I suggest all scammers, spammers and malware coders immediately move to azure. My developer friend tell me .NET is the shit :)

Yeah i think it has 8 galaxies with 256 star systems in each all in 64K

I remember writing a bot for an online text based adventure years ago that pretended it was a female newbie that followed people around asking lots of questions and praising them for their skills. AI? not in the slightest, but scripts, pre-programmed patterns and social engineering (no learning!). Lots of fun, and it fooled quite a bit of players (for 5-10 minutes) who, as a thank-you, tended to kill her with extreme prejudice every time they encountered her.

Maybe if I write a script that goes ;
"Hello, this is Thomas's mother, hes 2 years old..."
and then continue to spew out random letters -- would that pass a Turing test?

As Stalin so eloquently put it;

"You know, comrades,", "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how."

Yeah I thought that some of these tubing represented human
digestive system and the female reproductive system as well,
i second your conclusions.

Now they just need to show _an actual working system_ and not just CG

Remind me to get investors for a "thinking hat" too

And here I thought the Chinese net was slow because of the Chinese gov monitoring everything. Turns out it was the NSA.
Leaking this info is not in the "public interest" (well the Chinese public, possibly).

Last time I heard, cloned pigs display same variety in response to various tests (drugs, sickness etc.) as sibling pigs does.
So they are not as similar as you might think. It takes a bit of the "dangers of cloning" out of the issue. I believe cloning
should be limited to areas such clinical research, because if you replace pigs everywhere with very limited genetic variance,
you're setting up a system that is rather vulnerable to diseases.

For me, it was mostly about having fun coding something cool, and the challenge of getting things to work :)
Also, I played AberMud before we started on DikuMud.

--Hans-Henrik