Jon Lennox

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• Commented on The gathering crisis
  What are the chances that the Tories decide to respond to the Scottish Referendum the way that Spain responded to the Catalan one -- i.e., the referendum is illegal, and thus we will arrest the leadership of the SNP for...
• Commented on Dark State: how to get signed copies!
  The only contender for Worldcon 2020 is Wellington, New Zealand. For Charlie -- on the one hand, it's not the U.S. On the other hand, it's just about the furthest a Worldcon can be from Edinburgh....
• Commented on FAQ: The Laundry Files--series timeline
  Is the introduction to the Laundry Files RPG canon?...
• Commented on Default Option
  On the ground in NYC, the snowfall was much less than was predicted and has essentially stopped by now -- just light flurries. (Boston got hammered, though, apparently.) I suspect transatlantic flights to NYC should be fully operational by Thursday,...
• Commented on Cloud cuckoo politics
  The Greek wiretapping scandal happened because someone managed to subvert the wiretap capabilities in Vodafone's switches, and used it to listen in on members of the Greek government. A better illustration of "It's either secure against all third-party snoopers, or...
• Commented on Ask the Author
  If offered Honours (if some fan of yours attained a position of influence on the relevant committee, say) would you accept them? Or are you a committed enough Republican that you'd refuse?...
• Commented on YAPC::NA 2014 keynote: Programming Perl in 2034
  I strongly suspect that actually, one of the major occupations of programmers in 2034 — Perl and otherwise — is going to be finding and cleaning up the remaining 32-bit time_t's. Hopefully they'll be out of system APIs by that...
• Commented on Checking in
  Psst -- it's "McGuire", not "Macguire" -- she's of Irish descent, not Scottish....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  98% is actually a vast underestimate — the LHC produces about 20 million collisions per second, of which they process about 350. (As of mid-2012, they also added the ability to save another 300 or so for later processing.) See...
• Commented on The language of alienation
  By the way, assuming the Cthulhu-esque horror doesn't contain any private information, I suspect you could put it up as a text file somewhere and crowd-sourcing might be able to turn it into something usable....
• Commented on The language of alienation
  I wanted to rebut one suggestion someone made in the pre-crash thread: "Obama's Arab Spring missteps led to Benghazi". While to be sure this would be opaque to someone in 2003, that's primarily due to the metonymy inherent in headline-ese...
• Commented on Books I've written
  You mentioned in the "Space Pirates of KPMG" post that your novels tend to have working titles, with the actual final title only decided late in the process. What were your various novels' working titles? And how do you go...