London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium

solafide writes "The Globe and Mail reports 'A British nuclear-reprocessing plant [at Sellafield] cannot account for nearly 30 kilograms of plutonium, but authorities believe it is an accounting issue rather than a loss of potential bomb-making material, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority said.' Although it says later plutonium is only 1% of what they deal with there. The Times Online has more details."

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argue while you can you fools!

[pekkak]

None of this will be of any importance once the Americans bomb your country back to stone age like you deserve, you fourth axis of evil, you!

Re:88 mph

[Grab]

What happened?

Open hardware standards brought massive reductions in computer prices, and PCs kicked the butt of all the proprietary-hardware vendors on price. Apple were, and still are, proprietary-hardware vendors. The only reason they kept going was that DTP was so standardised on Apple-based software - basically no-one else was buying them. Today, Apples are still more expensive than PCs for the same power, and there is simply no Apple equivalent to the $400 PC. And since they're proprietary hardware, no-one else can fill in those price gaps.

Had PCs not been around and Apple and their like were still the leaders, we might just about be looking at 1GHz in 10 years time. And graphics? well, maybe we'd just about be able to play Quake1 by now. Open hardware is what brought about all of that, because without open hardware there's no incentive to improve significantly.

Oh, and without PCs you could forget about reading files on different systems too.

Apple may have better *software* that's more reliable and prettier, but it's the hardware that brought the improvements. Unfortunately MS bulled their way into the software. Other possibilities like OS/2 might have been better, but sadly they didn't get the support from businesses who all bought WinNT and Win95, and from that point MS were unassailable.

Grab.