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Submission + - Fallout: Firefox Browser Loses 14% of its Users in Months After CEO Ouster (progressivestoday.com)

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bricko writes: Fallout: Firefox Browser Loses 14% of its Users in Months After CEO Ouster

The Firefox browser has lost 14% of its users in the months since they pushed out their CEO for his having donated to California’s Proposition 8 in 2008.

In early April, Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was pressured to resign from the company that makes the Firefox browser after it was discovered he’d donated money to a political campaign to ban gay marriage in California.

The Firefox support message boards experienced record numbers of complaints against the move, with protests running 95% against it. Most of those expressing concerns said they were dumping the Firefox browser. The product was frequently referred to as “Hitler’s Browser.”

Submission + - iPhone 7 processor to be manufactured by Samsung and Globalfoundries in New York (geek.com)

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bricko writes: iPhone 7 processor to be manufactured by Samsung and Globalfoundries in New York

This year Apple’s focus will be on the release of the iPhone 6, widely expected to become available in September. But with a new phone being released every 12 months, the company has to look ahead to what follows, and next year that will be the iPhone 7. Now we’re hearing which companies have secured initial orders for the A9 chip that will be at the heart of the 2015 iPhone.

The big winners are Globalfoundries and Apple’s old rival Samsung. It seems that, love or hate them, Apple can’t do without the manufacturing capacity and expertise of the South Korean company. In this case, Samsung will produce 40 percent of the required 14nm A9 FinFET processors the iPhone 7 will use. Those processors will be manufactured at Globafoundries’ Fab 8 facility located in New York, which Samsung has access to. That equates to an initial output of 60,000 wafers a month, producing enough chips to support the launch around September 2015.

Submission + - Leader of the German Green Party - Dangers of relying Renewables destroyed jobs (pjmedia.com)

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bricko writes: Leader of the German Green Party in the Bundestag, Oliver Krischer, summed up the dangers of relying on green power when he said,

        A few years ago the renewable sector was the job miracle in Germany; now nothing is left of all of that.

Germany now on massive rebuild of Coal Plants.

Every European economy that followed the green agenda has faltered badly. Consequently, Germany is building coal plants to replace both failed wind power sources and even clean nuclear plants that are a casualty of irrational phobia after the Fukushima nuclear accident. In 2013 alone Germany built six more coal plants. China and India build four new ones every week, rendering Ontario’s coal shutdown, as well as those planned for the U.S., completely irrelevant from a climate perspective no matter what one believes about the science.

Submission + - Where did Global Warming get its start..why? (wordpress.com)

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bricko writes: Where did Global Warming get its start..why?

https://climatism.wordpress.co...

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that .. the threat of global warming.. would fit the bill.. the real enemy, then, is humanity itself.” – Club Of Rome

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?”
- Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Anthropogenic “climate change” is, and always was, a radical campaign to reduce the world’s population. A misanthropic agenda engineered by the environmental movement in the mid 1970s, who realised that doing something about “global warming” would play to quite a number of its social agendas.

The goal was advanced, most notably, by The Club Of Rome (Consultants to the UN) – a group of mainly European scientists and academics, who used computer modelling to warn that the world would run out of finite resources if population growth were left unchecked.

Submission + - Can not look into "settled science" Slashdot says (slashdot.org)

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bricko writes: Big Bang may not be so "settled" science

But, but....this is "settled science" so we are told.....just like AGW, we can NOT look into Warming....its "settled science". Or so Slashdot management has decided as they censor any links to research that debunks this so called "settled science".

douchebags.

Submission + - Massive change to Windows 9 - strip out Metro? (winbeta.org)

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bricko writes: The Chinese Government infamously announced recently that they have banned the use of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 on Government PC's due to the cloud/Modern UI integration. While it may not sound like a big deal on the surface, Microsoft are currently panicking regarding the whole ordeal, and are currently reconsidering a number of plans with Windows 9.

Microsoft has already made drastic changes to the way employees at Microsoft access test builds. Instead of the builds being freely accessible via Microsoft CorpNet, an employee is required to request a new build which is personally assigned to them, this change will attempt to minimize leaks dramatically.

According to WZOR, Windows 9 Enterprise Edition could potentially see the removal of cloud-based integration within the operating system, along with the ability to completely disable the Modern UI 2.0.

Submission + - West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is being melted by geothermal heat from below (phys.org)

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bricko writes: Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The findings significantly change the understanding of conditions beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet where accurate information has previously been unobtainable.

The Thwaites Glacier has been the focus of considerable attention in recent weeks as other groups of researchers found the glacier is on the way to collapse, but more data and computer modeling are needed to determine when the collapse will begin in earnest and at what rate the sea level will increase as it proceeds. The new observations by UTIG will greatly inform these ice sheet modeling efforts.

Submission + - AMS - no connection between GW and Sea Level Rise (ametsoc.org)

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bricko writes: No connection between climate changes and any sea level rise

The reconstructions account for the observation that the rate of GMSLR was not much larger during the last 50 years than during the twentieth century as a whole, despite the increasing anthropogenic forcing. Semiempirical methods for projecting GMSLR depend on the existence of a relationship between global climate change and the rate of GMSLR, but the implication of the authors' closure of the budget is that such a relationship is weak or absent during the twentieth century.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/do...

Submission + - Elon Musk at Tesla thinking of releasing his Patents to others (dailycaller.com)

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bricko writes: Elon Musk at Tesla thinking of releasing his Patents to others to further electric car manufacturing

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk expressed surprise at the company’s shareholder meeting earlier this week that other auto manufacturers haven’t significantly invested in electric cars, and said he’s considering doing something “fairly controversial” with Tesla’s patents.

“I was hoping other companies would engage in more serious electric-car programs,” Musk said.

While Musk declined to elaborate, he said it would be a decision he would have to “carefully explain” in a USA Today report, indicating the founder might be mulling over releasing some of the company’s patented technology to encourage electric auto market growth.

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