If You Were a Teenager Wanting to Sneak Around and Receive

question 160

Multiple Choice

If you were a teenager wanting to sneak around and receive text messages while in class, what would be the best way to get around your teacher's hearing?

• A) Put your phone on vibrate, and hope the amplitude is low enough the teacher can't hear it.
• B) Put on your cell-phone a ringtone that sounds at 17 kilohertz.
• C) Make a lot of noise every time a message comes in to disguise the sound.
• D) Set Brahms' lullaby as your ringtone and hope your teacher is sleepy.

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Definitions:

Parallel Processing

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Virtual Memory

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