will us attack north korea

WILL US ATTACK NORTH KOREA

NORTH Korea has sent a chilling warning to the United States declaring Donald Trump’s war of words with Kim Jong-un will lead to the “total destruction” of America.

The latest threat from Kim Jong-un’s rogue state was delivered through state media Rodong Sinmum.

In an extraordinary attack, North Korea branded the US President “the boss of hooligans and gangsters.” 

And Kim's mouthpiece warned Mr Trump is "driving the destiny of the U.S. doomed to ruin into bottomless abyss of total destruction."

It said: “Recently the US and the South Korean puppet forces staged a combined drill for infiltrating into enemy camp for preemptive attack at strategic objects in the north and introduced a field artillery brigade to South Korea from the US mainland to fire artillery shells. 

“Meanwhile, a formation of B-1B nuclear strategic bombers flew over international waters of the East Sea of Korea in a show of force".

“What matters is the US saber-rattling coincides with the reckless remarks made by Trump, the boss of hooligans and gangsters, at the UN arena that he would totally destroy the DPRK.”

Kim Jong-un is known to use state media to spout fiery tirades against the United States. 

And the commentary from Rodong Sinmum added: “Under the situation no one can vouch that the frantic war drills in south Korea will not lead to an actual war.

“Although the Trump clans are frantically introducing the nuclear strategic assets into south Korea, the army and people of the DPRK regard this action as last-ditch efforts and bluff of the weak fools.

“Trump is pulling the noose around his neck obsessed with daydream. He is driving the destiny of the US doomed to ruin into bottomless abyss of total destruction.

“The ignorant lunatics without ability to see into the situation deserve disgrace and destruction.”

It comes after Mr Trump delivered a sabre-rattling speech at the United Nations last month when he said, if threatened, the United States would “totally destroy” North Korea - a country that is home to 26 million people.

He also stoked the ire of North Korea by mocking its leader, Kim, dubbing him “rocket man.”

In a hard-edged speech to the UNGeneral Assembly, Mr Trump said: “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”

Mr Trump’s most direct military threat to attack North Korea, in his debut appearance at the General Assembly, was his latest expression of concern about Pyongyang’s repeated launching of ballistic missiles over Japan and underground nuclear tests.

Tensions have risen on the Korean peninsula after Kim angered the international community with his sixth missile test which saw him test a hydrogen bomb.

The UN Security Council imposed its toughest sanctions ever on the North in response to its continuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests, with the aim of pressuring Kim's government into returning to negotiations on denuclearising the Korean peninsula.

The measures includes a ban on countries importing North Korean coal, iron ore and textiles and new limits on its crucial oil and petroleum product imports. 

But the economic pressure has had no visible impact on Kim's government, which appears to be accelerating toward what it says is its goal - putting the entire United States within range of its nuclear weapons.

A week ago, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters Mr Trump had "declared the war on our country" by tweeting that North Korea's leadership "won't be around much longer." 

Hours later, the White House pushed back, saying: "We have not declared war on North Korea."

BEST REGARDS,

K.AKSHAY

Police say Las Vegas gunman planned ‘extensively,’ used cameras to monitor officers as they approached

Police say Las Vegas gunman planned ‘extensively,’ used cameras to monitor officers as they approached

Investigators trying to determine what sparked the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history have found the massacre to be the work of a sophisticated planner with the means and desire to inflict unprecedented carnage.

But on the second full day after Stephen Paddock smashed out the windows of a high-floor suite on the Las Vegas Strip and opened fire on a crowd of unsuspecting concertgoers, authorities still were trying to understand what drove him to such evil.

Several new details emerged Tuesday about Paddock — a 64-year-old retired accountant — and how he worked methodically to thwart law enforcement as he killed scores of people and injured hundreds more.

[Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.]

As he fired round after round during an 11-minute stretch from a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Paddock used video cameras to keep an eye out for police storming his hotel room, according to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.

Paddock hid one camera in the peephole of his suite and two more in the hall, at least one of them disguised on a service cart, authorities said. At one point, he shot numerous rounds through the door, wounding a security guard. Paddock eventually put a gun in his own mouth and pulled the trigger as SWAT officers closed in. They found him with blood pooling behind his head and around the empty shell casings that littered the carpet, a handgun near his body.

“It was preplanned, extensively, and I’m pretty sure that he evaluated everything that he did in his actions, which is troublesome,” Lombardo said.

The sheriff said investigators were “making progress” on determining a motive, but complete answers remained elusive. There were precious few clues in Paddock’s background.

Neighbors in several states where Paddock owned homes in retirement communities describe him as surly, unfriendly and standoffish. Paddock was the son of a bank robber who was once on the FBI’s most-wanted list and who authorities described at the time as a “psychopath,” but Paddock’s brother said their father was not involved in their lives when they were children.

Relatives say the roots of Paddock’s loner lifestyle might have been planted on July 28, 1960. On that day, when Paddock was 7, a neighbor from across the street took him swimming. The neighbor told a local newspaper at the time that she knew authorities were coming for his father, and she wanted to spare the young boy from the trauma of seeing his father taken away. From that point on, Paddock’s family was never the same.

Until carrying out the massacre Sunday night, Paddock had no criminal history himself. Despite repeated claims by the Islamic State to the contrary, he also had no ties to international terror groups, authorities said. He had done some government work during his career, as a letter carrier for the Postal Service, an agent for the Internal Revenue Service and an auditor for the federal government’s Defense Contract Audit Agency in the late 1970s and 1980s. He was divorced twice and recently had been dating a woman from the Philippines who has Australian citizenship. He was known to gamble routinely and extensively.

Some public officials seemed to suggest Paddock’s mind was troubled, though there were no immediate indications that he had been diagnosed with a mental illness or was anything other than fully aware of what he was doing.

“A normal person would not cause this type of harm to innocent people,” said Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D-Nev.). “Clearly, there was something wrong with this man.”

People close to the investigation also said that in the weeks before the attack, Paddock transferred a large amount of money — close to $100,000 — to someone in the Philippines, possibly his girlfriend. The significance of that development was not immediately clear, though investigators said they were interested in probing Paddock’s finances and his avid interest in high-stakes gambling.

The girlfriend, Marilou Danley, returned to the United States from the Philippines Tuesday night and was met at Los Angeles International Airport by FBI agents, according to wire reports. Investigators considered her a “person of interest,” Lombardo said. Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) said that police are eager to talk to her, as Paddock “doesn’t meet any profiles” and the “best lead is through this girlfriend.”

So Las Vegas yet to recover.

Best Regards,

K.Akshay.

WILL APPLE BUY TESLA?

WILL APPLE BUY TESLA?

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday confirmed what was one of the worst-kept secrets in the stock market: His company has autonomous car ambitions.

While calling it a “core technology that we view as very important,” Cook told Bloomberg that his company is working to build self-driving car technology, referring to the endeavor as “the mother of all AI projects.”

Notably, this admission marks the first time the CEO has publicly discussed the car program, dubbed Project Titan, which Apple began three years ago. This, however, is a pivotal point in paving the options that Apple has next, including making an M&A run at Tesla.

Until Bloomberg’s interview, which occurred on June 5 but aired Tuesday, Apple had never stated publicly that it is working on a car. Last year Tesla CEO Elon Musk called Apple's car plans an "open secret ," saying, "It's pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it.”

But the project had hit several sangs, which last year prompted Musk to suggest Apple was too far behind to enter the autonomous vehicle race.

"I'd think there will be volume production no sooner than 2020," he said about Apple. "Is that too late?”

To be sure, trailing market leaders has never been a problem for Apple. In fact, the tech giant prides itself on being fashionably late. With autonomous car technology, however, there’s too much at stake for Apple to risk perfecting it on its own. Aside from Tesla, Alphabet  subsidiary Google, which has already collected more than 2 million miles of public-roadway testing for its vehicles, has a significant lead on Apple.

Google in December launched Waymo, which stands for “a new way forward in mobility.”

The search giant has since unveiled various car prototypes fitted with Google’s hardware and software built to move with the touch of a button, with neither a steering wheel nor a brake pedal. But by acquiring Tesla, Apple can immediately take the lead.

In Tesla’s most-popular sedan, the Model S, for instance, the company has already rolled out self-driving capabilities that — as with iOS devices — receive incremental updates on autopilot features. These updates, which include “exit ramp autonomy” on highways, automatic lane-changing, and auto-steering, are also available to Model X, Tesla’s SUV family.

Given Apple's automotive and mapping efforts with Apple Maps and the fact that it has teamed up with automakers to have its CarPlay platform supported by infotainment systems, the synergies with acquiring Tesla seems like a no-brainer. With some $257 billion in cash on the balance sheet, which is more money stashed than the U.S. Treasury, Apple has enough firepower to take on Tesla, which has an enterprise value at just $70 billion.

Hope apple buys Tesla.

Best Regards,

K.Akshay

WILL LAS VEGAS RECOVER AFTER THE ATTACK ?

WILL LAS VEGAS RECOVER AFTER THE ATTACK 

stephen craig paddock (the shooter)

MESQUITE, Nev. — The man who carried out the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history was a retired accountant with a taste for high-stakes poker who had moved to Nevada just a couple of years earlier.

While investigators were still piecing together the attack by Stephen Paddock at a country music concert that left at least 59 dead and 527 wounded, the gunman's younger brother said the gunman had shown no signs of volatility.

A wealthy retired accountant opened fire from a hotel room above a packed outdoor concert in Las Vegas, killing at least 59, wounding 527 more and triggering a stampede as the panicked crowd scrambled for cover amid the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. 

Gunman Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, an avid gambler who enjoyed playing high-stakes poker, killed himself shortly before officers stormed his 32nd-floor room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, said Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.

As of late Monday, authorities seized over 40 firearms that Paddock had either in his hotel room or at his home in Mesquite, Nev., where police also seized explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Another search warrant was executed Monday at a separate home that Paddock owned in Reno, but details weren't released as to what was found in that house.

Lombardo described Paddock, the son of a 1960s bank robber who was on the FBI's most-wanted list after escaping from prison, as "a distraught person intent on causing mass casualties." Lombardo said Paddock was likely a "lone wolf" and that a motive for the shooting had not been determined.

"This is a crazed lunatic full of hate," Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said. "This has been a hugely traumatic time for all of us."

Paddock had checked into the Mandalay Bay on Sept. 28, but officials couldn’t say by Monday evening whether he specifically requested the towering room. They also couldn’t offer a definite timeline of Paddock’s actions in the days leading up to the shooting, the moments during the massacre, or how Paddock managed to transport nearly two dozen weapons into his room undetected.

Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo said he knew the public was eager to understand Paddock’s motive, but urged patience during the investigation.

“We’re hunting down and tracing down every clue we can get in his background,” he said.

Other officials touted the city’s resilience in the aftermath of the city’s tragedy. Blood banks were now stocked, and by Monday evening were turning away would-be donors. And a GoFundMe page had collected more than $2.2 million from 30,000 donors, including a $400,000 donation from Stephen Cloobeck, the founder of Diamond Resorts International.

Paddock’s brother, Eric Paddock, who lives in Florida, says his multimillionaire brother was a big spender at casinos and often received free meals and rooms there.

With hospitals jammed with victims, authorities put out a call for blood donations and set up a hotline to report missing people and speed the identification of the dead and wounded. They also opened a “family reunification center” for people to find loved ones.

More than 12 hours after the massacre, bodies covered in white sheets were still being removed from the festival grounds.

President Trump addressed the nation Monday from the White House, calling the attack "an act of pure evil" and ordering flags flown at half staff. He thanked first-responders for their "miraculous" efforts and said he would visit Las Vegas on Wednesday.

The mass shooting underscored how easy it can be to bring weapons and other contraband into hotels . Although it wasn't immediately clear how Paddock got the weapons and ammo to his room, security experts say he easily could have hid them in innocuous containers.

"You can bring a long gun in disassembled in a small suitcase. Nobody would think twice about somebody carrying in a golf bag, or something like a big snow ski bag," said Angela Hrdlicka, a former Secret Service agent who is now a private security consultant for Major League Baseball parks and other professional sports.

Lombardo said officials have yet to locate any manifesto or other indication of motive.

Lombardo laid out the frantic minutes between the shooting and officials locating Paddock in his 32nd-floor hotel room. He said officers received information from security that the shooter was likely staying between the 28th and the 32nd floor.

A team of six officers approached security, went up in elevators and checked “each floor, floor by floor,” until they reached Paddock’s room, he said.

As they approached the room, the team came under fire and one security guard was shot in the leg. The team then backed off for a SWAT team to intervene. They were able to gain entry into the room and found Paddock dead.

THIS IS VERY SAD BUT NO ONE CAN STOP IT.

MAY THE SOUL REST IN PEACE

BEST REGARDS,

K.Akshay

Blogger vs WordsPress

Blogger vs WordPress

Blogger:-Blogger is a blog-publishing service  that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a Sundomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com). A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.

WordPress:-WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and mySQL.To function, WordPress has to be installed on a Web server, which would either be part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. An example of the first scenario may be a service like wordpress.com, for example, and the second case could be a computer running the software package WordPress.org.

Blogger vs. WordPress

Ownership:-

Blogger is hosted by the giant multinational company google.Google runs this service and has the right to shut it down, or shutdown your access to it at any time.

With WordPress, you use a WordPress hosting provider to host your own site. You are free to decide how long you want to run it and when you want to shut it down. You own all your data, and you control what information you share with any third party.

• In the ownership part blogger wins.

Control:-

Blogger is a fine tuned service with very limited tools allowing you to perform only specific tasks on your website. The things you can do on your blogspot blog are limited, and there is no way you can extend them to meet a need.

WordPress is an open source software, so you can easily extend it to add new features. There are thousands of WordPress plugin allowing you to modify and extend the default feature set such as adding a store to your website, creating portfolio, etc.

• In the control part WordPress wins.

Appearance:-

Blogger by default only provides a limited set of templates to use. You can modify the colors and layout of these templates using the built-in tools, but you cannot create your own layouts or make modifications. There are some non-official Blogger templates available, but those templates are usually very low quality.

There are thousands of free and premium WordPress theme  which allow you to create professional looking websites. There is a WordPress theme for just about every kind of website. No matter what your site is about, you will find plenty of high quality themes which are easy to modify and customize.

• In the part of appearance both wins.

Security:-

Using Blogger you have the added advantage of Google’s robust secure platform. You don’t need to worry about managing your server’s resources, securing your blog, or creating backups.

WordPress is quite secure, but since it is a self hosted solution you are responsible for security and backups. There are plenty of WordPress plugins that make it easier for you.

• In the part of security blogger wins because  blogger is protected by google and google is trusted all over the word.

Future:-

Blogger has not seen any major update since a very long time. We have seen Google kill their popular services such as Google Reader, Adsense for feeds, and the possible demies of FeedBurner . Future of Blogger depends on Google, and they have the right to shut it down whenever they want.

WordPress is an Open Source software which means its future is not dependent on one company or individual . It is developed by a community of developers and users. Being world’s most popular content management system, thousands of businesses around the globe depend on it. The future of WordPress is bright and reassuring. 

• THE RESULT  IS:-
• BLOGGER WIN BY 3 POINTS 
• WORDPRESS LOSES WITH 1 POINT.

BEST REGARDS,

K.Akshay,

                                      

CAN GOOGLE BEAT APPLE?

CAN "GOOGLE" BEAT "APPLE" IN THE UP COMING YEARS?

GOOGLE:-

Google Inc. is an American multinational technology comapany that specializes in internet-related services and products. These include online advertising  technologies, serch, cloud computing, software and  hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by larry page and sergey brin while they were Ph.d. students at stanford university, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. 

APPLE:-

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal computer, the iPod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, and the HomePod smart speaker. Apple's consumer software includes the macOS and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media player, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. Its online services include the iTunes Store, the iOS App Store and Mac App Store, Apple Music, and iCloud.

WILL GOOGLE BEAT APPLE?

It wasn't that long ago that many investors assumed Apple (AAPL,Tech30) would get there first.

At its peak price earlier this year, Apple had a market value of nearly $775 billion. Alphabet, which I'm now going to refer to as Google (GOOGLE,Tech30) for the rest of this story, was worth $366 billion at the time.

But Apple's stock has plunged from its highs in recent months due to fears that iPhone sales are slowing -- in part due to the popularity of smartphones that run on Google's Android operating system.

Apple is still the world's most valuable company. But Google is nipping at its heels.

Apple's market value is currently $605 billion while Google is worth $527 billion.

In 2015:-

Sure, a nearly $80 billion gap may still sound like a lot. But it's not really. Google only needs to go up 15% to beat Apple's current valuation -- provided that Apple stands still, of course.

Google has more momentum right now. The stock is up 43% this year while Apple's shares are down 2%.

Google's search business is thriving, particularly on mobile devices. And Google is getting more and more revenue from YouTube.

Analysts think Google's profits will grow at a much faster rate than Apple's as well.

Wall Street is forecasting that earnings per share for Google will be up 17% a year, on average, over the next few years compared to a projected annual growth rate of 12%. All estimates cited in this story are from FactSet Research.

So let's say, for the sake of argument, that Google continues to outperform Apple next year.

According to the research:

vs

Google will beat apple in the year 2019.

Best Regards,

K.Akshay