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The title of the text, A Gift of Fire, refers to - correct answer ✔✔the myth of Prometheus
According to the authors of A Gift of Fire, most people agree that - correct answer ✔✔universal rules
should sometimes be broken because of the consequences of those rules
According to the authors of A Gift of Fire, if the criteria of an ethical system do not consider its
consequences, those criteria - correct answer ✔✔would seem to have little ethical merit
The European concept of the "right to be forgotten" refers to - correct answer ✔✔a person can require
search engine companies to prevent links to certain kinds of information from appearing in some search
results.
The phrase "social credit'' is being used to describe which of these? - correct answer ✔✔China's recent
development of a pervasive, coercive social system based on Internet technology.
On page 70, your text takes a position on the responsibilities of providers of free services. Which of the
following correctly describes this position? - correct answer ✔✔Companies may not, ethically, offer
attractive services and then cause a significant risk of harm, especially when the risk is hidden or
unexpected.
Euthyphro recounts a conversation between Euthyphro and __________. - correct answer ✔✔Socrates
With regard to the problem of spam (bulk commercial email sent indiscriminately), which of these has
been a generally successful argument for allowing the filtering of spam in the United States? - correct
answer ✔✔Spamming imposes an undue cost on the recipient against the recipient's wishes.
In section 3.7, your text discusses zero-rating; what is zero-rating? - correct answer ✔✔The practice of
providing certain services or applications without mobile data charges.
, The Archimedean Oath requires that a subscriber must obey all international laws, including the Kellogg-
Briand Pact. - correct answer ✔✔False
U.S. courts have held that turnitin.com is not violating the copyright of students whose papers are
copied to its website despite the fact that turnitin.com is a commercial entity profiting from this. -
correct answer ✔✔true
An example of "reverse engineering'' is ______________________________. - correct answer
✔✔translating an unclear representation of computer code to one of more clarity.
Legal systems ________ ethical systems. - correct answer ✔✔are not
According to the authors of A Gift of Fire, we still need ____________________ for the problem of
determining what country's laws apply in cross-border Internet cases. - correct answer ✔✔creative
development of good solutions
The Westphalian system refers to - correct answer ✔✔the principle that a nation-state has exclusive
sovereignty over its territory.
According to the authors of A Gift of Fire, if technology's overall impact were to destroy jobs, there
should have been : - correct answer ✔✔fewer people working in 2000 than in 1900.
According to the authors of A Gift of Fire, in the long term, if technology brings the cost of a product or
service down far enough to expand the market, ______________ will work in that field, such as their
example from the music industry. - correct answer ✔✔more people
According to the authors of A Gift of Fire, computers free us _____________________ so that we can
spend more time being creative and doing the tasks that require human intelligence. - correct answer
✔✔from the repetitious, boring aspects of the job
The concept of "falsifiability'' is most associated with which individual? - correct answer ✔✔Popper
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