From:	"Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject:	Size is the Key
Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 1993 12:20:26 -0700

>>I personally have the feeling that the rule from VR is double edged. The rule
>>I speak of (sorry, been reading fantasy again) is that you cannot disguise a
>>program to be more or less powerful than it is. I.E. a rating 10 attack
>>cannot be designed to look like a squirt gun, nor can a rating-1 attack look
>>like a nuclear missile. IMHO, this would mean that IC has to give the
>>IMPRESSION of how powerful it is. (would this be accomplished by havin
>>g a LARGE poodle attacking you, as opposed to a regular-sized poodle?)

Correct Reverend. The reason is simple: SIZE. Here's an example:

Nightstalker and Jaez are running the same system together when they run into
a nasty piece of Black IC. We both go for our attack programs hoping to kill
it before it kills us.

Nightstalkers Attack (M) 6, which takes up 98 Mps, looks like a glimmering
Katana, while Jaez's Attack 3, which takes up 18 Mps, looks like a boot knife.

Why? Because your cyberdeck can tell the load difference of a 98 Mp and a 18 Mp
program. Both of them are swords, but they are of proportation size.

>>Forgive any errors, but this is what I gleamed from VR. I'm
>>not a decker, either! Just my $.04 (after Clinton)

>>Sorry, that should be $.01 (after Clinton).

What a sec Rev. You wanted to give your $.02, but first you have to pay sales
tax, advice tax, and a few more general taxes so it will cost you $2.00 (after
Clinton).

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker