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Matt Vensel is in his first year at the Star Tribune after covering the Ravens for the Baltimore Sun for six years. He is a Pittsburgh native and a Penn State grad. Follow him at @mattvensel.
Mark Craig has covered the NFL for 23 years, and the Vikings since 2003 for the Star Tribune. He is one of 44 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. Follow him at @markcraignfl.
Master Tesfatsion is the Star Tribune's digital Vikings writer. He is a 2013 graduate of Arizona State and worked for mlb.com before arriving in Minneapolis. Follow him at @masterstrib.
Over the next two weeks, we will take a position-by-position look at where the Vikings stand heading into the offseason after their 7-9 season in 2014. Today, we take a gander at the cornerbacks.
After head coach Mike Zimmer took the job in January, no position group was more scrutinized by the respected former defensive coordinator during spring workouts than the cornerbacks. Zimmer, who got his start in the NFL coaching defensive backs for the Cowboys two decades ago, was all over those guys from the start, particularly Xavier Rhodes, who was entering his second season.
The extra attention paid off, particularly for Rhodes, as improved cornerback play helped the Vikings improve from 31st in the NFL in pass defense in 2013 to seventh this past season.
Rhodes blossomed under Zimmer's tutelage and in the second half of the season was one of the league's stingiest cornerbacks. But he wasn't the only one to show improvement. Josh Robinson had some rocky moments (ahem, the first Bears game), but he bounced back from a tough 2013.
Still, despite the emergence of Rhodes, the signing of Captain Munnerlyn and the rebounding of Robinson, the Vikings have plenty of room for improvement at cornerback this offseason.
ONE REASON FOR OPTIMISM: The Vikings may have a lockdown cornerback in Rhodes. How good was he in the second half? From Week 9 on, only three players — Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and Chris Culliver — allowed passes to be completed less frequently than Rhodes, according to Pro Football Focus. His rapid development emboldened Zimmer to tweak his scheme so that Rhodes could match up 1-on-1 with the opponent's top wide-out. Rhodes fared well against Calvin Johnson, Mike Wallace and Alshon Jeffery down the stretch, so look for it to continue in 2015.
ONE REASON FOR CONCERN: When they Vikings signed Munnerlyn to a reasonable three-year, $15 million contract last offseason, they did so knowing the value he could potentially bring as a slot defender. They also knew that he could start in the base defense if needed. It turned out that he was indeed the best option, but he had trouble adapting to Zimmer's schemes and the result was an uneven season as a starter. Munnerlyn must play better in 2015, especially if he's still starting.
GRADES WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: Since the Vikings (understandably) won't make their player grades public, we turn to Pro Football Focus, whom some players and coaches have been critical of. For context with these grades, a grade of 0.0 is considered average. Positive grades are good. Negative grades are not. The team's top three corners all finished with positive grades. Rhodes led the group with a plus-3.3 grade (he was a plus-7.3 in pass coverage). Robinson was a plus-2.6. And Munnerlyn was slightly above average at plus-0.3. Marcus Sherels and rookie Jabari Price both received negative grades in limited snaps as reserves.
STAT THAT STANDS OUT: 18 — pass break-ups for Rhodes, which tied for fourth in the league.
POTENTIAL DEPARTURES: The Vikings have no pending free agents at the position. And while there has been a little speculation that Munnerlyn could be released, he's expected to stick around.
OFFSEASON LEVEL OF NEED: Between moderate and high. The Vikings were a top-10 pass defense with the guys they have, and while they might not desperately need another starting corner, it certainly would be a smart investment. If they can find in free agency or the draft another cornerback with some size to line up on the opposite side of the formation from Rhodes, they could keep Munnerlyn strictly on the inside as a nickel cornerback (it's worth noting that Zimmer remarked last week at the Senior Bowl "that's probably what he is") and could have Robinson on the bench in the event of an injury. So it wouldn't be surprising if the Vikings ignored greater needs and used a high pick on a corner, especially because it typically takes them a couple of years to develop.
Over the next two weeks, we will take a position-by-position look at where the Vikings stand heading into the offseason after their 7-9 season in 2014. Today, we will focus on the offensive line.
The Vikings figured that their offensive line would be a strength in 2014. After all, all five of their starting linemen were back for a third straight season and they figured they had one of the league's better offensive tackle combos in former Pro Bowler Matt Kalil and big Phil Loadholt.
But offensive line play ended up being one of the team's biggest weaknesses due to the struggles of Kalil and other starters, along with a bunch of injuries along the offensive line.
Right guard Brandon Fusco, who was rewarded with a contract extension before the season opener then was lost to a torn pectoral muscle two weeks later, was the first starter to go down. In Week 12, Loadholt, their right tackle, suffered a similar season-ending injury. Left guard Charlie Johnson, who struggled mightily in 2014, missed two games late in the season before returning for the finale.
Those injuries forced backup linemen Joe Berger, Mike Harris and Vlad Ducasse into action.
The offensive line played better late in the season, but the Vikings allowed 51 sacks on the season, the fifth-highest total in the league. Kalil was responsible for 12 of them, per Pro Football Focus.
ONE REASON FOR OPTIMISM: Silver linings are a little harder to spot at this position group, but veteran center John Sullivan was solid in 2014 despite all of the moving parts around him and Fusco, who was becoming one of the league's better right guards, will be back healthy in 2015.
ONE REASON FOR CONCERN: There are reasons for concern at left guard (they need to find one) and right tackle (Loadholt's pectoral injury could sideline him until training camp), but they pale in comparison to what is up with Kalil. As a rookie, Kalil, the fourth overall pick in 2012, made the Pro Bowl and looked like a long-term answer at left tackle. He did not play as well in 2013, and after missing workouts this past spring due to offseason knee surgery, Kalil's performance plummeted. He was one of the league's worst tackles in pass protection and admittedly endured lapses in confidence. This spring, the Vikings must decide whether to pick up his fifth-year option to secure his services through 2016. It seemed like a no-brainer before the season, but now it will require careful consideration.
GRADES WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: Since the Vikings (understandably) won't make their player grades public, we turn to Pro Football Focus, whom some players and coaches have been critical of. For context with these grades, a grade of 0.0 is considered average. Positive grades are good. Negative grades are not. Sullivan, Berger, Fusco and Loadholt (barely) all earned positive marks, and Sullivan's plus-5.6 grade was the highest among all Vikings offensive players. But only three NFL offensive tackles graded out worse than Kalil, who was a negative-29.1. Ducasse and Johnson also graded poorly at negative-14.1 and negative-12.1, respectively.
STAT THAT STANDS OUT: 55 — total pressures allowed by Kalil this past season, per Pro Football Focus. Only Dolphins rookie right tackle Ja'Wuan James surrendered more than Kalil, who gave up 12 sacks, seven other quarterback hits and 36 hurries in 16 games.
POTENTIAL DEPARTURES: Johnson is expected to be released, leaving an opening at left guard. Berger, Harris and Ducasse are all scheduled to become free agents. Bringing back Berger, who was solid as a replacement at center and guard, makes sense for both parties. Harris, who just turned 26, is a tougher call. And the Vikings can do better than Ducasse, who will likely be allowed to walk.
OFFSEASON LEVEL OF NEED: High. General Manager Rick Spielman recently said that the team has identified eight positions that need to be improved, and left guard has to be at or near the top of the list. Kalil's struggles were compounded by the play of Johnson, and the Vikings will look to upgrade at left guard through free agency or the draft. They must also figure out what to do at the left tackle position. Kalil isn't going anywhere, and the team will give him every opportunity to be the starter again in 2015. But it would be wise to add a reliable backup plan at his position, whether it is signing a veteran with starting experience or drafting another left tackle prospect. And with three backups becoming free agents, the Vikings will have to restock the bottom of their depth chart.
Former Vikings running back Tommy Mason, the first draft pick in franchise history, died Thursday morning in Newport Beach, Calif., at age 75.
"The entire Minnesota Vikings organization is saddened by the loss of Tommy Mason," Vikings owner and team president Mark Wilf said in a statement. "As the team's first-ever draft pick, Tommy played a significant role in the history of the franchise. After spending six seasons with the team, he remained a part of the Vikings family, appearing at multiple events over the past several decades. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Mason family at this time."
After a standout collegiate career at Tulane, Mason was selected first overall by the Vikings in the 1961 NFL draft. He played six seasons for the Vikings, earning three Pro Bowl nods and becoming the franchise's first All-Pro selection in 1963.
Mason rushed for 3,252 yards and 28 touchdowns with the Vikings and caught 151 passes for 1,689 yards and 11 more touchdowns.
"Tommy was an enormous talent," former Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton said in a statement. "He was a great player, a humble man and an outstanding teammate. I will always cherish the years I spent with Tommy."
Knee injuries slowed Mason in his final seasons with the Vikings, and in 1967 he was traded to the Los Angeles Rams. He played four seasons there before finishing his career with the Redskins.
"Tommy was as complete of a running back as they come," long-time Vikings athletic trainer Fred Zamberletti said in a statement. "Because of injuries, Tommy did not have the career that he wanted to have but he was a very talented, hard-running, slashing player. He'll always be remembered as one of the original Vikings. He will be sorely missed."
Patrick Reusse wrote a fun profile of Mason as part of the Star Tribune's "Where Are They Now" series in 2007. You can read that story here.
Over the next two weeks, we will take a position-by-position look at where the Vikings stand heading into the offseason after their 7-9 season in 2014. Today, we will take a look at the tight ends.
Given offensive coordinator Norv Turner's track record with tight ends, big things were expected of Kyle Rudolph this past season. After all, look what Turner did with guys like Antonio Gates and Jordan Cameron in his previous stops. But a pair of injuries limited Rudolph to just nine games.
After Rudolph underwent sports hernia surgery in Week 3, it was up to Chase Ford and Rhett Ellison to hold down the position. Ford showed flashes as a pass-catcher and Ellison fared well as a run blocker. But neither emerged as a consistent threat for rookie quarterback Teddy Bridgewater.
Rudolph returned after the bye week, but it took him a while to resemble his old self. He finally busted out with seven catches for 69 yards in the Week 15, but he suffered knee and ankle injuries and wouldn't make another catch the rest of the way.
Collectively, that trio combined for 66 catches for 697 yards and four touchdowns — not awful considering the circumstances, but not exactly the big-time production expected under Turner.
ONE REASON FOR OPTIMISM: Turner will be back as offensive coordinator, and one can presume the plans for his offense won't go up in smoke like they did in Week 2, when running back Adrian Peterson was lost for the season due to his legal issues. It also didn't help that Rudolph was lost in Week 3. Rudolph should have a larger role in the offense in 2015, particularly in the red zone…
ONE REASON FOR CONCERN: … but only, of course, if Rudolph can remain healthy enough to play. The Vikings are banking on big production from Rudolph, evidenced by the five-year, $36.5 million contract extension they gave him during training camp. But he has missed 15 total games the past two seasons due to injury, and he must stay on the field to reward them for their investment.
GRADES WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: Since the Vikings (understandably) won't make their player grades public, we turn to Pro Football Focus, whom some players and coaches have been critical of. For context with these grades, a grade of 0.0 is considered average. Positive grades are good. Negative grades are not. Ford was the only tight end graded in the green with a plus-4.6 grade. Ellison was slightly below average at negative-0.2. Rudolph was a negative-2.8 overall. Former Gopher MarQueis Gray graded as a negative-1.5 in limited action before he was waived.
STAT THAT STANDS OUT: two — passes caught 20 or more yards downfield by Vikings tight ends, both by Ford. In 2013, when Turner coordinated the Browns offense, Cameron was targeted much more often downfield. But the Vikings in 2014 targeted one of their tight ends deep only three times.
POTENTIAL DEPARTURES: All three tight ends are under contract through the 2015 season.
OFFSEASON LEVEL OF NEED: Very low. The Vikings have three young tight ends who all bring something to the table. The key will be Rudolph staying on the field, but the position is not a priority.
It appears that the Vikings' coaching staff will remain mostly intact for the upcoming season.
The Jaguars, who had interviewed Vikings running backs coach Kirby Wilson for their offensive coordinator opening, hired Greg Olson instead, meaning that Wilson will remain with the Vikings.
And head coach Mike Zimmer told reporters at the Senior Bowl that the team would elevate Drew Petzing to assistant wide receiver coach, replacing Klint Kubiak, who took a job at Kansas. Petzing served as a coaching assistant for the Vikings last season, his first in Minnesota.
Zimmer also said that the Vikings will extend the contracts for holdovers from Leslie Frazier's staff, so that means wide receivers coach George Stewart and offensive line Jeff Davidson will return.
That continuity for the coaching staff should be a plus as the second year of the Zimmer era begins.
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On the other hand, many others could. And for them, a bigger screen is likely to be better than a smaller one - also for obvious reasons.
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Samsung puts ultrasonic echolocation cover on a smartphone for the blind
Re: I don't think those who can't see will mind that its not for big screens...
Very few blind people can't see at all. Total blindness is incredibly rare.
Admittedly there are also a lot of people with so little functional vision, that a touch screen would be of no practical use. But there are many conditions where a white cane or guide dog would be appropriate, but where people could still use large prompts on a screen. Or even read some text (if large enough).
Plus there are also plenty of totally blind people who use touch screen phones. Everything is hard when you're blind, so they just get used to dealing with it. I think the high cost and relatively low speed of development of the specialist kit, tempts them to use the mainstream stuff. So the RNIB recomment (or used to) the iPhone, and people get used to being very disclipline as to moving their fingers to select icons (which they've placed so know the layout of) - and using the audio feedback.
Commentards Ball
Re: Commentards Ball
I notice that certain staff members sneaked off early, in order to avoid their share of the drinking. Shame!
Or are the El Reg overlords a bit more evil than that, and it was their share of the tab they were avoiding...
However the noble editor (Dear Leader Kim Jong Page) took one for the team, and was still there propping up the bar, whisky in hand, when I had to run for the train.
Perhaps these modern hacks, just can't... hack it? I did ask whether journalism was still the drink-sodden profession of olden days. Most agreed that things had eased-off in recent years, but Lewis said that he'd come to journalism from the navy, so the drinking seemed positively light to him.
It was a fun evening, and I was grateful for the invite. I'm not sure if the Register got any business value out of it. All they've done is expose their poor put-upon staff to even more of the dregs of humanity than they usually meet at media events and trade shows.
MtGox remedy worse than the disease says Kaspersky researcher
Re: Le résumé de la situation
Here is the critical fault with fractional-reserve banking that rarely gets discussed. When someone deposits a good it is not because he does not want to use it. Nor does that good represent some idle resource until it is asked for. People who support fractional-reserve banking of both the centralized and "free" varieties are both of the opinion that deposits are idle cash and no one is harmed when a bank puts them to good use.....
Destroy all Monsters,
This is nothing to do with fractional reserve banking. Mt Gox wasn't a bank. It was an exchange or a broker. It wasn't licenced as a bank, nor was it regulated as such. Although it wasn't regulated as a broker either. It also didn't operate as a bank. It only had a fraction of the Bitcoins that it claimed to hold on behalf of its customers either through monumental stupidity and incompetence, or internal fraud. Or possibly both. Losing some of the money was probably inevitable in any complex company, but not noticing and continuing to lose all their assets was incompetence at best.
The reason that banks are allowed to get away with only holding a fraction of their depositors money in cash, is that they pay interest. Current accounts in the UK don't, but then they don't charge fees either (which is quite unusual). But people have savings, as well as current accounts. Banks need to expect people to spend the cash in their current accounts, over the month, but they wouldn't expect their savers to do so. And in fact generally pay higher rates of interest, if you promise to lock your money in a savings product for longer. Also banks lend cash (hopefully) they don't lose it. That loan is an asset. So although they've lent out the cash you deposited with them, they still have something to show for it (unlike Bitcoin). Often a mortgage, backed by a house, or a business loan with collaterol. Also they hold cash reserves, to meet withdrawal requests, and they have capital reserves (their shareholders' money), to cover losses and protect their depositors. Not that it's perfect. But totally different to Bitcoin. And anyone who lends a bank cash at interest is specifically asking the bank to invest it in something. Or thinks the banks are charities, that just pay interest out of niceness...
'Hacked docs' prove MtGox has 1 MILLION Bitcoins, claim blog-snatchers
Re: "Satoshi Nakamoto" = "Free Lunch"?
You can't make an omelette without breaking... metaphors.
Or something.
Roll up, roll up for the Commentards' Ball
Bloody hell! You guys are patient, if you don't zap accounts where you've already rejected 375 posts!
What kind of cynical, embittered, angry mods must you be - if you've had to read all that. Suddenly it doesn't seem so safe meeting you... This is beginning to sound like a cunning plan to assassinate your more troublesome commentards.
I must check my posting history to see if I have blasphemed against the Vulture God.
Re: @ADJB
For proper cheap beer, available a short rail journey away, that's also incredibly strong... May I propose Brussels. Yummy food as well.
Re: "Commentards don't HAVE balls"
Everyone could just have a label saying I'm Spartacus...
Or wear V for Vendetta masks perhaps?
Exactly. I'd walk from Australia for the chance to drink free beer.
Although as I live in Blighty, that wouldn't be a problem in this case. And I'm not sure I'd walk to Australia, given some of what they sell as beer...
a free and frank exchange of views.
Isn't that diplomat speak for a virtual fight? So the poster above who's suggesting you're going to gather all your critics in one place for some cattle-prod re-education may be correct after all.
Run AWAY!!!!
Or perhaps you should kill them with kindness. Go for another post-pub deathmatch, comparing deep-fried polonium against kebabs for half-life and lethality...
Surely this is an opportunity for another badge for commentards as well? To act as a memorial, when nostalically viewing their old posts from before The Cull.
Re: Great idea!
Other drinks are available. Particularly as they're going to hold this beanfeast in that thar poncy London. So you could have a small sherry instead.
Or perhaps be more traditional and have a large gin...
Apple to grieving sons: NO, you cannot have access to your dead mum's iPad
Re: Well done
If you wish not to have your family see your private stuff after you're dead, then don't make them executors of your will. Pick a friend instead.
There's going to be private stuff when you die. It won't be embarrassing though, as you're dead, so won't notice. But that's why you pick an executor you trust. They then get to decide what to do with stuff, not random companies who just happen to be holding onto it at the time you happened to die.
Re: Well done
Good Grief! What absolute fuckwits downvoted BongoJoe's post? There are 6 of you (so far), who need to seriously re-assess you pathetic fanboi attachment to a giant corporation that really couldn't care less about you. It's not like his criticism was in any way unfair, or unreasonable.
Yes, Apple make some very good kit. However their approach to the law in some of the countries they operate in sucks farts from dead cats (to borrow a descriptive phrase from a friend of mine).
If a death certificate and proof that you're executor is enough to open up access to bank accounts, then it should be damned well good enough for Apple. They really do need to sort themselves out, and stop being such idiots.
Blimey! ANOTHER Bitcoin bleed brouhaha
Re: Whereas if it was a bank doing these transactions @Ben
Mark .
Does this no look bubbly to you?
It certainly does to me.
Re: Whereas if it was a bank doing these transactions
Paypal deals with "fiat" and has the same problem of being unregulated
Mark .
Paypal has a banking license. At least in Europe. Registered in Luxembourg.
Re: Whereas if it was a bank doing these transactions
Well if a major bank had lost 12% of its assets, I'd expect them not to admit it in public. At least not straight away. They'd go to the Central Bank and try to organise a rescue. In good financial times that's traditionally been a consortium of banks loaning them the cash to survive - or someone taking them over. In times when the other banks are in the poo as well, the Central Bank will do the loaning, or the government takes them over.
What you don't do, is suspend withdrawals. Because then your dead. At that point it becomes your customers' top priority to run away from you, as fast as is humanly possible - taking their money with them, and sealing your fate.
So he's been commendably honest.
As Bitcoin doesn't have a Central Bank, they probably need some kind of co-operative mechanism between the exchanges. If they put a portion of their profits into some kind of slush-fund, they could bail out the reasonably well-run ones, in exchange for equity/loans and take over and try to save the crap ones. But that would require the exchanges to trust each other, which I suspect they don't - and some of them to be well run, which I suspect they aren't.
Blighty teen boffin builds nuclear reactor INSIDE CLASSROOM
Re: Does this signify a revival
Well I keep reading stories about the e-Cat. Maybe once a month at the moment? I believe you can now buy one. Though if you do, you aren't allowed to look inside.
Just in case you find you've bought a containerful of AA batteries perhaps...
Seriously, you've got to love a headmaster willing to support this. And a kid willing to suggest it, then do it. Hooray for all involved.
I dread to think what his A Level experiments will be like. "Please Mr Headmaster, I only want to dig up the playground and surrounding main roads to build a small underground particle accelerator/collider."
Re: Almost certainly a stupid question...
Indeed. When will we have nuclear powered aircraft and buses, like in that documentary series I used to watch. What was it called again? Ah yes, Tomorrow's World Thunderbirds.
There's no chance of that. We just don't have the extinct volcano cones that can be turned into secret bases for it. Geology is against us - and therefore we will lose potential-top-evil-genius talent like this to foreigners, who have.
And don't give me any of that rubbish about his genius being used for good. He's playing with noocular, so there was no chance of that, even before the irradiation.
I hope the headmaster spent some of that £3,000 on a white cat...
Bitcoin bank Flexcoin pulls plug after cyber-robbers nick $610,000
Re: And yet...
As the saying goes, 'the markets can stay irrational, longer than you can stay solvent'.
It's probably a bubble, because the current price of Bitcoin isn't sustainable. It's artificially boosted by 'investors'. When it stops being volatile, they'll have no incentive to stay. But because the Bitcoin market is so small, they have a disproportionate effect on the price.
So if you're in it as a cheeky high-risk investment, then good luck to you. I've no sympathy if you lose your shirt, and you've got to time it so that you aren't the last one holding the parcel if Bitcoin does collapse. Which it could well do.
But if you're some kind of utopian libertarian wanting to build an international medium of exchange not subject to government whims, then watch out. As the hot money may all bugger off at once - taking a lot of your cash with them.
Yet given that each low is far higher than the height of the previous bubble
That's not true either. Hasn't it been down at $20 within the last 12 months? Or was that a few months before? One of the problems with Bitcoin is we don't have any figures as to what the economy is. Another thing governments are useful for. So we don't know how much real trade happens in BItcoin, how much it gets used for drugs, and how much it's just being hoarded. Without that it's only guesswork that it's a bubble. But good guesswork when you consider that there are several people who've publicly said they're investing tens of millions of dollars into it, and yet daily turnover rarely gets even close to the million mark.
Re: And yet... @Tim
Bitcoin trading volumes are pretty low. So it's relatively easy to manipulate the price. Particularly if you make your transactions on days when trading volume is particularly low, as it's also quite volatile.
I also wonder about the stats. Is somone checking to make sure the exchanges aren't price-fixing, or mis-reporting?
Also when trading volumes are listed, is that for several thousand Bitcoins per day i.e millions of dollars? Or is it transactions per day? As last time I looked at Bitstamp's prices, it listed the last 10 transactions, and the biggest was for 0.3 BTC. Also those 10 transactions moved the price from something like $618 to $622, in a few minutes. So that's a nearly 1% change in price - on transactions totalling less than $1,000.
Re: I'm telling ya..
But which state?
The state of denial. Which is the state most Bitcoin fans seem to be permanently in...
My turn
Right. That's it. This is getting ridiculous! But don't worry! Help is at hand. I'm launching into the Bitcoin business myself. I admit, all my past scepticism was wrong.
Today I'm launching SpartaCoin. I can give a 100%, cast-iron guarantee that no scammers will get their filthy hands on our coins. It'll all be laid out in the Ts&Cs, fair-and-square.
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Re: ... Blood from a stone?
Captain Scarlet,
Yeah. The days of mining to get cheap Bitcoins are over. The way to do it now, is just to start up your own exchange...
I presume the lawyers must be charging a fee to 'register' with them for the case. I guess they feel that it shouldn't just be Bitcoin that can take the unwary punters' money, that's traditionally lawyers' work!
It's not like there's any realistic chance of getting anything back.
Chillax, cranky commentards: Anger can KILL YOU
Re: If this is true...
Actually I agree. The Daily Mail is a brilliantly put together product. It's designed to get its readerships' blood boiling ever so often. Along with news, celeb stories, human interest type stuff etc. I believe they've been the paper that's lost the least circulation consistently for the last decade. So they're doing something right.
Personally I hate reading it. Sadly a whole bunch of the editorial staff seem to have gone off to the Telegraph, and taken that in a similar direction.
If this is true...
How come the entire readership and staff of The Daily Mail haven't dropped dead yet?
I guess we can answer for the staff. You can't have a heart attack, if you don't have a heart...
Dark matter killed the dinosaurs, boffins suggest
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Crack Euro banker team to probe whether virtual currencies should be regulated
Re: Let's ask bankers
Nick Ryan,
There's no tangible asset behind any government debt. QE is just governent debt, which hasn't been sold to anyone yet. You unwind it, by selling that debt into the market.
QE was also used to buy corporate debt, but I think that was mostly in the US, and in short term bonds, so will get paid back quite quickly, as the Fed stops QE. That was basically identical to a central bank being a lender of last resort, but to other companies as well as banks. So it's reversible money printing, by design. In time, some of the government debt will probably get cancelled, but I'd imagine some will get sold to reduce market liquidity.
You need to remember that money isn't backed by assets either.
Bitcoins have no more "deflation", or perhaps more accurately "de-valuation" than any other currency
I'm not sure what you mean here. Bitcoin is deflationary, because there are a fixed number of coins. Thus as time goes by Bitcoins will buy more goods. That's the opposite to de-valuation, so it has less 'devaluation' than any other currency, not more, by design. This makes banking impossible. Because it costs more to repay a loan than the original loan was worth - as the value of each Bitcoin increases over time. Interest on loans is designed to protect the bank from inflation, plus to give them a profit. Without loans, you can't have investment. So you can't have a successful Bitcoin only economy.
In order to maintain the financial illusion that an economy is growing new money must be continually created
This is the wrong way round, mostly (I'm not a monetarist). Most money isn't notes and coins - which get printed. The money supply goes up when the economy is growing. Because the economy is growing. Money doesn't pool with the rich, because money keeps on circulating. Sure, some people hold on to physical notes and coins, but only a limited amount. Most people shove it in the bank, or invest on the stock market. The banks lend that money out, and the people who borrow it, spend it, and the people they spend it with bung it in the bank (or pay other people who do), and the banks then lend to different people. And the more people who are willing to borrow, the higher the money supply - but the banks aren't printing money, the money's just moving round. Because each time they lend, they have to have the money to lend with, which means someone's lent it to them.
Economics is weird. Money isn't what most people think it is. The job of banks is to recycle it into the economy. We're not on the gold standard anymore, so money doesn't just build up in rich peoples' safes.
Re: Of course BT should be regulated...
Anonymous Coward,
That's all great. But totally beside the point. It would be great if government did less, taxes were lower and the economy worked better. Though only an idiot would pretend that there wouldn't be losers as well as winners in that scenario.
But we live in a democracy. And that's not what the voters currently want. So in the meanwhile, you don't get to opt out of taxes, just becasue you don't like what the government does with them. Tough shit. If you can't persuade people to vote to change the system your way, then deal with it, or vote with your feet and leave.
Oddly the rest of Northern Europe are pretty much all more socialist than us, and yet have better healthcare because it's semi-privatised. Though heavily government regulated and controlled. But if government gets out of healthcare totally, then there'll be no healthcare for anyone who's poor. Which would be immoral as well as having massively bad effects on the economy. Unless you want people starving on the streets, government can't get totally out of welfare either.
You need to address the real world as it is. Not some libertarian's dream. A mixed economy is what works best. It's just a question of arguing about how much government should do, what it shuld regulate, and where it should leave well alone.
However the private sector hasn't been covering itself in glory recenlty either. There's a notable lack of accountability and consequences there too. Which makes it pretty hard for an economic conservative like me to argue for moving to something more like the Belgian/Dutch model for the NHS - which means a mix of public and private hospitals, along with a mix of public and private health insurance.
By the way, do some research. Government spending isn't 80% of GDP anywhere (except maybe North Korea). It hit more than 50% of GDP in the UK after the crash, and part of that was due to borrowing/QE of £170-odd billion. But for the last 30 years it's been hovering around the lower end of 40-45% of GDP.
Re: Let's ask bankers
Since governments don't "have" any money, they can keep their promise by doing one of 2 things - raise money through taxes, or print some more.
You missed one. Borrowing. Which is what most of them have been doing. Printing is unusual. Also QE isn't quite printing. At least not yet. I'm sure the Central banks will quietly delete the government debt they've paid for with printed QE cash, in a few years time. But they'll probably unwind some of the QE first, for form's sake if nothing else. Also it will be another way of mopping up excess liquidity in the markets without raising interest rates.
Anyway, except the crisis, no major world economy has been printing. Apart from a few half-hearted bursts of mini-QE from the Japanese Central Bank during their 20 years of stagnation/deflation. If governments had been printing for such a long time, rather than borrowing, we'd have had hyper-inflation. The reason I used the phrase 'real money' - is that I don't think Bitcoin qualifies, or should be taken seriously yet.
As for the Bitcoin fans who keep banging on about inflation, Bitcoin has built-in deflation, which is worse. That certainly means it can never be a fully-fledged currency, as it makes proper banking pretty much impossible.
The other big problem I see for Bitcoin is that it's international by design. Which is great for making international payments. But then what law regulates Bitcoin? And who regulates its institutions - i.e. the exchanges and design. What happens if some miners get onto the Bitcoin foundation board, and vote through changes that allow them to mint more Bitcoins? Who's to stop them?
Re: Of course BT should be regulated...
Well there's two answers to that.
1. Taxes are necessary. If you want government healthcare, education, pensions, unemployment and sickness benefits etc., you gotta have taxes.
2. Bitcoin needs some regulation if it's going to be any use. You can't have a free market without some regulation. Without enforcable contracts, you can't do business. And without some institutions that you can trust, Bitcoin will remain a ridiculous vehicle for speculation and criminality. I'm well aware that some people use it legitimate purposes too. But anyone who uses it on anything other than a tiny scale at present is a fool. Unless they've got loads of spare cash, that they can afford to loose, and want to have something massively speculative in their investment portfolio. With the possibility of 100% gains in one month, comes the equal possibility of 100% losses.
Re: Let's ask bankers
And how exactly do you buy your Bitcoins? Via banks perhaps? i.e. with real money.
Admittedly I do seem to recall there was a Finnish programmer who was getting paid in Bitcoins a few months back. I wonder if he still is? He'll have made a nice litle profit on his December salary. Shame about the 20% salary cut in one day in February though... And that's not the worst massive drop in the market that's happened in even the last 6 months.
The Bitcoin exchanges aren't banks. So they shouldn't be regulated like them. But they should probably be regulated like brokers. So if they're holding money (or Bitcoins) on behalf of their clients, they should be protected in a special account - that's separated from the trading funds, and the rest of the company. So they don't disappear if the company goes titsup.
Governments may be annoying, and tax people. But taxes pay for nice things, like healthcare too. And money laundering rules may also be annoying, but then money launderers are sometimes murdering bastards. And while it would be better if drugs were legal, they currently aren't. While that holds true, the people who trade in them tend to kill people.
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Cyber battle apparently under way in Russia-Ukraine conflict
Aha I see .... their security systems were only prepared for the more friendly kind of aggressor who does not brazenly violate the law but asks politely whether he can invade your country, and certainly wouldn't tamper with your phone systems unless he had your explicit permission.
Dr Who,
I suspect Ukraine's cyber defence systems aren't very well funded. Their government finances would probably be pretty sad, even if their last few governments hadn't been horribly corrupt.
But I suspect the thing they weren't prepared for was their internal systems to be captured on day one of conflct. Normally planners expect a build-up to hostilities. Total surprise invasions are pretty rare, as there's normally a build-up to conlict, where both sides do a bit of negotiating. Or at least a build-up of tension. Which gives the defences times to get prepared, and the diplomats time to strut their funky stuff - and try to avoid trouble.
But in this case there was a bit of Russian unhappiness, followed by Russian mobilisation (or "military exercises"), and invasion on the same day. And Ukraine was at the second disadvantage of being in the middle of forming a government at the time as well.
It's easier to defend against an external attacker than it is to deal with one in physical control of some of your own networks. And that would be true even if Ukraine was a match for Russia's capabilities, which I severely doubt it is.
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Re: Don't be daft!@ All names Taken
After he won the competition for Ukraine to join his customs union...[snip]...he saw his victory stolen.
If that really is a valid version of the Russian government's opinion then they need to grow the fuck up.
Firstly it's not a game. Secondly democracy isn't about elections. It's about legitimacy. It's about creating enough trust in the system that the losing side is willing to accept the result of their loss, and to accept the winning side as legitimate. The Ukranian government failed in this, due to being monumentally corrupt and incompetent. They also didn't help by using machineguns and snipers on (mostly) peaceful protesters.
Putin may not understand this, as it's what he probably would have done. But earlier in his rule (in his first terms as President), he was a lot more subtle about weilding power than he now is. He played more at being the democrat, and found it easier to rig the system. Probably because he was genuinely incredibly popular back then. Which I suspect he isn't any more.
The lot who are in power in Ukraine now would possibly have made the same mistakes, leading to Eastern Ukraine and Crimea splitting off anyway. But we may never know now, as Russia invaded first.
A lot of Putin's victories are pyrrhic though. Maybe he's happy if he destroys Ukraine, but when they have to default on the $30-odd bilion they owe Russia, he may be less happy. It'll probobably also take out a couple of big Russian banks - plus even more Russian money will flee to Cyprus, London, NY etc. Russia needs the West. Sure we may need their gas, but their economy collapses if they don't sell it. Equally their own population don't trust their economy, and won't leave their savings in it, and foreign investors are becoming increasingly less willing to get involved, as they keep seeing their money stolen. The Russian Central Bank has been going through about $7 billion of reserves a week, trying to keep the ruble from collapsing and causing massive inflation. That's probably going to get worse now. Remember Putin was popular for 2 reasons. Firstly that he stood for stability and growth in the once chaotic economy. And secondly for being a tough-guy nationalist. I rather suspect the second will look less peachy if it fucks up the first. As Clinton said, "It's the economy stoopid."
Re: Don't be daft!
Russia has an extremely competent and well funded spying agency. It also has some excellent computer skills, as well as quite a lot of effective cyber-criminals. Why would anyone be surprised if Russia was spying online, along with every other nation that's capable of it?
MtGox: Yup, we're pretty sure your Bitcoin were stolen. Sorry about that.
Re: No sympathy.......
Loyal Commenter,
Except if you buy your coins from a Bitcoin exchange, you'll be paying a lot more than 0.00000?%. Added to the risk that they lose,or steal, your money.
On the other hand, if I want to make a transaction with someone in euros, I could equally buy some Euros off someone. Which is an equally safe transaction as doing so with some random person in the UK, not via an exchange. As someone has to hand the cash or Bitcoins over first, there's no mechanism for simultaneous transactions.
On the other, other hand I can get a credit card. I believe that Halifax and/or Nationwide do one. Which has zero loading of exchange rates, and no commission on them either. So you get the straight inter-bank rate, at the time the transaction goes through. They of course take their 2% merchant fees or whatever. But then most merchants don't account for that individually, they set their prices for all transactions the same.
Then there's the other cost you ignore, which is the merchants' cost of turning Bitcoins back into real money. As most of their suppliers probably won't take Bitcoin yet.
Then you ignore fluctuations. Foreign currency tends to move by 1% on a really bad day. The pound might lose/gain a penny on the Euro every couple of months. Most days it moves in fractions.
Bitcoin can move by 10% in minutes. 20% in a day is not at all uncommon. So depending on when you buy your coins, your transaction costs could be truly enormous. Which means the merchant is going to have to charge a premium for Bitcoin.
Also your credit card costs you some money, but gets you insurance on all transactions over £100. And the change of chargebacks at lower amounts, if you get ripped off. Bitcoin doesn't.
I looked at one of the big Bitcoin exchanges a couple of weeks ago. They'd posted the last 10 transactions. Not a single one of those was for a while Bitcoin, it was 0.1BTC, 0.2 BTC etc. Over about a 10 minute period. The price had fluctuated between about $618 and $622. So the whole global bitcoin market was moved by nearly 1% in value in 10 minutes, on transactions of a total value of less than $1,000! That is an astonishingly unsafe market for retail investors to get involved in. Most people don't have the knowledge, or appetite for risk, to ever be involved in that kind of trade. Nor should anyone in good conscience advise them to do so.
So what this statement is telling us, is that Mt.Gox were incomptent with their custom Bitcoin wallet software and processes, their cash-handling software/processes and their accounting software and processes.
Or in other words, they've just admittwe that they're at least criminally negligent. And that's if we can get over our natural suspicion that they may have just stolen it. Which is always what comes to mind first to this ex EVE player.
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Re: Not a bad idea actually
Strangely enough, a lot of people in prison aren't looking at a thrilling and fulfilling career ahead of them. As a group, they tend to be worse educated than average - and are obviously going to be struggling to make up a nice CV and references. Given they're currently in prison. So the options aren't great.
But the alternative is a life of crime. Which probaobly pays even worse, has even less in the way of prospects, and tends to land you with time in prison. Some people are willing to work far worse jobs than call centres in order to try and get back to a normal life. It is in their interests, and society's, that we should try and help them to do so.
Re: Not a bad idea actually
If they yelled at the customer what'd the manager (jailer) do? Increase the term?
Sack them. Working on something in the prison that you get paid for, is something some prisioners want to do They can use the cash to buy stuff. Also it looks good when the parole hearing comes up, if you've been working at a skill that might lead to a job when you're out. The opposite is also true, if you've been chucked off a rehabilitation program, parole may not be as soon as allowed.
Prison rehab programs are mostly under-funded and over-subscribed. Prisoners are trying to get on them, and don't want to get chucked off. Some for the cynical reason that they want to impress a parole board, some because they want the cash, some because they're bored and some because they genuinely want to get rehabilitated. And probably some for all of the above...
Many prisoners do try to get back on track. Re-offending rates aren't just made up of career criminals who can't change. Some people get let out with no skills, nowhere to live, broken family ties and just fall back into crime. It's worth making serious effort to help people turn their lives around, because many will. And that saves a lot of grief for both them, and society overall.
Microsoft to get in XP users' faces with one last warning
Re: When you threaten Meetup, it's blackmail...
I suggest you learn the actual meaning of the word blackmail.
Apple investors fall for CEO Cook's product-presentation prank
Re: to all these multi-multi-paragraph writers
You too can be a multi-paragraph poster. All you need to do, is learn to touch-type. 50-100 wpm should get you a few paragraphs in reasonably quickly.
Interesting that Tim Cook directly mentioned blind people. That must be a personal hobby-horse of his. iOS was already more friendly than Android when he took over, or at least so the RNIB thought - as they recommended the iPhone.
But I happen to know that he's been personally involved in a company initiative to get testers who are blind. Oddly at least some of it's being done in Blighty rather than the US.
I don't know how much Android has improved accessibility since the days of 2.3 (the last time I seriously played with it). But Apple do deserve credit for this, as they had workable accessibility stuff on the first iPad - I can't remember if I tested this before that was updated to iOS 4, but if not - then they've had it since at least the iPhone 3. And so had done a lot more, at an early stage, than Google.
French silver foxes use Fujitsu's Grandroid mobes... to send each other selfies
Insecure hipsters with BEARD ENVY spur facial hair transplant craze
So what happens when beards go out of fashion and you've spent thousands of pounds on sticking hairs to your face, as well as permanent scars from the process?
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Re: I think that.....
I unilaterally declare this guy the 'winner': link
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ENERGY STAR, EN/IEC 60825-1 (Class 1 Laser Product), CAN/CSA-C22.2 60950-1-07, ICES-003 Class A, BSMI Class A, CNS 13438, VCCI Class A, FCC Class A, UL 60950-1, EN/IEC 60320-1, NOM-019-SCFI-1998, CE Class A, CB IEC 60950-1, EN 60950-1, EN/IEC 61000-3, EN 55022 Class A, EN 55024, GS (TÜV), SAT, SABS, ZIK, KPSIM, Bel GISS, GOST-R 'Cpt' Mark, N Mark, UL AR, CS, TÜV Rh, ACMA A-tick mark Class A, AS/NZS 60950-1, CCC Class A, CISPIR 22 Class A, MIC Mark, EK-K60950, PSB
Specified Operating Environment
Temperature: 16 to 32°C (60 to 90°F), Humidity: 8 to 80% Relative Humidity, Altitude: 0 - 3048 Meters (10,000 Feet)
Country of Origin
China (PR)
Average Power (Scanning)
110 watts
Average Power (Copying)
1000 watts
Average Power (Printing)
870 watts
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Lexmark e-Task 10.2-inch (25.9 cm) color touch screen
ENERGY STAR Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC)
6.787 kilowatt-hours per week
Touch Screen Display
Ethernet Network
Direct USB
Average Power (Sleep Mode)
17 watts
Workgroup Size
Medium-Large Workgroup
Average Power (Hibernate Mode)
0.75 watts
Print Technology
Color Laser
Print Resolution, Black
1200 x 1200 dpi, 4800 Color Quality (2400 x 600 dpi)
Print Resolution, Color
1200 x 1200 dpi, 4800 Color Quality (2400 x 600 dpi)
Print Speed (Letter, Black): Up to
50 ppm
Print Speed (A4, Black): Up to
47 ppm
Print Speed (Letter, Color): Up to
50 ppm
Print Speed (A4, Color): Up to
47 ppm
Print Speed (Letter, Black) Duplex: Up to
50 spm
Print Speed (A4, Black) Duplex: Up to
47 spm
Time to First Page (Black) As fast as
8 seconds
Memory, Standard
Memory, Maximum
Printable Area (metric)
4.2 mm of the top, bottom, right and left edges (within)
Noise Level, Idle
27 dBA
Noise Level (Print), Operating
52 dBA
Time to First Page (Color) As fast as
8.5 seconds
Processor Speed
1.2 GHz
Duplex Print Noise Level, Operating
53 dBA
Hard Disk
Included in configuration
Maximum Monthly Duty Cycle: Up to
150000 pages per month
Recommended Monthly Page Volume
2500 - 17000 pages
Duty Cycle Notes
"Recommended Monthly Page Volume" is a range of pages that helps customers evaluate Lexmark's product offerings based on the average number of pages customers plan to print on the device each month. Lexmark recommends that the number of pages per month be within the stated range for optimum device performance, based on factors including: supplies replacement intervals, paper loading intervals, speed, and typical customer usage., "Maximum Monthly Duty Cycle" is defined as the maximum number of pages a device could deliver in a month using a multishift operation. This metric provides a comparison of robustness in relation to other Lexmark printers and MFPs.
Copy Speed (Letter, Black): Up to
50 cpm
Copy Speed (A4, Black): Up to
47 cpm
Copy Speed (Letter, Color): Up to
50 cpm
Copy Speed (A4, Color): Up to
47 cpm
Time to First Copy (Black) As fast as
10 seconds
Reduce / Enlarge Range
25 - 400 %
Noise Level (Copy), Operating
53 dBA
Time to First Copy (Color) As fast as
11 seconds
Scan Area, Maximum (mm)
216 x 355 mm
Scan Technology
Simplex Scan Speed (A4/Ltr, Black): Up to
47 / 49 sides per minute
Simplex Scan Speed (A4/Ltr, Color): Up to
47 / 49 sides per minute
Duplex Scan Speed (A4/Ltr, Black): Up to
56 / 58 sides per minute
Duplex Scan Speed (A4/Ltr, Color): Up to
52 / 54 sides per minute
Optical Scanning Resolution
600 X 600 ppi
Noise Level (Scan), Operating
54 dBA
Scanner Type
Flatbed scanner with ADF
ADF Scan
DADF (single pass Duplex)
Modem Speed
33.6 Kbps
Paper Handling Standard
500-Sheet Output Bin, Integrated Duplex, 100-Sheet Multipurpose Feeder, 550-Sheet Input Tray, 2 x 550-Sheet Drawers
Paper Handling Optional
5-Bin Mailbox, 550-Sheet Drawer, Banner Media Tray, 500-Sheet Offset Stacker, 500-Sheet Staple Finisher, 500-Sheet Staple Punch Finisher
ADF Paper Input Capacity: Up to
75 pages 20 lb or 75 gsm bond
Paper Input Capacity, Standard: Up to
1750 pages 20 lb or 75 gsm bond
Paper Input Capacity, Maximum: Up to
2300 pages 20 lb or 75 gsm bond
Paper Output Capacity, Standard: Up to
500 pages 20 lb or 75 gsm bond
Paper Output Capacity, Maximum: Up to
1000 pages 20 lb or 75 gsm bond
Finishing Option
Media Sizes Supported
10 Envelope, 7 3/4 Envelope, 9 Envelope, A4, A5, B5 Envelope, C5 Envelope, DL Envelope, Executive, Folio, JIS-B5, Legal, Letter, Statement, Universal
Media Types Supported
Card Stock, Dual Web Labels, Envelopes, Glossy paper, Integrated Labels, Paper Labels, Plain Paper, Polyester Labels, Transparencies, Vinyl Labels, Refer to the Card Stock & Label Guide., Outdoor Media, Banner Paper
ADF Paper Output Capacity: Up to
75 pages 20 lb or 75 gsm bond
Paper Weight Range Supported - Standard Tray (gsm)
60 - 176 gsm
Number of Paper Inputs, Standard
Number of Paper Inputs, Maximum
Duplex (2-sided) Printing
Integrated Duplex
75-Sheet Automatic Document Feeder
Supplies Yield
6,000*-page (CMYK) Print Cartridges, *Average continuous black or continuous composite CMY declared cartridge yield up to this number of standard pages in accordance with ISO/IEC 19798., 20,000*-page (CMYK) Extra High Yield Print Cartridges
Cartridge(s) Shipping with Product
12,000*-page Black and Color (CMY) Starter Return Program Print Cartridges
Apple Macintosh Operating Systems Supported
Apple Mac OS X (10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9)
Microsoft Windows Operating Systems Supported
Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP x64, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista x64, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 7 x64, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8 x64, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 8.1 x64, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Windows RT, Microsoft Windows RT 8.1
Novell Operating Systems Supported
Novell NetWare 6.5 Open Enterprise Server, Novell NetWare 5.1(SP 6+), 6.0(SP 3+) with Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS), Novell Open Enterprise Server on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Linux Operating Systems Supported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4.0, 5.0, Red Flag Linux Desktop 6.0, Linpus Linux Desktop 9.6, Fedora 12, 13, Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, 6.0, Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, PCLinuxOS 2010, openSUSE 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, PCLinuxOS 2011, Fedora 14, 15, 16, 17, Mint 10, 11, 12, 13
UNIX Operating Systems Supported
Sun Solaris SPARC 8, 9, 10, Sun Solaris x86 10, HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31, Sun openSolaris SPARC 2010.02, Sun openSolaris X86 2010.02, IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1
Citrix MetaFrame
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Terminal Services with Citrix Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2003 X64 Edition with Citrix XenApp 5.0, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 X64 Edition with Citrix XenApp 5.0
Standard Ports
USB 2.0 Specification Hi-Speed Certified (Type B), Front USB 2.0 Specification Hi-Speed Certified port (Type A), Rear USB 2.0 Specification Hi-Speed Certified port (Type A), Ethernet 10/100/1000 BaseTX (RJ-45)
Optional Local Ports
Internal RS-232C serial, Internal 1284-B Bidirectional Parallel
Optional Network Ports
External MarkNet™ N7020e Gigabit Ethernet, Internal MarkNet™ N8120 Gigabit Ethernet, Internal MarkNet™ N8130 Fiber Fast Ethernet, Internal MarkNet™ N8250 802.11b/g/n Wireless
Printer Languages (Standard)
PCL 5c Emulation, PCL 6 Emulation, Personal Printer Data Stream (PPDS), PostScript 3 Emulation, xHTML, PDF 1.6 emulation, Direct Image, Microsoft XPS (XML Paper Specification), AirPrint™
Fonts and Symbol Sets
3 of 9 scalable PCL 5e fonts in Narrow, Regular and Wide, 158 scalable PostScript fonts, 2 PCL bitmap fonts, 39 scalable PPDS fonts, 5 PPDS bitmap fonts, 84 scalable PCL fonts, OCR-A, OCR-B scalable PCL 5e fonts, For more information, refer to the Technical Reference.
Network Protocol Support
TCP/IP IPv4, AppleTalk™, TCP/IP IPv6, TCP, UDP
Network Printing Methods
LPR/LPD, Direct IP (Port 9100), HTTP, NDPS/NEPS (Novell Distributed Print Services, Novell Netware Enterprise Print Services), Enhanced IP (Port 9400), FTP, TFTP, IPP 1.1 (Internet Printing Protocol), ThinPrint .print integration
Network Security
SNMPv3, 802.1x Authentication: MD5, MSCHAPv2, LEAP, PEAP, TLS, TTLS, IPSec
Network Management Protocols
HTTP, HTTPs (SSL*/TLS), SNMPv3, WINS, IGMP, BOOTP, RARP, APIPA (AutoIP), DHCP, ICMP, DNS, SNMPv2c, Bonjour, DDNS, mDNS, ARP, NTP, Telnet, Finger, *This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.
Included with Hardware
Lexmark Forms and Favorites
Create bookmarks to image-based forms that reside on a server anywhere on the Internet and print the images on demand at any time.
Lexmark Scan to Network
Capture an image of a hard copy document and route the image to one of 30 predefined personal or public shared network folders.


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Arabia is a populated place located in Lawrence County at latitude 38.658 and longitude -82.473.
The elevation is 604 feet. Arabia appears on the Waterloo U.S. Geological Survey Map. Lawrence County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
Lawrence County: Cities & Towns | ZIP Codes | Schools | Features (airports, churches, hospitals, etc.)
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Data Source - USGS GNIS FID: 1075271
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MLB Betting News and Notes Tuesday, July 8
MLB Betting News and Notes Tuesday, July 8
MLB: Streaks, Tips, Notes
Baltimore Orioles at Washington Nationals
Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles play the second of a four-game home/home Interleague set. Nationals taken behind the woodshed spanked 8-2 in the opener look to even the series handing the ball to Doug Fister. Nationals are in good hands. Fister 7-2 on the campaign with a 2.93 ERA over 11 starts (8-3 TSR) heads to the mound 2-0 the past three with a smart 2.57 ERA. The right-hander also commands an impressive 9-3 team start record in the month of July. This being a home game should get the attention of sports handicappers keeping close tabs on the Nationals and Fister. The hurler is undefeated at Nationals Park posting a perfect 5-0 mark with a 2.31 ERA. Expect Fister to find a way to slow-down red-hot Orioles as Nats move to 14-4 as home chalk following a loss the previous night. As always best of luck.
Re: MLB Betting News and Notes Tuesday, July 8
MLB Odds and Picks
By: The Linemakers
We saw the Los Angeles Dodgers (+102) get on a similar hot streak last season, a run that led them straight into the postseason and NLCS.
It looks like they're up to their same tricks. Don Mattingly's bunch is 6-4 in their last 10, and on June 8, they were 9.5 games behind the San Francisco Giants. Today they're a game up and leading the division.
Much of that turnaround can be attributed to Matt Kemp, who has hit .313/.382/.495 over the last 30 days. Tonight's starter, Hyun-jin Ryu, also deserves plenty of credit as he's been very solid this season, posting a 3.08 ERA with 7.57 K/9.
The first-place Detroit Tigers present a tough matchup tonight, but they've lost three straight and will send Justin Verlander to the hill. In years past, a Verlander start meant a Tigers win more often than not. While Verlander has been better over his last three starts, he still hasn't been the ace we were spoiled by from 2009-2012.
The play is on the Dodgers sending the Tigers to their fourth straight loss.
Tuesday's selections
Dodgers (Ryu) +102 at Tigers
Nationals (Fister) -139 vs. Orioles
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'Monk' Star Shalhoub Happy With Finale
BY: Lynn Elber LOS ANGELES – The final episode of 'Monk' has some heavy lifting to do: Resolve Monk's poisoning and whether he survives, uncover his wife's killer or, just… More
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Rihanna Flaunts Red-Hot Looks On Second 'Vogue' Cover
details behind her seventh studio album, Rihanna couldn't help but offer her Twitter followers a peek at her second cover for the U.S. version of Vogue. While the approach and premise behind the November 2012 issue may not reveal anything new — her red dress recalling the Little Mermaid locks of her first cover, "I love to have fun", etc. — it will certainly help build up anticipation for Unapologetic, out November 19.
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Pitch of the Week: Cast John Turturro In a Movie About This Failed Doomsday Prophet
Features By Christopher Campbell on December 29, 2012 | Comments (8)Often I see a real person in the news or in a documentary and my mind immediately comes up with an actor to portray him or her in a biopic. This happened this week when I watched a short film about failed prophet Robert Fitzpatrick, who last year spent his life savings on subway ads in NYC warning that the end of the world would happen on May 21, 2011 (exactly 19 months before the just-passed Mayan choice). The 13-minute documentary, titled We Will Forget, is directed by Garret Harkawik, and you can watch it in full after the jump. Above is a still of Fitzpatrick next to a photo of my choice to play him in a dramatic story of his life, John Turturro. Perhaps you'll think of someone else (my wife was reminded more of Bob Balaban; you might prefer Zeljko Ivanek or James Rebhorn), but to me Turturro was just born to play this retired MTA worker from Staten Island. He's like a cross between Turturro's turn as the real-life Herbie Stempel from Quiz Show and his role as the lonely, reclusive brother on the TV series Monk. There are some other Turturro characters in there, as well, I'm sure. He could definitely do the accent, the mannerisms and the climactic display of confused disappointment seen sadly at the end of the short. As long as the movie itself garned enough attention, this could be a good part to finally earn Turturro his long-overdue Oscar nomination.
Review: Everyone Involved Is Aces But 'Seven Psychopaths' Is the Sam Rockwell Show
Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on October 12, 2012 | Comments (7)Marty (Colin Farrell) is a screenwriter with a serious case of writer's block. "Seven Psychopaths" is his latest script, but there's one big problem with it. The title is all he's written so far. He needs some inspiration to make his characters and his story come alive, but where is an Irishman with a drinking problem and relationship issues going to find that spark of originality? As with most of life's questions, the answer here is Sam Rockwell. More precisely, it's with his good friend Billy (Rockwell). Where Billy goes trouble follows, and that trouble is currently in the form of a pissed-off gangster named Charlie (Woody Harrelson) who's violently distraught over the loss of his pooch Bonny (Bonny the ShihTzu). It seems Billy's primary source of income is a scam he runs with his friend Hans (Christopher Walken) involving the dog-napping and subsequent return for reward of wealthy peoples' pups. Snatching Bonny has opened up a can of murderous worms as Charlie hunts down those responsible and Marty finds himself caught in the blood-spattered middle of it all. On the bright side he's getting inspiration for all seven of his fictional psychopaths, but none of that will matter if he doesn't live to finish the screenplay. Seven Psychopaths is exactly the film we should expect from the man who created the wickedly great In Bruges. It's whip-smart funny, deliriously violent and deceptively heartfelt. And good god does it have the most aggressively awesome ensemble cast of all time.
Review: 'Argo' Is a Nail-Biting, Cheer-Worthy Triumph Filled With Laughs, Suspense and Facial Hair
Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on October 12, 2012 | Comments (5)The November 4th, 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Iran by students and other revolutionaries was front page news around the world as 52 American hostages were held captive. Negotiations were attempted and military strikes were considered, but the crisis didn't end until well over a year later when they were all finally released. Lesser known, and in fact unknown to the public until 1997 when it was declassified, is the story of six Americans who escaped the embassy that November day to risk capture and possible execution as they awaited an unlikely rescue. It turned out to be a very unlikely rescue indeed. Argo is Ben Affleck's third film as director, and while it lacks the darkly emotional impact of Gone Baby Gone and the kinetic shoot 'em up action of The Town it stands tall as his best and most entertaining film yet. Brilliant character actors swirl through the constantly surprising true story alongside wonderful period details, humor, humanity and the most suspenseful thirty minutes of the year.
'Argo' Trailer Is The Best Bad Idea Ben Affleck's Had as a Director
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Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives
"Session 1. Genomics"
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Making Meaning In Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8
"Workshop 5. Student Diversity"
The varied viewpoints necessary for valuable class discussions are celebrated in this program. The group talks about the diversity of their students and how their interactions with literature are shaped in part by their life experiences, unique thoughts, and previous reading experiences. They examine the worth of using the lens of multiple perspectives to examine a work of literature, and offer suggestions for ways to encourage each student to contribute to the ongoing classroom conversation. D
6:00 pm
Chef John Besh's New Orleans
Fried Tomatoes and Aioli and Crab and Shrimp Stuffed Flounder. D
6:30 pm
Sara's Weeknight Meals
"From The Sea"
For most of us growing up, our only fish options were square, breaded and fried. Now you can find fresh seafood in your neighborhood, and it's the perfect candidate for quick, healthy and delicious weeknight meals. Sara's Steamed Mussels in Curried Coconut Broth are too easy to be that good. D
7:00 pm
Rick Steves' Europe
"Caesar's Rome"
Rick tours Rome's ancient sites. Then, he explores the catacombs and a cat hospice before tracking down the city's best ice cream.G
7:30 pm
"Switzerland - Scaling The Jungfrau Region"
Surrounded by Switzerland's mountain landscape, it's easy to see why the Swiss understand the value of nature. It is not a luxury reserved for a few, but a treasure shared by all. Joseph travels into the Grindelwald Valley to experience the grandeur of Switzerland's most typically-Swiss region - the Jungfrau. D
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P. Allen Smith's Garden Home
To demonstrate this design principle, Allen introduces some comical additions to the Garden Home Retreat, meets an ironworker who makes gingerbread houses and other lighted displays for Garvan Woodland Gardens. He also offers tips for keeping insects off of the herbs in his one-acre vegetable garden.G
8:30 pm
Ask This Old House
"Installing a Recirculation Pump; Lining a Fireplace Chimney"
Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey installs a recirculation pump to provide hot water quickly to a bathroom. Then, general contractor Tom Silva shares a tip for fixing the handle on a casement window. Afterward, Tom, Richard, host Kevin O'Connor and landscape contractor Roger Cook ask, "What is it?" Kevin travels to Dallas to help a homeowner line her fireplace chimney. D
9:00 pm
For Your Home
"Building, Part 2"
Vicki shares the latest on energy efficient windows, doors, roofing, siding and heating and cooling systeMs. Then visit a cutting-edge stone yard for expert advice on selecting the right stone. D
9:30 pm
Katie Brown Workshop
"New Year's"
Start the countdown with Katie and the Workshop crew. Recipes: steak with crab sauce, brussels sprouts salad and simple croquembouche (a French dessert). Projects: butterfly lanterns and a sophisticated cinnamon candy centerpiece for a New Year's table. D
10:00 pm
Knit and Crochet Now!
"Unique Tools"
Maggie makes a unique scarf using the bloom loom and Drew shows how to make scarves using hairpin lace and broom stick lace. Interview with Louisa Harding. D
10:30 pm
Donna Dewberry Show
"Cozy & Warm"
Donna paints a rug for a family or child's room, then uses fleece to make a no-sew throw and pillow.G
11:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated
"Lazy Day Breakfast"
11:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America
"Kansas City and New Orleans: Italian Father's Day"


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Shooting At Canadian Parliament
Re:Why (529 comments)
Terrorism: n
the use of violence and intimidation, intended to cause fear, in the pursuit of political aims. Note the lack of any definition of targets.
Not terrorism: n
Just about every fucking thing that's reported as such by the US media.
The word is misused as much as "literally" these days. So much so that I can't even.