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

[James Sumners]

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
>
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> 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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