As Christopher Hitchens writes in his Preface, this is 'an idiosyncratic, unillusioned tour of the sixties that has few if any rivals', idiosyncratic because the worlds of politics and international crises seem to happen off-stage.
Layered Service Provider. Layered Service Provider (LSP) is a deprecated feature of the Microsoft Windows Winsock 2 Service Provider Interface (SPI). A Layered Service Provider is a DLL that uses Winsock APIs to attempt to insert itself into the TCP/IP protocol stack.
Long service leave. In Australia and New Zealand, long service leave (LSL) is an employee entitlement to an additional vacation on full pay after an extended period of service with an employer. In Australia, employees are generally entitled to long service leave over and above their annual leave if they work for a particular employer for a certain length of time.