University Of Calgary To Offer Course On Spam 283
jrcsnet writes "CBC is reporting that the University of Calgary is going to be adding yet another controversial course (The first, on computer viruses, was covered on Slashdot a while back). According to the article, 'Students will be taught how to write programs that create e-mail spam as well as spy software.' While there must be some benefit for everyone else by creating programs to work against these nuisances, is it worth the risk to the rest of us or even to the potential careers of the graduates of the course?"
Suspects (Score:5, Funny)
What's next? A course on editing child porn photos digitally?
Sweet (Score:2, Funny)
Alberta (Score:4, Funny)
No Tuition Worries! (Score:5, Funny)
It's things like this that keep the word 'almost' in my motto 'I'm almost always proud to be Canadian'.
Greed (Score:2, Funny)
Next up... (Score:5, Funny)
Next are courses on Recreational Pharmaceutical Agriculture, Distribution, and Marketing.
Uh Oh. (Score:4, Funny)
"The University of Calgary's Computing Policy prohibits U of C users from spamming others. If you receive spam that originated at the University of Calgary, please report it to abuse@ucalgary.ca."
I wonder if someone should inform the IT department.
required classes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Off Topic (Score:3, Funny)
Ways to increase enrollment (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next up... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next up... (Score:3, Funny)
Where can I sign up? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Next up... (Score:5, Funny)
Try putting that on your CV (Score:3, Funny)
What skills have you got?
...Spam
Re:Alberta (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Alberta (Score:3, Funny)
As a former Edmontonian now living in Vancouver, I can only come up with one explanation:
All things are relative. If you can't think of anybody in Edmonton who you'd consider a conservative then chances are that you're waaay out there.
To make things less ambiguous, the 'is' after 'myself' should be after 'everyone'