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Submission + - Australians urged to spoof IP addresses for better prices (computerworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @06:55PM

angry tapir writes: "Choice, a prominent Australian consumer advocacy group, has urged Australians to obfuscate their IP address to avoid geo-blocking and use US forwarding addresses to beat high IT prices. Australia is currently in the middle of parliamentary inquiry into the country's disproportionately high prices for technology. Choice also suggested setting up US iTunes accounts and using surrogate US addresses for forwarding packages from American stores. Choice has noted previously that Australians pay 52 per cent more for digital music downloads on iTunes compared to US users."

Submission + - Michael E. Mann Sues for Defamation Due to Comparison to Jerry Sandusky (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @02:48PM

eldavojohn writes: The global warming debate has left much to be desired in the realms of logic and rationale. One particular researcher, Michael E. Mann, has been repeatedly attacked for his now infamous (and peer reviewed/independently verified) hockey stick graph. It has come to the point that he is now suing for defamation over being compared to convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky. Articles hosted by defendants and written by defendant Rand Simberg and defendant Mark Steyn utilize questionable logic for implicating Michael E. Mann alongside Jerry Sandusky with the original piece concluding, 'Michael Mann, like Joe Paterno, was a rock star in the context of Penn State University, bringing in millions in research funding. The same university president who resigned in the wake of the Sandusky scandal was also the president when Mann was being (whitewashed) investigated. We saw what the university administration was willing to do to cover up heinous crimes, and even let them continue, rather than expose them. Should we suppose, in light of what we now know, they would do any less to hide academic and scientific misconduct, with so much at stake?' Additionally, sentences were stylized to blend the two people together, 'He has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet' and one of the defendants admits to removing "a sentence or two" of questionable wording. Still, as a public figure, Michael E. Mann has an uphill battle to prove defamation in court.

Submission + - Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

BButlerNWW

on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @02:32PM

BButlerNWW writes: "OpenStack has been dubbed by some enthusiasts as the Linux of the cloud — an open source operating system for public or private clouds. But there's one stark difference between the two projects: OpenStack doesn't have a Linus Torvalds, the eccentric, outspoken, never-afraid-to-say-what-he-thinks leader of the Linux world.

Torvalds personifies Linux in many ways. OpenStack doesn't have that one central figure right now. The question is: Does OpenStack need it?

Some would argue yes. Torvalds, because of the weight he holds in the project, calls the shots about how Linux is run, what goes in, what stays out of the code, and he's not afraid to express his opinions. He provides not only internal guidance for the project, but also an exterior cheerleading role.

Others would say OpenStack does not need a Torvalds of its own. The project is meant to be an open source meritocracy, where members are judged based on their code contributions to the project. OpenStack has been fighting an image that the project is just full of corporate interests, which is part of the reason Rackspace ceded official control of the project to the OpenStack Foundation recently."

Comment Re:Developers love USDP (Score 1) 344

by chameco on Saturday October 13, 2012 @08:01PM (#41645511) Attached to: Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS?

Finally, someone else who does this :P. I can't stand IDEs after I saw this: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/32490/writing-programs-without-graphical-ide Only Vim now. Albeit, my Vim install is so tricked out that it has more features than Eclipse.

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