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2020-10-08

by shaenon on October 8, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Lee of the Stone
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  1. Robert Nowall
    October 8, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Didn’t Nick complain about that very assumption?

    • WuseMajor
      October 8, 2020, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      I think Nick was complaining about how they assumed he could hack because “all internet nerds/gamers can hack” and, while he CAN, he doesn’t like the stereotype.

      This, on the other hand, seems like more of a “This is Real Life, not the Movies! Hacking doesn’t Work like that!” complaint. Except that since they’re both geniuses with like four digit IQs, they can handle this anyway.

      Were I in this position, first thing I’d try is seeing if there’s a Project Skin Horse website. Second place I’d check is weird news sites. Even with the brain glaze in place there’s gotta be some conspiracy sites out there. Hopefully this would get them to Grillo Parlante and from there to some contact info.

      I mean, Skin Horse doesn’t have a bunch of geniuses working there. Tip probably still has the same phone number.

      • David B Huber
        October 8, 2020, 12:34 am | # | Reply

        Good point. Artie can probably deduce Jonah and Nera’s association with Skin Horse.

        • NotPiffany
          October 8, 2020, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

          Does he have to deduce it, or does Sergio know already?

      • waynezombie
        October 8, 2020, 9:39 am | # | Reply

        And geniuses with four-digit IQs couldn’t figure out that a bag guy cat carrier might have a radio locator?

        • NamesAreSilly
          October 8, 2020, 12:34 pm | # | Reply

          High Int does not necessarily mean high Wis.

          • D. Walker
            October 8, 2020, 3:20 pm | #

            Sure, but with enough Charisma, and a permissive enough DM, you can magically make everyone else inexplicably ignore the fact that you dump statted both Int and Wis. Just look at Tip!

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        October 8, 2020, 9:53 am | # | Reply

        I was thinking similarly. Even if Skin Horse is hard to hack, that doesn’t mean it must be hard to contact them if they actually want to be contacted.

        Maybe they don’t want to allow any unsolicited contact at all though, to avoid infection by ASCII coded wetware trojans. Maybe they fear that a device could be designed incorporating Second Gate technology to send a randomized text such as $ across vast numbers of alternate worlds and programmed to phone home only if the target responds by sporting a mullet (mugil cephalis) on their head.

        The problem is that protecting against such attacks would require not only screening personal communications, but outside communication as a whole — avoiding the newspaper, television, and billboards.

        As Alan Turing discovered while investigating Godel’s Theorem, for any sufficiently expressive algorithm A and any output sentence S, there exists an input sentence T that causes A to produce output S and terminate. You won’t find the Turing Corollary in the literature because Turing died before he could publish. Many believe some unknown entity intercepted Turing’s article submission, extended his existence proof into a constructive proof, and then administered the proper sentence T to cause Turing to output the empty string.

        • David B Huber
          October 8, 2020, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

          Ogden, you intrigue me. I need to refresh my reading of Godel and Turing.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 8, 2020, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      Not the only thing. A couple of strips ago, Sergio was saying “This reality blindness situation is weird.” Nick said that back in “Unsinkable,” though he used a different word for “situation.”

  2. Schismatism
    October 8, 2020, 5:25 am | # | Reply

    It’s nice that Artie is now in that “Here’s a problem I can solve” state, as opposed to being a gerbil rolling across the keyboard as he stares up at his most beloved partner ever.

  3. Sleepy John
    October 8, 2020, 9:34 am | # | Reply

    Artie dancing on the keys while Sergio is typing is adorbs.

    • mickeyjf
      October 8, 2020, 10:59 am | # | Reply

      I have fond memories of a littler archy who managed to work the keyboard…

  4. Robert Nowall
    October 8, 2020, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, when they do find Skin Horse, they had better make sure it’s the Skin Horse in Annex One, and not the one in the Maragda Building. ‘Cause the latter is the one that sent Echo Bravo and Alfa Alfa to kill Artie.

    • David B Huber
      October 8, 2020, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

      “Skin Horse has been rebooted. Do you want our help or not? Very well. Stay at the library and we’ll dispatch you – I mean dispatch a team – immediately!”

  5. jdreyfuss
    October 8, 2020, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    This goes back to what Helen said about mad scientists (and those involved in mad science) always measuring things in terms of plausibility, rather than possibility.

    • Doug Relyea
      October 8, 2020, 11:17 am | # | Reply

      Pushing on the Envelope of Plausibility with a Sledge Hammer is how Possibility becomes expanded. Submarines? Aircraft? Electrical Generation? Cell phones?

  6. Shadowmehr
    October 8, 2020, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

    I’m just glad that At the got out of Sergio’s pocket and start contributing.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 8, 2020, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      (*sigh*). Artie, not At. I’ve got to stop commenting from my tablet

  7. Frank
    October 11, 2020, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Well, at least the library has modern monitors. I’ve seen way worse

    • Knuckles
      February 15, 2022, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah but just look at that mouse!

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