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Xbox Live Disallows Linux, Unix As Keywords

Posted by kdawson on from the way-beyond-childish dept.

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.

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  1. Fortunately by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    SlashdotSUX seems to work just fine. OH SNAP!

  2. other banned words... by Starteck81 · · Score: 4, Funny

    penguins
    penguinsrock
    penguinseatMS
    Iluvpenguins

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  3. Snow by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Snow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
      in the lane, **** is glistening

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      It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
      Ev'rywhere you go;
      There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well,
      The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the ****.

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      I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
      Just like the ones I used to know
      Where the treetops glisten
      and children listen
      To hear sleigh bells in the ****.

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      Hear the **** crunch, see the kids bunch, this is Santa's big scene
      And above all this bustle you'll hear
      Silver bells, silver bells
      It's Christmas time in the city

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      Another tender Tennessee Christmas
      The only Christmas for me
      Where the love circles around us
      Like the gifts around our tree
      Well, I know there's more **** up in Colorado
      Than my roof will ever see
      But a tender Tennessee Christmas
      is the only Christmas for me.

  4. Try "monkeyboy" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or maybe "chairboy".

    How about "monkeychairboy"?

  5. Re:It's also worth nothing that... by Black+Copter+Control · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, buddy- I don't know if you noticed, but we're talking about X-box live, here .... Not Slashdot.

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  6. Re:I registered by megaditto · · Score: 5, Funny

    StallMan? Does that refer to the FOSS geek or to the gay Senator?

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  7. Re:Other words? by WwWonka · · Score: 5, Funny

    ubuntu,fedora,redhat...suse,novel? xandros, freespire...lindows...
    GPL.... FOSS Richard Stallman Linus torvalds al qaeda

    ...we didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the worlds been turning.

  8. Re:MSN messenger... by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My friend Frank Ucker had this problem.

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  9. LINUX YOU! by Sj0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  10. Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux. by fractoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  11. Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux. by BronsCon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't consider them editors, either.

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  12. Re:Other words? by bladesjester · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 =]

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  13. Horny not allowed. "FingeredAnus" is O.K.! by J_Omega · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  14. Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux. by RealityMogul · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe you could use the services of an editor?

  15. It's GNU/Linux dammit by rgo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Calling it Linux is an offense to the FOSS community...

    At it seems even Microsoft knows that.

    geez...

  16. Re:Horny not allowed. "FingeredAnus" is O.K.! by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course we'd all be happy to play against someone called "FingeredUranus"...

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