IXV ? What sort of number is that?
XIV would be 14 in decimal

Is that the temperature the CPU will run at?

(373.15 is the boiling point of water at normal atmospheric pressure)

that 365 is an odd number. Even numbered versions of Windows sucked.

"freedom of speech only applies to government actions."

The Constitution (and its ammenments) apply to government actions, "freedom of speech" is a more general thing.

But I do agree that a website can set its own rules, if news or social media sites don't want to have people post porn, violence or racist shit they don't have to accept everything that is uploaded. And if some islamic terror group wants to host their own blogs showing what they do to non-believers then they'll just have to put up with anti-islamic sites hosted elsewhere poking fun at their religion and their Prophet.

"If calculation generates heat exactly as efficiently as every other use of electricity that doesn't generate "work" then all heaters should be generating bitcoins or folding proteins or something."

Except that a Bitcoin generating rig costs considerably more than a fan heater.

So if you put a big enough satellite at L1, it will shade the planet andreduce global warming.

You'd need to make it out of graphene so it would be light enough.

If you made it like a venetian blind you couldcontrol the amount of sunlight the earth recieves.
Close the blinds when its daytime in asia, open them again when its daytime in the americas.
You could rule the world [evil laugh]

WTF is the National Post?

Anyway the people that need to be sued over climate change are the fossil fuel companies.

I use Seamonkey for most of the critical stuff like online banking and also for Email. (on my previous machine I used Thunderbird for Email, but I figured that since I had Seamonkey running anyway I might as well use the mail section of it.

For general browsing (like /. ) I still use FF

I don't use Chrome, and I don't hsve a Google or GMail account.

BTW SM is now up to 2.32.1

Not needed, if you're playing with LEGO you're not going to get laid anyway.

I don't think that anywhere the annual flu vaccine is required by law. Even for people who work in healthcare.
And this seasons shot wasn't worth a tin of shit.

Still the insurance paid for it, and I got a free klondike bar at work.

" Your doctor probably has a patient list of around 25,000 people."

Thats a huge practise for just one doctor. Even for a GP

Australia isn't the only place in the southern hemisphere

" There are many wikis in the world, and they are not all Wikipedia."

This is true. "Wiki" is a girls name in Aotearoa. It is the shortened form of Wikitoria

Most of the SF I have read recently suggests that the Gas Giants (Jupiter and Saturn in this solar system) are the best places to 'mine' He3
Of course you can also get Deuterium in quantity there too.

"As usual, somehow an American agency has decided they have jurisdiction to claim/enforce property rights on something which international treaty forbids."

Any international treaty is worth just as much (ie jack shit) unless the international body ( I guess the UN) has spaceships and space marines to enforce the treaty.