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...unscientific but tantalizing theory is that Hollywood movies are serving as how-to manuals. Authorities point to the 1996 De Niro-Pacino vehicle Heat, which one of the robbers in the North Hollywood shoot-out had repeatedly watched. In Set It Off, starring Queen Latifah, a gang of women successfully robs several banks. Police in Durham noted that the language used in one local robbery was similar to that in the film. "These things are media induced," contends Dallas FBI agent John Skillestad. "Hollywood is portraying bank robberies and glamourizing them...
This week, 360's homepage, at http://www.360mag.com, features several stories: "The Rise of the Mimbo," a look at the recent increase in stupid, pretty men on TV; a how-to piece giving advice to first-time investors, written by a licensed financial planner; and a sports preview...
Unfortunately, that's exactly not the premise of this otherwise fascinating treatise, in which Grove offers up a readable user's manual for the new digital economy, plus a how-to for managers worried about their business and, by extension, their career. This book is about finding rational ways to survive what Grove calls the "10x"--tenfold--factors that can threaten to change everything about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove...
None of the victims have anything in common, leading investigators to suspect that the attacks may stem from the same source: a pair of how-to articles that appeared two months ago in 2600 and Phrack, two journals that cater to neophyte hackers. Phrack's article was written by a 23-year-old editor known as daemon9. He also crafted the code for an easy-to-run, menu-driven, syn-flood program, suitable for use by any "kewl dewd" with access to the Internet. "Someone had to do it," wrote daemon9...
What they get instead is a surrogate maiden aunt. Her name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...