On 27/04/07, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We don't devote time and
resources into being "renaissance people".
Human intelligence is hardly limited in that regard.
While I do not subscribe to the Colin Wilson theory,
the vast majority of people contain so little information
it is
On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 de
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen
wrote:
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
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > If you had provided the guy's Wikipedia account, we'd be able to check
> > *your* sources -- wouldn't we? As long as you don't tell us the
> > necessary information for checking u
In response to Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:17:32AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps this was all just a devious plan by me to make you all look like
> > fools by watching your argue about the importance of checking sources
> > while none of you checked yo
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:17:32AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> Perhaps this was all just a devious plan by me to make you all look like
> fools by watching your argue about the importance of checking sources
> while none of you checked your sources ...
>
> Muhahaha ...
>
> In any event, it's be
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/
: 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
erfection (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 inte
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 21:21:47 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other
> > sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this
> > particular brand of in
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:58:55PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I definitely agree that's suboptimal. I'd expand that to include other
> sorts of pages, other than webpages, as well. It's pretty rare for this
> particular brand of intellectually lazy person to realize that about the
> printed page
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:29:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey 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 kn
--On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 15:29:04 -0400 Thomas Dickey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:59:43PM +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> 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 r
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 assignment
that involved that information. Apparently the number of student
On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:55 AM, 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
assignment
that involved that informat
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