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Comment Re:homeowner fail (Score 5, Informative) 536

by Fwipp (#49340981) Attached to: Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home

I was expecting this to be a homeowner fail, but:

Q: Why Didn’t you check this before you moved?
A: Oh, but I did. Having broadband of some kind was an absolute requirement for our new home. Before we even made an offer, I placed two separate phone calls; one to Comcast Business, and one to Xfinity. Both sales agents told me that service was available at the address. The Comcast Business agent even told me that a previous resident had already had service. So I believed them.

Comment Re: Here's MY test (Score 1) 522

by Fwipp (#49331027) Attached to: A Bechdel Test For Programmers?

Alien passes: http://bechdeltest.com/view/13... - it's actually the movie specifically called out in the originating comic as passing.

But to answer your broader question, whether an individual movie passes or not isn't /really/ the point of the test. The point is to look at patterns in movies as a whole - that "passing the Bechdel test" is not a given, despite how minimal the requirements actually are. There really are very few movies that don't pass the "reverse Bechdel test" - it's something like 90% of movies that have at least two dudes who talk about things that aren't women.

http://www.passthebechdeltest.... for some more reading.

Comment Re: The dumbest thing (Score 1) 522

by Fwipp (#49328907) Attached to: A Bechdel Test For Programmers?

It's not about "not talking about men/women at all," it's "having at least one conversation that isn't about men."

The point of the test is to say "are there women who exist outside of props for the men?"

How many movies fail the dude bechdel test? How many fail the regular one?

Comment Re: Here's MY test (Score 3, Insightful) 522

by Fwipp (#49328861) Attached to: A Bechdel Test For Programmers?

You just unintentionally illustrated the entire point of the Bechdel test - how many team software projects pass your version of the test? Nearly all of them, right? The bechdel "test" is meant to illustrate how low the bar is, and how many movies/projects still fail it.

Comment Re:Tracking (Score 4, Informative) 569

"Tracking the culprits behind the pranks is difficult."

Ummmmm, why?

While bomb scares and other hoaxes have been around for decades, making threats anonymously has never been so easy. Swatters use text messages and online phone services like Skype to relay their threats, employing techniques to make themselves hard to trace.

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