Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the
relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?))
Paul Schmehl
pauls at utdallas.edu
Wed Apr 25 19:51:30 UTC 2007
--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey
<dickey at radix.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned,
>> and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I
>> don't suppose you know the name of his Wikipedia account, or his legal
>> name. . . .
>
> yawn. That sort of research has been going on for years.
>
> Less interesting is the sort of trash emitted by people who don't like
> knowing that whatever they've read on a webpage might not be completely
> accurate, and that they might have to do some of their own thinking.
>
> regards.
At one time I had high hopes that the internet would usher in a new era of
increased knowledge and reduced gullibility. Instead it seems to have
simply hastened the arrival to the wrong conclusions.
--
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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