Obviously the Chinese Jade cartels hacked Sony

(Caveat: Used to own a few thousand Sony shares)

Oh great, another protest beyond the freedom of expression tack. You aren't changing anything with signs and slogans. Thanks for blocking traffic.

Inslee doesn't need to re-invent the wheel. We know what works: Park, Alice. The End of AIDS. TIME Magazine, Vol. 184, No. 21-22 (Dec. 1 & 8, 2014), pp. 44-51. (Paywall)

Local news broadcast the police union head claiming these were, 'professional protesters / malcontents' last night with zero follow-up questions on what he meant or what the implications might be. Seemed very odd. I'd expect there is some escalation of police tactics planned or that the union is pushing for. Hello DoJ.

@8: You hate GMOs. I think I know who is the real "mental midget".

@8: I went and checked. You called them "bitchez". That was his claim of misogyny. That's spot on. So you can PRETEND it's about you nobly shedding light on their behavior, but it's actually about your bullshit misogynistic labeling.

IOW: Go fuck yourself.

@7 wondered about that - is this code for Portland/Eugene anarchists?

@12, I don't know how the recorders (I refuse to call them 'reporters') could stand there and not ask. I guessed code for 'big mouthed, dirty kids who the SPD wants to beat with a stick, and who no one should defend on principle.'

@8: All these flavors
and you choose to be salty.

@14, @8 is at it on the Seattle Public Library site too. Way off topic, but there is a Rolling Stone article that raises some horrifying allegations about UVA sweeping reports under the rug and fraternities including rape as hazing. It's not a coincidence UVA had a woman taking the reports - it helped look like they were interested in the issue, but I don't think her gender had an influence on the outcome beyond that - just a callous attempt to sweep the problem under the rug for as long as possible.

263 million dollars for 50,000 body cameras works out to over $5,000 per camera. $263 million should be enough to get a body camera for every policeman in the US! (roughly 780,000) or $300/camera.

@16, you'd think. But it turns out that the software necessary to give police unions the ability to delete footage at will is a little pricey.

I'm only sorta kidding: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342623830/…

@17

In addition to all that extra super seekrit software backdoor conspiracy hacker horseshit...

Body cameras also require high-throughput network infrastructure, huge storage systems for the firehose of footage (8 hours of video per day per officer?!), and ongoing tech-pay-scale labor to maintain, repair, upgrade, and replace the storage, network, software, and hardware for all of those body cams.

$5k per active endpoint sounds wildly optimistic, to me.