Part 112 (1/2)
”Spare me the details”
”Sir, we can stop a car fro elec- tricity at it”
”I don't really care about the details”
”You should, sir There's a point to this”
”Well, get on with it” Jacobs was clearly annoyed
”Unlike the EMP-T technology which is very expensive and on the absolute edge of our capabilities”
”And so irritated with the constant interruptions ”But HERF can be generated cheaply by anyone with an eleovernment even sells surplus radio equipment that will do the job quite nicely”
Jacobs smiled briefly
”You look pleased,” the aide said with surprise
Jacobs hid his pleasure behind a more serious countenance ”Oh, no, it's just the irony of it all We've been warning the”
”Who, sir?”
”Never ht antly leaned back in his executive chair, closed his eyes and folded his hands over his barrel chest This was his way of telling subordinates to talk, spill their guts
”The real worry about cheap HERF is what it can do in the wrong hands” The aide obliged the ritual ”One transmitter and antenna in a s a leisurely drive Cash registers, electric type- writers, alar electronic a HERF is pointed at, Poof! Good as dead What if so up? Or at the tower? From up to a distance of over a kilometer, too Ten kilometers with better equipment”
”So it works,” muttered Jacobs so softly under his breath his aide didn't hear
”It's reanized crihtly different”
”I see” Jacobs kept his eyes closed as the aide patiently waited for his boss to say soather we use similar tools ourselves?”
”Yessir Very popular technique Better kept quiet”
”Not any more Not any ton, DC
I don't think you're gonna be pleased,” Phil Musgrave said at their early an
”What else is new?” asked the President acerbically ”Why should I have an easy today any more than any other day?” His dry wit often escaped rave had been exposed to it for over 20 years and took it in stride Pre- coffee grumps The President poured himself more hot decaf from the silver service ”What is it?”
”Co for the old days when a calculator consisted of two pieces of sliding wood or a hundred beads on rods?”