If you look at TFA more closely, you will see that this is a contributed piece, not the BBC's view at all. The author is credited at the foot of the article as being an external contributor.

By all means, let's have a discussion about GM foods, but please let's not confuse the medium and the message in the original post.

Sorry to be pedantic, but the aeroplane that crashed in Lockerbie following mid-air detonation of a bomb was Pan-Am flight 103, not TWA.

(There was a TWA mid-air explosion more recently, after flight 800 took off from New York, believed to be due to frayed electrical wiring inside the fuel tanks.)

Actually, yes. Four cores would do very nicely for several of the applications developed by the company I work for.

We produce real-time data acquisition and analysis systems for multi-channel data in the audio bandwidth and above. Some of our programs have several threads per channel, and on a 128-channel system I believe we have seen over 500 threads running...

Anything that can allow our software to do more real-time analysis on the captured data without compromising the low-latency display update rates demanded by our customers is great news. Admittedly our application area is not a typical case, but I'm sure we're not alone.