WEBLIOGRAPHY

…Don’t mind the date on this “message”. I’ve set up the date this way so that it is the only message on the page and so that webliography doesn’t distract you from the messages. This page will be constantly updated as the semester progresses, so keep coming back…

In reverse-time order:

Ethical Consumer looks at the social and environmental records of various companies and lists them. It tells us that it would be wrong to consume what “unethical” businesses produce: “Ethical purchasing put simply is buying things that are made ethically by companies that act ethically.” They mostly target brand names, but smaller companies also end up in their extensive “black list”.

Utilitarianism: Past, Present, and Future contains a huge hierarchical list of various resources available on the Net and pertaining to Utilitarianism. This website is bound to have more then you will ever need to know about it ;)…

The Digital Rights Management Home Page is a great website that covers every singe aspect of this technology. Extensive pros and cons sections, history, and even dictionary of terms. A superb choice for anyone researching this topic.

TVHarmony is a weblog “devoted to home entertainment technology including PVR products like Tivo, Video Servers and Distribution.” It has latest news and a lot of articles on various ethical aspects of the entertainment industry (i.e. a really short article on DRM perfectly describes my point of view on the issue).

RORER is a Russian context based web advertisement company. What makes the company special is a unique (as far as I know) ethical filter that blocks advertisement on webpages with “negative information”. Thus, there will be no ads for cheap cars in a news article about a car wreck and no ads for cheap tickets next to an article about plane hostages.

Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance helps make business practices more transparent and ethical in Russia and the region. The website has some information on current situation with business ethics in Russia and explanations as to what they should be and why. English version seems to have a little less info, but most of it is still there. Good resource for people interested in finding out what business ethics are in the first place.

Center for Palliative Care Studies website “offers expert support to hospitals, nursing homes, health systems, hospices, and other organizations that serve individuals nearing the end of life”. They wrote numerous books about care of terminally-ill people and have many excerpts from these books on this website.

Twenty Improvements in End-of-Life Care is a list of things that “clinicians” (people looking after patients) can easily do to improve life of their terminally-ill patients and their relatives. This list shows how hard it is to manage such things and might just change your opinion on euthanasia one way or another.

“There is great danger in legalising assisted suicide”, says Mary Joseph in this article on euthanasia. Mary has a very interesting look on the subject even though, here in US, the Florida case is better known right now.

Requiring English / Accepting Other Languages in the U.S. is an article by Jennifer and Peter Wipf. They provide a short history of the subject and cases for and against it. This is, among other things, an important ethical question that many disregard by simply comparing US to countries that do have an official language.

Elena Bonner”s statement is a statement released by Elena Bonner (Sakharov“s widow) on previous presidential elections in Russia. She talks here about morals, ethics, and politics. Whether you agree with her or not, you still should read this article as she is extremely intelligent and many share her views on ethics.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a new government department that provides “the unifying core for the vast national network of organizations and institutions involved in efforts to secure our nation [from terrorist attacks].” The website has information on various citizen programs, government agencies, and even business that are protecting US from the terrorist threat. It also has additional information on the “Don’t Be Afraid, Be Ready” campaign.

NSA is a beautiful website that belongs to National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Security Service (CSS). NSA (and CSS) is all about knowledge and whatever knowledge they are willing to give up to the public is available right here… Not much, but better then nothing.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (the FBI) is a US agency responsible for various important investigations, including computer crimes. The website has information about war on terrorism, various current and old cases, and list of Most Wanted with photographs (btw, is it ethical to get money for helping the society catch dangerous people?)

The SITE Institute (stands for Search for International Terrorist Entities) is a website that belongs to a non-profit organization. It provides terrorist related information to government, media, and public. It has latest news related to terrorists, background information on various terrorist groups, and even a list of terrorist websites.

CSC4735: Discussion Area: Various ethical topics are discussed here by my classmates from the CSC-4735 class. It might be interesting to see what kind of ethics future and current Computer Science professionals have, it’s only a pity that only registered members can view these topics.

No Software Patents! This website is arguing that “our prosperity, and some of our freedoms, will be in jeopardy” if EU legalizes software patents and that is would be “a huge mistake”. It’s an ongoing issue and this website reflects only one side of it…

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