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Xbox Live Disallows Linux, Unix As Keywords
shafty023 writes "The Xbox Live online service disallows screen names like LINUXRULES, L I N U X, and other variations of these kinds. Other bloggers are reporting that variants of 'Unix' also result in the message: 'Your motto contains inappropriate language. Please try again.'" If this is an extension of Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign, perhaps it's time they gave it up.
SlashdotSUX seems to work just fine. OH SNAP!
XXX-Box and MiniXbox360.
;-)
I guess they were on Tannenbaum's side of the argument.
Next I'm trying StallMan!
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Never been known to fail..."
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penguinsrock
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"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
A friend hated snow so much that he put it in his dial-up BBS's filter, so "snow" would be rendered "****".
Someone decided to post a Christmas song, to hilarious results from the other possible 4-letter substitutions. He relented and removed it from the filter.
Unfortunately, I'm not certain what song it was: "Frosty the ****man" or "Let It ****" are the ones that leap to mind.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Or maybe "chairboy".
How about "monkeychairboy"?
I have tried: Windows, OS2, BeOS, OSX... All disallowed words. Next thing I'll try: kdawson, maybe I'll get the response: "No trolls allowed". Gezz that guy (ktrollson) really needs help.
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
Hey, buddy- I don't know if you noticed, but we're talking about X-box live, here .... Not Slashdot.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
There are lots of fun ways past a (lame) keyword filter
Some suggestions to start:
Lenucks
Leenux
LeanUcks
LeeenUcks
LinusesOs
|_inux
Linu}{
L!nux
L|nux
Linuks
Linu>
Or some variant of...
TorvaldsOs
PenguinOs
GplV2Os
Free$wIsBetter
FO$$
Finally:
$u$E SueSee
Nohvell Nove||
UhBuntu, EwBhunthu
RedH@t, RhedHatt
Debi@n, DehBian
My rights don't need management.
I just made that up so you would waste more time on this non-event
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04, @04:26PM
Browsers have this neat ability to search within a page.
I don't know if there's a single editor here who really is one. The bulk of editors work here is limited to filling in the "from the words-separated-by-dashes dept" field when clicking on the green articles in the firehose. Oh and adding scintillating color text to the end of submissions like like "worth reading".
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
The next version of Windows will be released with a lightning bolt logo, and the name will be "The OS that lived!"
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
He does. This kdawson person is infringing on Twitter's intellectual property rights. ;)
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ubuntu,fedora,redhat...suse,novel? xandros, freespire...lindows...
...we didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the worlds been turning.
GPL.... FOSS Richard Stallman Linus torvalds al qaeda
My friend Frank Ucker had this problem.
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LINUX YOU, YOU LINUXING LINUXERS!
I can't believe these linuxheads are doing this. linux isn't linuxing inappropriate language, linux-linux-it!
I can't believe this linux. It's linuxing insane.
It's been a long time.
And 'Linux' is banned to prevent phishing scams where someone pretends to be from Linux.
...are you trying to tell me there AREN'T people that stupid out there? On XBox Live?! O_o
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
GNU's Not Unix!
Great, just great, Now you are going to get the RIAA ticked off at us. btw, can you use RIAA in a gamer id?
You seem to forget that people around here believe their choice in OS to be a moral one. :)
BallmerThrowsChairs is also banned.
Sig: Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
I don't consider them editors, either.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
That's pushing on the definition of "intellectual" pretty hard, don't you think?
Or don't you?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Great, just great, Now you are going to get the RIAA ticked off at us. btw, can you use RIAA in a gamer id?
Only if you reallllly wanted to be sniper bait =]
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/2007/09/04.htm l
Posted today. They pulled this guys 3-yo tag of "HornyChinchilla" because, it is assumed, they found it to be offensive.
Their filter suggested "Fingered" and completely accepted "FingeredAnus"
I'm sure that there's a joke in there somewhere about how it feels to use MS products...
Is "HaloIsDumbedDownMarathon" allowed? 'Cause that'd be almost worth getting an XBox for.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Microsoft wants Linux and any other who threatens their monopoly power gone . There is no end to their madness and so they must go.
Oh, and ask you boss if these are the kind of developers you want behind your enterprise software, because they are there too.
and you don't want me writing your technical papers either
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Maybe you could use the services of an editor?
There is a list, but I can't show it to you. That would violate all the trademarks.
SCISNE? ANUS SIMIAE!
I dunno, I think the fact that he's censored even on slashdot shows how powerful Microsoft really is and how important his one man campaign to get the facts out really is.
You go twitter, remember the Nazis tried to censor their opponents too!
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Calling it Linux is an offense to the FOSS community...
At it seems even Microsoft knows that.
geez...
Of course we'd all be happy to play against someone called "FingeredUranus"...
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
You Houyhnhnm, you.
Ignore this signature. By order.
Did anyone tell Linus Torvalds that his parents violated a trademark?
But how awesome would it be to piss off Halo 2 players by fragging them under the gamertag RIAA_Executive?
Several years back, when I worked with Unisys microcomputer systems, somebody had filed a bug report mentioning that the spell-checker flagged "Unisys" and the first suggested correction was "anuses." The report was closed with the notation "works as intended."
Slightly disreputable, albeit gregarious