Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:08:15 -0400 From: Lee Capps <lcapps@cteresource.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>, Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) Message-ID: <CEC61350-634D-49F0-95CD-D8A9E6B16919@cteresource.org> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEACCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEACCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Svein Halvor >> Halvorsen >> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:00 AM >> To: Lee Capps >> Cc: Thomas Dickey; Bill Moran; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the >> relative >> advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) >> >> >> Bill Moran wrote: >>>> A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: >>>> GNOME guy) >>>> describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected >>>> false >>>> information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research >> >> >> And also: Where is this professor's ethics? Does he also misinform >> the >> students in class, only to later accuse them of not verifying the >> facts? >> And did he even think about the fact that others may have read his >> misinformation? Why does this professor think that his agenda is more >> important than Wikipedia's? Did he later correct the articles? >> >> I hope this professor got some sort of reaction from his >> University due >> to his unethical attitude towards openness, knowledge and science. >> > > I'm afraid I have to agree. The Prof was as lazy as his students. > The > world abounds in misinformation, it doesen't take a lot of effort > to find > it. The prof could have spent the hour he spent forging info in > Wikipedia, > finding already forged misinformation and having his students > research that. > He could have started at the Scientology website, for example, then > moved > on to PETA and the NRA. I note with interest that, so far, none of us has tried to track down this professor's possibly apocryphal research ;-) --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist lcapps@cteresource.org
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