Pro Ethics

This is a prety good clip showing the number of colledge people playing games, and what games they are playing.

A high school senior who faces a Monday morning deadline to apologize to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback for a tweet that mocks him, has said she will not write the apology letter.

Great article on the sandusky case and mainly about whether Joe Paterno should have been fired or not. A lot of ethical dillema here.

This goes along with our video's for this week. It asks a good question "Does Battlefield 3's realism bring with it responsibility? Should developers like DICE provide an ethically balanced experience?"

Bernie Madoff's multibillion-dollar stretched back at least to the early 1970s, when his employees used historical information on stocks to create false trades that could be placed on customer statements, a former trader revealed as he pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A Nevada grand jury has indicted two people allegedly involved in a "massive" robo-signing scheme, the state's attorney general said Thursday.

Three months after losing her child, a doctor confirmed her worst fears: her tubes had been tied without her knowledge or consent. "I felt mutilated. That's the truth. My rights as a mother and woman were violated," Vigo said.

And so I think religions make people better able to act on the moral sense. Where do you see the role science can play in understanding how religion develops a moral sense?

CAIRO-Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to protest tents in Cairo's Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault Sunday to drive out thousands demanding that the military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. At least 11 protesters were killed and hundreds were injured.

A California university placed two of its police officers on administrative leave Sunday because of their involvement in the pepper spraying of passively sitting protesters, while the school's chancellor accelerated a task force's investigation into the incident amid calls for her resignation.

Are we truely so selfish that we've lost our chance to continue much long on this planet? Do we need to find a new home before this one is destroyed?

Companies who put in the time, effort, and money to be sustainble tend to have better financial growth within their company.

If companies just take the time to understand what corporate social responsibility is, they will realize it is not that complicated and will actually benefit your company dramatically.

Should we be wasting money on bottled water when it is just as good right out of the tap?

Very insightful reflections on the challenges and benefits of having a code of ethics for a profession, in this case Anthropologists: "After three years spent seeking opinion and working on new guidelines, the American Anthropological Association is moving toward changes that some in the discipline fear will water down anthropologists' obligations to the people they study."

Do universities need the same kind of accountability as it was discovered businesses do? This is an issue students should be as concerned about as faculty. 

This article is about some concerns with Google+ Privacy. I think that all social media has some loop hole for hackers to get in. I think the simple solution is not to share information on social media that you wouldn't want everyone in the world to see.

I think this a really positive thing. It is a great example of using technology to better all of your customers. I view it as a really positive business decision.

It is really encouraging to see how proactive Facebook is at attacking hackers, but on the other hand, why do hackers do what they do? I think there is a lack of morals and ethics behind them. People need to be careful about what they are clicking on.

Like many other big targets, hacker's have Facebook in their sites.