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

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

Define cyberbullying.

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

The first step in the paramedic method is to ____.

MP3 file copying has encouraged CD buying as a long term effect.

Ethicists depend on what is called a(n) ____ to try to make better and better ethical decisions.

The new way of thinking about making and sharing music will deemphasize the need for large ____ companies.

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.

The most well-known consequentialists are the neo-Luddites. _________________________

An ethical dialectic usually has a clean stopping point.

The MP3 protocol allows one level of compression.

Most ethicists agree that since there are many more music publishers than listeners, MP3 copying is okay.

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

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

Explain what sexting is.

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

Using the VoIP case from this chapter, walk through the interested parties and how the establishment of lawful intercepts affects the happiness of these parties.

In 1997, Tomislav Uzelac, a software developer at Advanced Multimedia Products, created what is regarded as the first commercially viable WMF playback program. _________________________

Kant came up with ____ that characterized the duties we humans have to each other.

A(n) ____ is someone who breaks into computer systems, launches Internet worms and viruses, or perpetrates other dubious computer-related vandalism.