I love The Spinners. But one of my all time favorites was The Chi-Lights. Being from Chicago and all. And The Fifth Dimension were big, too. White kid in the burbs who loved soul music.

eh, I'm sorta proud of Florida for actually convicting Dunn of anything (because it's Florida). He'll get a long sentence for attempted murder, and sounds like they're going to retry the murder charge. But still, at least one person on that jury was convinced of self-defense...

The Kickstarter thing is bad enough even if it's only as extensive as they claim- these things tend to turn out to be worse than initially stated- but to say that passwords were leaked overstates things significantly. What was leaked was *encrypted* passwords. And their password encryption methods are credibly claimed to be technically quite sound.

Stupid, stupid state.

@1 yes. yes. yes.

Shouldn't Dunn be charged with second degree murder and not first? He didn't plan to shoot and kill; but he did show reckless abandonment and disregard for life. An unplanned but intentional killing - I think that's the very definition of second degree murder.

It makes no sense that they couldn't come to an agreement on murder but were still able to convict on attempted murder. Why would a person on the jury think that he had a convincing self-defense argument but still convict on attempted murders? It makes no sense. Did a Chewbacca presentation completely fry that juror's mind (or jurors' minds)?

Of course, the anti-vaxxers have wreaked far more havoc than the CIA as far as preventable disease is concerned:

http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vacci…

(Some discussion here.)

i don't feel like i'm part of that america.

I kinda agree w/ @2. Would be nice if they could get a murder conviction, but it seems likely that the guy's gonna spend the rest of his life (or the majority of it) in prison regardless.

I'll have what @5's having.

@3,
How were passwords encrypted?
Older passwords were uniquely salted and digested with SHA-1 multiple times. More recent passwords are hashed with bcrypt.

SHA-1 is fairly easy at this point. The real difficulty becomes that, amongst all these real world passwords already leaked, it's just just dictionary lists being used, they're able to train password crack programs how most passwords are constructed. That's why a unique password for each site is important... LastPass can help do that and also helps you have a list of what websites you've created passwords at.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/…

SHA1, MD5, and a variety of other algorithms widely used to protect passwords are grossly unsuited to the job because they were designed to generate hashes quickly using a minimal amount of computing resources. Underscoring the weakness of SHA1 was the June release of 6.5 million LinkedIn password hashes.

Because SHA1 uses a single iteration to generate hashes, it took security researcher Jeremi Gosney just six days to crack 90 percent of the list. Had the same passwords been hashed using an algorithm specifically designed to protect passwords—algorithms such as Bcrypt, PBKDF2, or SHA512crypt—it would have taken Gosney years or even centuries to accomplish the same feat. The latter three hashes are better suited to password storage because they require significantly more time and computation to convert plaintext into hashes.

@9

The part that respects jury decisions, the rule of law and so on?

Yeah, I know you're not part of that America. You're a liberal.

As someone else noted the prosecutor appears to have filed an unsustainable charge with first degree murder. While this guy definitely belongs in prison for murder he'd have been convicted had an appropriate charge been filed. As it was with the 3 attempted murder charges, for example.

While I'm unwilling to give a lot of effort to understanding why self defense was brought up, I admit that. Unlike many of you who dismiss it out of hand without figuring out why an attorney would bring it up at all.

And for what it's worth rap music IS thug music. It's unimaginative, vulgar, violent and often misogynist garbage with no redeeming value of any kind. And for some reason every kid wants to prove they have no taste in music by playing it so a deaf person 3 blocks away hears it. You don't have to be racist to have taste and not want that noise pollution forced on you.

From the comments on the Dunn case webpage ...

Fred First2
As a former police officer, I learned that those carrying a pistol look for reasons to
use the weapon. If Dunn did not have the weapon, the child would not be dead and
he would not be facing prison.

The college payment system, similar to what Oregon enacted, is essentially a flat tax on middle class income.

"The jury also has the option to consider lesser charges of second-degree murder or manslaughter."

Shame America my ass. The guy is going to prison for the rest of his life, and they are going to retry on the murder charge. One fucker deadlocked the jury but in the end justice has, and will be carried out.

Grow the fuck up.

SB has gone racist. His black wife must be proud.

Charlie Rose interviewed the outgoing and incoming NBA commissioners a while back and asked about Seattle getting an expansion franchise. The incoming commissioner Adam Silver suggested yes, and was immediately shut down by outgoing commissioner David Stern who said no. I personally don't much care about the NBA returning to Seattle, but anybody who does should probably wait a few months and hear what Silver has to say when Stern has less influence.

@20

Yep. Because saying that 1st degree murder requires a plan to murder is racist. Somehow.

And disliking worthless music, like rap or hip hop or whatever they call their garbage, is also racist! Some way.

I don't care for Justin Bieber either. Does that make me racist about Canadians, in your infinite wisdom oh Mile High? Or just someone who dislikes canned music with no faintest speck of original artistic ideas? Maybe?

You must really be enjoying that legal weed up there where the air is as thin as your native intelligence, pal.

@18

Ah, see as usual you're confused.

People afflicted by unnatural and unhealthy sexual urges already have full Constitutional protection. What you want isn't that, but activist judges deciding popular will has no validity, or that some peoples lifestyle choices allow them to set social and legal terms for the 97% of their fellow citizens.

No thanks necessary for helping clear up your confusion. Call it an act of kindness.

@ SB, when you reduce the world's most important recent and diverse art development in the world so simplistically, racism is the only likely cause. It's funny that you would try to name ONE WHITE ARTIST as a defense when you smeared an entire art form rather than one single artist.

Is your wife an Uncle Tom? She must be.

@7 what I heard on NPR this morning is that the first three shots, which killed Davis, may have been taken as self defense by some of the jurors. However, the additional shots at the fleeing vehicle apparently crossed the line from self defense to attempted murder.

@13: dumbass, i just meant florduh.

@13: "And for what it's worth rap music IS thug music. It's unimaginative, vulgar, violent and often misogynist garbage with no redeeming value of any kind."

Listen to "No Nose Job" or "Doowutchyalike" (Digital Underground), "Read a Book" (Bomani Armah), "Just the Two of Us" (Will Smith), "The Foundation" (Xzibit), or "Keep Ya Head Up" (Tupac Shakur). Then bring your ignorant ass back to this site and eat those words.

Seattleblues' wife is black?!?

@22: 1st degree murder doesn't actually require a plan, just premeditation. Also, your pronoun choice in saying "whatever they call their garbage" has a racist edge to it for sure. Because you just implied was that black people's music (as much as such a thing exists) is somehow inferior to white people's music.

@23: Homosexuality is neither "unnatural", as it is prevalent in mammals including humans, nor "unhealthy", as there is no evidence that it causes any disabilities or illness.
And AGAIN, it's the 50-odd percent of people, gay and straight alike, who think that same-sex marriage should be allowed who are changing laws. Crawl back under your rock, you lying imbecile.

Also, Seattleblues, you are an admitted criminal, guilty of illegal housing discrimination under state law. Your characterization of rap music seems to fit you quite well, actually!
You're unimaginative, blathering the same tired old arguments against homosexuality even after they've been comprehensively debunked. You're vulgar, calling anyone who disagrees with you immoral and diseased, to say nothing of your repeated use of "faggot". You've expressed violent sentiment against people you dislike, including wishing for a sinkhole to open up under our own Charles Mudede. Now misogynist you're not, but you make up for it with your ridiculous degree of transphobia. Go piss up a flagpole.

Here is a relevant study to use when discussing the behavior of Seattleblues:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and…

Unforgivable Blackness: The Jack Johnson Story is on PBS. It really is must see for anyone interested in racial history in this country.

Shame? Not like he was found not guilty

@12: If LastPass is so secure, why doesn't Kickstarter and everyone just use that technology? At some point I'm always going to give some system a password to get in at The Golden Goodies, and that's the point of weaknesses for all these incidents. There's always going to be some careless admin who doesn't button their system down 100%, or some new technological attack vector.

Yet another fire...

Tesla investigating the cause of Model S garage fire in Toronto

A Tesla owner in Toronto returned from a drive only to have his fire alarms go off shortly after powering down his Model S in an incident that is once again raising concerns about the electric hatchback's safety. Where previous cases of Model S combustion were anything but spontaneous –the car was always involved in an impact [not exactly true --srotu] before going up in flames – this latest case has no obvious cause.

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/02/14/tesla…

Wasn't SLOG just praising these deathtraps to the hilt?

Tesla the Beautiful

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

@33

Oh, Seattleblues is misogynist, all right. It's been hidden under the guise of "pro-life" values, but it's clearly bursting at the anal seams.

#31

Exactly. Even though it happened in a short amount of time, since there was absolutely no physical provocation on the part of the victim, the defendant had enough time to think "I hate rap, I am going to kill this guy", then get his weapon, maybe load it, walk over and specifically kill one of them and attempt to kill the others. Then, he drove off (as if he would get away with it!)

I have made what I feel is an even stronger case that George Zimmerman should have (and still can) be charged with first degree murder. If you look at his history, and statements, and his prior reportings to the police, there is no doubt in my mind that he was not protecting "his turf" or standing any ground -- he was out hunting for a black boy to shoot. He taught himself just enough law to know what he could and couldn't get away with. Even his post murder statements to the police, suggest that he had run through the scenario again and again and knew just what to say (as opposed, to say the breathless ramblings of a person who had not expected his evening to end in a shooting).

#29

Wow, this is a first...I'm (almost) agreeing with you twice in the same post comment thread.

Rap Music started as a plaint about living in the ghetto...Don't Push Me Cause I'm Close To The Edge...it then grew by the late 80s into it's better known aggressive celebration of the "gansta" style (mainly because it appealed to white teens in the suburbs watching it in their bedrooms on MTV).

HipHop is the opposite of gansta rap. It's the ascendent materialism and ebullience of an independent black middle class that is part of, not outside of, American society. Outkast.

Meat in the Puget Sound...way out of date

Lately I have been buying meats and seafoods at major supermarkets and small "gourmet" shops around King County and I am finding all sorts of very out of date products.

Many times I have had to return packaged chickens because the smell on opening it was so bad. This month, I don't know what it was, but I went three different places, one of whom is a whole grocery store dedicated to fish and ended up taking home salmon that smelled of death when I opened the package!

It got so back that this weekend I tried to hunt down a specialty butcher who sold salmon and I found one and finally acquired a couple of pounds of the fresh stuff (but I did ask to be able to smell it before he packed it). However, I also ordered a "fresh fryer" chicken, cut up. Planning to fry it tonight (one day after buying) I opened it up -- and again, putrid!

This getting on $40 or $50 worth of what I consider bad or tainted meat much of it, as I said, purchased at "quality" outlets. One of those salmon pieces were so bad, I filled out a report at the USDA inspectors website.

Do people have no sense how to judge fresh meat? Is everyone's sense of smell burned out from "vaping"? You know what fresh meat should smell like? Nothing. It should have zero smell. Fish should not smell like fish. Chicken should not smell chicken-y. Red meat should not smell or be slimy on the outside.

How do these places all get away with it?

I won't quip on anything today. Comcast, my ISP, was out for nearly 24 hours in Seattle - no phone, no cable, no internet. So I started reading Jack London's 'White Fang' again. Seemed a reasonable thing to do.

Doesn't possession of the weapon show premeditation?

@6 et al. Premeditation is historically the aggravator that will get a person to first degree murder, but each state has enacted laundry lists of other aggravators that will also qualify a murder as first degree. You can see Florida's list at Fla. Stat. 782.04. The one that applies here would seem to be the intentional killing of a person while attempting to murder another human being.

Sidebar: The reckless disregard for human life that can serve as the basis for second degree murder was sometimes referred to, in the law's more poetic days, as the defendant's having evidenced an "abandoned and malignant heart." For an example of a person having evidenced an abandoned and malignant heart, please see, supra, the postings of Seattleblues.

Seattleblues - The recognition of marital contracts between individuals of the same sex was not won solely by the minority you allow yourself to judge. In Washington State, for instance, it was in fact the majority of those who voted in the last major election who made that possible. In many other instances, it has been democratically elected officials or judges appointed by democratically elected officials who have interpreted the legal details of many cases in such a way as to find such recognition to be in line with constitutional values.

And until you offer some reason for us to believe you are a qualified music critic who can speak either to the technical components of music (as a scholar or theorist would) or to the social, cultural, or literary import of popular music in general and/or subgenres thereof in particular (like a critic, enthusiast, or autodidact), the reasons for your feelings on any such genre can only be ground for speculation. But here's a hint as to how you can keep that from being [yet] a[nother] black stain on the inky splotch that is your character: frame your contempt as a statement of your preference, and not an ostensibly objective (but not objectively supported) statement as to what's "good" and what's "worthless."