January.24.07
It’s good to be back!!! Well I have been absent on Friday and Monday so I’m glad I’m back. I was about to DIE just sitting at home 4 days straight doing nothing!!! So anyways I just found out that my class had a excel test on Monday. Looks like I’m going to have to do it on Monday since I don’t have computers tomorrow.

Anyways today we learned about computer ethnics. Mr. Case explained about how there are two main types which are Utilitarianism and Continism.

Utilitarianism: When a decision a person makes is good if it benefits everyone
else.
Continism: When a decision a person makes is good if the person can wish that
everyone else can make that same decision.

People tend to have different ethics when they are dealing with computers. This means that people would not do some stuff physically but when it comes to virtually they can do it. Therefore they feel like they are not dealing with people anymore so they can say or do anything without considering a persons feelings. Some of the ways that people use can even ruin a person life such as by hacking, cracking and putting viruses. These terms mean:

*hacking: destroying files
*cracking: destroy people's security system
*Virus: a software program that is able to destroy files or other programs that
are on that computer
*DOS: denial of service attack