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

The final step of the paramedic method is to ____.

The more you compress music data, the more sound quality you gain. _________________________

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

Social ____ are people who raise important, but irritating, questions about society.

Making critical decisions about computing technology is unavoidable.

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

The opponents to ____________________ 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.

What is Kant's second categorical imperative?

A compression ratio of 12 to 1 has become popular, with the resulting sound quality almost comparable to a music CD that has not been compressed. _________________________

The Napster software set up what's called ____ file sharing.