Month: June 2010
Wait? iPhone 4 Has a Glass Back?
Really Apple??? Fucking brilliant! Who’s dumbass idea was it to put a glass back on the phone that shatters when you drop it? I can understand the front screen shattering. Actually, I can’t. I have a Droid, which has gorilla glass. I dropped that shit 7 times on concrete, tile – you name it. Nothing happened except the case got nicked.
Absolutely brilliant on their part. Let’s have everyone break their phones so we make more money selling more! It’s a scam!
Is The Pirate Bay Down for Good?
HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLL No. The Pirate Bay (the absolute best public torrent site ever) has been down for two days. Torrentfreak is reporting that its founding group, Piratbyrån, has disbanded because one of its founding members has died.
This is awful news, but I don’t see how the site can go down just because one of the founding members is no longer here. It’s not like he was the sole admin and operator of the site. Can’t the others carry out his work? And even if your group disbanded, you’d think that after everything that the site operators have been through, they’d want to continue strong:
Historical Site Outages
- On May 31, 2006, the website’s servers in Stockholm were raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days. They were restored from a secret backup location.
- On 17 April 2009, the admins were all found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year in prison and payment of a fine of 30 million SEK. They skipped prison and paid no fine.
- On October 5 2009, one of the IP transit providers to The Pirate Bay blocked all Pirate Bay traffic causing an outage for most users around the world. The site was restored the next day.
- On June 30, 2009 Swedish advertising company Global Gaming Factory X AB announced their intention to buy the site for SEK 60 million. The sale never happened.
- On May 17, 2010 due to an injunction against their bandwidth provider, the site was taken offline. Access to the website was later restored with a message laughing off the injunction on their front page.
- On June 23, 2010 the group Piratbyrån disbanded due to the death of Ibi Kopimi Botani, a prominent member and co-founder of the group. So does this mean the end of The Pirate Bay?
Source: Wikipedia (yes, I cited Wikipedia, wanna fight about it? This is a blog, not an academic paper)
I just don’t understand how it can be down for good. It survives a raid, hundreds of lawsuits , a sale that didn’t go through and multiple ISPs cutting its bandwidth or blocking its access. But suddenly, someone kicks the bucket and it’s down? What happened to their will to fight?
I’ll be expecting it to come back sometime in the near future – maybe the outage is just a coincidence. But for now, the once unsinkable has sunk!
PS- it’s 4:38am. Don’t I have anything better to be doing (hint – sleep) than writing about this?
Further Proof Steve Jobs is a Dick & the iPhone 4 is a Piece of Shit
The iPhone 4 is apparently a piece of shit because if you hold it by its antenna band, it loses signal and drops your calls. Isn’t AT&T bad enough? Apple doesn’t need to be releasing phones that drop calls if you hold them wrong.
It’s amazing that Jobs actually answers public email. I think that’s pretty cool. But if you’re going to be an asshole, just don’t answer. Job’s response when someone asked him about the issue? Don’t hold your phone that way. You pompous asshole. So I’m going to buy a $400 phone and I can’t hold it any way I want? The nerve!
Android App of the Week: GPS Status
This is part one of Wednesday’s weekly segment highlighting amazing Android Apps. This week: GPS Status.
This little app is amazing. It connects to your GPS and gives you your live coordinates, a compass, acceleration, altitude, pitch/tilt of the phone and speed. Those little green dots are the actual locations of GPS satellites in the sky.
You can share your location in GMail, twitter or Google Maps. You can also lock in your location and it will help you navigate back to it.
Very simple app, but it’s great for getting your speed and direction in a car or something. It’s also great to see how many satellites are visible / fixed to troubleshoot GPS issues (if it doesn’t connect).
To download, scan the following QR code, or search “GPS status” in the Android Market.
The Pirate Bay Is Back
June 25, 2010
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