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Professionals take on special rights and obligations because of their special claims to knowledge, wisdom, and respect
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) A data warehouse is typically comprised of several smaller data marts
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) Safe harbor is informal permission to reuse data, given with knowledge of all the facts needed to make a rational decision
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94) An information policy specifies the procedures and rules for defining the structure and content of corporate databases
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A grouping of characters into a word, a group of words, or a complete number is called a record
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A mainframe is a type of legacy workstation
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According to the courts, the creation of software, unique concepts, general functional features, and even colors are protectable by copyright law
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Advances in data storage have made routine violation of individual privacy more difficult
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Allowing departments to make their own software and hardware purchases increases efficiency and minimizes the need for centralized support
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An SaaS provider maintains a large Web server, or series of servers, and provides fee-paying subscribers with space to maintain their Web sites
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Any unsolicited e-mail is legally considered spam
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Application server software is responsible for locating and managing stored Web pages
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Client/server computing is the most widely used form of centralized processing
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Even in today's legal climate, there is little incentive for firms to cooperate with prosecutors investigating financial crimes at their firm.
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OLAP is used to find hidden patterns and relationships in large databases, and infer rules from these to infer future behavior.
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The Copyright Office began registering software programs in the 1990s
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The last step in analyzing an ethical issue should be to identify the stakeholders - people who have a vested interest in the outcome of the decision
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Today, most system and application software is custom built by in-house programmers
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Using an online storage service such as DropBox is a type of virtualization
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) Privacy is the right to be left alone when you want to be, without surveillance or interference from other individuals or organizations
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) XML provides a standard format for data exchange, enabling Web services to pass data from one process to another
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A Web beacon is a tiny object embedded in e-mail messages and Web pages that is designed to monitor online Internet user behavior
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A firm's information policy lays out who is responsible for updating and maintaining the information in a database system
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A foreign key is a field that links to a separate table
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A physical view shows data as it is organized on the storage media
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Data cleansing is the same process as data scrubbing
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Liability refers to the existence of laws that permit individuals to recover damages done to them by other actors, systems, or organizations
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Nanotechnology uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and other devices that are thousands of times smaller than current technologies permit
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Spyware is software that comes hidden in downloaded applications and can track your online movements
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Technostress is a computer-related malady whose symptoms include fatigue
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The commission of acts involving the computer that may not be illegal but are considered unethical is called computer abuse.
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The drawback to copyright protection is that the underlying ideas behind the work are not protected, only their reproduction in a product
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The most common type of computer-related RSI is CTS
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Total cost of ownership components include costs for downtime, training, and support
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Web browsers are the primary interface for accessing the Internet
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