According to founder Tim Westergren, yes:

Founder Tim Westergren has stated that the service is approaching a “pull-the-plug kind of decision” for the service. Why is this happening? Last year, web radio giants were hit with outrageously ridiculous fees by a federal panel for every song that would be played on their stations. This caused a lot of services to either shutdown, or go through what Pandora has been experiencing for the past year. In doing so, it seems the financial problems the music industry has set out to create in order to win the constant battle between rights, piracy, and copyrighted music, are working.

I didn’t even know they had an app for the iPhone, fuckers. Hopefully they don’t fuck off for at least a couple of more days so I have a chance to try it out, figure out that it sucks and move on to something better.

The Synthesis is admittedly a little smug when it comes to the Mac v. PC debate. We have a decent amount of Mac Minis, a series of random Mac desktops and a few MacBooks floating around the office at all times. Is it really necessary that we rock such killer machines for writing blogs and looking at celebrity pr0n? Of course! We’re in the business of serving up internetz, and with that comes a certain responsibility to look hip and trendy and shit. Oh, and to do the massive amount of editing it takes to bring you our Manchild Drink Beer webisodes. Here’s some other super famous people that made the switch.

Oh, and of course Dave Chappelle.

Some semi scandalous photos of teen whore Miley Cyrus have been reportedly hacked off her phone by a hacker named TrainReq. Though there are, as of yet, no WIN photos, there are some pretty funny shots of Cyrus wet t-shirting in some public shower (taken by someone else, at that) and of her holding up her shirt to show totally unfappable regions of her 15 year old body. Wait, why is this news again?

So being that I actually have a life, not to mention a job, I was unable to camp out overnight outside of the local AT&T store to get a newly released 3G iPhone today. But maybe that’s a good thing, after all, the new software Apple lauched for all iPhone to coincide with the new release, doesn’t work:

NEW YORK (AP) - The launch of Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.

“It’s such grief and aggravation,” said Frederick Smalls, an insurance broker in Whitman, Mass., after spending two hours on the phone with Apple and AT&T Inc., trying to get his new iPhone to work.

In stores, people waited at counters to get the phones activated, as lines built behind them. Many of the customers had already camped out for several hours in line to become among the first with the new phone, which updates the one launched a year ago by speeding up Internet access and adding a navigation chip.

A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple’s iTunes servers that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned.

Instead, employees are telling buyers to go home and perform the last step by connecting their phones to their own computers, spokesman Michael Coe said.

However, the iTunes servers were equally hard to reach from home, leaving the phones unusable except for emergency calls.

The problem extended to owners of the previous iPhone model. A software update released for that phone on Friday morning required the phone to be reactivated through iTunes.

“It’s a mess,” said freelance photographer Giovanni Cipriano, who updated his first-generation iPhone only to find it unusable.

As far as I’m concerned, if you’re camping outside a store overnight to buy a fucking PHONE, you kind of deserve something like this. I mean, fuck, maybe I’ll just wait another year until they’re like $99.

Personally I could give a shit about the 3G part of the new iPhone (they probably won’t even have that shit up here in Bumblefuck,CA), I’m just feeling the $199 price tag, and feeling getting rid of my clunky ass 10-pound Audiovox Pocket PC and getting into the Mac world of phones, since I run a Mac at home and a Mac at work. Not really feeling having to switch from Verizon, who have been badass for the last 10 years to AT&T but whatever, they’re all the same shit anyway.

In b4 PC IS BETTER

And I remember when I got a phone that could take pictures I was pumped.

Since 2004, a team of professors and students from the University of California, Berkeley has searched for ways to let a single human supervise a team of robot planes. Now, this Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles has a new device for ordering around its drones: an iPhone.

In a video taken from this month’s Teaching & Technology conference, the Berkeley crew uses an iPhone to pick tasks for its drone squadron, input a set of coordinates for a local reconnaissance mission, and send the planes new orders while the aircraft are in the sky.

But don’t tell Steve Jobs how the Berkeley folks are using his gadget. According to the terms of the Apple Software Developer Kit agreement, “applications may not be designed or marketed for real-time route guidance; automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other mechanical devices; dispatch or fleet management; or emergency or life-saving purposes.”