Exam 17: Making Decisions About Computers, Information, and Society

Users had to find each other through the Internet and web before being able to connect and share with Napster.

BitTorrent is the most popular current peer-to-peer file sharing system and accounts for 5% of all Internet traffic._________________________

Talk about the current state of cyberbullying in the world. Is it directed only at school children? Does cyberbullying occur in politics?

The final step of the paramedic method is to ____.

Identify two of the major leaks in which WikiLeaks has been involved.

Apple introduced the ______________ in 2003 as a service to its iPod music player.

What is Anonymous? What are its best-known actions?

What is Kant's second categorical imperative?

What are two challenges associated with using a utilitarian argument in a dialectic about hacking?

The power of ____________________ is that it can transfer our understandings and intuitions about something well known to a situation or entity that is less well known.

Explain what WikiLeaks is, how it operates, and what its goal is.

All musicians are naturally opposed to music file sharing.

A ____ focuses on the consequences of an act to determine if the act is good or bad.

Discuss in detail the benefits and problems with analogy.

The philosopher ____ was known to say "never treat a fellow human merely as a means to an end."

Some people view hackers as social gadflies , people who raise important, but irritating, questions about society.

The law tells you what you are allowed to do, technology determines what you are able to do, but neither can tell you whether it is ______ right or wrong to do it.

Today, more than ____ U.S. households have no landline-based phone, and that percentage is growing rapidly.

What are the components of the "hacker ethic" described in the text?

The scholarly field of ethics has a long history of studying how to identify and resolve conflicts.