In many cases the people accused of computer crime do it without know what they do. As in the example of the 8 year old boy that transferred 1,000,000 dollars to his account "by inserting a envelope with a cartoon of cereal in it and pressing 1 many times". I thought the book made a good point in saying

I think the American work environment is the perfect one since it is not that laid back but at the same time doesn't go to the extreme of the Japanese who create stress so workers produce more or even push their workers until they break. I think there has to be some kind of stress or no work would be done. By stress I mean pressure to do the job or no work would be done at all. Programmers are often subjected to a lot of stress during their careers since programmers always have a deadline and a problem to solve in front of them. In my opinion companies should provide counseling to workers on how to deal with stress and how to make it work in your favor.

I think all people come to a point in their life that they have the opportunity to enrich them self illegally without getting caught and that's where a descent and ethical person is reveled.

In the first example in chapter 7 where the woman died because a miss calculation of a computerized dispensing machine miscalculated the required dosage of a pain relieving drug and as a consequence the woman went into comma a died later on. Despite this error by there is more probability for a human to make a mistake that for this machine to have made the mistake. In the section where it discusses whether computers are intelligent I agree with the people that say that computers are intelligent. As the example given by the authors where computers beat 99% off all chess players still it is not intelligent because it figures out it's plays by brute computational power and not by observation and recognition of past situations. In the section of the chapter discussing id AI is a proper goal? Of course it is! Not to the extend as Donald Mishie believes since it is too dangerous. AI can't replace government and judicial systems. What if such a system would rule to kill every one that makes a traffic violation and no human could overrule that law? Every human in his life makes a traffic violation without even noticing. Wh

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