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Comment Re:I've already uninstalled the windows 10 nag ico (Score 2) 374

So instead, I get to wait while it does a System Restore Point (the majority of the time it takes), then do the install and Reboot (goodbye 30-45 minutes), or "suicide" my laptop by holding the power button, then, the next time I Startup, suffer the bitching and moaning about "Windows was not shut down properly", and then the "Windows needs to Restart" (which pops up when it pleases, and simply HAPPENS if you aren't there to DEFER it, then ANOTHER Reboot (which results in ANOTHER 1/2 hour of virus-scanning), right in the middle of the workday.

Or you could just change Windows Update settings so it doesn't do that any more, ever again.

Comment Re:TL;DR (Score 1) 108

But every "picture" suggests things rotate about them in an accretion disk. Which doesn't make sense if they were all pulled in from different directions

It makes perfect sense when material isn't uniformly present in all directions, as in the case when a black hole pulls matter from an orbiting star.

Then there's the rotation of the black hole. That might have an influence such that an accretion disk will form in the plane perpendicular to the axis even if matter is infalling uniformly from all directions (this is just a guess).

So again, we're looking at observational error. It doesn't fit with our theory.

It doesn't fit with your theory. I'm not sure exactly what your theory is, though.

Comment Re:What is a sonic screwdriver? (Score 2) 28

No. They're describing it as a watchmaker's sonic screwdriver (after the fictional device which gets the Doctor out of scrapes each week, but doesn't work on wood), not (as the summary has it) comparing it to one.

"If the large-scale acoustic vortex devices were thought of as sonic screwdrivers, we have invented the watchmakers sonic screwdriver."

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