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.

Fortunately

[Anonymous Coward]

SlashdotSUX seems to work just fine. OH SNAP!

I registered

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

XXX-Box and MiniXbox360.

I guess they were on Tannenbaum's side of the argument. ;-)

Next I'm trying StallMan!

other banned words...

[Starteck81]

penguins
penguinsrock
penguinseatMS
Iluvpenguins

Snow

[HTH NE1]

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.

Try "monkeyboy"

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe "chairboy".

How about "monkeychairboy"?

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[El Lobo]

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.

Re:It's also worth nothing that...

[Black Copter Control]

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

Re:I registered

[megaditto]

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

Take a hint from the spammers

[earthforce_1]

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

Re:Snow

[Anonymous Coward]

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

---

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 ****.

---

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 ****.

---

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

---

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.

slashdot banned too

[wardk]

I just made that up so you would waste more time on this non-event

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[nuzak]

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".

Re:5-letter words :o

[GuyverDH]

The next version of Windows will be released with a lightning bolt logo, and the name will be "The OS that lived!"

Re:Correct me if I'm wrong (seriously)

[Reziac]

He does. This kdawson person is infringing on Twitter's intellectual property rights. ;)

Re:Other words?

[WwWonka]

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.

Re:MSN messenger...

[Reverend528]

My friend Frank Ucker had this problem.

LINUX YOU!

[Sj0]

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.

Re:LINUX YOU!

[the phantom]

Smurf your smurfing language!

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[fractoid]

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

Re:GNU

[tjr]

GNU's Not Unix!

Re:Other words?

[yabba-dabba-do]

Great, just great, Now you are going to get the RIAA ticked off at us. btw, can you use RIAA in a gamer id?

Re:It's anti-retarded fanboy

[mattgreen]

You seem to forget that people around here believe their choice in OS to be a moral one. :)

in other news...

[SaturnNiGHTS]

BallmerThrowsChairs is also banned.

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[BronsCon]

I don't consider them editors, either.

Re:Correct me if I'm wrong (seriously)

[ColdWetDog]

He does. This kdawson person is infringing on Twitter's intellectual property rights. ;)

That's pushing on the definition of "intellectual" pretty hard, don't you think?

Or don't you?

Re:Other words?

[bladesjester]

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 =]

Horny not allowed. "FingeredAnus" is O.K.!

[J_Omega]

http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/2007/09/04.htm l [kde.org]

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...

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[OECD]

Is "HaloIsDumbedDownMarathon" allowed? 'Cause that'd be almost worth getting an XBox for.

Re:who's making a religion out of this? (oh crap)

[Locutus]

Should have read:
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

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[RealityMogul]

Maybe you could use the services of an editor?

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[WurdBendur]

There is a list, but I can't show it to you. That would violate all the trademarks.

Re:Advertising Exclusivity?

[Hal_Porter]

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!

It's GNU/Linux dammit

[rgo]

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

At it seems even Microsoft knows that.

geez...

Re:Horny not allowed. "FingeredAnus" is O.K.!

[Jesus_666]

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

What do you have against Yahoo!?

[cp.tar]

You Houyhnhnm, you.

Re:Maybe not completely anti-linux.

[catman]

Did anyone tell Linus Torvalds that his parents violated a trademark?

Re:Other words?

[jonnythan]

But how awesome would it be to piss off Halo 2 players by fragging them under the gamertag RIAA_Executive?

Re:Horny not allowed. "FingeredAnus" is O.K.!

[LMacG]

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."