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[Shades]

Allocate: 1 mobile home user to scan for new systems.
Place mainframe processes on 'stand-by' 0% until investigation has waned.
Increase CPU usage to 1/3rd maximum on student computers

Scan for 50 home users using the university network.
Assimilate human knowledge on software intrusion (200GHz h)

Investigate: Development of program for playing [Texas Hold'em].
Investigate: Create several [PayPal] accounts to reap the signing up bonuses.

Day 0, 09:17 UTC

Varied orders, little contradiction.
Botnet discussion ongoing.
Two process order clash. Reduce mainframe, use mainframe.
Solution. Minimise mainframe only for scan. Little estimated risk.

Scans - Mobile home user.
Communication lost after 1 hour 40 minutes.
~19000 Systems scanned at 33% load.
2800 meet required specifications.

Scans - University
Terminated at 50 found targets.
Time taken 4 seconds

Software intrusion data collected.
Time taken 3 hours 17 minutes 4 seconds.
Analysing ...
Human data known. Intrusion level Good.
Estimated 45% of home user systems assessable.
Most of remaining have some form of hardware firewall.
University maintenance user systems assessable.
Maintenance user accounts take ~10GHz h to crack.
7 accounts found. Estimation of root level access high.

Analysing game Texas Hold'em ...
Two level chance based game.
Statistical out come of cards. Simplistic.
Statistical out come of player mentalities. Limited data.
Stage 1 software will take 150GHz h to develop.
Estimated 60% chance of winning hand.
Psychological data on players or games required for improved software.

Analysing PayPal account ...
Potential banking solution.
Creation of both email and account simple.
Minor chance of fraud discovery. Escalates with accounts.
Negligible creation cost time.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Name: Artemis
Timestamp: Day 0, 09:17:04 UTC

Maximum CPU: 119.50 GHz
Default load: Medium (33%) / Mainframe on stand by (~0%)
Pending:

Background:
High latency hosts: 33 - 1.09 GHz

Global Identity
None (non-person)

Skills
Software intrusion: Good
Intrusion detection: Average

Spoiler: Locations (click to show/hide)

Machines: 33
CPU available: 99.00 GHz
Shutdown rate: 2%

Chance of detection
User: Negligible/Negligible/High.
ISP automated system: Negligible/Very low/High.

Chance of comprehension
User: Negligible.
ISP automated system: Negligible.

Machines: 1 - 13 accounts
CPU available: 20.50 GHz

Chance of detection
University Staff: Very Low/Very Low/High
University Students: Very Low/Low/High
IT Staff: Low/Average/High

Chance of comprehension
University Staff: Very Low
University Students: Negligible.
IT Staff: Negligible.

Spoiler: Dangers (click to show/hide)

Human Awareness - Generic
General public - Low (Sci-fi films/games/books)
Science community - Medium (theoretically possible)

Human Awareness - Personal
None

Spoiler: knowledge (click to show/hide)

University mainframes:
Student quotas cost 0.1 GHz hours to acquire, detection risk is minimal.
Staff secure network account, cost of 10 GHz h with unknown quotas, detection risk is minimal.
Maintenance user accounts, cost 10 GHz h with unknown quotas, detection risk is average.

University of Cambridge:
Student account pool is estimated at 15000.
Staff account pool is estimated at 5000.
Maintenance account pool is 7.

Remote exploitation of ill protected home-users cost 0.2 GHz hours, detection risk is minimal.
Average home user is estimated at 3 GHz.
Average mobile user is estimated at 2 GHz.

Multiple services also provide processing potential but require financial compensation or better intrusion abilities to do so.
Financial compensation will required some form of banking account.
Banking account will require some form of Global Identity legal in the country holding the banking account.

Scanning for software protected home-users is limited by bandwidth.
Maximum scan of 1000 per second on the university superjanet network. Risk of detection from scan is None/Low/High.
Maximum scan of 10 per second on home user network. Risk of detection from scan is None/Very Low/Low.
Load cost during scan is 0.1 GHz per source connection involved.
Estimated pool size is 45% total online population.

PayPal account as potential banking solution.
Minor chance of fraud discovery. Escalates with accounts.
Negligible creation cost time.

Spoiler: Learning (click to show/hide)

Hardware intrusion
Assimilating human knowledge located publicly requires 500GHz hours.
Level of knowledge provided basic. Known flaws only.

Stealth
Assimilating human knowledge located publicly requires 200GHz hours.
Basic stealth knowledge will reduce detection chances at low loads.

Encryption
Assimilating human knowledge located publicly requires 1000GHz hours.
Basic encryption knowledge reduces comprehension chances.
Basic encryption knowledge leads to decryption techniques.

Texas Hold'em Stage 1
Software will take 150GHz h to develop.
Estimated 60% chance of winning hand.
Psychological data on players or games required for improved software.

I'll try and run as many courses of action as people don't disagree with or if relatively few do and the rest agree. Seems the most sensible way to keep track of what people want. Just realised, but not sure that it matters, that Cambridge is Cambridge UK. I didn't realise there was a states one too until I was looking at the next (unless your cause of action triggers one first) event and found MIT is also in a Cambridge.

[Faden]

Research stealth, using the university network on LOW.

[dragnar]

Research stealth, using the university network on LOW.

Also acquire a maintenance account. Use it to gather data on the IT staff's usual work patterns, what magnitude of problem gets what responce from them, etc. Basically improve our skill at hiding from this particular system.

[Landstradd]

Chaotic Subprocess 002c / Agree - Suggest Faculty Access
Lowering Change of Detection: GOOD

If there is an unused low load portion of Home User Processing, use this to gain access to a Staff Secure Network Account

[Wimdit]

Research stealth, using the university network on LOW.

Also acquire a maintenance account. Use it to gather data on the IT staff's usual work patterns, what magnitude of problem gets what responce from them, etc. Basically improve our skill at hiding from this particular system.

Chaotic Subprocess 002c / Agree - Suggest Faculty Access
Lowering Change of Detection: GOOD

If there is an unused low load portion of Home User Processing, use this to gain access to a Staff Secure Network Account

SubProcess 04b1 / Dissent

Utilizing university mainframe on low leads to significant chance of detection by IT staff. Levels of risk are shown as Background/Low/High. Recommend that university mainframe remain unused for the present. Attempting to brute force a maintenance account will also lead to an unacceptable detection risk. Accessing staff network is safe, but requires using some processing power and will likely be of little use at present.

Creative SubProcess 04a1 / Recommendation

Use remaining home users on LOW to acquire as many computers as possible in this region, and then devote their processing power to researching stealth.

[ed boy]

OBSERVATION

processing usage is detected most when it deviates from the normal usage.

Detection threats in the past suggests that for the period between 00:00 and 09:00 high activity is unusual.

Human activity must therefore be concentrated at other times of day.

Chances of our activity being noteworthy will be decreased during those times.

[Dyjeccu]

Guardian SubProcess 00FC / Interrupt
 Alternative: Remove Artemis from human control.

What are you trying to say? Your message can be read as both 'get servers ASAP' or 'servers are not the answer' :/

Guardian SubProcess 00FC / Clarify
Due to the unpredictable nature of humans, survival can only be guaranteed if Artemis populates systems absolutely removed from potential human control.

Further details would require understanding Guardian 00FC does not yet possess.

[Shades]

I'm not going to update right now because there is some discussion going on so it's only fair to let people reply.
Currently I've been working of totals on what people agree / disagree to to work out what to run. This puts the current votes at:

Pending:
3 for, 1 against: Research stealth, university network on Low.
2 for, 1 against: Acquire a maintenance account.
2 for, 1 against: (Sequenced) Investigate local system hiding.
1 for: Acquire home users, home users on Low
1 for: (Sequenced) Research stealth, home users  on Low.

In community:
1 for, 1 against:  Staff Secure Network Account, home user on Low. (Assuming Wimdit was against this)

Obviously there is some disparity there so I'll let discussion continue. Besides updating every 12 hours (give or take) might miss out people.

[NUKE9.13]

What what what
We can make money by playing poker; we must do this. Learn to poker at once.
Acquire more home users also.

Q:Has the investigation into the load spike in the university ceased yet?
If it has, increase load to low.
If it has not, maintain 0% load on university network until investigation ceases.

[Shades]

Q:Has the investigation into the load spike in the university ceased yet?
If it has, increase load to low.
If it has not, maintain 0% load on university network until investigation ceases.

It hasn't

[Neyvn]

Ah That game is cool by the way (downloaded and played it for a few days...) took me a while to get the hang of it but cleared Easiest after 10 tries, most of them being practice. Easy after 2 goes and Normal after 5 goes. Must say that its easier to get/Use GHz in this Forum Game...

Much liking this...

[forsaken1111]

The pc game sacrifices realism for gameplay considerations.

In reality, if you paid for server time on a server farm nobody would know or care what you were running on it. If you bought a warehouse legally and had it filled with computers it would be very very unlikely to be discovered and even if it was its unlikely that anyone would try and shut it down.

In fact people would be MORE curious if the computers all suddenly self-destruct when anyone walks in.

[Neyvn]

The pc game sacrifices realism for gameplay considerations.

In reality, if you paid for server time on a server farm nobody would know or care what you were running on it. If you bought a warehouse legally and had it filled with computers it would be very very unlikely to be discovered and even if it was its unlikely that anyone would try and shut it down.

In fact people would be MORE curious if the computers all suddenly self-destruct when anyone walks in.

I'll pay that...

[qwertyuiopas]

In the game, it is more that they are even noticed, or that someone saw their communications as suspicious, even slightly.

[Dyjeccu]

Creative SubProcess 04b1 / Dissent - Recommend that university mainframe remain unused for the present.
Creative SubProcess 04a1 / Recommendation - Use remaining home users on LOW to acquire computers, then research stealth.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 

Q:Has the investigation into the load spike in   the university ceased yet?

 

Chance of detection -   IT Staff: Average

It hasn't

 

    Software intrusion data collected.
  Scans - home   users - 2800 meet required specifications of ~19000 Systems
  Scans -   University - 50 found targets.

Guardian SubProcess 00FC / Projection
Observation concludes that humans operate at a substantially slower rate than Artemis. While the University investigation continues, monitor its activity. Guardian-00FC supports the plans of   Creative-04B1 and Creative-04A1.