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Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree
An anonymous reader writes "EDS's key witness during the firm's court case against BSkyB was shown to have bought his degree online – but still managed to get a worse mark than a dog. Joe Galloway said he had a degree from Concordia College in the US Virgin Islands and gave detailed evidence on how he took plane journeys between the islands and attended a college there. But while questioning Galloway in court, Mark Howard QC managed to obtain exactly the same degree as Galloway from Concordia College for his dog 'Lulu' with one key difference – the dog got a higher mark."
My dog is smarter than your dog.
Its stuff like this that makes people question even reliable and accurate information on Internet.
Someone should warn the copious number of other colleges with the same name to expect massive calls from nominally informed reporters and/or bloggers. I imagine there will be some college administrators getting some odd phone calls.
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On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/images/internet_dog.jpg
...it really grokked Tail Recursion.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
College degrees are way overrated. This is coming from someone with multiple degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.
Are those colleges doing a bulk deal if you buy all of them at once?
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
In my RSS feed for this Slashdot article there was an advert saying "Online Master Degrees, learn more now". Strangely relevant and yet embarrassing at the same time...
This is coming from someone with multiple degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.
Oxfords a complete dump!
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And who would that be?
I always said my dog could run a better network than EDS. Talk about prophetic.
One of the cardinal rules in IT is you never give EDS a working application.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Yes, a degree is ultimately a bit of paper.
But, a human is ultimately a bit of meat that hasn't spoiled yet. So, that little bit of paper is what tells me that the bit of meat sitting in front of me will do some good work before it spoils.
Or, something like that.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
I have to be difficult here.
A degree from the Colorado School of Mines is not just a bit of paper. This is because they print the degrees on silver. No joke. So my degree is worth whatever a few grams of silver is, something like $40. I could easily trade it for a pizza, if the person that owns the shop is also a precious metal dealership.