Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?))

[Paul Schmehl]

--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/