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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by requerdanos on Friday January 11 2019, @04:52PM (11 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 11 2019, @04:52PM (#785111) Journal

    How about a poll like: Which glows the brightest when supplied with a sufficiently high voltage and current:

    Thanks for your suggestion! And thanks for subscribing and supporting Soylentnews.

    Polls that ask factual instead of opinion-based questions (i.e., Which city is the farthest from NYC? Buffalo, NY; Rochester, NY; Sydney, Australia, etc., or Which glows the brightest when electrified) tend to rate as "lame" and "pointless" and, while they reveal something about the general level of knowledge of the base of respondents, don't reveal much else.

    We already know that (a) almost everyone on the Internet is an idiot, and (b) almost everyone on this site is a genius; thus, such a poll is unlikely to serve any useful purpose.

    Thanks again for your interest!

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 11 2019, @08:36PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 11 2019, @08:36PM (#785211) Journal

    It is (perhaps not) obviously intended to be funny. It might make a good April 1 poll.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by DECbot on Friday January 11 2019, @09:39PM (6 children)

    by DECbot (832) on Friday January 11 2019, @09:39PM (#785235) Journal

    Here's my suggestion for April 1st:
     
    What is your favorite type of fuse?

    1. Automotive Fuses (various amperages available)
    2. Glass & Ceramic Fuses (various amperages available)
    3. Penny Nail (100A)
    4. Copious Amounts of Aluminum Foil (250A Flex-Install)
    5. Ammunition (350A Audiovisual Auto-Alert)
    6. 8cm M12 Shoulder Bolt (1500A Slow-Blow)
    7. 11m Box Wrench (2000A Slow-Blow)
    8. Fuses are for the timid masses. I use the largest metallic object readily available and fitting into the fuse holder.
    9. Whatever the BOFH hands me.

    I realize this is one over the permitted 8 options, but I couldn't in good conscience merge 1 and 2. I'll let the editors do that.

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    • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:48AM (1 child)

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:48AM (#785397) Journal

      You forgot the "I don't use fuses you insensitive clod" option. Fry everything! Burn down the whole lab, melt the transformers and knock out the power to the entire neighborhood for a week.

      • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday January 25 2019, @07:30PM

        by mhajicek (51) on Friday January 25 2019, @07:30PM (#791948)

        Most components are self fusing.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:02AM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:02AM (#785404) Homepage Journal

      Damn, I like that one. Dropping it in #editorial on IRC.

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      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @02:53PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @02:53PM (#790082)

        i'm upset that my favorite type of fuse, 'cannon', is not listed.

        with the write application to the cannonball delivery stack, one can learn a whole lot about compression and payload delivery and packet fragmentation! (pun intended--whoever heard of a useful read only ballistic device?)

        • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday February 03 2019, @02:35PM

          by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 03 2019, @02:35PM (#795685) Journal

          What do you have canon fuse for, Bert?

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:50PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:50PM (#786906) Journal

      Free Unix Spectrum Emulator [sourceforge.net]

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 30 2019, @03:18PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 30 2019, @03:18PM (#794072) Journal

    Future Poll Suggestion

    Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current:
    * ARM
    * Intel x86 (with Management Engine)
    * AMD x86 (with Platform Security Processor)
    * Pre-2008 Intel or Pre-2013 AMD (or any models without known backdoors)
    * POWER or PowerPC
    * RISC-V
    * MIPS or SPARC
    * None of the above (comment your answer)

    this text added to make this post "more original" :-)

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    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday February 04 2019, @11:05PM (1 child)

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 04 2019, @11:05PM (#796332) Journal

      That's actually pretty good.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:02PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:02PM (#796659) Journal

        Also see the top level post which says:

        How about a poll like:

        Which glows the brightest when supplied with a sufficiently high voltage and current:
        * Light bulbs
        * Vacuum tubes
        * Crystal oscillators
        * Transistors
        * Integrated Circuits
        * EEPROMs
        * LEDs
        * Other (Specify)

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