| From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Fiber Optics |
| Date: | Thu, 14 May 1998 12:46:55 -0400 |
At 09:19 AM 5/14/98 -0700, Bolty wrote:
>An idea that comes to mind is that rather than having a parallel line
for
>deckers, why not have nothing? It looks like a normal datapath, and
by
>performing an analyze operation you can tell that data you're looking
for
>had been transfered down there, but when you try to actually go
there,
>simsense just cuts out and a copy of your icon is shunted down the
line.
>You're still connected though, and can still act, but you are
effectively
>more than blind. No senses whatsoever. Call it a +16 for any
operations
>to represent that fact. Kinda like trying to use a stranger's
computer
>when the monitor and keyboard are broken, and all you can use is the
mouse.
This is aproximately how I run it. The big problem with that from the
decker's standpoint is the fact that you don't have any way of knowing
if you've run into IC on the other side of the one-way line. (although
if it's black IC, it can't affect your meatbody, since the lethal
simsense feedback has no way to get to you)
In the chapter about one-way datalines in NAGRL, there is a reference
to the decker being able to exit a node connected by a one-way
dataline. The only way I see to be able to do that would be to let the
decker make a new copy of the persona, further back up on the
datatrail, and delete the persona on the other side of the one-way
dataline.
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