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First Electronic Quantum Processor Created

ScienceDaily is reporting that the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor has been created by a team led by Yale University researchers. "Working with a group of theoretical physicists led by Steven Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics & Applied Physics, the team manufactured two artificial atoms, or qubits ('quantum bits'). While each qubit is actually made up of a billion aluminum atoms, it acts like a single atom that can occupy two different energy states. These states are akin to the '1' and '0' or 'on' and 'off' states of regular bits employed by conventional computers. Because of the counterintuitive laws of quantum mechanics, however, scientists can effectively place qubits in a 'superposition' of multiple states at the same time, allowing for greater information storage and processing power."

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  1. Stallman says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Qubit states should be copyrightable but not patentable.

    That way I can make a qubit state that copies all the innovations within commercially produced Qubit states, slap a viral copyright notice on it, give it away for nothing and then babble incoherantly about my personal definition of the word "freedom".

  2. Re:This is the day we've been waiting for people! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    See that button that says "Parent"? If you click on that the confusion about which reply relates to what post will magically clear up and you can avoid looking like a cl00l355 n00b. Don't miss the next lesson, "How to preview and edit your post".

  3. In UR Multiverse ... by lysdexia · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... cracken' UR codez.
    In one of those universes, this meme is still funny, and I'm not a dipshit.
    Probably not.

  4. Re:Does it run Linux? by Suzuran · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go ahead and mod me troll, but that is NOT true! Observe!

    EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
    TIME CUBE
    IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.
    4 Corner TIME, CUBES EARTH.

    FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is "BULL SHIT",
    EVIL EDUCATORS block and suppress www.timecube.com.
    You are educated evil, and I possess the proof. USA ripe for holocaust.
    Man evolves from teen - in cube metamorphosis but ignores teenager to worship a male mother,
    guised in woman's garb, churchman called father. Adult god is adult crime upon their own children.
    More holocaust deserved.

    The 12 hour or 1/2 Day clock is an intended EVIL against humanity - indicting every human on Earth as Dumb, Educated Stupid and Evil -
    for imaginary Cubed Earth has 4 Days within simultaneous rotation. One God would equal a God Dunce as Humans evolve from Children.
    This was an awful lot of setup for such a lame joke, but that's what makes this worth spending moderation points.
    I would be very surprised if you read this far down. Here is more text to make sure people reading only the end of the message don't see this.

    Americans are dumb, educated ONEstupid and they worship ONEism Evil. It is not immoral to kill believers, for the stupid bastards EVOLVE from son
    or daughter who precedes them. NOT one damn human adult has ever been created - for ONLY babies are CREATED - and every adult has within them
    the LIFE given by children who DIE to give-up their lives to their parent image - so their mom or Dad can live. Adults are EVIL to deny they evolved from
    children - and claim their adult EGO image is a god likeness. Such damn evil AMERICANS should have their tongue cut out for the heinous hoax they are
    perpetrating upon their own children. I know now why the Jews deserved their holocaust - worshipping their own adult EGO image as a damn god while
    ignoring and betraying they very children who sacrifice their LIFE so their Moms and Dads could Live. There is nothing godly about stupid and evil adults
    who betray their own children who gave them Life.

    I AM WISER THAN ANY DAMN MAN OR GOD WHO EVER EXISTED. IF THE HALF AND HALF CO-CREATED
    JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH, I WILL PERSONALLY KILL THE BASTARD MYSELF. ALL CREATION OCCURS
    BETWEEN AND AS OPPOSITES. YOU DUMB-ASS, EARTH, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERY LIVING THING IN IT
    EXISTS BETWEEN A TOP AND BOTTOM, BETWEEN A FRONT AND BACK, BETWEEN OPPOSITE SIDES,
    AND INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. ALL YOU DUMB EVIL BASTARDS EARN A HOLOCAUST AND IT IS NIGH UPON YOU.
    HIRED SICK TEACHERS ARE PAID TO TEACH YOU EVIL TO ENSLAVE YOU STUPID AND YOU NOW POSSESS
    AN IDIOT CYCLOPIC MENTALITY. YOU LACK THE BRAINS TO KNOW THAT 4 SIMULTANEOUS DAYS ROTATE IN
    AN IMAGINARY CUBED EARTH. KEEP IGNORING ME AND YOU WILL PAY HELL FOR CLAIMING YOUR ADULT
    IMAGE AS A DAMN GOD WHILE YOU BETRAY YOUR PRIOR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO SACRIFICED
    THEIR LIFE SO YOU COULD LIVE AN EVIL LIE. BIBLE GOD NEVER CREATED A SINGLE DAY
    NOT A SINGLE ROTATION -
    LEFT THE EARTH STANDING STILL.
    I CREATED 4 DAYS IN ON EARTH ROTATION. EVERY HUMAN DESERVES DEATH FOR IGNORING SUCH A
    SUPERNATURAL TRANSCENDENTAL PRINCIPLE. GREENWICH MEAN TIME IS WRONG AND EVIL, SO IS
    3 DIMENSIONAL MATH. YOU CAN"T KILL ME, FOR I AM 82 + CANCER. CHILDREN - STOP THE EVIL ADULTS
    BEFORE THEY DESTROY YOUR LIFE ON EARTH!