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Using Lasers To Generate Random Numbers Faster 149

Pranav writes "Using semiconductor lasers, scientists from Takushoku University, Saitama University, and NTT Corporation achieved random number rates of up to 1.7 gigabits per second, which is about 10 times higher than the second-best rate, produced using a physical phenomenon. Future work may center on devising laser schemes that can achieving rates as high as 10 Gbps."

Comment I for one am glad I'm an American. (Score 1) 83

This is my computer. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my computer is useless.
Without my computer, I am useless.
I must program my computer true. I must hack faster than the enemy who is trying to kill me.
I must hack him before he hacks me.
I will.
My computer and I know that what counts in war is not the lines we write, the spread of our worms or the chaos we make.
We know that it is the hits that count.
We will hit.
My computer is human, even as I am human, because it is my life.
Thus, I will learn it as a brother.
I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its keyboard and its monitor.
I will keep my computer clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.
We will become part of each other.
Before God I swear this creed.
My computer and I are the defenders of the internet.
We are the masters of our enemy.
We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is the internet's and there is no enemy.

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