There's one problem with this.
A fully aware software AI is exactly what I envisioned Buckaroo as. He isn't tied to any one computer, he makes backups of himself with regularity, and he has parallel processes running on different machines in different locations. He's one of the founders of the Underspace because that's the only way he sees the Universe, though cyberspace. One of his first acts as an independent entity was to raid the electronic archives of the RIAA and the Library of Congress, in that order. (The Library was less than sanguine about this, but a) Buckaroo didn't steal anything, just copied, and b) there was no actual proof left behind, making the accusation nothing more than the word of a couple of US government network admins that "someone" broke into their archives. The RIAA, being a bunch of plutocratic twats, have attempted to serve "The Man Known as Buckaroo Banzai" with subpoenas multiple times, mistakenly serving them to Blackstone, J., Earl Mac Rauch, William Richter, and Peter Weller.)
This being said, I have no issues with Dee. Buckaroo works the way he does because people think he's a real physical human being, at least until 2014. Also, since my work schedule and life conspire to keep me from actually sitting down and writing some of this stuff out, I don't really have a leg to stand on. But it's likely that Buckaroo, being the inquisitive sort that he is, will have found his way out across cyberspace and looked in on this young lady, at least to offer up a friendly greeting and a few recommendations for figuring out the confusion that is Humanity. Beyond that, he is unlikely to mention that anything is out of the ordinary to anyone else, simply because it's not relevant.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
A fully aware software AI is exactly what I envisioned Buckaroo as. He isn't tied to any one computer, he makes backups of himself with regularity, and he has parallel processes running on different machines in different locations. He's one of the founders of the Underspace because that's the only way he sees the Universe, though cyberspace. One of his first acts as an independent entity was to raid the electronic archives of the RIAA and the Library of Congress, in that order. (The Library was less than sanguine about this, but a) Buckaroo didn't steal anything, just copied, and b) there was no actual proof left behind, making the accusation nothing more than the word of a couple of US government network admins that "someone" broke into their archives. The RIAA, being a bunch of plutocratic twats, have attempted to serve "The Man Known as Buckaroo Banzai" with subpoenas multiple times, mistakenly serving them to Blackstone, J., Earl Mac Rauch, William Richter, and Peter Weller.)
This being said, I have no issues with Dee. Buckaroo works the way he does because people think he's a real physical human being, at least until 2014. Also, since my work schedule and life conspire to keep me from actually sitting down and writing some of this stuff out, I don't really have a leg to stand on. But it's likely that Buckaroo, being the inquisitive sort that he is, will have found his way out across cyberspace and looked in on this young lady, at least to offer up a friendly greeting and a few recommendations for figuring out the confusion that is Humanity. Beyond that, he is unlikely to mention that anything is out of the ordinary to anyone else, simply because it's not relevant.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."