Re: DMCA Infringement

[Ozzie Paez <ozpaez () SPRYNET COM>]

Rand,

Thank you.  I will check it out.  I wrote a resent post on the Mirroring
Trap in decision-making that referenced Sherry Turkle
<http://www.mit.edu/~sturkle/> 's book "Alone Together."  She references a
study by the University of Michigan that noted a significant drop in empathy
among new students.  Empathy is one of those foundational personality traits
behind a moral, civil society.  If we are in fact losing much of our ability
to empathize, then programs will have to rely increasingly on personal
sanctions to alter behavior.  So, I believe that this is an area that should
be researched because enforcement mechanisms and underlying policies within
different communities would be affected. 

Regards,

Ozzie Paez

SSE

www.ozziepaezdecisions.com 

303-332-5363

 

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A very timely question.

 

Christian Smith just released "Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging
Adulthood" which talks about the difficulty young people have making moral
decisions.

 

The Economist has a review today (dated tomorrow). The reviewer's
distillation:

 

"In the guise, often, of teaching tolerance, we are failing to ensure that
our children understand how to frame moral issues and make judgments about
right conduct and about what is good in life."

 

The NY Times had an Op-Ed piece on Monday that said, in part:

 

"The interviewers asked open-ended questions about right and wrong, moral
dilemmas and the meaning of life. In the rambling answers, which Smith and
company recount in a new book, "Lost in Transition," you see the young
people groping to say anything sensible on these matters. But they just
don't have the categories or vocabulary to do so.

 

"When asked to describe a moral dilemma they had faced, two-thirds of the
young people either couldn't answer the question or described problems that
are not moral at all, like whether they could afford to rent a certain
apartment or whether they had enough quarters to feed the meter at a parking
spot."

 

Rand
 
Rand P. Hall
Director, Network Services                 askIT!
Merrimack College
978-837-3532
 <mailto:rand.hall () merrimack edu> rand.hall () merrimack edu

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Ozzie Paez <ozpaez () sprynet com> wrote:

This is an area that is of great interest to me as a systems engineer and
senior business process analyst who provides input into administrative
program designs, security, etc.  The role of culture as an enabler and
barrier is of critical importance, particularly on university campuses
because technology has compressed generations from a traditional fifteen
years to something less than five.  A colleague of mine and I had a paper
published this year by Rhodes University in South Africa that dealt with
this issue, which is one of many they face as a cross-road center of
culture, geography, etc.  In any event, does anyone know of a cultural
survey or surveys that have been carried out recently to evaluate student
attitudes towards security, including compliance with laws and regulations
such as DMCA?

Years ago, IBM screamed, yelled and threatened to get users of their
'flexible storage disks' to stop calling them Floppy Disks (and the original
8.5" and 10" ones really flopped!).  History shows that they failed because
it had caught on with the culture, particularly at Universities.  So, I'm
wondering about the magnitude and shifts in the cultural patterns behind
issues such as DMCA compliance.

Regards to all,

Ozzie Paez
SSE
www.ozziepaezdecisions.comm
303-332-5363