maintain good grades. As long as a student pushes themselves, I’ll turn over the heavens to help them.
You do realize you are sending her to the heavens?
Bethany Anne paused from her workout. I guess in a way, but it is Team BMW and you that are making it happen.
Are you going to have them ask her brother to go along?
Why is she going?
I believe she is meeting after school with Marcus.
Then no, I’m not going to do any such thing. The world tends to help those that are pushing themselves. I suggest Todd learn that now. Catering to him won’t do it.
You know, I think you would make a good parent.
Bethany Anne smiled, Thanks TOM. That means a lot coming from you.
Why, because I’m an alien?
No jackass, because you’re my closest friend.
You know, I wouldn’t mind going up either.
Bethany Anne smiled, Research?
Sure, if you want to call it that.
Bethany Anne left the workout area and texted Gabrielle that she was taking a Pod to go spend some time to think.
Her text came back quickly, “WHERE R U LANDING?”
She smiled, “RIGHT BACK HERE – YOU NOSY VAMP!”
Gabrielle replied, “HEY, I’D SAY DON’T DO ANYTHING I WOULDN’T, BUT THEN YOU NEED A COUPLE OF CENTURIES TO GET EVEN CLOSE ;-)”
—
Bethany Anne looked out of the Pod glass from the upper thermosphere, having already swiped the read-outs off so she could see the beautiful blue sphere below her.
Bethany Anne and TOM had figured out that with the new Etherically connected radio systems in the Pods, TOM and ADAM could route their communication to the spaceship and then back into the Pod. It was a little odd for TOM to hear himself, even if the voice sounded more electronic than organic. At times, Bethany Anne preferred to speak out loud with her friend.
“It’s so beautiful.”
“I agree.” TOM said.
They were circumnavigating the globe and presently Bethany Anne could spot Australia and New Zealand beneath them.
ADAM?
>>Yes?<<
While ADAM could run his voice through the same connections TOM did, he did not normally chose that process and Bethany Anne had never told him to do so.
Can you interface with the Heads Up Display (HUD) and highlight the locations where the servers are located that you guys protected?
Outlines began to appear representing the land masses beneath her. ADAM made his globe a sphere, but only showed the information from their present view. There were a few dots in New Zealand and more in Australia. ADAM placed a count of servers cleaned, by country, off to the side.
The numbers kept rising until it stopped at a total exceeding eighty-four thousand.
Bethany Anne put her foot out on the bracket and put her chin in her hand, bracing her elbow on her knee. “Why do I keep hearing about millions of machines being affected if you only found eighty-four thousand?”
>>I am only displaying the major infection sites. That is not a count of the servers I cleaned or the dormant slave copies which infect the desktop machines and laptops.<<
“As a percentage, how many do you believe you cleaned up??
>>Are you asking by country, by this one group, or as a whole?<<
“Whole.”
>>I compute the clean-up value somewhere less than one percent.<<
“Mother-puss-filled…Really?” Bethany Anne was shocked.
>>Yes. All nations which have the capabilities expect that the ‘First Strike’ of a new war will be digital. The Chinese were just the first major power to recognize this tactic and have become masters at it, they are constantly evolving and updating. However, all the major powers do it to some extent.”<<
Bethany Anne searched her memories for the name of a virus or something that was in the news many years before, “What about Stux-net?”
>>Stux-net is thought to be a joint Israeli-American worm used to destroy the Iranian centrifuges used in their nuclear program. In 2015, Kaspersky Labs found another highly
You do realize you are sending her to the heavens?
Bethany Anne paused from her workout. I guess in a way, but it is Team BMW and you that are making it happen.
Are you going to have them ask her brother to go along?
Why is she going?
I believe she is meeting after school with Marcus.
Then no, I’m not going to do any such thing. The world tends to help those that are pushing themselves. I suggest Todd learn that now. Catering to him won’t do it.
You know, I think you would make a good parent.
Bethany Anne smiled, Thanks TOM. That means a lot coming from you.
Why, because I’m an alien?
No jackass, because you’re my closest friend.
You know, I wouldn’t mind going up either.
Bethany Anne smiled, Research?
Sure, if you want to call it that.
Bethany Anne left the workout area and texted Gabrielle that she was taking a Pod to go spend some time to think.
Her text came back quickly, “WHERE R U LANDING?”
She smiled, “RIGHT BACK HERE – YOU NOSY VAMP!”
Gabrielle replied, “HEY, I’D SAY DON’T DO ANYTHING I WOULDN’T, BUT THEN YOU NEED A COUPLE OF CENTURIES TO GET EVEN CLOSE ;-)”
—
Bethany Anne looked out of the Pod glass from the upper thermosphere, having already swiped the read-outs off so she could see the beautiful blue sphere below her.
Bethany Anne and TOM had figured out that with the new Etherically connected radio systems in the Pods, TOM and ADAM could route their communication to the spaceship and then back into the Pod. It was a little odd for TOM to hear himself, even if the voice sounded more electronic than organic. At times, Bethany Anne preferred to speak out loud with her friend.
“It’s so beautiful.”
“I agree.” TOM said.
They were circumnavigating the globe and presently Bethany Anne could spot Australia and New Zealand beneath them.
ADAM?
>>Yes?<<
While ADAM could run his voice through the same connections TOM did, he did not normally chose that process and Bethany Anne had never told him to do so.
Can you interface with the Heads Up Display (HUD) and highlight the locations where the servers are located that you guys protected?
Outlines began to appear representing the land masses beneath her. ADAM made his globe a sphere, but only showed the information from their present view. There were a few dots in New Zealand and more in Australia. ADAM placed a count of servers cleaned, by country, off to the side.
The numbers kept rising until it stopped at a total exceeding eighty-four thousand.
Bethany Anne put her foot out on the bracket and put her chin in her hand, bracing her elbow on her knee. “Why do I keep hearing about millions of machines being affected if you only found eighty-four thousand?”
>>I am only displaying the major infection sites. That is not a count of the servers I cleaned or the dormant slave copies which infect the desktop machines and laptops.<<
“As a percentage, how many do you believe you cleaned up??
>>Are you asking by country, by this one group, or as a whole?<<
“Whole.”
>>I compute the clean-up value somewhere less than one percent.<<
“Mother-puss-filled…Really?” Bethany Anne was shocked.
>>Yes. All nations which have the capabilities expect that the ‘First Strike’ of a new war will be digital. The Chinese were just the first major power to recognize this tactic and have become masters at it, they are constantly evolving and updating. However, all the major powers do it to some extent.”<<
Bethany Anne searched her memories for the name of a virus or something that was in the news many years before, “What about Stux-net?”
>>Stux-net is thought to be a joint Israeli-American worm used to destroy the Iranian centrifuges used in their nuclear program. In 2015, Kaspersky Labs found another highly
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