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Comment Re:Here's something legislators never learn (Score 1) 299

by gadgetman on Thursday May 31, 2007 @02:46PM (#19341645) Attached to: Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal

Yeah, no doubt.

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun
registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the
world will follow our lead into the future!"
--Adolph Hitler, 1935

They have a history of following stupid facists movements.

New State of Matter Boosts Quantum Computation 41

Posted by kdawson on Thursday March 15, 2007 @09:10AM from the string-net-liquid dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "In theory, quantum computers can be superior to classical computers for some kinds of problems; in practice their building blocks, qubits, are extremely fragile. Even a slight knock can destroy information. A radical solution to this problem was proposed in the 80's — instead of storing qubits in properties of particles, such as an electron's spin, it was suggested that qubits could be encoded into properties shared by the whole material, and so would be harder to disrupt. Unfortunately, no material with the needed properties existed. Scientists now think they have made a material in the lab, thought to be an example of a new state of matter, that might do the trick. It's an ultra-purified form of a mineral, herbertsmithite, first discovered in Chile in 1972. Its electrons are arranged in a triangular lattice. Researchers say it could become the silicon of the quantum computing era."

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