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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by DannyB on Monday April 08 2019, @07:36PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 08 2019, @07:36PM (#826337) Journal

    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)

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    For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.
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