Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Legislation Governing Computer Use

       I would say “No”.because There have been many attempts to create and enforce laws in computer use. And these laws are now obsolete (wiretapping, videotape recording, software). Law takes hundreds of years to fully evolve.  Going over legislation in governing computer use  waste's of money, staffing, and other valuable resources.

       For practical reasons, advances in technology are so fast that legislation delays make laws obsolete before implementation, if this happens, then we probably need go thru a new legislation. 


Predominate in the World of Computing

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics(Virtue Ethics)

      Virtue ethics as we know is more likely to be honest and compassion. 
          A virtue such as honesty or generosity is not just a tendency to do what is honest or generous, nor is it to be helpfully specified as a “desirable” or “morally valuable” character trait. It is, indeed a character trait — that is, a disposition which is well entrenched in its possessor, something that, as we say “goes all the way down”, unlike a habit such as being a tea-drinker — but the disposition in question, far from being a single track disposition to do honest actions, or even honest actions for certain reasons, is multi-track. It is concerned with many other actions as well, with emotions and emotional reactions, choices, values, desires, perceptions, attitudes, interests, expectations and sensibilities. To possess a virtue is to be a certain sort of person with a certain complex mindset. 
       The most significant aspect of this mindset is the wholehearted acceptance of a certain range of considerations as reasons for action. An honest person cannot be identified simply as one who.
for example, practices honest dealing, and does not cheat. If such actions are done merely because the agent thinks that honesty is the best policy, or because they fear being caught out, rather than through recognizing.

Computer Activities

morally good under all circumstances
SURFING IN THE INTERNET.

         Surfing in the internet can help you gather a lot of information, exclusively to the bad site that is not good for us student. So for me surfing in the internet is more likely watching news in the television.

morally bad under all circumstances

CREATION OF COMPUTER VIRUSES.
 
         It is morally bad for me because creating viruses and spreading it to other computers or anything that can be virus is just like doing sabotage, so it is morally bad for me.

morally good/bad under certain circumstances
PORNOGRAPHY IN THE NET.
        It’s really hard to make a stand in this case for me simply because there are some parts of the world that actually don’t consider it as morally bad. Personally, it is morally bad especially for minors and for people who doesn’t have a sense of responsibility. I appreciate some sites that have some form of precautions or warnings to web users of this kind. For me they are giving out the decision and responsibility to the web users. The rest is up to the web-user. In this case we have different views how we deal in this such situation, so for me its up to the users if it is good or bad for them.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Law Governing Computer

Law is something that we use to follow. It is a rule or order that is strictly to be followed. Some are very much aware that there are law's that we are following and they were very much aware in following it, but still there are those person who are not afraid to suffer the penalty for what law that he did not follow.

THE LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
     (excerpt from Republic Act No. 8792: Electronic Commerce Act of 2000)

the law of intellectual of intellectual property rights could be stated as "piracy".
       non-jural law that supports this law is the moral law. This is because communities or countries complies with the norm  for “respect for the rights of owners of intellectual property” and punishes with fine and/or imprisonment those who violate.(http://www.freewebs.com/kmsolmoro/saq2.htm)
       cheating,copying, piracy..it is not bad to cheat but there are times that that it is to much in doing such thing therefore therea are laws to be followed in order not to make surpluses^^