This is my final paper for my professional ethics course. I decided to write it on the ethics of Firesheep. The course is structured around the VCR approach–basically, that most ethical issues can be better understood when the stakeholders’ values, virtues, consequences, contingencies, rights, and responsibilities are revealed. It is written for a decidedly non-technical [...]
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Since I’m a fan of and a dabbler in both fanfiction and Open Source,* and keep coming back to them because the communities are nutritious and fun, I wanted to briefly explore the ways in which their communities function similarly: They are distributed. While there are fanfic writing rock stars and coding queens, it is [...] My new 13 inch MacBook Pro arrived on Friday, born new into the world to replaced my deceased Amelia. Though she is tabula rasa now, I wonder how much of Amelia’s character she will take on when I update her using Amelia’s time-machine backup. Even if the likeness is strong, I will still need to [...] [ok, this is seriously the last post I do about/with xkcd. It is just so cool! I will be moving on soon.] This is a fascinating set of graphical representations of the internet/blogosphere. They remind me a bit of what I have seen of Edward Tufte‘s work. As someone with a love [...] I have been having such a blast in my Intro Computer Science class. While I have taken an intro Java course before, I am finding significant added value taking it at a college level. A large reason for that added value is that I am in one of the few sections at CMU this semester [...] |
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