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Submission + - 23 Years of Culture Hacking with Perl (wordpress.com)

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Modern Perl
Modern Perl writes: "Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, reflects on Perl's history of hacking its culture, from subverting the reductionist culture of Unix to reinventing the ideas of programming language and culture in Perl 6 and the verbal aikido used to encourage honest detractors to become valuable contributors. Perl turned 23 years old last week, and Perl 6 is available."
The Internet

Submission + - Skype outages continue into second day (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz
netbuzz writes: And according to a statement issued this morning, the company doesn’t appear to know when service will return to normal: “Unfortunately, it’s not possible for us to predict on an individual level when you’ll be able to sign in again, and we thank you for your patience in the meantime.” In a blog post yesterday, Skype blamed the disruption on problems with “supernodes.”

Submission + - BYTE is coming back (technologizer.com)

Submitted by harrymcc
harrymcc writes: More than a dozen years after its death, BYTE magazine is still the most beloved computer magazine of all time--the one that employees of every other tech mag got used to being compared unfavorably with. And now it's being revived, in the form of a new BYTE.com. The new version isn't replicating the focus of the old BYTE--it's focused on the use of consumer tech products in a business environment--and I'm pretty positive it won't feature Robert Tinney's art or epic Jerry Pournelle columns. But I'm glad to see the legendary brand back in use rather than sitting in limbo.
Science

Submission + - 50,000 year-old finger bone connect to present man (sciguru.com)

Submitted by RogerRoast
RogerRoast writes: Gene sequencing of a 50,000 year old bone found in Siberia shows that the cave dwellers were neither Neandertals nor modern humans, but the individual is from a group that shares a common origin with Neanderthals. The bone belonged to a female lived at that time.

Submission + - Skype outage affects millions (skype.com)

Submitted by JustABlitheringIdiot
JustABlitheringIdiot writes: As I write this I am waiting for my Skype to finally log me back in.

Apparently they lost some of their supernodes for quite a while there and things are now slowly recovering. Can anybody explain what happened in more depth? Did this affect your business today?
Facebook

Submission + - Gmail Creator: Why Google Can't Beat Facebook

Submitted by Quek
Quek writes: Google has been working on a Facebook killer for many months now. Many have criticized Google's approach, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saying the search giant simply does not understand social. Now, former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come out and explained why it's so hard for the company to create a successful social network like Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare.

"I'm actually rather optimistic about Google overall," Buchheit told Gawker. "The inevitable doom of ChromeOS is due in part to the huge success of Android. As for social, I expect that Google will find greater success with their self-driving car and moon landing initiatives. I think it's worth noting that the two most successful Facebook competitors, Twitter and Foursquare, were both started by people who were relatively unsuccessful at Google. The only good strategy I can see for Google is to create something fundamentally different from Facebook (like Twitter or Foursquare were), but Google probably doesn't have the right people."

Submission + - Jupiter-like exoplanets not as common as thought (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While the number of known exoplanets continues to grow rapidly, the number of Jupiter-like planets, in Jupiter-like orbits might not be as common as thought.
Security

Submission + - IETF Domain Key Infrastructure effort (riosec.com)

Submitted by philos
philos writes: The IETF have formed a working group for distributing and authenticating public keys through DNSSEC. Called DANE for "DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities", this is similar to work by Dan Kaminsky on Phreebird, a suite of tools for making DNSSEC deployment easy and working code to federate authentication through DKI — Domain Key Infrastructure.
An Internet-Draft is already posted.

Submission + - Pickens Plan comes to a wimpering end (wsj.com)

Submitted by Spy Handler
Spy Handler writes: In 2008, billionaire T. Boone Pickens unveiled his "Pickens Plan" on national TV, which calls for America to end its dependence on foreign oil by increasing use of wind power and natural gas. Over the next two years, he spent $80 million on TV commercials and $2 billion on General Electric wind turbines. Unfortunately market forces were not favorable to Mr. Pickens, and in December 2010 he announced that he is getting out of the wind power business.

What does he plan to do with his $2 billion worth of idle wind turbines? He is trying to sell them to Canada, because of Canadian law that mandates consumers to buy more renewable electricity regardles of cost.

Submission + - skype is down (consumerist.com)

Submitted by serbanp
serbanp writes: Are we relying too much on internet-based services? Skype is down, meaning that everyone who solely relied on its services cannot place a phone call. Hooray for the old-fashioned landline!

Submission + - How the "Net Neutrality" coup was carried out (wsj.com)

Submitted by mark72005
mark72005 writes: John Fund of the Wall Street Journal reports on the interest groups behind Obama's push for the new crop of internet regulations, and whether the problems it purports to solve are really problems at all.
Science

Submission + - Life on Earth kickstarted 3 billion years ago (cosmosmagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Life on Earth dramatically surged around three billion years ago, possibly when primitive forms developed more efficient ways to harness energy from sunlight.
Security

Submission + - Human Rights Suffer with Rise in DDoS (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Gunkerty Jeb
Gunkerty Jeb writes: The recent wave of online actions by supporters and opponents of information leaking site Wikileaks has focused attention on the phenomenon of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. But a study published by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society this week concludes that there is no clear and easy defensive solution for many of the sites being targeted by DDoS attacks.
Science

Submission + - 8-Year-Olds Publish in a scientific journal (wired.com)

Submitted by vellorean
vellorean writes: To all those who go to grad school wanting to be researchers: A group of eight to ten year-olds have got their research published in a peer-reviewed journal. The article is "written entirely in the kids’ voices, complete with sound effects (part of the Methods section is subtitled, “‘the puzzle’duh duh duuuhhh”) and figures drawn by hand in colored pencil." If I had just thought of this a couple of decades ago...

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