The Goddess Shines on America

After thinking about it, Alice thought it would be better to answer this way: "With regard to power armor, the advice I can give is that before the basic industry in the country reaches the nanometer level, this product does not have to be thought of."

After that, she looked at her watch again and said, "So to save time, let's talk about this question later, let's talk about other ideas?"

Similar to the duties of chief designer or technical consultant, it is no more trouble for Alice, and these people in the Pentagon, after seeing their achievements in the field of programming and outstanding scientific imagination, will certainly not let The results of the meeting are limited to paper. I'm a businessman after all, so it's better not to continue arguing with politicians.

"Of course there are many other ideas."

Weinberg continued to flip through the information in his hand and said: "According to our understanding, you ordered a large number of products from General Dynamics during the filming of "Alien II." The alien terrain vehicle and armored vehicle used in the movie , And even that landing plane, you directly handed over the design drawings to them to make directly, right?"

"Yes, those drawings are all designed by me, but they are only designed as movie props. It is not a simple matter to transform them into mature military equipment."

Slightly breaking the goals that each other knew well, Alice turned to smile and said: "For example, the power armor we just talked about, its true thickness is only one millimeter, and it takes a lot of effort to block five-millimeter bullets from a submachine gun. However, If you really want to increase the thickness, or use high-strength materials while retaining the thickness, the cost and technical content will naturally rise."

An army general said at the right time: "That's right, but your suit armor is not just movie props, but expensive finished equipment. So I have a question, how do you design the joints? "

This question can be said to be of interest to every technical nerd who has watched "Alien II" carefully, and someone has spoken in some newspaper reviews. From the details of the marines' costumes in the movie, everyone can clearly see that this suit of armor is not just a steel sheet on a leather jacket, but a real metal connector. Then the question is, how does the designer make the body movement so dexterous when he wears it?

"The drawings are mine, and the finished product is produced by a mechanical designer of our crew, Fumiko Sextant."

Alice told the truth: "He is a former employee of General Dynamics. He has studied at California Institute of Technology and MIT, and his skills are very good."

After this answer, everyone did not immediately ask questions, but digested and absorbed them first. Alice was not in a hurry, she looked at her watch, it was too early to eat.

After a moment of silence, Secretary of Defense Weinberg laughed: "You designed it again."

This sentence is a bright spot.

The meeting room was dominated by light laughter again. Just then, the door of the meeting room was suddenly opened, and a handsome middle-aged man hurriedly walked into the room: "Damn, no one told me that Alice has arrived. ?"

"Oh, Chief Fryer."

Alice stood up and shook hands with him. Isn't this the Director of National Security, Dominique Fryer, who had just talked to herself last night?

"Oh, Alice, sorry, I was busy with other work just now."

Fryer shook hands with Alice happily, and then looked at the crowd of members: "Where is the topic? Haven't Clark and Lockheed been there yet?"

Alice picked up her eyebrows, and immediately swept around.

Among the two mentioned by Fryer, the latter is undoubtedly referring to Oren Lockheed, the second-generation rich man who is increasingly in control of the company, and the future CEO. As for the former Clark, since Fryer and Lockheed are tied together, it is obviously the then CEO of General Dynamics, William Clark.

Well, everyone here looks a little embarrassed.

So, Dominique Fryer was late on purpose?

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot."

As if suddenly realized, Defense Secretary Weinberg patted his head: "The two of them are still in the hotel, let me see..."

"Sorry, sorry, the hotel just went out of power, none of us could receive the call."

It's almost like a stage play. A character comes on stage one after another. Before Weinberg can finish speaking, a handsome young man strode into the house. Who is not Oren Lockheed?

"Ah, Oren."

Alice was quite surprised and shook hands with him: "So you are here too, and...Mr. Clark, hello."

Following him was a mature middle-aged man with a thick black beard on his upper lip. After entering the conference room, he first glanced at the soldiers, and then nodded to Alice: "Meeting again, Miss Wang, I have seen your "Alien II", it is indeed a very good one. movie of."

Facing this middle-aged man, Alice also had a very stable image, shaking hands with him: "Without the support of General Dynamics, I would not be able to show so many excellent equipment in the movie. Thank you very much. Your."

It seems that the situation seems somewhat clear.

In fact, when Alice saw that it was Weinberg who was waiting for herself in the conference room, instead of Fryer who was chatting with herself last night, she was already a little bit guilty.

Then, at this moment, Fryer broke in suddenly using busy work as a reason for being late, and then the two people who stepped into the house with the crappy interface of "the hotel was out of power but did not receive a call"...

Feelings, is this the fighting power within the military personnel?

Undoubtedly, at this moment, all the topics in the room focused on Alice. Facing these two big arms dealers here and the military personnel in the Pentagon all over the room, she pretended to sigh helplessly: "Well, you adults, don't you just want me to work hard for you? ?"

In a word, everyone felt a little embarrassed when the fifteen-year-old girl spoke easily.

But then she shrugged her shoulders very easily and said: "But it doesn't matter, those who can do more work, as long as you can provide enough compensation, I don't mind developing some sophisticated equipment for the military. Let's just say, Minister Weinberg and Minister Fryer, if you have anything you need me to design, let them develop the research and development of the two companies, please explain them all."

"Haha, Alice is really refreshing."

The momentary silence lasted as long as ten thousand years, and then was interrupted by Fryer with a beaming smile. He randomly found a chair and opened his mouth: "I just urged last night, Alice, how is the firewall developed? How about it? We are all in a hurry to use it!"

With his mouth like this, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became active again. Many military generals did not speak any more. Defense Secretary Weinberg interrupted with a dry cough: "That's right, the hacker spent half a day in the security department yesterday. In the end, the address was thrown to Australia. Fortunately, he only had time to hang out on the outer network, otherwise we might suffer a huge loss."

The relevant situation was learned by Alice last night. For this past tense, she didn’t bother to bother about it: “It’s already at the stage of physical hardware testing. From November last year to now, we have let offline manufacturers make With five generations of equipment, each update can increase performance by an average of 30%. If you are in a hurry, I will speed up and I will be able to provide you with the finished product in April."

Unsurprisingly, Weinberg and Fryer both smacked their lips.

"Internet security protocols and related hardware" technologies and products are completely different from the military industry they have always been familiar with. When they heard that they had been updated for five generations in a few months, Weinberg couldn't help but wonder: "Could it be that the first Can't one generation be used? Have to experiment again and again? How much difference can there be between them?"

"On the one hand is software. This security agreement is like the law. We can make a lot of regulations on the data transmission method, but there are certainly many blank areas that are not taken into account. Just like legal loopholes, smart criminals will always drill. The loopholes in this. The biggest amount of engineering when we develop the firewall is actually the constant compilation and compilation of security protocols."

Seeing Weinberg's sudden realization, Fryer thoughtfully and deeply approving, Alice shrugged and said: "Actually, the main workload is here. You must know that every time the agreement is renewed, the software volume will increase. There are many. Our current hard drives have not reached the time when gb is used as a regular unit~www.readwn.com~The processor speed is also the same. When the software changes, the hardware part must be redesigned."

After all this talk, Weinberg understood the situation even as a layman. He stroked his chin thoughtfully: "In other words, every refurbishment will make the firewall perform better..."

"...Alice, then I will ask two questions. First, can the current fifth-generation firewall block the hacker you encountered last time? Second, if we wait until June to order your sixth Will the performance of the first and seventh generation products be better?"

"I will answer the second question first, yes."

First give an affirmative answer, because for the previous question, Alice is also very big: "Ordinary invasion is definitely no problem, but for those masters, I can't guarantee you absolutely. After all, no matter how many times I update. , It is still a product that has not really experienced actual combat. Even during the development period, our Cisco programmers will make simulated attacks, but after all, the limitations are too great."

Weinberg did not reluctantly. For the current Pentagon, any firewall is a hundred times safer than living in a bare wooden house. (To be continued.)