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

[Jim Kinney]

I play exactly 0 computer/electronic games, online or otherwise. Sitting
down around a table to play a game face to face (i.e. Magic, bridge,
monopoly, etc) I find to be far more pleasurable than _ANOTHER_ several
hours in front of a screen.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>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/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Ale mailing list
> >>> Ale at ale.org
> >>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> >>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> James Sumners
> >> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
> >>
> >> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> >> 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."
> >>
> >> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> >> CH:D 59
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Ale mailing list
> >> Ale at ale.org
> >> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> >> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>



-- 
-- 
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/
*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20110808/a4bcc261/attachment.html