You know those CAPTCHA devices?
Yes, folks, Obamacare doesn't allow robots to get insurance on the Marketplace exchange, and apparently Greta is—well—apparently Greta is a robot.*
*Or just hasn't ever seen a CAPTCHA before—at Fox they have servants to take care of that stuff.
A CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper of Carnegie Mellon University, and John Langford of IBM. The most common type of CAPTCHA was first invented by Mark D. Lillibridge, Martin Abadi, Krishna Bharat, and Andrei Z. Broder. This form of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human, a CAPTCHA is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test. (Wikipedia)Turns out that's the trouble with the healthcare.gov website, according to Fox's Greta van Susteren: she couldn't get past it.
Yes, folks, Obamacare doesn't allow robots to get insurance on the Marketplace exchange, and apparently Greta is—well—apparently Greta is a robot.*
*Or just hasn't ever seen a CAPTCHA before—at Fox they have servants to take care of that stuff.
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