Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT

  In my opinion, a laborer may know what to do to get the job done, but professionals must know why and how it works like that. In example programming, a laborer may know what he should write and how to use StackOverFlow, but professionals know how and why code works and what exactly needs change to get another result.  Code of professionals will be more optimized and if they discover a bug, they will fix it properly, while laborers are more likely to just put “crutch”. If a program needs to be modified, profesional modified it properly because he knows how programs work but the laborer just add another function or something like that. And a lot of other examples... Professionals can explain his work neither to the client, colleague or student. Labor may explain only “What needs to be done to make that happen”. In other words, professionals can teach subjects, not only train work ability. I think the thing that would best distinguish a "professional" from a "laborer"

Recently (just a few minutes ago), I read chapter 2 of “The Case for Copyright Reform”. I remember a story about one photo. Long story short, one photographer published his foto in a portal where you can buy it and this photo became a meme. Many people share this photo for free, so on first sight, photographers do not get profit. But as he tells, because of memes, he became more renowned and more people actually buy this photo and his other works. In the end, he gets more profit than if this photo can be used only after buying it. Or my personal story about youtube and music. I like nightcore music. When you listen to one nightcore, youtube recommends another. Ordinarily it's the song of an absolutely different artist.And if i like that song, I will get acquainted with the work of this author and in the and buy its albom. Most of nightcore (like most of others remix) are fan made and because of strict copyright it can be banned. And if it's happened someone like me can never ge

  Netiquette rule nr 6 - Share expert knowledge! I am an IT student, so when I saw this rule my first thought was  “STACKOVERFLOW!!!”. I feel sorry for mom, who studied programming a long time ago before 2008. Without possibility to ask someone on the internet she must go to professor consultation or use trial and error methods. It's no need to tell that programmer life nowadays is a lot easier and faster than it was before question-and-answer websites like Stackoverflow became renowned. I do remont in my house by myself, so when I saw this rule my second thought was   “YouTube!” . I was never teached how to use instrumen or do some building things. If there were no video instructions on YouTube, we would have to spend  money to hire professionals. But thanks to workers who share their expert knowledge, even amature like me did a pretty normal renovation by myself. I am an EVE online player, so when I saw this rule my third thought was “Community!”. Eve online is a VERY complicate