Apple bought the rights to use mice and windows from Xerox. MS bought the rights from Apple for Windows 1.0. The lawsuit was over how much they could use and for how long. If you want the details look here http://www.madcapps.com/writings/lawsuit.htm
I don't understand how this is different from a drug screening test Neither do I. I live and work in Massachusetts. It is against the law to force an employee to take a drug test unless there is a compelling reason. Compelling reasons are are all safety related. Working with dangerous stuff, driving a vehicle and so on.
I was once hired by a very large multi national company. After I started they handed me the usual "we own everything you create or even think about" to sign. I refused and offered a compromise document. We went around and around for so long it got lost in the corporate mess. So I never did sign anything. I refused to give in and maintained that it was not a precondition of employment.
Some years ago another large company, General Electric, asked me to sign an authorization so they could do a "background check". The paper was written with absolutly no restrictions My take was that if they were looking in my bedroom window, I would have to open the drapes to give them a better view. I refused to sign that also.
In both cases I won. So, you can win also. The real question is: do you want to work with people you can't trust? If they can't bring themselves to trust you it is because they know they are not trustworty themselves.
[xxx@xxx:~]% ls -l/ . . lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 12 Jan 10 00:43 tmp@ ->/private/tmp
If you are a member of admin group, you can delete it.
Yes, you can delete the link. But not based on what you show here. The permissions on the file allow you to WRITE to the file not delete it. In order to delete the file you need write permissions to the directory it lives in. In this case "/".
The permissions on "/" are
drwxrwxr-t 46 root admin 1564 Dec 16 20:38/
Which, of course, are exactly the same. But still different.
I am admin/postmaster for a small college. Several months ago a new hack was developed that got through my version of sendmail. This was kind of ok because the spammers didn't know I was vulnerable.
Along comes one of the RBL's and test my site. So far so good. But instead of sending an email to postmaster@the-blocked-site they post my IP and a sample of how to use my system to forward spam.
Several days later, on a weekend of course, the spammers started using me. The spammers aren't stupid either. They use the RBL's to find new relays.
I have fixed the problem. However, one small email notification would have prevented several hundred thousand spams. I wonder how many sites have been used this way?
Cell phones are not banned because the interfere with the plane. They are banned because the cell networks can't handle receiving a signal from one phone by ten towers at once.
Next time you fly listen to what they say. You can't use your phone because of FAA regulations. The phone doesn't interfere with ANYTHING.
Remember that today's computers were developed as part of the space race with Russia. Do we tax computers? Or just anything with a chip in it? What about freeze dried foods? They were developed for space use?
And don't forget Tang. (Does anyone actually drink that stuff?)
If applied properly (yeah right, politicians doing something the right way) this would really be a flat tax on just about everything.
Because I "work with computers" friends are always asking me what to buy. When asked "what will you use it for?" Their eyes glaze over and after a few seconds the answer comes out "I dunno. Email and games, I guess." So I tell them it doesn't much matter what they buy. Go get a Dull, or a Cow Patty.
If you really want all those neat things do a Google search and buy whatever comes out.
But remember, whatever neat toy you get will be yesterday's technology before you get the credit card bill.
It was the 1968 Spring Joing Computer Conference in Boston.
There was about a half million bucks worth of gear running the simplest possible spaceship game on a CRT.
And about a thousand people trying to crowd in to see it. All the other booths had boring stuff like glossy literature and programming manuals. And of course people in suits looking very unhappy because all everyone was interested in was space war.
The marketeers learned. Next year they had spiffy demos and babes to show them to you.
I code in the highest level language that does what I need to do.
Sometimes that means Assembly Language. Most of the time it is something else.
A long time ago it even meant patching machine language (object code) to get things right.
I have never regretted knowing more than I might need for a particular task. Neither will you.
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Apple bought the rights to use mice and windows from Xerox. MS bought the rights from Apple for Windows 1.0. The lawsuit was over how much they could use and for how long. If you want the details look herem
http://www.madcapps.com/writings/lawsuit.ht
Seems like Apple has the pictures
of the quicksilver and the MDD on the announcement mislabeled.
The news story has the pictures correct.
I don't understand how this is different from a drug screening test
Neither do I. I live and work in Massachusetts. It is against the law to force an employee to take a drug test unless there is a compelling reason. Compelling reasons are are all safety related. Working with dangerous stuff, driving a vehicle and so on.
I was once hired by a very large multi national company. After I started they handed me the usual "we own everything you create or even think about" to sign. I refused and offered a compromise document. We went around and around for so long it got lost in the corporate mess. So I never did sign anything.
I refused to give in and maintained that it was not a precondition of employment.
Some years ago another large company, General Electric, asked me to sign an authorization so they could do a "background check". The paper was written with absolutly no restrictions My take was that if they were looking in my bedroom window, I would have to open the drapes to give them a better view. I refused to sign that also.
In both cases I won. So, you can win also. The real question is: do you want to work with people you can't trust? If they can't bring themselves to trust you it is because they know they are not trustworty themselves.
I know this is going to be a popular post.
By law any software produced by tax dollars is available to a citizen for the cost of distribution. Classified stuff is obviously not available.
But if you want a copy of that Cobol program that calculated your income tax on a nice new 6250BPI tape just ask.
All of this predates GNU, copyleft and OSS by many years. So the government (Al Gore anyone?) can take credit for Open Source.
[xxx@xxx:~]% ls -l /
.
. /private/tmp
/
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 12 Jan 10 00:43 tmp@ ->
If you are a member of admin group, you can delete it.
Yes, you can delete the link. But not based on what you show here. The permissions on the file allow you to WRITE to the file not delete it. In order to delete the file you need write permissions to the directory it lives in. In this case "/".
The permissions on "/" are
drwxrwxr-t 46 root admin 1564 Dec 16 20:38
Which, of course, are exactly the same. But still different.
I am admin/postmaster for a small college. Several months ago a new hack was developed that got through my version of sendmail. This was kind of ok because the spammers didn't know I was vulnerable.
Along comes one of the RBL's and test my site. So far so good. But instead of sending an email to postmaster@the-blocked-site they post my IP and a sample of how to use my system to forward spam.
Several days later, on a weekend of course, the spammers started using me. The spammers aren't stupid either. They use the RBL's to find new relays.
I have fixed the problem. However, one small email notification would have prevented several hundred thousand spams. I wonder how many sites have been used this way?
Cell phones are not banned because the interfere with the plane. They are banned because the cell networks can't handle receiving a signal from one phone by ten towers at once.
Next time you fly listen to what they say.
You can't use your phone because of FAA regulations. The phone doesn't interfere with ANYTHING.
Apple bought the rights to the interface from Xerox. Just like msft "bought" the rights to the Apple user interface.
You could say msft stole the interface. But it was all perfectly legal. Their lawyers were smarter than Apple's were. Apple sued, Microsoft won.
and vote for this guy. He wrote in another language and even when translated it makes perfect sense.
Every time I read anything from the US congress, in English, it makes no sense.
So, should I learn Spanish and only read stuff from the US congress that has been translated? Or just give up like everybody else has?
Remember that today's computers were developed as part of the space race with Russia. Do we tax computers? Or just anything with a chip in it?
What about freeze dried foods? They were developed for space use?
And don't forget Tang. (Does anyone actually drink that stuff?)
If applied properly (yeah right, politicians doing something the right way) this would really be a flat tax on just about everything.
they want to use the things for.
Because I "work with computers" friends are always asking me what to buy. When asked "what will you use it for?" Their eyes glaze over and after a few seconds the answer comes out "I dunno. Email and games, I guess." So I tell them it doesn't much matter what they buy. Go get a Dull, or a Cow Patty.
If you really want all those neat things do a Google search and buy whatever comes out.
But remember, whatever neat toy you get will be yesterday's technology before you get the credit card bill.
It was the 1968 Spring Joing Computer Conference in Boston.
There was about a half million bucks worth of gear running the simplest possible spaceship game on a CRT.
And about a thousand people trying to crowd in to see it. All the other booths had boring stuff like glossy literature and programming manuals. And of course people in suits looking very unhappy because all everyone was interested in was space war.
The marketeers learned. Next year they had spiffy demos and babes to show them to you.
I code in the highest level language that does what I need to do.
Sometimes that means Assembly Language. Most of the time it is something else.
A long time ago it even meant patching machine language (object code) to get things right.
I have never regretted knowing more than I might need for a particular task. Neither will you.