I don't think they did, or at least it's implied - though not very clearly - that they didn't. In any case, the internet connection was 1gb/s, which is practically LAN speed with their gigabit adapters.

The article's author did a test over the internet and also found that Bittorrent beat the others - but then, the others are probably designed to be more considerate to your internet connection and not clog up your tubes.

Well, quite:

And your internet connection at the same time.

a) we don't know whether the two laptops could talk to each other across the LAN - in fact without evidence to the contrary I'd assume they couldn't
b) Dropbox will sync across the LAN if it can.

In any case, I'm not sure the LAN/WAN distinction is too relevant here, given that they were using 1gb/s internet connection.

Wait, what show is that?

Or was it a dream you had?

Nothing's stretching away. In order of distance from the Moon we have:

1) nearside oceans
2) the Earth itself
3) farside oceans

All of them are attracted towards the Moon, but at decreasing strength due to distance. The nearside ocean gets pulled closer to the Moon than the Earth does, and the Earth gets pulled closer to the Moon than the farside ocean does. Hence, two bulges, but not because the far one is being pushed away from the Moon.

When you say "it," do you mean the star or the black hole? It seems like you mean the black hole...

A black hole isn't a physical object. It's a surface around an object at which the gravitational field strength has a particular value. I'm not sure it would be influenced in such a way by the presence of another object.

What light are you talking about?

I find a ! to be a bit more, well, visible. Plus it reminds me of RISC OS.

You went with that because you didn't know whether to put mouses or mice, right?

It is, of course, mieces.

I'm not sure if "used once" counts as "has now become." And as puns go... I haven't seen many worse.

Too soon.

How are Finnigan's comments trolling? She was expressing her (arguably ill-informed) opinion.

Follow-up:

Apparently, though, the people who come up with Slashdot headlines don't know that:

That's not the conclusion of the paper.

We know that. The people who wrote the paper know that too.

Why don't you show me the causative process?

Or is no-one allowed to make a scientific observation unless they can also immediately explain it, too?

l don't think it's too bad.
l quite like it.
l think you're making it up!

And weren't serifs only invented to stop movable type blocks from breaking too easily?

Most likely? Well, that's not exactly unequivocal, is it?

"Most likely" sounds like just the right place for astonishing science to (just possibly, probably not, but who knows?) surprise us.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the article, but this bit jumped out at me.

Crazy claims of a particular phenomenon never stand up under scrutiny - until the first one does. Yes, cold fusion has been a long time coming, and may never, but just because no-one's got it right it yet is not a great reason to say never.