On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:33:21PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 2018-12-11 08:00, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > Reminder of L3GO meeting tonight at 18:30. > > Red Pepper Thai/Viet restaurant, 246 Queen Street. > > Good showing, John, Brenda, Alex, Ian. (Last month we had BCRL, mort, John, > Alex, Ian.) > > Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon came up in conversation... China's Social > Credit system has come up multiple months in a row... I haven't read Cryptonomicon, but the name reminded me of the word "panopticon" from the John Twelve Hawks books "The Traveler", "The Dark River" and "The Golden City". Also the news of late reminds me of those books more and more. -- Manage your subscription: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org/linux/listinfo.html