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Another prediction confirmed.

All you need to do is cast off prejudice and read with an open, curious mind.
You may open your Horizons, lol.

The Unicode Consortium will adopt a new crop of emoji in June 2017.

So far, we're getting an exploding head, a face with "!@#$%&" in front of it, a vomiting face, a monocled face, an older (unemployable) adult, a woman with headscarf, a bearded man, breast-feeding, mages, fairies, vampires (you can potentially make a black vampire by adding the U+1F3FF Fitzpatrick modifier), merpeople, elves, genies, zombies, an orange heart, gloves, giraffes (pregnancy not specified), a hedgehog, a T-Rex, a steak, a fortune cookie, a flying saucer/UFO, and the flags of England, Scotland, and Wales (perhaps the Unicode Consortium is preparing for the dissolution of the United Kingdom by adding these in advance).

I'm not sure why this stuff popped up in Google News on the 22nd, since most of the glyphs have been known for months. There may be some new languages that weren't there back in August, as well as a Bitcoin sign.

Rumor: AMD Working on 16 Core/32 Thread Ryzen CPU To Take The Performance Crown In The HEDT Spectrum

(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.

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There you have it, boys and girls. Trump has the authority to ban just about anyone from entering the United States, for almost any reason. It's the constitution. It's the law. Section 212(f) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182

The court really has no jurisdiction over Trump's executive order. If the court asserts jurisdiction, any judge who find against Trump is acting unconstitutionally. Any judge who finds and acts against Obama's executive order should be disbarred, and removed from the bench. It's really that simple.

Now, you want to know who DOES have authority to dispute and over rule Trump's executive order? Do you need to be told who has that authority? I'm certain that some of you special snowflakes do have to be told. CONGRESS has that authority. CONGRESS can override an executive order. If congress reaches a consensus that the president is acting improperly, then congress can take one of several actions, up to, and including, voting on an act to over rule the president's executive order.

Liberal judges don't want you to understand constitutional law. They don't want you to look up the law. The law supports Trump's executive order. No judge has the authority to over rule an executive order. No citizen or non-citizen of this country has standing to sue Trump's executive order. Only CONGRESS holds the authority to force the president to recall, or rescind, or cancel an executive order.

IF - and I stress IF - congress should pass an act changing the law, and dictating who may and who may not enter the country, and the president should act contrary to the law passed by congress, THEN, congress would have the authority to impeach the president.

Have you noticed? No judge has the authority to impeach the president. Only congress can do that.

Trump can thumb his nose at those judges who have ruled against him. He could conveivably have them arrested, and charged with any number of crimes. Charges of treason may even be justified.

How many people remember that the president appoints federal judges - but no judge can appoint a president?

Of course, it is nothing new for liberal judges to usurp the law of the land.

Discussion, please. Let's see just how far out in left field some of us can get.

That link, again - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182

AMD Announces Ryzen 5 Lineup: Hex-Core from $219, Available April 11th

$249: Ryzen 5 1600X
6/12 cores/threads
3.6/4.0 GHz base/turbo
95 W TDP

$219: Ryzen 5 1600
6/12 cores/threads
3.2/3.6 GHz base/turbo
65 W TDP

$189: Ryzen 5 1500X
4/8 cores/threads
3.5/3.7 GHz base/turbo
65 W TDP

$169: Ryzen 5 1400
4/8 cores/threads
3.2/3.4 GHz base/turbo
65 W TDP

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003574546

Their project is supported by a Japan Science and Technology Agency program that provides subsidies of up to ¥5 billion for promising technologies. The corporate-academic project team aims to achieve the fastest computing speed in Japan by June, which would make the computer the third-fastest in the world, and eventually claim the world’s fastest position.

The new supercomputer will be the first to be equipped with a high-capacity, low-power 3D integrated circuit (IC) developed by Keio University Prof. Tadahiro Kuroda. The team is utilizing ExaScaler’s original “liquid cooling” technology to efficiently cool down the heated computer using liquid carbon fluoride.

These technologies allowed the supercomputer to be downsized to about one meter wide by one meter long. The plan is to link and install 18 such computers at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology’s Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, to achieve a speed of 24 quadrillion computations per second. If successfully realized, the new supercomputer will have the highest capability in Japan and be the third-fastest computer in international speed rankings.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/03/14/new-japanese-supercomputing-project-targets-exascale/

I could open a business checking account but that means I need business licenses with both the city and state. But my first paycheck is almost gone.

What did I spend it on? Might as well be hookers and blow, I'd have as much to show for it. Actually I spent most of it on restaurant meals. I'm fortunate that I spent some on items of lasting value, like my spiffy new Mac Mini, and some new clothes. Otherwise I would have spent the whole thing at restaurants.

Fortunately a close friend is willing to lend me the money for the business licenses. I will apply online later tonight. This friend of mine is well aware of my fondness for hookers and blow, but frankly I'm shocked.

I used to enjoy cooking at home. It's my depression that discourages it.

I could take sandwiches for lunch but every morning I feel too wiped to make my sandwich. Starting tonight I'm going to make my sandwiches the night before.

Rice and Beans. I like rice and beans, but my bean pot is dirty. I have two kitchen sinks. The left-hand one I actually use, and do a good job of keeping it empty. My bean pot is in the right-hand sink, and has been there for months, unwashed.

There is no excuse. Depression makes me lazy but even so I must not give into it. Among the best ways to overcome depression is to act as if one is not depressed. If I were to wash that damn bean pot I would be rewarded with wholesome nutritious hot meals each evening.

I don't really have any plans for this second paycheck. But that means I must be extra careful or I will spend the lot of it at the taqueria down the street.

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#.........https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-language-is-going-to-be-the-language-of-future-Swift-or-Python
#.........Which programming language is going to be the language of the future? Swift or Python?
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#.........Reply by Hanno Behrens, IT Consultant living in Germany
#.........Written 19 weeks ago

Most likely none of both. Both languages compete in a field of
binding-languages, which is a field of short living languages. Not that nobody
will program in those languages anymore in, say, five years, but they are both
under an incredible hype at the moment, which is more due to marketing issues
than that those languages are really that revolutionary and new.

See, Python and Swift both are trying to cover the field of application that is
known as "binding language". They are both so slow and memory hungry, that you
really don't want any serious application done in them. At least not beyond the
binding, the "scripting" of higher functions together.

Many things in bigger software projects have to be dealt with at client-side
and can not be pre-configured at compile-time. So that's why there are
scripting languages around like LUA for most gaming applications and even
JavaScript is such a language. It does serve the Browser-API, nothing more.

Said this, Python is a more general language than Swift, which is more or less
Apple-bound and does not find serious application beyond that platform at the
moment. As long as Apple is hyping it, it will live. But when Apple drops it,
it has no application whatsoever.

Python is indeed the new BASIC and fits into all applications that BASIC was
invented for. To be an easy comprehensible language. To be near English. To be
interactive. And more or less BASIC did what FORTRAN promised to do and where
ADA also failed.

But BASIC (http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/benchmark?nh) is like 4 times faster
even than Pypy and like 30 times faster than usual Python or Python3. It's
delivered with an easy to understand IDE, it has community functions like
"click and post to community/share" and includes all system functions of the
operating system level that you want, which means it does everything Python
promises, but better, smaller, faster, cleaner and much more understandable.

Compiled Gambas is not much bigger than compiled C and if you ask me, that's
the next generation to go for all those Visual Basic programmers that had
enough off that shit. BASIC really is a cool language and yes, it is a
developing language. The stuff we did in the 80's isn't the stuff you are doing
today.

It's now structured, has objects and all modern concepts that you wish for. So,
from a clean neutral stand point, where I am, I would give BASIC more future
than any of those others. And I'm neutral, because I'm deep in C/ASM personally
and would not touch any of those languages with pliers. If I need a
binding/scripting language, I would use LUA for that. Because it's easy to
implement and import into every C or Assembly project, does play well with all
the other kids, isn't bloated and doesn't want to do everything.

It's just binding stuff and it's doing it fast and more efficient. Faster and
more efficient than any other language I know. Including Perl, which is a
language that competes on the same field and which is much better embedded into
systems than Python or Swift or whatever hog marketing drives through the
village will ever be.

Marketing interest in computer science were often a driving force to sell new
toolsets, to sell courses, to promote a "new better way to program" or other
bullshit (OOP, WYSIWYG, Big Data, Deep Learning,...). And it works in that way
as it is making a lot of money for those who ride that train. Object orientated
programming was one of those trains, that were ridden from the 90's up to day.
But the result is not what was promised. OO tend to end up in a bloody mess and
I don't want to go into depth here, what the reasons are for this. There are
paradigm-reasons and meta-reasons for that.

In short: teachers love OOP, engineers hate it. I'll skip the reasons.

Back to those two languages in question: as scripting languages they are on a
very shaky ground, with a high come and go rate. For quite a time Java seemed
to be dominant but with so much competition and so many changes it's
questionable if one of them will stay for long.

The basis of programming, the hard core is C and Assembly. Around this hard
core some minions gather and compete over the young programmers that are
learning and doing their first steps. Most of them will learn it, do it for two
or three years max, then fall away. A good language stays in mind over many
years and there are not many that will do this.

The only languages I have never forgotten were: ASM, C, BASIC, the ABC of
computing.

These languages have been in my portfolio for so many years and I neglected
some of them over 25 years or longer (BASIC for example), still: I can sit down
and write a program in BASIC like I did 40 years ago. Without even needing to
look up the manual. This language is easy. It totally holds what it promises.

Python? I forget the typical FOR...NEXT construction after two months not
programming that stuff. And I did commercial works in Python, so I did work in
that for quite a time. Still, it's lousy to memorize.

The others never will leave you, once you learned them. Never. And this is the
point of survival and death. In ten years, when the hypes are over, those
languages that don't stick will go away again.

Those languages that are keepers, will stay. And people learn over all their
life, they accumulate knowledge and usually can do much more productive and
revolutionary programs with 40 than they were able to do with 20.

I don't give personally a shit about all those scripting languages and which of
them will survive. For me they are just a filling tool for the real programs to
show some flexibility on the clients computer without needing to install a
whole development environment and recompile the whole thing, just because you
want to change one small parameter.

And for that LUA is the perfect solution.

For the kids wanting quick fun with their Raspi or little computer and without
much knowledge about hardware but with the ability to do all their hardware
can. With a maximum of performance, with a child-level easy language, that's
BASIC. It was BASIC, it will always be BASIC. And this is true for the
construction engineer who is not a programmer but just wants to calculate some
formulas or the technical expert in medicine, in sociology, in physics and
other fields, where it is not important to do huge number crunching and
efficiency, but to just give a result: BASIC.

FORTRAN is dead, not because of C. FORTRAN is dead because of BASIC. It does
the same thing but much much better and easier. With the same philosophy behind
it, but very much better executed.

And it does most things Python promises better. So, after all this hype is
gone, BASIC will still be there. Can't say it's my language, but I can see what
it promises and that it does, indeed, deliver. Just try to do a graphical plot
in Python. Then look at BASIC. Yeah. It's included.

And it's like 30 times faster. So, I really don't think Python or Swift will
make it. But people really have to come down from their high horse and wave
away that language: it's a deliverer. It really does what others only promise.
It's a keeper. It's small and effective. It is type-safe. It can be compiled
without a problem.

It will be there when Python and Swift have long gone the way of ADA or FORTRAN
or REXX (loved that!) or LISP or FORTH (I really love Forth!) but they are
gone. They won't come back.

We have better tools for all that, now. Maybe, just maybe, Python survives in
the niche that was left by LISP. Can be. But I don't trust programmers that
think that recursion and lambda calculus are the solution for everything. I
just see the very lame performance of it and it is indeed very lame. And it is
not "easy to understand", it's a highly abstracted way to solve problems. Not
very like the way humans think, no the way our machines work.

So, they are fascinating, I give you that, but I don't want them in any
productive system. They are for schools.

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It looks like Forecastfox has been sold to spyware vendors as their latest update changes its permissions to "allowed to read and change data on all websites you visit" which for an app that is simply supposed to display data from Accuweather? yeah its been sold to malware vendors.

MWC 2017: AGM Preparing IP68 Rated Snapdragon 835 Smartphone with 8GB DRAM

While the AGM X1 is positioned by the manufacturer as an affordable rugged phone for extreme sports and other outdoor activities, but it is definitely not a phone from the premier league. In the coming months (in mid-2017) AGM plans to introduce its X2, which will be positioned as a premium smartphone and will feature Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 SoC (10nm, eight new Kryo cores, Adreno 540, X16 LTE, LPDDR4X, etc.). This is along with 8 GB of DRAM, 256 GB of NAND, two cameras, a ~6000 mAh battery (there will also be the AGM X2 Pro with a 10,000 mAh battery) an omni-bearing ambient sensor and so on. Based on official images of the AGM X2 (originally published by AGM and AndroidHeadlines), it is possible that the phone has four antennae and thus supports 4x4 MIMO, one of the three features required for Gigabit LTE.

The AGM X2 will be one of the first IP68-rated Snapdragon 835-based smartphones with a rugged design. Meanwhile, for AGM, this will be a debut on the market of premium smartphones that compete against Apple’s iPhones or Samsung’s Galaxy S-series. The price of the AGM X2 is unknown, but it will likely vary significantly depending on the store and the region. For example, the AGM X1 can be bought for $260 in China or for over $480 in the U.S.