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Comment Re:It's easy for men (Score 1) 502

Shoes won't instantly make you stronger, or reduce your running times, or anything magical like that. Proper sports shoes are for comfort and to prevent injury.

Personal experience: I will get gnarly blisters on my feet if I try to play tennis in running shoes. Likewise, when I first started running I had problems with shin splints. Running 30 miles a week in tennis shoes *will increase* foot and leg injuries! Less injury means more time playing sports which does make a better athlete in the long run.

Comment Re:any free service will be abused (Score 1) 188

If they had any kind of common sense after the first 5000 fraudulent accounts...

Places like Youtube have had way more than 5000 fraudulent accounts. Jotform got hurt because they're not big enough to make GoDaddy think before pulling the DNS plug, but too large to fly under the radar. This is an example of how our legal system helps huge corporations with lots of power while growing startups get bit.

Comment Re:BOGUS STORY (Score 1) 554

Can you tell me what nutrients are in grains that you cannot get from fruits and vegetables? I've lived off *mostly* salads and soy for a while, because it enabled me to eat an absolutely gigantic volume of food. Get 10+ servings of vegetables in a day and you get a huge amount of vitamins and minerals. This is a serious question, if I can improve my diet I want to know.

I admit that calcium is needed, but dairy is not the best source of calcium for some people.

Comment Re:Site that you've never heard of is shut down (Score 2) 188

What is interesting to me is that large websites, such as Facebook and Youtube would probably get a second look by GoDaddy or whatever law enforcement agent dealt with this case. tiny websites with no users are not a threat to anyone and fly under the radar. The way things are set up, the companies who get hurt the most are growing companies with good products, exactly the type we want to help our economy!

Comment Re:Site that you've never heard of is shut down (Score 1) 188

A lot of people haven't heard of Slashdot. Would that make it right if it were taken offline on the arbitrary say-so of some government functionary?

I would like to add, "A lot of people haven't heard of Slashdot. Would that make it right if it were taken offline on the arbitrary say-so of some government functionary..." and based on the actions of a minority of users? Jotform actively tried to keep illegal activity away. This is no Megaupload.

Comment Re:This ruin business with a quickness (Score 5, Interesting) 188

You can even see this in the comments on the Jotforms blog. About a quarter of the comments are, "I paid you [Jotforms] for service. It is YOUR responsibility to keep your service up! It is not my responsibility as a customer to deal with the Feds." From a paying customer point of view, I can see where they are coming from. Though what they should really be thinking is, "The government think's I am customer using an illegal service."

Comment Re:FUD. (Score 5, Insightful) 188

This is overrating to call this SOPA-style.

I thought this was EXACTLY the worry that Facebook, Google, Wikimedia, etc. had. The worry was that a user posting "problem material" could get an entire site pulled without a court order. It looks like this is EXACTLY what happened here. (Though I am still unsure if a court order was made or not. It seems like there was no court order.)

Comment Re:I hope... (Score 5, Informative) 188

SPECULATION: Jotform was using GoDaddy when this happened, and have decided to move every other domain they own off GoDaddy ASAP. The worry is that GoDaddy is following law enforcement requests without asking any questions. No idea if a court order or not. In either case, Jotform is having to heal with hundred thousands broken accounts because GoDaddy rolled over or because one judge somewhere saw only the law enforcement side of the case. The great majority of Jotform accounts are used for legitimate purposes. This is NOT like MegaUpload. You cannot make the argument that Jotform's goal is to break any law. They helped a great many businesses. It is pro big corporation actions like this that will hold our economy back, not the threat of a free internet as some politicians believe.

Comment Re:Its the least a begger could offer. (Score 3, Informative) 117

People who donate $15 or more will get a copy of the finished game. For all purposes it is a pre-order with the option of paying more if you want. He is perfectly open about his motives and his goals for the project. In fact, with the documentary being made about the development of the game, as it's being developed, you could say this is one of the most transparent development processes ever. Scam? Opposite! If you don't like the terms don't pay the $15+. No reason to start name calling.

Comment Re:Ios will NOT be DRM free.. (Score 2) 117

Copy-pasting:

Double Fine Adventure will be available for iOS, Android, and Linux.

Double Fine Adventure will also release a DRM-free version to backers of the project.

As the story submitter, I realize now that the title makes it sound like the iOS and Android versions of the game will be DRM-free. Sorry! I majored in mathematics, not english. >.<

Comment Re:Summary bias? (Score 1) 117

As is the Wii. Which probably would make quite a nice platform for a DotT-style point-and-click adventure.

I could see this working awesomely on the Wii. I didn't mention the Wii because I don't have one and haven't used one for quite some time. I have heard people asking for a Wii version of the game so who knows? I have a feeling the main reason the consoles are being passed up is because of how much money it costs to get a game approved by Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo.

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