{"id":2507,"date":"2011-01-28T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2011-01-28T14:52:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:52:28","slug":"microsoft-1-cheaters-angry-mom-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/01\/28\/microsoft-1-cheaters-angry-mom-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: 1, Cheater&#8217;s Angry Mom: 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' salign='l' flashvars='&amp;titleAvailable=true&amp;playerAvailable=true&amp;searchAvailable=false&amp;shareFlag=N&amp;singleURL=http:\/\/kcpq.vidcms.trb.com\/alfresco\/service\/edge\/content\/921fbfc5-311f-4b78-aa4b-8dcb18ff4dd5&amp;propName=kcpq.com&amp;hostURL=http:\/\/www.q13fox.com&amp;swfPath=http:\/\/kcpq.vid.trb.com\/player\/&amp;omAccount=tribglobal&amp;omnitureServer=q13fox.com' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' menu='true' name='PaperVideoTest' bgcolor='#ffffff' devicefont='false' wmode='transparent' scale='showall' loop='true' play='true' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' quality='high' src='http:\/\/kcpq.vid.trb.com\/player\/PaperVideoTest.swf' align='middle' height='450' width='600'><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>A Seattle Fox News affiliate thought they had a real &#8220;David and Goliath&#8221; human interest story when they recounted Microsoft&#8217;s cruelty to an autistic boy.  It seems the boy was so good at games &#8212; think Dustin Hoffman counting toothpicks in Rain Man &#8212; that Microsoft thought he was cheating.  So they zeroed out his achievements.  But the boy&#8217;s mother wouldn&#8217;t let this stand.  Like Norma Rae organizing unions, she rallied against injustice.  She called the news to complain and they obligingly ran her story.<\/p>\n<p>Except it turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q13fox.com\/news\/kcpq-xbox-labels-autistic-child-01252011,0,5767271.story\">he was cheating<\/a>.  He had sent his account information to someone who hacked it offline to enable recon armor in Halo.  Oops.  Pwnt.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/01\/27\/0425212\/Xbox-Live-Labels-Autistic-Boy-Cheater\">Slashdot<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Seattle Fox News affiliate thought they had a real &#8220;David and Goliath&#8221; human interest story when they recounted Microsoft&#8217;s cruelty to an autistic boy. It seems the boy was so good at games &#8212; think Dustin Hoffman counting toothpicks in Rain Man &#8212; that Microsoft thought he was cheating. 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