Comic for Friday, December 2nd
So here’s the plan. We will have one comic this week (today), and three next week (M-W-F like the good old days). After that, it’s back to business as normal, and there is no long term comic-debt hanging over my head. Till the end of January when I’m out of the country for half a month. But let’s ignore that for now.
I imagine roughly 60% of all the things Peter says Naomi hears as “blah blah blah”.
AEGIS is the IDS’ overarching software security protocol. Even if it is itself not technically an SMAI, it is pretty much explicitly designed to prevent an SMAI from hijacking or jacking into IDS hardware, and can stand up to Kor’s World cyberwarfare suites, or so the IDS claims, anyway. Regardless, it is almost impossible to brute force.
Interestingly enough though, Peter Kepler had a great deal of interest in AEGIS, and after discovering a few security flaws, is said to have made several improvements to it. The improvements were peer reviewed and vetted as safe, of course.
Most manned devices have a manual override protocol of some sort, but one does wonder how often that drill comes up and how well those protocols are remembered.
Unmanned devices frequently have a disposal protocol. When technological superiority is the predication for your advantage, allowing devices to fall into enemy hands is very unwise. Needless to say, most manned devices do not have ones that are nearly as thorough, or none
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I do love that Naomi’s response to her bullet wound is “It hurts”, I get the feeling she’s mostly just resentful of getting shot.
It is a rather rude thing to do, shooting someone. No spirit of competition at all these people. :p
It is interesting that Peter seems wary of Mium. It gets back to wondering what their relationship is. This is another person that refers to MYM as a virus. I can see that an AI could appear a lot like a virus, but I also wonder if there is more significance to that.
Naomi, it would appear, does not seem to share this concern. This makes me wonder if Mium is using Naomi to some extent to get more freedom. On the other hand, Miko insinuated in her first appearance that Peter was turning a blind eye to Mium in relation to Naomi, so who knows how deep this scheme-counter scheme goes…
I am curious what Mium will do about Miko. I think we will see another reveal regarding Miko or Mium (as I really cannot imagine she will get killed, there would be riots in the comments).
I already said that I can’t wait for the next reveal.
However, I do not feel we will see it really soon.
Peter seems to be spread thin, but I am sure that he had most of this strategy and counter-strategy planned out.
I can think of 3 fairly mundane ways of saving Miko, that doesn’t get into Dues ex MYM. But we do see a lot of ghost in the machine happening above.
I feel that our wonderful author is going to throw one more monkey wrench in the works here on the next page (or two), just for good measures.
Humm deee hmmm, which of these monkey wrenches to throw…
Heh. Mium is going to use the IDS stuff to save Miko. They are right there after all.
They might be more useful then kitchen appliances. Well, unless the blender has a remote control on it… those things are dangerous. Though I can’t really imagine Miko even has a blender.
lol The ad I got just under this comic was for “Better, Smarter Security”.
Haha, maybe I can get a sponsorship and Peter can be the mascot. I mean, much like Peter’s security systems, most of the ones advertised in banner ads are basically malware. 😛
Erk, I was a little slow on the uptake. >< If she can teleport, why did she clear a path to her door? O.o
Oh, wait, same organization, different girl. Never mind. ^^
That's a really well done pistol/firing grip. 🙂
Not quite sure I follow. I think this is the same blue girl as the last page that teleported in?I think the object behind her is the shelf next to the doorway.
I do not know how much effort teleporting is though. It maybe easier to walk out a door than keep using it.
well if they dont want anyone, you know, -seeing- someone walk in and out of a room where a murder happens… then you have to kill them, and someone else sees you and you have to kill them. it eventually winds up with everyone dead and you loose your hat! and any plan where you loose your hat?
any who while im assuming teleporting is fairly hard and requires at least a few seconds of concintration. probly why shes standing there talking instead of just bang, teleport out. still needs to regen her mana just a bit more for the jump.
so perfect world is jump in, bang, jump out perfect assasination. id be willing to bet that somewhere in avon miko picked up a tracer, and thats how she got found.
Yeah, I assuming she is planning on teleporting back out as well, just speculating on possibilities from above comment by Delta-v. Now that I think about it, he may be referring to tealy the hacker girl’s comment about clearing a path to the door? I am not sure though.
I suspect she is chatting because she seems to be a bit of a chatty person. On the other hand, Miko does tend volunteer a lot of information, so talking to her would be a good a way to some info.
i think tealy and miko both probly blockade the door normaly. but miko (and tealy) had to open it up to get out to do avon. tho maybe miko doesnt block the door as mium seems to stop by somewhat reguarly.
Tealy used the term “annoying bastard”, and Blue Girl used the term “meddlesome bastard”, so I thought there might be a connection. I originally thought it really WAS Tealy, and the teleport spell was casting a blue aura, but then I realized that this person hadn’t met Miko before, but Tealy had. I still think they are connected somehow, though.
well they probly all are talking about peter. and since peter seems to have quite a few ppl… hmm more than slightly annoyed at him. tho this seems a bit more expencive than just some annoying meddling bastard. i know a few pages back i mentioned something about hq and c.a. handling peter more like someone that has directly attacked ids hq and not some rouge agent that decided to leave and go blend in with the locals. not that peter seems to quietly hide out.
im wondering if this isnt related to whatever it was he found out both in his illegal hack and in avon.
Peter does seem to have some struggles with public relations. Probably something to do with being a meddlesome bastard.