As far as I know only one person has been banned for that, which certainly doesn't account for the "part of our Xbox LIVE community" that Marc Whitten referred to.

From my point of view, both phrases share the same amount of sexual orientation statement. One doesn't stand as much as the other, but I'm certain that their terms don't include "stating non-heterosexual orientation".

Sure, the second guy is going to get some bad responses from the community, but it's not as if the Live terms were keeping him out, which is the discussion here.

My point on the exhibitionism was that the only people that will join the system because of this measure are the ones doing so just for attention.

And my question was if the XBox Live's General Manager phrase was truly referring to this kind of people, if there are other people that he could be referring to, or if it's just management's cliche statement badly used.

How come? Did gay people avoid joining because they couldn't state that they were gay?

Did you mean Issue 9?

It could also be:

Porn. The web. Fun.

That might be true, but it's no reason to turn this into an undocumented and unavoidable feature.

This software have been around for decades. I've seen people turn to macs because they "display colors better", but in all those years nobody filled a bug report about this?

Color me surprised. With correct gamma, please.

A normal human eye has (almost) no frame rate limit since all cells are asynchronous, but this one appears to rely on a single video camera.

I wonder if the severely reduced frame rate perception will have any side effects, such as not being able to tell an object's speed or detecting subtle vibrations.

The point of having a score is so you can keep track of what you achieved and feel good for it. Can you tell how much healthier you are after brushing your teeth?

People who want to provide small games for masses or marketing products.

You seem to have to be exactly in line with the device, so I guess there can be only one watching it at a time? (acrobatics doesn't count)

It's all about having the option to choose between privacy and convenience.

Any device that can only run Flash would be equally bashed.

The problem of tracking a user is when he/she enters personal info and it gets indexed. You don't do that with ads, do you?


Without that, all they have is a user number. Back to the beginning:

That would be indeed very disturbing, but your hypothesis is technically flawed.

Flash files can not access cookies placed by other domains, i.e. the cookies are partitioned. Pay a visit to your Flash cookies directory and this differentiation becomes very clear, there's a different folder for each website domain.

Yo dawg, I herd you like browsers...