[ale] [OT] xbox requires access to user email account?!?!?

[Charles Shapiro]

Good luck with this.  My online game of choice is http://projecteuler.net/ .

-- CHS


On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kid made a windows live account. Movung into online gaming territory.
>
> On Aug 7, 2011 7:05 PM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just create a Windows Live ID[1] and quit being a dick about it. All
>> it is used for is logging into the Xbox Live service. I use a Hotmail
>> account that won't even work if I try to login to Hotmail (they
>> disable Hotmail accounts after a period of inactivity).
>>
>> [1] --
>> https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf?vv=1100&mkt=EN-US&lc=1033
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 17:08, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So I put my foot down about even having an xbox in the house but was
>>> over-ridden by wife and kid with his own funds.
>>>
>>> During the network connection setup it was time to create an xbox live
>>> account. It asked for the email of the user.
>>>
>>> Then it asked for the password for the email account.
>>>
>>> um. hello?!?
>>>
>>> So if someone has a hotmail or other microsoft account then they already
>>> have access to their account contents. But my kid doesn't _have_ a
>>> microsoft
>>> account. gmail, yes.
>>>
>>> So he can't go forward 'cause there's no way in hell I'm letting him put
>>> in
>>> his gmail password without him having a microsoft account of some kind.
>>>
>>> He just got a hard lesson on why Dad doesn't trust that company with any
>>> thing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>
>>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
>>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
>>> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> James Sumners
>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>
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>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>
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