I'm not involved with this blade in any way, but I do work in a composites manufacturing center making other kinds of blades. Making something even a fraction of this size requires very specialized (and therefore very expensive) machinery—at the very least, some form of large press, if not a giant autoclave, not to…

I guess I'm lucky. I get 24/5 Mbps on Speedtest, which is nothing special, but the plan I pay for is 15/5, so that's a pretty good boost. Gotta love FiOS. :)

How about saying it "Micro Torrent"?

The words's* age.

Regardless of the ' age, the sentence should be in the subjunctive mood, so it should use "spun."

Too bad that comment is a complete load of bullshit.

I'd be happy if they just brought out something that ditched the awful, clunky, slow interface. I love my FiOS service, but their current DVR is far behind what I've seen from friends with Xfinity or U-verse.

Well, damn. I just bought the Samsung 840 EVO just over a month ago, but for $90 more. :-\

Actually, even though my position is treated like a salaried position, it's still tracked hourly, and if they want me to work over 40 hours a week, I have every right to have them pay me for overtime.

As for my boss, he may have ridiculous expectations, but he's not the kind of jerk boss who'd make you come in and work…

This is amazingly appropriate for the situation I'm in with my second-level boss right now. Just last Friday, he sent out an email to me and the other couple people working on a project, asking if we could get it implented on Monday? Our response (paraphrased): "Oh hell no!"

The next email he sends out, without having…

That depends on what part of the wing you're talking about (and the specific aircraft, because some designs rely more on the skin for structure than others). For just a small hole in a non-critical area, they'll simply slap some speed tape over it until it can be properly repaired. Basically, they just want to create…

I guess I'm the odd one here, but I actually prefer cold toilet seats. This is for the very simple reason that a warm toilet seat almost universally means that someone else was sitting there just moments before you–most likely a complete stranger, about whom you know nothing of their hygiene–and that thought mildly…

You joke, but I hope you realize that speed tape actually is relatively common for small, temporary patches of non-structural components on aircraft.

Yes, I recall it quite well, and it's something definitely worth the quick read.

It's just a shame that you (and others making the same sort of claims) are quite content to ignore reasonable explanations in favor of sky-is-falling journalistic sensationalism.

Maybe I'm just a little extra sensitive in this case. I may…

Is it just me, or are a number of these GIFs moving faster than they normally would?

And only a few days later, a passenger aboard one plane caught video of fuel pouring from a wing.

I'm happy to see you guys took my suggestion to heart and went back to posting Lifehacker's picks up in the main body. :-)

Though, I'm also happy to have you guys continue encouraging community involvement in sharing their own wallpaper selections.

This is my favorite, except make it the 0.38 model. Gotta love those super-sharp lines.

So....you've chosen to make them more difficult to view? Comments can get buried, they get split up, you can't open the images full-screen, and you can't flick through each of them sequentially (while in full-screen).

I'm glad somebody noticed. It's actually a time history of a colony of bacteria traveling in search of food, with dark blue being their starting locations, shifting towards red for their ending locations.