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Why? ________________________________________________________Final Exam Please put Your NameCSC309 on the Back of the LastMiller/Spring01 Page1. In class we discussed a number of informal guidelines for making ethical decisions. These guidelines, designated by names such as the Mom Test, the TV Test, and the Newspaper Test, all seemed to be variations on the thought that if ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. While the use of copyright with software tends to make the software more expensive it is argued that the impact on software quality is ___________________________________________________ because______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. One ethical rule/guide line that has appeared in many religions of the world is commonly referred to as the Golden Rule. Here the central thought is ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. In this class, we have attempted to make a distinction between “ethics” and “professional ethics.” Two reasons that has been put forth for professional ethics to having a different emphasis than general ethics are:1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. John, who clearly does not have more money than he knows what to do with, fails to set the hand break on his 57 Chevy and gets to watch it roll into the door of another parked car. Fortunately, John has just finished taking CSC309. (We will notspeculate however on whether he earned a passing grade.)Following an egoism of Hobbs approach to ethics he (a. gets back in his car and quietly drives off. b. reports what he has done to the owner of the parked car and offers to have the door fixed.)Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Following an altruistic approach to ethics he (a. gets back in his car and quietly drives off. b. reports what he has done to the owner of the parked car and offers to have the door fixed.)Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Following a Kantian approach to ethics he (a. gets back in his car and quietly drivesoff. b. reports what he has done to the owner of the parked car and offers to have the door fixed.)Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________John applies utilitarian ethics and gets back in his car and quietly drives off becausehe reasons that__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________John applies utilitarian ethics and reports what he has done to the owner of the parked car and offers to have the door fixed because he reasons that__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Interesting fact: Nearly 75,000 dot-com workers have lost their jobs in the last 16 months.6. When do you have an obligation to honor a company policy you view as being unreasonable? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. Extensive studies of mishaps have identified three primary causes. (1) Mishaps are almost always caused by ___________________________________________________________________________________(2) The failure ___________________________is often a contributing factor (sometimes the causal factor) of mishaps. Another thing we know from studying mishaps is that (3) they often involve problems in subsystem ___________________________8. Credit bureaus collect lots of data on each of us. On the surface, that appearsto be a rather major invasion of personal privacy. But this turns out to be another ofthose tradeoffs we keep talking about because when we give up this privacy protection we gain what in return?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9. While the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly use the word “privacy,” several of its provisions protect different aspects of this fundamental right. The strongest protections arise from the __________ Amendment, which safeguards______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. First Amendment protection is for offensive and/or controversial speech and ideas. (T, F) and gives an individual the protection to say anything at anytime (T, F)11. The terms computer matching and computer profiling describe two different actions. Computer matching occurs when ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Computer profiling occurs when__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________12. It is argued that accountability in the computer field is needed because the lack of it leads to __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________We identified four barriers to accountability. Give two1. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________13. There are four Fair Use Factors that apply (at least in the USA) to works protected by copyright. List three.a. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________b. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________c.


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