Some years ago someone was asking for something similar on a LUG mailing list. She wanted a mains plug, with the live and neutral connected to various pins of an RJ45. For the obvious reasons.
When I met her in real life, I realised that her signature line of "I take sweets from strangers." was probably true. But not in a way that the stranger intended.
By their own criteria of ionospheric behaviour, they'd probably also have had to "predict" a major earthquake in this area around January 25th. Not good enough for a practical earthquake prediction method - but it's an interesting approach. And they do admit to the difficulty of distinguishing localised effects they're looking for from variable global effects from "space weather", so they're being rational.
HOWEVER, whoever wrote TFS has added other crap to an interesting paper.:
This is theorized to be the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling mechanism that occurs when large amounts of radon are released due to massive stress in the fault right before the quake. This can be detected with satellites analyzing infrared waves: 'The radioactivity from this gas ionizes the air on a large scale and this has a number of knock on effects.
The obvious knock-on effect would be alarming readings at radiation monitors all over the area. In particular - to restate an old nuclear industry story - workers at places like Fukushima nuclear plant may well have set off alarms going into the plant for work. The evidence for this large amount of radon is... ?
So I RTFS and think "Big Fucking Deal, someone can use FireFox to get into an FTP server that appears to carry data for some Earth Observation satellites. So far so BFD."
Next BIG question is - did he have RO access, or RW access? TFS says nothing, so I RTFA - still nothing. Look at the screen shots, still nothing. Not even a claim of a RW access.
So far, the guy has found a FTP server that looks like it contains data which is likely public domain already. BFD.
Tepco have known from the start that the reactors melted down and breached containment.
Your evidence for this, in particular focussing on your technical term "known"? What sensor readings would they have had that would tell them containment has been breached, considering that simultaneously they also had shutdown operations happening, switchover of circulating systems, ground accelerations from the quake itself and aftershocks...
But hey, I just have to work with much simpler sensor systems in a not-much-simpler non-engineered system. I often know what my sensors are saying, but it takes a lot of thinking to work out what is causing those readings, for any non-standard situation. What would I know about the difference between readings and interpretations?
This was an international incident from the beginning, and resources from around the world should have been used to mitigate the damage.
Very helpful. I remember seeing so much shouting that "this is a Japanese internal matter ; you foreigners get out of here - it's none of your business! We deny that anyone outside Japan has any right to know what has happened here!" And as for your "resources from around the world"... I assume that you donated your single-ended teleportation beam system so that resources could be magically transported from (say) Ulan Bataar to Fukushima, without having to worry about traversing roads, finding landing sites for helicopters, and little things like that.
Oh, BTW, I do recall that within a couple of days helicopter loads of boron-rich reactor-kill material were being shipped from a US military vessel in the area (now why does the Japanese Navy not have their own nuclear-powered aircraft carriers? Oh, nothing to do with Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and them adhering to their own Constitution.). Which appears to have been useful, if not completely effective. Did you teleport in a few more tonnes of boric acid from your own stocks too?
Sheeesh, don't people think before they type? Oh no, of course not. This is Slashdot.
You sound like the scientists that did not want to release the findings of the first pulsars. they were convinced it was aliens looking to come and eat us.
REally, I'm serious.
If you are serious (which I hope is not the case, but which I fear may be the case), then you seriously need to go and do some research into the subject. You've just made yourself look like an idiot in what I assume (by the fact that you're logged in) you consider to be an audience of your peers.
Oh, hang on, you're in the percent or fewer of UIDs that's lower than mine. you must be joking, right?
I read TFA instead of TFS. TFA(bstract) specifically contradicts what TFS says:
Here we show that specific metabolic stimuli enable the killing of both Gram-negative (Escherichia coli) and Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) persisters with aminoglycosides.
They then go on to discuss the aparrent mode of action as not being relevant to growth issues (and therefore not necessarily limited to antibiotics which interfere with bacterial cell wall growth). Which kind-of blows my argument out of the water.
Bloody misleading summary though. Sure, TB is a rapidly worsening problem (I've had to be tested a half-dozen times because of suspected exposures), but TFA says nothing about TB.
How exactly can this technique be used to fight tuberculosis, which lives in the lungs?
The summary says they've been working on staph (Staphyllococcus) bacteria, which are very different to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis causative organism of tuberculosis. Staphyllococcus is a Gram-positive bacterium ; M.tuberculosis is Gram-negative ; the Gram stain adheres to some components of the wall of a bacterium and so the reaction of a bacterium to the Gram stain divides the bacterial world into a small number of classes on the basis of their cell wall chemistry. Staphyllococcus and M.tuberculosis have very different wall chemistries, and so are likely to have substantially different internal chemistries.
What's not said in TFS is that many antibiotics act by screwing with the bacterium's wall chemistry, particularly the bits that allow it to grow and divide. Which is probably why this "give it food AND poison" technique appears to have promise.
But as such, it holds out no direct hope for addressing your concern. Sorry.
(Having said that, using different antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacteria with this technique would probably be an attractive research prospect now. But TFS says nothing about that.)
That joke's only funny 'til the first geek comes up with a temperature scale other than Fahrenheit, I know...
Ah, that's the scale you're using. I re-considered the question in case you were talking in Centigrade, and you'd only exclude a couple of hundred people for a "room temperature + IQ". Varies of course with what you consider room temperature.
C'mon, don't say you didn't get the idea of the question, why're you tackling semantics?
Err, the site's motto is "news for nerds" ; you get held to higher standards than the average person in your country. (If you're using Fahrenheit, that makes you an average American, doesn't it?)
BTW your signature has still got commerce and government inverted.
Oh, bollocks - this client enforces use of IE. Which means I have to spell check for myself...
Do you know which countries you're going to be working in or visiting or passing through next year? 5 years? 15 years?
20 years after I last visited the USofA and 15 years after deciding that I'd reject to option of going to work there ("Houston? With the Americans? You have got to be kidding! I quit."), there I am in Canada with a flight missed because of snowfall and my travel agents route me through America.
China - yes, enquiries as to whether I'd work there with some Aussies and Canuks I worked with in South Korea. North Korea - yes, that's a near certainty, waiting on moving from theoretical studies to deciding exploration loci. Lybia - I missed the last job there because of being assigned to the Canada job. For Tanzania, the dates are firming up.
It must be interesting knowing which continent you'll be working in twenty years in the future. I'd like to know which continent I'm going to be working on 20 days in the future. I hope to have been paid to go to the remaining three continents before I'm 70. Assuming that I live that long. Which you never kno$!"%"£$£"! [NO CARRIER]
In cross-species situations if the lesser developed group is lucky they become servants for the more advanced group. Perhaps well treated servants (like horses and pets are to us), but servants all the same.
Ah, you;ve been reading your Gulliver's Travels recently, haven't you?
Room temperature here is about 295K. The number of people on the planet with an IQ of 295 is on the order of (calculates...) considerably less than zero.
NASA only does this because water is a suitable analog for the vacuum of space.
s/vacuum/weightlessness/
s/space/orbit/
It's by no means a perfect analog though. Water has substantial viscosity so that if you lose contact with your work site/ object, you can swim back to it. Not an issue in a training-without-killing scenario, but it is going to affect training. Also, the stiffness of suit joints is a major issue in soace, not helped by the pressure differential between inside and outside of the suit ; this can be addressed, but it's a complicating and constraining factor, as is buoyancy.
I fail to understand the point of things like TV being discussed on a "news for nerds" site. TV is a solved problem that hasn't had anything interesting happen to it in a couple of generations. I'm listening to a program about an obscure Renaissance artist that has more "news for nerds" credibility than this ridiculous fixation people have with TV. FFS, you've got to use 2 senses to attend to it, instead of being able to get on with 2 other things at the same time.
Agreed with your description of a "cult of personality" - and it probably is valid for Lenin, the first few years of Stalin, some of Khrushchev, some of Brezhnev's time in office.
But if it's "fundamentally incompatible with a free society", what do you make of the personality cults of Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy (JF), Reagan (if you're an American), or Churchill, Queen Brenda, Lady Di and The Maggon if you're a Brit. Other countries can make up their own lists.
I'll throw Tom Paine into the list of personality cults, just to mix things up a bit.
Someone had to draw a line in the sand to push for mass market adoption. 1080p is where people drew the line in the sand.
We've swapped the 25%-lead CRT for a flat panel one (I don't know if it's LCD or LED, nor do I care) in the last few months before we'd have had to pay to get the TV taken away as hazardous waste (we actually gave it away through the local FreeCycle, so it's now Someone Else's Problem).
The next generation or two of display technology... I'll not bother with for myself. Unless we blow up or otherwise break the existing telly.
4k resolution TVs? Why?
I use TV for relaxation, almost as much as I use the radio, and the colour quality on the radio is vastly better than on the TV. Similarly the sound in books is better than on the radio. IF I needed a high-resolution display for work (e.g. projecting photomicrographs of rocks to a client on the other side of the world), then I'd learn the technology for that task. But that's not relaxation, that's work.
Yeah, but very strict religiously Islamic or Christians shouldn't have porn according to their respective teachings.
Some septs ("churches" for Christians) may have that interpretation. But all? Come off it - we're talking about religions! For every single "deeply held belief" there is certain to be some sept elsewhere who takes the precisely opposite point of view. And to an outsider there is going to be no way to distinguish which one is any more right than the other. That's part of the fun of religions - you can pick anything you want to to believe and you'll no longer be alone.
But I also carefully note the wording of TFS : porn has allegedly been found in the compound. Not "under Osama's bed". Not "porn with Osama's fingerprints on it". Not "jazz mag with Osama's jizz sticking the pages together". There were other people living in the compound too.
Hell, it could even (if it exists) be one Osama's wife's porn stash. There are Islamic prohibitions on men looking at other men's women ; there may be Islamic prohibitions on women looking at men other than their owners ; but I haven't heard of a prohibition on Islamic women looking at other women. So who's to say that the porn isn't Osama's hotter younger wife's stash of girl-on-girl action?
Does anyone know what the Islamic position is on beastiality porn? The Arab non-joke about "a boy for pleasure, a woman for children and a goat for warmth" raises even more questions.
Wrong way round : the default account that the system presents to the user should be the (relatively limited) account you want the thieves to use. YOUR account should take time and effort, as well as knowledge to access. You'll need to know to change the username to "rhook943951" from the default, and to enter the strong password.
For added security, tape a bit of paper to the keyboard saying something like "un : Default User ; pw : password" and have that account be the default one that pops up waiting to be changed.
You know how fish traps and lobster pots work? Easy to get into, harder to get out of and not terribly easy to see. Same principle - get your luser thief (or his fence) into your lobster pot, and treat him (her) as prey.
no it's stupid because UK gag orders aren't going to be applied to US citizens
I'm sure that you'll called in to act as counsel for the first US citizen to be arrested and jailed (as a escape risk) on entry to the UK because of a post they re-Tweeted on FaceBook (or whatever they do with the poles) five years previously.
Laws are laws and contempt rulings are contempt rulings. Twitbook or Facer's UK employees who decline to provide the appropriate information when requested to by the courts are themselves in contempt of court, and that should be enough information to identify someone with high probability, to get them put onto "do not fly out" lists.
Collect "Sauce", "Goose", "Gander" and several "is" and a few other prepositions and so on ; rearrange the words for a common and appropriate idiom.
OK, I did spend 12 years without a TV of any sort until I got married, and we've only changed TV once since then. So it's clearly less important to me than the radio (worn out 3 since I got hitched). But I've still never (TTBOMK, it's not something you talk about) seen anyone who has got a HMDI interconnect, nor do I know any reason to get one.
What do people think drives up decommissioning cost? The actual safety measures needed are a factor, but the Chicken Little Brigade is always involved, too.
How about radiation? Remember, the big glowy thing in the middle of the plant. That takes time and effort to safely dismantle.
Which part of "The actual safety measures needed" did you not read? By being unrealistic, you weaken your case, not strengthen it.
(I'm not a registered radiation worker, but I do have to work regularly with significant radiation sources. Someone else actually handles the things, but I still have to have realistic regard to the actual hazards. Not the Chicken Little hazards,but the actual hazards to me and my chromosomes.)
huge chunks of several-thousand-degrees-hot metal hanging tens of meters above the ground
Errr, hang on. I don't think that's right. It's certainly not how I'd design such a plant.
Firstly, you'd obviously design your layout to keep things as close to the ground as possible. Choose sites with equator-facing hillsides, that sort of thing. Simple site selection can save large chunks of cost in construction and maintenance. Only a fool would design for increased costs.
Secondly, while undoubtedly you'd design your plant to get as hot as feasible - Carnot cycle, all that thermodynamics jazz - you'd not design it to get any hotter than you need to. Again, costs will go up the hotter things get - you need more exotic materials in your pipework, in your working-fluid tanks, it gets harder to start-up and shut down the system.
Just because you can build solar mirror systems that can turn steel into plasma doesn't mean that is what you'd actually do in practice. Since you're going to need some form of active mirror steering to handle the diurnal motion of the sun across the sky, then you can choose how precisely you focus the light. In fact, you'd probably have to take steps in the controlling software to carefully avoid overheating your pipework.
A for-instance : this paper discusses alternatives to cryolite as a solvent for aluminium manufacture, looking at mixtures like LiCl and KCl : "a quasibinary system by keeping the amount of LiCl and KC1 in the mixture always in the eutectic proportion of LiCl (58.5 mol %) and KC1 (41.5 mol %) (mp 634 K)".
Working with something at (say) 700K is a lot less troublesome than something at thousands of K. Hell, you could use good old mild steel for your pipework (probably).
Not any more in Europe - coming soon (possibly already here, it's several years since I changed phones and I only pay detailed attention to these things when I'm needing a new phone) is a requirement that all mobiles should be able to accept charge from a mini-USB cable.
I know there has been much screaming from the manufacturers - for exactly the reasons you suggest - but frankly, who gives a shit about them?
Actually, I suppose I should find out the status, I may be within a couple of years of getting a new phone. Going to be dumping Nokia after 15-odd years.
[Googles] Sounds like it's happening - albeit with the option of manufacturers supplying an adaptor in the box. But I think that only affects Apple's things, so that doesn't matter.
Oh the prospect of going phone shopping and comparing. Too depressing. I'll wait until this one dies.
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When I met her in real life, I realised that her signature line of "I take sweets from strangers." was probably true. But not in a way that the stranger intended.
HOWEVER, whoever wrote TFS has added other crap to an interesting paper. :
The obvious knock-on effect would be alarming readings at radiation monitors all over the area. In particular - to restate an old nuclear industry story - workers at places like Fukushima nuclear plant may well have set off alarms going into the plant for work. The evidence for this large amount of radon is ... ?
Next BIG question is - did he have RO access, or RW access? TFS says nothing, so I RTFA - still nothing. Look at the screen shots, still nothing. Not even a claim of a RW access.
So far, the guy has found a FTP server that looks like it contains data which is likely public domain already. BFD.
Your evidence for this, in particular focussing on your technical term "known"? What sensor readings would they have had that would tell them containment has been breached, considering that simultaneously they also had shutdown operations happening, switchover of circulating systems, ground accelerations from the quake itself and aftershocks ...
But hey, I just have to work with much simpler sensor systems in a not-much-simpler non-engineered system. I often know what my sensors are saying, but it takes a lot of thinking to work out what is causing those readings, for any non-standard situation. What would I know about the difference between readings and interpretations?
Very helpful. I remember seeing so much shouting that "this is a Japanese internal matter ; you foreigners get out of here - it's none of your business! We deny that anyone outside Japan has any right to know what has happened here!" And as for your "resources from around the world" ... I assume that you donated your single-ended teleportation beam system so that resources could be magically transported from (say) Ulan Bataar to Fukushima, without having to worry about traversing roads, finding landing sites for helicopters, and little things like that.
Oh, BTW, I do recall that within a couple of days helicopter loads of boron-rich reactor-kill material were being shipped from a US military vessel in the area (now why does the Japanese Navy not have their own nuclear-powered aircraft carriers? Oh, nothing to do with Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and them adhering to their own Constitution.). Which appears to have been useful, if not completely effective. Did you teleport in a few more tonnes of boric acid from your own stocks too?
Sheeesh, don't people think before they type? Oh no, of course not. This is Slashdot.
If you are serious (which I hope is not the case, but which I fear may be the case), then you seriously need to go and do some research into the subject. You've just made yourself look like an idiot in what I assume (by the fact that you're logged in) you consider to be an audience of your peers.
Oh, hang on, you're in the percent or fewer of UIDs that's lower than mine. you must be joking, right?
I read TFA instead of TFS. TFA(bstract) specifically contradicts what TFS says :
They then go on to discuss the aparrent mode of action as not being relevant to growth issues (and therefore not necessarily limited to antibiotics which interfere with bacterial cell wall growth). Which kind-of blows my argument out of the water.
Bloody misleading summary though. Sure, TB is a rapidly worsening problem (I've had to be tested a half-dozen times because of suspected exposures), but TFA says nothing about TB.
Mea culpa for trusting TFS instead of RTFA-ing.
The summary says they've been working on staph (Staphyllococcus) bacteria, which are very different to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis causative organism of tuberculosis. Staphyllococcus is a Gram-positive bacterium ; M.tuberculosis is Gram-negative ; the Gram stain adheres to some components of the wall of a bacterium and so the reaction of a bacterium to the Gram stain divides the bacterial world into a small number of classes on the basis of their cell wall chemistry. Staphyllococcus and M.tuberculosis have very different wall chemistries, and so are likely to have substantially different internal chemistries.
What's not said in TFS is that many antibiotics act by screwing with the bacterium's wall chemistry, particularly the bits that allow it to grow and divide. Which is probably why this "give it food AND poison" technique appears to have promise.
But as such, it holds out no direct hope for addressing your concern. Sorry.
(Having said that, using different antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacteria with this technique would probably be an attractive research prospect now. But TFS says nothing about that.)
Ah, that's the scale you're using. I re-considered the question in case you were talking in Centigrade, and you'd only exclude a couple of hundred people for a "room temperature + IQ". Varies of course with what you consider room temperature.
Err, the site's motto is "news for nerds" ; you get held to higher standards than the average person in your country. (If you're using Fahrenheit, that makes you an average American, doesn't it?)
BTW your signature has still got commerce and government inverted.
Oh, bollocks - this client enforces use of IE. Which means I have to spell check for myself ...
20 years after I last visited the USofA and 15 years after deciding that I'd reject to option of going to work there ("Houston? With the Americans? You have got to be kidding! I quit."), there I am in Canada with a flight missed because of snowfall and my travel agents route me through America.
China - yes, enquiries as to whether I'd work there with some Aussies and Canuks I worked with in South Korea. North Korea - yes, that's a near certainty, waiting on moving from theoretical studies to deciding exploration loci. Lybia - I missed the last job there because of being assigned to the Canada job. For Tanzania, the dates are firming up.
It must be interesting knowing which continent you'll be working in twenty years in the future. I'd like to know which continent I'm going to be working on 20 days in the future. I hope to have been paid to go to the remaining three continents before I'm 70. Assuming that I live that long. Which you never kno$!"%"£$£"! [NO CARRIER]
"Any planet" within approximately 80 light years of us ... which is a relatively small number.
Ah, you;ve been reading your Gulliver's Travels recently, haven't you?
Room temperature here is about 295K. The number of people on the planet with an IQ of 295 is on the order of (calculates ...) considerably less than zero.
s/vacuum/weightlessness/
s/space/orbit/
It's by no means a perfect analog though. Water has substantial viscosity so that if you lose contact with your work site/ object, you can swim back to it. Not an issue in a training-without-killing scenario, but it is going to affect training. Also, the stiffness of suit joints is a major issue in soace, not helped by the pressure differential between inside and outside of the suit ; this can be addressed, but it's a complicating and constraining factor, as is buoyancy.
Oh, you were meaning "anally probed by someone other than a sibling, child or parent of the redneck".
Ten minutes ago.
I fail to understand the point of things like TV being discussed on a "news for nerds" site. TV is a solved problem that hasn't had anything interesting happen to it in a couple of generations. I'm listening to a program about an obscure Renaissance artist that has more "news for nerds" credibility than this ridiculous fixation people have with TV. FFS, you've got to use 2 senses to attend to it, instead of being able to get on with 2 other things at the same time.
But if it's "fundamentally incompatible with a free society", what do you make of the personality cults of Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy (JF), Reagan (if you're an American), or Churchill, Queen Brenda, Lady Di and The Maggon if you're a Brit. Other countries can make up their own lists.
I'll throw Tom Paine into the list of personality cults, just to mix things up a bit.
We've swapped the 25%-lead CRT for a flat panel one (I don't know if it's LCD or LED, nor do I care) in the last few months before we'd have had to pay to get the TV taken away as hazardous waste (we actually gave it away through the local FreeCycle, so it's now Someone Else's Problem). ... I'll not bother with for myself. Unless we blow up or otherwise break the existing telly.
The next generation or two of display technology
4k resolution TVs? Why?
I use TV for relaxation, almost as much as I use the radio, and the colour quality on the radio is vastly better than on the TV. Similarly the sound in books is better than on the radio. IF I needed a high-resolution display for work (e.g. projecting photomicrographs of rocks to a client on the other side of the world), then I'd learn the technology for that task. But that's not relaxation, that's work.
Some septs ("churches" for Christians) may have that interpretation. But all? Come off it - we're talking about religions! For every single "deeply held belief" there is certain to be some sept elsewhere who takes the precisely opposite point of view. And to an outsider there is going to be no way to distinguish which one is any more right than the other. That's part of the fun of religions - you can pick anything you want to to believe and you'll no longer be alone.
But I also carefully note the wording of TFS : porn has allegedly been found in the compound. Not "under Osama's bed". Not "porn with Osama's fingerprints on it". Not "jazz mag with Osama's jizz sticking the pages together". There were other people living in the compound too.
Hell, it could even (if it exists) be one Osama's wife's porn stash. There are Islamic prohibitions on men looking at other men's women ; there may be Islamic prohibitions on women looking at men other than their owners ; but I haven't heard of a prohibition on Islamic women looking at other women. So who's to say that the porn isn't Osama's hotter younger wife's stash of girl-on-girl action?
Does anyone know what the Islamic position is on beastiality porn? The Arab non-joke about "a boy for pleasure, a woman for children and a goat for warmth" raises even more questions.
For added security, tape a bit of paper to the keyboard saying something like "un : Default User ; pw : password" and have that account be the default one that pops up waiting to be changed.
You know how fish traps and lobster pots work? Easy to get into, harder to get out of and not terribly easy to see. Same principle - get your luser thief (or his fence) into your lobster pot, and treat him (her) as prey.
I'm sure that you'll called in to act as counsel for the first US citizen to be arrested and jailed (as a escape risk) on entry to the UK because of a post they re-Tweeted on FaceBook (or whatever they do with the poles) five years previously.
Laws are laws and contempt rulings are contempt rulings. Twitbook or Facer's UK employees who decline to provide the appropriate information when requested to by the courts are themselves in contempt of court, and that should be enough information to identify someone with high probability, to get them put onto "do not fly out" lists.
Collect "Sauce", "Goose", "Gander" and several "is" and a few other prepositions and so on ; rearrange the words for a common and appropriate idiom.
OK, I did spend 12 years without a TV of any sort until I got married, and we've only changed TV once since then. So it's clearly less important to me than the radio (worn out 3 since I got hitched). But I've still never (TTBOMK, it's not something you talk about) seen anyone who has got a HMDI interconnect, nor do I know any reason to get one.
Little, but not zero.
Which part of "The actual safety measures needed" did you not read? By being unrealistic, you weaken your case, not strengthen it.
(I'm not a registered radiation worker, but I do have to work regularly with significant radiation sources. Someone else actually handles the things, but I still have to have realistic regard to the actual hazards. Not the Chicken Little hazards,but the actual hazards to me and my chromosomes.)
Errr, hang on. I don't think that's right. It's certainly not how I'd design such a plant.
Firstly, you'd obviously design your layout to keep things as close to the ground as possible. Choose sites with equator-facing hillsides, that sort of thing. Simple site selection can save large chunks of cost in construction and maintenance. Only a fool would design for increased costs.
Secondly, while undoubtedly you'd design your plant to get as hot as feasible - Carnot cycle, all that thermodynamics jazz - you'd not design it to get any hotter than you need to. Again, costs will go up the hotter things get - you need more exotic materials in your pipework, in your working-fluid tanks, it gets harder to start-up and shut down the system.
Just because you can build solar mirror systems that can turn steel into plasma doesn't mean that is what you'd actually do in practice. Since you're going to need some form of active mirror steering to handle the diurnal motion of the sun across the sky, then you can choose how precisely you focus the light. In fact, you'd probably have to take steps in the controlling software to carefully avoid overheating your pipework.
A for-instance : this paper discusses alternatives to cryolite as a solvent for aluminium manufacture, looking at mixtures like LiCl and KCl : "a quasibinary system by keeping the amount of LiCl and KC1 in the mixture always in the eutectic proportion of LiCl (58.5 mol %) and KC1 (41.5 mol %) (mp 634 K)".
Working with something at (say) 700K is a lot less troublesome than something at thousands of K. Hell, you could use good old mild steel for your pipework (probably).
I know there has been much screaming from the manufacturers - for exactly the reasons you suggest - but frankly, who gives a shit about them?
Actually, I suppose I should find out the status, I may be within a couple of years of getting a new phone. Going to be dumping Nokia after 15-odd years.
[Googles] Sounds like it's happening - albeit with the option of manufacturers supplying an adaptor in the box. But I think that only affects Apple's things, so that doesn't matter.
Oh the prospect of going phone shopping and comparing. Too depressing. I'll wait until this one dies.