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Comment Re:Other Offenses (Score 2) 262

It's not against the law to flip off a cop:

U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone ruled David Hackbart exercised his constitution right to free speech in 2006 when he angrily displayed his middle finger to another driver during a parking dispute in Squirrel Hill and when he displayed the same gesture to Officer Brian Elledge, who told Hackbart to stop.

“The United States Supreme Court has long recognized that non-verbal gestures and symbols may be entitled to First Amendment protection,” Cercone wrote in his 19-page opinion and order filed Monday. “Moreover, several courts, including federal and state courts in Pennsylvania, have found that the expressive use of the middle finger is protected speech under the First Amendment.”

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_617562.html

Submission + - Download.com Caught Adding Malware (insecure.org) 1

lothos writes: Fyodor of nmap fame has published today an expose on CNet's Download.com bundling malware with legitimate downloads.

From the site:
In August 2011, Download.com started wrapping legitimate 3rd party software into their own installer which by default installs a wide variety of adware and other questionable software on users machines. It also does things like redirect user search queries and change their Internet home page.

Android

Submission + - Rebirth of an icon: Motorola reinvents the RAZR (bgr.com)

zacharye writes: Among companies that have played truly significant roles in building and shaping the wireless industry as we know it today, few if any can stand shoulder to shoulder with Motorola. It has been more than 38 years since Dr. Martin Cooper, a Motorola executive, made the first analog cell phone call from a prototype handset, and Motorola has continued to innovate ever since. The company’s rich history of innovation has yielded an extensive IP portfolio — a big part of the draw for Google, which is currently trying to spend $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility — and it has built a number of iconic devices. None, however, are quite as recognizable as the Motorola RAZR...

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie has died (biobiochile.cl)

rjh writes: "Dennis Ritchie, father of both C and UNIX, has died at age seventy. (English-speaking news outlets haven't yet picked it up yet, but Google Translate does well with the link.) In a career that not only spanned modern computing but defined it, he developed many tools and systems that we take for granted today. He received a Turing Prize in 1983 for his services to the industry, but even then he didn't slow down: he had a sterling career with Bell Labs and Lucent until finally retiring in 2007."
Unix

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie is dead (boingboing.net)

drwho writes: "Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and C, has died of natural causes. There has been no official confirmation. This is the passing of a much more influential person than Steve Jobs in the geek world"

Submission + - Dennis Ritchie, creator of C, dies at age 70 (osnews.com)

vhfer writes: Dennis Ritchie, the guy who created C and was instrumental in the creation of Unix, has died at age 70. The C programming language influenced nearly all languages that followed it, and the development of Unix had an undeniable influence on what would later become the personal computer, and of course, Linux.
RIP DMR 1941-2011

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