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  1. Been there, done that on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1
    I asked my dad as a kid why theres lower temperature at higher altitudes. It didn't make sense to me at all, knowing that warm air were lighter than cold air. I also argued that you were closer to the sun, which in hindsight sounds kind of silly. From what I remember he had to send an email to find out why, and were seemingly disappointed by how fast I grasped the explanation, verifying that I had indeed, fully understood why.

    You might not know the reason, so I'll leave this here to demonstrate the articles. It's one of the things thats extremely obvious and accepted, but you should know the reason. Very much why the sky and ocean is blue.

    Not every question is worth answering though, check out this video of C.K. Louis.

    And remember, the next time you hear someone say that the sky is blue because it reflects the ocean - shove a soldering iron up their rectum and threaten to turn on the heat until they get their answer right.

  2. Re:I don't understand the issue on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    At least everyone having the same version of the game will be smoother... but still...

  3. Re:Ahma's gr88-st opportunity on The Video Bay, Now In Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The folks behind TPB wouldn't host their sites in a regime even if they were paid for it.

  4. Old stuff on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 5, Informative

    The CSS history hack has been known since (at least) August 2006: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-youve-been.html

  5. Re:Interesting note on the MSDN download.... on Ballmer Sets Loose Windows 7 Public Beta At CES · · Score: 5, Interesting

    WMP would render mp3-files unusable if the meta-data is edited. Simply a bug...

  6. Chrome is a resource hog on Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome · · Score: 2

    Yes, it's fast. With a couple of tabs up it also takes up half of my CPU. Browsing three norwegian news sites (ap.no db.no vg.no - all use flash for ads etc.) on my AMD Athlon X2 6000+ uses at least 50% of the CPU and nearly 200 MB of RAM. Try it yourself...

  7. Re:Victory or Defeat? on Storm Botnet Subsides For Now · · Score: 1

    That's what I'm thinking too. Storm were getting too much attention, so the owners portioned it. Nobody needs a 2 million botnet (unless you're taking down Google or a whole country). A 100k botnet is likely to be able to take down any website, and is capable of sending out massive amounts of spam. So they may be renting out some of these or selling them.

  8. Use BitTorrent on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Duct Tape on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    If you cant fix it with duct tape, you're not using enough.