He was also renowned for his witty and insightful writings – be they dissents, decisions, or articles for law publications. He was neither fearful of nor a blind advocate for progress in science and tech.
For example, he argued that domain names – in particular, sex.com – were pieces of property that people could own, at a time when lower courts considered them no more than telephone numbers: just a bunch of characters that are assigned and could be taken away. Kozinski is a highly regarded judge, especially with respect to his numerous decisions in Silicon Valley legal cases in which he artfully anticipated the repercussions of cutting-edge technology and ruled accordingly. Kozinski's statement did not address the accusations of inappropriate touching but he did state that he "may not have been mindful enough of the special challenges and pressures that women face in the workplace." Judgement However, the inquiry opened into his behavior – which was assigned to the Second Circuit – is in a position to sanction him if it felt it was required. "Nor would such a battle be good for my beloved federal judiciary."Īs a federal judge, Kozinski is appointed for life – President Ronald Reagan did the honors in 1985 – and can only be removed from office by Congress.
"I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle," Kozinski said. Two of Kozinski's law clerks resigned amid the escalating claims, something that likely prompted his statement that he could no longer act effectively as a judge. Other women stayed anonymous and recounted having been kissed, touched and hugged inappropriately. I could bet, for example, that if you sent a SIGKILL to Microsoft Word, it would exit immediately, even if you have unsaved changes.Then, Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine, recounted how Kozinski earlier this year pinched her side and her leg and talked about having just had sex, the night before a panel on which they both appeared. SIGKILL, on the other hand, is the hardest exit signal that exists, and should never be overriden, as if it is sent, it is usually because the user wants immediate interruption of the program, no questions asked. SIGINT, for example, could be considered a "soft" exit signal. Theoritically, you can choose the behavior you want for any of these. There are several signals with different uses, and there even are several signals regarding exiting an application. In that case developers tell the program not to exit when receiving the SIGINT, but instead prompting the user, and depending on the user choice, manually exit (for example, in Microsoft Word, if the user chooses cancel, the program won't exit, even if it received a SIGINT).
Any application receiving a SIGINT will exit, however, developers of text editors will preferably override this behavior to ask the user if it wants to save the current opened file before exiting. When developing an application, you can define in it's behavior that it can "catch" a signal, meaning that you modify the course of action automatically defined by the application when it receives such signal.Ī good example of this would be a text editor.
SIGINT (as for signal interrupt) is a signal meant to tell the process that is has been requested to stop. Alt+f4 is a built-in OS shortcut which, when triggered, will send a SIGINT signal to the process managing the active window.