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Submission + - Texas dude pleads guilty over botnet-for-hire (networkworld.com)

Julie188 writes: A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP — just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. David Anthony Edwards will plead guilty to charges that he and another man, Thomas James Frederick Smith, built a custom botnet, called Nettick, which they then tried to sell to cybercriminals at the rate of US$0.15 per infected computer, according to court documents.
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Michael J. Ross writes "Like all major programming languages, JavaScript can be extended in functionality through the use of libraries, such as jQuery, which is currently seeing tremendous popularity and enhancement in the Web development community. Designers and developers who want to learn how to use jQuery for creating rich user interfaces through client-side JavaScript are advised to begin their journey to jQuery proficiency by reading one of the many books dedicated to this powerful JavaScript resource — such as jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.

Comment Re:Allow us to "opt-in" (Score 1) 256

I think the key difference in your house example is that you're not agreeing to give up the home, whereas on facebook, and other sites with EULAs is that you have to agree (even if you don't read it) to use their service. Now I don't think there is anything wrong with having a set of rules for a service you create. But the problem is that companies know the majority of people don't read them and use it to take advantage. If you don't have the time to read _each_ TOS agreement you sign up with, then don't sign up for it. If you're smart and read them, you won't be taken advantage of. IMO, the companies may be shady in using the EULAs/TOS agreements knowing people don't read them, but people hold blame too.

Comment Mixed (Score 1) 198

I have some mixed feelings on this. On one hand, like others have said, google seems to have it's fingers in everything. One the other hand, unlike recent new tech items like the ipad, this one did hold some interest. I often use my ps3 to surf the web on my tv, so as far as I'm concerned, let's cut out the middle man.

Comment Existing Apps? (Score 2, Interesting) 345

At one point when looking into developing an Application for the iphone, one of the requirements for *all* apps is that it had to be able to close with in a small time window upon hitting the home button as to kill any chance of running more than 1 app at a time. The reason for this, as I read it, was to avoid having a ton of applications running (w/o the user aware) and killing battery time and other software conflicts. I'm not really sure thats a bad thing. I can remember with my blackberry, If I got a call while in an application I may forget and before I knew it--dead battery. Since it's a phone first and a app platform 2nd, multitasking might not be the best thing for it.

Comment Re:This guy is a hack, not a hacker. (Score 1) 164

comment by HighGuy 2009-10-16 09:36:22 or rilly your all on the ball and plz (sony rep) if ur reading this you better run to ur boss for that big raze u want cuz we will hack this fucking thing with passion this new system mod is butifule make my shit work .if you haven’t been keeping up with me I have now thismorning got a console mode in gta 4 woot woot time for a hoot but im not realesing shit for the fact I want time to play and work with this befor sony can ever fuck me up so the un hackuble ha fuck you ..sorry to be rude but im a idiot rilly but I have worked hard and will need help soon so dave get lerning im 26 past my prime liike alex but kid ull take my shit to were wee need it .give me a month and I will give uu my shit ok be pationt and if sony thinks they have any idea on what I got ha fuckem just have faith in me the unhackuble coment motevated me more so stay high and sorry for beeing a hipocrit but you know Reply to this comment Comment by alex 2009-10-16 09:59:15 OH HighGuy WHYYY would you name the game bro. hopefully you are lying about the game because sony can just make a new patched GTA 4. they did it with gta vice city for psp and lumines for psp. so just watch what you say bro. you got to be all ninja about these things Reply to this comment Comment by Dave 2009-10-16 13:29:47 Yea alex is right. It’s okay tho, u didn’t say HOW or WHAT udid with the game, but Sony will pull the game apart if they want LOL And highguy, I still need to learn how to make hello worlds, I’m only good at working with hacks that were already made. BUT I have a friend my age that can help me out as well in this. A couple ppl actually, one of it friends hacked his cable box and he gets free movies and shit he’s maaaaaad good with that kind of stuff. He has the blue tooth hack on his moto razr look it up haha but yea high guy ur right. ” hack the unhackable ” pissed me off. Not pissed at greg, but the fact that technically it’s true. [ FOR THE TIME BEING ] [[ fuk Sony ]] I’m going to spend time with c++ tools and find an exploit.

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