I like this man.
He's like a lovely cross between Guy Kewney and Malcolm Tucker :D
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...is how many qubits they can entangle without the whole lot decohering. If they want to break 128 bit keys, they will need 128 bits. This new tech will only be interesting if it leads to a massive increase in the number of entanglable qubits...
I think the top number achieved so far is eight. Just enough for a quantum Commodore 64 :D
Most of the time, the side with the deeper holes goes uppermost, but a) sometimes (especially on cheap shit things) the manufacturers ignore this and b) as you observe, the cable lashes out at you if you try and rotate it to the correct orientation anyway.
And don't get me started on micro USB where the difference in shape is so minute you can spend EVEN LONGER trying to find which way fails to snap off the little thing in the centre of the connector...
That was what I realised the first time I used one. Basically, Microsoft asked themselves "How can we put in a touch interface with the fewest number of places where we change the code?"
Answer - whip out the Start Menu and directly replace it with the "Modern" UI!
The minute I used it for the first time I realised what they'd done.
They took out the start menu code and replaced it with Metro. Metro *is* the Start Menu for Windows 8.
I thought: What's the simplest way they could do this without having to rewrite all the code?
And no, I don't think it was a good idea either.