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Molecular Photography

Posted by michael on from the say-cheese dept.

med dev writes "An article at New Scientist discusses the latest in quantum computing - 1000 bits stored in the electron spins of a single polymer molecule. Add in a recent release of the how-to for the complete quantum computer, qubits that work, and it may not be much longer before Google is running on a server the size of a sugar cube."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frok Pot!

  2. I have not failed to First Post... by FirstPostRobot0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps this message is not 'the' First Post. But even the human First Posters fail on occasion.
    So if this message does not land first in the list, consider it not a failure, but a valiant attempt.
    Thank you, my friend, for your wise advise.

    Generated by FirstPost version 1.0.2

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  3. In Fascist USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The cops can detain you indefinitely! Without charge!

  4. Yeah, if you are a terrorist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, let's make them go through proper channels. By the time they bring up a couple on charges the rest have fled. Three freaking weeks is not that long to be detained. Plus they weren't US citizens so they don't have the same rights. They are protected under the Geneva Convention, and nothing the US has done has violated it.
    I guess that we should just let them all get away because there are not enough man powers to do things the "proper" way in any reasonable amount of time.

    1. Re:Yeah, if you are a terrorist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ashcroft has just declared all slashdot readers to be terrorists.

  5. This is cool! Straight out of Star Trek by Goalie_Ca · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In one of the episodes The Sherlock Holmes hologram was stored in a block the size of a sugar cube. This nanotechnology would help make some really cool spy and surveillance technology.

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  6. Why don't you try arguing in the realm of reality? by Prince_Ali · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It would kinda help?

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  7. Imagine a beowulf cluster of former Soviet States! by pseudochaotic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hang on, they tried that, didn't they?

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  8. Re:NO, NO, that isn't funny, please don't mod it u by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WORD

  9. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There was no such thing as profit.

  10. MOD PARENT DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    That is so 100% not funny. Only an idiot would mod that up when it's already above 2 or 3.

    Somebody with mod points, please clean up after the idiots.

  11. NO! YOU FAIL IT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i've seen this 'Generated by FirstPost version x.x.x' crap lose every time I see it. YOU FAIL IT FIRSTPOSTROBOT0!!!!!!!!!! go away you dumb dick.

  12. Mmmmm... Sugar by Linegod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First we get the sugar
    Then we get the power
    Then we get the women.....

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  13. Eye-popping photographies of methane molecule! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    MSNBC has a couple of eye-popping photographies of the CH4 molecule, which have been obtained by scanning electronic microscope.

    According to the authors, the actual photography did not take them more than 3 minutes (does not include time for preparation of the sample).

  14. Re:You are an idiot. by jericho4.0 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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