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What should be the Book Club picks for April+?
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Q: How many IBM 370's does it take to execute a job?
A: Four, three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by DannyB on Monday April 08 2019, @07:36PM
Which one burns the brightest when subjected to sufficiently high censorship?
* Oryx and Crake - Book #1 of the MaddAddam trilogy - Margaret Atwood
* Beggars in Spain - Book #1 of the Sleepless trilogy - Nancy Kress
* Too Far - Rich Shapiro
* Revolt in 2100 - (short stories collection) - Robert A. Heinlein
* Morlock the Maker Short Stories - (pre-Blood of Ambrose?) - James Enge
* Downbelow Station - C. J. Cherryh
* Hammerfall - C. J. Cherryh
* Sundiver - David Brin
Which one shines the brightest when subjected to a sufficiently high voltage and current:
* mobile phone
* laptop
* desktop
* NAS (Network Attached Storage)
* the "cloud"
* private server
* spread around different devices (wired in series)
* Other (Specify)
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)
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)
Never fear, Smith is here.