What... The... Fuck ... We're Back ???

[WillyT]

:bounce::wtf::bounce:

Talk about your discussion board hiccup!

Everybody OK???

:bounce::grouphug::bounce:

:D

:hi:

[Poll_Blind]

1. Skinner's locked himself in the radio room, says he doesn't know which of us are human or "things".

Other than that, it's back to business as usual.

:toast:

PB

[madmax]

3. lol nt

[WillyT]

4. Some Morse Code Would Have Helped...

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

6. Not according to Turing nt

[WillyT]

9. I Have No Idea What That Means...

Any hints?

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

10. Try the Turing Test

The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to demonstrate intelligence. A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which tries to appear human. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. In order to test the machine's intelligence rather than its ability to render words into audio, the conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen.

The test was introduced by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" Since "thinking" is difficult to define, Turing chooses to "replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is expressed in relatively unambiguous words." Turing's new question is: "Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the Turing test" This question, Turing believed, is one that can actually be answered. In the remainder of the paper, he argued against all the major objections to the proposition that "machines can think".

In the years since 1950, the test has proven to be both highly influential and widely criticized, and it is an essential concept in the philosophy of artificial intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

[drm604]

8. That is business as usual, isn't it?

:shrug:

[madmax]

2. I'm still getting a little flack now and then but

I'm sure it's going to work out.

:grouphug: :bounce:

[BlueJazz]

5. I was locked-out for 2 1/2 days. ...but I think my ISP also had something to do with it.

[midnight]

13. Me too.....

[Lint Head]

7. YES! I have my fix!!!!

:applause: :popcorn: :rofl: :donut: :kick: :hi: :thumbsup: :smoke: :bounce: :toast: :party:

[hlthe2b]

11. Just us "slobs"

Skinner had to "lock" us out for a few days... to clean and air out the joint (or so says a certain asshole RW Senator from WI) :eyes:

Welcome back.

[Lisa0825]

12. I was still having to connect by proxy at work today, but

I have been able to connect at home the whole time.