a brief delay. Don't get your hackles up.
Time/Date Stamps, IMHO: I have seen deckers modify other people's time/date
stamps on this board, and I suppose that's OK. But still, only deckers
should be able to do it, and even then they have to be top of the line,
superhot datajocks, the top 10%.
I had always thought that it was something the decker did once, and then
it was automatic. About a year and a half ago, Raven and Highlander talked
on the board about him replacing Raven's C2 deck, which had been burned by
MONICA in the AI war. One of the posts referred to the "Time/Date text-
suppression software", a new feature that allowed her to select from a
menu of possible stamps. Of course, it was still a very difficult and
especially clever bit of programming that joe decker couldn't handle. I
remember someone (I think it was one of Doom's minor characters) tried
to do it and flubbed, attracting quite a bit of unwanted attention from
the netcops in the process. That was a nice touch.
So I guess the question is, how exactly do text time/date stamps work?
Does the decker have to redo it each time? Or periodically upgrade the
program to keep up with net security? For that matter, do deckers actually
type in these posts, or do it neurally? Any of you who actually know about
'puters (unlike me) wanna set down some broad technical rules, so's we don't
keep shooting ourselves in the foot?
Phelan
