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

[Rich Faulkner]

That's an awesome link Charles!  Thanks for posting that!!  I'm gonna
have to check that out.

Otherwise, we have a simple rule in our house.  No Xbox, no PS*, no
consoles, no nothing.  My eldest has an iPod Touch and I barely tolerate
that.  The only thing we do allow is learning games and flight sims
(from time-to-time).  

Yes, I am a dick about it.  For a reason...

All hail Galaxar.......RinL


On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 11:03 -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 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
> >>>
> >>> http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> >>>
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> >> --
> >> James Sumners
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> >>
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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
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