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Microsoft: Game industry must educate parents on videogames |
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Neil Thompson, Microsoft's regional director of Xbox in the UK, has emphasized the need for the videogame industry to impress upon parents that consoles and videogames have grown far beyond what they were in the past.
Thompson, who is also a member of ELSPA, lamented that a lot of parents still treat consoles and videogames as "kids' toys." Age ratings and content filters are just a couple of the ways they're employing to wean parents off of this erroneous thinking.
"As a platform holder we take our responsibility of enabling parents to make the right decisions for their children very seriously. This is why we build technologies into the platform that allow parents to switch content on or off as well as allowing them to control the amount of time the products can be used," said Thompson in an interview with MCV.
"The key for us is to make the setting of these controls very easy and ensure we’re also playing a leading role in publicizing age ratings and their importance to parents and retailers alike. Every responsible member of the video games industry needs to step up and play as active a role as we can to keep this education process front of mind. It’s ELSPA’s job to corral the industry around this agenda and ensure we’re all doing everything we can reasonably do.”
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Via MCV
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Pure Evil!
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e.g use default password
reset default settings will clear it in most cases if not a 5 min search on google will solve it
its like on pc's you just pull out cmos battery then log into safemode onto admin account (default)
then change your account to admin
uninstall all monitering software
then put your own passwords on block bios,parents account (change to user)
turn off boot from anything other than hdd
finnally put a really strong padloack on case and make sure to get a solid case
ill give anyone parent £100 if they can get past this in 1 day without padlock cutters, blacksmith or destroying case
(you can get locks so big you can't cut them with conventional tools)
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Anyone who actually knows how to use a computer should also know that they should always put a password on the Admin account.
Besides the article was talking about consoles, in which case is quite easy to bypass and wouldn't be surprised if a kid could pull it off.
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the little b***ard wont be able to walk after im through with him
LOL you sounds so white "needs a stern talking to about respect"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+Nn5jlrxcpkI
(dont worry, its a stand up comedy relating to beating kids ;)
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