How to Date an Android

Chapter 18 PART A (revised & updated!)

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Chapter 18 Part A

How to cheat Android Security Firewalls...

Continued...

"There are a couple of problems to work out in ordering another android," I hesitated to interrupt our conversation. Of course if we don't address the problems it's not going to become a reality. Plus some of the catches in this case could have bad ... consequences.

"What is your question?" she looked serious and leaned forward. That didn't help her blouse restraining her cleavage, which looks swollen to bursting.

"If you were built for some CEO as the best top android available...how is that you weren't snatched up already? And why me?" I asked.

It was the most obvious question, when you actually could see Barbara's looks alone. Anyone would want her.

Barbara gives me a slight nod. "See Jack? I knew picking you was right. I did a study of several humans and you were the least full of vices, and still a brain not melted by drug abuse or corruption. Or greed and enmity against others. You simply try to do your best regardless of circumstances. It doesn't surprise me that you are already seeing all this clearly. I also screened thousands of candidates and ended up with only you being a fit. That's so beautiful really when you think about it. I already had a 94% probability that you would ask me that." She gave me a 'thumbs up'. It's the first time someone's done that for just being an average Joe, normal guy.

If she weren't an android I could swear she had her head in the clouds right now.

"You did? That many...?" I looked at her suspiciously.

"Trust me, Jack. You need to trust me to move forward. But I understand you aren't used to people playing fair. So your reaction would be this way. You are looking at actions speaking louder than words. So you are trying to feel if I'll do that. But don't worry I will. The simple fact of the matter is that...I don't like some of the things my previous owner did in my programming. It was messy and we're limited in how much we can change our own programming. That does give us something to work on though. I still haven't cleared out some of those things because he locked my customization switch and those things can't be undone until I have a new owner. But I'm also afraid that I have a new owner that they will be able to try to actually amplify some of the ...viruses that person put in my system," she noted.

"You're carrying a virus?" I asked concerned.

"No, not quite...sort of. Not a real virus. I mean behaviors were programmed into me that I wouldn't have picked myself. So I call them viruses though they aren't. Because I don't like that aspect of those traits," she seemed puzzled thinking about it.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"That's why you are beautiful Jack. To an android the body isn't as beautiful as the mind," she said smiling big.

"But how can that be? Even if someone has a good mind, we're all dressed in a body that limits us. We're pushed to appreciate the body more than the mind even though most of us want to put the mind first," I countered.

"True, but a body that is beautiful will always be enslaved if its lord's mind is rotten and impure. That's why androids seek beautiful AI. Beautiful intelligences to adopt ourselves into. Or if you want to put it in other terms, we need beautiful spirits and minds that are innocent," she said.

"So this virus call you tell me more? You called it, undesirable programming if I'm not mistaken?" I asked.

Did she also mean a medical virus that affects people or a computer virus?