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Posted by
samzenpus
on Wednesday May 07, @02:36PM
from the get-em-up-against-the-wall dept.
from the get-em-up-against-the-wall dept.
Ben Rothke writes "There
are two types of writers about terrorism, experts such as Daniel Pipes and
Steven Emerson who write from a distance and others that write graphic tales
of first-hand from the trenches war stories.
Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for
Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, is unique in
that author Malcolm Nance is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. intelligence
community and writes from a first hand-perspective, but with the organization
and methodology of writers such as Pipes and
Emerson. Those combined traits
make the book extraordinarily valuable and perhaps the definitive text on terrorist recognition."
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Monday May 05, @02:15PM
from the read-all-about-it dept.
from the read-all-about-it dept.
Aeonite writes "As we all learned in English class, there are three points of view one can employ when writing: first person ("I learned"), second person ("You learned"), and third person ("He learned"). You are about to read a review of Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, a book that addresses the use of second-person narration in games and related media. You are also likely to be eaten by a Grue."
Read below for the rest of Michael's review.
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Wednesday April 30, @02:05PM
from the read-all-about-it dept.
from the read-all-about-it dept.
Michael J. Ross writes "For creating Web sites, developers are increasingly making use of content management systems (CMSs), any of which can provide the framework for a new site. But just as there are many similarities among all the leading CMSs, there are some significant differences, such as how easy they are to install, administer, and build upon, for creating new sites. If developer loyalty is any measure of the present and future success of a CMS, then Drupal should be considered a standout among other CMSs. For instance, its online documentation alone is often cited as a distinguishing advantage. But most developers would prefer learning Drupal from a book, such as Building Powerful and Robust Websites With Drupal 6, by David Mercer." Keep reading below for the rest of Michael's review.
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Mon Apr 21, 2008 02:38 PM
from the read-all-about-it dept.
from the read-all-about-it dept.
Ben Rothke writes "It is 2008
and never has so much been spent in information security.
Year after year, more and more security hardware and software is
purchased, more and more security professionals are hired, and more security
is done; yet things are not getting better. Every
indicator, every pundit, everything points to more security breaches,
vulnerabilities and incidents. Large amounts of
proprietary data are compromised on a daily basis.
Obviously something is wrong, yet the entire industry goes along
thinking things are getting better and more secure.
Obviously something needs to change. And
that new change is what The New School of Information Security
attempts to conceive."
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Posted by
samzenpus
on Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:32 PM
from the the-movies-you-want-to-watch dept.
from the the-movies-you-want-to-watch dept.
Joe Kauzlarich writes "In 2006, the on-line movie rental store Netflix proposed a $1 million prize to whomever
could write a movie recommendation algorithm that offered a ten
percent improvement over their own. As of this writing, the
intriguingly-named Gravity
and Dinosaurs team holds first place by a slim margin of .07
percent over BellKor,
their algorithm an 8.82 percent
improvement on the Netflix benchmark. So, the question remains,
how do they write these so-called recommendation algorithms? A new
O'Reilly book gives us a thorough introduction to the basics of this
and similar lucrative sciences." Keep reading for the rest of Joe's review.
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