"User Profile for: riderofgiraffes
UserID: 383529
Name:
Email:
Registered: 1/11/07
Occupation: Mathematician
Location: UK
Total Posts: 350"
So much for that vague reputation, unless of course you've been fibbing ;) and / or someone else liked your moniker as much as you did, but I somehow doubt there are multiple riders of giraffes.
I fully agree with the above by the way, it feels just right.
I always tell my kid to distrust all sources of information, including his dad (there is a pardox in there somewhere) and to gather his own facts if the issue warrants the effort.
But such a search is uninformative for the author in question. If I had used a pseudonym you would have had no such additional information.
My point remains. With no credentials, with no idea of the author's background, you must perform independent verification. With some idea of the author's background, you have more information, and can decide whether the information is likely to be trustworthy, or at least worthy of pursuit or verification.
I am concerned that hacker culture teaches "Trust no one, verify everything." I think it is thereby unnecessarily impoverished.
http://www.google.com/search?q=riderofgiraffes
"User Profile for: riderofgiraffes UserID: 383529 Name: Email: Registered: 1/11/07 Occupation: Mathematician Location: UK Total Posts: 350"
So much for that vague reputation, unless of course you've been fibbing ;) and / or someone else liked your moniker as much as you did, but I somehow doubt there are multiple riders of giraffes.
I fully agree with the above by the way, it feels just right.
I always tell my kid to distrust all sources of information, including his dad (there is a pardox in there somewhere) and to gather his own facts if the issue warrants the effort.