It's one of the limitations of the test. You could argue that it cannot fail the test if there aren't women in the game at all. Some alternatives to the Bechdel test include gauging whether the sole female character's behaviours are just there to prop up the male characters.

The video game ratings will not be solely based on Bechdel tests, but rather they are using it as inspiration to determine a set of criteria that would result in labelling a game "sexist".

I suspect that several different tests will be used, based on the specific circumstances (are there women even in the game? is there one or more than one? what is their interaction between each other and between them and the main character? etc)

I can't see them being that smart though. They likely just have low-range antennas that see what MAC address is where and track it as it moves along the line. Maybe scan them as they enter, and scan them as they leave. Bingo, you've got throughput, with stats on how long it took them to get through, as well as how many are still in line. Same as drive-thru measurements.

Don't the new iOS randomly pick a MAC address when scanning for available networks now? If you don't want to be tracked, don't connect to the airport Wifi.

Because radical lunatics never carry out copycat impulsive attacks? Really? A loon tries to go out in a blaze of glory, and you assume that it's all an elaborate plot to justify military action?

Or, it could be a copycat. Wingnut sees news about killing soldiers, thinks his time for glorious martyrdom has come, and jumps in his car. I mean he killed one guy, drove to the Parliament, hopped a security fence, and ran in. Doesn't seem like much of a plan.

Not only a professional security agent. A professional security agent who on ceremonial occasions rocks a bicorne, lacy shirt, and robes, while carrying a novelty-sized ceremonial mace. This man is a badass.

Well, you could say "both". The soldier, with a rifle (because he was on guard duty at the War Memorial), was shot, with a rifle.

Police have corrected that unconfirmed report. There was no shooting at the mall. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It adds so much cruft, it slows down the iPhone 4/4S to the point where it's barely usable. So I'll be skipping this update. They did the same with iOS 7. First update added a ton of fluff. First patch fixed a lot of the slowdown issues with the older phones.

The problem is not that people don't know how to behave, it's that they've been doing it wrong since the day they passed their driver's test and stopped caring, and now cameras are catching them in the act. I'm all for including a copy of the page in the driver's manual that states what you are SUPPOSED to do in this scenario.

When you get to a red light... stop. It's not a yield sign, it's a red light. Stop, then turn right if it's safe. There is no county in the US where a rolling turn is acceptable, it's just the the cops don't bother ticketing over such a minor infraction. Doesn't make it legal though...

Because OS X and Windows 7 aren't mobile OSs? The article does address that, and states that it doesn't believe the risk to laptop users to be worth more than a mention, because laptops are generally powered down when moving around, unlike smartphones that keep scanning.

According to SCOTUS, it isn't, under the existing laws of the US.

And I doubt Congress would change that anytime soon. Until then, the EPA only gets to regulate CO2 coming from facilities it already regulates under existing laws.

Well then Congress shouldn't give them that power? That was the court's finding, that Congress had already authorized the EPA to regulate any gases produced at a plant that also produces named pollutants. So CO2 gets lumped in with the rest under their blanket authority over existing polluters. Which is why they struck down the ability to expand their authority to non-polluting entities. It was outside their existing jurisdiction.

Congress does that a lot, authorizes blanket authority, and then bitches when it gets exercised. It's like they don't read the bills they pass or something...

I believe they actually have audio kits to make your electric car make "vroom" noises, for those who can't bear to be without the nostalgic sounds...

The video is from a year ago. The demo uses a bigger and newer version of the battery.