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Post by ericbarbour » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:50 am

I've found that Ernie Smith's blog is an extreme rarity: entertaining, yet also compulsively honest and unwilling to grind axes for commercial interests. Probably why he tends to avoid talking about subjects concerning his advertisers.

Posted the other day:
https://tedium.co/2022/03/09/fluorescen ... e-history/
Scroll down and see a little shred of truth:
When I search for the awards that he claims to his name, the only results I find are more search results about Pavel, including the Wikipedia page for the Hyper CD-ROM, in which the talk page is filled with questions about whether or not it’s a hoax.
I will not give Kent Premium Lights too much guff about the level of rigor of their innovation award program, but I will say that, as a friendly reminder, that you shouldn’t believe everything you read on Wikipedia. Do some additional research first.
Dollar sez his email box started filling up with whining emails from Wikipedia fans, shortly after posting that. It is to be expected, even for the mildest critique of the "all human knowledge thing".

Sure enough, they thought it was a hoax:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hyper_CD-ROM
Any source this is not a hoax?

Seems like a hoax to me. Only source is coming from Romaina and there is nothing visible working after 16-17 years. So any actual device working, ever, anywhere? All I see is paper descriptions and nothing to support it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minikola (talk • contribs) 15:27, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

> I doubt it is an hoax, the patents of Dr E.P are rather strong on the technical and physical theories behind FMD (they are now used as reference[1] for other studies and patents !) The values (Petabytes, transfert rates) looks a bit random (most probably mathematical result between microchip abilities and existing technologies) so I would stamp that part as "estimated" and not "real". IMHO the only reason nothing working is available is marketing/business issue (like betamax and VHS, blu-ray and HD DVD ...)

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Post by ericbarbour » Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:05 am

and just btw: Despite existing since 2015, and BEING USED BY WIKIPEDIA AS A "RELIABLE SOURCE", Wikipedia has no article about tedium.co or Ernie Smith.

And I wonder if it's because he edits Wikipedia occasionally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ernie_at_Tedium

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