No-one doubts that there are planets orbiting white dwarf stars & nobody cares that there are burnt-out cinders orbiting far off stars. It's the possibility of life being able to exist on the discovered planet "in the habitable zone" that would make it news.
Your BOTE calculations forgot to take into account the following points: - No inner planet will survive being englobed by a red sun. Stellar density will be high enough to slow them down so that they impact the stellar core long before the red giant phase is over. - For planets further out to migrate inward to the point that they are in the habitable zone they would have to be englobed by the sun in it's red giant phase as well. Thus the solar flux cannot be calculated as a more or less one point source but from all points. Add at least 3 zeros to your 15% and it changes the outcome. By the time the star evolves on to be a white dwarf, all volatiles would have long been baked off & stripped away.
Why do you think that people only need a complete charge? Never seen anyone notice that their phone was nearly dead 10 minutes before they left? 10 minutes in which they can bring their phone from 10% to 30 - 40%?
On the other hand, with you shooting yourself in the head in despair for using an external battery, I don't suppose that you would remember much of anything now would you...
Habitable zone == zone where surface temperatures would be such that liquid water could be found at the surface of the planet. Any significant dragging would also have the effect of heating all volatiles & stripping the planet's atmosphere. A waterless cinder with no atmosphere even at temperatures between 0 & 100C is not conducive to life as we now define it.
The posited mechanism is implausible to the point of being ridiculous but then your post was probably typed by a bunch of monkeys so I suppose that implausible is no longer a problem...
Your hyperbole filled first post was well deserving of my mockery.
If you want to be reasonable now, well, first off, nobody needs to carry around a supplementary battery ALL the time, whether the phone has an replaceable battery or not. Secondly, That some people find carrying a replacement battery (Only reachable by swapping batteries or at home) suffices for their needs, certainly. However, as I have pointed out carrying an external battery pack than can be charged anywhere (USB sockets are ubiquitous) & lent to anyone more than makes up for the fact that they weigh a little more or you address your point, connected to a phone for a few minutes. Placing a phone connected to an external battery on a table or in a pocket for a few minutes to charge is not the hardship you pretend & even when calling when charging using a handsfree earplugs/mike or the speaker are no major hardship.
The hyperbole & simulated gnashing of teeth for tiny corner cases that accompany announce of non-removable batteries are from people looking for excuses & not any real need not easily fixable with an external battery pack or slight changes in behaviour.
White dwarfs are stars that have gone through an expansion to red giants & then shrink back down once they run out of low atomic level fuel like hydrogen & helium.
All planets close enough to be in a white dwarf's "habitable zone" would have been well inside the star during the star's red giant phase.
Unless someone comes up with a mechanism for the planets to escape from the red giant & then migrate even further inward to the white dwarf's now much smaller & closer "habitable zone", its extremely implausible.
Somebody please reassure me that this is once again a "journalist" attempting to talk of matters that far outstrip his comprehension & not an astrophysicist gone barking mad.
Yeah, I can see how people that only have a single small pocket that that would be a problem so severe that they would actually have to shoot themselves were they to use an external charger. Yeah, you wouldn't ever want to help a friend that uses a device with a different battery, the HORROR!
It's anecdotal but for two phones bought at the roughly same time, my son has changed the battery for manufacture's recommended unit in his phone twice. My daughter still used my old iphone4s with the original battery until she lost it 3 months ago yet the replacement batteries didn't give my son an advantage. Both of them carry around an external battery.
Carrying around a spare removable battery is also less useful. You need to turn the phone off/on to use it and if you're already carrying around USB cables to transfer data/tethering/... adding an external battery that can be charged from a USB port independently from the phone is an advantage. Carrying a spare removable battery only helps the owner and possibly friends that have the same device whereas an external battery can be lent to anyone for a quick charge.
Again, I see no advantage in removable batteries because the use case is too narrow, the theoretical advantage fails to pan out & their connectors are a supplementary source of problems.
So they are trying to break the throw-away culture and improve the world a little bit:-)
Meh, I'm far from convinced that modular (with it's attendant connectors links & interfaces) is better.
I can remember pulling vacuum tubes out of the TV when it stored having problems and taking the lot down to the electronics shop so that we could plug them into the test station. Being able to test every last circuit may bring back fond memories to some but connector related problems have always been a significant part of the reasons that things don't work.
The general movement towards global integration & non-maintainability has brought with it the quasi elimination of all these problems. It has been decades since I last performed the "drop the motherboard 1 foot onto a flat surface to reseat the memory chips" debugging procedure as people don't install memory chip/chip on the motherboard anymore. Flakey connections to the daughterboard that are fixed by removing & reseating them? Gone as almost all functions are integrated into the mainboard & those that are left use connectors like USB & mini-DVI. RAM problems are now much less common because the RAM is soldered on. My phone no longer gets into weird states because the battery connection was last when id had a small drop, etc.
That I do not have the tools (or the inclination, or the time) to repair my phone does not mean that I cannot take it back to my vendor who does have the tools, time & inclination to swap out any broken parts, so your comment on being unable to open your phone != having to replace it. I'm also far from convinced that people replacing bits & pieces of their phones will be as ecologically responsable as my vendor is in recycling so "improving the world" remains to be proven.
I also see little difference between using an external battery pack to recharge my phone when it gets low & swapping batteries. My son has a phone with a removable battery that he has changed twice & yet he still has to use an external battery to get through the day.
Thanks for showing one again just what dimwits Assange's most vocal supporters are. A bunch of foul mouthed idiots that keep reciting the same obvious falsehoods, discounting everyone who dare disbelieve the infallible prophet's holy words. Pathetic. Not as pathetic as Assange, but still pathetic.
Given the minuscule number of downloads of TOR browsers which cover 99% the needs that most people have for TOR, it's safe to say that those who want TOR for all their traffic are few in number. I'll add to that that people who truly care for their security will use a TOR browser anyway because routing all iOS traffic through TOR only makes the user more visible as there will be cookies & other identifiable info being routed through both TOR & in the clear making it easier to identify them. Or do you want that fart app that phones home every once in a while to serve as an identifier?
When Assange surrenders to the UK authorities & then does his prison time for jumping bail & is then extradited to Sweden as anyone else would be, THEN it will be about the Swedish rape charges.
All the handwaving you've been spouting about how it's the evil US Bush government still in power & plotting to snatch Assange ass soon as he leaves the UK is bullshit as I've said all along.
As Assange has already raped in all probability two women I can see why pedophilia is a likely next step for him, one you seem eager to emulate given your fixations and how you worship him.
They're not making their money off of me in any rate. I refuse to buy those overpriced ebooks. I don't have room for any more books, am unable to resell them (English language books in France...), so I just wait for the ebooks I want to fall under 5€. 5€ is a fair price for an ebook without any production costs...
Or, just wait 12-18 months after a new book comes out to purchase it then de-DRM it with Calibre & the appropriate plugins. Given that I have a HUGE backlog of books I want to read, I can always find something else to read.
Thus I do not get ripped of by the exorbitant new ebook prices (seriously, eBooks more expensive than paperbacks?!?!) nor suffer from any potential Amazon take-backs or DRMed books.
Tor already exists as a browser for those that want it but given how few downloads the tor browsers have & that this covers just about every use of tor, I'm sticking to my conclusion that only an infinitesimal number of iOS users want to route all their traffic through tor.
Ahh, the hubris of people who think that THEIR project is so important. Only a small minority of iOS users even know what TOR is and only infinitesimal percentage of iOS wants it on their devices.
Once again, the denial of the extraordinary treatment Assange believes he merits is no proof of anything other than that he is the only one who thinks that he deserves it.
But that would make his cheerleaders gnash their teeth and rend their hair & whine some more that their idol is above the laws that apply to everyone else.
I don't expect people who believe in the transparent lies Assange has been spreading to comprehend anything. You've obviously surrendered your ability to think coherently.
the penchant for Sweden to hand people - innocent people - over to the United States to be tortured.
How long ago, under which pretences & during who's presidency did that occur? - Over 8 years ago, - Because the administration believed that he was an active terrorist & that lives were at stake - When Bush was president
How many people has Obama extralegally snatched from Sweden eh? Yeah, that's right, none. This is just another transparently false excuse from Assange attempting to hide the real reason he's hiding: He raped two women & doesn't want to be condemned for it.
I don't obsess over Assange reading & rereading the comments like some here do so I saw the first 40 posts & direct replies to my posts.
Just how long ago, for what pretence and under which president did this extralegal rendition occur? Over 8 years ago, because they thought he was an active terrorist & that lives were at stake & when Bush was president. Only the hardcore nutcase Assange cheerleaders believe that Obama would tarnish his peace prize in extralegally rendering Assange from Sweden or on his way there when it would be so much easier to get him by asking for the UK to hand him over.
An Assange cheerleader calling someone else weak, how amusing...
No, Had the US wanted Assange in a massive secret conspiracy as he pretends, it would have been enormously easier to ask for him from the UK (prior to his jumping bail & running to the Ecuadorian Embassy). Thus Assange's justification for avoiding extradition to Sweden isn't to avoid the evil US boogeyman as he falsely claims.
Ah, dave is an Assange true believer, logic holds no sway over him.
"He believes that once he is in Sweden, he will be extradited again to the US"
"The US/UK treaties make it enormously easier from the UK directly"
There is no point to the US waiting for him to him to be extradited to Sweden when the US, prior to his bail jumping needed merely ask the UK where it would have been easier.
That Assange continues to justify his jumping bail to avoid the US grabbing him makes no sense & is a lie
Sure Dave sure, all one need do is believe every single word that comes from the fount of supreme knowledge that is Assange that becomes steadily more and more complicated to explain away the incoherencies in his story.
Meanwhile, even without the bobbies in front of the embassy, Assange will forever be known as a forsworn bail-jumping fugitive from justice & possible rapist.
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No-one doubts that there are planets orbiting white dwarf stars & nobody cares that there are burnt-out cinders orbiting far off stars. It's the possibility of life being able to exist on the discovered planet "in the habitable zone" that would make it news.
Your BOTE calculations forgot to take into account the following points:
- No inner planet will survive being englobed by a red sun. Stellar density will be high enough to slow them down so that they impact the stellar core long before the red giant phase is over.
- For planets further out to migrate inward to the point that they are in the habitable zone they would have to be englobed by the sun in it's red giant phase as well. Thus the solar flux cannot be calculated as a more or less one point source but from all points. Add at least 3 zeros to your 15% and it changes the outcome. By the time the star evolves on to be a white dwarf, all volatiles would have long been baked off & stripped away.
Why do you think that people only need a complete charge? Never seen anyone notice that their phone was nearly dead 10 minutes before they left? 10 minutes in which they can bring their phone from 10% to 30 - 40%?
On the other hand, with you shooting yourself in the head in despair for using an external battery, I don't suppose that you would remember much of anything now would you...
Habitable zone == zone where surface temperatures would be such that liquid water could be found at the surface of the planet. Any significant dragging would also have the effect of heating all volatiles & stripping the planet's atmosphere. A waterless cinder with no atmosphere even at temperatures between 0 & 100C is not conducive to life as we now define it.
The posited mechanism is implausible to the point of being ridiculous but then your post was probably typed by a bunch of monkeys so I suppose that implausible is no longer a problem...
Your hyperbole filled first post was well deserving of my mockery.
If you want to be reasonable now, well, first off, nobody needs to carry around a supplementary battery ALL the time, whether the phone has an replaceable battery or not. Secondly, That some people find carrying a replacement battery (Only reachable by swapping batteries or at home) suffices for their needs, certainly. However, as I have pointed out carrying an external battery pack than can be charged anywhere (USB sockets are ubiquitous) & lent to anyone more than makes up for the fact that they weigh a little more or you address your point, connected to a phone for a few minutes. Placing a phone connected to an external battery on a table or in a pocket for a few minutes to charge is not the hardship you pretend & even when calling when charging using a handsfree earplugs/mike or the speaker are no major hardship.
The hyperbole & simulated gnashing of teeth for tiny corner cases that accompany announce of non-removable batteries are from people looking for excuses & not any real need not easily fixable with an external battery pack or slight changes in behaviour.
Nope.
White dwarfs are stars that have gone through an expansion to red giants & then shrink back down once they run out of low atomic level fuel like hydrogen & helium.
All planets close enough to be in a white dwarf's "habitable zone" would have been well inside the star during the star's red giant phase.
Unless someone comes up with a mechanism for the planets to escape from the red giant & then migrate even further inward to the white dwarf's now much smaller & closer "habitable zone", its extremely implausible.
Somebody please reassure me that this is once again a "journalist" attempting to talk of matters that far outstrip his comprehension & not an astrophysicist gone barking mad.
Yeah, I can see how people that only have a single small pocket that that would be a problem so severe that they would actually have to shoot themselves were they to use an external charger. Yeah, you wouldn't ever want to help a friend that uses a device with a different battery, the HORROR!
It's anecdotal but for two phones bought at the roughly same time, my son has changed the battery for manufacture's recommended unit in his phone twice. My daughter still used my old iphone4s with the original battery until she lost it 3 months ago yet the replacement batteries didn't give my son an advantage. Both of them carry around an external battery.
Carrying around a spare removable battery is also less useful. You need to turn the phone off/on to use it and if you're already carrying around USB cables to transfer data/tethering/... adding an external battery that can be charged from a USB port independently from the phone is an advantage. Carrying a spare removable battery only helps the owner and possibly friends that have the same device whereas an external battery can be lent to anyone for a quick charge.
Again, I see no advantage in removable batteries because the use case is too narrow, the theoretical advantage fails to pan out & their connectors are a supplementary source of problems.
So they are trying to break the throw-away culture and improve the world a little bit :-)
Meh, I'm far from convinced that modular (with it's attendant connectors links & interfaces) is better.
I can remember pulling vacuum tubes out of the TV when it stored having problems and taking the lot down to the electronics shop so that we could plug them into the test station. Being able to test every last circuit may bring back fond memories to some but connector related problems have always been a significant part of the reasons that things don't work.
The general movement towards global integration & non-maintainability has brought with it the quasi elimination of all these problems. It has been decades since I last performed the "drop the motherboard 1 foot onto a flat surface to reseat the memory chips" debugging procedure as people don't install memory chip/chip on the motherboard anymore. Flakey connections to the daughterboard that are fixed by removing & reseating them? Gone as almost all functions are integrated into the mainboard & those that are left use connectors like USB & mini-DVI. RAM problems are now much less common because the RAM is soldered on. My phone no longer gets into weird states because the battery connection was last when id had a small drop, etc.
That I do not have the tools (or the inclination, or the time) to repair my phone does not mean that I cannot take it back to my vendor who does have the tools, time & inclination to swap out any broken parts, so your comment on being unable to open your phone != having to replace it. I'm also far from convinced that people replacing bits & pieces of their phones will be as ecologically responsable as my vendor is in recycling so "improving the world" remains to be proven.
I also see little difference between using an external battery pack to recharge my phone when it gets low & swapping batteries. My son has a phone with a removable battery that he has changed twice & yet he still has to use an external battery to get through the day.
Thanks for showing one again just what dimwits Assange's most vocal supporters are. A bunch of foul mouthed idiots that keep reciting the same obvious falsehoods, discounting everyone who dare disbelieve the infallible prophet's holy words. Pathetic. Not as pathetic as Assange, but still pathetic.
Sure they will. Right after the mongols apologise for Attila, the Normans for William, the spaniards for Cortez & Pizarro, etc, etc etc.
Sorry, I don't worship at the church of TOR.
Given the minuscule number of downloads of TOR browsers which cover 99% the needs that most people have for TOR, it's safe to say that those who want TOR for all their traffic are few in number. I'll add to that that people who truly care for their security will use a TOR browser anyway because routing all iOS traffic through TOR only makes the user more visible as there will be cookies & other identifiable info being routed through both TOR & in the clear making it easier to identify them. Or do you want that fart app that phones home every once in a while to serve as an identifier?
When Assange surrenders to the UK authorities & then does his prison time for jumping bail & is then extradited to Sweden as anyone else would be, THEN it will be about the Swedish rape charges.
All the handwaving you've been spouting about how it's the evil US Bush government still in power & plotting to snatch Assange ass soon as he leaves the UK is bullshit as I've said all along.
As Assange has already raped in all probability two women I can see why pedophilia is a likely next step for him, one you seem eager to emulate given your fixations and how you worship him.
They're not making their money off of me in any rate. I refuse to buy those overpriced ebooks. I don't have room for any more books, am unable to resell them (English language books in France...), so I just wait for the ebooks I want to fall under 5€. 5€ is a fair price for an ebook without any production costs...
Or, just wait 12-18 months after a new book comes out to purchase it then de-DRM it with Calibre & the appropriate plugins. Given that I have a HUGE backlog of books I want to read, I can always find something else to read.
Thus I do not get ripped of by the exorbitant new ebook prices (seriously, eBooks more expensive than paperbacks?!?!) nor suffer from any potential Amazon take-backs or DRMed books.
Sign in you puling coward...
Tor already exists as a browser for those that want it but given how few downloads the tor browsers have & that this covers just about every use of tor, I'm sticking to my conclusion that only an infinitesimal number of iOS users want to route all their traffic through tor.
Ahh, the hubris of people who think that THEIR project is so important. Only a small minority of iOS users even know what TOR is and only infinitesimal percentage of iOS wants it on their devices.
The name they gave to their invention: Timothy
What a coincidence, we have our very own clickbait generating Timothy here on /. too!
ASSANGE__IS__NOT__ABOVE__THE__LAW__AND__DESERVES__NO__EXTRAORDINARY__TREATMENT!
Once again, the denial of the extraordinary treatment Assange believes he merits is no proof of anything other than that he is the only one who thinks that he deserves it.
But that would make his cheerleaders gnash their teeth and rend their hair & whine some more that their idol is above the laws that apply to everyone else.
I don't expect people who believe in the transparent lies Assange has been spreading to comprehend anything. You've obviously surrendered your ability to think coherently.
the penchant for Sweden to hand people - innocent people - over to the United States to be tortured.
How long ago, under which pretences & during who's presidency did that occur?
- Over 8 years ago,
- Because the administration believed that he was an active terrorist & that lives were at stake
- When Bush was president
How many people has Obama extralegally snatched from Sweden eh? Yeah, that's right, none. This is just another transparently false excuse from Assange attempting to hide the real reason he's hiding: He raped two women & doesn't want to be condemned for it.
I don't obsess over Assange reading & rereading the comments like some here do so I saw the first 40 posts & direct replies to my posts.
Just how long ago, for what pretence and under which president did this extralegal rendition occur? Over 8 years ago, because they thought he was an active terrorist & that lives were at stake & when Bush was president. Only the hardcore nutcase Assange cheerleaders believe that Obama would tarnish his peace prize in extralegally rendering Assange from Sweden or on his way there when it would be so much easier to get him by asking for the UK to hand him over.
An Assange cheerleader calling someone else weak, how amusing...
No, Had the US wanted Assange in a massive secret conspiracy as he pretends, it would have been enormously easier to ask for him from the UK (prior to his jumping bail & running to the Ecuadorian Embassy). Thus Assange's justification for avoiding extradition to Sweden isn't to avoid the evil US boogeyman as he falsely claims.
Ah, dave is an Assange true believer, logic holds no sway over him.
"He believes that once he is in Sweden, he will be extradited again to the US"
"The US/UK treaties make it enormously easier from the UK directly"
There is no point to the US waiting for him to him to be extradited to Sweden when the US, prior to his bail jumping needed merely ask the UK where it would have been easier.
That Assange continues to justify his jumping bail to avoid the US grabbing him makes no sense & is a lie
Sure Dave sure, all one need do is believe every single word that comes from the fount of supreme knowledge that is Assange that becomes steadily more and more complicated to explain away the incoherencies in his story.
Meanwhile, even without the bobbies in front of the embassy, Assange will forever be known as a forsworn bail-jumping fugitive from justice & possible rapist.