Oddly enough, I have have a uSD in my Galaxy and never remove it. BUT, everything gets stored there so that, if there's a problem with the phone (and it's happened), all my stuff transfers and I don't have to wonder if I've moved all my personal files off the handset before I reset it or wipe it before selling or trading in.

AirDroid. Good wireless is as fast (or faster than) all but the most expensive uSD cards anyway. Android has a real, accessible file system so you're never really at a loss for transferring things onto, or off of, your phone.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a bad guy with a gun opened fire in the middle of a packed convention hall with tens of thousands of good guys with guns surrounding him? You have two possibilities: Everyone opens fire to stop the shooter, many miss (statistically), and the friendly fire is counted in the scores or hundreds. Nobody opens fire, recognizing that there is no clean shot with so many spectators around the shooter and it's simply not a safe place to discharge a firearm. In that case the shooter gets of a few dozen rounds and kills or injures a similar number before some brave soul tackles and disarms him.

In either case, many people are killed and/or injured. In a similar situation where nobody in the hall has a gun except the attacker, the same Samaritan takes him down and disarms him.

The presence of "good guys with guns" preventing death and injury in mass shootings is a myth and a Hollywood fantasy. There are times and places where a ggwag might make a difference, but these are not it.

It's absolutely true, and everybody knows somebody who jumped ship right before things really took off. It's one thing to prattle on about sunk costs and level headed moves, but when you're in a situation where laving your job today guarantees no paycheck next week, and staying offers a glimmer of hope of not only next week's paycheck but the paychecks owed from last month it's (psychologically) hard to cut that life line. Doubly so if you actually believe in the company and what they are doing.

CEOs prey on this mentality, because they know it works. Most top execs are far better at psychology than they are at the technical bits.

So...Trump ignoring his contractual obligations to pay people and then suing them into submission if they argued, after the work was completed, is not the same as this lowlife scum? As a businessman who has been on people trying to skip out on payments and having been on the losing end of a "bankruptcy of convenience" I say bullshit. Lock. Them. Up.

I'm going to let you in on a secret: you can have more than one copy of a document. I know - it's pretty cool - but you can make an exact copy on these big machines that transcribe every little bit onto a second sheet of paper. Here' something that will blow your mind: when you print a document from a computer - the original document is *still on the computer*. WTF, right? I won't even tell you about how you can have a copy of the same digital file on more than one machine, because that's pretty close to fucking magic.

...can stop a bad guy with a gun, so that must also be true on the internet. After all, it's just a series of trucks in tubes, and we need guns to stop the truck bombs and go after the tube pirates in their caves in Russia. Or something like that.

Actual PE here; 10 years as rocket scientist, 20 years in private practice, 15 years as a consulting firm owner. HP48GX or GTFO. Of course I expect to be able to estimate anything to within 10-15% on a post-it, but when you have to be precise you should use a proper tool (and, to be fair, it's not always a calculator). They give you a cheap calculator so you can't cheat. In practice, if you don't "cheat" (aka use shortcuts and other time saving methods for things you know) it means you're not efficient. The calculators the NCEES uses are the equivalent of a hand file, a brace and bit, or a hammer. Good to have around, no doubt, but I'm going to use a bench grinder, a mag drill, and a 3 lb sledge when I come to work.

You clearly haven't read standardized tests lately. The figures are (I presume intentionally) not to scale (a 45-35-100 triangle will be represented by an equilateral triangle on the figure), some answers cannot be properly solved with the information give (ex: assuming symmetry, or parallelism which is not explicitly defined, or forgetting/having to ignore basic combinatorial math that is 3 classes beyond the level of student to "solve").

Yes and no. In class - lower levels often use response clickers for tests projected on smart boards, but higher math classes (late MS and HS) still have paper tests, at least in our school district. Partial credit is at the discretion of the teacher. However, all standardized state tests are on computer. You get a standard calculator (TI graphing style) from a common supply and pencil/paper for scratch, but that's it. You add 2 and 2 and get 5 on a Calculus exam and the whole problem is marked wrong.

The Surface laptop fills a niche that has a very small userspace inside the Surface lineup and, more importantly, breaks almost zero new ground (save for the super-soft keyboard surface that is a pita to clean). It doesn't fold flat/back so inking isn't really as useful as on the other two Surface portables. You can't get it with a second, discrete GPU like you can with the Book. It's heavier and lower resolution than the Pro4. It's only real claim to fame is a very suspect 14.5 hour "video playback" benchmark which, I'm going to guess, is based on the CPU being in a near-sleep state while the playback is completely decoded in the new Kaby Lake HEVC circuit. There are no specs on the battery because if we know the Wh, we could back out the high power profile time (Wh/15W GPU for most serious work, about double that for light web surfing, maybe 2.5x with Edge).

Similarly equipped, the SL costs within $100 of the SP4 and SB. That seems like a small differential to give up the ability to go tablet mode.

Well, when all the people who need it have died, and that limitation is mostly pruned from the human branch of evolution, then the companies will no longer have a large market and they will have to reduce prices to meet the reduced demand. See, market forces always work! /s

1) I was unaware that website currently require that you manually execute each script

2) Show me a commercial OS with a supplied browser that includes a good adblocker and a NoScript installed and properly configured by default.

Computers are basically appliances for 80% of the users on the internet now. I can mod my toaster and replace the plug with a grounded type, and only plug it into a GFCI outlet to reduce the risk of shock, but everybody else just plugs theirs in and makes toast. Until OS makers start putting actual, safe browsers on their products, instead of the two-bare-wires versions they currently include, the problem isn't actually with the users. It's with the negligent programmers.

... then $1.01

I see you've shopped on AliExpress

"We need laws banning the use of machines"

That's where you can stop. Without machines, there is lower efficiency and we need every hand available to work the fields and the swords. We can go back to kingdoms where being rich was passed down through bloodlines with land ownership. People working 60 hours a week just to keep food on the table won't have time for all this liberal "feed the poor" bullshit.