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Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store 917

Posted by CmdrTaco from the bending-to-pressure dept.
recoiledsnake writes "Apple has removed the Gay Cure app after the pressure on Apple to remove the app started to snowball, culminating in an online petition initiated by Change.org which collected over 140,000 online signatures from people who wanted the app removed. Searching for the app now yields zero search results and Exodus International President Alan Chambers tweeted the following on Tuesday night. 'It's official, the @ExodusInl App is no longer in the @AppStore. Incredibly disappointing. Watch out, it could happen to you. #freedom' Gay Cure isn't the first app Apple has removed for touting an anti-homosexual philosophy. Apple back in November removed an app called the Manhattan Declaration which advocated the dignity of marriage as the union of one man and one woman." I don't think Apple should have banned it: they should have just packaged it with an app to cure bigotry.
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Russian Team Prepares To Penetrate Lake Vostok 237

Posted by Soulskill from the in-soviet-russia,-lake-uhh-nevermind dept.
Lanxon writes "Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies four kilometers below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it's been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial lakes on the continent for such a long time. It's also oligotropic, meaning that it's supersaturated with oxygen — levels of the element are 50 times higher than those found in most typical freshwater lakes."
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Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor 200

Posted by timothy from the reverse-course-full-steam dept.
angry tapir writes "Oracle will halve the number of cores in its next Sparc processor and instead improve its single-thread performance, a weak area for the chip but one that's important for running large databases and back-end applications. The next Sparc chip on Oracle's roadmap, the T4, will have eight cores on each chip, down from 16 in the current Sparc T3."

Comment Tipical anti-Mac stuff (Score 1) 182

by MrJones (#34403650) Attached to: Apple's Game Center Shares Your Real Name

This is getting silly, anti-mac is over the place. Why is this anti-mac? Because is not the same as Blizzard forum.

Apple is sharing your name to your friend that you choosen to be your friend. Blizzard was sharing your Name with
all the thousand forum members.

I don't come for this to /., I will go for this to gizmodo, saaaad

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