"Clancy, Tom - Net Force 06 - Cybernation" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clancy Tom)

"Use your digital." "I already tried that. Same thing." "Maybe your battery is-" "No, the battery is not dead, I checked it!" "Well, don't take my head off! It's not my fault!" "I'm sorry. But, look, I have to make this call-if the customer doesn't hear from us by seven-thirty, we're screwed. I'm gonna lose my commission!"

4 NET FORCE

"Use my cell."
He started to ask, but she beat him to it. "In my purse."
Cam found her purse, pulled the little folding phone out, opened it. He tried voxax first, telling it the name to call, but that didn't work. Neither did the buttons.
He was going to lose his commission. Eight hundred bucks. Shit!

Austin, Texas

Rocko Jackson stared at his computer screen and cursed. "Son of a bitch! Don't you do this to me now!"
In the cubicle next to his, Tim Bonifazio stood and peeped over the short divider.
" 'S'up, white boy?"
"The damned system must be locked up again. I can't get it to access the net."
"Hold on a second, lemme check. It's probably just your station, you know how the mainframe hates you."
Tim disappeared from sight After a second, Rocko heard, "Uh-oh!"
"Aha, so the mainframe hates you, too, don't it?"
"No, man, it hates everybody. My laptop and wireless modem ain't working, neither."
"So what are you saying, the net is down?" He laughed.
"That's what it looks like from here."
"I don't even want to hear that."

Silicon Valley, California

Rachel Todd arrived at the conference room at the same time as Dal Ellner and Narin Brown. Rachel said, "What is going on, guys?"


CYBERNATION 5

Both Dal and Narin shook their heads. "Got me," Narin said. "All I know is nobody can get on the web. Not with hardwired, laptops, digital phones, nothing. Even old man Johns's virgil isn't working. It's like the net just... died, or something."
"Can't be," Dal said.
"Maybe not, but I know of at least fifteen major ISPs- from local to New York to London to Hong Kong-that are flat out inaccessible."
"This is bad," Rachel said.
"Bad? It's catastrophic! Every hour we're off-line costs us half a million bucks! In a couple of days, we'll be in the toilet!"
"Us and everybody for as far as the eye can see," Narin said.
"That doesn't make me feel any better."

Cheyenne Mountain, Wyoming

"Lieutenant, you want to tell me what the hell is going on?"
"Unknown, General Harmon, sir. All network operations are snafued."
"You mean we are deaf and blind here?"
"No, sir, we have landlines that still work, we can call in launch codes manually if we have to."
"And how do we open the silo doors?"
"Hand cranks, sir."
"Not acceptable, Lieutenant. I want the situation rectified."
"Sir, according to landline reports, the problem is nationwide -we can't fix it from here."
"God dammit!"
"Yes, sir."