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“Face it, folks: Nature is a lazy Mother. If there’s any way at all a physical system: subatomic particle, nucleus, atom, molecule, star, or galaxy can reduce its energy without violating a law of physics, quantum mechanics tells us it will. What it doesn’t tell us is when. Why is this, and how can we exploit this physical principle to generate random numbers?”
-John Walker, Hotbits

Previously on Thinkpad Galactica

Filed under: Uncategorized — mgrusin at 10:02 pm on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Summary: New Thinkpad comes with a minor factory defect, but getting it fixed escalates into a surprising amount of trouble. All turns out well in the end, though. The whole story after the jump.

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