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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."
Agreed. Most of my degree was _directly_ not a lot of use - I've moved into systems admin type stuff, and Computer Systems Engineering only had a few modules over the 3 years that were directly applicable. (E.g. perl programming I use daily, formal methods, database design, not so much).
But there's a lot of stuff that's been indirectly relevant - communication theory kicks in when you start talking about protocols. Database design lets you slap people upside the head for using a spreadsheet for server configurations. Assembly and embedded processor programming gives you a handle on performance analysis for 'black box' devices.
I daily see the difference in perspective my degree has given me - I'm thinking a different way to most of my colleagues who just 'sort of ended up' in IT.
>i>It is not possible to cheat on homework.
I could name at least 7 people who have degrees at
"real" universities because I did _all_ their course work.
You do realize that you are a huge part of the problem, right?