Exam 15: Making Decisions About Computers, Information, and Society

A compression ratio of 12 to 1 has become popular, with the resulting sound quality almost comparable to a music CD purchased at a store.

Napster is an example of ____ file sharing software.

Both phone calls and emails require extensive technology support, and the information in both passes through circuits and routing systems that are controlled by others.

____ is the specific action of gaining unauthorized access to someone else's computer system.

The opponents to MP3 copying hold that in the long run there may be far less music available for copying because artists and publishers will have far less incentive to create and disseminate music.

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

Criminals and terrorists increasingly use ____ for their communication.

A fundamental question in ethics is what criteria to use when "measuring" the rightness or wrongness of a particular act.

The word ____ is from the Greek and means "the science of duty."

Making critical decisions about computing technology is unavoidable.

In a(n) ____, we move back and forth between different viewpoints, criticizing each and trying to learn from each.

In ____, the Fraunhofer Institute patented MP3 in Germany, and a few years later MP3 became an international standard.

All music artists are naturally opposed to MP3 copying.

____ answer the question "Good for whom?" with a hearty, "Good for everyone!".

What is the first step in the paramedic method?

A(n) ____ focuses more on the intent of an act and how that act either is or is not a defensible, responsible act.

An ethical dialectic usually has a clean stopping point.

Napster lost its case and to this day is still shut down.

In 1997, Tomislav Uzelac, a software developer at Advanced Multimedia Products, created what is regarded as the first MP3 compression scheme.

Perhaps the most famous deontologist was the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who lived in the ____ century.