In its ruling the PCC said the police officer’s privacy had not been invaded because the reporting of this comment was in the public interest.

After the death of Tomlinson during the London G20 protests in April, the officer posted an update stating: “I see my lot have murdered someone again. Oh well, shit happens.”

The People ran a story about the Facebook comment and another comment the officer made on Friends Reunited.
“The commission has recently made clear that it can be acceptable in some circumstances for the press to publish information taken from social networking websites, even when the material is originally intended for a small group of acquaintances and not publicly accessible. However, this will generally be only in cases where the public interest overrides the individual’s right to privacy,” the PCC said.

“The commission was persuaded that this was such a case. The individual in question was a serving police officer, commenting on a matter that was the subject of considerable media and public scrutiny. He had done so in a way that made light of a person’s death and the role apparently played by the police. There was a clear public interest in knowing about police attitudes, whether publicly or privately expressed, towards the incident.”

A picture of the officer on his private driveway and a picture taken from his sister’s Friends Reunited profile showing him in uniform were published by the People, but the PCC rejected complaints that the images were an invasion of privacy.

The MBTA yesterday asked Clear Channel to remove the mannequin from a billboard located on the Somerville-Boston line for heating oil company Clickfil, said T spokesman Joe Pesaturo. Clear Channel manages the T’s billboard program.

“We received complaints about it, and we agreed it should be removed to avoid unnecessary confusion,” Pesaturo said. The billboard is located on T property.

At least three calls were placed to fire departments in Boston and Somerville about the mannequin yesterday.

Clickfil is a part of the Fort Reliance Company, which is the parent company to Irving Oil, according to its Web site. A message left for a company spokesperson was not immediately returned

PC gamers have been most shocked by the relelations to come out of Infinity Ward. During an online chat session, the following new news about the game was discovered:

Of course, people understand by now that PC players will not have dedicated servers. In addition, however, Modern Warfare 2 will not have the ability to vote-kick players from a match. When pressed about the issue, Infinity Ward has stated that they’ll be taking action against hackers that make their way past VAC (the anti-cheating system). Infinity Ward has confirmed that gamers cannot opt-out of hosting matches, a concern for those players that are on ISPs that don’t allow dedicated servers. With all of these limits, it’s hard to imagine more, but… Modern Warfare 2 is also limited to 9 vs 9 matches, only 18 total players on a map.

One last kick to the PC gamers is the lack of a Console Mode (a mode where PC gamers are able to enter commands directly into the game). When asked if Modern Warfare 2 was simply a console port, Infinity Ward said “No, PC has custom stuff like mouse control, text chat in game, and graphics settings.”
Apparently, they have absolutely no idea what was meant by the question. And the real answer is “Yes, why the hell would we develop 2 games, when we can just make one and get the same amount of money?”