Composite materials have been used for a long time in airplanes. Isn't there data on how the material degrades? In fact wasn't there some concern that AA587 crashed because of a failure of composite materials? I hope everything is sorted out.

Since there are way more orders for the A380 than there are for the 747-8, building the biggest plane seems to be more than just about ego.

Since these planes won't suffer from metal fatigue like planes made out of aluminum, that means that they'll last longer?

You can't blame the file format for your decision to rip CDs at such a low bitrate.

It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, but invasions of privacy don't happen because technology makes it easy but because of the corrupt people manning those tools.

Nope. The nook simple touch was released almost a year before microsoft invested in nook. Very plausible that he like me bought it before the deal had been announced.

Finally, patents are being used for something useful. What an annoying animation.

Well a SNAFU like this will get more people to understand what the nerds have been complaining about. Hopefully the number of people the are discontent with DRM will grow large enough that it can't be ignored.

You just noticed this?

2 unemployed truck drivers. Where are you going to get the money from?

And as far as we know, the developer of this app hasn't stolen anything or broken any laws. He simply encouraged piracy which violates the TOS.

No legal actions have been taken. None of the legal terms that you've just thrown around have any relevance.

Bands where a single person creates most of the music. Listening to Bathory right now. Quorthon is credited as doing vocals, guitar, and bass. Later albums also have him doing drums. I don't believe that he has ever performed live.

If there was any deity up there in the sky then this would be thrown out on appeal. However, I'm afraid that's not the case.

One would hope that when designing a $200M machine with the lives of 240 depending on it working properly, that you would hire the exceptions.