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.

[Anonymous Coward]

My dog is smarter than your dog.

Bad for Internet PR

[Asadullah Ahmad]

Its stuff like this that makes people question even reliable and accurate information on Internet.

Concordia College(s)

[Itninja]

Someone should warn the copious number [google.com] 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.

I guess it really is true

[Okian Warrior]

On the internet, no one knows you're a dog.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/images/internet_dog.jpg [mozillazine.org]

Re:I guess it really is true

[Teun]

Quote from TFA:

Both Galloway and Lulu were unavailable for comment at the time of writing.

Of course the dog got a better mark...

[SuperKendall]

...it really grokked Tail Recursion.

Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree

[anti-NAT]

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?

RSS advert for article was for an online degree :)

[Sits]

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...

Only two of those are great Universities

[rishistar]

This is coming from someone with multiple degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.

Oxfords a complete dump! [youtube.com]

Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree

[Anonymous Coward]

College degrees are way overrated. This is coming from someone with multiple degrees from MIT, Harvard, and Oxford.

And who would that be?

Re:My dog is smarter than your dog.

[DJRumpy]

Squirrel!

I always said...

[HangingChad]

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.

Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree

[Profane MuthaFucka]

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.

Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree

[Useful Wheat]

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.

Re:Bad for Internet PR

[Bobfrankly1]

Don't be so harsh, there surely is some reliable information out there. Of course, there still remains the problem of finding it, a process which, even with aid of a search engine, most closely resembles searching for diamonds in a septic tank with a single pair of rubber gloves and a ladle...

Woah...where'd you get the ladle?