JCLOUDS-317: Fix NPE when ComputeService.listNodes()

Follow-up to 222779b
JCLOUDS-528: Ability to control interfaces to test for SocketFinder
JCLOUDS-534: Address Guava 17 compatibility issues

Corrected with:

find -name \*.java | xargs sed -i 's/new Stopwatch();/Stopwatch.createUnstarted();/'
find -name \*.java | xargs sed -i 's/new Stopwatch().start();/Stopwatch.createStarted();/'
Address several Guava InputSupplier deprecations

Many remain due to Payload implementing InputSupplier<InputStream>.  Guava 18
will remove InputSupplier.
Updated links to the user and dev mailing lists
JCLOUDS-534: Upgrade to Guava 17.0-rc2

This commit accommodates changes to Predicates.and.toString and
PublicSuffixPatterns.EXACT.  Release notes:

https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/Release17
Mark Swift blobstores as eventually consistent

This allows tests to retry correctly.  Most blobstores, including
Swift[1], offer eventual consistency, although Azure[2] and the
jclouds test blobstores offer strong consistency.

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06788.html
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/11/21/windows-azure-storage-a-highly-available-cloud-storage-service-with-strong-consistency.aspx