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We'll call it "Mudslide".

Will curve its localized space-time if you put it in your back pocket and sit on it.

Love that quailfier: "in actual use these days". One of the Wayland devs evidently looked around his office and didn't see any remote clients running. So toss that requirement out.

I don't care if Wayland provides X Server emulation. That's not the point. Once the Xlib support underlying higher level toolkits is thrown out, the resulting clients built will not be network-capable. And most of the application developers will never notice (except that the DISPLAY arg doesn't seem to do anything anymore). And then these Wayland clients will be cripped in a user environment that depends on running them remotely.

I'm not certain whether this was a plot by gamers, who wanted to throw out every machince cycle that didn't contribute to their graphics or AI. Or Microsoft, who has been shitting themselves since day one over a protocol that didn't tie an instance of a client license to each user seat.

This is what Cadillacs are for.

Please educate our city government on this point. They are busy extracting fees and concessions from developers for the purpose of building homes for the homeless.

... that James Comey hasn't been kidnapped and brainwashed by the Chinese?

... that if they played stupid, people would stop screwing electrodes into their skulls.

"Hey you humans. There's a mouse over there. He's really smart. Why don't you fuck with him for a change?" Its the same logic I use when the wife asks me to do something around the house. Mess up a couple of times and she stops asking.

Probably a feeling that such activities bring shame upon their people. Nothing like the USA.

Did that. He says he's not finished with her yet.

Are you a government contractor? If so, I understand your position.

Otherwise, employees with financial interests in suppliers was pretty much SOP at a few places I've worked. People think nothing of replying to, "Why are we selecting this vendor?" with, "I get stock options from them."

So how do your prospective employers handle IP that you have already licensed to someone else? Perhaps a previous employer. Maybe even one that, if confronted over the issue might just buy out your new employer, disassemble them and bulldoze over their HQ?

No its not. I used to work for a government contractor (NASA and other departments). If NASA tried to roll their own, we would have gone to Congress to have them defunded to the point that they would have been an organization consisting of a bind guy with a checkbook and an 'Approved' stamp.

But then

So NASA really isn't doing the work. They are contracting it out. And as this will inevitably be a multi billion dollar contract, a shitstorm will ensue among all the losing bidders. This will tie the contract up in courts for decades as nobody is willing to admit defeat and just walk away. Meanwhile, stock up on vacuum tubes to keep the old equipment running.

If NASA (or better yet the FAA) just told the likes of Boeing and Lockheed to fuck off and build it themselves, the resulting butt-hurt would shut the government down.

Inevitably, whatever NASA and the FAA do select, the software will be delivered billions over budget, decades late and full of bugs.

I think the trouble starts with the 'aspiring cheater'. Not the enabling technology. I'm responsible for my own self control and resistance to temptations. I don't need laws, restrictions on technology or some silly holy book to enforce agreements I have with my wife, family or friends.

Granted, there are people who need supervision. But that's a problem with their internal moral compass. Why should the rest of us have to give up nice things because some people suffering from arrested development can't keep it in their pants? Or get permission to have something on the side without turning it into a case of cheting?