From:	Neal A Porter <nap@*****.PHYSICS.SWIN.OZ.AU>
Subject:	Re: Deck fuses
Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 1994 14:25:02 +1100

>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions on optional stuff that could make
>>your deck supper. I don't care if it is your design or from the
> ^^^^^^
>I personally reccommend marinating it overnight in a light herb sauce, then
>grilling it and adding a garnish of garlic and parsley. Best served with
>buttered O-rings and a Focus Salad.
>
>But seriously, besides the standard (hardening, response, etc.), a very useful
>item is a feedback-sensitive "fuse": the software monitors what is going
into
>your head from the deck and what is coming out of your body in the form of
>physical responses (heart rate, sweating, anxiety) and detects when you are
>getting deadly feedback loops. Its hardware then disconnects the deck from
>the matrix and, if it does not detect loops _within_ your deck, disconnects
>the line from you to the deck. This little feature helps to insure that you
>won't get caught by an invading frame that gets into your deck and can really
>mess ya up.
> A decker in my group engineered a fairly sophisticated one of these, and
>has so far used it once to save his life and one other time as an early
>warning system so it wouldn't have to save his life.
>
>Tim Dann aka Midnight Sting
>

I'd be very careful about allowing these 'fuses' or very quickly your deckers
will start taking on seriour black ICE, knowing that they can't be hurt by it as
the fuse will cut in. I'm not sure about how you would handle it in game terms
either. I'm just voicing my concerns over allowing these deckers an overflow
valve against black ICE. BTW if it works for this whats stopping it working
for all other forms of ICE, so that your hardware and software is fully
protected.

Concerned A'Deus.