Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

I want to blog about how my cancelled flight on nwa is making me five hours late, but all I have is my bb.

Wordpress should definitely release a mobile skin for the admin area, which doesn’t work so well right now on small screens.

Yes, you’ve all read the amazing iPhone battery life news, but do any of you really believe it? According to Apple Gazette, they claim:

iPhone now will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time.

Checking out the cNet mobile phone battery life charts, the averages are between 3-6 hours of talk time, which is way more reasonable. 10 days of standby? My big sony laptop with massive power cells can’t even hibernate that long. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to make performance claims without independent certification. Then again, if Apple is lying–and I think they are grossly overstating the iPhone’s capabilities–there’s plenty of chance for a class action lawsuit around some kind of consumer fraud or false advertising claim.

Even still, everyone’s holding their breath for the next to get their hands on these. We won’t see a backlash until there’s decent market saturation and enough time for people to get over the initial “wow,” but believe my, it’s coming. The iPhone is too hyped to do anything but disappoint.

I like the idea behind Pirate Bay’s new image hosting venture Bay Image, which is free, unrestricted image hosting outside of political influence or police control. I like the idea that visual information can find a free home. However, they have a big problem at the moment, which is the massive amounts of porn being uploaded. Just take a look at their tag cloud and it becomes clear what BayImg really is: a free porn hosting site:

They have a “report image” link, but according to their terms on the front page, these kind of images are probably ok:

Bayimg is a place where you can host all your images. We do not censor them. We believe in freedom of speech, it’s of utter importance to us. As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here, but we reserve the right to remove images due to technical reasons though.

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