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Submission + - Pac Man's 30'th Anniversary (pacman.com)

Submitted by m2pc on Friday May 21, 2010 @11:03AM

m2pc writes: It's Pacman's 30th anniversary today. Google has a _playable_ doodle written in JavaScript that you can actually play.
More info on the Official PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary Destination website.

Comment Favorite quote FTA: (Score 1) 595

by m2pc on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @03:29PM (#32103198) Attached to: Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video?

"Looking at the facts, we can see it is Apple and not Adobe that is responsible for a lot the the problems Steve likes to blame Apple for. " Say that again?

Comment Something strange is going on here.... (Score 1) 492

by m2pc on Monday April 19, 2010 @11:44PM (#31906126) Attached to: This Is Apple's Next iPhone

I checked out Gray Powell's MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/graypowell) page linked from another article and it showed his name as "Gray" with last login date as 4/20/2010. Then a few minutes later I refreshed and it showed his name as simply "g" and the last login date reverted to 4/19/2010. Is MySpace freaking out over the huge torrent of traffic that must be hitting this guy's page, or is something else going on here?

Comment Find a good PPO (Score 1) 1197

by m2pc on Monday February 22, 2010 @01:48PM (#31232006) Attached to: Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World?

I was in this exact same situation (I've been unemployed/self-employed twice) and chose to go with a Blue Shield PPO.

If you choose the right deductible, it can be fairly affordable but still cover your family in the event of a tragedy. Plus with a PPO you can usually choose your own doctors and the meds are WAY cheaper than going without insurance. We had no billing issues or fights with them whatsoever when we had our 2 kids, and they seem pretty fair in paying their claims.

No affiliation to Blue Shield, just a happy customer.

Comment The whole point is... (Score 2, Interesting) 166

by m2pc on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @01:28PM (#30525540) Attached to: Microsoft Policies Help Virus Writers, Says Security Firm

It does open up some security concerns when an A/V utility is advised to "skip over" certain files. A malware writer could easily exploit this and simply mask their executable "payload" with one of the "non scannable" file extensions to avoid detection. Malware could easily modify the registry to make one of these "non executable" extensions open with the windows shell, causing them to become executable even without the .EXE extension. This would only work, however, if the resident portion of the malware was able to evade detection.

Submission + - PayPal Introduces Open API (pcworld.com)

Submitted by m2pc on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @01:31PM

m2pc writes: PayPal has just announced the availability of their Open API under the "PayPal X Program". This enabled developers to integrate PayPal payment processing services without forcing users to redirect to PayPal's website to enter payment information. This new initiative is designed to allow the company to better compete with the likes of Google and Amazon, which offer similar services.

I wonder how much they paid for their domain: x.com?

Submission + - Reliable family photo sharing sites? 1

Submitted by

m2pc

on Monday August 10, 2009 @01:28AM

m2pc writes: "With the recent death of a distant family member, I have been charged with creating a website for sharing photos among various relatives. While the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, Flickr and Photobucket make them easy first choices, are there any other options that offer better SLA in terms of uptime, reliability, guaranteed archival/backup of data, etc.? Or am I better off "rolling my own" system using open-source software hosted on my own hardware or with a hosting company?"

Comment Anyone else see these? (Score 1) 268

by m2pc on Monday February 02, 2009 @02:24PM (#26697177) Attached to: Apple Planning Video-Call iPhone

Flash logo shown in browser as "inline multimedia content":
http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=297&imageID=33&articleID=202103424

Video recording capability and camera timer:
http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=297&imageID=10&articleID=202103424

Strange skunk-like hand hitting touchscreen:
http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=297&imageID=42&articleID=202103424

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