Parental Controls (Score 1)

One of the things I find most frustrating about news articles like this is the fact that things like "big red button to turn off the game at the first sign of inappropriate content" already exist, in a manner, in most modern consoles. For example, the Xbox 360 will not allow people to play videogames (or DVDs) above a certain age rating without a user-defined password. I guess the problem is that most parents aren't tech-savvy enough to muck around inside the system menu of a modern console to find this setting. What's the point in setting a password if you have to get your child to set the password for you? In fact, to answer Gamepolitics' question, I guess this unfamiliarity with the technology gives us a reason why the on/off switch isn't good enough - I know my own mother would be afraid of touching it "in case it breaks". A big red button with one defined purpose (to turn off the game without breaking anything) at least puts the functionality in terms of something can conceptualize easily.